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Zworf

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Zworf , to Technology in Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request

This is why sideloading addons is so important. They've recently removed the bypass-paywalls-clean addon too.

On the desktop version you can easily sideload addons but on the mobile version they forbid this :(

Zworf , to Technology in Raspberry Pi is now a public company

The question is always: What do you want to use it for?

When raspberry started the landscape was very difficult. Small computer boards were expensive, now there's the N100 if you need a tiny cheap computer. Microcontrollers were really dumb and unconnected, now there's the ESP32 which has WiFi and Bluetooth and decent performance. Right in the middle of this wide spectrum is the raspberry pi and its clones.

This is a very different situation than in the introduction era where PCs were heavy and expensive and microcontrollers were dumb. There was a much wider niche for the raspberry then. For a small server I would now get a $100 N100 from aliexpress. For embedded electronics I would grab a $10 ESP32. Only in the middle is the raspberry pi, but the problem is, it's only in the middle in terms of performance, not price. A raspberry pi with case, PSU, storage etc costs more than a decked out N100, while actually being slower.

The only remaining usecase I see for a pi 5 would be an electronics project where you need some more compute than a microcontroller can provide, like some machine vision project. Otherwise:

  • Do you want to make some electronics IoT thingy: Get an ESP32
  • Do you want a small light computer or server: Get an N100
Zworf , to Technology in Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

Yes I was just writing that, I would love to see more integrations that can talk against ollama.

Zworf , to Technology in Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

One thing I'd love to see in Firefox is a way to offload the translation engine to my local ollama server. This way I can get much better translations but still have everything private.

Zworf , to Technology in Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

If you had a visual disability you would certainly think otherwise.

Zworf , to Technology in Adobe Announces That They Can Use Your Content for AI

Or maybe Affinity Designer? I bought that a few years ago for Mac and it was really good.

Zworf , (edited ) to Technology in Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought

I don't think it will.

Microsoft's endgame is being the lord and master of AI. AI thrives on knowing more data about the user. What good is an assistant if it doesn't know your habits, your wishes and desires, your schedule and your attitude towards each person in your life?

This is not really a feature primarily aimed at helping the user directly (even though it's currently marketed as such), but to have the AI build up a repository of knowledge about you. Which is hopefully used locally only. For now this seems to be the case, but knowing Microsoft, once they have established themselves as the leading product they will start monetising it in every way possible.

Of course I'm very unhappy with this too. I'd like to have an AI assistant. But it has to be FOSS, and owned and operated by me. I don't trust microsoft in any way. I'm already playing around with ollama, RAG scripting etc. It won't be as good as simply signing up to OpenAI, Google or Microsoft but at least it will be mine.

Zworf , to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Yep this is one of the reasons I kept deleting my account even before the whole spez drama.

Zworf , to Technology in Token2 is an open-source Swiss FIDO2 security key that brings innovative features at a cheaper price

Too bad they don't do OpenPGP like Yubikeys do. I still need that even more (much more!) than Fido2. Sites are so slow adopting Fido2.

I don't use it for email but I use it for SSH and my password manager ("pass"). And yes I know SSH can use Fido2 natively as well but there's many embedded SSH daemons that don't support that yet.

Luckily Yubico is still around but I'm betting on them going down the drain (subscription models etc) soon because they were taken over by a venture capital firm :(

Zworf , to Free and Open Source Software in Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here

Even all the telemetry?

I really hate dealing with group policies (and I work in enterprise endpoint management, I prefer more modern management). AD/Group policies can only be updated on site or VPN, and they're only really instructions for registry settings anyway.

But I'll try that out. I don't have a windows server though, nor do I want one. But I guess I could use gpedit.

Zworf , to Free and Open Source Software in Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here

I have LTSC 2021 officially (MSDN) and I have to say I'm not very impressed. You still can't turn off the telemetry crap. There is still a windows store. There's a bit less bundled scamware but beside that it's a bit overrated IMO.

Zworf , to Free and Open Source Software in Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here

Yeah that slogan really captured very well the intentions at the world economic forum.

I know it's not what they officially stated but it really captured (they since walked it back and said it only was meant to "describe emerging trends") the intentions of what happens when they all come to Davos and divide the world between them.

But I don't believe "as a service" models are more sustainable. They will just enable more rent-seeking behaviour meaning we will get even less for our money. The incentive to deliver will be even lower as they will get paid anyhow.

Zworf , to Technology in Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

I didn't think it was super creepy but I thought the voice was so overly enthusiastic and overacted and soooo sugary. bleh.

This won't work for me unless that can be customised and toned down a lot.

Zworf , to Technology in Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

The audio from the AI also seemed to cut out a lot during the demo. So it does appear like no shenanigans to me.

Zworf , to Technology in Advice - Getting started with LLMs

It depends on your prompt/context size too. The more you have the more memory you need. Try to check the memory usage of your GPU with GPU-Z with different models and scenarios.

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