muntedcrocodile

muntedcrocodile , 19 days ago to Privacy in Why don’t you like Apple?

Who gives a fuck what the server was running when tested. Its not like large companies have ever designed software specifically designed to fool when being tested is it cough vw cough. Its worth something so its probs gonna be fine for the majority of people but never trust anythibg that isnt on hardware u control running verifiably open source code or e2e encrypted.

muntedcrocodile , 19 days ago to Privacy in Why don’t you like Apple?

Cos i dont trust anything that says privacy but doesnt open source and provide reproducible builds.

muntedcrocodile , 19 days ago to Selfhosted in MinimalChat Is a Full-Featured and Self-Contained LLM Chat Application

Does it have tool use? What language is it? Does it use langchain?

muntedcrocodile , 20 days ago to Technology in Everything Apple iOS 18 Will Do, Android Already Does

The point of a local llm is u can give it access to contacts notes app control fucking everything simmillar to whaf apples done cool app tho.

muntedcrocodile , 20 days ago to Technology in Everything Apple iOS 18 Will Do, Android Already Does

But android doesnt run the llm locally. Can someone please make a foss app that can do simmillar things.

muntedcrocodile , 20 days ago to Technology in Tesla Shareholders Approve Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package in Early Voting

The primary purpose of a company is to make the shareholders happy if he's doing that then i guess what's there to complain about

muntedcrocodile , 24 days ago to Technology in Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light

Hey ADHD out of sight out of mind does have some up sides I guess

muntedcrocodile , 25 days ago to Technology in The New York Times source code leaked by a 4chan user

They are very good they exceed the capability of many humans in many tasks. If consume energy = bad for environment then all electric vehicles are bullshit cos they have energy inefficiencies that petrol cars don't (thermodynamics is a bitch). U do realise the argument about if asking an ai to create an image is art argument is literally the same argument that was had about if photography is art.

Llm are decently trustworthy especially with chain of thought reasoning and tool capabilities. And they are extraordinarily useful people wouldnt be using them and creating a market for them of they weren't. I can't train my brain then share it for free to everyone on the internet to download I can with an ai tho.

muntedcrocodile , 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to Technology in The New York Times source code leaked by a 4chan user

Thats a lot of data but surly its not all their articles cos I'd very much like to train mixtral7x8b on it along with 4chan data and shir from the dark web. Surly there is a project where such a model is public and being trained on literally everything regardless of legality.

EDIT: why am i getting downvoted?

muntedcrocodile , 27 days ago to Fediverse in An open source/self hosted and federated Tik-Tok alternative, made by pixelfed has just successfully tested federation.

I recon bots that are scraping other platforms content might be a way to get things going. What we need to be doing across all federated media is make it profitable for all the content creators to post to federated media as well as mainstream bs. Perhaps we need a standardised donations model I would recommend monero as the currency totally anonymous proven to be a relatively stable currency, and its easy for anyone to implement without all the bureaucratic bs.

muntedcrocodile , 27 days ago to Technology in Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history

Because u have no storage on ur device cos they want to sell u cloud storage.

muntedcrocodile , 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to Memes in STOP CENSORORING ME TANKIES

Convenient that the censorship concerns get raised just after the anaversary of tianamin square. Any correlation Here?

muntedcrocodile , 28 days ago to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

I mean u missed a couple steps but u got the gist of it.

muntedcrocodile , 28 days ago to Technology in Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - Gothamist

Im pretty sure u cant fuck with a device that has a locked bootloader without unlocking said bootloader which requires u know the password. And u definatly cant recover data without passcode unless u can extract the hash from whatever chip holds it (shouldn't be possible if u have a tpm) and bruteforce it. Ur data should be encrypted and u shouldn't be able to tamper with os without unlocking bootloader which once unlocked will wipe all device data. Might be possible if u do some dodgy power injection directly into some of the chips but thats pretty advanced stuff.

muntedcrocodile , 29 days ago to Technology in 42 key points of the secret #EUGoingDark surveillance plan for the new EU Commission

It wont be the last