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I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)

Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction....So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...

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And other companies who had something half-baked just threw it out to both say "me too!" and to ingest as much user input training data in order to catch up.

That's why "AI" is getting shoved into so many things right now. Not because it's useful but because they need to gobble up as much training data as they can in order to play catch up.

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That hit me right in the gut.

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Fuck this "AI" nonsense, the techbros shoving it into everything, and the Bitcoin cryptobros that came before them.

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Are we ever going to stop blaming video games?

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Could also be two different types of chocolate (adding up to the same amount overall). Both packages are 225g, so the overall weight is certainly not doubled.

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Jesus christ. And to think these people see themselves as the good guys.

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I don't know if this is the right community for this or not. There's no rules against it, but it's not typically the type of content this community posts.

Maybe try !cool_github_projects

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Remember when this was considered the behavior of malware?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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Wasn't that basically Bonzi Buddy and whatever software bundled it without any options to opt out? 😆

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Worst case, they're saving it to an encrypted blob storage, calling that encrypted, and hiding deep in the ToS that you actually agreed to that

And then it's discovered that bucket was accidentally set to public for over 8 months. Oopsie daisy! But you can't sue us because also deep in the ToS was a forced arbitration clause.

Also, if you don't agree to the whole ToS, you can't use the computer you just paid for.

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So, they're demanding chips that don't exist to support a feature that no one wants?

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Probably. lol. You look out the window to see what's making all that racket, and you see their logo on their truck / shirts.

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” (arstechnica.com)

The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

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Carnac the Magnificent holding an envelope to his head predicting the contents

In 6 months, automakers will be suing all the way to the Supreme Court challenging the FTC's regulatory authority (like every frigging industry is doing for every regulatory body nowadays).

!RemindMe months

They're like a bunch of petulant children screaming, "I don't want to, and you can't make me!".

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Sigh. AI has basically added a rocket booster to the enshittification train.

Hopefully this doesn't impact DDG.

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Same. I don't mind it as an option if that's what some people want, but stop "enhancing" the default experience with it and shoving it down my throat. No lo quiero.

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I fear that as well. I use Searx-NG at home, so am expecting that to start dying a death of a thousand cuts soon.

Was thinking about standing up (or contributing to) either YaCY or Stract, but you made a good point about the bot allowances for the Googlebot et al crawler UAs. Wonder how frowned upon it would be to spoof the crawler UA in a self-hosted one?

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s it because you expect other search engines to follow suit until there are no search engines anymore, only hallucination machines?

Basically, yeah.

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......yeah.

I had that thought after I replied when I realized that most of the reputable search crawlers will publish the IPs/ranges they use in addition to the UA. The disreputable ones (cough Bytedance cough Xiaomi cough) will just spoof Chrome on Windows 10 and flood you with requests from AWS datacenters in Shanghai or Singapore.

That said, I may still continue looking into working with one of the actual self-hosted search engines (vs meta search) and see how well that works.

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On the bright side, at least it wasn't labeled as "up to 10 bars" like ISPs get away with.

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Thank gods I'm able to use Linux for my work PC. Group policy and enterprise config can only hide so much of Windows's BS.

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Microsoft needs to go back from "This Computer" to "My Computer".

When they renamed that OS staple, it really highlighted how they see the device you paid for as theirs.

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I deleted FB 15 years ago and haven't missed it once.

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Parental controls on the cable/satellite box are a two-way street, IMO. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Problems with creating my own instance

I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn't work with the default config and throw's a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...

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Try this docker-compose file: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/docker-compose.yml

Here's the docs for pict-rs: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/branch/main/pict-rs.toml

Everything in the config file has an env var you can set. The most important one is the PICTRS__SERVER__API_KEY

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The rub is you have to opt out rather than in.

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Jack and Liz saying 'Shut it down'

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Tesseract because I made it. lol

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I'm immediately suspicious of anything that says "earn crypto rewards" so that's a "no" from me.

I just use Searx-NG as my meta search engine, and it's been pretty good.

There's another self-hosted actual search engine (with its own dataset + crawler) but I forget its name off the top of my head. I've been looking into setting that up to experiment with.

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I've heard of that one recently, but the one I was thinking of was Stract. Had to search through a few communities to find it because I'm a genius who didn't bookmark it lol.

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Yep! Wish I'd have seen your reply before digging though old posts to find that lol.

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They would definitely be the most likely to lead the way.

Unfortunately for us, unlike with hardware requirements like USB-C, software restrictions likely wouldn't cross the pond.

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Some people on reddit hate the community here.

Reading that post, they're clearly judging Lemmy as a whole based on .ml and/or grad. Which, to be fair, they have a point. I really feel .ml as the "flagship" instance (official or just de-facto) is doing more harm to the overall "Reddit-like" corner of the fediverse than good.

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I don't mind Snaps in a vacuum, but the unforgivable thing is that they messed with the package repo so that instead of installing a deb package as I intended, it installs a Snap stub which I did not want. If Canonical hadn't forced them on users in that way, I'd have been fine with them.

Instead, back to Debian I went (sorry I ever left, actually)

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To add on to this answer:

If they're blocking Wireguard/OpenVPN at the protocol level, there may not be anything you can do (running on a different port, etc).

If HTTPS works, between a cloud VPS and your home connection, you might be able to setup Nginx + VPN-WS on your cloud host to make a websocket-based VPN.

https://github.com/unbit/vpn-ws

I haven't tried this, but it looks solid enough. Just make sure you configure Nginx correctly for authentication since it doesn't do that on its own (intentionally since most web servers already have a solid authentication framework / plugin system).

You may also try SSH port forwarding. Basically your home device maintains a persistent connection to the cloud server over SSH and forwards one or more ports (its SSH, for example) over that, and the cloud server makes that available.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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I miss T-9 and physical buttons. I could type out War and Peace with maybe one typo without looking at my phone once. The on-screen keyboards we've had the last ~17 years have been a huge downgrade, IMO.

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Never had a Sidekick, but I had several phones with similar landscape slide out / flip open keyboards. Those were the days.

My current daily driver is about 8 years old (a OnePlus 3 that's aged very gracefully thanks to LineageOS), but I do need to replace it soon. Looking at something like the Cosmo Communicator that has a full flip-open keyboard.

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For me, it averages out about the same / maybe a slight benefit for T9.

Yeah, I can type faster on a modern on-screen keyboard, but by the time i go back and correct typos, fight the cursor to get it where i want it, and double check that all the words i meant to type didn't get autocorrected into something else, I could have typed the same thing with much better precision on a T9 style and have, at most, one word to fix.

It's something of a tortoise and hare situation. lol

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Yep. This 8 year old phone does absolutely everything I need it to do (well, haven't had to deal with AV1 videos yet, so software decoding those might show its age), but the battery is on its last legs.

I'd just replace the battery (involved but not too difficult), but I also want a newer phone with better support for some of the LTE bands near me. I figure 8 years is a good run for a smartphone as a daily driver lol.

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I don't care for short form videos, but this is still really cool. Hopefully it provides an embed URL for the videos so the ones that get posted to Lemmy can be embedded (which is how Peertube links work).

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I don't think that it's a prerequisite but it's definitely a catalyst.

Another catalyst is one company buying another. I cannot think of one example where the acquired company's product/services got better after a M and A. OTOH, I can think of many examples of it getting worse. Confirmation bias? Absolutely. But still makes you go "hmm..."

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That's true, and also why I added that last part about it being confirmation bias on my part. Definitely not saying there aren't good examples, but like you said, I'm also having a hard time coming up with any.

Has Valve ever bought any other company? lol They're one of the few I could see actually making the child company better xD

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Interesting. I've never played TF but Portal is one of my all-time favorites (I'm not much of a gamer lol). Will try to look into that when I have time because it's definitely interesting if true (and can be my token good example lol).

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I knew that link was going to be something related to Oracle, and I was not wrong. xD

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I've followed that for a while :) Saw it on Hack a Day early in its development and thought it was one of the coolest ports I've ever seen. Sadly, I think he got D&D'd. Best I recall, I think it was unlicensed use of the N64 SDK or something like that.

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I was gonna say, everyone I know and myself tweaks them to look like a Mac. 😆

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

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What are they going to switch to?

Most orgs will just put up with it because of inertia: existing software that has to work, employee's having to learn new skills, "sysadmins" who only know Microsoft, etc.

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Nothing personal, lol, but I stand by my quotes.

I feel like sysadmins need to be comfortable in multiple environments. I also work with some really crappy ones who only know how to reboot a faulty system or crawl to Microsoft for support. No reviewing logs, no digging in at all, just "welp, a reboot didn't fix it. Gonna submit a support ticket and make no further effort".

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