I think telling someone "you'll have to speak to my attorney" and then not actually having a lawyer is a power move
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If AI is so good why hasn't it personally given me an electron microscope
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@still@infosec.exchange it's really cute when someone like this is now excitedly talking about it with you because they know you're into tech things and they're excited to share that they finally a tech thing on their own!
You should be fucking banned from calling something smart glasses if they're just glasses with a camera and Bluetooth headphones slapped on. we've had those for ages they're not "smart" they just used to be called "spy cameras" strange that they didn't go with that for the marketing.
I'll give you ones with screens being more actually interesting but we had that chance with Google Glass and the world decided "camera on glasses bad" and they gave up, strangely "camera on glasses bad" is now a controversial thing to express in public! Also I won't forgive them for not making the glass prerelease units hackable
I want to express our heartfelt appreciation for this remarkable writing about LLMs https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/you-dont-have-to/
And it truly is remarkable writing. I think that goes regardless of your views on LLMs. The allegorical story of Lyle, doing a somewhat repetitive task, not getting projects of the ground or to the finish line, focused more on doing the thing rather than the "product" deeply relates to us as I'm sure it does to many. The guilt also of a life of unfinished projects with nobody to see them strikes at us constantly.
I don't think the author's position on models differs too much from our own either. There are tasks like looking up small snippets or examples that are — for better or for worse — executed better through many models. As long as you verify these you're not fundamentally sabotaging your ability to think.
I also think a lot has to be said for our position on the cost externalities. These current models, even open weight ones which do not fundamentally compare, will never run on consumer hardware. I will never be able to own this tool and quite frankly I am not interested in returning to the era of timesharing for everything I want to do.
I do think the writing is appropriately harsh at people who have fundamentally incompatible core beliefs on LLM usage and its acceptability and I regret that this may potentially tear about friendships that didn't have reason to explore that difference of beliefs before and may not have even had insight into it.
It is a long read but please read it. You will feel rewarded for it.
Hi uh, how do people typically organize their stuff in their home labs? idk what to get to put all my cables and PCBs and everything
Me IRL sometimes
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@jaseg@chaos.social okay this is really cool they should've added this to the conference schedule
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@scarlet@chaos.social ... isn't this like the defining trait of German customer service interactions? come to the Netherlands if you want more than zero
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Watch out, devs have op
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@thephd gah who the fuck was claiming that, that website is essential for making sure you have any remote idea what's happening without spending an hour per architecture throwing things at your wall
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@glyph@mastodon.social @gsuberland@chaos.social :( yeah wishing you the best with this tragedy because fuuuuuuck that
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@mntmn@mastodon.social the holy grail imo besides a quality mechanism that can be fabricated by CNCs would be getting modern DSP to reproduce Dolby A/B/C. That noise processing made tapes tolerable and nothing being made now includes them since the chips stopped getting made and were always proprietary
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@helle@tacobelllabs.net I've tried leaving cardboard boxes full of stuff all over our floor and dumping stuff out of each one to find things but it's making it hard to get from the kitchen area to our desk because stuff is in the way
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@helle@tacobelllabs.net kallax or similar is probably one of the things we'll go for. Ideally we'd like to have shelves in the bedroom but idk how you mount shelves. We're also still not sure how to layout the apartment, combined kitchen/living rooms still baffle us. It's not a tiny place but it's always hard to figure out fitting the lab area and justifying spending on setting up a living room area
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@wren6991 it's such shit, at least the Anthropic people decided to not just dump a bunch of public vulns of whatever quality out there to promote how cool their new model is and just focused on questionably true big numbers
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Note also, we didn't know the seller, was just some random person nearby on Marktplaats
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@kookie@chaosfem.tw yeah I just ask a local LLM model everything and I don't even need the internet anymore
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@sjolsen@tech.lgbt I know it's still technically wireless bullshit but you could try X10 stuff. It's not WiFi native it's just standard RF and they've been doing it since forever so it's pretty reliable it is pretty limited on channels tho
The other thing you could look at is shoving a DMX(512) relay into a receptacle
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@scarlet@chaos.social I'm pretty sure the beach of The Hague is designed for German tourists also
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@Qyriad I'm glad you found it such, I quite enjoyed it and hoped y'all would feel the same
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@embr@akko.drgn.gay @scarlet@chaos.social @theresnotime@fox.nexus how does it have a volume control what
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@misty@digipres.club @eigen@mattstodon.panar.ooo this one is infuriating because we've had good alternatives for ages and governments have the power to force third parties to comply and not spam block them but everyone is fucking addicted to never having to learn any new technology ever. Except for every time you change jobs then it's fine for some reason. Or when randomly they decide to switch to a cheaper provider that's also fine
@tholindeth@wizzzard.online it's a bit of a shame Wolfram kind of embraced LLMs but then again his takes on them are some of the most nuanced I've seen (he's a weird dude and his takes are appropriately abstract and weird in a distinctly different way from the rationalist AI-booster way).
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@emf@social.emfcamp.org @jonty@chaos.social I hope you can call over the phone to order stuff
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@deviantollam@defcon.social I kid but Onedrive OS probably the closest I can think of in modern Microsoft history. Always on connectivity is probably a genuinely comparable topic though. A few years ago it was tried and was forced to be dropped by outrage but now it's getting reintroduced and it's just clearly what's going to happen outage or not. It's been slow rolled more.
In some sense maybe that's the point. Exhaust people now, they're basically locked in regardless of how crap you make your product and in a few years reintroduce it when it's less of a visible issue
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@mntmn@mastodon.social @erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net so it's sort of documented but it's not quite clear what corresponded to what nor the exact parameters. It was also entirely based on an analog processing chain and C at least was fairly complex at least from what I remember from our last research on it
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@divya@sfba.social I think the big headline here is:
The end goal: training a soon-to-be-released AI therapy companion bot, according to reports the company released to investors.
FUCKING INTENTIONAL AI THERAPY BOT
(Well and also the HIPAA violation)
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@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com @ajinkyapdahale@mstdn.social @danbrotherston@types.pl @BicycleDutch@mastodon.social I don't think they even clearly document that you can do it without a photo OV chipkaart?
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@artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay @alina@girldick.gay we gotta kill the big rust frameworks they all must die