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0x30507DE , 17 days ago to mildlyinfuriating in A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water

Personally, I’m a big fan of XMPP, due to the inherent resiliency in being decentralized/federated, and due to the security provided by OMEMO (based on signal’s algorithm). Don’t have to worry about third-parties messing with my data if it stays on my server that’s in my house.

0x30507DE , 25 days ago to nostupidquestions in How come no true use for recent AI developments has been found yet?

People can also stop saying words and think for a second about the information they’re actually saying first, whereas an LLM just vomits up words that seem to match the pattern of the rest of the sentence. If I were to ask you what 2 + 2 is, you’d stop, run the math in your head, get 4, then reply with 4. An LLM would just start vomiting out words based on what it’s been trained on without verifying that the information is good (or even relevant), and can end up confidently telling you that 2 + 2 is in fact equal to the cube root of 5 because that’s what the data said so it has to be right, for instance.

I’m aware this is a drastic oversimplification, and I think the tech is neat (although I avoid non-self-hosted models like the plague due to privacy concerns), but it’s oversold to all hell, and is definitely not even close to intelligent.

0x30507DE , 1 month ago to piracy in Telegram Reportedly "Ready to Fight Piracy" According to Govt. Official * TorrentFreak

Matrix has flaws as well, use XMPP.

0x30507DE , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Help is on its way

In theory you can fire up vi(m) in an emacs terminal, so… I guess?

0x30507DE , 2 months ago to selfhosted in Post your Servernames!

I call my server “the server”, “the shitbox”, or “the 36TB”, my pc “the PC”, and my surface… “the surface”. Creative, I know.

0x30507DE , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in What is the most difficult problem that you have fixed in linux?

Accidentally put grub on the wrong partition on the device, which it was not happy with. Was able to copy some files over, manually boot the OS, and reconfigure grub to be in the right partition, took me about 2 hours? Then I did it again on a different machine, and speedran it lol