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• Claude: papers please?

  I’m a big proponent of self-hosting, right to repair, and rolling your own whatever when you can. That probably started as teenage rebellion that got baked in - I was lucky enough to read both Walden and The Hobbit during a week-long cyclone lockdown several decades ago - but I suspect there’s a non-trivial overlap between that space and privacy-minded people in general. My endgame is a self-sufficient intranet for myself and family: if the net goes down tomorrow, we’d barely notice. I also...

• Lol, get fucked Google

  For reasons that boggle my mind, I am required to keep a Google account for work (ties into some proprietary software the company uses) Earlier today, I got the following - Yes, I’m certain people under the age of 16 are known for their use of very specific EHR software that requires professional license to subscribe to in the first place. Makes perfect sense. Anyone else get one of these “for you protection” msgs from Big evil?

• Post #963248

  I’m building one. It treats you how you treat it. bobbyllm.github.io/…/claude-in-a-can-1/

• Post #897637

  Thank you! Done. Also, go Codeberg.

• Post #866878

  Heh. Mass.gravel as the github repo always makes me do a double take.

• Post #866856

  I don’t understand the M$ endgame with Win 11. Like, it would be very easy to paint this as intentional… but as Halon’s sez “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. Putting aside low hanging fruit (end stage capitalism, ai bad etc)…y u do this, Microsoft? You have good people there, right? Top. Men. Right? I’d love to read something on this topic from a M$ insider / ex-pat. I’m trying to understanding why M$ is doing the equivalent of Sideshow Bob steppi...

• Post #811089

  Narrator: No, they did not win.

• Post #759805

  taps temple Ads won’t load if browser literally can’t load em.

• Post #586300

  Watch out for the chicken-duck woman thing

• Post #549626

  Are… are you the fabled walrus? Goo goo g’joob?

• Post #542337

  Not sure how we’re quantifying intelligence here. Benchmarks? Qwen3-4B 2507 Instruct (4B) outperforms GPT-4.1 nano (7B) on all stated benchmarks. It outperforms GPT-4.1 mini (~27B according to scuttlebutt) on mathematical and logical reasoning benchmarks, but loses (barely) on instruction-following and knowledge benchmarks. It outperforms GPT-4o on a few specific domains (math, creative writing), but loses overall (because of course it would). So, in that instance, a 4B > 7B (globally),...

• Post #540529

  Wouldn’t the more logical first approximation be to bury them underground, and then progress towards (perhaps) placing them in or near the ocean (obviously, within sealed containers, yadda yadda, salt corrosion, yadda yadda, inhospitable environ yadda yadda makes Poseidon angry). I like the “yeet them into the sea” idea conceptually because (1) yeet them into the sea (2) in theory, you could power them via tidal/wave/OTEC (3) water cooling. Seems…too obvious. There’s probably a good reason (...

• Post #539215

  Codex 5.3. cue “Hello Darkness My Old Friend”

• Post #539176

  Surprised and disappointed, both by them and the system (capitalism) that stops us from having nice things. If we ever crack AGI, it’s probably going to be because the market optimised for the better shilling of dick pills, crypto scams and spyware. That’s…fucking bleak, in the Hide Pain Harold way.

• Post #538423

  The water things still baffles me out. Like…just…cycle it. It’s a heat exchange system. What do they do with the water? Pump thru once and then dump it?

• Post #538174

  Once you go Notepad++ you never come back

• Post #538052

  Oh - you mean Gustav, Bernhardt, Daffid and Chompy? How are things in Ulaanbaatar any way? (you’re welcome)

• Post #531642

  You seem pretty sure of that. Is your position firm or are you willing to consider contrary evidence?

• Post #523555

  If it was just autocomplete in the dismissive sense, white noise should make it derail into white noise. Instead it tries to make sense of it. Why? Because it learned strong language priors from us and it leans on that when the prompt is meaningless. It tries to make sense of it. “Not human understanding” ≠ “no reasoning-like computation.” Those aren’t the same thing. People doing the "Fancy autocomplete” thing are doing the laziest possible move: not human, therefore nothing interest...

• Post #488458

  “Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit, I haven’t done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all” Like the responder below, I do not feel comfortable giving my ID to social media sites. Hell, we had our government controlled, medical database (Medicare) get hacked and leak PII. And the yanks had their SSN pasted all over the net. And those were a...

• Post #486784

  I have to admit, I’ve gone sort of retro-tech with my kids in the main. Wii over Xbox or PS5, DS-lite over Switches, OLPC over chromebook etc. Social media - ha ha, get fucked :) My eldest asked for a phone, so I gave her my old flipfone. She loves it (and I kinda want it back now, lol). The HMD Nokia branded Barbie phones with KaiOS is what I’ve promised to get her when she’s earned it. That’s a dumbphone with some smart features…and as bonus, I can probably (with enough effort) create...

• Post #405420

  I think most of us are aware of the shady history of Reddit when it comes to respecting privacy (and if not, here is but one example: techcrunch.com/…/reddit-is-removing-ability-to-op…) I’m wondering what you feel are the pros and cons of Lemmy in this regard? On the one hand, Lemmy is structurally very different. There’s no single corporate entity building detailed behavioural ad profiles, most instances run minimal (or no) tracking, and you can choose an operator whose logging, retention,...

• Post #400715

  Wanted to share something I’ve been trying for the last few months on my Samsung phone (I know, I know) to cut down ads, tracking, and random background noise. Perhaps it is of use to others. It’s a bit more manual than most setups, so YMMV. Also, my device doesn’t have reliable custom firmware that keeps VoLTE working (which I need here), so this is the “no-root, stock OS” route. TL;DR: I’m running a layered setup. DuckDuckGo App Protection (local VPN), Private DNS (Mullvad adblock), Karma...