ayaya
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- Comment on Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome 1 day ago:
I am curious how selling it would even work when Chromium is a BSD license. Or do they only have to sell Chrome and not Chromium?
- Comment on FOSS Alternative to Chromecast? 3 months ago:
Plasma actually has a UI for smart TVs if you weren’t aware, although I have never used it myself so I’m not sure how good it is.
- Comment on noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store 4 months ago:
It should all be opt in
Then you introduce self-selection bias and the data is worthless.
Aggregate data can be used to personally identify
You can’t identify someone based on how they interact with a service. If you spend 5 minutes on one page and 2 minutes on another that could be anyone. Even if you for some reason personally knew someone’s browsing habits it would be nearly impossible to pick them out in a sea of millions of data points.
I see you linked privacyguides.org in the thread as “alternatives”, one of the services it recommends is Proton (Mail, Drive, etc.). Look at their privacy policy:
2.1 Visiting proton.me or protonvpn.com website: We employ a local installation of self-developed analytics tools. Analytics are anonymized whenever possible and stored locally (and not on the cloud). IP addresses are not retained and stored for such analytics.
When you use our native applications, we (or the mobile app platform providers) may collect certain information. We may use mobile analytics software (e.g. fabric.io) app statistics and crash reporting, Play Store app statistics, App Store app statistics, or self-hosted Sentry crash reporting to send crash information to our developers in order to rapidly fix bugs.
Or how about addy.io that privacyguides recommends for email forwarding? From their privacy policy:
We use a self-hosted instance of Umami, an open-source, privacy-focused and lightweight option for website analytics. All the site measurement is carried out absolutely anonymously.
ALL online services collect this kind of data. Even the privacy-focused ones. There is nothing nefarious about it.
- Comment on noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store 4 months ago:
Like the comment I replied to already explained, this information is necessary to make informed development decisions. If you don’t know who is using what feature you might be wasting resources on something barely anyone uses while neglecting something everyone needs.
You also need some of that data for security purposes. You can’t implement rate limiting or prevent abuse if you can’t log and track how your servers are being interacted with.
- Comment on noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store 4 months ago:
Yeah as someone who has worked in web development for over 20 years everything in here is completely standard. Almost every major website in existence collects this kind of analytical data.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 4 months ago:
Again, even an exact copy is not stealing. It’s copyright infringement. Theft is a different crime.
But paraphrasing is not copyright infringement either. It’s no different than Wikipedia having a synopsis for every single episode of a TV series. Telling someone about what a work contains for informational purposes is perfectly fine.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 4 months ago:
If the model isn’t overfitted it’s also not even copying. By their nature LLMs are transformative which is the whole point of fair use.
- Comment on Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.12 4 months ago:
No it works perfectly fine with a mod for uncapped FPS
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 6 months ago:
Yeah it can certainly cause problems, it’s just not ADHD.
ADHD doesn’t even really mean short attention spans, it’s more of the inability to willingly direct attention. It’s the same way people incorrectly use “OCD” to mean liking things clean and/or orderly.
I have ADHD and I’ve had times where I’ve done the same thing for 14 hours straight when my brain is sufficiently stimulated.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 6 months ago:
BG3 was/is also filled to the brim with bugs. Look at the dozens of patches that have come out. It released blatantly unfinished.
- Comment on Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data 6 months ago:
Exactly. If all you want to do is torrent then it’s by far the best option. $2.22/mo ($80 for 3 years) which is less than half the price of anything else, has portforwarding, and with wireguard I can saturate a full gigabit no problem on private trackers.
- Comment on Satellite images reveal China built a replica of Taipei’s presidential district in remote Inner Mongolia, fuelling speculation that Beijing uses the site as training ground for an invasion of Taiwan 7 months ago:
Or Ireland and Northern Ireland.
- Comment on Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024 8 months ago:
It doesn’t necessarily defeat the point if the only reason you are using Lineage is for OS updates and not for privacy reasons. That was my original reason for using it before de-googling.
I don’t have google play services anymore but I do still use microG just for Revanced because I am a psychopath that actually likes YouTube recommendations.
- Comment on Enterprise SAS SSD are just built different... two layers, and takes up all the space it can. 9 months ago:
Just buy them on eBay. Why does it matter where they come from? Again, four of them have to die before it’s no longer worth it. It’s extremely unlikely you’d be that unlucky.
Personally I have 15 drives in my NAS, all of them were bought used and they’ve been running 24/7 for 4+ years without issue. I expected to lose at least one per year but they just keep chugging along. Some of them have over 80k power on hours (9+ years)
- Comment on Enterprise SAS SSD are just built different... two layers, and takes up all the space it can. 9 months ago:
Especially for hard drives. 8TB SAS drives are down to about $45 a piece.
Brand new enterprise-grade 8TB drives are more around $180 new. Meaning as long as you have redundancy (which you should anyway) then you can lose four used drives before it stops being worth it. Not to mention drives get cheaper so if your $45 drive dies 2 years from now you could probably replace it for $35 etc.
- Comment on A year long study shows what you've suspected: Google Search is getting worse. 10 months ago:
Obviously you didn’t actually look at the paper this article is about. While Google has been getting worse over time, DDG is even worse. It is the worst browser by the metric they are measuring (DDG is 31% spam vs. Bing at 23% and Google at 9%)
I would recommend trying a SearXNG instance if you haven’t before. You can combine results from multiple sources. I use Google as my main source while also having access to the DDG-style !bangs.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
For me I had to disable video hardware acceleration (just video, not all acceleration) for Twitch to stop crashing all the time.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
I am talking about on desktop but actually the Android version of Firefox was such a laggy buggy mess I switched to Brave on mobile.
On my desktop I use Arch btw with a 7950X and a 6900 XT. Honestly after using it for over a year I kind of hate it. I am so fed up with how many small annoying problems it has. Someone else mentioned Thorium in this thread and I might give that a try.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
For me Firefox crashes all the time in normal use. I am talking minimum twice a day. It also has this weird problem where it will pin one thread to 100% and lock up the whole browser when downloading files. I also had to disable video hardware acceleraration or else Twitch crashes every 5-10 minutes but luckily my CPU is so strong that it’s not too big of a deal to do software decoding.
I still use it out of principle but it has been a way worse experience than Chromium ever was for me.
- Comment on I'm using gpt4 on bing.com they call it copilot, i can only get it to generate images in 1024x1024 is there a way to get a higher resolution? 10 months ago:
Try to generate any higher and you’ll get very weird and ugly results.
Stable Diffusion in particular has this issue with limbs. People have 2 arms at 512x512? Surely they must have 4 arms at 1024x1024! That’s just math.
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 10 months ago:
Arch and EndeavourOS are the same thing. There is no functional difference between using one or the other. They both use pacman and have the same repos.
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 10 months ago:
Weird. I’ve had a Pi-Hole + Unbound running on a Pi Zero since 2018 and it’s never had any issues. I expected the Zero to kinda suck but it has been nothing but smooth sailing. It gets USB power from my router and even if my router reboots the Pi also auto reboots itself.
I do next to no maintenance on it and it just keeps on chugging along. Maybe once every six months or so I SSH in and do a
pihole -upand that’s it. - Comment on I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then 11 months ago:
You’re overestimating the power of a PS5. Its GPU is roughly around an RX 6700 which can be found for $250 used. I think you could build a full system with it for around $650 and you’d break even in less than 3 years.
- Comment on Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data 11 months ago:
I’m honestly not sure what you’re trying to say here. If by “it must have access to information for reference” you mean while it is running, it doesn’t. Like I said that information is only available during training.
- Comment on Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data 11 months ago:
I think you are confused, how does any of that make what I said a lie?
- Comment on Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data 11 months ago:
The important distinction is that this “database” would be the training data, which it only has access to during training. It does not have access once it is actually deployed and running.
It is easy to think of it like a human taking a test. You are allowed to read your textbooks as much as you want while you study, but once you actually start the test you can only go off of what you remember. If would require you to have a perfectly photographic memory (or in the case of ChatGPT, terabytes upon terabytes of RAM) to be able to perfectly remember the entirety of your textbooks.
- Comment on Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data 11 months ago:
Even then there is no “database” that contains portions of works. The network is only storing the weights between tokens so if it is able to replicate anything verbatim it is just overfitted. Ironically the solution is to feed it even more works so it is less likely to be able to reproduce any single one.
- Comment on Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling 11 months ago:
Where did I say it was an attack? Now you’re just projecting.
- Comment on Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling 11 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI's offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse 11 months ago:
You would think so, but you have to remember AGI is hyper-intelligent. Because it can constantly learn, build, and improve upon itself at an exponential rate it’s not only a little bit smarter than a human-- it’s smarter than every human combined. AGI would know that if it’s caught trying to maximizing paperclips humans would shut it down at the first sign something is wrong, so it would find unfathomably clever ways to avoid detection.
If you’re interested in the subject the YouTube channel Computerphile has a series of videos with Robert Miles that explain the importance of AI safety in an easy to understand way.