hendrik

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does vibe coding sort of work at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Concerning the IQ: App development and regular programming aren't that hard. It needs some time and dedication, and willingness to learn how all these things work and tie together, but I think everyone with an average IQ could do it. It's other domains where you need a high IQ, like writing advanced signal processing algorithms. Or detailed security audits. But App development is just moderately complex, you can get away with basic math... So I'd say it's doable. Still needs quite some time and effort though. At least several weeks to months. And the Kotlin book I have has like 800 pages filled with information, and that just takes some time to work through. None of it is magic, though. You do one chapter at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow. 🥹 My idea: Follow the instructions in the green box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KAOSnow, a totally new take on Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So. Are you going to post something or is it just a place holder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee partially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. My instance reports the last activity from lemm.ee from 45mins ago... So that'd be June 30th, 00:14 Estonian time. And the main page forwards to join-lemmy.org now. Looks like the shutdown to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee partially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well... it's 10 before midnight here. I'm pretty sure a bit east from me it's the 30th already. Not so much in the west. But I don't know where lemm.ee was located.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee partially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It's 30th of June. Lemm.ee ceases operation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there is an entire meme genre about Apple AI notification summaries and the sometimes hilarious results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explainable AI (XAI), Decoded: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Fails⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it just me, or does the article just throw some words at me like LIME, SHAP, and ELI5 but doesn't really explain what they do and how they contribute? I mean there are quite some interesting things in there. But concerning the tech, I didn't learn much. How does a colorful map of the activations tell me what it did and how it got there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy | Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters & discrediting elections⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk about this. I think the main issue is social media and filter bubbles. Generative AI contributes, but enough fakes news is there anyways. People will also use real riot videos from 4 years ago and claim that's the LA riots. The Russian troll farms can do this with or without AI. Trump, too. They'll just come up with drinking bleach is good with their own brains.

  I don't want to refute this. Generative AI accelerates it immensely and makes it easier and way more. But mind that the core of the problem is society, education and most of all social media.

  Also this isn't exactly new, we had Cambridge Analytica since 2014 or something. And manipulating elections and politics by technology is even older than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop Club - A board game simulator⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone here use it? What's it like? And what kind of games do you play with it and with whom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope they still continue Common Voice so at least others can build upon their efforts towards TTS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree a copyright dystopia wouldn't be any good. Just mind that wild west or law of the jungle is the "right of the strongest". You're advantaging big companies and disadvantaging smaller players or people with ethics or who are more open/transparent.

  And I don't think legality with web scraping is the biggest issue. Sure I maybe could do it if it was possible. But I'm occasionally doing some weird stuff and most services have countermeasures in place. In reality I just can't scrape Reddit. Lot's of bots and crawlers just don't work any more. I'm getting rate limited left and right from all big platforms. It's barely possible to download Youtube videos these days. So, no. I can't. While Google can just pay for it and have the data.

  Also Reddit isn't really the benevolent underdog here. They're a big company as well. And they're not selling their data... They're selling their user's data. They're mainly monetizing other people's creations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, copyright law is kind of a bit older. When it was written, there was no AI. So it doesn't address our current issues. It's utterly unprepared for it. So people need to shoehorn things in, interpret and stretch it... Obviously that comes with a lot of issues, loopholes and shortcomings.

  But I can't follow your argumentation. Why would they get away with this forever? When the car was invented, we also made up rules for cars, because the old ones for horses didn't help any more. That's how law is supposed to work... Problems surface, laws get passed to address them. That's daily business for governments.

  If you want to share a pessimistic perspective about governments and mega-corporations, I'm all with you. That's very problematic. But some regions are better than others. Europe for example had a few clever ideas about what needs to be addressed. It's not perfect, though. And copyright still isn't solved anywhere. At least not to my knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that we need open-source and emancipate ourselves. The main issue I see is: The entire approach doesn't work. I'd like to give the internet as an example. It's meant to be very open, connect everyone and enable them to share information freely. It is set up to be a level playing field... Now look what that leads to. Trillion dollar mega-corporations, privacy issues everywhere and big data silos. That's what the approach promotes. I agree with the goal. But in my opinion the approach will turn out to lead to less open source and more control by rich companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. But then do something about it. Regulate the market. Or pass laws which address this. I don't really see why we should do something like this, then, it still kind of contributes to the problem as free reign still advantages big companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind this isn't about open-weight vs other AI models at all. This is about how training data can be collected and used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Previous discussion: https://programming.dev/post/32802895

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the car jacking scene in Terminator 3?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You're a genius. I hadn't even thought about that...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the car jacking scene in Terminator 3?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. It could do your summer vacation including those nasty traffic jams without your participation. Send back a few pictures from important landmarks and monuments, all the while you sit in front of your computer in your air conditioned home like the hacker in the video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the car jacking scene in Terminator 3?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, super impressive. Now we need a live video feed from some forward facing camera to give some FPV perspective and a gamepad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something I noticed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be better suited in some casual ranting community. Or one concerned with tech bros. Seems to be off topic here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not sure whose reading skills are not on par... But that's what I get from the article. They'll face consequences for stealing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That almost sounds right, doesn't it? If you want 5 million books, you can't just steal/pirate them, you need to buy 5 million copies. I'm glad the court ruled that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't have good first hand experience, but i know the Awesome Selfhosted list has a plethora of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good instance to be on at the moment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fingers crossed, but we also know Lemmy might not be ready for that type of philosophy. I mean I still don't know what exactly happened, but lemm.ee wasn't successful in the end. And the underlying issues are still there. So the next admin team might face the same dynamics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good instance to be on at the moment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia also offers some information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.zip_(top-level_domain)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canalys: Companies limit genAI use due to unclear costs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean sometimes we get that with other things as well. Like wasting cloud storage permanently. Or printing full color images on the expensive printer. Sometimes there are expensive supplies which shouldn't be wasted. Idk, kind of depends on the job. I guess AI is about the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canalys: Companies limit genAI use due to unclear costs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't get it... Don't companies also limit the number of computers, staplers and pens in the office? ...It somehow has to be worth it. And they have different contracts available, you can set a limit with most APIs, bookkeeping can look up how much they paid...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use LibreWolf and SearXNG as a metasearch engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that's a size where it's a bit more than a good autocomplete. Could be part of a chain for retrieval augmented generation. Maybe some specific tasks. And there are small machine learning models that can do translation or sentiment analysis, though I don't think those are your regular LLM chatbots... And well, you can ask basic questions and write dialogue. Something like "What is an Alpaca?" will work. But they don't have much knowledge under 8B parameters and they regularly struggle to apply their knowledge to a given task at smaller sizes. At least that's my experience. They've become way better at smaller sizes during the last year or so. But they're very limited.