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there are efficient, self hostable models. i believe phi can run on mobile devices without too much trouble?

but the smaller the model, the less reliable (mostly)… meta is focusing on large, reliable models because that’s probably what they’re going to use for eg moderation (ha!), generating bullshit bot profiles (🤮), etc… they WANT people to rely on the “send to the server in plain text” architecture rather than efficient on-device stuff

i’ve written bots that filter things for me, or change something to machine-readable formats

the most successful thing i’ve done is have a bot that parses a web page and figures out the date/time in standard format, gets a location if it’s listed in the description and geocodes it, and a few other fields to make an ical for pretty much any page

i think the important thing is that gen ai is good at low risk tasks that reduce but don’t eliminate human effort - changing something from having to do a bunch of data entry to skimming for correctness

email is not secure. proton is among the most reasonably secure compromises; there’s very little they could do to become more secure

Next Monday: Meta announces Llama 3 beats GPT-4! Next Tuesday: OpenAI releases GPT-5

don’t get me wrong, i hope the open-ish model beats the closed BS model, but this is what happened last time… Llama pretty consistently equals or beats last generation OpenAI, and GPT 4 isn’t exactly new any more

that looks like a go template, so i’d wager it’s something server-side

(i’m an aussie so i have no place to actually comment on lived experience in the US)

… but i will add, because this is similar in most places i think:

• Public activism and willingness to volunteer is frequently redirected by capitalists to spoil outcomes or just waste activist energy.

on the rare occasion that activism is getting somewhere, they’re very good at giving just enough to make just enough people stop participating that it falls apart, and the “just enough” that they give are short-term concessions that they claw back in other ways (or sometimes not even in other ways: just straight up revert)

They don’t care if you play on steamOS, Windows, or a steam powered adding machine.

i think yes and no: they make their money from selling games, so they want more people to buy more games from them

… but, SteamOS achieves that in a multi-faceted way:

• it provides a fit-for-purpose platform for handhelds and consoles which previously steam didn’t have any market share over, and if that’s in SteamOS they have a massive advantage
• it gives valve some leverage over microsoft (if MS controls the platform that you depend on, they can do some pretty wild things and you have no recourse). in this case, they definitely care about bumping their numbers - more on SteamOS means less power microsoft has over them
• it creates competition, which forces microsoft to invest in making their own experience better, and better experience anywhere means probably more people game more often

i think that last point in particular is critical: every $ valve spends on steamos is multiplied, because microsoft has to spend their own money to keep up, and it propels the whole ecosystem forward

idk it made it more hot for me! when you know the dynamic you can fuck with it and then things get REAL fun

in a healthy kink relationship, the submissive is the one in control: what they say goes; the dom merely makes suggestions in a manner that seems to outsiders as if the sub doesn’t have the control (and indeed the headspace of both participants leans toward that too). if the sub says no, it does not happen

this isn’t a hierarchy; this is a complex relationship that can’t be defined as narrowly

imo bsky is not 100% of what we want, but it has roads out of their system… its not decentralised exactly, but you can build bridges and that’s super important

the main reason people stay with facebook, twitter, reddit, etc is what’s called the “network effect”. for social media, it’s hyper important to get people onto the platform, otherwise it’s not social (reddit and lemmy a bit different: you still need a self-sustaining amount of people, but the more you get to the “people you know” platforms, the more you need as close to everyone you can get to keep people there)

now, twitter, facebook, instagram, etc have no functionality to allow people off-platform to contact people on-platform (and visa versa), so if you leave the platform you loose all those connections - the first people to move have a terrible experience because the platform is pretty much useless (there’s no social in the social media)

bsky at least changes that part so now we can bridge: bsky users can interact with mastodon users, which means that in the future it’ll be much easier for people to make the choice to leave, if they choose to: they don’t have to give up the creators they follow, or family and friends… there might be a slightly degraded experience, but i’d argue that’s pretty negligible

heck, i’d even prefer to trade twitter for threads at this point: imo facebook as a whole company is worse that twitter, but threads at least allows that off-ramp

if facebook itself were federated, who knows maybe one of these days i could convince my parents to move to friendica

i don’t think it “just works” on windows, but people (even regular people) are used to the workarounds that you have to do to get windows to work as they want

i’m from australia and i’ve adopted yall for exactly that reason

it also makes me real happy that some very transphobic shit heads would be furious if they knew that “their word” was part of the solution to gender neutral terminology

gay men call each other sis and girl all the time too, for alternatives that go in reverse

essentially rather than generating a reply meant for a human, they generate a special reply that the software interprets as “call this tool”. in th same way as the system prompt where the model operator tells the system how to behave, you tell the model what tools and parameters are available to it (for example, load page is a common one)… when the software receives a call for the tool, it calls real code to perform an action, which then responds to the model with the result so that it can continue to process. in this way, the model may kind of request access to limited external resources

a TODO can often be expressed in a throw NotImplementedError or similar, but a comment is where danger lies

This is why documentation of business process and methods is so important

absolutely not… if you think that random code from 10 years ago is difficult to figure out if it’s still needed, try that with documentation!

IT systems are living, dynamic beasts… they should be built in such a way that makes them comprehensible with relatively minimal effort, on their own, because the code is the only source of truth and everything else may as well be a lie

I’m not interested in punishing anyone for past decisions or mistakes

right so you think our decisions were mistakes rather than at best suboptimal but reasonable given the information at the time? how arrogant

explain what the higher ups want and listen to their ideas on how to get there

absolutely this… engineers want to help you design solutions… if you come to me and ask me to explain something so that you can design a solution that i’m then told to build you’re removing all the fun out of it and i ain’t gonna help with that

there’s a few things here that trigger red flags for me:

not worry about getting too detailed

oh good! because it’s probably ill-defined and nobody really knows and figuring that out involves a lot of reading other people’s shit code and we have work to do

because I need a very thorough understanding

oh you mean do worry - you want to know exactly how it works… sorry bud, no time, that’s a lot of energy

thoroughly documented

ugghghh documentation is for people that don’t understand that documentation is out of date the second you write it: don’t drag me into your futile attempt to make a static artifact that i’ll need to maintain in the future when i update a living system

eliminating all the uselessly disparate systems that people are trying to stitch together currently

okay but that’s really dismissive… this is work that people have put in - even if it’s shit and everyone knows it’s shit, it’s disheartening to have things thrown out… and what they do now they know how it works, they know the caveats… you’re talking about coming in, getting a cursory understanding (what you think you can understand everyone’s problem when the people that built the thing don’t have the full picture?) and then planning out and telling them what to do

if you want help from engineers, ask them for help to build a new thing: don’t ask them for help to explain something so you can tell them what to build. we’re creative, and we love solving problems and we hate robotically implementing someone else’s vision

individuals create echo chambers: if someone spouts intolerant garbage, and the people who fight that garbage block the speech, there’s nobody to oppose it and without voices speaking out against it, it becomes mainstream

if society doesn’t enforce rules around hate speech, it places a burden on minorities to defend themselves from hate, otherwise hate becomes the mainstream viewpoint