Notices by happyborg (happyborg@fosstodon.org)

The UK had #Thatcher who sold off taxpayer assets for peanuts and we've been suffering more and more ever since. Shareholders and executives have stolen oil wealth, bled our utilities so dry that they are collapsing and our rivers and beaches are too polluted to paddle in.

Homelessness is rife because she forced councils to sell their housing and prevented them using the proceeds to build new housing.

The US has #Trump who is far worse. Putting the proceeds in his family's pockets.

@silverpill did you vote against it?

@2something they are completely independent, nothing to worry about using rclone.

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116662853063518326

UK people, particularly in the media and Westminster should watch this in shame. Take note and bloody stop supporting mass murder by towing the line of this genocide supporting UK government.

This act can begin something important.

Thank you to every person in Ireland, and the Irish media responsible for this👏

@dalias
Nah, a properly configured Windows is called Linux. 🤣

@etchedpixels @claralistensprechen3rd @quixoticgeek

@giacomo
#LLM code generation is like a zip archive being distributed without a license.
@amszmidt@mastodon.social @doctormo

#Trump's #fascism is characterising #autism as an illness, while many autistics feature as outstanding figures in numerous fields, including during the fight against #Hitler in WWII.
#science

#Farage is a mini-me Trump and will keep following his lead.
#ReformUK

@silverpill

> but I guess they made enough money from the token sale to keep developing it for the next 100 years.

We wish! The project is still going because of the dedication of the founder and a community committed to its values and goals. It has always had to run on a tight budget unlike other projects that have taken enormous investment.

@pepper0

@ekaitz_zarraga
I'm like that too but love Rust. I don't have to think about or use all that syntax or contexts. So I rarely use lifetimes for example. I only recently started writing my own generic types... and before I knew it I was creating a really cool thing using that and closures without ever studying either. It saved me a lot of code, but could have been done another way.
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@janneke

Apparently #KierStarmer says he shares Trump's 'values' as Trump starts setting up a network of mass concentration camps and funds a new #Nazi style SS with more money than any other US law enforcement agency.

WTF planet is Starmer on?

He and #UKLabour are a malevolent force and need to be removed from power asap.

@aral I mean no remote server, hosting etc. You install dweb, run 'dweb serve' and so you do have a local server.

@aral
See also p2p: #ScratchChat, just published needs no server, intermediaries and is end-to-end encrypted.

More here:
https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg/114541811455576193

Why does anyone here still use Google search?

It's easy to get away from that garbage and avoid ads and sponsored links completely, so why do you continue to use such a poor search service?

@servo
Relationally and technically IMO this is a bad move.

It reduces the likelihood of me building with or donating to Servo for various reasons.

Code is one of the least justifiable uses of LLMs, and then we have a plethora of ethical and potential legal problems needing to be worth any perceived benefits.

Why risk such a great project for questionable benefits?

Watched Darkest Hour again tonight. What a film.

A perfect follow up after Trump and Vance's cowardly and disrespectful bullying of a courageous leader, who is literally fighting tyranny on behalf of free democracies across Europe.

A man Trump and Vance thought they could stand next to and look bigger than.

The film #DarkestHour should offer hope to #Zelenskyy, and inspire European leaders to step up, to stand taller than the United States, which has fallen so low under Trump. [Winston voice]

@scottjenson
I'd be excited too if my experience of today's local #LLMs was positive but they're consistently useless IME.

I even chose my recent laptop purchase to check earlier experience on larger models but found no significant improvement on any tasks I thought they might be good for, or which others were reporting as useful.

I do see use for a local LLM assistant but they are for me trivial and not important. And there's no way I'd trust an #LLM to control my laptop.
@homeassistant

@scottjenson
What I mean is that they cannot be trusted to carry out instructions because they are unreliable and have no understanding of context, or in fact anything.

To an LLM wiping a hard drive requires no more consideration than drafting some text. To a human, if I said "wipe my hard drive", they'd want to be sure that's what I said and wanted before doing it.

Link that with their high error rate and there's no way I'd 'give one' control of my laptop.

@emily
I think you should mention this is for third party services, not strictly VPNs. Leave people some hope!

Maybe point out that some of those services are much better than others. Mullvad for example has stood up to those trying to access details of the traffic they protect, and it seems they succeeded.

Personally I self host a VPN. It's not trivial but not that hard, and stopping your ISP seeing every site you visit is a good reason for average folk to use a #VPN service don't you think?

How do you feel about Windows #Recall when you realise how many computers and devices run Windows?

Your personal data captured when viewed on medical devices and PCs by Banks, Doctors, Hospitals, lawyers, Insurers, your Govt Representatives...

Everywhere, screens captured every few seconds and stored, and we all know the reason: to train AI and send your data back to anyone who will pay for it because #AI models reveal the data they are trained on.

😱

#WindowsRecall #Windows #LLMs

@ntnsndr
That would mean shooting down weapons it is supplying.