A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.
This one? I loosely followed your work… Maybe I should try it someday. See how it does on a regular VPS. Thanks for the link to the IFTAS. Seems they have curated some useful links… I’ll have a look at their articles. Hope they get somewhere with that. At this point, I don’t think there is any blocklist accessible to the average Fediverse admin?!
Edit: Thx, saw your other comment with the link to horde-safety.
You’re probably right. I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to walk close to the edge with things like this, though. Every update to the detection model could change things and get them in jail… So I certainly wouldn’t play a cat and mouse game with something that has several years of jailtime attached… But then I don’t really know the thought process of the average pedo. And AI image detection comes with problems anyways. In the article they say it detected 6 million pictures already. While keeping quiet about the rate of false positives. We know people have gotten in serious trouble for (false) claims. And I also wouldn’t want to be the Fediverse admin who has to go through thousands of flagged pictures and look at them and decide which is which. With consequences attached… Maybe a database of hashes would be the only option. That doesn’t detect new pictures, but at the same time it comes without flase positives and you can’t draw conclusions from hash values.
Yeah, unless someone publishes even a set of hashes of known bad content for the general public… I kind of doubt the true intentions are preventing CSAM to the benefit of everyone.
And will we get that technology to keep the Fediverse and free platforms safe? Probably not. All the predecessors have been kept away for sole use of the big players, despite populism always claiming we need to introduce total surveillance to keep the children safe…
Also helps the general population to take part in science. Plus, you can read things your (small) academic institution didn’t subscribe to. And when I tried it, it was super convenient. Just put in the DOI and get a paper, no other steps like university logins, VPNs etc needed.
Ultimately, the same thing applies to all internet services. If you’re paying for a service by watching advertisements, they have to show them to you. I’ll be an additional line in your mail inbox, mixed with the messages. Or an ad in-between the posts of social media. In between the list of news articles. And of course for AI serviced that include advertising, it needs to be the same.
I’m currently not doing much freelance work or working in any customer-related department… So I don’t use any CRM. But I heard some freelance programmers like InvoiceNinja. I just got a bit interested in organizing some stuff. So I started evaluating some knowledge-management and (Free Software) enterprise solutions. But I’m less interested in the CRM part. And I didn’t find any awesome match, yet.
The article sounds like there is just Salesforce and now Twenty (and SugarCRM). But there are a lot of other open source alternatives that have been around for quite a while: Odoo, ERPNext, SuiteCRM, CiviCRM, … just to name a few.
What I’d like best is to just buy them at a regular store. Not do onlines shopping in the first place. (And then figure out how to return something that was delivered with some special service. I guess you can’t drop them off at the next DHL place, like with the other Amazon stuff.)
But I guess they’re fine, too. The Amazon sellers have the same “brand” inverters like Ecoflow and Growatt.
I think the way lots of projects handle something like that is to add a plugin system to the main project, and then offer it as a plugin in a different repo.
Hmm. But with those three, the simple sets (2x400W + power inverter) seem to be ~100€ more expensive than on Amazon. Maybe I have to go with Amazon then. Thanks anyways! I’ll keep an eye on discounted offers.
Any good store that will sell me a super cheap and good set including inverter here in Germany? I mean they’re on Amazon for 250€, but maybe there is a better shop?
I wonder if that’s still a thing, it’s been announced years ago. I don’t know anyone using the Google Assistant, and I removed that from my device. Have to ask some of my friends, or at the pizza place.
Nice. I think Daisy should also get a Youtube channel so we can listen to her, handling the telemarketers.
And I want that technology for my personal use as my own assistant/secretary.
Yeah, and Microsoft has had some history with racist chatbots even before that.
Happens regularly. It’s generative AI and will mimick all kinds of stuff. Scifi tropes where the machines take over, Reddit posts of people telling each other to die… It’s all in there and business as usual. And seems the safeguards aren’t perfect, so we read this article every other month with a new person and a different chatbot.
No specifications of the chips?
“I will not sign,” she says.
Very good idea. I wouldn’t sign anything.
Btw, what did they even charge her with? I mean, don’t you have to commit some crime in order to be detained?
Just make it a good amount of buttons. Not 500 that all look and feel the same. And it’ll be alright. My car is old and has very few buttons. Plus a radio and 3 large knobs to control the AC. I think that’s the best concept. I don’t even have to look at them most of the times, because it’s not that many similar ones.
Do you think this approach would be worth a try for the threaded Fediverse (aka Lemmy)? I mean your use-case is very different. We have some rudimentary image detection to flag other kinds of unwanted images in Piefed. I could experiment with something like https://github.com/monatis/clip.cpp. Have it go through the media cache and see if it can do something useful for us. But I don’t think it’d be worth all the effort unless the whole approach is somewhat accurate and runs in real time on average VPSes.