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  • heavyboots@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.devWhere is Naomi Wu?
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    2 months ago

    Last post that I can find by her is on Mastodon, promoting a new electronics book she helped co-author, I think?

    But yeah, she has been super quiet since they “clipped her wings”. But she said she would be too. Censorship sucks and I can’t believe we let an entire country get away with it and still did business with them the whole time.






  • These are a bit unique from the lists everyone else has, I think:

    • Lemmy Keyboard Navigation (like the kbd shortcuts from RES)
    • Google Popup Blocker (stop the annoying log in with Google popups everywhere on the web)
    • OneTab (this one lets you collapse a whole window of tabs down into a list in the OneTab tab that you can later reexpand into a window again when you re-attack whatever subject all the tabs were about)

    These are the more standard ones that everyone seems to run:

    • UBlock Origin
    • Reddit Enhancement Suite
    • 2FAS Extension
    • BitWarden


  • heavyboots@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 months ago

    Can’t answer to Tor—haven’t even tried it in years, but I know on Windows, Firefox totally ignores the whole “reopen tabs on restart” pref if you close the last window via the red X in the corner. You have to use control-shift-Q or show menus and select File->Quit if you’re going to quit it in a way it understands as requesting you to reopen the tabs again next launch.



  • I totally agree that both seem to imply intent, but IMHO hallucinating is something that seems to imply not only more agency than an LLM has, but also less culpability. Like, “Aw, it’s sick and hallucinating, otherwise it would tell us the truth.”

    Whereas calling it a bullshit machine still implies more intentionality than an LLM is capable of, but at least skews the perception of that intention more in the direction of “It’s making stuff up” which seems closer to the mechanisms behind an LLM to me.

    I also love that the researchers actually took the time to not only provide the technical definition of bullshit, but also sub-categorized it too, lol.



  • heavyboots@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mldeleted
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    5 months ago

    I would absolutely send him an email to the effect of

    “Per our multiple verbal conversations, this is just to serve as notice that, in my professional opinion, your refusal to allow me to upgrade a system at risk of multiple security vulnerabilities on a platform that is no longer supported is a risk that you are choosing to accept against my advise.”

    with a list of known major vulnerabilities attached if possible.

    That way at least if this comes back to bite the company on the ass, he can’t say “Well he never told me this was a problem!”



  • heavyboots@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.mlMexico's new president!
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    5 months ago

    Yes, and I voted for Bernie when he ran and I would absolutely vote for AOC if/when she does run. Just… the choices in this election cycle are wanna-be, half-demented dictator-for-life vs a “moderate” Democrat who, while he’s gotten a surprising amount done, isn’t exactly renowned for pushing the corporations hard on climate change.