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lemmy.ml
I was thinking of the Gemini (protocol) - Wikipedia but a bit more elaborate, and yeah I’m not sure how far text compression can be pushed. But I think LLMs could be useful and help reach a critical mass of being able to download and store tons of articles. Torrent V2 and other official extensions Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items allow some ways to do this. Like hosting a youtube channel and updating it with new videos, without any new network protocol. Well theoretically since this isn’t yet supported well in torrent clients or lib. I’ve been thinking how this would work for a while but it’s kind of frying my brain haha. Like a “P2P version control database” that is truly open source. For articles and blog posts, but also for metadata for manhwa, movies, tv, anime, books etc. Like anybody can download and use it and share, edit, fork it without needing to set up some complex server. Something that can’t be taken down, sold or if abandoned someone else can just pick it up and you can merge different curated versions and additions easily. You’d basically want a “most popular items of the past X time” that almost everybody downloads, and then the whole database split into more and more exotic or obscure items. So everybody has the popular stuff but also has to host some exotic items so they don’t get lost. And it has to be easy to use and install. But the whole database has to be small and compact and compressed enough that you can still easily host it on a normal HDD. It the current times with economic and political dangers lurking this would be a crucial bit of IT infrastructure.
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lemmy.world
Dishonest Larry? That sounds alrather Trumpian and it doesn’t sit well with me. What did Larry Page do to deserve a label from you? The articles you share are both interesting and I appreciate the share. However I’ve found the tool useful. Moreso than wading through Wikipedia pages, which I do love to do but not when I am reading a book. These tools certainly aren’t correct coincidentally. Ask Gemini to define 100 words and get back to me on the success rate. Is it coincidence? No. It’s statistics. ANNs are based on pattern recognition. They have significant defficiencies and downsides, but the unfortunate reality is that their margin of usefulness means they aren’t going away. And if just like to bring something to your attention: poisoning wells is a well worn Jewish conspiracy theory, and I can’t help but find it a bit self defeating that you are claiming that a Jew (Larry page) is poisoning the well of my reading of Hannah Arendt. If anything, I find your statements much more typical of people with an unhealthy media diet. And I am not accusing you, it’s just my observation from afar.
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sh.itjust.works
AI: In this episode, Razib discusses the state of artificial intelligence with the introduction of large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini with Nick Cassivatis, a former artificial intelligence researcher and current entrepreneur. Cassivatis notes that this is not the first time there has been a stir around artificial intelligence, and expects it to die down in the near future. He also suggests that large language models could quickly reach their limits, and that next year could be far less revolutionary than many expected. While artificial intelligence is having an impact on various fields, including software development, Cassivatis doesn’t expect it to revolutionize all of life.
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lemmy.zip
I honestly don’t really use it, but I am excited about it in the future. :) I installed it because of OSNews, my favorite tech news website. But the Gemini page seems to be down? https://www.osnews.com/story/136770/osnews-launches-gemini-capsule/
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sh.itjust.works
So, working from memory since I don’t save the prompts., but it started with me asking bing if it knew gemini and if it was similar. It explained they were different kind of AIs and I asked it to make a surreal image that visually conveys the difference between a male humanoid representation of gemini and a female one of bing embracing as if they are the only thing keeping each other from a meltdown ETA: I actually was able to find it in full. I pretty much nailed it but bing was more verbose. Another surreal image that visually conveys the difference petween a female humanoid chat assistant and a male multimodal generative model, embracing each other as if they’re the only things keeping the other from a complete meltdown
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sh.itjust.works
It was a huge pain and I ended up troubleshooting with Gemini for hours aha! I know, I’ll plant a tree to offset my sins. It was at least useful to rapid search solutions and tell me what component was the most likely issue. I had coturn set up for legacy Element Classic and, before that, XMPP, but as I wasn’t using those I decided to shut it down and try using Matrix Livekit’s internal TURN server. I’m not sure what actually helped in the end, but Livekit’s latest build caused a bug, so I instead pulled v1.9.12. I also shuffled around my reverse proxy config (from my old attempts) because some endpoints seemed to have changed. I’ll update later with anonymised config :3
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piefed.social
For clarity sake, that’s not what’s happening here. (Don’t misunderstand this comment as defending google, I could write a book about how much they suck) The model downloaded is a LLM called Gemini Nano, and it’s used for things like “help me write”, checking if an incoming message is scam, summaries, etc. Don’t worry about it itself being a spyware. It’s not; but for argument sake, if we were to assume that it was: they already know a lot about you through their usual apps and services, and get a lot more info out of you through them. This LLM would hardly move that needle. The actual issue is that they download it for everyone, even if their devices don’t match the minimum requirements. And without consent. And to enable it, you need to go through several menus, as the default behaviour is to use the cloud (this could change eventually, my understanding is that in this update they’re just laying the foundation) But, it’s Google that we’re talking about. Last year they were sentenced to pay a fine for spying on users despite them having their tracking settings off. And it wasn’t the first time iirc. This kind of behaviour is par for the course with them
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lemmy.world
Create an account on a trading site. I’ve generally had good experience with gemini.com. You’ll have to do the whole legal process of confirming your identity with a government ID because they report your profits/losses to the IRS for capital gains taxes. From there, you can use a credit card or bank transfer to buy. Once you have some, you can try to transfer it to another wallet or another exchange to “anonymize” it, but keep in mind that it’s all traceable given sufficient effort by someone trying to track it down. Some currencies are better at hiding that stuff (Monero, maybe?). If you really want something close to anonymity and quick and easy, your best bet is to find someone you know in real life and give them cash to transfer to your offline wallet.
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lemmy.world
Ask Gemini about genocide in Gaza. Deffinetly not truth, watering down IDF’s war crimes like “unconfirmed”.
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lemmy.world
This article is taking advantage of the fact that most people don’t know how their software works and framing non-issues so that they sound outrageous because that draws clicks and advertising money. Most people haven’t heard of most changes made to their browser, even when those changes massively change the Browser (like Manifest v3). Yes, they could run in-browser announcements for all of these changes but it would just annoy people who don’t care anyway. Nobody wants to see a pop-up every time there’s a browser update full of information that they don’t care about. This specific change is no different than the multitude of other large changes that get implemented every update. It’s announced far ahead of time (2 years in this case), they have preview builds available for anyone to try, they run advertisements (I’ve seen Google Gemini advertisements before YT videos, for example), they publish documentation. Like every major change to Chrome, most people don’t care and don’t want to be bothered by it… that’s why they didn’t know about this specific change. Perfectly normal because, as you have said, most people are not developers or computer people so the information is not relevant to them. However, that is a hugely different scenario than the way these articles are presenting this information. They’re implying that there is something sinister or secretive about this specific update when the reality is that this information is announced and advertised like every other update that nobody cares to look at. People didn’t know it was happening because they didn’t look, not because Google was doing anything different. The articles also frame boring technical details in the most breathless way possible. For example: Hanff focuses on the environmental angle. He calculated that if this model were pushed to just 1 billion Chrome users (roughly 30% of Chrome’s user base), the distribution alone would consume 240 gigawatt-hours of energy and generate 60,000 tons of CO2 equivalent. That’s not including actually using the model, just the downloads. That sounds crazy and even if the numbers are correct (which nobody can check because how ‘he calculated’ is never explained) they’re describing a 4GB file transfer and multiplying. It’s 4GB, that’s 10% of a Netflix movie. Describing it with such framing is disingenuous outrage bait. Here’s another boring technical detail that’s framed in the same outrageous manner: What happened to asking for permission? Pretending to be outraged because they were not asked before an update was applied. Chrome, Windows, Apple’s software, etc all use automatic updates. If the author wanted to to have their permission asked for every update, that’s completely possible and has been since Chrome was first released. Nobody wants 30 different applications asking permission and providing patch notes and so the default is that updates are applied automatically. They had decades to learn about and disable automatic updates. It’s only suddenly a problem when the author needs to farm outrage. And when I remove it, I want it gone permanently—not automatic reinstallation. The author is using a browser with the AI features enabled, they go and delete a file required for that feature and then act outraged that it gets put back in place. The reason that it’s automatically re-installed is because they have the feature enabled in their browser options and Chrome repairs itself when it starts up, that includes re-downloading missing files. The AI feature is enabled and a required file is missing so it re-downloads it. Most people don’t understand how Chrome works under the hood, and that’s understandable. However, the person writing the article and the security researcher who ‘discovered’ this certainly know. They are exploiting people’s ignorance to frame completely normal processes as if they’re something to be outraged about. It’s misinformation using outrage to sell advertisement. It isn’t informing people of anything, it is experts who know better that are deliberately manipulating people for profit. This is a very common tactic in Technical Support Scams. If you’re on Windows and you open the command prompt and type ‘netstat’ you will see a scary looking list of IP addresses. One of the columns says ‘FOREIGN ADDRESS’. Tech support scammers will tell people that the foreign address means that people outside the country are connecting to their computer because they have malware and so they need to pay the scammer to fix it. Obviously that’s nonsense, as any person with the most basic professional understanding of technology will tell you. A foreign address in this context is simply the ip address of some other computer that you’re connected to for various reasons. But a person who doesn’t know much about computers can be easily fooled by someone misrepresenting this basic technical detail and it happens constantly. That’s what this article is doing.