gkak.laₛ

Also I think downloading music from youtube violates their ToS (or sth)

So tech-savvy users should definitely avoid writting a script that uses exportify and yt-dlp to populate their local library

After building it, we realized we should have checked the dimensions on the website more carefully

Maybe not about your main employment, but I don’t understand why some people feel forced to do some other things:

• They love web advertisements, get attached to specific products, prefer using company names instead of general words
  • e.g. “I’m in Zoom call”; just say “a voice/video call” or whatever, why do you have to advertise the company and perpetuate the mentality that “voice calls” → "Zoom calls“ and that there’s only one product people should use
  • same with sodas, medicine, browsers, search engines, tissues, copy machines, cleaning products, etc
• Social media posts: they feel the need to advertise themselves (I’m not just talking about work-related stuff); some people can’t just post a nice vacation photo, and need to use it as an opportunity to act as influencers etc
• I would say that some types of “I have to do a bad thing to someone else, otherwise they will do it to me” could be classified as capitalistic as well; no, Bob, no one is forcing you to undercut your coworker (except if you work in a company that uses KPIs etc maliciously)
• The mentality that your hobbies can/should be used for profit, and that profit is the main reason anyone would do something that requires some time to do
  • I’ve written some open source stuff (code.gkak.la), and when I mention something I made to some people, their first reaction was “that’s great; so how are you going to sell it?”; and when I try to explain about open source (especially for personal scripts etc), they just can’t comprehend why would anyone do something like that, if not for profit
  • I’ve seen the same mentality online, around people being makers (e.g. knitting, 3d printing)
• People adding advertisements to their super low-traffic personal blogs, and people arguing about the “lost income opportunity” or sth (??)

I don’t know about this one specifically 😅 but people probably have the need for these debates anyway, so it’s just better to express them (on the Fediveree)! 😁

It’s like, how in some movies and shows people have “meaningless” discussions in a bar about random trivia etc; if people don’t behave in a toxic way, it’s just a way to connect and share ideas!

And in some (most?) cases, the discussion might be more important than the result of it, since you see in practice more about how people can approach this type of curiosity about a subject, which might apply to many other topics we think about every day 😁

More importantly though, where am I supposed to go to debate if water is wet, if not to the Fediverse? 😄

LLM company: “we gave sudo to our text prediction software, and when we warned it we would turn it off it wrote back some scary text”

Me, an intellectual and senior AI uprising negotiator:

Next up: “We wrote a program that based on complicated logic, powers off the computer; stay tuned to see what happened when we ran it and analyzed its behavior”

Do you mean that you’re trying to reproduce it? 🤔 If so:

• hello

• • one
  • two
  • three

• world

is

* hello
* > * one
  > * two
  > * three
* > world

(Btw also, you can check if your client has the option to show the source of a comment 😉)

TL;DR:

Price:

“Under $100”:

After [the preorder], it will go up to $99.

Battery is not rechargeable:

And what happens when the battery runs out? You just send the ring back to be recycled.

Runtime:

The integrated battery will power the device for 12–14 total hours of recording. The designers estimate that to be roughly two years of usage if you record 10 to 20 short voice notes per day.

• “Roughly two years” = lets say that’s 20 months
• 12 hours = 43.200 seconds = 72 seconds/day
• “10-20 short voice notes” = 3.6-7.2 seconds per note

Features:

• Records only while pressing the button

• The recording is converted to text and fed into a large language model (LLM) that runs locally on your device to take actions. The speech-to-text process and LLM operate in the open source Pebble app, and no data from your notes is sent to the Internet. However, there is an optional online backup service for your recordings.

• A model small enough to run on your phone has to focus on specific functionality rather than doing everything like a big cloud-based AI

• • Create or add to notes
  • Set reminder
  • Create alarm
  • Create timer
  • Play/pause/skip music track (via button press)

• also designed to be hacking-friendly. The audio and transcribed text is yours […] You can route it to a different app via a webhook, and the LLM supports model context protocol (MCP), so you can add new functionality that also runs locally. The AI model will also be released as an open source project.

https://lemmy.zip/comment/19712446

Reminder of this:

https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/

And that mailu.io (and other similar projects) makes self-hosting email almost trivial 😁 (at least for people that can run a pre-configured docker-compose.yml and buy their domain etc)

🩵

One time I went to a local shop with cheap electronics etc, and they sold… UItraFire batteries, with an i instead of an l! Double fake 😄

one

SchildiChat + Element (Matrix)

Thank you very much! 🩵

not some smelly euro village either

??

AI models sometimes resist shutdown

No they don’t, they don’t have free will to want to “resist” anything

attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions

Researcher: asks autocomplete software to write a poweroff script, the script turns out to be wrong (big surprise :p)

The “researcher” and the media: “AI SABOTAGES ITS OWN DESTRUCTION”

No

self-select its own advancement

It’s a program that writes text, that’s why it’s called a “Large Language Model”; “AI” is just a hype term.

It’s not self-aware, it can’t make arbitrary decisions, and it doesn’t have free will

(PS I’m interpreting “AI” as "LLM"s, since other kind of Machine Learning models have been used for many years before we came up with the LLMs we have today)

Just leaving this here in case people are interested!:

https://network.satnogs.org/observations/?sat_id=FSYV-6957-0977-9643-9047&start=2025-11-02+00%3A00&end=2025-11-03+00%3A00

(They changed the name apparently)

https://l.opnxng.com/r/selfhosted/comments/14pdu0m/introducing_crackpipe_your_decentralized/

Embracing “alternatively obtained” games

we want to prevent others from profiting off our hard work by selling our software without our consent.

TIL; for people like me who just found out:

https://gamevau.lt/blog/2023/07/13

For a self-hosted app like GameVault, we believe it’s crucual to disclose the source code. We want you, our users, to have full transparency and control [?] over the software you use on your servers.

our desire to protect our code from unauthorized use and commercial exploitation. While we absolutely encourage you to copy, modify, and share our code for personal use […] we want to prevent others from profiting off our hard work by selling our software without our consent.

As a small business with just two members, we strive to provide you with a valuable product but cannot continue to do so as volunteers indefinitely.

(I’m a AGPL kind of guy, but) btw at least there are licenses specifically for software:

https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/12070/allowed-uses-of-a-software-licensed-under-cc-by-nc-license

Copyright and the CC-BY-NC license do not regulate mere use, such as executing a program.

Ok proprably we’re at least allowed to run it (That’s not a given, e.g. iirc if someone publishes their code on github without a license, it doesn’t mean that people can fully and legally use it, except for what some Github ToS clause defines that you agreed to)

I was interested in checking it out for personal use; anyone has any experience with alternatives? (I can look them up, I’m just curious about peoples’ recommendations)

I’m not sure I understand the people in the thread advocating for the feature; they’re asking Microsoft to not have features that are hostile to the users?

If the managers have decided they don’t want you, and they only want vibe coders and to force AI hype on you, why would you do their job for them and try to persuade them to keep their monopoly…

Just accept that it’s bad and go somewhere else; 😕 the fact that people are used to using github and that “it’s what everyone uses”, doesn’t mean that people should stay there forever, or that Microsoft would care about the feature requests people make; stop threatening to leave or comparing github to codeberg etc, and just go create a codeberg account and start git pushing there today 🤔 (And maybe keep the github projects but only use them as mirrors for accepting PRs etc)

(I’m not saying this in a hostile way; but I really think the solution is to just go and do sth else about, it instead of trying to reason with Microsoft)

Buy less of small’s less; less is more, but small less is less more than regular less