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Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Original Internet Tech & Culture•Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
2·28 days agoI don’t see why, since this is a font any text written in it will be read correctly by any tts, only in screenshots will it be unreadable to bots, this wouldn’t even be an issue for camera images as they will bot be sharp enough to capture the lines properly.
But for this reason, this is also why it is kind of useless
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you could see one statistic above every person's head, that is updated in real time and never goes away, what would you choose?
4·1 month agoLifetime Intrusive thoughts counter
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets [🎁 nytimes gift link]English
212·1 month agoI mean, yes, the entire premise of ChatGPT is “we stole all the data we could to give you really convincing, logically devoid, text generation!”
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Unpopular truth: Telemetry collection actually happens because people are garbage at being helpful to supportEnglish
601·1 month agoTelemetry is fine, it’s the abuse of it that is the problem.
If a project is clear about it, takes the minimum necessary data, and anonymizes it, make a clear and reasonable retention policy, then I am all for it.
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirementEnglish
1·2 months agoI guess it is a varying thing. Where I am from, the housing market in basically any place that isn’t super remote is already insane, buying basically any property in the region I am living in currently would cost me about 80% of my money as a down payment. I would have to work for about another decade just to get back to the same amount of savings, but the housing market is so crazy that I really have no idea where it will be a decade from now, there is a very real possibility of a collapse that will devalue the property. The advantages of renting for me are basically:
- I am okay with extremely tiny homes, so I am able to rent an apartment that was illegally split and because it is tiny the rent is very low (and no roommates which is great) (my current place is 15m² or 160ft² or 1.2 Cybertrucks or 5 golf carts or 1200 big macs)
- I am still not settled on which region I want to live in for the long term, so renting gives me the flexibility to move as I need
- Being a landlord sucks and I don’t want to do that
- my current savings being invested make significantly more revenue than any rent I would be able to take from any property within my price range.
- The stock market is low commitment and variable in both size and risk of investment. If I fear that there might be a financial collapse soon I can sell my stocks and buy something else (other stocks, gold, monero, cash, etc) while if a housing crisis seems to start, selling my house would take weeks-months.
If somehow I find myself really settling down in a specific area, and find a really good deal, I still might do it, but I really really doubt, it will only happen if it is a really good deal on a place that I really want to live in.
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirementEnglish
84·2 months agoBeing frugal, doing certifications at a young age, being in cyber security (high salary even within tech) and investing almost everything I earned, and being privileged (coming from a financially stable family, getting a highschool education, having a computer from an early age, etc) means that at 25 I essentially didn’t have to worry about how much I earn anymore and could just do what I want (still need to earn some money so that I wouldn’t start chipping at my savings) and know that as long as there isn’t some crazy financial collapse, my savings should be able to casually grow into a retirement on their own.
I recognize that I am really lucky to have gotten the opportunities that I then used to the best of my abilities. I am still living very frugally (in general, but extremely compared to my coworkers) but to some degree that is in my nature. I still find myself sometimes deep diving into my finances to make sure I am correct in my predictions and budget as it is insane to me that I was able to do this.
Important notes for why this is even possible, on top of the stated reasons above:
- I don’t intend to ever buy property, even if I could. I will rent until my parents pass away, after that, I might reconsider. (Long term this is the best financial option as investing in stocks yields generally more for less risk, and for now I don’t have a place that I want to “settle down” in)
- I am child free and have invested around $3K to get a vasectomy (yes, I see it as an investment to avoid unwanted and expensive consequences, plus it basically pays itself back after a decade of not needing other forms of birth control) So no huge budgetary lifestyle changes expected until my health deteriorates.
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?
27·2 months agoGet ready for the 2040 internet trend “spending the night in an abandoned data center”
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•C++ takes decades to master
4·2 months agoHeader?? I barely know her!
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web serverEnglish
5·2 months agoProbably
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI coders are carrying half-open laptopsEnglish
51·3 months agoStupid enough to do AI slop, stupid enough to not know how to disable the lid actions
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Lithium deposit valued at over $1.5 trillion discovered in the U.S.English
81·3 months agoThe federal government invades that state for “peace and freedom”
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think there would be less conflict in the world if the average intelligence went up 50%?
7·3 months agoPersonally I don’t think intelligence is the solution, it would justake conflict more complex and thought out. You would need more empathy for a better world.
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•why is software engineering so horny
9·3 months agoOh, I KISS all the time!
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why aren't Linux-based mobile operating systems (apart from Android) used more widely?
15·3 months agoPhone manufacturers don’t release drivers, leaving phones in a state of either it works with generic drivers (almost never works 100%) or someone needs to make a custom driver (a lot of work) so we end up in a situation where every new phone would need a full team working on it for weeks/months just to make Linux support it, so it rarely happens. and when it does, by the time you reach full functionality, the phone is already outdated.
With computers this doesn’t happen as they are essentially modular (being built from mostly a combination of off the shelf parts) where each part already has a driver (often even contributed by tge manufacturer) while phones are almot completely custom, with each model having custom parts that are often completely unique to it.
Agreed, but also, this is on the open internet, so always assume that all of this data is going to these corporations anyway
Today with models like gemma4, you could literally do this on basically any hardware, but for text moderation ypu don’t even need LLMs, we have ML models that do text moderation perfectly fine and run 10x faster
Wthout going into the issue itself, it is such a ridiculous waste to use an llm for something that a far simpler model could do like 100x faster and locally for essentially free…
Just search for “machine learning text moderation” and you will find all kinds of options. Not to talk about the fact that a simple 4B LLM could do this as well.
One thing I really hate is how LLMs have completely overshadowed the entire ML/AI field and people just use them for everything.
Using a trillion parameter LLM model for basic text moderation is like using a gaming rig to play candy crush.

Insider trading in my insider trading platform???