

Every time I see a headline that contains the word “slams,” I want to slam my head on the table
I make computers
Every time I see a headline that contains the word “slams,” I want to slam my head on the table
The image-to-text model is impressive. I could see it being useful for smart search of your library, allowing users to find photos with a high-level description.
I’m not sure why it’s being reported on as though the technology is a privacy or security threat, though. If you’ve given a storage provider access to your photos anyway, using a vision model isn’t going to give them anything extra.
That said, I do love self-hosted photo solutions like Immich and Ente. Hope they continue to grow.
Google Glass finally making a comeback?
In general I agree with the sentiment of the article, but I think the broader issue is media literacy. When the Internet came about, people had similar reservations about the quality of information, and most of us learned in school how to find quality information online.
LLMs are a tool, and people need to learn how to use them correctly and responsibly. I’ve been using Perplexity.AI as a search engine for a while now, and I think they’re taking the right approach. It employs LLMs at different stages to parse your query, perform web searches on your behalf, and summarize findings. It provides in-text citations as well, which is an opportunity for a media-literate person to confirm the validity of anything important.
Amnesty International provides a FOSS tool to check your mobile backups for traces of the Pegasus Spyware. I’d trust that over a sketchy proprietary app. Link: https://docs.mvt.re/.
My thoughts exactly… If there’s a FOSS tool to check, then we’d be talking.
“A quick peek behind the curtain”
I watched “Buy Now!” last night. The editing was a bit campy, but overall it was interesting. I appreciated seeing both iFixit and Framework being represented!
Thou shalt not browse The Internet
Nope. Snowflake has been around for a while. I’ve been running my node for at least a year now
It’s the logo of “0din”, which is a Mozilla-backed bug bounty (say that five times fast) with a focus on GenAI
Anyone who found this interesting should check out Nick Harkawway’s novel Gnomon. It’s set in a near-future society with a similar kind of omnipresent and ambivalent AI/surveillance system, combined with some fantasy elements.
It’s about time. I hop between iOS and Android every so often, and the lack of RCS has always been a major pain in the ass. Goodbye shitty compressed photos and hello read receipts. Unless your Android vendor doesn’t fully support RCS… Looking at you, Samsung
Well duh
This is pretty hysterical
Safari refers to it as “Privacy-Preserving Ad Measurement”, and Chrome includes an option as part of its “Privacy Sandbox.” Please have the decency to do a basic google search before being an asshole :)
Literally every browser has this option, and it gives users a choice. If you use an ad blocker, it has this option as well and has had it for several years now.
What this administration fails to understand is that the USA currently lacks the workforce to be self-sufficient in semiconductors. Cutting off the supply of chips via tariffs and constricting federal funds to foundries isn’t going to magically make the country a semiconductor powerhouse. We’ve got the capability to build fabrication sites, sure. What we need is a workforce—people with graduate degrees in electrical and computer engineering. And that’s going to take time. This whole ordeal is sloppy and embarrassing