tmpod
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Yes! Oh my, I’m silly; that was precisely my point and I managed to mess it up 🙃
Thank you for the correction!
tmpod@lemmy.ptto
Technology@lemmy.world•We need to stop pretending AI is intelligentEnglish
2·7 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
It’s a key that makes the next 2 or more keystrokes be dead key inserts that combineinto some character otherwise impossible to type.
In my case, my keyboard had a ≣ Menu key which I never used, so I remapped it to Compose.
tmpod@lemmy.ptto
Technology@lemmy.world•We need to stop pretending AI is intelligentEnglish
11·7 months agoYou’re correct, but that’s like saying along the lines of manufacturing a car is just bolting and soldering a bunch of stuff. It’s technically true to some degree, but it’s very disingenuous to make such a statement without being ironic. If you’re making these claims, you’re either incompetent or acting in bad faith.
I think there is a lot wrong with LLMs and how the public at large uses them, and even more so with how companies are developing and promoting them. But to spread misinformation and polute an already overcrowded space with junk is irresponsible at best.
tmpod@lemmy.ptto
Technology@lemmy.world•We need to stop pretending AI is intelligentEnglish
3·7 months agoI’ve been getting into the habit of also using em/en dashes on the computer through the Compose key. Very convenient for typing arrows, inequality and other math signs, etc. I don’t use it for ellipsis because they’re not visually clearer nor shorter to type.
tmpod@lemmy.ptto
Technology@lemmy.world•We need to stop pretending AI is intelligentEnglish
14·7 months agoThat is not really true. Yes, there are jump instructions being executed when you run interference on a model, but they are in no way related to the model itself. There’s no translation of weights to jumps in transformers and the underlying attention mechanisms.
I suggest reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(deep_learning_architecture)
This. And to add to what other commenters have said, by using Bitwarden and paying for their Premium plan (very cheap, just $10/year), even if you don’t use all their features, you’re supporting a good project. It’s critical infrastructure, I think the price is more than fair.
Either way, you should always make periodic backups from any cloud service you use, encrypted of course.
tmpod@lemmy.ptMtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Have you ever cried over a celebrity or complete strangers death, why?
0·8 months agoNot to the point of crying, but I’ve got really shaken by the deaths of strangers and public figures before. In general, any death moves me, it’s a very natural and human reaction. Unfortunately, some farther ones or those that happen often enough to get me numb don’t strike me as much.
An example of a fairly recent death that shook me and large amount of people too, was the death of Rick May, an immensely talented actor, drama teacher and more, that voiced the character “Soldier” in Team Fortress 2. His iconic and charismatic performance for that role is just indescribable, and a significant part of what made the character, and by extension the game, so good. His loss was so big that Valve added an in-game memorial statue, so that players could pay their respects. The fan community really grieved together. He passed away due to Covid-19 complications in 2020 at 79 years of age.
tmpod@lemmy.ptMto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Found some Firefox forks but can't decide which one to use
1·8 months agoMullvad Browser isn’t bullet proof, it will not prevent fingerprinting entirely, though it makes it less reliable, especially if it isn’t sophisticated.
tmpod@lemmy.ptMto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Oniux: Kernel-level Tor network isolation for any Linux app
3·8 months agoFinally! I had tried using the clunky torsocks not long ago and wondered why there was no namespace based solution yet. Glad to see this getting released, it will help many people. Tor ❤️
tmpod@lemmy.ptMto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•I made a chart to help choose a password manager. Please mind the clunkiness, I made it on mobileEnglish
7·8 months agoThis is quite misleading and frankly low effort. Besides the readability issues, the chart makes a clear distinction between Proton Pass and Bitwarden when it comes to privacy, citing their privacy policy.
As it happens, however, Proton’s server code is closed, unaudited[1] and not distributed, and the apps (web, Android and iOS) do not support setting different homeservers. This effectively means you cannot self-host your password manager and must be “locked” to Proton for what I consider to be one of the most fundamental and important pieces of technology a person can use.
Bitwarden, however, has opened their official C# server, their internal Rust SDK and the apps themselves too. Furthermore, they have several guides on how to self-host your own personal server, and have implemented settings in their apps to change the homeserver. There’s even an unofficial server, vaultwarden that is even better tailored for small, personal deployments.
All this to say: the fact they may collect some usage data on their website is very insignificant for their offering, in my opinion. The real value is in providing a secure vault that only the user can manage. If you need better privacy and/or anonymity, you should use tools specialized for that anyway, instead of blindly trusting a third-party’s Privacy Policy, no matter who they are. But then again, it’s the old game of threat models.
Ultimately, Bitwarden inspires more confidence than Proton, by giving those you can and want the ability to truly own their secrets.
As far as I’m aware, there’s only this audit by Cure53, in which they performed a white-box pen test on the API, with only its documentation provided, no code whatsoever. These audits are important from a cybersecurity point of view, but security is not the same as privacy and should not be taken as such. ↩︎
Very useful, even for someone who has been using Linux for many years. Sometimes you just forget or need that tool you rarely use.
tldrcan be much handier than parsing a man page when you’re in a pinch.I use the tealdeer implementation, but any is fine really.
tmpod@lemmy.ptto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Is there any way to un-freeze my device when it freezes, without shutting down and losing my work?
51·1 year agoNever knew about prelockd, seems like a pretty neat and useful idea, thanks!
I’m either being very dense right now, or I don’t have that o.I How is it called, or where is it located next to?
Wait what? Was there ever an option to open a private tab as a normal tab?? 🤔 I’d love to have that, but thought it would never get added. What version were you on before (and in which one are you now)?
Adding onto what’s already on the thread, you can try look at the newer Element Call, which is an implementation of Matrix’s native calls.
I’ve been using it a bit recently, since Jitsi seems to have stopped working reliably for me (to be frank, I’ve not put much effort into debugging it yet). It works well, but it’s still early stage, lacking some features Jitsi has. If that one works for you, I recommend you stick to it.
Yeah, exactly! I was quite amazed at how fast my French degraded after I stopped having classes.
I’m a native Portuguese speaker, fluent in English and can understand Spanish and French. Despite having had 3 years of French in school, I can no longer speak properly, and my writing is really bad, but I can understand pretty well. Spanish just comes to me because of the similarities with Portuguese, I never formally learned it.
This is a good suggestion. Docker is more mature and has more resources, so it’s better to learn the ins and outs of containers. After getting comfortable with it, you can move to Podman and have a much better time tackling its peculiarities regarding permissions and rootless.
I used Docker for years and only recently decided to give Podman a try, porting my Lemmy instance to it.
tmpod@lemmy.ptto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Seeking terminal emulator with MRU tab switching shortcut
1·1 year agoGlad to hear! Good luck :)








I agree it’s a nice way to try it out, though it has some limitations. Also, my experience with encryption at rest has been a mixed bag, though I think that’s just because Nextcloud’s implementation isn’t quite mature enough.
(happy cakeday!)