In-reply-to » The “Matrix Experiment”, i.e. running a Matrix server for our family, has failed completely and miserably. People don’t accept it. They attribute unrelated things to it, like “I can’t send messages to you, I don’t reach you! It doesn’t work!” Yes, you do, I get those messages, I just don’t reply quickly enough because I’m at work or simply doing something else.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de pleas no.

My wifes mom nearly got her account fully taken over by some hacker. They were able to get control and change password but I was able to get it recovered before they could get the phone number reset. They sent messages to all her contacts to send cash.

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In-reply-to » Does anyone know what the differences between HTTP/1.1 HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are? 🤔

HTTP/2 differs from 1.x by becoming a binary protocol, it also multiplexes multiple channels over the same connection and has the ability to prefetch related content to the browser to lower the perceived latency.

HTTP/3 moves the binary protocol from HTTP/2 over to QUIC which is based on UDP instead of TCP. This makes it better suited to mobile or unstable networks where handling of transmission errors can be handled at a higher level.

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Love the program James has given me, I just edited some 40 webpages from junk viewing to nice, in a few minutes per edit, as shown in the two programs both running in Windows Mode.

On the left is directly to the Webserver files On the right is the webpage running over the www

Really nice and easy to navigate.

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Jetway JNUC-ADN1: NUC Board Featuring Intel N97 Processor and Dual 2.5GbE Ports
The JNUC-ADN1 is an embedded board with a NUC form-factor, powered by the Intel N97 low-power processor. This board is tailored for applications requiring efficient performance and compact size, such as digital signage and other commercial or industrial uses. The JNUC-ADN1 series is built around the Intel processor N97, which offers up to 3.60 GHz […] ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Just realized that phone came with a bunch of “hidden” Meta/Facebook services pre-installed and they cannot be uninstalled, so I guess me trying to “fight” WhatsApp is pointless anyway. 🤪

It also helps a lot to a) ensure you turn off all things “iCloud” when you setup your device and b) teach your wife and children the benefits of doing the same and risks of not ensuring you do a) and c) ensuring that you keep doing a & b 🤣

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In-reply-to » Just realized that phone came with a bunch of “hidden” Meta/Facebook services pre-installed and they cannot be uninstalled, so I guess me trying to “fight” WhatsApp is pointless anyway. 🤪

Some of those *.apple.com DNS requests look legit and valid, like itunes (the App Store) and push notifications. Need to investigate what some of the other ones are. There are some Apple domains I already block as well that I’ve figured out over the years.

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In-reply-to » Just realized that phone came with a bunch of “hidden” Meta/Facebook services pre-installed and they cannot be uninstalled, so I guess me trying to “fight” WhatsApp is pointless anyway. 🤪

Last ~24 hours of DNS Requests:

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In-reply-to » Just realized that phone came with a bunch of “hidden” Meta/Facebook services pre-installed and they cannot be uninstalled, so I guess me trying to “fight” WhatsApp is pointless anyway. 🤪

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yeah I’m pretty confident in what my iPhone and other Apple devices (Macbook, Mac Studio, iMacs, etc) do and don’t do in regards to talking back to Apple over the Internet. I mean, I do DNS filtering at my home network and most of the time I ensure my phone is connected to my VPN so that all DNS traverse through my own network and filters,

Obviously I can’t guarantee that it’s not making its own DNS requests and sneaking through my filters, I could go and check at my router level, but I’m fairly confident it probably isn’t.

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Low-Cost R128-DevKit Features XuanTie RISC-V CPU, HiFi5 DSP, and Advanced Wireless Connectivity
DongshanPI recently featured the R128-DevKit, a compact development platform equipped with the XuanTie C906 RISC-V processor. This kit is designed for AI-based speech recognition and multimedia applications, featuring a suite of high-performance components. At the heart of the R128-DevKit is the XuanTie 64-bit RISC-V C906 CPU operating up to 600 MHz, paire … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Just realized that phone came with a bunch of “hidden” Meta/Facebook services pre-installed and they cannot be uninstalled, so I guess me trying to “fight” WhatsApp is pointless anyway. 🤪

@movq@www.uninformativ.de At least with an iPhone I’m not forced to use anything like Google, Facebook, or TikTok. None of those “things” are ever pre-installed, hidden or otherwise.

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In-reply-to » Lyse you are completely correct. I run the local host website as a thin webpage right next to the NotePad 2 text editor, and I edit the webpage as I go along, while the web server shows you how it looks like on the Local Internet. That way I save dozens of editing mistakes when it finally become hosted on the grand Internet, plus I have an exact copy the my website at all times, should I lose something from the hosted Internet.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Personally I use this thing I built called zs 🤣

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In-reply-to » Media

Lyse you are completely correct. I run the local host website as a thin webpage right next to the NotePad 2 text editor, and I edit the webpage as I go along, while the web server shows you how it looks like on the Local Internet. That way I save dozens of editing mistakes when it finally become hosted on the grand Internet, plus I have an exact copy the my website at all times, should I lose something from the hosted Internet.

So how do any of you who have created webpages before do this sort of thing? How do you know what your experience is like? Since the host changes features, this changes the web hosting experience, which is a terrible pain. Think of the thousands of editing I have to do?

I will post you some examples…

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I’ve decided to try and get rid of as much stress as possible. Stupid things stress me out, some things are more important to fix then others. But today I got started, by fixing the xeon bulb on our car, been ignoring it for a year, because the car garage said it’ll cost me 350$ so get it changed (Because they had to remove the whole front).. So because of that I did not prioritize it. But today I went and bought a bulb for 50$ and I openened the hood of the car and saw I could just replace it my self by simply removing a cover to get access to the bulb. So I’ve been stressing over nothing for a year simply because I did not check and took their word for it. next thing to get fixed is a rotten board under a window outside, been bugging me for a long time, now I want to get that sorted next. All these small things adds up, and I want peace of mind.

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In-reply-to » The “Matrix Experiment”, i.e. running a Matrix server for our family, has failed completely and miserably. People don’t accept it. They attribute unrelated things to it, like “I can’t send messages to you, I don’t reach you! It doesn’t work!” Yes, you do, I get those messages, I just don’t reply quickly enough because I’m at work or simply doing something else.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de the algorithms are nuts everywhere. I was cancelled from Instagram and TikTok a while back for the same reason, yet, at the time I got the email telling me about it I hadn’t used them both for over a year. 🤷🏻

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In-reply-to » mp3fs: https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/

@prologic@twtxt.net Do you really need FUSE for that? I think that could be done with a process watching a directory on a regular filesystem and deleting the oldest files as the combined size reaches that cap. I’m sure someone’s done that already.

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In-reply-to » Came across YTCH yesterday, and it is very addictive. Simple, and well done. You can host it yourself if you want. The trick I haven't figure out yet is how to create the list.json that drives it.

Its like old school TV but with youtube videos. Each channel has a subject and the channels play in a sort of realtime. so no going forward or back. Perfect for channel surfing.

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In-reply-to » @stigatle Very cool! 👌 Makes me want to redo the yarnd UI using BeerCSS from scratch, but it's an awful lot of work 🙄

@prologic@twtxt.net not sure what you find on BeerCSS. I have never found that style (following “Material Design” aesthetics) attractive at all. Many of its components are misaligned (at least they are under Gnome’s Chrome). Look that the buttons, and you will see and example of what I am talking about.

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In-reply-to » mp3fs: https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/

@mckinley@mckinley.cc That is pretty cool! 😎 Reminds me of something I also want to either find or build; a FUSE filesystem or a Go library that acts as a limited cache with maximum time-to-live on files written. Think, caching Youtube videos for tubeproxy but where storage is always capped at an upper bound. Older items get constantly deleted.

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ESP32-S3-Based WiCAN Pro: An OBD Scanner for Vehicle Diagnostics and Home Assistant Integration
Crowd Supply recently featured the WiCAN Pro, a diagnostic OBD scanner designed to support advanced automotive diagnostics. Built on the ESP32-S3 platform, it offers compatibility with all legislated OBD-II protocols, allowing it to interface with multiple CAN BUS protocols, including three standard CAN protocols and one Single Wire CAN. WiCAN Pro operate … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Also, why isn't shellcheck being used here? It would have picked this (contrived) example up?

@bender@twtxt.net They must be statically compiling all those Haskell libraries on Ubuntu. This seems to be how it is with every Haskell package on Arch. Pandoc has 180 of its own un-shared dependencies on my system.

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In-reply-to » Media Finally fixed so that usernames mentioned in a post shows up as @user , and not with brackets and twtxt file url, looks so much better now! One thing I want to focus on next - is handling replies to a status, that will make it much easier to follow a conversation.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Very cool! 👌 Makes me want to redo the yarnd UI using BeerCSS from scratch, but it’s an awful lot of work 🙄

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In-reply-to » It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Haha 🤣

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In-reply-to » It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

With that Heat and more energy to create preasure you can create Coal! The circle is now complete.

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In-reply-to » Media Finally fixed so that usernames mentioned in a post shows up as @user , and not with brackets and twtxt file url, looks so much better now! One thing I want to focus on next - is handling replies to a status, that will make it much easier to follow a conversation.

Cool, looking good! Ought to work on showing the Emoji too, I noticed that’s missing. Next, to render correct markdown. :-)

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Finally fixed so that usernames mentioned in a post shows up as @user , and not with brackets and twtxt file url, looks so much better now! One thing I want to focus on next - is handling replies to a status, that will make it much easier to follow a conversation.

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Q670M-EM-A: ASUS Micro ATX Motherboard with LGA1700 Socket for 14th, 13th, and 12th Gen CPUs
The ASUS Q670M-EM-A is a Micro ATX motherboard equipped with an LGA1700 socket, making it compatible with Intel’s 14th, 13th, and 12th Gen Core processors, as well as Pentium and Celeron CPUs. Designed for diverse applications, it features dual RJ45 ports, four SATA ports, and extensive expansion options, catering to both standard and advanced computing […] ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Also, why isn't shellcheck being used here? It would have picked this (contrived) example up?

A little bit more verbose:

david@dreadnought:~/$ apt-cache depends -i --recurse shellcheck
shellcheck
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libffi8
  Depends: libgmp10
libc6
  Depends: libgcc-s1
libffi8
  Depends: libc6
libgmp10
  Depends: libc6
libgcc-s1
  Depends: gcc-14-base
  Depends: libc6
gcc-14-base

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In-reply-to » Also, why isn't shellcheck being used here? It would have picked this (contrived) example up?

@mckinley@twtxt.net interesting. In Ubuntu the list is rather short:

david@dreadnought:~/$ sudo apt depends shellcheck
shellcheck
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
  Depends: libffi8 (>= 3.4)
  Depends: libgmp10 (>= 2:6.2.1+dfsg1)

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In-reply-to » It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

@Rob@jsreed5.org Hmm Coal -> Heat -> Stream -> Generator -> Electricity -> Resistance -> Heat

You do have an interesting point there 🤔 Seems rather wasteful just to produce some heat 🔥

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It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

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It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

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In-reply-to » @bender This is basically the problem. Even if you wanted to there generally isn't any state for feeds stored on behalf of the user, in other words, a read status.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org tracking read/unread is something that Yarn could benefit from. It has been thought before, just never gotten anywhere. Yarn just don’t keep track of those, it will be something that @prologic@twtxt.net will need to implement. Maybe if I keep poking him he will! 😂

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In-reply-to » They promised rain. I ain’t seeing any rain so far. 🫤

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org we had a huge thunder/lighning storm last night here too. Kids got really scared (it struck something very close here), and the dog panicked (he opened all doors and would only sleep in kitchen). We woke up around 2 at night from it. But kids luckily fell a sleep again.

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In-reply-to » New Research Reveals AI Lacks Independent Learning, Poses No Existential Threat ZipNada writes: New research reveals that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills without explicit instructions, making them predictable and controllable. The study dispels fears of these models developing complex reasoning abilities, emphasizing that while LLMs can genera ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net The headline is interesting and sent me down a rabbit hole understanding what the paper (https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.279/) actually says.

The result is interesting, but the Neuroscience News headline greatly overstates it. If I’ve understood right, they are arguing (with strong evidence) that the simple technique of making neural nets bigger and bigger isn’t quite as magically effective as people say — if you use it on its own. In particular, they evaluate LLMs without two common enhancements, in-context learning and instruction tuning. Both of those involve using a small number of examples of the particular task to improve the model’s performance, and they turn them off because they are not part of what is called “emergence”: “an ability to solve a task which is absent in smaller models, but present in LLMs”.

They show that these restricted LLMs only outperform smaller models (i.e demonstrate emergence) on certain tasks, and then (end of Section 4.1) discuss the nature of those few tasks that showed emergence.

I’d love to hear more from someone more familiar with this stuff. (I’ve done research that touches on ML, but neural nets and especially LLMs aren’t my area at all.) In particular, how compelling is this finding that zero-shot learning (i.e. without in-context learning or instruction tuning) remains hard as model size grows.

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In-reply-to » New Research Reveals AI Lacks Independent Learning, Poses No Existential Threat ZipNada writes: New research reveals that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills without explicit instructions, making them predictable and controllable. The study dispels fears of these models developing complex reasoning abilities, emphasizing that while LLMs can genera ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net See I told y’all 🤣 AI is “artificial incompetence” 🤣

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In-reply-to » @bender Haha, no worries. I do like that you enjoyed your real life and not wasted it online. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net This is basically the problem. Even if you wanted to there generally isn’t any state for feeds stored on behalf of the user, in other words, a read status.

I don’t know how we will handle the resetting of it, after reading…

I thought about it a few times, but I’ve never really been able to figure out a way of coming up with a viable solution to that.

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