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[–] cowboykermit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not quite the same as it was to do with the landscape, but one of my personal favourites:

Stott Hall Farm

Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] cowboykermit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Thought I knew everything when I started reading through but the levels of casual creepiness amongst the higher ups was way more than anticipated.

Sidenote: I love seeing book recommendations on here and this time I'd actually read it already!

'There is no universe in which Proton VPN compromises its no-logs policy' — Proton joins the backlash against Canada's surveillance bill in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] cowboykermit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

🌍🧑🏻‍🚀🔫👨🏼‍🚀

This site is so much fun in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] cowboykermit@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

a drawing of an egg with a heart next to it

The little heart made me smile. I love this!

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] cowboykermit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I was hoping I'd find something like this one day and of course I find it on Lemmy.

Thank you!

A single threat actor used Claude and ChatGPT to compromise nine Mexican government agencies and steal hundreds of millions of citizen records in a highly sophisticated cyberattack. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] cowboykermit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Can see a few people disagree with you

Does anyone have a good litmus test for when the perspective might shift? TurboQuant making it easier to have larger context windows for local models give me a pinch of hope and I'm really holding out for a decent Open-Weights model I can self host for Home Automation.

I'm fully aware LLMs are just predictive text on roids and we haven't achieved real AGI, but do we know of anything that will help us filter through the marketing?