Thanks for all the work you and the organizations do! I didn’t think like you, but now I’m interested, being able to jump ship quickly as I have control is interesting. I’m a noob to this, can you share resources/software you use for encrypting emails and stuff ?

I was looking at Infomaniak on alternativeto and found these :

1. https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/infomaniak-breaks-rank-and-comes-out-in-support-of-controversial-swiss-encryption-law
2. https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/infomaniak-breaks-rank-and-comes-out-in-support-of-controversial-swiss-encryption-law/28065/11
3. https://xitter.cf/infomaniak/status/1931658700743135261#m

I’m not sure what to make of them, as when I tried to sign up they wanted phone verification, their offering in free tier seems too generous, and with no encryption, they could hand over information easily (and yes ik email isn’t the most secure form of communication and there are better tools)

Thanks! That was an insightful read. Didn’t know models/learning could be this efficient and small. Main reasons why I asked is, I saw another app on Reddit that mentioned learning is done locally, but others found out it was alloted to gemini on users’ phone (which the dev insisted was done locally but not really privacy respecting imo) and almost every app with such a feature was humongous. Thanks for making Aftergleam and keeping it open source

Hi, I’ve been using the app ever since it was on F-droid. I wanted to ask you about the learning/model. The app is under 2MB, so where is the model/learning done ? Is the learning assigned to gemini ?

Haven’t played Crimson Skies, but since people are recommending Star Citizen/Squadron42, does Everspace 2 come close to what you want ?

Best we can do is another acronym for Trump or a bumper sticker

Bro Reddit has horrible UI/UX

Ikr, they’re comparing these protests to their “No Kings” protest which happens bi yearly on Sundays. I’ve lived in India for a few years and have friends there. This protest is massive, elderly politicians from almost all states are there protesting. To the Amerikkkans, please don’t compare your incompetent protests to this. Fucking amerikkkan right wings are funding the RSS in India.

I thought Lemmy would be different, it’s just fucking Reddit now or any other fucking American socials. How confident they feel commenting about stuff they are not knowledgeable in, is beyond me. But do keep making bumper stickers or tweets

Has anyone tried AliasVault ? How’s your experience with it ?

There are Nazi furries ???

This is software meant to be run always and completely locally?

That’s what is claimed, I haven’t run them locally since I don’t have a good system.

To be honest, I’m not sure if I can eli5 weights and models, but I’ll try. Think of a model like the base - for example, OpenAI has different models like Astra, Sol, etc. These are different models, like different versions of a software or operating system like macOS, but for AI stuff. Like one would download a software, you download a model to perform tasks.

Weights are vales that can influence inputs of these models to get a desired/better result. What most of these models are doing is mostly predicting what might be the next appropriate text/data to the question you asked. When you ask these AI models what 2+2 is, it is not performing a math operation like a normal program, it is looking at its training data to see what the closest option might be. It is doing pattern matching.

These AI models inside can be thought of like an interconnected network, like neurons in our body, that keep passing information to the next neuron and to the brain to make a decision. (Before understanding LLMs it would help to understand Neural Networks first). These AI networks need weights and biases. These networks perform calculations and weights are used to determine how much importance/weight each input can have on the output. Bias on the other hand, is used to shift/change the output so the AI model can ‘learn’ to pattern match better.

What open-weight models, do is they make the model available for download along with the weights. No information is given on training data. Like with ads, ones with most data emerges victorious i.e, has a better model. So these companies do theft, don’t list their training data afraid of getting caught. I forgot which one, but either Deepseek or Qwen (both open-weight) was caught ‘stealing’ from Claude (not open weight). You can probably guess how much these companies value ethics.

I’m not sure if this entire thing goes away, but local models might be the ones left standing when this bubble pops.

Open weight is different to open source. Open Source AI as it stands, the definition requires a model to have entire thing made public - so the weights, biases, training data used, the model. Apertus, Olmo etc are mostly meeting open source AI definition.

If you need to know more, this is what we’d use to refresh our memory before exams :)

I probably might have made mistakes here, English isn’t my first language either. But I hope you get an idea about these terms

If you really need to understand this tech more, I recommend watching ‘AI for Everyone’ course on Coursera from Andrew Ng. It is free to audit, my friends who took his course were hyped (I wasn’t really interested in AI)

You can run them locally, yes. There are models that can even run on phones, but usecase is limited. But it can only be considered ethical, if the training data used is listed or ethically sourced IMO.

AI bros on Lemmy will disagree with me, but most open weight models are still trained unethically i.e, theft. Most proponents of LLMs (who I talked to on bsky), who say local models are ethical, don’t fucking use it. They’re larping on socials about how awesome it is, but none of the ones I talked to are using it in their projects. They mess around, realise it is not as good as the “unethical” options, go right back to Claude

Open weight models Qwen, deepseek, mistral, and the Ollama stuff etc are unethical in normal people’s eyes, but “ethical” enough for AI bros.

From what I searched, there are very few that can be considered ethical - Olmo, Apertus, Starcoder(?). But idk anyone who uses these. My friend at IBM said they used Apertus, but it was nowhere near good as ChatGPT, so they no longer use Apertus now. And these models require minimum 6-8 GB VRAM for their lowest parameter model iirc.

Even the open-weight model bros are lobbying to redefine what ‘open-source AI’ means. That should give you a fair idea about people behind open-weight as well

Mr Bean ahh conductor

Yes, please ban them. If not, soon this space will get overrun with those losers. This is what happened to r/fossdroid and r/opensource. 90% of posts there are from sloppers. It got really bad to the point regulars stopped participating, and now these subreddits are mostly just sloppers congratulating each others. Every post reads the exact fucking same, every project looks fucking similar, even comments. These people barely put effort anywhere.

This is a community for people to share and communicate, else we can all just talk to LLMs. Please don’t let that happen to this community.

At the very least, make posters require to have an AI tag on their posts and a separate day for them to showcase their “projects”.

Please don’t reply saying but Linux uses LLMs, or other whataboutisms. There is a significant difference between code quality from people submitting to Linux and a slopper who vibecoded a project thinking they’re helping.

I never understood that argument. The same idiots claim AI will democratize everything, it is inevitable. That one would only need to know natural language, “coding is over” or ‘x’ is over. If it does democratize ‘x’ for everyone with only requirement being natural language, who would even get left behind ??

I tried using a wrapper LLM for a specific software for a project, and sometimes it gives correct answers, sometimes gives the diffuclt way to implement something, sometimes it hallucinates. At first, I thought great, I wouldn’t have to sit through an entire playlist to get the gist of how to do something mildly similar. But recently it has been giving wrong answers. Today it gave answers beginning with “handoff - DENY}” and answers just kept cut off. Sometimes asking a different question, it just resumed the cut off answer from half an hour ago. The stupid piece of shit was wasting my time!! In the end, I just figured it out on my own.

I think NLP is amazing, a computer being able to understand what exactly I’m trying to do/look for is useful. But my work shouldn’t be dependent on an LLM’s “mood”.

Before anyone says just read documentation/tutorials, this is a niche vfx software which doesn’t have good docs and tutorials are mostly outdated for latest versions

PDS is just one part of the whole thing. It’s just the place where your data is stored. Almost all other parts of the network are dependent on Bluesky’s stack. Even the alternatives like Blacksky and Eurosky are still dependent of Bluesky’s implementations like the Appview. So if Bluesky goes down, it affects the other services (in some way) too. One can host a PDS for cheap, but if you want a proper social media service (with post history, search etc), it is kind of expensive. There are other appviews, but for some reason Bluesky going down causes issues in Blacksky, Eurosky etc

As a child of God, I’ll ask for forgiveness

I forgot to share the url. It’s this one.

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I typed “found it” after just seeing the post/headline on lemmy, but reading through the article, the allegations are from Ubisoft and fucking WB for 2 of their micro transaction heavy games. I don’t think this is what many people were lead to believe with the comments here. I initially thought the allegations were from poor indie devs. I don’t fucking care what Ubisoft and WB does, they are not saints either.

EDIT : Found it.

I’ve seen this being said mostly on reddit but haven’t seen any source/reference to this claim. Is this like an NDA that devs sign ? Has anyone reported on this/archived it ?