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0x62 commented on Meshtastic   meshtastic.org/... · Posted by u/debo_
cheschire · 20 days ago
0x62 · 20 days ago
Huge fan of Reticulum, fixes some of my biggest gripes with Meshtastic. Shame it hasn't got as much adoption yet. For those looking for Meshtastic-equivalent things in the Reticulum ecosystem:

- Sideband: iOS/Android chat app (https://github.com/markqvist/Sideband)

- NomadNet: Desktop CLI chat app (https://github.com/markqvist/NomadNet)

- Rnode: Reference node hardware/firmware (https://unsigned.io/rnode/)

0x62 commented on Pomelli   blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/birriel
userbinator · 2 months ago
AFAIK and this may have changed, but at least in the US, AI-generated content is not copyrightable so it's effectively public-domain.
0x62 · 2 months ago
It's not that any content created by AI is not copyrightable, it's that work created solely by AI without human input is probably not copyrightable.

See also [1] mentioned in the framework linked by sibling comment, AI copyright is essentially a logical extension of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

0x62 commented on Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook   commandline.stribny.name/... · Posted by u/petr25102018
0x62 · 7 months ago
The content seems really great, however the typesetting makes it quite hard to read:

* Code blocks on a subsequent page to the explanation, especially when there is enough space to show it (p18/19)

* Call-outs as above (p26/27)

* Single words broken by a page (p51/52)

* Footers spanning multiple pages (p61/62)

It sounds quite nitpickey but I find it really breaks the flow when I’m reading, and trying to comprehend a section requires scrolling back and forth between two pages.

0x62 commented on Zod 4   zod.dev/v4... · Posted by u/bpierre
varbhat · 7 months ago
I am not an expert here but I had a thought that JSON-Schema might be a good choice because since it's schema based, i can implement the validators in Non-Typescript languages too.

https://ajv.js.org is one such JSON Schema library. How does zod compare to this?

0x62 · 7 months ago
Zod 4 supports converting a Zod schema to JSON-Schema (natively, this has always been possible with 3rd-party libs).

One key difference is preprocessing/refine. With Zod, you can provide a callback before running validation, which is super useful and can't be represented in JSON. This comes in handy more often than you'd think - e.g converting MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY before validating as date.

0x62 commented on Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR   auntiepdf.com/... · Posted by u/bilater
sbarre · 9 months ago
I find it challenging to accept something that talks about "OCR" but then I upload a PDF with text in images, and when I query the document after upload, I get a message that says "I can't interpret images"..

Then are you actually doing OCR, or are you just extracting embedded text?

0x62 · 9 months ago
I’d imagine their capabilities mirror that of Mistral OCR [1]. Mistral outputs markdown, the image would have to be convertible to a reasonably useful markdown structure (charts, tables etc).

[1] https://mistral.ai/en/news/mistral-ocr

0x62 commented on Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US   autoriteitpersoonsgegeven... · Posted by u/the-dude
lolinder · a year ago
> It's not about data is sent to where, it's about what happens when it arrives to the physical servers, who has access to these files, and what can they do with it.

Right, but the EU can only enforce its laws on companies that have a presence in the EU. A company that doesn't do business in the EU and never will do business in the EU will not obey EU law regardless of what those laws say.

Meanwhile, a company that does business in the EU would be subject to fines by the EU and wouldn't be able to dodge them without just stopping doing business in the EU. So why do the laws not just say "here's how you have to treat data belonging to our citizens if you want to continue to do business in the EU"? Why does the physical location of the data that is being thus protected matter at all?

0x62 · a year ago
That works fine if the company itself stores the data, but becomes difficult to enforce when 3rd parties store the data. Imagine a company with an EU presence stores it's EU data in US, with a hypothetical cloud provider that doesn't have an EU presence.

The company would need to have a DPA with it's cloud provider. That cloud provider technically would also need a corresponding DPA with any 3rd parties that they themselves use, except without an EU presence that is hard to enforce.

In this case where there is one hop you could argue that it's the companies responsibility to ensure that their service providers are operating in compliance. Imagine the same scenario, but with one, two or more middlemen and the whole thing becomes an unenforceable mess of jurisdictions for the company to do meaningful due diligence on their service providers.

It's much easier for the EU to say EU data has to be stored in the EU, and know that any party touching the data is likely to be in compliance, and significantly easier to investigate if they are not.

0x62 commented on Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri    · Posted by u/darweenist
0x62 · a year ago
I just gave Martin a go. What I'm looking for is an AI PA that can:

- do some research on a given company/individual/website and give me a summary.

- preferably also identify a contact email.

- handle selecting a good time for meetings according to my availability and preferences.

- handle the communication with the other party.

- let me know when it is arranged, or if it's given up.

I signed up and gave it a UK phone number, and got a UK number back for texting Martin. I'm not sure why it has to be SMS when it could be an in-app chat. I was expecting to get a confirmation SMS or similar, but it just accepted it straight away. When I texted the number I was given (several times), it was delivered but there was no reply.

Martin sent me an email welcoming me. I replied asking it to set up a meeting for early next week with another email address. Martin replied saying it is unable to email people on my behalf, and suggested I set it up myself.

> Unfortunately, I am currently unable to send emails to other people on your behalf. However, you can easily send an email to ** to schedule the meeting for early next week in the afternoon.

I reminded Martin that there is an example on the website homepage of doing just that, and it replied saying it can indeed schedule meetings, and asked for the details again. I replied with the same details, and it confirmed the meeting was set up.

I checked my other email, and there was no message setting anything up. I told Martin that the other party needs to know about the email, and it replied with:

> Understood. I'll make sure to inform ** about the meeting details.

Still nothing received. Furthermore, I checked the app and I haven't even connected my calendar, so I'm surprised it didn't warn me or prompt me to do this when I asked for a meeting.

I gave up with that and decided to try something else. I forwarded Martin an email thread from a lead, which included a lot of back story on their organization, offering, and some areas that they think we could potentially collaborate on. I asked Martin to find out more about the company, and evaluate the options for collaboration.

This lead is in the AI space, with their primary product being a document digitisation solution to help surface and discover business documents.

Martin replied describing it as a "nearbound revenue platform to streamline revenue operations", with a key feature being "Automated lead scoring and distribution to prioritize high potential leads". As far as evaluating the collaboration opportunities, it instead gave me a list of collaboration features within the platform, none of which exist.

At the end, it linked to a blog post to their recent funding round. Except, the blog post was from a completely unrelated company with a similar name. Bear in mind that the originally forwarded email was from their business email account, and the body contained multiple links and references to their website.

I decided to try one more test, and asked it to do some research on my own business website and let me know what it finds out. It's been 20 minutes, and I haven't had a reply. I checked the app to see if there was any indication it's working on something for me, but nothing their either.

I love the idea of Martin, but I'll be canceling my trial - it just doesn't seem anywhere near ready yet - especially given I have to trust it to communicate on my behalf.

0x62 commented on Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file   github.com/dtonon/oracolo... · Posted by u/dtonon
ollybee · 2 years ago
What others do you know of, or is there a resource to find out more?
0x62 · 2 years ago
You might also be interested in checking out IPFS/IPNS

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