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fattire commented on Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck? threads.com/@brittainfors... · Posted by u/Analemma_

fattire · 22 days ago

Tesla claims this is a hoax on Twitter.

https://x.com/Tesla/status/1954992987223757149

fattire commented on Our Android app is frozen in carbonite ia.net/topics/our-android... · Posted by u/zdw

sonofhans · a year ago

Some comments are asking, “Why not just ditch Google Drive support?” Well, how would a cloud-enabled writing app do on Android without Google Drive support? About as well as the same app on iOS without iCloud support — roadkill, I expect.

I’ve used iA Writer on many platforms for years and I love it. It’s a simple Markdown editor that stores stuff in your cloud of choice. There are a million of these apps, but iA Writer has been high quality and regularly updated for a long time.

fattire · a year ago

Why not use the storage access framework, which is agnostic to where the files are being saved whether local or remote? By selecting the file to open or naming it to save, you choose a destination and permission is implicitly granted to that location for that file. Could be google drive or the local file system or any cloud provider app that supports SAF. No storage permissions needed, and it's been around for years and years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C28pvd2plBA

fattire commented on Apple is lobbying against right to repair 6 months after supporting it 404media.co/apple-is-lobb... · Posted by u/nickthegreek

VyseofArcadia · 2 years ago

I think all of Apple's "support" for Right to Repair has been carefully calculated to undermine it. They think the level of support they have to provide for repairability voluntarily is less than what they would have to do if it were mandatory.

fattire · 2 years ago

It's always suspect when a big company asks for more regulation-- OpenAI, FTX, etc. It's usually in the name of the public good or fairness etc, but they may actually be looking for legal recognition of otherwise dubious activities, ways to block out new competition, or they could be trying to curtail inevitable regulation by writing the law themselves in the most favorable way possible.

fattire commented on Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks keydiscussions.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/spenvo

Mistletoe · 2 years ago

I’m not even sure this is a positive thing.

fattire · 2 years ago

You can opt out of it thankfully.

fattire commented on The Problem with LangChain minimaxir.com/2023/07/lan... · Posted by u/minimaxir

frisco · 2 years ago

After running into these issues a few others and I wrote a typescript agent framework that I think significantly improves on LangChain in many ways: https://github.com/sciencecorp/buildabot/

It’s still very early days for software composing AI models and we almost certainly don’t have all the right metaphors yet. And I think there is a lot to be said for strong typing and simple, robust code!

fattire · 2 years ago

I've played with langchain now for a couple weeks (with some of the llama-derivative local models and Oobadooba's native & openai apis + TextGen https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/model_io/models/ll... ) and find it not-too-insanely-hard for an idiot like myself to figure out, though I'm just experimenting at this point with different models, esp. using tools, etc. I've found that some of the recommended prompts in the demos that, while perhaps working well with chatgpt/gpt4, need a lot of tweaking to work with with say WizardLM. But then I can get them working, so that's kinda neat.

I also played with huggingface's transformer agent (https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/transformers_agents ) and thought it was a lot easier to useas far as the tools go, though is perhaps less capable for other things. I may go back to playing with that actually.

fattire commented on Tesla Quietly Disconnecting Radar in Customer Cars During Service Visits thedrive.com/news/tesla-q... · Posted by u/clouddrover

ekux44 · 2 years ago

Forced software/hardware downgrade to receive vehicle repair is such tyranny.

Do owners that bought a car with a radar-based safety system have any recourse if they don't consent to the software & hardware disable of the radar system?

fattire · 2 years ago

"Tyranny"? Really?

fattire commented on Mastodon Is Doomed justingarrison.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/JustinGarrison

JustinGarrison · 2 years ago

[OP] I wrote the article because putting the time and financial burden of operating large distributed networks on individuals is not maintainable. The fact that the parent company has no plans to change that except to make it more expensive and complicated for individuals (switching to Kubernetes) is why I think it will fail to reach its intended goals.

The example I gave was email. Lots of things integrate with email at a protocol level but Gmail won because 1) it had better features 2) lots of things integrated with it directly

Would you build an IMAP/SMTP/POP3 product today? ActivityPub support will end up being a checkbox or buried setting.

fattire · 2 years ago

Strange that you use a still-popular, decentralized, open-standard global service with a myriad of paid and free providers, for which there exists dozens of open-source clients and servers across the planet, all of which integrate with each other... as a model for why Mastodon won't work.

Why do you say "gmail won"? Did gmail switch to a proprietary, closed protocol? Did they lose compatibility with even the smallest, independent email servers? (That was rhetorical-- provided those smaller servers adopt appropriate open, non-proprietary anti-spam measures (DMARC, SPF, DKIM, etc), they work fine.)

Meanwhile, no one uses AOL's old proprietary mail system, if it exists any more.

fattire commented on Farming Robot Kills 100k Weeds per Hour with Lasers freethink.com/robots-ai/f... · Posted by u/Tomte

fattire · 3 years ago

The year is 2029. Farmers everywhere are confounded by new weed strains which look more and more like the crops they intermingle with, hiding more perfectly among the plants every year.

Then someone had the idea to not vaporize a small percentage of the most conspicuous, ugly weeds, so they'd survive into the next year, crossbreeding with the stealth strains and keeping the weeds from getting too stealthy.

The End.

fattire commented on The Twitter Files twitter.com/mtaibbi/statu... · Posted by u/lost1

andreyk · 3 years ago

It does not seem like this really exposed any new information - Twitter publicly justified its actions as being about its hacked data policy back when this all happened (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-cites-hacked-mat...). All this shows is some internal disagreement as to whether that was the right call. By the way, Facebook also suppressed the news story citing its misinformation policy (https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/15/look-behind-n...).

It was already widely criticized at the time(https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/twitter-files-blocked-...): " Twitter subsequently reversed the decision, saying that it had updated its hacked-materials policy and would not retroactively apply it to the New York Post. Other news outlets, including the New York Times, have since reported that the laptop did in fact belong to Hunter Biden and the documents on it were authentic. Predictably, Twitter’s blocking of the Post became a rallying point for Republican politicians accusing the social network of censoring conservative viewpoints. "

So... doesn't seem like a big deal, this is just confirming what was already known?

fattire · 3 years ago

Here is an account of the whole laptop decision on Kara Swisher's podcast from the perspective of Twitter's former safety chief Yoel Roth.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-twitters-former-sa...

fattire commented on DaVinci Resolve for iPad blackmagicdesign.com/medi... · Posted by u/dagmx

Joeboy · 3 years ago

In their place for sure, but I'm not sure how a node-based NLE would work.

fattire · 3 years ago

As you mentioned, the nodes are used in Fusion and the Color page, where they belong, not in either timeline editor (Cut Page & Edit Page).