future10se (u/future10se)

future10se commented on Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM github.com/shutootaki/boo... · Posted by u/takigon

future10se · 18 days ago

Interesting project. I've been thinking about a tool like this; I might be following a multi-volume book series, but it's been years since the last book. When I pick up the latest volume, sometimes there are details that I just can't remember (small details that may turn out important, relationships between minor characters, etc.)

I would just consult a fan wiki, but that doesn't work if the title isn't popular or if the book is too new. This seems like the perfect tool if it can somehow maintain coherency across multiple books.

That said, I do understand (and share) a lot of the frustration and hesitancy that people here have around AI tools; I don't want an app that takes away the act of thinking (like that post recently about teachers using AI to make banal lesson plans, and students in turn using AI to write essays -- what is the point then?). I hope you don't take it too much to heart, and try to showcase use cases where your app can actually provide value.

Another piece of feedback is it would be great if this could be all packaged up into a docker image that would make it easy to deploy on a local machine (or like on a home server/NAS). Right now it seems there are still a lot of manual steps and scaffolding.

future10se commented on Dumb Pipe dumbpipe.dev/... · Posted by u/udev4096

voidmain0001 · a month ago

One limitation of iOS is the inability to use Bluetooth to transfer an image/video file to a Bluetooth receiver such as Windows. The Apple documentation requires a wired connection. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/120267

If LocalSend is running on iOS and Windows does LocalSend have the ability to send photos?

future10se · a month ago

> If LocalSend is running on iOS and Windows does LocalSend have the ability to send photos?

Yes, I use it all the time.

Both devices need to be on the same network (LAN / WiFi), however. LocalSend does not use Bluetooth.

future10se commented on AI is killing the web – can anything save it? economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/edward

gbalduzzi · a month ago

A new model will be trained for every new ad update?

future10se · a month ago

Why would you need to retrain the model or update the SFT? You could just dynamically update the system prompt to include things it should advertise.

You could even have something like an MCP to which the LLM could pass "topics", and then it would return products/opinions which it should "subtly" integrate into its response.

The MCP could even be system-level/"invisible" (e.g. the user doesn't see the tool use for the ad server in the web UI for ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini.)

future10se commented on Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022) backlit.neocities.org/inc... · Posted by u/fsflover

rurban · 2 months ago

Just add the domain to your /etc/hosts as 0.0.0.0

Doing that for years

future10se · 2 months ago

As mentioned on the blog post:

> Used as supplied, Google Tag Manager can be blocked by third-party content-blocker extensions. uBlock Origin blocks GTM by default, and some browsers with native content-blocking based on uBO - such as Brave - will block it too.

> Some preds, however, full-on will not take no for an answer, and they use a workaround to circumvent these blocking mechanisms. What they do is transfer Google Tag Manager and its connected analytics to the server side of the Web connection. This trick turns a third-party resource into a first-party resource. Tag Manager itself becomes unblockable. But running GTM on the server does not lay the site admin a golden egg...

By serving the Google Analytics JS from the site's own domain, this makes it harder to block using only DNS. (e.g. Pi-Hole, hosts file, etc.)

One might think "yeah but the google js still has to talk to google domains", but apparently, Google lets you do "server-side" tagging now (e.g. running a google tag manager docker container). This means more (sub)domains to track and block. That said, how many site operators choose to go this far, I don't know.

https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/serve...

future10se commented on Crowd Sourcing Broken QR Codes humanqr.com/news/qr-code-... · Posted by u/devmandan

artursapek · 3 months ago

bit rot makes me sad

future10se · 3 months ago

That would probably be closer to link rot[1].

Interestingly enough, printed QR codes physically degrading as described in the article is actual bit rot, albeit a form often overlooked.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot

future10se commented on BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report arxiv.org/abs/2504.12285... · Posted by u/galeos

balazstorok · 4 months ago

Does someone have a good understanding how 2B models can be useful in production? What tasks are you using them for? I wonder what tasks you can fine-tune them on to produce 95-99% results (if anything).

future10se · 4 months ago

The on-device models used for Apple Intelligence (writing tools, notification and email/message summaries, etc.) are around ~3B parameters.

I mean, they could be better (to put it nicely), but there is a legitimate use-case for them and I'd love to see more work in this space.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21075

future10se commented on Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face drewdevault.com/2025/03/1... · Posted by u/Tomte

MathMonkeyMan · 5 months ago

Good rant!

The clever LLM scrapers sound a lot like residential traffic. How does the author know it's not? Behavior? Volume? Unlikely coincidence?

> random User-Agents that overlap with end-users and come from tens of thousands of IP addresses – mostly residential, in unrelated subnets, each one making no more than one HTTP request over any time period we tried to measure – actively and maliciously adapting and blending in with end-user traffic and avoiding attempts to characterize their behavior or block their traffic.

future10se · 5 months ago

There are commercial services that provide residential proxies, i.e. you get to tunnel your scraper or bot traffic through actual residential connections. (see: Bright Data, oxylabs, etc.)

They accomplish this by providing home users with some app that promises to pay them money for use of their connection. (see: HoneyGain, peer2profit, etc.)

Interestingly, the companies selling the tunnel service to companies and the ones paying home users to run an app are sometimes different, or at least they use different brands to cater to the two sides of the market. It also wouldn't surprise me if they sold capacity to each other.

I suspect some of these LLM companies (or the ones they outsource to capture data) some of their traffic through these residential proxy services. It's funny because some of these companies already have a foothold inside homes (Google Nest and Amazon Alexa devices, etc.) but for a number of reasons (e.g. legal) they would probably rather go through a third-party.

future10se commented on Query Apple's FindMy network with Python github.com/malmeloo/FindM... · Posted by u/nkko

wutwutwat · 8 months ago

So Apple has no way to see anything even when developing the platform itself?

They must have a way to decrypt payloads or otherwise get into the system they built and control. The fact that they let law enforcement know when someone is stalking someone with an AirTag shows that the data is available to them. It’s silly to think otherwise, paper or not.

future10se · 8 months ago

> The fact that they let law enforcement know when someone is stalking someone with an AirTag shows that the data is available to them.

Not technically correct. Apple devices (and Android phones with the appropriate app) detect if an unknown AirTag is moving with them and makes it home, possibly signalling a stalking attempt.

The heuristics for this happen locally; Apple isn't "aware" of this happening. That said, when you first set-up an AirTag, the serial is tied to your account. Therefore, when you physically find an unknown AirTag and report it to law enforcement, they can then subpoena (or get a warrant?) Apple for information on the AirTag owner's identity.

The serial itself, and any personal identifiers, are not used in the locating process, however.

This is well documented in the paper above, in articles, as well as in reverse engineering efforts.

future10se commented on New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm techcrunch.com/2024/11/14... · Posted by u/joegibbs

realusername · 9 months ago

I just tried on my S23+ and no, I don't get any app notification, I need to enter the pin code for that.

future10se · 9 months ago

Are we talking about the same thing? If I reboot manually then I don't get notifications until I enter my pin. But if my phone does the auto-reboot I do get notifs as usual.

This screen: https://i.imgur.com/jRS7Ffx.png

If there is a setting somewhere I can toggle so I get a "full" reboot, I would appreciate someone pointing it out to me.

future10se commented on Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot naehrdine.blogspot.com/20... · Posted by u/moonsword

sunnybeetroot · 9 months ago

No Apple logo, just black screen with loading spinner followed by requiring passcode to unlock

future10se · 9 months ago

That might be what's informally called a "respring", where the SpringBoard process is restarted.

SpringBoard is the process that shows the home screen, and does part of the lifecycle management for regular user apps. (i.e. if you tap an icon, it launches the app, if you swipe it away in the app switcher, it closes the app)

It is restarted to make certain changes take effect, like the system language. In the jailbreaking days, it was also restarted to make certain tweaks take effect. Of course, it can also just crash for some reason (which is likely what is happening to you)