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mftrhu commented on Our European search index goes live blog.ecosia.org/launching... · Posted by u/maelito

mftrhu · 5 months ago

People who do not want to read and trust the slop that whatever LLM du jour is regurgitating after calling out to said search engines.

Humans are already unfortunately prone to bullshitting and bloviating, but they are also used to dealing with other humans: there's no need to add an additional layer of both from a black box which does not behave like one.

mftrhu commented on Web Translator API developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/kozika

Asraelite · 6 months ago

What's the easiest way to get this functionality outside of the browser, e.g. as a CLI tool?

Last time I looked I wasn't able to find any easy to run models that supported more than a handful of languages.

mftrhu · 6 months ago

Setting aside general-purpose LLMs, there exist a handful of models geared towards translation between hundred of language pairs: Meta's NLLB-200 [0] and M2M-100 [1] can be run using HuggingFace's transformers (plus numpy and sentencepieces), while Google's MADLAD-400 [2], in GGUF format [3], is also supported by llama.cpp.

You could also look into Argos Translate, or just use the same models as Firefox through kotki [4].

[0] https://huggingface.co/facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M [1] https://huggingface.co/facebook/m2m100_418M [2] https://huggingface.co/google/madlad400-3b-mt [3] https://huggingface.co/models?other=base_model:quantized:goo... [4] https://github.com/kroketio/kotki

mftrhu commented on First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb bbc.com/news/articles/c78... · Posted by u/gmays

dubiousdabbler · 8 months ago

It's really offensive to tell people with DSDs they aren't their sex. Sex is binary. People with DSDs are female or male, except for extremely rare cases.

mftrhu · 8 months ago

You can't say "$TRAIT is binary" when you follow that up with "$TRAIT can only be true, false, or sometimes something else". That's not a binary trait by definition.

mftrhu commented on First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb bbc.com/news/articles/c78... · Posted by u/gmays

ericmcer · 8 months ago

If the procedures got so good that a trans woman/man was indistinguishable from one born that way who would still object to them claiming the gender they choose, most of the arguments fall apart at that point.

mftrhu · 8 months ago

They would just move to calling the procedure a violation of the "natural order" - "Lovecraftian horror", "Frankenstein arrangement", "something Mengele would do" - argue that it is akin to rape, create conspiracy theories about uteri being stolen, and/or invoke "Think of the children!"

I saw all of that already. Some of it in this very thread, some of it on the defunct /r/GenderCritical: I remember someone proposing committing suicide by volcano to keep her uterus out of "male [sic] hands".

mftrhu commented on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs twitter.com/skdh/status/1... · Posted by u/ksec

vonneumannstan · 9 months ago

>They are almost always wrong with circuit design, and create code that doesn’t work north of 80% of the time.

Sorry but this is a total skill issue lol. 80% code failure rate is just total nonsense. I don't think 1% of the code I've gotten from LLMs has failed to execute correctly.

mftrhu · 9 months ago

Do you work in circuit design?

mftrhu commented on Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok lynxjs.org/blog/lynx-unlo... · Posted by u/theanirudh

jakereps · 10 months ago

I can't tell if this is satire or a hidden advertisement for various tui browsers? A project that is a "popular tui browser" (for the literally dozens of people that use tui browsers?) does not have ownership claim to the name of a big cat genus which has 4k+ other results on GitHub with the same name.

mftrhu · 10 months ago

Lynx is a well-known project which has been around for far longer than Github even existed - since 1992, in fact - which is in any case irrelevant, since it's not developed on GitHub: the commits for ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots are snapshots of the code from the website proper.

mftrhu commented on The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time cpubenchmark.net/year-on-... · Posted by u/doener

elif · a year ago

Ehhh

Having tried to install a modern Linux on a 2012 laptop, it simply is not as cozy as your memory records it.

For reference even Linux designed for old hardware takes about 6 minutes to boot and even just using the console lags

mftrhu · a year ago

I am still using a 2012 X230 and it taking 40 seconds to boot already feels slow. Six minutes sounds like an HDD boot, but console lagging? I don't know how that could even happen - I occasionally run OpenBSD on an even older Atom netbook, and even (un-accelerated) X doesn't really lag.

mftrhu commented on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE wired.com/story/elon-musk... · Posted by u/medler

prvc · a year ago

>the power to spend tax money

But they're not spending; they're kind of doing the opposite of spending. And reducing waste is a previously known (for a long time) goal of theirs.

mftrhu · a year ago

They are... not spending tax money? If so, that would still be the only entity given power by the US Constitution to decide what to do with it.

mftrhu commented on Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek politico.eu/article/italy... · Posted by u/thm

mftrhu · a year ago

To head off people's facile comments, I will just quote the first two paragraphs of the article, and then ask what part of it seems objectionable.

> Italy's data protection authority is asking Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek for formal responses on how it handles Italians' data when they use its AI chatbot app.

> The authority known as the Garante on Tuesday said it sent DeepSeek requests to disclose what personal data it collects, where it comes from, how it’s used, what legal basis it has to process that data under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation and whether that data is stored on servers in China.

mftrhu commented on Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek politico.eu/article/italy... · Posted by u/thm

whimsicalism · a year ago

I am describing a higher level of compliance than like 95% of shops that have data do in practice

Even this website you are commenting on isn’t GDPR compliant lol, they won’t delete your text if you request.

mftrhu · a year ago

It sounds like 95% of shops - of shops you know well enough to have an opinion about - should get their shit together, then. Why should people tolerate their sloppiness?

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