Don't most Samsung phones and tablets already do this? Dex or something?
yeah, but Dex lets you use your android apps with desktop ergonomics. PinePhone and Librem let you use your desktop apps with mobile ergonomics.
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woodrowbarlow commented on PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued social.treehouse.systems/... · Posted by u/fsflover
My theory is that the average user of an LLM is close enough to the average user of a computer and I've found that the general consensus is that security practices are "annoying" and "get in the way". The same kind of user who hates anything MFA and writes their password on a sticky note that they stick to their monitor in the office.
it has been revelatory to me to realize that this is how most people want to interact with computers.
i want a computer to be predictable and repeatable. sometimes, i experience behavior that is surprising. usually this is an indication that my mental model does not match the computer model. in these cases, i investigate and update my mental model to match the computer.
most people are not willing to adjust their mental model. they want the machine to understand what they mean, and they're willing to risk some degree of lossy mis-communication which also corrupts repeatability.
maybe i'm naive but it wasn't until recently that i realized predictable determinism isn't actually something that people universally want from their personal computers.
My opinion on this changed as we helped elderly parents with declining capabilities. The internet is an extremely dangerous place for those less cognitively able.
It is extremely hard to live without the internet - it's almost impossible - everything from your bank to your doctor to restaurants to the barber that wants to be paid by Venmo. Taking away your parent's internet connection is even harder than taking away their driver license. (And also more isolating.)
There is no law enforcement; there's no consequence for scammers; there's no technology stack that is safe for the less able. It's a brutal Wild West where the weakest are attacked without recourse, flooded with misinformation and lies, and targeted by significant financial scams.
you're describing the dangers of the open internet, but this is about the dangers of non-app-store apps. android already makes it quite difficult to side-load non-app-store apps; certainly not something a tech-illiterate user could do by accident.
woodrowbarlow commented on Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet mashable.com/article/age-... · Posted by u/Teever
No, it will not.
I live in the UAE, and I appreciate that my children do not have access to pornography or illegal websites, as these are blocked by the service providers.
This should be adopted by many other countries
would you prefer to implement your own policies for your own household, rather than subscribe to the values endorsed by your service provider?
woodrowbarlow commented on X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls popsci.com/technology/tib... · Posted by u/Hooke
But look at the consequences. They have zero OpSec!
These very manuals are now for sale on the open and dark web and anyone can buy one and start accumulation of karma points! FFS, the chant password has already been distributed and they changed nothing! There is no encryption, it's all plain text at rest. SMH.
There is no auth process. Anyone can walk up, grab a prayer turbine and start spinning it for all they are worth. I would not be surprised if I saw a motorcycle, on it's side, with the drive wheel touching a prayer turbine, and spinning it at 100s of RPMs.
Don't get me started on their callous handling of libraries that these texts reference or the complete lack of standards when new data is added. They just throw it into the pile and keep spinning. :|
They may have a handle on religion, but their data security sucks, frankly.
and does anyone actually audit their scrolls? there could be malprayer slipped in there.
> but truth is they've always been allergic to ever mentioning llama.cpp
well, it's literally named "o"-llama, so...
"llama" is the name of the open-weights model released by meta for which llama.cpp (not by meta) was originally designed. llama.cpp now supports many models, not just llama. they're separate projects with separate authors.
woodrowbarlow commented on Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using? · Posted by u/yakattak
can someone with lore knowledge share the deal between gitea, forgejo and codeberg
gitea is the OG. forgejo is a fork, focused on lower resource needs (i think?). codeberg uses forgejo and adds static-site generation (like github pages) and CI/CD (via woodpecker).
woodrowbarlow commented on Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using? · Posted by u/yakattak
To me the biggest not-easily-replaceable value is the "Hub" part of GitHub. It's easy enough to stand up your own Gitea or Forgejo instance for mirroring personal Git repos, set up your own GitLab instance for more sophisticated collaboration and CI workflows, etc...but the discoverability GitHub provides in its current form, since the vast majority of repos are hosted there (or at least have some kind of mirror there) is unparalleled.
it depends on which network effects you want to benefit from. if you want your project to have visibility or attract contributors, then yeah. (although, mirroring your project to github can still accomplish a lot of that.) but if you want to benefit from forge tooling, like the ecosystem of github actions, then there are pretty good efforts to match API compatibility -- e.g., the gitea action runner can work with most github actions.
they designed an elaborate process which theoretically guarantees that your phone was not tampered with at the factory or in transport. it was sort of a reaction to Bloomberg's "The Big Hack" article, which claimed Apple devices were compromised en masse at the factory in China by state actors (and the story was later retracted due to lack of evidence).
i do think it's a cool effort, even if the threat is only hypothetical. but it's a lot to pay unless you're operating under an extreme threat model.