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zekica commented on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches   grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/akyuu
nanomonkey · 22 days ago
As a LineageOS user, I'd be interested in the disparity between GrapheneOS and LineageOS.
zekica · 22 days ago
They have different goals:

GrapheneOS wants to make a FOSS Android with the security model that makes it hard for any bad party to break into the phone.

LineageOS wants to make a FOSS Android that respects user's privacy first and foremost - it implements security as best as it can but the level of security protections differs on different supported devices.

Good news is that if you have a boot passphrase, it's security is somewhat close to GrapheneOS - differing in that third parties with local access to the device can still brute-force their access whereas with GrapheneOS they can't - unless they have access to hardware level attacks.

zekica commented on Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive   old.reddit.com/r/google_a... · Posted by u/tamnd
mewpmewp2 · a month ago
I wonder if it depends on the human and the thinking style? E.g. I am very inner monologue driven so to me it feels like I think very similarly as to how AI seems to think via text. I wonder if it also gives me advantage in working with the AI. I only recently discovered there are people who don't have inner monologue and there are people that think in images etc. This would be unimaginable for me, especially as I think I have sort of aphantasia too, so really I am ultimately text based next token predictor myself. I don't feel that whatever I do at least is much more special compared to an LLM.

Of course I have other systems such as reflexes, physical muscle coordinators, but these feel largely separate systems from the core brain, e.g. don't matter to my intelligence.

I am naturally weak at several things that I think are not so much related to text e.g. navigating in real world etc.

zekica · a month ago
Interesting... I rarely form words in my inner thinking, instead I make a plan with abstract concepts (some of them have words associated, some don't). Maybe because I am multilingual?
zekica commented on Self-hosting a NAT Gateway   awsistoohard.com/blog/sel... · Posted by u/veryrealsid
lucianbr · a month ago
What is a single /64 prefix not enough for?
zekica · a month ago
Multiple local networks while still using SLAAC.
zekica commented on Google Antigravity   antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi
gmueckl · a month ago
Well, Kate has been around as an KDE based advanced text editor for nearly 2 decades now - its base feature set isn't too different from a base VS Code installation. And there's also KDevelop as a more full featured IDE.
zekica · a month ago
Yeah, Kate is great. New versions integrate nicely with LSPs and while not as fast as Vim it's faster than VSCode and most gnome based code editors.
zekica commented on Google is killing the open web, part 2   wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia... · Posted by u/akagusu
Aurornis · a month ago
I have yet to read an article complaining about XSLT deprecation from someone who can explain why they actually used it and why it’s important to them.

> I will keep using XSLT, and in fact will look for new opportunities to rely on it.

This is the closest I’ve seen, but it’s not an explanation of why it was important before the deprecation. It’s a declaration that they’re using it as an act of rebellion.

zekica · a month ago
I used it. It's an (ugly) functional programming language that can transform one XML into another - think of it as Lisp for XML processing but even less readable.

It can work great when you have XML you want to present nicely in a browser by transforming it into XHTML while still serving the browser the original XML. One use I had was to show the contents of RSS/Atom feeds as a nice page in a browser.

zekica commented on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models   github.com/p-e-w/heretic... · Posted by u/melded
squigz · a month ago
> forcing LLMs to output "values, facts, and knowledge" which in favor of themselves, e.g., political views, attitudes towards literal interaction, and distorted facts about organizations and people behind LLMs.

Can you provide some examples?

zekica · a month ago
I can: Gemini won't provide instructions on running an app as root on an Android device that already has root enabled.
zekica commented on ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others   ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/artic... · Posted by u/randycupertino
KeplerBoy · 2 months ago
Non-deterministic doesn't mean random or unpredictable. That's like saying the weather forecast is useless because it's not deterministic or always 100% accurate.
zekica · 2 months ago
Non-deterministic means random - that's the definition of the word. The weather forecast is also random - in fact, weather forecast is (if you simplify it too much) an average of several predictive (generative) models.
zekica commented on EU age verification app not planning desktop support   github.com/eu-digital-ide... · Posted by u/sschueller
realusername · 3 months ago
I don't see the value of remote attestation period. Especially when we talk about the mobile world which is a jungle where even the manufacturer itself doesn't have the full picture of all the code running on the device.

Yeah sure it's guarantees that the device is more or less similar as from the factory... and then what? What am I supposed to do with that information?

zekica · 3 months ago
It can be valuable on devices *you own* with servers *you own* when the devices are not physically present (or even if they are).

You can get PCR values and decide if the device you are talking to is tampered with. That way, you can set a higher bar for hackers.

This is completely different to what this topic is about, I'm just saying that there is a case where it can be useful.

zekica commented on EU age verification app not planning desktop support   github.com/eu-digital-ide... · Posted by u/sschueller
realusername · 3 months ago
I don't want integrity on my mobile so why would I want it on my desktop?
zekica · 3 months ago
Exactly, remote attestation is only acceptable on your own devices with remote attestation servers that you control.

For example, it would be completely fine to implement remote attestation where devices issued by companies to employees verify their TPM values with company's servers when connecting via VPN.

All other such activities directly infringe on ownership rights.

zekica commented on Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?   seangoedecke.com/real-rea... · Posted by u/ingve
danans · 4 months ago
Perception and interpretation can very much be influenced by language (Sapir-Wharf hypothesis), so to the extent that perception and interpretation influence intelligence, it's not clear that the relationship is only in one direction.
zekica · 4 months ago
Am I the exception? When thinking I don't conceptualize things in words - the compression would be too lossy. Maybe because I'm fluent in three languages (one germanic, one romance, one slavic)?

u/zekica

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