Russia banned Telegram, everyone (incl. the government) continued to use it, Russia unbanned Telegram - that’s how it looks from here. A government official told me Telegram being unbanned was just a matter of time when it was still banned.
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chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•[Help] How do I word my grant application to keep my software FOSS?
1·1 year agodeleted by creator
it receives relatively frequent updates, and it uses love2d (with a native lua module for the AI) so it’s crossplatform.
the code is FOSS, the weights aren’t, this is pretty common with e.g. FOSS games, the only difference here is weights are much costlier to remake from scratch than game assets
AI basically recognizes patterns and returns a likely output based on the patterns it found. It doesn’t check “this is a red pixel, so this is red”, it checks “this pattern is usually red, so this is red”.
well, it’s rather the opposite - AI is vulnerable to these kinds of tricks, you can inject some patterns into images to make the AI perceive the image in a completely different way, humans are in fact much less susceptible to this, at least for now
chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
2·1 year agohuh? I’d say email was quite popular there, it was just tied to the mobile operator (and has then been replaced with Line)
different neural network types excel at different tasks - image recognition was invented way before LLMs, not only for lack of processing power, but also because the previous architectures didn’t work with languages. New architectures don’t appear out of thin air, they are created with a rough idea of what we could need to make the network do a certain task (e.g. NLP) better. Even tokenization isn’t blind codepoint separation but is based on an analysis of languages. But yes, natural languages aren’t “parsed” for neural networks, they don’t even have a formal grammar.
i’m not talking about knowing about how humans perceive/learn languages, i’m talking about language structure. Perhaps it’s wrong to call it “how languages work”
While I agree that LLMs can achieve human-tier efficiency at most tasks eventually (some architectural changes will be necessary, but the core approach seems sound), it’s wrong to say it’s modeled after the human brain. We have no idea how brains work as they’re super complex, we’re building artificial neural networks from the ground up. AI uses centuries’ worth of math, but with our current maths knowledge the code isn’t too complicated. Human brains aren’t like that, they can’t be summed up in a few lines of code because DNA is a huge mess that contains so much more than just “learning”, so many inactive or redundant bits and pieces. We’re building LLMs with knowledge of how languages work, not how brains work.
chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
Firefox@lemmy.ml•Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship
1·1 year agoit might work with obfuscation, in general my preferred solution is VPN+proxy, the proxy is used for bypassing the DPI and doesn’t have to adhere to particularly high standards and can be easily swapped, and the VPN is used via the proxy for actually routing L3 traffic
chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
Firefox@lemmy.ml•Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship
3·2 years agoWell, Tor (with bridges) still works just fine, I don’t really know any other “crowdsourced” proxy networks. Telegram isn’t blocked (it used to be, but everyone used it anyway, including people in the government, so they unblocked it), so any info there is freely available. Wireguard and OpenVPN are blocked (even within Russia for some reason), shadowsocks is throttled on certain connections but works fine, and I haven’t extensively tested anything else.
Also, mobile networks are used for testing stricter blocking measures before rolling them out to landline connections
chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
Firefox@lemmy.ml•Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship
3·2 years agonot “any”, but some very specific ones
chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
Firefox@lemmy.ml•Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship
3·2 years agosnowflake is actually blocked quite well
chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•RustDesk (FOSS easy to use TeamViewer alternative) has experimental Wayland support that needs testing!
2·2 years agothis kind of software is mostly used for tech support, so your option is too hard to setup
chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
Firefox@lemmy.ml•Firefox has a problem and Android phones are affected by it (does that help all of you down voters?l
2·2 years agoI agree that’s a problem, but refresh rate is one of the fingerprinting methods, and resistFingerprinting doesn’t offer finetuning options (except canvas permissions?), which is what prevents me from using it
chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
Firefox@lemmy.ml•Firefox has a problem and Android phones are affected by it (does that help all of you down voters?l
2·2 years agoyou can change that in about:config, i think privacy.resistFingerprinting is the culprit
by default, your content is all rights reserved, the most restrictive license possible. AI trains on “all rights reserved” content all the time. You really think adding a CC-BY-NC is gonna do anything?
chayleaf@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Biden calls US ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with Russia and China
1·2 years agoThere’s an issue without you saying not because you don’t know econ 101, but because you do know it. Because you shift the focus from the systems (global imperialism) to the individuals (“so you shouldn’t be allowed to migrate?”). What causes migration is, objectively, unequal development of different countries caused by imperialism and inherent to the market system, and not “personal decisions”. That means shifting the talk to “personal decisions” is pointless and harmful.
It’s like going “oh but you voluntarily choose to buy/sell” and blaming all your economic problems on yourself.








I use sway on my phone, had to add a secondary menu bar with a few keys for stuff like opening rofi, but it works perfectly fine otherwise