hperrin

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AMD launches Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series CPUs with up to 96 Zen 5 cores for $11,699 — Shimada Peak and Radeon AI Pro R9700 arrive on July 23 in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 2 points 7 hours ago

Cool, I’ll be sure to pick one up in ten years when they’re cheap enough that I can afford one.

Apple is ruining the open web in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 1 points 7 hours ago

My take on this is probably an unpopular one, but Safari on iOS is the only reason Blink (Chrome’s rendering engine) is not a monopoly.

Linux Users- Why? in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I use Fedora because I barely have to do any customization to get it how I like. An almost vanilla version of Gnome? Check. Flatpak? Check. Nothing to uninstall (I’m looking at you, snapd)? Check. Steam with just a few clicks? Check.

It’s almost perfect, and making it perfect is trivial. That used to be what I said about Ubuntu.

I haven’t used Windows much since Windows Vista, so I don’t really have any way to compare with Win10/Win11.

Discord girlfriend in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 10 points 9 hours ago

I have it under good authority that this is incredibly dangerous because girls have cooties.

I Tried Linux Fedora (And It’s Amazing) - YouTube in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I think that hat looks more like a trilby than a fedora. I could be wrong though, I’m no hat expert.

Summer bod in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Abs are made in the kitchen.

Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more" in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 6 points 11 hours ago

Sounds like a pretty good life.

W.XP in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 1 points 11 hours ago

I don’t ever turn off my Linux machines. They turn off when the power goes out, and that’s about it.

W.XP in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 12 points 11 hours ago

What are you talking about? Of course I noticed. It was during the upgrade process to Vista. Then the last time I turned that off was when I fully switched to Linux.

'It's a cover up': Musk floods X with posts attacking Trump over Epstein in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Two of the worst people in the world feuding is just magnificent.

ATT SMTP port 25 unblocking in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 4 points 1 day ago

I did this about four years ago. You have to be really specific, because to them, it doesn’t look blocked (it’s not a total block, just outbound traffic, which I guess is a different system). Took a few hours on the phone with them, but we got it working.

Israel says deadly Gaza church strike was mistake after Trump call in c/[email protected]
[–] hperrin 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They thought it was a children’s hospital.

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Stream Overlay on Flathub (flathub.org)
 

My first app on Flathub: Stream Overlay!

If you stream games on Linux, this can help you by showing your chat and alerts on your screen on top of your game.

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Stream Overlay for streaming games on Linux (flathub.org)
 

This is my first application on Flathub! If you’re a game streamer, this can help by having your Twitch chat and alerts appear on your screen, above your game.

It’s a FOSS application, available here on GitHub:

https://github.com/hperrin/stream-overlay

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Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con (sciactive.com)
submitted 2 months ago by hperrin to c/[email protected]
15 comments fedilink
 

A fully automated, on demand, personalized con man, ready to lie to you about any topic you want doesn’t really seem like an ideal product. I don’t think that’s what the developers of these LLMs set out to make when they created them either. However, I’ve seen this behavior to a certain extent in every LLM I’ve interacted with. One of my favorite examples was a particularly small-parameter version of Llama (I believe it was Llama-3.1-8B) confidently insisting to me that Walt Disney invented the Matterhorn (like, the actual mountain) for Disneyland. Now, this is something along the lines of what people have been calling “hallucinations” in LLMs, but the fact that it would not admit that it was wrong when confronted and used confident language to try to convince me that it was right, is what pushes that particular case across the boundary to what I would call “con-behavior”. Assertiveness is not always a property of this behavior, though. Lately, OpenAI (and I’m sure other developers) have been training their LLMs to be more “agreeable” and to acquiesce to the user more often. This doesn’t eliminate this con-behavior, though. I’d like to show you another example of this con-behavior that is much more problematic.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con (sciactive.com)
submitted 2 months ago by hperrin to c/[email protected]
16 comments fedilink
 

A fully automated, on demand, personalized con man, ready to lie to you about any topic you want doesn’t really seem like an ideal product. I don’t think that’s what the developers of these LLMs set out to make when they created them either. However, I’ve seen this behavior to a certain extent in every LLM I’ve interacted with. One of my favorite examples was a particularly small-parameter version of Llama (I believe it was Llama-3.1-8B) confidently insisting to me that Walt Disney invented the Matterhorn (like, the actual mountain) for Disneyland. Now, this is something along the lines of what people have been calling “hallucinations” in LLMs, but the fact that it would not admit that it was wrong when confronted and used confident language to try to convince me that it was right, is what pushes that particular case across the boundary to what I would call “con-behavior”. Assertiveness is not always a property of this behavior, though. Lately, OpenAI (and I’m sure other developers) have been training their LLMs to be more “agreeable” and to acquiesce to the user more often. This doesn’t eliminate this con-behavior, though. I’d like to show you another example of this con-behavior that is much more problematic.

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Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. (self.selfhosted)
submitted 2 months ago by hperrin to c/[email protected]
11 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43297441

I just started working on a self hosted Android & iOS ereader app. I’d like to know what features you would like to see if you use this kind of app.

Current Planned Features

  • Support for EPUB, TXT, and HTML ebooks.
  • Syncing over WebDAV. (Bring your own server. I’m not hosting people’s pirated libraries.)
  • Multiple libraries (a WebDAV server is a library), and multiple users per library.
  • Current progress from offline reading will get synced when back online.
  • Dark mode.
  • Custom fonts and themes.
  • Text to speech.
  • Keep awake.
  • Orientation lock.
  • Open source. (GPL license)
  • Native apps using React Native.
  • Animations can be turned completely off.
  • Really good e-ink screen support.
  • Tablet and phone sized device support.

Background

I use a Boox Palma, but sometimes I don’t have it with me, and I’d like to read on my iPhone.

With the current ereaders I know of, there’s always some downside. Syncing costs money, rendering is janky, page turn animations can’t be disabled, themes cost money (really???), no cross platform support, etc.

I want to learn how to build native apps with React Native, so I’m using this as a learning project. I’m not trying to make money on it, so it’ll be open source, and you have to have your own WebDAV server with all your ebooks on it to sync.

Non-Planned Features

Some things I just can’t do or won’t help me learn, so I’m not going to do them.

  • PDF support. (Maybe in the future, but not the initial version.)
  • Web app. (I don’t want to host it.)
  • Kindle app. (React Native doesn’t support them.)
  • Syncing over anything but WebDAV. (I’ll be using WebDAV properties, and I’m not interested in doing any other providers.)

So I’d like to know, what are some features you would like to see, and what are the pain points you’ve experienced with your current ereader apps?

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Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. (self.ereader)
submitted 2 months ago by hperrin to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43297441

I just started working on a self hosted Android & iOS ereader app. I’d like to know what features you would like to see if you use this kind of app.

Current Planned Features

  • Support for EPUB, TXT, and HTML ebooks.
  • Syncing over WebDAV. (Bring your own server. I’m not hosting people’s pirated libraries.)
  • Multiple libraries (a WebDAV server is a library), and multiple users per library.
  • Current progress from offline reading will get synced when back online.
  • Dark mode.
  • Custom fonts and themes.
  • Text to speech.
  • Keep awake.
  • Orientation lock.
  • Open source. (GPL license)
  • Native apps using React Native.
  • Animations can be turned completely off.
  • Really good e-ink screen support.
  • Tablet and phone sized device support.

Background

I use a Boox Palma, but sometimes I don’t have it with me, and I’d like to read on my iPhone.

With the current ereaders I know of, there’s always some downside. Syncing costs money, rendering is janky, page turn animations can’t be disabled, themes cost money (really???), no cross platform support, etc.

I want to learn how to build native apps with React Native, so I’m using this as a learning project. I’m not trying to make money on it, so it’ll be open source, and you have to have your own WebDAV server with all your ebooks on it to sync.

Non-Planned Features

Some things I just can’t do or won’t help me learn, so I’m not going to do them.

  • PDF support. (Maybe in the future, but not the initial version.)
  • Web app. (I don’t want to host it.)
  • Kindle app. (React Native doesn’t support them.)
  • Syncing over anything but WebDAV. (I’ll be using WebDAV properties, and I’m not interested in doing any other providers.)

So I’d like to know, what are some features you would like to see, and what are the pain points you’ve experienced with your current ereader apps?

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Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. (self.ereader_community)
submitted 2 months ago by hperrin to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink
 

I just started working on a self hosted Android & iOS ereader app. I’d like to know what features you would like to see if you use this kind of app.

Current Planned Features

  • Support for EPUB, TXT, and HTML ebooks.
  • Syncing over WebDAV. (Bring your own server. I’m not hosting people’s pirated libraries.)
  • Multiple libraries (a WebDAV server is a library), and multiple users per library.
  • Current progress from offline reading will get synced when back online.
  • Dark mode.
  • Custom fonts and themes.
  • Text to speech.
  • Keep awake.
  • Orientation lock.
  • Open source. (GPL license)
  • Native apps using React Native.
  • Animations can be turned completely off.
  • Really good e-ink screen support.
  • Tablet and phone sized device support.

Background

I use a Boox Palma, but sometimes I don’t have it with me, and I’d like to read on my iPhone.

With the current ereaders I know of, there’s always some downside. Syncing costs money, rendering is janky, page turn animations can’t be disabled, themes cost money (really???), no cross platform support, etc.

I want to learn how to build native apps with React Native, so I’m using this as a learning project. I’m not trying to make money on it, so it’ll be open source, and you have to have your own WebDAV server with all your ebooks on it to sync.

Non-Planned Features

Some things I just can’t do or won’t help me learn, so I’m not going to do them.

  • PDF support. (Maybe in the future, but not the initial version.)
  • Web app. (I don’t want to host it.)
  • Kindle app. (React Native doesn’t support them.)
  • Syncing over anything but WebDAV. (I’ll be using WebDAV properties, and I’m not interested in doing any other providers.)

So I’d like to know, what are some features you would like to see, and what are the pain points you’ve experienced with your current ereader apps?

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This graph is like crack to me. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by hperrin to c/[email protected]
18 comments fedilink
 
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