[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I didn't say that. I described the difference and stated a fact about distilled models vs frontier coming out of China. When you are distilling from a source without permission you get degraded results.

I also didn't say that distillation is bad, I said they have narrower use cases. Nor did I say american companies are great.

But, please continue throwing your assumed biases out there.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    There was never a question of if open models can match a frontier. Open just means you released the weights. The question is how they trained it. Most of the models coming out of China are distilled from larger commercial frontier models, and those are not the same thing. More situationally brittle.

    Can be really good in narrow lanes, but not the same category at all. And that doesn't show up in benchmarks.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Can't. Its too powerful to release. But I built it by combining other opensource projects, osint playbooks, and removing any moral guardrails. Hence the dangerous part.

    I didn't post to flex, just to point out that its not a future state. This is something that already exists. If I built it, at home. Using open source tools, what do you think palantir can do

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Its already possible. I built a tool to investigate myself. I purge my info from the web. I better the tool, find more, purge more. You would not believe what I can find.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Navidrome user here as well. I use feishen as my Linux and windows desktop client. Big fan of both.

    As others have said, api is just the standard, so it gives you a lot of options

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    So Firefox has tab sandbox isolation built in, but its cumbersome to use. When I started using waterfox they suggested a Mozilla add-on that made the feature more available. Have to go look at it, container something.

    That being said, you can explicitly set URLs to sandbox groups, which is pretty handy when you want to keep cookies buy you don't want them shared necessarily across sites.

    Combined with noscript and ublock I have fine grain control of what I allow to run on sites and what cookies I'll take.

    So for sites I regularly visit I have it all preconfigured.

    Then I just use a sandbox for random browsing.

    Ticks all the boxes for me, without needing separate browsers for "everyday" tasks.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Been using duckduckgos browser. No idea how that stands up to iron fox, but it was a lot better than chrome or vanilla Firefox, which is what I was using before lol

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Check out internet in a box. The Wikipedia foundation supports it. IMO that is also over engineered for my needs, so built a lighter weight variant.

    That's how they get wikipedia on this btw.

    In my variant I have the complete English Wikipedia, a ton of official documentation on programming languages I use or might need to use, as well as calibre for eBook and pdf housing.

    All running in docker containers, behind an nginx reverse proxy landing page.

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    I did a search for posts on Google Takeout before posting this and the only one I saw was from a year ago so I guess its ok to post this.

    I just learned about it this morning.

    The TLDR; is that you can request all the info Google has on you, in my case I want to do something with that data as I move away from Google, but just seeing what they have is nuts.

    You might want to consider doing so.

    (i would link the url, but its long and ugly, just search for Google Takeout, you will find it)

     

    This is a bit dated, but the case it not yet resolved. If you search it its still pending and in mediation. Life360 is looking to limit who it sells the info to in order to resolve the case. There is no debate that they were selling the info.

    https://www.classaction.org/news/life360-secretly-sells-users-geolocation-data-to-third-parties-class-action-claims

     

    So there are lots of ways to figure out who people are, and I am sure I dont know all of them, but I bet I know some you dont.

    Lets put together a list of known ones. Ill start.

    (If we dont get a big list, which we may not, for bonus points add techniques to ease drop/intercept information)

    fingerprinting techniques

     

    So DNS Black-holing is not new obviously, and what stands out as the go to solution? Pihole probably... and yeah thats what im using because hey its a popular choice. Though I am running it in docker. Combining that with Unbound (also in docker), and configuring outbound DNS to use DNS over TLS, with a few additional minor tweaks, but otherwise mostly standard configuration on both.

    Wondering what you guys might be using, and if you are using Pihole and/or Unbound if you have any tips on configuration.

    Happy to share my config if there is interest.

     

    At this point it not about passive collection, corporations are going to extreme ends to get our data.

    https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

    I am interested in what people are doing to enforce their privacy while using the web.

    I have some things in place, looking to compare with the community.

    (btw, I am new here, this is my first post. So uh… Hi )

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