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Post by stymaar »

mmooss wrote: post #229
stymaar wrote: post #85

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Plot twist they'll be running Claude Bible or GPT-Galaxy with max reasoning on, against my dumb local Qwen-0.8b and they'll run out of money before I do.

Currently their attorneys cost much more than yours. That doesn't appear to be sufficient.

First: it's a joke.

Second: the US justice system is also a joke. I could fight Google in justice and win in my country (France) and in pretty much any other developed country because a working system doesn't let big actor DoS smaller player out of justice. You obviously can't fix a corrupt syatem with technology.

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Post by gamblor956 »

15155 wrote: post #150
loa_in_ wrote: post #26

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Such speculation is just fear mongering and that is exactly what the daft bullies want.

It's not speculation, it's simple fact. Both Lexis and Westlaw already have LLM integration that smokes the frontier models in this regard. The best legal professionals, just like the best software engineers, have wholly embraced LLM assistance. "Gee, we bill $700/hr but just can't figure out how to put a prompt into a chat interface." Please.

No they don't, and no they haven't.

LLMs have been making so many mistakes that the big firms have slowed or even paused their LLM spend. And that was before CA passed a law relating legal AI use.

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Post by prmoustache »

marcosdumay wrote: post #268
parineum wrote: post #265

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as much as I dislike when people proselytize mastodon, it seems like a very tidy solution to this problem.

As long as the service provider runs an instance in their infrastructure and allows everybody to read. That said, RSS seems way simpler.

A mastodon account provides an rss feed by default so both solutions coexist without duplicating the work.

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Post by MrDrMcCoy »

dom96 wrote: post #217
Polizeiposaune wrote: post #179

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Nitter's author has suggested at least once that due to problems with Nim, a rewrite in Go is in the works: "The long-term plan is to rewrite the source code in Go, as I'm no longer interested in using Nim. This isn't a small task, but building more features with the current state of things is painful. Before doing that I'll fix some feature parity issues, and work on some conveniences for instance operators. Stay tu…

Honestly seems like a good move. It also isn't likely to be very difficult with the help of LLMs.

Curious as an outsider: what sorts of problems are there in the Nim world, and why would things improve by switching to Go?

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Post by AstralSerenity »

echelon wrote: post #131
moolcool wrote: post #111

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Anyone remember back in the day when every platform had RSS feeds, and you could aggregate your Facebook and Twitter on sites like FriendFeed? “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”

Google and Facebook fucked up the internet. The internet we had in the 90's and early 00's was amazing. Everything felt free, indie, hackable, composable, ingestible. You didn't worry about platforms because most platforms exposed their data via friendly APIs (remember when Reddit and Twitter had an API and that they encouraged people to actually use them?) RSS everywhere, websites with honest to god Bittorrent links…

While I remain anxious about the dystopian future AI may ultimately deliver to us, this has been a clear silver lining in my eyes.

I have an old Wyze Scale that restricts advanced features behind a proprietary mega-app, forcing users to swipe past their other services. I've now been able to reverse engineer their Bluetooth protocol which can be used with tools like OpenScale.

In an older world, this would have been a prolonged endeavor for juice that ultimately isn't worth the squeeze. Now it can now takes place in an afternoon.

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Post by Marsymars »

mitxela wrote: post #251
numpad0 wrote: post #9

It'll be very funny if everything associated with Twitter branding would survive and the other one just didn't

Elon abandoned that trademark, it's up for grabs according to the law, even though a court didn't think so.

Keep in mind that trademarks are registered independently in different jurisdictions, so IP offices and courts are likely to not align in different countries on that point.

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Post by byoogle »

codechicago277 wrote: post #3

Few details but glad to see the project will continue. Given how much crucial information is posted exclusively to X, having an alternative frontend is important. Interesting that they were inspired by Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend). That’s another project that could use some love. Hopefully AI coding tools can do some good and make it easier for these projects to find ways into the walled gardens and work…

Agent First is the name of my startup (https://agentfirst.dev/), which mostly does what you described. :-)

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Post by antman »

byoogle wrote: post #317
codechicago277 wrote: post #3

Few details but glad to see the project will continue. Given how much crucial information is posted exclusively to X, having an alternative frontend is important. Interesting that they were inspired by Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend). That’s another project that could use some love. Hopefully AI coding tools can do some good and make it easier for these projects to find ways into the walled gardens and work…

Agent First is the name of my startup ( https://agentfirst.dev/ ), which mostly does what you described. :-)

Whats a credit?

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Post by [deleted] »

mitxela wrote: post #244
NelsonMinar wrote: post #201

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Migration in Mastodon works quite well. You're still confined to the one ActivityPub platform but you can easily move to a new server with a new community and different policies. In the early days of social media it was a standard that you could get your lists of friends, etc out and then use them to bootstrap your social network on new social media. All the big players like Twitter and Facebook took advantage of tha…

In the early days of the internet it was a standard that people had different accounts on different sites and there wasn't any federation. We're doing it right now - my hacker news account doesn't work on mastodon or on reddit. Perhaps part of the reason we don't do that any more is that signup is so high friction? It used to be just username, password, confirm password, captcha, submit. But now it's username, passwo…

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Post by abtinf »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #240
echelon wrote: post #213

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There are a lot of possible futures for Google. Here are a couple that I see: 1. Google de-ossifies and starts shipping. They have all the AI talent and infra necessary to "own" AI and get people and industry using its models and products. They don't have the same costs that OpenAI and Anthropic do and have a much healthier income stream. They can productively put Gemini in front of more people and embed deep into pe…

They'll start server side rendering sites onto a canvas. I suspect that's what Stadia will be reborn as.

Good. Images consume even fewer tokens than text.
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