hperrin

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Americans have no idea in c/usa@midwest.social
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 hours ago

Yeah. It’s a real shithole here right now. I wouldn’t visit us either.

Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests she may abandon the Republican party in c/politics@beehaw.org
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Is this because she finally figured out that Trump is a pedophile or is this some other thing?

Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests she may abandon the Republican party in c/politics@beehaw.org
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

Good. She’s not welcome in the Democrats.

Magic Rocks in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Being an expert in software has gotta be the most boring version of this.

“Oh that point of sale system? It’s running Android 11. I can tell from the status bar at the top. That’s probably because the SOC in it was cheap in bulk and supported Android 11.”

Dirt Man in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 36 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Just wait until they realize we named everything in space after milk.

Recieved an ultra slim keyboard in a box big enough for a microwave oven (packing material in comment) in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 22 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It’s because of fancy algorithms and waste reduction, not laziness and capitalism. That’s what Jeff Bezos told me.

Amazon now requires some staff to show AI use to get promoted in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

You must be this incompetent to be promoted in this shithole company:

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Count yourself lucky in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 87 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True American heroes. 🫡

Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I don’t know why anyone cares about the Switch 1 prices. They make no sense where they are.

You have the ability to kill any person by touching them for 15 seconds (uninterrupted), how do you use this power? (You get to choose the timing of death and cause of death) in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

I can choose the timing of death? Ok, I touch my family and friends and keep them all alive for the next 70 years.

You might not need tmux in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago

Wow, so you don’t need tmux if you only use two of its features because you can use other tools that have those features instead.

hygiene in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 days ago

0% chance that guy didn’t shart on that chair.

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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)
 

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)
 

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. (lemmy.ca)
 

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. (lemmy.ca)
 

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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