subignition

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[–] subignition@piefed.social 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I am a bit out of the loop in terms of RDBMS history, what do you mean by MySQL refugees?

[–] subignition@piefed.social 2 points 10 months ago

If functionality exists in the client app, there's nothing to be done to stop someone from bypassing checks.

Looking into it further this looks like it's an API between the backend of a service and Google though. That would be difficult to defeat, but you could probably spoof the identity of the requesting device with enough effort

[–] subignition@piefed.social 51 points 10 months ago (13 children)

It's not like dedicated people aren't going to be able to just patch out the calls to this API from the apps themselves...

This feels like yet another attempt at DRM that is doing more harm than help.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago

Damn, you're living in the future. I'm still stuck using three shells.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 4 points 11 months ago

Well today I learned, thanks for the correction.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They're pretty reasonable for consensus-based programming prompts as well like "Compare and contrast popular libraries for {use case} in {language}" or "I want to achieve {goal/feature} in {summary of project technologies}, what are some ways I could structure this?"

Of course you still shouldn't treat any of the output as factual without verifying it. But at least in the former case, I've found it more useful than traditional search engines to generate leads to look into, even if I discard some or all of the specific information it asserts

Edit: Which is largely due to traditional search engines getting worse and worse in recent years, sadly

[–] subignition@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

~~The "P" is for predictive, not pre-trained. Generative Predictive Text~~

Edit: Nope I was wrong.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 14 points 11 months ago

This is the best article I've seen yet on the topic. It does mention the "how" in brief, but this analogy really explains the "why" Gonna bookmark this in case I ever need to try to save another friend or family member from drinking the Flavor-Aid

[–] subignition@piefed.social 12 points 11 months ago (6 children)

As long as it has good writing... and maybe they turn down the crudity a touch... I think it has the potential to be well-received.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 8 points 11 months ago

There are some very big claims in that post. If half that stuff turns out to be true it might be the end for Telegram.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What are some of the popular Matrix clients that you've seen have this problem? And are they open source?

I've been curious about Matrix for a while as a potential Discord replacement, but haven't actually tried it. Might be interesting to check it out and see whether I can contribute to one of the clients somehow.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 8 points 11 months ago

So sorry you're going through it. Hoping you can find the strength to polish up your resume and spend some time on your days off looking for a better place to work. The best time to be looking for a job is when you already have one.

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