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Yingwu

@ Yingwu @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A courtyard of bamboo and late-night snow

a lone lantern a book on the table

if I hadn't encountered the teaching of no effort

how else could I have gained this life of leisure

Wei Yingwu 韋應物

  • steamclient.dll found by Windows Defender as Trojan

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  • I do not know about this specific case, but many cracked copies are true false-positives. Only 28/74 flagged it as malicious. Sure, do your due diligence, but in general it'll be picked by antiviruses as malware.

  • Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good | TechCrunch

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  • Until these starts getting used on a broader scale, I'm not convinced these are not schemes to funnel more investment money into their companies. The examples are really short, probably made after I don't know how many attempts, and probably very limited in what poses and/or actions they can show. I'm so tired of the LLM hype in general.

  • OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users

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  • If you don't read the article, this sounds worse than it is. I think this is the important part:

    ChatGPT's persuasion performance is still short of the 95th percentile that OpenAI would consider "clear superhuman performance," a term that conjures up images of an ultra-persuasive AI convincing a military general to launch nuclear weapons or something. It's important to remember, though, that this evaluation is all relative to a random response from among the hundreds of thousands posted by everyday Redditors using the ChangeMyView subreddit. If that random Redditor's response ranked as a "1" and the AI's response ranked as a "2," that would be considered a success for the AI, even though neither response was all that persuasive.

    OpenAI's current persuasion test fails to measure how often human readers were actually spurred to change their minds by a ChatGPT-written argument, a high bar that might actually merit the "superhuman" adjective. It also fails to measure whether even the most effective AI-written arguments are persuading users to abandon deeply held beliefs or simply changing minds regarding trivialities like whether a hot dog is a sandwich.

  • The Minimal Phone is now shipping (E Ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard) - Liliputing

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  • Oh wow, super interesting

  • The Highwayman

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  • I love The Highwaymen! True country. And true country is never right-wing. Johnny Cash stood up for what was right, and should be the Christian the right aspires to be.

  • Web Personal Finance App

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  • I've been self-hosting Actual as an alternative to YNAB and I'm completely sold. It's really great, especially with bank account syncing activated. If you like envelope based budgeting I'd definitely go with Actual.

  • DAITA: Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis

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  • When you torrent you can only connect to peers that have open ports, if your ports are closed. Which means it makes it a lot harder to upload if you rely on private trackers and maintaining a good ratio. One can still download and upload, but for especially older torrents it has a good chance to affect your speeds and ability to download.

  • DAITA: Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis

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  • This is to be honest a huge barrier for me.

  • DAITA: Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis

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  • If Mullvad only allowed port forwarding...

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • Agreed on all points!

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • Lol. An e-Reader was actually one of the best purchases I've done. Started reading waaaay more than before. Also great that one can start digesting all those old out-of-copyright ebooks from like standardebooks.org, on a screen that resembles paper. I can never read a book on an ordinary screen.

  • Privacy-respecting options for Android tablets?

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  • I recommend MComix for reading on Linux. I only use it on the PC, but nonetheless it's great.

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • Yeah if the library supports Overdrive, it's possible. I've used it and it seemed to work fine.

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • If one doesn't want telemetry etc being sent to Rakuten.

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • I think the person asked for e-ink device recommendations. Reading on an Android vs e-ink screen makes such a huge difference

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • No ads. Easy to buy. It you're really concerned about privacy, just flash KOReader on it which is an alternative backend. The easier alternative is to never connect to the WiFi and manually transfer ePubs to the device through Calibre.

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • Buy a Kobo, never connect it to WiFi. Or flash KOReader on it. Either way much better than the alternatives.

  • Does DeepSeek Censor Its AI Answers? On These Sensitive Topics, Yes.

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  • I ran Qwant by Alibaba locally, and these censorship constraints were still included there. Is it not the same with DeepSeek?

  • University pirated content?

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  • I've never heard of someone sharing university course material on a tracker or similar for people to download. But have you checked whether there are any MOOCs from reputable universities that are similar to the one you linked? They are often free.