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gblargg··on ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression
Viewers could provide a way to see the original before transforms, and perhaps apply each one at a time to see how the end result is arrived at.
gblargg··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
You ignored the part about "writing hacks they don't even understand." LLM is fine if you use it as one of many tools to form your work and not a substitute for yourself.
gblargg··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
If your input is LLM-generated code, it's like taking snippets from Stack Overflow. You understand it fully and then make it yours. As long as you're hand-crafting the result, you grasp how it works.
gblargg··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
Even before AI, I just looked at file size to determine whether an app was worth installing. There used to be tool to search the Google Play Store and sort by size. If it's a basic utility and more than a few MB, it's probably riddled with bloated libraries and ads.
gblargg··on Fixing an NZXT Signal 4K30 part 2: the green/pink video bug
I did this the old fashioned way on an Acer monitor a while back, eliminating the 10-second logo when turning it on. I ended up dumping the ROM (8051 CPU), writing a disassembler and mapping out enough of the code to patch it, and threw in a strobed backlight mode since I had already decoded other things. It helped that the processor allowed register writes over the DDC channel on VGA, allowing easy testing of the changes before writing any code. I did have to short a jumper inside when flashing the modified code (over DDC). I'd never attempt such a project again due to how long it took, but with AI it would be far more reasonable.
gblargg··on Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
> I don’t like the idea that anything I say in a public setting or in a conversation with others could end up in a transcript summary on someone’s personal device.

Pretty minor if it's just that individual. But for certain this means there is a transcript on Apple's servers that can be subpoenaed by law enforcement, or sooner or later, searchable without a warrant.

gblargg··on I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant
https://archive.is/KF0iH (no annoying popups)
gblargg··on Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine
I generally open links in a new tab because browsers never seem to be able to consistently cache the previous page, so when I hit back it has to reload. A separate tab always avoids this. I even have a button on my mouse hardwired to Ctrl-W to quickly close these extra tabs.
gblargg··on Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead
Indeed. I'd always put swap near the beginning, then a small root partition, then the rest. This reduced head movement for often-accessed data, and used the higher bandwidth of the outer tracks.
gblargg··on YouTube had a bug – I used ChatGPT to investigate
On some channels YouTube consistently remembers my position server-side. On other channels, it reliably starts the video at the beginning if the tab gets reloaded, even if I was half way through. Often the video in thumbnails shows a red bar at the bottom, but still starts at the beginning.

I can either conclude that remembering your position is a very hard technical problem, or that YouTube's code is garbage.

gblargg··on Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
The power plant is about 1000 MW BTW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loviisa_Nuclear_Power_Plant

gblargg··on Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
But by a 16 year-old Mexican female?
gblargg··on Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks
I'm honestly baffled. Is there something factually incorrect about what I wrote? Ad hominem doesn't help. Also, why so hostile? I meant nothing malicious by it.

EDIT: I looked it up, and the legal definition of discrimination is almost Orwellian: not discriminating is legal discrimination, since it uses equality-of-outcome instead of equality of opportunity (equity vs equality), the source of the confusion here. They want different treatment (discrimination between people), which the law defines as non-discrimination. Being treated the same (no discrimination between workers) is discrimination.

gblargg··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
At the very least they need to make public accessible all data collected about all employees and owners of Flock, and everyone in government agencies that contract with Flock. This means we can see all photos and videos of these people, every trip they make, etc. All searchable with AI, with no audit trail (just like it is for government agencies).
gblargg··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
Same. I like seeing people who have made great tech houses and seem like nice people.
gblargg··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
I've seen the insides of those automatic ones. If you think scooping lumps out of a normal litterbox is bad, try cleaning an automatic one out.

Clumping litter works surprisingly well. It's really a minor thing.

gblargg··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
That's what the Ask button is for with the summarize option, to not have to watch unnecessarily-long videos. Apparently it does connect to public hotspots, often run by major providers.
gblargg··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
I was going to suggest updating firmware initially right after your purchase, but that could also update a list of Wi-Fi credentials so it can continue to connect to the Internet using other nearby access points.
gblargg··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
I keep my off-brand smart TV offline as well, partly just because the next update could brick it. I just use it as a monitor. External Google TV box is the way to go if you want smart functionality.
gblargg··on TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings
Isn't this because it's not a free market, e.g. the DMCA and other laws that prevent publishing how to work around digital locks?
gblargg··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
Redirector is a great browser extension (Firefox and Chrome) to easily automatically redirect x.com links to one of these alternatives, BTW.
gblargg··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
Door 1: try to take down sites offering a lite version that people prefer over x.com.

Door 2: improve x.com to be better than third-party sites.

Which is, Elon?

gblargg··on I Feel about AI
A situation of life imitating art: all the fictional movie plots feed the AIs, which bring them about.
gblargg··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Yeah, I'm thinking that a cloud isn't just a server, it's a bunch of them spread out. We had servers on the Internet before cloud computing.
gblargg··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
People are free to pool their money and offer higher bounties.
gblargg··on “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
If you get down to it, any system that produces output is a "next token predictor". Every compiler, every tool that generates output. Even a web render engine is: next pixel predictor.
gblargg··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
Something like 1/30 the energy density of liquid fuel. Plus unlike fuel, a discharged battery weighs virtually the same as a charged one.
gblargg··on .name Termination
It seems insane because it seems like a big point was to have a permanent site for your name. This just devalues all domain names, showing that they can do a rug-pull at any time because they don't want to manage it (how about turn it over to a private company that can adjust costs so they can make a profit and keep it running?).
gblargg··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
The person who thought they cared about the child's welfare turned out to be the actual danger, and made the child's life much worse.
gblargg··on Hang on to Your Firefox
Even better, I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues. Otherwise the browser has a stable feature set and no new features.
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