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2025-07-12 18:30:40 UTC

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What's missing here is that day to day programmers at work might be using the AI tools differently and that will be really hard to account for.
Cursor create me a Mermaid diagram explaining this 50k LOC module I now need to work on because product people said it's a priority. Cursor debug this grpc memory leak causing production to crash the developer who wrote this is on vacation. Cursor convert these OpenAPI specs to zod because the wider team does a refactoring.

2025-06-02 21:57:51 UTC

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I want to agree but especially the latest Linux on Framework experience left me a bit disappointed.
If you're interested in what I went through over the last three weeks check this out:
https://chaos.social/@djh/114500298166818200
https://chaos.social/@djh/114529197612847452
https://chaos.social/@djh/114444028322716047

2025-05-03 07:07:42 UTC

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Interesting, is this in effect the same 8b model that was initially released and is e.g. available on ollama with
ollama run qwen3:8b
just that it's transformed to work on MLX?

2025-04-24 06:50:02 UTC

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Are you following @npub1gv2…tlwl because every week he shows us how these LLMs or embedding or vision models can be useful. For years now he's doing this.
There's no question anymore that they can be useful and at the same time we need to ask ourselves what should they be used for. It's more of an ethical and social question than a technical one.
Also no doubt they're getting hyped up a lot but that doesn't mean they're completely useless either like a lot of folks want them to be.

2025-04-18 18:26:29 UTC

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Do you trust it by default? How do you know e.g. the import URL is the correct one and not going to an unrelated server?
Thinking about all the ways this can be abused
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopsquatting
I'm wondering if you have any workflows here or thoughts on this.

2025-04-18 14:56:31 UTC

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There are approaches like Segment Anything out there for a while now
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02643
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00714
It's a solved problem nowadays in computer vision (wasn't the case some 5+ years ago).
I believe the novelty is the tight integration (as a tool?) into a commercial product and an LLM based flow?

2024-12-24 13:49:35 UTC

Please don't call me #AI
#Fonts #FontsInUse #Inter #InterFont #Spotify
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2024-09-20 12:08:06 UTC

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oof, I totally missed their other apps 😮 Their user base must be in the tens of millions.
I don't know how to estimate how big their harvested dataset is but it's gonna be in the hundreds of millions for sure.
This is such a wild scheme 😵

2024-09-20 08:12:18 UTC

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Got a reply from LSM Apps re. my GDPR Request that they do store my data.
Here's how it all works:
1. LSM Apps provides a free app (Easy Contacts) for 10+ years, 2.5k reviews. From that and their own disclosure we can assume their user base is in the millions.
2. This app send all of the user's contacts to LSM Apps; at least full name, phone number.
3. LSM Apps shares this data with Lusha.
4. Lusha sells the data.
https://www.lsmapps.com/privacy-policy
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easy-contacts/id665856919
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2024-09-10 13:13:19 UTC

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It's starting to get really annoying:
I'm now getting spam/scam on Signal on my private phone number.
Having to make me undiscoverable for it to stop. This is getting bonkers.
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/113/113/423/082/374/974/original/de5ada5ac1867645.png
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2024-09-10 08:25:07 UTC

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The Lusha GDPR Request went through and now I know where they got my private phone number from: it's
L.S Mobile Apps Holdings Ltd
https://www.lsmapps.com
Which looks like unsuspecting apps but if you check their privacy policy and business registration, it's a data broker (again), explicitly sharing data with Lusha.
Down the rabbit hole we go, let's see where they got my private phone number from 😬

2024-09-08 18:01:12 UTC

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Some ten+ years ago there was a way to set up sieve rules in Thunderbird with an addin jf I recall correctly — and once set up that worked quite well. But it's a bit of the hacky kind.
There really should be a way ro have Thunderbird's junk scoring move mails automatically.

2024-09-08 12:42:01 UTC

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I don't know yet, I hope I'll get to learn a bit more from the GDPR Request I have sent.
They def. have my private number and are re-selling it and I don't know how they got hold of it. It's not publicly available.

2024-09-06 13:21:28 UTC

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I just got a caller to go into their CRM and find out the source:
It's Lusha!
They're a data broker selling private data without user consent! I can find various complains about them online.
These fuckers are selling data on me — my private phone number included. I have zero idea where they got it from in the first place.
Gonna send them a GDPR Request that hopefully should stop downstream folks from getting my PII data into their systems.
Wild!

2024-09-06 13:17:15 UTC

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The last two calls from today were from the UK and from Poland. In borh cases companies providing short term contractors for work.
I don't think Verbraucherzentrale can do anything there?

2024-09-06 11:41:41 UTC

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I thought about it, too, but so far the folks calling me could just tell me that I'm in their CRM and they're using various data brokers 🦧
I think you're right and a written GDPR request by mail is the next escalation step here 💪

2024-09-06 11:28:38 UTC

Looks like my private phone number ended up in some sort of data broker.
For weeks now I'm getting unsolicited calls, and the folks calling me are like "We don't know where we got your number from; it's in our CRM system".
Welp, guess that's about it for phone for me?

2024-08-22 20:20:34 UTC

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Gotcha, agree with you there should have been better communication.
On the other hand they're probably going by numbers — what's the Linux market share; out of those folks how many are on a 6+ year old distribution. And that's not a high enough user base to put resources behind.
Let's wait and see how this develops before jumping to conclusions.

2024-08-22 19:56:50 UTC

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Why should Google care about Canonical's promises and support schedule? If at all it's on Canonical to keep their Chromium package updated. This sounds like a nothing-burger.

2024-08-07 22:09:46 UTC

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This is auch a great little idea! 🤯
I believe there are already window modifiers such as "always on top" so why not having a "locked aspect ratio" one 🖼️