Tootfinder

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116725940366811416
It’s actually good and proper to dogpile on people when there’s literally lives at stake.

This IMHO is the greatest thing since sliced bread:
Now that Apple has discontinued the AFP protocol of old Time Capsules, James Chang figured out that Time Capsule firmware is based on NetBSD, hacked it to provide SMB, and did a beautiful UI frontend to make it super-easy to install.
https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsu…

GitHub - jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB: Hacking the Apple AirPort Time Capsule to run modern Samba
Hacking the Apple AirPort Time Capsule to run modern Samba - jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB

Pi, whose "security brain" AI agent helps companies assess vulnerabilities to prioritize and patch, raised $35M at a $100M valuation; sources: xAI is a customer (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

Elon Musk’s Go-To Hacker Launches A $100 Million AI Cyber Agent
Startup Pi counts xAI as one of its first customers, as its AI agent looks to fix security vulnerabilities for the world’s premier labs.

What would it look like to cancel Thanksgiving...
No Black Friday sales where people are obsessed with Capitalism and Consumerism? Good!
No celebrating the colonization of Indigenous People? Good!
You can still gather with friends and family and have a meal. Call it whatever you want! Thanksgiving, Fall Harvest, whatever.
Don't fall for the bullshit the establishment is pushing.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116726218994872252
This would include fascinating topics like “fully read a social media post before replying” and “question the ultimate agendas of media outlets, corporate public relations departments and of governments”.

Haaretz and Channel 12 offices were attacked in Tel Aviv this week; the Union of Journalists in Israel ties the vandalism to the Netanyahu government's rhetoric (The Times of Israel)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/door-to-haaretz-offices-…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117236666537118749
Apple. Call me. 🤙

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116726575162112584
And even for the most optimal of use cases, code generation, which gives an LLM every possible advantage (huge amounts of self-similar training data with millions of iterations of the same problems and solutions, strictly deterministic symbol sequences in highly simplified languages), LLMs are starting to approach local maxima; they’re even regressing when context windows get too large (so more capable hardware doesn’t help).
I still strongly believe that they’re useless for 99% of tasks they’re marketed for and for the rest (like coding) there will be locally run solutions that are affordable.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Gonna say the pivot of GitHub to an offline-first company is impressive

I think adults should have regular refresher courses in media literacy and reading comprehension