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will_a113 OP ,

Maybe true, but even at $3500 the Vision Pro would be about the cheapest thing in the operating theater anyway.

Are there any tools out there to compare Privacy Policies against each other?

Hiya, just quickly wondering if anyone know about a good tool for comparing Privacy policies against each other? Im currently downloading each PP, then using self-hosted StirlingPDF to compare 1 on 1. However, I am looking for a more efficient tool, to compare multiple at the time, if there are any. Any tool that can handle...

will_a113 ,

Are you looking for a tool that can diff legal documents line by line or clause by clause? If the latter I’d bet an LLM with a large context size could do a pretty good job, especially if you used a script (or another pass through the LLM) to break them down into like sections so that could just compare e.g. all Controlling Law sections with each other and all IP Indemnification sections with each other.

Now that I think about it, tuning the prompt (and keeping the temperature very low, like 0) you could probably get it to return everything from proper diffs to summaries of conceptual differences. And it could definitely do multiples at once if you were to break them into like pieces ahead of time.

will_a113 ,

In UNIX-y systems ./ is your current local directory, so if I was in /usr/home/will and I extracted your file I would expect any file that was like ./foo.txt to be extracted to /usr/home/will/foo.txt, and if there were files like ./testar/bar.txt, they would be extracted to a new directory /usr/home/will/testar/bar.txt -- or is that not what you're talking about?

Rethinking Moderation: A Call for Trust Level Systems in the Fediverse

The current state of moderation across various online communities, especially on platforms like Reddit, has been a topic of much debate and dissatisfaction. Users have voiced concerns over issues such as moderator rudeness, abuse, bias, and a failure to adhere to their own guidelines. Moreover, many communities suffer from a...

will_a113 ,

Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame) has been working on something like this for several years. Trust Cafe is supposed to gauge your trustworthiness based on other people who trust you, with a hand-picked team of top users monitoring the whole thing — sort of an enlightened dictatorship model. It’s still a tiny community and much of the tech has to be fleshed out more, but there are definitely people looking into this approach.

will_a113 ,

Who is your PM or senior assigning the tasks? You need to take this up with them -- everyone always needs a couple of quick hits in their back pocket. When you stall out grinding on task after impossible task it kills your motivation and productivity, and that's your boss's job to fix.

will_a113 ,

It’s actually 1.58bits weirdly. The addition of 0 here was the significant change/improvement in this experiment. The paper isn’t too dense and has some decent tables that explain things fairly accessibly.

Blocking AI crawlers on the fediverse ( fedia.io )

Given how Reddit now makes money by selling its data to AI companies, I was wondering how the situation is for the fediverse. Typically you can block AI crawlers using robot.txt (Verge reported about it recently: https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders). But this only works per...

will_a113 ,

I wonder if content should carry some license automatically. Like if you agree to the TOS of an instance, your comments are automatically all licensed as CC:BY or CC:O or the more restrictive license of choice of the instance owner.

will_a113 ,

ML =/= AI. There are legit uses for ML that don’t have anything to do with LLMs and the cloud. I worked on an ML project 3 or 4 years ago to listen for fan noise that might indicate that it was about to fail soon. We trained a tiny GAN on good and bad noises. It runs on a tiny CPU, locally. Highly specialized work, and I have to imagine there are and will continue to be lots of similar opportunities to bring efficiencies by getting computers to make good observations and decisions - even if only about “simple” things like “does this thing seem like it’s about to break?”

will_a113 ,

Fair enough. ML ⊆ AI then. But these days when everyone talking breathlessly about AI taking away jobs they’re almost always taking about LLMs. This article is about ML in particular which is a different discipline with different applications.

will_a113 ,

You can kinda do it with Google Customizabe Search Engine, which is basically a thin wrapper around Google. In a regular Google search you can use syntax like -site:ignorethisdomain.com to exclude specific domains (i do this with Pinterest whenever searching for images, for example). But manually typing in a large list of black listed domains would be tedious so instead you can set up a CSE with everybody you want to ignore and then just use the special URL as your search engine.

will_a113 ,

draw.io is a capable web-based flowcharting program. Source code is on github but I’ve never tried locally hosting.

will_a113 ,

Their “how it works” blog article is worth a read - they’re using a blackbox reverse engineering of the protocol and re-implementing it natively in the app, so there are no man-in-the-middle servers. Impressive software engineering for sure.

will_a113 ,

I don’t know about the app itself, but the blog article links to the PyPush python-based proof-of-concept, which you can run pretty much anywhere.

will_a113 ,

Yup, the PyPush python-based proof-of-concept can run pretty much anywhere there’s python.

will_a113 ,

Network effect. Gradually over time my whole extended family wound up with iphones for one reason or another, and Android phones would consistently break our group threads. The last few holdouts (not ideologically, they just didn’t need new phones) wound up switching to Apple afterwards to make everything smoother for the rest of us.

Need some advice...

I recently purchased a Dell R730. My plan was to run a few VMs, and use the 8 drive bays as a a large RAID array. I have been getting to know Proxmox, which i dont really have any complaints about, over the past few months. I currently have 4 8TB drives set up in a ZFS pool in a TrueNAS core VM. It has become full. Last night I...

will_a113 ,

This isn’t a limitation of TrueNAS, but rather of ZFS itself. A new ZFS feature that allows expanding the pool one drive at a time has been in the works for a long time now and is supposed to be rolling out really soon (as it has been for the past 2-3 years I think), but as of right now it can’t be done on any NAS solution that uses ZFS.

As you noted, UnRAID can do it - because it uses a different kind of data+parity system (you can continue to add a drive at a time as long as the largest drive has your parity data, I think). If you were comfortable running TrueNAS in a VM then you should have no problem running UnRAID the same way. In fact, it will probably be faster just because it’s less resource intensive (and certainly less RAM intensive than ZFS)

Backup solution where you can restore an individual file?

I’m currently using an incremental backup system for my business that copies files over at different intervals. The backups are daily, weekly, even month, odd month, etc, in different folders. It’s using Goodsync, which is actually a file sync software, but it allows scheduled syncs. It doesn’t create a disk image or...

will_a113 ,

Check out Duplicati. It’s cross-platform, can back up to a local disk, network share, or any of a number of cloud services, and can restore individual files, folders, etc. You can also specify storage intervals (e.g. keep dailies for the last week, weeklies for the last month, monthlies for the last year, etc. and restore specific versions of your files.

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