Yaky

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[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My friend works for a startup that does exactly that - trains AIs on conversations and responses from a specific person (some business higher-ups) for purposes of "coaching" and "mentoring". I don't know how well it works.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a Librem5 phone with cringe name and 100% markup, but it's their own product nonetheless. I.e. it is not a generic Android with a custom skin and preinstalled apps like Trump Phone, Freedom Phone, or Quantum Internet box.

You can buy pretty much the same Librem5 assembled in China for ~$700. Take a look at Liberux Nexx Linux phone too (they are just staring out)

(Not sure what you're calling racist here, appeal to "patriots"?)

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Another interesting exploration is in Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter. New technology allows creating light-passing micro-wormholes at any location (and time!), erasing privacy nearly entirely. At first, tabloids run wild with "shocking" photos of famous people, but eventually the hype dies. There are people who outright do lewd things in public ("anyone can see me at any time anyway"), some go about their life as usual, and some join secret groups who meet in the dark and use touch language for the deaf-blind.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

IMO the best on-boarding I have seen in a chat app. Just scan each other's QR codes or click a link. No account management because ID is unique to each conversation.

Signal and WhatsApp need a phone number, Matrix/Element is needlessly messy, XMPP/Conversations is sensible IIRC (ID + password)

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago

That's the intent, at least:

Are you intending to ship a (close to) mainline kernel, or a Board Support Package (BSP)/vendor kernel and make it work with a libhybris/Halium approach?

We’ll go with bare-metal Linux—no Halium, no libhybris. We want to stay as close to mainline as possible and actively contribute upstream.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Haven't been asked yet, but company is in process of adding "AI" (as ambiguous as that) into many business processes. (Presented right after presentation on sustainability...)

I know many developers love LLMs, but they seem so useless to me - LLM is not gonna fix tech debt, wonky git issues or know how to query a complex 20+ year old DB. I have access to a LLM and would not know what to ask that I could not do myself.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

Don't Equifax, Experian and Transunion already have that?

At least they have enough info about where you lived, what credit cards you had, what loans you had, what vehicles you owned, enough to be used as "verification" to prove your identity.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

(I haven't really used them a lot in the heat yet) Last enclosure was ASA, but AFAIK, black ABS is OK too because black pigment absorbs most of the light/UV, preventing plastic from degrading as fast

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For offline navigation on Linux, have you looked at osmin? It was pretty decent on a PinePhone.

How do you handle power-off? Does Raspberry Pi just shut down? My thoughts were to use Alpine or some RAM-based OS that would not corrupt SD card or the hard drive.

I have been messing around with building an in-car navigation from e-waste for a while now. Right now, I settled on an old smartphone with OsmAnd and wrote my own app to view the reverse camera.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, plain old ignorance. (and some anglo-centrism)

I am a software dev, worked on two translation projects at different points in time, and both of them were kind of a mess. In one case, translation team was all Americans (US company), and I was the only person who spoke another language and had firsthand experience with bad translation in media. When I asked how to switch the language in their app, senior dev told me to switch my OS language. Translations themselves often sounded overly verbose, robotic, or plain weird in other languages.

And then, the typical oversights like not leaving enough screen space for longer translated text, using ambiguous terms without providing context, badly splitting phrases. Text-in-image, etc.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know much about cars either, but that does happen. For example, Cadillac Escalade was/is based on a less-fancy-looking GMC SUV (Suburban?). Chevy Volt is also Cadillac ELR (different body and interior, same drivetrain), Opel Ampera (in Europe), and Buick Velite (in China, because Buick has a better brand recognition there)

Some cheaper car models come with variety of "sport editions" and out-of-factory tint and spoilers, which would be the equivalent to the RGB computer peripherals that you mentioned, and appeal to specific customers.

TBH I don't know why some expensive car designs are perceived as "fancy" or "impressive". I think they are mostly boring. And quality-wise, anything above bottom tier would have materials that last decades now.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Organic Maps / CoMaps is not some corporate platform, you "migrating" to them does not gain them anything. If you have a constructive suggestion, open an issue or contact them.

 

A small project to help out anyone trying to keep their old devices functional.

I wrote a script to scrape pages of some popular alternative OS projects (such as postmarketOS and LineageOS), and put them into a single list. I'll try to automate and keep this up-to-date. Any additional OS suggestions and comments are welcome!

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