(version 2.0 could triple your RAM)

signal’s claimed inability to collect metadata being an obvious albeit elaborate lie is a strong indicator

Nice, thanks.

It would certainly be nice to be able to pre-download language pair models without selecting to and from and then actually initiating a translation using the model i don’t have yet.

re: getting uBlock externally, i also see the attraction of that approach but unfortunately Debian’s package was last updated in October (from 1.62 to 1.67) while AMO has a release from January (1.69) :/

imo it would be better to bundle UBO and ship its updates along with browser updates.

are there plans to distribute Konform via flathub?

Full-page machine translations are disabled

Firefox translations are done offline (after downloading the model for a langauge pair).

Does anybody know why Konform decided to disable this very useful feature?

It’s a library for detecting which character encoding a string is encoded with.

Here are the docs for the vibe-coded rewrite, and here is the version before it.

The new vibe-coded version also adds language detection; it isn’t clear to me why the current version of the readme shows it classifying the string "It’s a lovely day — let’s grab coffee." as Spanish with 99% confidence, without any comment in the docs about that being a misclassification, but I guess that if the LLM-authored program says it is then that must be one of those phrases that looks the same in Spanish as in English 👀

Why do you think Proton stores the association between accounts and payment identity?

Many privacy-oriented companies actually accept credit card payments and simply don’t store that information.

article in case you can’t read it: https://lemmy.ml/post/44086795

that link only has two paragraphs of the article; there are 8 more in the full article here on archive.org

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

is it time for a Windows edition of the classic Jamiroquai sound meme?

howard’s awkward canard

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

alias thanks="You are most welcomed"

you need to use the echo command if you want to echo something:

alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"

(the inner single-quotes are not strictly required in this case, but recommended nonetheless)

https://gitlab.com/edneville/please (a sudo alternative)

maybe it would be better to say that it is stochastically accurate?

also btw icymi, this is a post about LLMs

Here is a youtube video purportedly showing one actually working; they’ve been taking pre-orders since last summer but wikipedia editors say it’s unverifiable so they remove references to it from their “Mosquito laser” article.

Fluxer in particular seems a little ahead of Stoat with screen sharing and video calls

That is surprising since Fluxer started last month (and its wikipedia article was started today) while Stoat has been around since 2021 (it was called Revolt until it renamed last year).

Stoat does have voice and video and screensharing in their desktop+web clients at least, but as of this comment in August it still wasn’t implemented in mobile clients. And also it wasn’t/isn’t enabled on their flagship instance due to the high cost of running a free video relay.

I’m rooting for Fluxer now though because they’re AGPLv3 without a CLA. So the code will be free forever.

Stoat is also AGPLv3; do they require copyright assignment? From a quick look I didn’t see any indication that they do.