beveradb

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[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Tablet, brick, potato

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago

Agree 100%. Also, re. "a third of a house"; I bought an old (1941) but comfortably livable 2 bedroom house with garden and driveway in Columbia, South Carolina for only $86k last year. Most of the cyberfuck owners paid MORE than my house for their dumb cars...

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Char count for same functionality is still at least double in java vs python. It just feels like a chore to me. jetbrains helped, but still python is just so light

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Wow, I'm sorry. Please, consider moving away from the USA before you work yourself to death

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Women are art with a few years of being in the world of life and the rest of us have had to get in touch with them

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Roman Catholic cola? In Scotland we just drink buckfast

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

Fair point! I think that's part of why I admire him, humble greatness

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Eh, bagder is more than "just some guy" to a lot of people! To me he's kinda been my tech idol for 20 years lol, he also was a core part of building Rockbox (open source firmware for MP3 players) which was the first open source project I got seriously involved in as a kid ☺️

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

I've built a couple of useful products which leverage LLMs at one stage or another, but I don't shout about it cos I don't see LLMs as something particularly exciting or relevant to consumers, to me they're just another tool in my toolbox which I consider the efficacy of when trying to solve a particular problem. I think they are a new tool which is genuinely valuable when dealing with natural language problems. For example in my most recent product, which includes the capability to automatically create karaoke music videos, the problem for a long time preventing me from bringing that product to market was transcription quality / ability to consistently get correct and complete lyrics for any song. Now, by using state of the art transcription (which returns 90% accurate results) plus using an open weight LLM with a fine tuned prompt to correct the mistakes in that transcription, I've finally been able to create a product which produces high quality results pretty consistently. Before LLMs that would've been much harder!

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and as someone raised in Europe where education is actually valued, I think that's dumb. Education institutions should be there to educate, not to entertain

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm sure a lot has changed in 10 years ago so this won't be relevant today, but back when I was last playing with this, sslstrip was the tool I was using on the pineapple to enable SSL mitm attacks - https://github.com/moxie0/sslstrip

I'd imagine there are new techniques to counteract new defenses - this stuff is always cat & mouse

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