dantheclamman @ dantheclamman @lemmy.world

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I feel conflicted about the whole thing. Technically it's a model. I don't feel that people should be able to sue me as a scientist for making a model based on publicly available data. I myself am merely trying to use the model itself to explain stuff about the world. But OpenAI are also selling access to the outputs of the model, that can very closely approximate the intellectual property of people. Also, most of the training data was accessed via scraping and other gray market methods that were often explicitly violating the TOU of the various places they scraped from. So it all is very difficult to sort through ethically.

The backstory is that he wrote it in a letter to Charles Lyell, and also used the opportunity to rant about how much he hated orchids

(During grad school, I had this quote printed on my office wall because I identified with it)

You are one of the blessed minimalist ones. I feel most users are drowning in tabs.

I know time is relative but that's going a bit too far

And poor drainage, the wrong light, lack of nutrients, and build up of minerals or being pot-bound.

Might be talking about Sidebery. I like them both and switch back and forth

I used Panorama a lot. Was sad when it went away

it will be the start of the age of the insecure Windows 10 desktop

Frankly he looks like he's thriving. I'm happy for him

Relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling

My previous place heated up very slowly, so I started saving the cold water in a bucket to water my plants because it felt like a waste

I think Quora is on another level. It's a weird zombie site these days

Yeah, whatever floats your boat! Firefox password manager is fine, but I have some devices where I don't use Firefox, so I need cross-platform. Plus, Bitwarden can save other stuff securely like notes, and the features it has for secure password generation work very well.

I've used Bitwarden because it's available everywhere I need it, including a good Firefox desktop extension. The only thing I worry about how they raised VC funds in 2022, and hope that doesn't lead to enshittification. Fortunately I'm prepared to switch to self-hosted alternatives if that's the case.

I am syncing between two laptops, a phone, a tablet and nvidia shield (not for Joplin on the shield lol, just files). The only issue with Syncthing is that it sometimes gets battery optimized by Samsung despite everything I have tried to get it to stay foregrounded. But as soon as I open Syncthing it syncs instantly since markdown files are so small. Then Joplin can pull from the local files. I have it set to be encrypted so it takes a little longer to import than it would otherwise. For Joplin, now that it has automatic system dark mode it is almost perfect. The only thing I'd prefer was a better tablet UI with a paned view. Other than that I am content! They also have OCR in the betas, which gets it a little closer to being an Evernote premium replacement. It is impressive what they've added despite being a nonprofit open-source project made by volunteers

I like Joplin. It's not a full replacement for Evernote, most notably lacking handwriting (though there is a plug-in for windows and one on the way for android beta), but it is pretty nice when syncing with syncthing!

yes, many of these apps feel kind of lobotomized

agreed, I opened up some old photospheres of past apartments, places I visited during study abroad and it was kind of eerie how it teleported me back to the moment! much more than a picture or video would

I tend to think the modern material doesn't provide nearly as much opportunity to be colorful and provide a unique visual identity as the OG material did.

Running natively rather than on the xamarin/maui framework would hopefully mean it's more responsive. It is a bit sluggish to load right now