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SuspiciousCarrot78

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  • AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows

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  • Honestly, I think that's the only llm of its kind. The next closest thing is this

    https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat

    If you don't mind something narrower (an expert system, sort of), I'm slowly coding something for myself here. It's not ready yet (about half way done to initial release).

    https://codeberg.org/BobbyLLM/picoGURU

    Public facing docs are a bit of a mess at the moment (sorry; writing docs is boring AF; will probably be the last thing I tidy before official 1.0.0) and it's not really runnable right now, but when done, the "source files" for this will be kiwix (off line Wikipedia), your own markdown notes and 30 or so trusted domains (user defined).

    So it's all either your own content or public domain aka open source fully. Code itself is AGPL-3.

    Anyway, that's the goal.

  • AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows

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  • Rayfish, Iroh and Yggdrasil

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  • It also says -

    "So it's all vibe-coded slop."

    The idea is over 4 years old: a trustless, decentralized network with no central entity that can censor who you connect with. I sketched it for years. What an LLM changed was the speed: the prototype came together in a day. The trigger was the release of iroh v1.

    Make of that what you will.

  • Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)

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  • Well sure, if you're installing CFW or aosp and you don't need the ever increasing cruft that seems to rely on Play store authentication. Never install GApps, done.

    Some folks (not you or I) need to access play store to install their apps (I think even WhatsApp and Signal need it now; I couldn't install it on my phone), 2FA, transport apps, bank apps etc.

    Catch 22 for them.

    • degoogled phone....but can't install all the apps they need
    • Google ecosystem... but at whims of Google.

  • Nomad: ESP-32 media server

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  • How will your phone stream movies to the TV, little billy's tablet and Grandma's laptop, while letting Suzie listen to her favourite music and Davey read his CBR comics?

    What does your phone draw, BTW, when watching media or casting it? Is it less than 0.8 of a watt?

    Can your phone fit in a matchbox?

    Ya dig? :)

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  • Like herpes, it comes back :) The second you connect to WiFi or mobile data....

    If you want to avoid it - for good - you need to install CFW. Or you need to play whackamole with firewalls. But those come with other issues.

    Big evil knows what they're doing - switching it off and on again won't fool em for long (if at all) :(

  • Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)

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  • Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)

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  • Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)

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  • I think the goal is to push it silently as a Google system service, rather than wait for manufacturers to ship an OS or app store update.

    There’s a real possibility your phone already has Android Developer Verifier installed and sitting dormant until enforcement begins.

    You can check for the package now:

    "com.google.android.verifier"

    If it's there...well...

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  • Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)

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  • Nah...we need digital divergence.

    Dumbphone + tethering.

    Let the phone manufacturers and carriers handle the “phone” part-with all the messy IMEI whitelisting, compliance and VoLTE shit.

    The good stuff can live on a small Linux tablet.

    No need to wait for the perfect Linux phone OS, working diallers, carrier support and all the rest of it.

    The solution is already here. We just need to stop insisting that it all has to be one device.

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  • LADB is a native android feature. Unless they plan to kill adb entirely, what's to stop me from doing this -

    • Download apk
    • Enable Wireless debugging
    • Pair the on-phone ADB client
    • Run something equivalent to: pm install /sdcard/Download/app.apk
    • Installation occurs through the ADB shell route.

    Because if that works, "install from Fdroid" needs just a small tweak so that the Fdroid app submits the APK through ADB.

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  • Not that I particularly trust Google, but they have promised to not molest the ADB pathway.

    "Are ADB installs impacted by the 24-hour waiting period for advanced flow? No, there are no changes to how ADB works. You will be able to install applications using ADB as usual. The waiting period does not apply to ADB installs. Last updated: March 23, 2026'

    https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/faq

  • Nomad: ESP-32 media server

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  • You're welcome :)

    I'm looking to see just how far this femto-server idea can go. Scoping it out now.

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  • Fuck yes we're interested. Go :)

  • "Ultimate" guide for literal beginners

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  • Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say

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  • Called it. Whether this is sabre rattling or not, we (really) need something FOSS like Apertus to become a third viable player.

    Open weights is cool...open source is better.

  • Xbox One X to Linux Questions

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  • Years ago, I had the option of the 7020 or the lenovo m93p tiny.

    I chose...poorly.

    Well, poorly by sane standards. Perfectly sane by "squeeze blood from stone" standards. For better or worse, I fell in love with the usFF PC and turn my nose up at anything over 2L case size now. Too big, too loud, too hot.

    Speaking of, I'm having a powerful urge to replace my smart phone with this now

    https://www.hackster.io/etolocka/m5stack-papers3-overview-and-getting-started-3375f3

    Why? Its a sickness. But damn...how cool would that thing be with your own apps? A modern day PDA, with WiFi, LoRA, BT? Battery life measured in weeks? Hell, I could gut my old Psion 5, throw this in...chefs kiss.

    (Oh lawd, hide the credit cards).

  • Removed Locked

    Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release

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  • I agree with that...but I wonder if we only ever hear from the so called parasitic ones?

    Suppose a kid in Africa uses Claude to code an app that tracks the spread of a disease in their community and predict the next outbreak site based on x,y,z.

    That's technically slop code too. Do they get a pass because the cause is virtuous or not crowed about? By the letter of the law...no. But by the spirit of the law, probably yes.

    I guess the difference is, how much leeway do we have for genuine enthusiasm vs parasitism. It's hard to tell sometimes on social media where too many people are doing preening displays in public - and we've probably all been guilty of that.

    As a rule, if a thing interests me, I'll read the post, hit the repo, and dig around the files. If I see obvious use of llm in the code (like the stupidly verbose comments that LLMs like to pepper throughout), that usually means that the person either didn't look, didn't know to look or doesn't care. That's bad.

    Bad intro post + bad readme.md + weird commit history + weird AI comments = I'm out.

    Honestly, I'm usually out after the first one or two these days.