hperrin

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Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Throw rent control in there and I think it would work.

Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 25 points 20 hours ago

“Traditional buyers” you mean people?

Trump gets cooked by his own minions in c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago

I thought the files didn’t exist and that he would release them.

An Italian mechanic Andrea Marazzi has transformed a 1993 Fiat Panda into the world’s narrowest electric car, bringing innovation, nostalgia, and sustainability together on four wheels. in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Now drive it over a slightly slanted road.

When life was full of wonder in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The library is how people learned things before a search engine came and ruined people’s ability to find things on their own. Dewey Decimal, bitch.

What the US looks like to the rest of the world in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago

That’s also what the US looks like to a lot of us here in it.

What big budget movie had absolutely no buisness getting made? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Fair enough. It’s one of my favorite games, because I played it through with my best friend right before he passed away in an accident, so it’s really emotionally valuable to me. Seeing what they did with the movie was pretty offensive in that regard, to me.

"Source code file" in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

250,000 lines is way more than 250,000 tokens, so even that context is too small.

Tesseract has been discontinued in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t yet, but I can make a user. Let me do that tomorrow, and I’ll reply here again with it.

Tesseract has been discontinued in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I wrote Svelte Material UI, so I could definitely help you with UI stuff. Do you have a public repo?

new Date("wtf") in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

I scored 13/28 on https://jsdate.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Oof. I’ve been a JS dev since 1998.

Tesseract has been discontinued in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Considering this is a Svelte project, it probably wouldn’t be too hard for me to fork (I’m a Svelte and SvelteKit dev). I’d definitely rewrite the UI, cause the current UI is… unpolished.

How much support could I expect to fork this project? Is there anyone that would be willing to help?

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Stream Overlay on Flathub (flathub.org)
 

My first app on Flathub: Stream Overlay!

If you stream games on Linux, this can help you by showing your chat and alerts on your screen on top of your game.

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Stream Overlay for streaming games on Linux (flathub.org)
 

This is my first application on Flathub! If you’re a game streamer, this can help by having your Twitch chat and alerts appear on your screen, above your game.

It’s a FOSS application, available here on GitHub:

https://github.com/hperrin/stream-overlay

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Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con (sciactive.com)
 

A fully automated, on demand, personalized con man, ready to lie to you about any topic you want doesn’t really seem like an ideal product. I don’t think that’s what the developers of these LLMs set out to make when they created them either. However, I’ve seen this behavior to a certain extent in every LLM I’ve interacted with. One of my favorite examples was a particularly small-parameter version of Llama (I believe it was Llama-3.1-8B) confidently insisting to me that Walt Disney invented the Matterhorn (like, the actual mountain) for Disneyland. Now, this is something along the lines of what people have been calling “hallucinations” in LLMs, but the fact that it would not admit that it was wrong when confronted and used confident language to try to convince me that it was right, is what pushes that particular case across the boundary to what I would call “con-behavior”. Assertiveness is not always a property of this behavior, though. Lately, OpenAI (and I’m sure other developers) have been training their LLMs to be more “agreeable” and to acquiesce to the user more often. This doesn’t eliminate this con-behavior, though. I’d like to show you another example of this con-behavior that is much more problematic.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con (sciactive.com)
 

A fully automated, on demand, personalized con man, ready to lie to you about any topic you want doesn’t really seem like an ideal product. I don’t think that’s what the developers of these LLMs set out to make when they created them either. However, I’ve seen this behavior to a certain extent in every LLM I’ve interacted with. One of my favorite examples was a particularly small-parameter version of Llama (I believe it was Llama-3.1-8B) confidently insisting to me that Walt Disney invented the Matterhorn (like, the actual mountain) for Disneyland. Now, this is something along the lines of what people have been calling “hallucinations” in LLMs, but the fact that it would not admit that it was wrong when confronted and used confident language to try to convince me that it was right, is what pushes that particular case across the boundary to what I would call “con-behavior”. Assertiveness is not always a property of this behavior, though. Lately, OpenAI (and I’m sure other developers) have been training their LLMs to be more “agreeable” and to acquiesce to the user more often. This doesn’t eliminate this con-behavior, though. I’d like to show you another example of this con-behavior that is much more problematic.

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Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. (lemmy.ca)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43297441

I just started working on a self hosted Android & iOS ereader app. I’d like to know what features you would like to see if you use this kind of app.

Current Planned Features

  • Support for EPUB, TXT, and HTML ebooks.
  • Syncing over WebDAV. (Bring your own server. I’m not hosting people’s pirated libraries.)
  • Multiple libraries (a WebDAV server is a library), and multiple users per library.
  • Current progress from offline reading will get synced when back online.
  • Dark mode.
  • Custom fonts and themes.
  • Text to speech.
  • Keep awake.
  • Orientation lock.
  • Open source. (GPL license)
  • Native apps using React Native.
  • Animations can be turned completely off.
  • Really good e-ink screen support.
  • Tablet and phone sized device support.

Background

I use a Boox Palma, but sometimes I don’t have it with me, and I’d like to read on my iPhone.

With the current ereaders I know of, there’s always some downside. Syncing costs money, rendering is janky, page turn animations can’t be disabled, themes cost money (really???), no cross platform support, etc.

I want to learn how to build native apps with React Native, so I’m using this as a learning project. I’m not trying to make money on it, so it’ll be open source, and you have to have your own WebDAV server with all your ebooks on it to sync.

Non-Planned Features

Some things I just can’t do or won’t help me learn, so I’m not going to do them.

  • PDF support. (Maybe in the future, but not the initial version.)
  • Web app. (I don’t want to host it.)
  • Kindle app. (React Native doesn’t support them.)
  • Syncing over anything but WebDAV. (I’ll be using WebDAV properties, and I’m not interested in doing any other providers.)

So I’d like to know, what are some features you would like to see, and what are the pain points you’ve experienced with your current ereader apps?

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Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. (lemmy.ca)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43297441

I just started working on a self hosted Android & iOS ereader app. I’d like to know what features you would like to see if you use this kind of app.

Current Planned Features

  • Support for EPUB, TXT, and HTML ebooks.
  • Syncing over WebDAV. (Bring your own server. I’m not hosting people’s pirated libraries.)
  • Multiple libraries (a WebDAV server is a library), and multiple users per library.
  • Current progress from offline reading will get synced when back online.
  • Dark mode.
  • Custom fonts and themes.
  • Text to speech.
  • Keep awake.
  • Orientation lock.
  • Open source. (GPL license)
  • Native apps using React Native.
  • Animations can be turned completely off.
  • Really good e-ink screen support.
  • Tablet and phone sized device support.

Background

I use a Boox Palma, but sometimes I don’t have it with me, and I’d like to read on my iPhone.

With the current ereaders I know of, there’s always some downside. Syncing costs money, rendering is janky, page turn animations can’t be disabled, themes cost money (really???), no cross platform support, etc.

I want to learn how to build native apps with React Native, so I’m using this as a learning project. I’m not trying to make money on it, so it’ll be open source, and you have to have your own WebDAV server with all your ebooks on it to sync.

Non-Planned Features

Some things I just can’t do or won’t help me learn, so I’m not going to do them.

  • PDF support. (Maybe in the future, but not the initial version.)
  • Web app. (I don’t want to host it.)
  • Kindle app. (React Native doesn’t support them.)
  • Syncing over anything but WebDAV. (I’ll be using WebDAV properties, and I’m not interested in doing any other providers.)

So I’d like to know, what are some features you would like to see, and what are the pain points you’ve experienced with your current ereader apps?

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