AI Horde has a OpenAI compatible REST API (https://oai.aihorde.net/). They say that it doesn’t support the full feature set of their native API, but will almost assuredly work with this.

OP manually builds the oapi JSON payload and then uses the python requests library to handle the request.

The fields they’re using match the documentation on https://oai.aihorde.net/docs

You would need to add a header with your AI Horde API key. Looks like that would only need to be done in router_fastapi.py - call_model_prompt() (line 269) and call_model_messages() (line 303) and then everything else is setup according to documentation

I do hate that if you speak at a language above ‘Reddit Common’ people assume that you’re a neural network instead of just someone who exercises theirs.

Also, even this is vastly overstating how difficult that it would be.

You don’t need to train an entire network to make doorbell camera videos/pictures. There are techniques (like IP Adapters) that can take a single photo during inference and copy the style onto any other generated work. With applications like ComfyUI, this is a matter of dropping a node onto the generation graph and choosing a photo (or several photos), 3-4 clicks.

It doesn’t matter, nobody would have a cause of action to challenge their interpretation if they decided that it meant any HOA or self-declared neighborhood watch.

In the end they are giving the data that they own to who they choose. The fact that it came from a device that you chose to bolt on the side of your house doesn’t mean anything in this transaction. The data instantly becomes theirs by virtue of the TOS (that you read, right?) that you agreed to when you signed up for the service and you have no say in what someone else does with their data.

These kinds of programs are just whitewashing, it makes it look like there are significant barriers in place to prevent your data from being used to enable a nationwide real-time surveillance network. There are not.

Flock could start charging a subscription fee for access to their video feeds tomorrow and it would be within their rights as owners of that data. The reason that they create these ‘programs’ is because it creates the impression that the user has control of ‘their’ data.

The owner chooses what to share in response to a request. Just like IRL when the police knock on an owner’s door to request information.

Yes, through this program you are technically correct that the user has to press a button to send the video to law enforcement through this specific program.

This implies that the user has the ability to refuse to send the video to law enforcement, but that is not true.

The videos are stored on Flock/Amazon’s servers and that means that the police can, via a subpoena or court order, access the footage or real-time video from any device or storage that the business can access. You have zero say in this and cannot opt out, the case law on requesting ‘business records’ is long settled as is the idea that digital files are considered ‘business records’.

In addition, this program does not preclude Flock/Amazon from voluntarily providing access to anybody or any group that asks/pays. The data is theirs, not yours.

This program is whitewashing the creation of a nation-wide real-time video surveillance network, paid for by you or via your tax dollars.

fuck electron

On top of the compile, electron apps love to have conflicting electron version dependencies so after all of the compiling it fails on the install step (and then rolls back and fails and rolls back and fails) until you cancel it and cut out the offending packages with -Rdd before trying again.

Seems like the package manager could detect this and offer alternatives that are not failure states, like ‘Hey, these two things will not update together do you want to leave them at the current version or only update one of them. Here are the package version combinations that will install: A, B, C. Pick one’. Resolving dependency problems is the whole entire job of package managers, after all…

Run Boo, RUN!

They would say, if they didn’t forget to set the USE flags to enable ASCII support

e: forgot one

DNS|RegEx

Another good MVNO, for privacy, is Phreeli. Louis Rossmann (on YT) created a MVNO which collects no data from you, you can even pay cash-by-mail anonymously and with crypto.

Pretty straight forward value proposition: You pay and they provide phone services, don’t sell your data and design their systems around not collecting your data in the first place or, if collected (like payment information) is used for the transactions and deleted.

The only information you provide is a zip code (optional, but ties the phone into your area’s 911 system if you’re into that kind of thing)

I am not an ad bot(OR AM I?)

Anything can be an issue if work hard enough.

This is, conveniently, a decision that discourages their customers from buying hardware from anywhere but themselves an anti-competitive practice which carries little risk of lawsuit, or fine.

It’s certainly not a technical problem. We all, mostly, use the same cellular network and other carriers have no trouble supporting devices purchased directly from the vendor.

There’s a VERY important distinction here.

The ‘unlock’ that they are talking about here is to unlock your phone’s SIM to be able to be used with another carrier’s service.

This does not mean that the bootloader is unlocked and you will not be able to replace the OS. You will still be stuck with Verizon’s spyware-laden release of Android even when you move to a new carrier.

So, buy your devices directly from the manufacturer and make sure that the phone supports the ability to unlock (and re-lock!) the bootloader. If you need a recommendation, get a current generation Pixel and install GrapheneOS or if you won’t give up Google Play and dependent apps, LineageOS.

They’re not killing sideloading, they’re just building the gallows and sharpening the axe.

The outrage doesn’t stop anything, it just makes them slow their plans and wait out the public outrage.

(the 3rd one is out soon-ish? if not now?)

End of Feb (the 26th?), these sales seem to be to promote the launch of Part 3.

I played the 2nd one with a friend for a few hours last night. I appreciate the humor, the music selection is above average, the movement feels good and every time we died it was due to us being dumb. No bugs (playing on Linux, with GE-Proton10-27), runs great on maximum settings.

We were having an easy time by going on a murder spree, then we noticed that the game gives you rank medals for speed, avoiding kills and avoiding detection so we started playing to maximize the end-score. Those constraints make the puzzles a bit harder and I can see wanting to run a level multiple times in order to get it right.

Overall, it’s a fun experience, does the stealth thing competently and the graphics/music/animations/dialog is good.

I had no idea this existed(I never even look at EGS), thanks. Now I can live out my WoW Goblin Rogue fantasies.

He means the LLM boom. Their conflating LLMs with all of AI is nonsense.

There are plenty of other machine learning projects, even ones using Transformer-based neural networks), that are doing just fine because they are not built on top of ridiculous business models like ‘buy every bit of computer hardware and hope someone makes something to run on it’.

The faster this thing crashes, the faster all consumer electronics becomes cheaper.

I actually feel the same, but I was trying to not be too much of a downer.

Yeah, it can wear on you.

I keep my subscribed feed clear of politics because the political content that spreads on social media is evolved/selected to be compulsive/clickbaity so I don’t even want it touching my eyes.

Dull Men’s Club is a great community because everything that makes for compulsive content isn’t ‘dull’ and I suspect it’s a lot more of a bipartisan community than most places given the types of expertise that some of the user’s display.

That is it exactly.

Even 24 hour news only has so many seconds of time to put things on the screen and you only have so many hours to try to understand what is happening in the world.

There news gets chopped up into TikTok or Tweet-sized memes which contributes to the distortion (consider a Tweet vs a Last Week Tonight show on any topic), each of those memes are evolved and signal boosted by social media and out the other end of the algorithm pops content that maximally compels your attention which is flavored with the bias from the recommendation algorithm (i.e. What ever bias Elon/Zuck/ByteDance wants to introduce: suppressing Gaza protest coverage, promoting alt-right viewpoints, etc)

Look at the screen time on your phone, what percentage of your day is spent being told what you’re going to read next by an algorithm?

The motivations of the algorithm are not to maximize your understanding or knowledge or tether to reality, they are to make you scroll one more page. People can see how effective large AI systems, like LLMs, can be when deployed at scale.

Recommendation algorithms are also machine learning, but with less pre-IPO hype and they are just as powerful and are deployed at a scale where almost every person on Earth has their world view affected by them.

They have to go or be severely regulated. They can be useful when they recommend you books or movies, but when they’re the gatekeeper of information for the majority of the population then they are informational weapons of mass destruction and should be regulated as such.

Version 2.0 uses memes