[–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I feel this so much.

Generally LLMs do generate some correct information, then also generate a bunch of useless and misleading text surrounding it.

Sometimes when starting out by prompting an LLM the resulting generated text makes it way faster to find what you are looking for. Other times it’s the opposite where a simple web search would have been faster. It feels like gambling for correct helpful information :(

But so many people trust LLM generated text without checking it. It’s exhausting trying to show them so mostly I don’t bother anymore…

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm not aware of any Website that goes into detail. There are however books that go into detail of how Windows works internally: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/windows-internals

    In general to poke around in Windows the sysinternals tools distributed by Microsoft are great. The developer of the Sysinternals tools also gave some talks going through how he uses the tools to debug problems that occurred. Those are freely available on the web.

    But in general it is was harder to find information about Windows, than linux. Most of the time when it comes to a problem with Windows a solution is posted, that dosen't explain how the solution was discovered. I found with Linux there is often more information given. And obviously with Linux you can just look at the code in the Kernel if you need to dig deep, with Windows that is not an option.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And to add to @u_tamtam@programming.dev's info about setting up XMPP here is a ansible playbook that you could use to deploy matrix: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

    I would look at what you want to use it for and see if you can do that better with XMPP or Matrix. The factor that is keeping me on Matrix is that I have all diffrent chats with people on different platforms in one client that is cross platform. Here is the list of available bridges in Matrix to get other chats into it: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/

    But keep in mind that is is against ToS for most apps, so there is a small risk of getting banned from other platforms. I can only tell you that I've been using it with WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord and Signal for half a year and am not banned anywhere. That is with running my own Matrix Server and bridges on a rented VPS.

    For information about what XMPP can do you'll have to do research on your own as I don't know anything about it besides that google kinda "killed it".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yep, if you are on either, you are fighting the good fight, so keep it up :)

    I will! It is a really nice setup for me.

    And if you self-host, you’ll find it dramatically easier to do on XMPP (that’s how I ended-up here, after giving up on Matrix’s shenanigans).

    Interesting, but I got past that hurdle... and I made it extra hard for myself as I didn't use the ansible playbook but instead created my own docker setup (own as in writing a docker-compose.yml myself, not as in creating the containers from scratch). But this way I understand the system and could fix problems that I had myself rather nicely.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    To add insult to injury, most modern protocols also forbid, by their ToS, the use of alternative clients (which very much includes bridges), and to the best of my knowledge WhatsApp, Signal and Discord will eventually suspend your account on this basis.

    Good thing that I'm in the EU and the big chat platforms will be forced to open up their API to third-party clients soon with the DMA.

    But from my point of view bridging with matrix works well and I have all my chats in one place. And for me that is the only reason I'm sticking with matrix as only one other person I know is using matrix directly. While it would be ideal to get everyone on one decentralized chat platform that is also rather unrealistic... so I'm doing my part using Matrix and getting friends on it when it makes sense but not actively trying to get people on there that don't have a good reason to use it. And using XMPP mostly sounds like it is just around longer but not that much better, so switching now dosen't seem to make sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (10 children)

    I'm selfhosting a Matrix server and have all my Chats from other apps also bridged to there. For just text chat I don't feel like Matrix is missing anything, the thing preventing me from getting my not so technically minded friends on it is the missing support for good group voice chat.

    It XMPP better for group VC? Is the option available to bridge Messenger like Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, iMessage to XMPP?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    While as a user it sucks that is exactly the reasons people do it. It takes the value away from reddit, if the content that users want to see it not there people will not go there.

    What I find the best compromise is users that take their comments they had on reddit and post them again as it's own post to lemmy with the context needed. While not perfect the information is at least not lost completely and a google search in the future might actually bring someone to a lemmy instance instead of to a corporation like reddit. But that is obviously a lot of work to do, especially if you have lot of helpful comments on reddit.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Interesting. I've in the past specifically encoded images for a webpage I created to .webp using https://squoosh.app/ as I determined it visually looked best for the file size while also being supported by pretty much all modern browsers.

    And since none of the other modern image formats you've listed are widely supported by many modern browsers I will probably do the same again when I have to create another website with some images. But I would hope that other formats gain more traction in browsers so that I can use them in the future.

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