I didn't say that. I described the difference and stated a fact about distilled models vs frontier coming out of China. When you are distilling from a source without permission you get degraded results.
I also didn't say that distillation is bad, I said they have narrower use cases. Nor did I say american companies are great.
But, please continue throwing your assumed biases out there.
There was never a question of if open models can match a frontier. Open just means you released the weights. The question is how they trained it. Most of the models coming out of China are distilled from larger commercial frontier models, and those are not the same thing. More situationally brittle.
Can be really good in narrow lanes, but not the same category at all. And that doesn't show up in benchmarks.
Agreed. And we can easily bridge existing net to alternative transmission mediums while the existing net allows. Providing an easier time for others to adopt. I run a reticulum node as well.
Can't. Its too powerful to release. But I built it by combining other opensource projects, osint playbooks, and removing any moral guardrails. Hence the dangerous part.
I didn't post to flex, just to point out that its not a future state. This is something that already exists. If I built it, at home. Using open source tools, what do you think palantir can do
Its already possible. I built a tool to investigate myself. I purge my info from the web. I better the tool, find more, purge more. You would not believe what I can find.
So Firefox has tab sandbox isolation built in, but its cumbersome to use. When I started using waterfox they suggested a Mozilla add-on that made the feature more available. Have to go look at it, container something.
That being said, you can explicitly set URLs to sandbox groups, which is pretty handy when you want to keep cookies buy you don't want them shared necessarily across sites.
Combined with noscript and ublock I have fine grain control of what I allow to run on sites and what cookies I'll take.
So for sites I regularly visit I have it all preconfigured.
Then I just use a sandbox for random browsing.
Ticks all the boxes for me, without needing separate browsers for "everyday" tasks.
Been using duckduckgos browser. No idea how that stands up to iron fox, but it was a lot better than chrome or vanilla Firefox, which is what I was using before lol
Check out internet in a box. The Wikipedia foundation supports it. IMO that is also over engineered for my needs, so built a lighter weight variant.
That's how they get wikipedia on this btw.
In my variant I have the complete English Wikipedia, a ton of official documentation on programming languages I use or might need to use, as well as calibre for eBook and pdf housing.
All running in docker containers, behind an nginx reverse proxy landing page.
I have to second this. Even if none of that was true, they find you through the "you shaped hole" in the lives of the ppl around you. That's the best you can hoped for IMO
I know this to be true at some level, because it can be measured, and there are laws around it. Government publications have to be written for a certain grade level. I know military manuals are 8th grade.
For what its worth I'm interested. XDA has a lot of info, but its either dated or assumes you know a whole lot, which makes the whole process arduous. Especially considering that the consequences of doing it wrong are significant.
The other problem is trusting custom ROM providers. If they are known/ have rep three is some trust. But I dont know anyone in that space
What paper specifically are you referring to? I couldnt get the paper from the url that was provided, but I am reading the paper from 2017 linked on their github and this project forked ublock, adding additional features, which is pretty interesting actually. Such as detection of visual ads out of the blocked objects, with a series of checks to see if they are "legitimate ads", then simulated clicks through ajax, with blocks on all response content, preserving security from any malware that may have been masquerading as a legit ad.
Funny enough I just changed my daily driver to Linux as well. Long time Linux power user, stuck with a Windows main. Finally made the transition, couldn't be happier.
I just started messing around with it myself. It is possible to mess up your phone, so yet disabling services with adb first, see if you run into problems. Wait like a week. Then remind them.
The cool thing is you can remove a ton of bloat via adb without root. It's pretty amazing
I didn't say that. I described the difference and stated a fact about distilled models vs frontier coming out of China. When you are distilling from a source without permission you get degraded results.
I also didn't say that distillation is bad, I said they have narrower use cases. Nor did I say american companies are great.
But, please continue throwing your assumed biases out there.
There was never a question of if open models can match a frontier. Open just means you released the weights. The question is how they trained it. Most of the models coming out of China are distilled from larger commercial frontier models, and those are not the same thing. More situationally brittle.
Can be really good in narrow lanes, but not the same category at all. And that doesn't show up in benchmarks.
Agreed. And we can easily bridge existing net to alternative transmission mediums while the existing net allows. Providing an easier time for others to adopt. I run a reticulum node as well.
Can't. Its too powerful to release. But I built it by combining other opensource projects, osint playbooks, and removing any moral guardrails. Hence the dangerous part.
I didn't post to flex, just to point out that its not a future state. This is something that already exists. If I built it, at home. Using open source tools, what do you think palantir can do
Its already possible. I built a tool to investigate myself. I purge my info from the web. I better the tool, find more, purge more. You would not believe what I can find.
Did anyone mention that huggingface will quanticize for you? Its like one button push.
Navidrome user here as well. I use feishen as my Linux and windows desktop client. Big fan of both.
As others have said, api is just the standard, so it gives you a lot of options
So Firefox has tab sandbox isolation built in, but its cumbersome to use. When I started using waterfox they suggested a Mozilla add-on that made the feature more available. Have to go look at it, container something.
That being said, you can explicitly set URLs to sandbox groups, which is pretty handy when you want to keep cookies buy you don't want them shared necessarily across sites.
Combined with noscript and ublock I have fine grain control of what I allow to run on sites and what cookies I'll take.
So for sites I regularly visit I have it all preconfigured.
Then I just use a sandbox for random browsing.
Ticks all the boxes for me, without needing separate browsers for "everyday" tasks.
Been using duckduckgos browser. No idea how that stands up to iron fox, but it was a lot better than chrome or vanilla Firefox, which is what I was using before lol
Not familiar with this, but jumping on the opensnitch bandwagon. I use it, plus ufw, plus pihole.
Kill the DNS lookups, kill it at the network level of possible, and if it's sneaky OpenSnitch catches it at the application layer.
Check out internet in a box. The Wikipedia foundation supports it. IMO that is also over engineered for my needs, so built a lighter weight variant.
That's how they get wikipedia on this btw.
In my variant I have the complete English Wikipedia, a ton of official documentation on programming languages I use or might need to use, as well as calibre for eBook and pdf housing.
All running in docker containers, behind an nginx reverse proxy landing page.
I have to second this. Even if none of that was true, they find you through the "you shaped hole" in the lives of the ppl around you. That's the best you can hoped for IMO
Checking out your project now and its very cool. Keep up the good work.
I know this to be true at some level, because it can be measured, and there are laws around it. Government publications have to be written for a certain grade level. I know military manuals are 8th grade.
For what its worth I'm interested. XDA has a lot of info, but its either dated or assumes you know a whole lot, which makes the whole process arduous. Especially considering that the consequences of doing it wrong are significant.
The other problem is trusting custom ROM providers. If they are known/ have rep three is some trust. But I dont know anyone in that space
This is pretty interesting, thanks!
What paper specifically are you referring to? I couldnt get the paper from the url that was provided, but I am reading the paper from 2017 linked on their github and this project forked ublock, adding additional features, which is pretty interesting actually. Such as detection of visual ads out of the blocked objects, with a series of checks to see if they are "legitimate ads", then simulated clicks through ajax, with blocks on all response content, preserving security from any malware that may have been masquerading as a legit ad.
Granted this is from 2017, but its a pretty interesting idea. https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Published-Papers
The code itself was updated three weeks ago, so its clearly still being maintained at some level.
Combine this with containerized user accounts, and seems like a pretty good idea to me.
Traccar was they best solution I've going so far. Have you found others?
Funny enough I just changed my daily driver to Linux as well. Long time Linux power user, stuck with a Windows main. Finally made the transition, couldn't be happier.
Congrats
I just started messing around with it myself. It is possible to mess up your phone, so yet disabling services with adb first, see if you run into problems. Wait like a week. Then remind them.
The cool thing is you can remove a ton of bloat via adb without root. It's pretty amazing