mapumbaa
- 45 Posts
- 258 Comments
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•[OC] What People Think Privacy/Security IsEnglish
5·4 months agoWell, usually not. Unfortunately.
Try ripgrep instead of grep. Unless you go for index etc.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does everyone hate Income tax ?English
1·5 months agoWhining about having to pay income taxes by themselves. Could also be that many are self employed.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does everyone hate Income tax ?English
3·5 months agoI don’t think it’s enforced by law. Only federal tax. Maybe different in different states? Anyway, Americans are always whining about it, so I figured it was national/federal.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does everyone hate Income tax ?English
1·5 months agoIn theory, it’s not the most economically efficient. We want people to work, and taxing labor decreases the incentive to work. However, there isn’t any viable alternative given the current circumstances. Labor creates all value in society and you can’t easily hide labor off shore (though I guess that’s what happened with globalization and China).
One should understand that income tax should be a tax on the consumption of labor (just as a tariff is a tax paid by the importer/consumer). Right-wing politicians have made the employee pay the income tax (to decrease acceptance of the system), but it should always be the employer that pays the tax.
If we start to call income tax “labor VAT” or something similar, that will probably solve a lot of misunderstandings.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does everyone hate Income tax ?English
5·5 months agoMaking the employer pay the tax before the money reach the employee solves quite a lot. I understand that’s not the practice in the US.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•The Best-Selling Apps Made By Israeli SpiesEnglish
51·5 months agoWhat do you guys think about AnySoftKeyboard? Could it be a “sleeping agent”?
Country of origin is Israel according to: https://alternativeto.net/software/anysoftkeyboard/about/
(I know this doesn’t mean anything, but still…)
The main developer seems to live in New York: https://evendanan.net/
He’s probably a good guy. Just got a little suspicious (or curious) when I saw the Israeli flag on AlternativeTo.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Any good alternative to Google Translator in Android?English
3·5 months agoNot same results as DeepL but… You can use any popular online LLM for excellent translation. There are also “small” language models that you can run on your phone (if you havet a reasonable modern/powerful phone that is): https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?English
101·5 months agoBecause the political and economical situation is extreme.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Better alternative to GitHub with good git speeds?English
4·5 months agoAny shitty old laptop can self host any git service as long you only have a single or handful of users.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
Europe@feddit.org•Trump recommends 50% tariff on European Union starting June 1English
1·6 months agodeleted by creator
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite?English
3·6 months agoIt’s the language of GNU. And a scheme. That’s also why you would choose Haunt. It’s probably not for you.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite?English
2·6 months agoIf you’re into GNU/Guile Scheme, there is also Haunt: https://dthompson.us/projects/haunt.html
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?English
1·6 months agoMy only advice is that you stick to one model and give it some time. You need to “learn” your model. I will probably never go back. I had huge issues with getting good results from Google and my subjective experience is that this is far better. However, I do still use conventional search engines as a complement. It’s not all or nothing.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?English
2·6 months agoThis is the one I use: https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/agents/
Just tell the modell to do web searches in the system prompt.
All providers should have something similar. With a user friendly UI.
If you code your own agent and utilize an API or run a model locally, you can of course do even more. There are many tools if you want to do RAG on your own local data.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?English
42·6 months agoBecause it’s useful. Have you tried? But the LLM has to be able to use conventional search engines as well. I tell my LLM agent to prioritize certain kinds of websites and present a compressed answer with references. Usually works way better than a standard Google search (which only produce AI generated junk results anyway).
You can get very good answers or search results by utilizing RAG.
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
Europe@feddit.org•Funding for ‘high-cost’ university courses to be cut in EnglandEnglish
71·6 months agoSuper expensive Apple, Adobe and Canon equipment? Because they don’t know better and symbols of social status are important?
mapumbaa@lemmy.zipto
Europe@feddit.org•Tesla Sales Plummet 80.7% in Sweden Amid Elon Musk BacklashEnglish
1·7 months agoMy guess is that most of the world, including Swedes, has become more positive towards “Made in China” since January 19.













Maybe I’m naive, but that number does not seem reasonable. It basically says that 5% of German GDP is lost because of cyber crime. Are the writers infosec consultants maybe?