2026-07-11T20:03:42Z https://njump.me Daniel https://njump.me/npub1lps8sl5ea27k7e8lnld480qgncc8dj40w0f7wu0p0le4k2a89rvqxs7vqj https://assets.chaos.social/accounts/avatars/000/050/721/original/288cef56121e7c4d.png https://assets.chaos.social/accounts/avatars/000/050/721/original/288cef56121e7c4d.png https://njump.me/nevent1qqst0h0r7zxz8wcz5gyrqnfnt2z0gvpdldal4hh2dguwhem0v6xw4zgzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dsjm2xzu #CriticalMass nightime ride #TempelhoferFeld #Berlin 🚴‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️💨<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/116/821/129/272/800/271/original/9913210d0e87a1d0.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-06-27T08:30:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrupg785mhdpsmj8ahyqlj92tftuh7awjs3tq0djuuaf2u9mnmurgzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dsr4jwxg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2r8gffzdmw0rktlgs0md2ghu7cz3rypnumxktdf00vvzvazsjwgcmsvm4n'>nevent1q…vm4n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What&#39;s missing here is that day to day programmers at work might be using the AI tools differently and that will be really hard to account for.<br/><br/>Cursor create me a Mermaid diagram explaining this 50k LOC module I now need to work on because product people said it&#39;s a priority. Cursor debug this grpc memory leak causing production to crash the developer who wrote this is on vacation. Cursor convert these OpenAPI specs to zod because the wider team does a refactoring. 2025-07-12T18:30:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszzy5wtsaza8xhkq23a4csqjef4lxl0p3m2zhkm3u7duzvd9qg0zgzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dsk777lx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs25m5hhz7cteul6tfndvaqe7fdr5qh5utfd3sf49ysqsqxc3vntkq5apdrj'>nevent1q…pdrj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I want to agree but especially the latest Linux on Framework experience left me a bit disappointed.<br/><br/>If you&#39;re interested in what I went through over the last three weeks check this out:<br/><br/><a href="https://chaos.social/@djh/114500298166818200">https://chaos.social/@djh/114500298166818200</a><br/><br/><a href="https://chaos.social/@djh/114529197612847452">https://chaos.social/@djh/114529197612847452</a><br/><br/><a href="https://chaos.social/@djh/114444028322716047">https://chaos.social/@djh/114444028322716047</a> 2025-06-02T21:57:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvsaezgtm5kwca4v6z7rz2zlwhw0tw9tl5lhnu9yysrsv4j3kvjaqzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds6uvkuu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszluq9swrdhe2c2jmqp47u22el0vms68jwwmtwyms4uj7m00drw3cyn3q2c'>nevent1q…3q2c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Interesting, is this in effect the same 8b model that was initially released and is e.g. available on ollama with<br/><br/>ollama run qwen3:8b<br/><br/>just that it&#39;s transformed to work on MLX? 2025-05-03T07:07:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswfwpezyud5qqu4lm0ncmendg8adh9du0jwjckgmn7efaqrnkm6qszyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds88v855 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyncfyl5deudfpqetw32e9zsurqtscszxr45lkt922qrwu0t6kwecn34str'>nevent1q…4str</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Are you following <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1gv26rplqyjqcfyhxryuqjwaxs0dwve3y6gpv6smn3hjm3wse3s8squtlwl" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Simon Willison</span> (<span class="italic">npub1gv2…tlwl</span>)</a></span> because every week he shows us how these LLMs or embedding or vision models can be useful. For years now he&#39;s doing this.<br/><br/>There&#39;s no question anymore that they can be useful and at the same time we need to ask ourselves what should they be used for. It&#39;s more of an ethical and social question than a technical one.<br/><br/>Also no doubt they&#39;re getting hyped up a lot but that doesn&#39;t mean they&#39;re completely useless either like a lot of folks want them to be. 2025-04-24T06:50:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstgdfhvdrz2qgz7tg9aft6x6pxst2tydvzsml3k8ehgya0ff7aw0szyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dseqevj2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs03wsn78382h6mshrqcaxrygyl549zlr6erax3a5v90rt9m3wxlwcdkscn7'>nevent1q…scn7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Do you trust it by default? How do you know e.g. the import URL is the correct one and not going to an unrelated server?<br/><br/>Thinking about all the ways this can be abused<br/><br/><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopsquatting">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopsquatting</a><br/><br/>I&#39;m wondering if you have any workflows here or thoughts on this. 2025-04-18T18:26:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0xpvcfh2jkjjsw6x0m5xk9xnge2nfggvhwhl2vy7s7zls0049rlgzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dslzpll9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz902pplnqmdzvzd9dk4vkpcy46kszg2mu7ywx4d0ekrjtt784r7sxv2r4w'>nevent1q…2r4w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are approaches like Segment Anything out there for a while now<br/><br/><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02643">https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02643</a><br/><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00714">https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00714</a><br/><br/>It&#39;s a solved problem nowadays in computer vision (wasn&#39;t the case some 5+ years ago).<br/><br/>I believe the novelty is the tight integration (as a tool?) into a commercial product and an LLM based flow? 2025-04-18T14:56:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9pxjw0yy909lhfvy5zs52vw2dhk5rrgjawtqsmj9nv403n66t4yqzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds0jcx6n Please don&#39;t call me #AI<br/><br/>#Fonts #FontsInUse #Inter #InterFont #Spotify<br/> <img src="https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/113/708/110/290/950/942/original/80b9379f457c4b96.png"> <br/> 2024-12-24T13:49:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq8g8zvdtl5pjtpdnzdz9gn0g88u0zseesnxqxe630yct6t3uthagzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dshqu0zd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd80nt49agerqlg4ukwps0nhavav3tvzuu68m5pygvvt8anaep7ecktsjp0'>nevent1q…sjp0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oof, I totally missed their other apps 😮 Their user base must be in the tens of millions.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know how to estimate how big their harvested dataset is but it&#39;s gonna be in the hundreds of millions for sure.<br/><br/>This is such a wild scheme 😵 2024-09-20T12:08:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxwph74uxg5wekhza4xc4l2m4uecw0dxg6k5vtucnw3jgtk84p0jgzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dszjlhac In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8sq02nrrcj3cve78mdqvw5tgcpxp4juq5fx8mfkup5wjz60vyfsqc82t36'>nevent1q…2t36</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Got a reply from LSM Apps re. my GDPR Request that they do store my data.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s how it all works:<br/><br/>1. LSM Apps provides a free app (Easy Contacts) for 10+ years, 2.5k reviews. From that and their own disclosure we can assume their user base is in the millions.<br/><br/>2. This app send all of the user&#39;s contacts to LSM Apps; at least full name, phone number.<br/><br/>3. LSM Apps shares this data with Lusha.<br/><br/>4. Lusha sells the data.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.lsmapps.com/privacy-policy">https://www.lsmapps.com/privacy-policy</a><br/><br/><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easy-contacts/id665856919">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easy-contacts/id665856919</a><br/> <img src="https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/113/168/843/233/537/044/original/02784c3cd8a39933.png"> <br/> <img src="https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/113/168/844/479/654/940/original/41bfd7aa245caa69.png"> <br/> 2024-09-20T08:12:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8sq02nrrcj3cve78mdqvw5tgcpxp4juq5fx8mfkup5wjz60vyfsqzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds9d0ttg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqr6unm7afqvu8jqk769fjjp4vax0c9d3r9r23hhtxjrsl97wyk5s5nsjku'>nevent1q…sjku</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s starting to get really annoying:<br/><br/>I&#39;m now getting spam/scam on Signal on my private phone number.<br/><br/>Having to make me undiscoverable for it to stop. This is getting bonkers.<br/> <img src="https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/113/113/423/082/374/974/original/de5ada5ac1867645.png"> <br/> <img src="https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/113/113/428/261/072/879/original/42bfa0a01fdb7ea9.png"> <br/> 2024-09-10T13:13:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0v2g99v5fa2y608guzzst972mqhv4l8cuydgsgcg53ydz532mhvgzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dse840ng In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstna8jsmukhs02mryt23mnw3zu2cl7nxlfqgllaflvfe83ck8sstg30a8q9'>nevent1q…a8q9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Lusha GDPR Request went through and now I know where they got my private phone number from: it&#39;s<br/><br/>L.S Mobile Apps Holdings Ltd<br/><a href="https://www.lsmapps.com">https://www.lsmapps.com</a><br/><br/>Which looks like unsuspecting apps but if you check their privacy policy and business registration, it&#39;s a data broker (again), explicitly sharing data with Lusha.<br/><br/>Down the rabbit hole we go, let&#39;s see where they got my private phone number from 😬 2024-09-10T08:25:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswp9p67wu2e3nl3e2n0t3wws3zrgexyp3dfs3tle4k8h25aqkne2szyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dsrkzxs3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq5dzdqatk4lyhrmqfy7327yecl0l5dqewrmrpgv7qssl3au98kmq248q6q'>nevent1q…8q6q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Some ten+ years ago there was a way to set up sieve rules in Thunderbird with an addin jf I recall correctly — and once set up that worked quite well. But it&#39;s a bit of the hacky kind.<br/><br/>There really should be a way ro have Thunderbird&#39;s junk scoring move mails automatically. 2024-09-08T18:01:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstna8jsmukhs02mryt23mnw3zu2cl7nxlfqgllaflvfe83ck8sstgzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dsrtjquz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdxg65tg7u26w2cft2gjrhfzrz2wpmzwsral4y5m9gqjwzelvxv0gkaakf7'>nevent1q…akf7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know yet, I hope I&#39;ll get to learn a bit more from the GDPR Request I have sent.<br/><br/>They def. have my private number and are re-selling it and I don&#39;t know how they got hold of it. It&#39;s not publicly available. 2024-09-08T12:42:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2wagjlm3tnhzly89n4gxygxvysmqmtjfda3f90yckzp5cqxdua0czyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dsr5s8rp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv2apn3ax4jq2c4m7du24hvjr3ugudkxwt2gf52dwflrdpeafpcyss92qsy'>nevent1q…2qsy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I just got a caller to go into their CRM and find out the source:<br/><br/>It&#39;s Lusha!<br/><br/>They&#39;re a data broker selling private data without user consent! I can find various complains about them online.<br/><br/>These fuckers are selling data on me — my private phone number included. I have zero idea where they got it from in the first place.<br/><br/>Gonna send them a GDPR Request that hopefully should stop downstream folks from getting my PII data into their systems.<br/><br/>Wild! 2024-09-06T13:21:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv2apn3ax4jq2c4m7du24hvjr3ugudkxwt2gf52dwflrdpeafpcyszyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dskhtgle In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd69war6y7zrlum3nlcj2r3asednr3yc90wdyckkhfh999k25fpvq0jl9a7'>nevent1q…l9a7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The last two calls from today were from the UK and from Poland. In borh cases companies providing short term contractors for work.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t think Verbraucherzentrale can do anything there? 2024-09-06T13:17:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqalzaz69g88cyxga9hw5cq0vrlpnpsnhkj7x99cc5ryyt2vs9jyczyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dsylkr7u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq22a5dl49ut9tfzze7nnu92x5dy5f9l4eqdmm73rvxf3vr6djfus9ceugn'>nevent1q…eugn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I thought about it, too, but so far the folks calling me could just tell me that I&#39;m in their CRM and they&#39;re using various data brokers 🦧<br/><br/>I think you&#39;re right and a written GDPR request by mail is the next escalation step here 💪 2024-09-06T11:41:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspkl62a658v4cs7g8c8judqwy9f0rtf7k3gv6zvkp9a6xvfgwn6yczyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dsa9p2d5 Looks like my private phone number ended up in some sort of data broker.<br/><br/>For weeks now I&#39;m getting unsolicited calls, and the folks calling me are like &#34;We don&#39;t know where we got your number from; it&#39;s in our CRM system&#34;.<br/><br/>Welp, guess that&#39;s about it for phone for me? 2024-09-06T11:28:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8pq89yucrxna4f25dw0zh82gdarqe32kgzqf8cmfdcngwxd54kfszyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds0wtuda In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswh6yljmr2sm0mqxt9p3mqukvcn6jjuhqrv4n45vevveech08yv6c337370'>nevent1q…7370</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Gotcha, agree with you there should have been better communication.<br/><br/>On the other hand they&#39;re probably going by numbers — what&#39;s the Linux market share; out of those folks how many are on a 6+ year old distribution. And that&#39;s not a high enough user base to put resources behind.<br/><br/>Let&#39;s wait and see how this develops before jumping to conclusions. 2024-08-22T20:20:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswkyqxczervs9hatw6kkaey6ta6kdrasa9uq0t29q6dwe333vfd6qzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds6eafrp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq0s4ej3k3l93gay9ga9x2s5kkv7jfcl69tmuyfwh68ely2l0fp3c08tlzn'>nevent1q…tlzn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why should Google care about Canonical&#39;s promises and support schedule? If at all it&#39;s on Canonical to keep their Chromium package updated. This sounds like a nothing-burger. 2024-08-22T19:56:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9ln724dtpvyzzjgu3yvn2wnu7rr3ferquq96lgtv4q0fdknsk4rgzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds7qaa6y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs90cezqdd3d7rck74kjlhsz74nkanmepefy4uyjs5p6q0ea5kywgslaest4'>nevent1q…est4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is auch a great little idea! 🤯<br/><br/>I believe there are already window modifiers such as &#34;always on top&#34; so why not having a &#34;locked aspect ratio&#34; one 🖼️ 2024-08-07T22:09:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgcv0dlh270qwurxzd2t7y8u938jg52h2vh9wxxtk0fs0zgw9pspgzyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds0u00fs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswjyuzxl4ral4dch8y4nt3x4sja6wplkur56scl8kmlwep2qqsmkqru6fk6'>nevent1q…6fk6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Interesting! Can this perhaps be used for fingerprinting? 👀 2024-07-09T17:57:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsymhy9pssexp58gxvu0df9jnf88yfgy48fq0kfvry9t6qg6p6kvcczyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds49dfxq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd6jqzgtrhe3w3llfxdys99e00hz7thzfjxykrctfvf2v80fe0nachhwsms'>nevent1q…wsms</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But wait! Why don&#39;t we first get the OpenStreetMap database through quality control and then re-render the map?<br/><br/>And here is where user expectations and reality are clashing.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org">https://www.openstreetmap.org</a><br/><br/>is not meant as a user-friendly map or app or anything regular users are supposed to use.<br/><br/>It&#39;s simply a demo of what the OpenStreetMap data could produce but not meant for end users.<br/><br/>Turns out that&#39;s not what most users expect.<br/><br/>4/n 2024-06-17T21:58:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd6jqzgtrhe3w3llfxdys99e00hz7thzfjxykrctfvf2v80fe0naczyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dszeun8j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs203w52wdaw4g6ru3u0l2v5v3n7v6e3kcnhsvldheh64nr5hmks4cd3yxhh'>nevent1q…yxhh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That means:<br/><br/>- data can be in the OpenStreetMap database but not yet rendered on the map<br/><br/>- data can be still on the map but already fixed in the OpenStreetMap database<br/><br/>and it&#39;s due to caching and re-rendering that the underlying OpenStreetMap database and the OpenStreetMap map can get of of sync.<br/><br/>For example: vandalism can be fixed in the database but still need some time for re-rendering to update the map.<br/><br/>3/n 2024-06-17T21:54:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs203w52wdaw4g6ru3u0l2v5v3n7v6e3kcnhsvldheh64nr5hmks4czyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5ds4w2gj9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdhr6ql9mjer44lu4m2wq0cyaelqtr0g6hdncwaumeet6wpw4f2rc4cx33m'>nevent1q…x33m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Whatever is in the OpenStreetMap database will get rendered into a map you&#39;ll see on<br/><br/><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org">https://www.openstreetmap.org</a><br/><br/>Rendering and re-rendering the whole planet Earth continuously is expensive and takes a while. The result is cached so that whenever you go to that website you see the map immediately.<br/><br/>2/n 2024-06-17T21:51:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdhr6ql9mjer44lu4m2wq0cyaelqtr0g6hdncwaumeet6wpw4f2rczyruxq7r7n84t6mmyl70ak5aupz0rqak24aea8em3u9llxket5u5dsz2kkw5 Alright #Mapstodon #OpenStreetMap There&#39;s still / again broad scale vandalism going on in our beloved map 😓<br/><br/>So let&#39;s clarify a couple of things! 🤓<br/><br/>There are practically zero checks for what goes into the OpenStreetMap database. You can create an account and delete a city. It&#39;ll be in the database immediately. The thinking is that the community will spot it and fix it (&#34;self-healing map&#34;) and there are tools to check for vandalism in the map.<br/><br/>1/n 2024-06-17T21:49:47Z