Mechanize

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[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

I'm not sure what you are really interested in, if you are searching frontier model's capabilities with a good privacy policy... The answer is no.

If you are interested in privacy and can take an hit to performance, there's lumo by proton, which I've never tried personally, but it should use open models, and there should be the list somewhere there.

Otherwise you can go European with Mistral's Le Chat, which is not as good as the multibillion dollars companies offerings but it is quite good. I tend to use this one. Check the settings to disable data training.

Last but not least you can use a wrapper around the frontier models like the one offered by duckduckgo. There are many.

If you don't mind paying there are no logs services that give you access to KimiK2 level models. Or you could spin up something on runpod or vast ai style gpu rentals.

So. It depends.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 4 points 1 week ago

We really need tags on Lemmy, so I can easily find and re-read all of these captain's jokes comics, once in a while~

Great job, as usual!

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago

The big problem is that we have long stepped over that line.

Now even when you pay you are still shown ads (maybe, but not surely, not-targeted) and your data is still scrapped and analyzed to hell and back.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You can leak memory in perfectly safe Rust, because it is not a bug per se, an example is by using Box::leak

Preventing memory leaks was never in the intentions of Rust. What it tries to safeguard you from are Memory Safety bugs like the infamous and common double free.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You could consider a physical donation to the Internet Archive too, which is potentially more useful than a normal library because, as they say and I quote, they "try to digitize materials and make them available publicly as funding allows".

More info here: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donation-to-the-internet-archive/

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 5 points 2 months ago

I think you mean: certified mail at least 30 days before renewal to cancel, we will answer between 60 to 90 days only if the termination was successful.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't have them: I generated a new one modifying the prompt

Is this what you meant? If you want it in other styles I can try them out, but it will take some time

EDIT: If it was because I said it was straightforward to gen them in whatever style, it is because of the dataset Chroma used for training: I would be incredibly surprised if centaurs aren't in there

Sorry about the confusion

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Using Chroma (v50 annealed GGUF Q4) it was pretty straightforward to get a centaur in whichever style, so I tried to make something weirder, making the head a completely different style from the rest of the image.

It was kind of a PITA to get something somewhat coherent and not messed up, but I think with enough prompt massaging it could output something really nice, but I don't have the hardware to experiment too much: it just takes too long to gen.
Still, it was fun.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

This, plus the recent 'pay or consent' fiasco, makes pretty clear they are going straight for a deliberate collision route with the EU.

I assume they got some kind of political backing for it, it's a quite sudden all in. Sigh.

EDIT: Wrong link

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 23 points 5 months ago

50501 (short for "50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement") is an American progressivist grassroots political organization founded to protest the policies and actions of the second Donald Trump administration in the United States.

From wikipedia

The parade I assume is in reference to the ~~birthday~~ military parade for the 250th Army Anniversary of June 14, 2025. More here: wikipedia

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

O'Brien hitting us with those hard truths

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is a nice looking one, I really enjoy the colors, any info about the model, prompt, lora?

 

Last night Organic Maps was removed from the Play Store without any warnings or additional details due to "not meeting the requirements for the Family Program". Compared to Google Maps and other maps apps rated for 3+ age, there are no ads or in-app purchases in Organic Maps. We have asked for an appeal.

As a temporary workaround for the Google Play issue, you can install the new upcoming Google Play update from this link: https://cdn.organicmaps.app/apk/OrganicMaps-24081605-GooglePlay.apk

The Announcement on various Networks: Fosstodon Post
Twitter Post
Telegram Post

If you don't know what Organic Maps is, it is an alternative to OsmAnd and google maps, more info on the official site (link) and GitHub.

Maybe an error? Honestly this is a weird one. I hope we will learn more in the coming hours.

You can still get it on the other channels, like F-Droid or Obtainium. Still, we all know that not being on the Play Store is an heavy sentence for any Android app.

EDITs

  • Added F-Droid link.
  • Fixed Typo in the obtainium link.
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