Posts by frankster

Everything you need to know to start fine-tuning LLMs in the privacy of your home

Maybe very big topics, but it felt that at the end of the article it glossed over epoch size and how to determine if you've over fit your model by too much training on too little days.

Meta spruiks benefits of open sourcing Llama models – to its own bottom line

"leaning so heavily into open source" by not releasing the source data that created their model

Advance Auto Parts: 2.3M people's data accessed when crims broke into our Snowflake account

Even more secure?

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

Re: confidence

I feel my code is more correct if I write it in c++, rust or typescript, compared to if I write it in python or JavaScript.

So I would certainly self-rate my code's likely correctness higher in some languages

Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs

As if McKinsey can teach IBM about softeare

IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem

One trust consent popups are a clear offender. One click to accept all, but a hidden UI and multiple clicks to refuse consent.

Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?

Re: Who says Windows 11 is a failure?

Microsoft told people there would be no further Windows versions after 10!

Microsoft told customers there would not be another version of Windows after 10, thereby inducing some customers to buy Windows 10 on that basis.

I'm surprised there have been no lawsuits.

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

Failing to ban esim farms makes the ban pointless. I'm writing this comment from an esim!

If they're going to ban SIM farms then do it properly or not at all.

I didn't see any mention of testing or monitoring as use cases that may be exempt..

EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources

The true cost to enterprises of the bundling of Teams is 1kb text files in chat taking a minute to load, functionality breaking every fortnight as they silently deploy poorly tested updates, a terrible experience when migrating Tenants (complete loss of past text conversations) and overall a less reliable experience than their competitors

Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

Already making the topics more granular

5 years down the line will there be 10,000 topics? It's telling that before they've even launched it, they've upped the specificity of the information that they propose to reveal.

Microsoft finally gets around to supporting rar, gz and tar files in Windows

The built-in zip support is very slow too, compared to other software that handles zips

In the zone

DevZone? How about not trying to distract me with news articles in the start menu?

How does Atlassian hope to actually improve Confluence and Jira? AI, of course!

Maybe they can use an AI to speed up the response times of Jira and Confluence.

BT's spam blocker IDs accident claims as top nuisance call

BT charge you to show you who is calling you, so I adopted a simple solution which was to switch the ringer off. Now no-one bothers me and BT doesn't get any money from people calling me.

Zero-day hole can pwn millions of LastPass users, all that's needed is a malicious site

Their entire raison d'etre is to keep your passwords more securely than you could keep them yourself. I seem to remember lastpass getting hacked a year or two ago. They sound like right cowboys.

Mozilla outs un-Google site sign-in prototype

email?

so we still have to give an email address to every crappy site we sign up with? wasn't that one of the things that openid potentially fixed?

VeriSign to raise .com, .net prices

no competition

Because there is only one source for .com domain names, its entirely to be expected that the price will continue to rise and rise

Play.com: Only customer emails lost in data breach

got spammed, but no warning email

I got the spam on sunday; but I have received no email from play.com warning me about this any time between december last year and today.

I am extremely concerned that my email address is being passed to third parties when I have explicitly stated in my account settings that I do not want to receive their newsletter.

This sounds like a contravention of data protection laws to me.