
Our tent in Gaza is no longer livable. ... read full post


The paper exposes how brittle current alignment techniques really are when you shift the input distribution slightly. The core idea is that reformatting a harmful request as a poem using metaphors and rhythm can bypass safety filters optimized for standard prose. It is a single-turn attack, so the authors did not need long conversation histories or complex setups to trick the models. ... read full post


This is how our tent looks in Gaza. ... read full post
That score is seriously impressive because it actually beats the average human performance of 60.2% and completely changes the narrative that you need massive proprietary models to do abstract reasoning. They used a fine-tuned version of Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B and brought the inference cost down to an absurdly cheap level compared to OpenAI's o3 model. ... read full post

On the latest Fedora KDE. I'm trying to run an app image and it just does nothing. I tried doing it with Gear Lever which popped it into my app launcher. If I tell Gear Lever to launch it, it looks busy for about 5 seconds then nothing happens. I click it on my app launcher, bouncy icon by my mouse for like 10 seconds, nothing happens. ... read full post
My friend has an ailing Chromebook and I'm getting them a decent real laptop that I'm going to put Linux on. They essentially do everything in a browser already so software compatibility isn't an issue. I'm looking for distros with high stability, KDE, unobtrusive updates that happen without user input, and a snapshot system so we can roll back if anything gets fucked up. ... read full post
Facing five lawsuits alleging wrongful deaths, OpenAI lobbed its first defense Tuesday, denying in a court filing that ChatGPT caused a teen’s suicide and instead arguing the teen violated terms that prohibit discussing suicide or self-harm with the chatbot. ... read full post
Mexico is experiencing a surge in solar-panel manufacturing and exports, driven by rising regional demand and new joint ventures with Chinese companies. As the country positions itself as North America’s emerging clean-energy hub, producers say Mexico is gaining global relevance in the solar supply chain. CGTN’s Alasdair Baverstock reports from Mexico City.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6861809 ... read full post
Props to Steve for actually committing to Linux unlike LTT.
We thought about looking into a Sky calendar, but naturally for what they were offering we thought there had to be a self hosted solution.
Grocy seems to fit the bill and then some. The next challenge would be getting a touch display and mini computer to act as a kiosk to display it in the house somewhere.
Anyone else using grocy?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39485524