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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-11 at 15:29

🚨 Leaving Reddit & Salvaging My Posts! 🚨

I’ve decided to leave Reddit, but before I go, I’m rescuing some of my best posts and comments! 📝

I’ll be reposting them here on my blog & sharing updates as I continue digging through my #Reddit history. 🔎

If you’ve read r/firefox over the years, stay tuned for some tech talks! 👨‍💻💻

👉 Check out the first update here: https://www.quippd.com/social/posts/2024/12/09/leaving-reddit-and-salvaging-my-posts.html

🔄 I’ll keep adding more as I go! #socialmedia #technology #firefox

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-11 at 15:31

In my first salvaged post, I wrote about #movie recommendation sites!

I discovered MovieLens years ago when developing my collaboratively edited social news site way back when (a story for another time) - it is an #opendata recommendation platform that is also a research project by the University of #Minnesota.

It also predates the current #AI revolution, if that matters to you.

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2017/03/02/movielens-personalized-movie-recommendations.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-11 at 15:33

Moving on, I wrote about my thoughts of #mozilla #firefox's prospects after the demise of XUL-based extensions post version 57.

I revisited this topic over time, but in 2017 we were deep in the middle of discussion around whether this would be the death of Firefox for a significant portion of the "power user" base.

Did you lose extensions? Did Firefox die for you then?

Do you agree with me that Firefox post-57 is still a good browser? Read on:

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2017/08/09/post-57-what-is-firefox-unique-selling-proposition.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-11 at 19:01

At some point my interest in #opendata intersected with meatspace and I started contributing to #openstreetmap

I posted about how to get started editing on it back in 2018 - since then, I updated the post a bit to talk about my current mapping activity and how you might want to map on #android

Hat tip as well to @aredridel for their thoughts on digital redlining that felt important to mention in my updated post.

[#]maps #activism

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/05/25/how-to-get-started-contributing-to-openstreetmap.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-12 at 22:51

I'm one of those people that still has a non-streaming music library stored locally, so I had set up #Airsonic to manage my #music library and manage conversion from #flac and other music formats for playback on mobile.

To scratch my own itch, I configured Airsonic to convert my FLAC music transparently to #opus on download, and shared my config.

Hope it scratches your itch too!

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/08/12/does-airsonic-support-opus.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-13 at 15:55

Starting off Friday with a post about containers in the #firefox #browser.

Containers allow you to segregate your cookies on a per-tab basis, allowing you to separate your cookie jars arbitrarily.

In 2019, someone had a question about the #facebook container that #mozilla released, and how it differed from the standard container #extension.

If you use Facebook (why?), I think it is worth using: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2019/02/04/is-there-any-difference-between-facebook-container-and-firefox-multi-account-containers.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-13 at 17:20

I saw @hipsterelectron mention that #duckduckgo is pushing Bing #AI excerpts of pages.

I'm still looking for a #search engine when looking for information on the web, not an oracle, so I tend to try to actively ignore AI results.

Still, it reminded me that other options exist, like @StartpageSearch. After I talked about them on Twitter, their account actually followed me!

Read the post: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/11/14/what-search-engine-do-you-use.html

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Written by Lianna (on Mastodon) on 2024-12-16 at 20:27

@yoasif @hipsterelectron @StartpageSearch I mean, if LLMs are actually good at something, it's modelling large amounts of language data. Summarisation is one of the few valid use case for LLMs.

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-16 at 20:41

@lianna @hipsterelectron @StartpageSearch Really?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno

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Descendants

Written by Lianna (on Mastodon) on 2024-12-16 at 20:46

@yoasif @hipsterelectron @StartpageSearch Yes. I work in the field.

I said "large amounts of language data". A few one-sentence (if at all) notifications are not enough data to reliably summarise, especially when context or cultural knowledge like irony or metaphors are required to understand large parts of the content.

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-16 at 20:47

@lianna @hipsterelectron @StartpageSearch Is this enough data?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

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Written by Lianna (on Mastodon) on 2024-12-16 at 21:05

@yoasif @hipsterelectron @StartpageSearch Do you even know anything about how the technology works or are you just googling "AI fail bbc"?

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-16 at 21:09

@lianna @hipsterelectron @StartpageSearch I don't claim to be an expert in any way, I just know that the products don't work, no matter how the technology is designed to work.

Why should I believe a summary with lies in it? Why should I waste my time consuming content that the vendor disclaims?

Getting fake knowledge isn't a goal for me even if technologists and business want me to rely on it.

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Written by d@nny mc² on 2024-12-17 at 02:59

@lianna @yoasif @StartpageSearch "i work in the field" so you're doing propaganda for your employer got it

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