This should go without saying, but don't use company devices for your personal stuff, whether they're private, public, or federal. Somebody is always watching, and some manager with a chip on their shoulder will be more than happy to avail themselves of the bossware inevitably installed on there.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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This is why I get weirded out at people using company computers and company networks to facebook. Like... Dude. I don't care if you incogneto. IT has logs. Even if you aren't called out, you always can be.
Not in my company. Got mine empty, set it up myself from scratch. No supervision of any kind. Along with a great boss, it's one of the reasons why I wouldn't change company. 🎶
When I hear from some of my friends how each of their seconds and 🐭 moves are tracked... 🙄
I'm old enough to remember when Gamersgate/me too and companies were getting leaked everywhere, which really made them look bad. Like literally people were using their real Facebook name and going, "Scarlet Johansson is a feminist b**** c*** who should stay in her lane" and their job title right there.
The first thing my job did was give everyone a warning that no personal things on work time and made everyone sign a contract. Then a few months later, our sister company got a bunch of leaks in the news about a sexist environment/sexual abuse. Then a few months after that, a bunch of people were "let go" for breaking that contract.
There was a guy I met at a bar who took out his laptop to show me some cool personal app he was building using a no-code builder. I asked him about his laptop specs, and I shit you not, he said, "I don't know. It's whatever my job gives me."
RIP, IP
I’m running one of the R1 models locally on my M1 Max Mac and it can do data extraction way better than other free models that are small enough to run on the same hardware. It’s been a game changer in terms of accuracy and speed.
The smaller models aren't actually R1, but Qwen/Llama tuned on R1.
I don't get it. Why would DeepSeek supposedly get more downloads from the app store? It's not like it's any more interesting to consumers than other LLM apps. It was just notable for purportedly being cheaper to train. Something seems fishy.
Why would DeepSeek supposedly get more downloads from the app store?
Just for starters, its been in the news non-stop for weeks.
I see Tiktok in the news, never downloaded it. Does that make me special?
Have you used it? It's a vastly superior model for just about everything I've used it for...
Uh...yes it's about the same, maybe slightly dumber than o3. Which is already mediocre.
It was a free o1/o3 equivalent at a time when there were only paid options. But in the short interim, Google's made their r model free to use.
*Plus, deepseek doesn't hide its internal monologue the way o1/o3 do. It's fun to watch it go back and forth with itself.
Lol have you not used o1/o3? They show the inner monologue too. Fun little pretend detail to keep you entertained while the model takes 30 seconds to respond.
o1/o3 use a smaller model to summarize the reasoning, but they don't show the actual CoT generation the way deepseek does.
that's nice.
Go a step further and ban ALL 'AI' from devices.
I mean, anyone remember when DoD banned furbies?