but the hardware is not capable. it's running a miniscule custom 260k LLM and the "claim to fame" is that it wasn't slow. great? we already know tiny models are fast, they're just not as accurate and perform worse than larger models, all they did was make an even smaller than normal model. this is akin to getting Doom to run on anything with a CPU, while cool and impressive, it doesn't do much for anyone other than being an exercise in doing something because you can.
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you can follow hashtags. I follow #opensource and a few other interests and I've found some interesting stuff you don't generally see in other places. but yes, the format is completely different and I find lemmy allows for better discussion than Mastodon.
Checkout Notesnook. I've tried most of the ones you've listed and have been really enjoying how well it works compared to the competition considering its end-to-end encrypted.
A few features:
- Clients and server are open source.
- End-to-end encrypted note syncing.
- You can publish public notes.
- You can publish privates notes that require a password to view.
- You can self-host the sync server.
- You can self-host the publishing server.
- Full offline mode.
- At rest encryption.
- Multi-platform clients with feature parity (Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, MacOS, Web).
- Most if not all of the general features you'd expect from a notes taking application.
One thing I really like about the project is how open they are about what they're doing, why they're doing it and what the future holds. It's been great seeing their roadmap (https://notesnook.com/roadmap/) and seeing promised features land with new ones being added, and I've only been using it for less than a year now!
Appreciate the added context. Definitely a lot of history and quite a few red flags.
EDIT:
Oof. Just saw the Louis Rossmann video and yeah, Daniel Micay ruined the projects reputation for me.
Yep, I’ve seen this ~exact post a several times, same general structure and points, none of it acknowledging that the attacks on other people in the community started long before the alleged swat.
Just re-iterating what I've seen online - would love some sources or evidence to what you posted as those are 100% valid criticisms if true.
I don't really follow the drama but have seen others comment on it before. It's the reason I try to reply to posts with sources as I hate rumors being spread and the only way to combat misinformation is to provide evidence. What you claimed is pretty damning, if you're able to provide a soruce I would love to read and educate myself in adding more context to the situation. Thanks!
For anyone who may have missed it, cloud backups are coming https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html
They're already testing the backup functionality with the "desktop history sync" feature - https://community.signalusers.org/t/help-us-test-desktop-history-syncing/65452 so I think its very likely we'll see Android/iOS cloud backups live by mid-next year at the latest (just a guess, not taking any bets).
the main graphene guy has unaddressed mental health issues and refuses to seek treatment (he appears to believe the problem is everyone else)
Daniel Micay stepped down last year [1]. Also, he was allegedly being swatted which would put anyone on edge, considering someone has already been killed over it [2] and police aren't exactly known for treating people humanely.
I genuinely don’t feel comfortable with that one man show controlling my phone
Looks like there's 16 people involved in the project [3] - excluding any external contributors, that's definitely more than one. Granted, its probably the previous lead and the new one who have the most commits, I haven't looked, but its still not just a single developer. That said, your concern is valid. Smaller projects are more likely to die as soon as their main contributors lose interest or stop working on it for any reason - see the end of DivestOS as a prime example [4].
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/14/us/swatting-sentence-casey-viner/index.html
did they comment (maybe I missed it) on why they're ending development?
the rich always get a fast pass
they think because he inherited a recovering economy, that he himself had some major part in it.
~~as usual, devs are lost in implementing ludicrously complex scenarios for threat models that touch but a percentile of users, instead of implementing functionality that’s normal everywhere else.~~
as usual, users are lost in complaining about a privacy-centered application prioritizing on privacy-centered solutions, instead of using the hundreds of other already insecure applications that are normal everywhere else.
people really will complain about anything. It's like progress means nothing, unless a fully working solution is available day 1, it's completely worthless. bff
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except i'm not wrong. the model they ran is 4 orders of magnitude smaller than even the smallest "mini" models that are generally available, see TinyLlama1.1B [1] or Phi-3 3.8B mini [2] to compare against. Most "mini" models range from 1 to about 10 Billion parameters, which makes running them incredibly inefficient on older devices.
but I can imagine it. in fact, I could have told you it would have needed a significantly smaller model in order to run at an adequate pace on older hardware. it's not at all a mystery, its a known factor. i think it's absolutely cool that they did it, but lets not pretend its more than what it is - a modern version of running Doom on non-standard hardware.
[1] https://huggingface.co/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-step-50K-105b
[2] https://ollama.com/library/phi3:3.8b-mini-128k-instruct-q5_0
[3] https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/