I’ve never had an account with these. Do I need to create an account with them to freeze my credits? And what kinds of information should I give / not give when I do?

thanks for clarifying! that’s really helpful!

haha nice. I’ll try that next time

gotcha, thanks for clarifying :)

“NOPE” as in “not a dark pattern” or as in “I’m not touching this site”? if former, can you clarify on the reason?

can you clarify on the 7?

thanks for confirming my suspicion. as for your question, conda in general is good for installing non-python binaries when needed, and managing env. I don’t use anaconda but it provides a good enough interface for beginners and folks without much coding experience. It’s usually the easiest to use that than other variants for them, or the python route of setting up environments

If you’ve never worked before, this can be considered practice runs for the when you do.

Like one of the other commentors said, assume everything is accessible by Google and/or your university (and later, your boss, company, organization, …).

And not just you, but the people who interact with you through it. So that means you may be able to put up defenses, but if they don’t (and they most likely do not), the data that you interact with them would likely be accessible as well.

So here are some potential suggestions to minimize private-data access by Google/university while still being able to work with others (adjust things depending on your threat model of course):

• use Google Workspace services only for collaboration and for official business communication
• don’t link things that may be personal, such as Google Map, Youtube, Search history, Browser, …
• if more sensitive things need to be shared with other people, use more private/encrypted solutions that you like or the university suggests. You should use the latter if it’s still “business”-related, e.g. communicate about medical research data with PII
• if there are communications that need sensitive information (eg HR documents, tax documents), ask them (a) if you can bring the sensitive documents to them, (b) or if the university has an encrypted solution, or © if you can use your own encrypted solution (eg put files on protondrive and you give them the appropriate folder password in person)
• go through all Google privacy and security settings every 6 months or so, and turn off what you don’t need (there are usually a bunch of guides for that). Note: every 6 months because there may be new stuff that they add
• turn off all the AI integrated features (sometimes called smart features) in Google services like Mail, GDoc, …
• avoid using GDrive for storage of personal files - if you need to, try to encrypt them before uploading
• you may find there are other people like you; and if you work with them, try to ask whether they are comfortable with alternatives or if they have anything suggestions. However, this is usually rare in most fields, so keep your expectations low for this
• use the multi-account containers in Firefox to containerize all stuff related to university account in one container. Don’t use Google Chrome; if you must you Chromium, there are other “forks?” that you can try
• use UBlock Origin and block unnecessary Google services (you’ll have to play around with this a lot)
• avoid clicking on links in emails if possible, but instead copy them by selecting them (or the right click, copy). This is an unfounded suspicion, Google may track what links you click on

ah gotcha, you meant ISP-provided devices

never turn on ISP-supplied WiFi

maybe I’m missing something here, how do you get access to the internet for all devices (mobiles, laptops, …) without wifi then?

Backend of this is OpenAI / LLM; so my guess is if OP knows what they want, they can prompt such models or chatbots in such a manner to achieve the desired styles.

this may make it easier tho. as in, why set up another instance when you can just buy it from a well-known player?

Do we know whether federated content (say from Lemmy or Mastodon) with these sites may be under the deal as well?

Hold up, are you sure you can’t view Discussions or Wiki? Which sites can you not view them?

I’m fine viewing them for public repos that I usually visit.

Asking to make sure that Github is not slowly rolling out this lockdown.

what are the other alternatives to ENV that are more preferred in terms of security?

yeah I guess maybe the formatting and the verbosity seems a bit annoying? Wonder what the alternatives solution could be to better engage people from mastodon, which is what this bot is trying to address.

edit: just to be clear, I’m not affiliated with the bot or its creator. This is just my observation from multiple posts I see this bot comments on.

I’m curious, why is this bot currently being downvoted for almost every comment it makes?

maybe port over some of your previous videos to grow content on peertube as well if it’s possible. not sure if there’s any legal issue with this tho.

Thanks for the suggestions! I’m actually also looking into llamaindex for more conceptual comparison, though didn’t get to building an app yet.

Any general suggestions for locally hosted LLM with llamaindex by the way? I’m also running into some issues with hallucination. I’m using Ollama with llama2-13b and bge-large-en-v1.5 embedding model.

Anyway, aside from conceptual comparison, I’m also looking for more literal comparison, AFAIK, the choice of embedding model will affect how the similarity will be defined. Most of the current LLM embedding models are usually abstract and the similarity will be conceptual, like “I have 3 large dogs” and “There are three canine that I own” will probably be very similar. Do you know which choice of embedding model I should choose to have it more literal comparison?

That aside, like you indicated, there are some issues. One of it involves length. I hope to find something that can build up to find similar paragraphs iteratively from similar sentences. I can take a stab at coding it up but was just wondering if there are some similar frameworks out there already that I can model after.

while the following is not really my threat model, wouldn’t a person who’s being targeted, say a journalist/activist, have a higher chance of their device being compromised (possibly even physically)? If so, would Session still be a valid option for them?