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harishpillay, 1 month ago to random

This is sooo cool - live view from the International Space Station on one corner and it's position over the earth in realtime. https://iss.matteason.co.uk/

harishpillay, 1 month ago to random

I was presented with some materials that are DRMed (digital restrictions) that has a extension, ".acsm". Found this site: https://www.acsmconverter.com/ that removes the DRM and generates the PDF. This effort needs wider awareness and publicity. Thanks, creators of acsmconverter.com!

harishpillay, 1 month ago to random

Amazing numbers at @fossasia 2024: 206 speakers, 215 sessions, onsite participants day 1: 2076, day 2: 1833 and day 3: 1146. All is a wonderful celebration of free and open source and the communities that sustain it. See you all next year.

harishpillay, 1 month ago to random

@fossasia Danese Cooper looks forward to mentoring more people in open source!

rbowen, 1 month ago to random

Attending @harishpillay Harish Pillay's history of AI talk at @fossasia FossAsia Summit and this is the best talk at the event so far.

harishpillay, 2 months ago to ai

Seeking all those interested in open source software tools to test whether AI solutions are fair, unbiased, transparent etc. Please consider joining the Matrix Space setup by the AI Verify Foundation (aiverifyfoundation.sg) - https://matrix.to/#/#ai-verify-foundation:matrix.org

Yes, I'm involved in AVF and look forward to global participation in this important aspect of the emerging ecosystem.

#foss #aiverify #Matrix

harishpillay, 3 months ago to random

shout out to porkbun.com for their excellent service!

harishpillay, 3 months ago to foss

When someone or an organization says that their "generative AI solution" is production ready, it does not automatically imply that it is able to generate output that is correct.

Unless that "generative AI solution" publishes test results of the "generative AI solution", and those test results are public and verifiable and is correct, that "generative AI solution" is NOT production ready.

Convince me otherwise.

#foss #aiverify

harishpillay, 3 months ago to random

Love it! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68323487

kushal, 3 months ago to ai

WTF is #AI in #Firefox https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/ ?

harishpillay, 3 months ago to random

As I have predicted earlier this year, the trough of disappointment of (faux)OpenAI is upon us. The future of AI is definitely NOT generative AI: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-the-age-of-giant-ai-models-is-already-over

harishpillay, 3 months ago to random

On my way to FOSDEM 2024! The last time was in 2020 and we know what happened then. Looking forward to meeting old FOSS friends and making new ones. This time I'll be representing an open source entity, AI Verify Foundation - the first of its kind from Singapore. Looking forward to the various hallway tracks. Do come say hi, won't you?

harishpillay, 4 months ago to random

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-free-file-is-now-available-for-the-2024-filing-season it only took the US Internal Revenue Service 25 years to have a direct filing of taxes. We've been doing this in Singapore since 1997 or so.

harishpillay, 4 months ago to random

Says it all.

harishpillay, 5 months ago to random

Pro tip: cool command line: "nmcli dev wifi show-password". It will show the wifi SSID, password and a QR code to scan to connect.

harishpillay, 5 months ago to random

Back in the late 1980s when I was working at a software company in Bellevue/Redmond, Washington, I repeated came across questions from developers as to why their code would not work on DR-DOS but is OK on MS-DOS. I found out the reason, but I did not get to document it and did not follow up with it after leaving that software company because I could not agree with their business ethics. And here is the clue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code. DOS wasn't the only area. Windows as well.

skinnylatte, 5 months ago to random

I have been invited to the ‘Vietnamese uncle just came back with a lot of fish and crabs that he caught’ gathering of Vietnamese aunties. The stuff is at the back of someone’s car and we are all gawking and asking about prices. I feel like I’ve made it in my neighborhood

harishpillay, 5 months ago to random

@mailfence why does your QR code to enable 2FA fail when I use FreeOTP?

It implements standard TOTP and HOTP (https://freeotp.github.io/).

I have FreeOTP working successfully for years with all the sites that need it and yours is the first one that has failed.

harishpillay, 7 months ago to singapore

https://harishpillay.com/2023/10/26/erp2-0-and-the-sunken-cost-fallacy/

The LTA is going forward to an update to the Electronic Road Pricing system and it is too little, too late and with ancient tech.

It is a pity that the powers that be can't pull the plug on this. They are suffering from the sunken cost fallacy after awarding a contract in 2016 (7 years ago!!!) to the tune of US$560million or so.

#erp20 #fail #sunkencostfallacy #singapore

anildash, 7 months ago to random

I’ll write a fuller response later, but when billionaire tycoons who profit from genocide say that they want to become “supermen” while explicitly endorsing colonialism, that’s not optimism. That’s fascism with a smile. I actually make stuff, and help other people make stuff, and genuine optimism (technological or not) looks like community, nurturing, organizing and empowering — not indulging billionaires who profit from genocide.