Makes sense to create hardware dedicated to AI models. Especially since it will make them run faster and it will cut down on the power requirements for datacenters.

It’s too bad they’re slightly straying from the current acronyms. I’ll have to remember to call them TSUs instead of TPUs.

Thanks, I missed that detail. It’s probably because of the “no class action” clause that this is a “mass arbitration”.

Unfortunately that usually means that Google is paying a specific company to decide on the outcome of the case. in this case it looks like American Arbitration Association has a contract with Google.

They’re supposed to be fair for both sides, but it’s been shown that they almost always rule in favor of the company that has pre-selected them.

If anyone is in this situation, they will likely have a much better chance by convincing a judge to allow a different 3rd party to arbitrate the case.

Can you clarify what you mean?

This movement is all about giving consumers more power and reforming section 1201 of the DMCA.

Louis Rossmann is big on consumer rights and the freedom to repair movement.

Did you mean to reply to someone else?

Following up on this. I sent an email out to the team and got a response already.

To summarize, they would rather the solution work through updates for security fixes, but they were willing to compromise if automatic updates were disabled with the option for users to manually update somehow:

Yeah, one of the main points of this project is to help them reform Sec 1201 of the DMCA.

As far as for how to do it, I’m not sure if you would have to come up with something that would work even through an official Samsung update. From what I can tell, it would be enough to have it work with Home Assistant instead while blocking future updates. It’s definitely worth a question to the bounty team to get clarification on that point though.

There is a class action “mass arbitration” against Google for this: https://www.classaction.org/nest-thermostat-support-arbitration

Additionally, the Fulu Foundation has a bounty reward out for anyone who is able to get these working with something like Home Assistant.

The pot is currently at $12,856.00 https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/nest-learning-thermostat-gen-1-2

In the U.S., since doing so would circumvent measures put in place on these devices, publishing how to do this would go against sec. 1201 of the DMCA. This has a risk of a maximum sentence of 3-5 years in a Federal Prison. You can still privately show the Fulu Foundation how it is done, and they will be able to use this information to help their case in their attempt to reform this law.

If you live in the U.S., you can also help by letting your representatives know about this. Here’s an ActionNetwork page that Fulu set up so that you can easily do so: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/right-to-repair-reform-section-1201-of-the-dmca

Yeah, concerning the DRM part, the main goal of this bounty system is to help change legislation so that people are allowed to legally modify the things that they own.

Specifically reforming section 1201 of the DMCA. Right now, if you break the digital locks on the fridge to remove the ads and then publicize that information, you can get 3-5 years in federal prison. (With this bounty system you keep the information private between you and Futo).

So when they hear lobbyists say things like, “We believe this legislation is in search of problems that do not exist…” Louis can respond with “Well actually, millions of people use these products and if this person releases a solution to it, he goes to prison”

Louis talks about that in more detail here: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/after-17-years-of-repair,-i’m-doing:d

• These fridges didn’t have ads when people first bought them.
• If you’re renting, usually the landlord picks the appliances.

Louis Rossmann’s Fulu Foundation put out a bounty for anyone who is able to come up with a way to modify the fridge to remove the ads.

The pot is currently at $11,558.00
https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/samsung-familyhub-refrigerators

He did a video on it here: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/we’ll-pay-you-10,000-to-de-shitify-this:7

Close, but not always. It will give out the answer based on the data it’s been trained on. There is also a bit of randomization with a “seed”.

So, in general it will give out the most average answer, but that seed can occasionally direct it down the path of a less common answer.

Google sells it as an updated extension framework to improve security, privacy, and performance of extensions… But it also nerfs adblockers ability to block all ads.

There are some forks from chrome that haven’t implemented the new manifest thing. So if you really need to, look for those.

Unless their company has enterprise m365 accounts and copilot is part of the plan.

Or if they’re running a local model.

Looks like they’re finally cleaning up a bunch of junk.

In July 2024, Google announced it would raise the minimum quality requirements for apps, which may have impacted the number of available Play Store app listings.

Instead of only banning broken apps that crashed, wouldn’t install, or run properly, the company said it would begin banning apps that demonstrated “limited functionality and content.” That included static apps without app-specific features, such as text-only apps or PDF file apps. It also included apps that provided little content, like those that only offered a single wallpaper. Additionally, Google banned apps that were designed to do nothing or have no function, which may have been tests or other abandoned developer efforts.

Looks like the research was only looking at Denmark:

economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard looked at the labor market impact of AI chatbots on 11 occupations, covering 25,000 workers and 7,000 workplaces in Denmark in 2023 and 2024.

Nice! The main character was fairly consistent across the scenes. Still some improvements to be made, but keep up the great work!

I think you’re in the wrong community…

Its probably better this way.

Otherwise you end up with people accusing movies of using AI when they didn’t.

And then there’s the question of how you decide where to draw the line for what’s considered AI as well as how much of it was used to help with the end result.

Did you use AI for storyboarding, but no diffusion tools were used in the end product?

Did one of the writers use ChatGPT for brainstorming some ideas but nothing was copy/pasted from directly?

Did they use a speech to text model to help create the subtitles in different languages, but then double checked all the work with translators?

Etc.

You can use something like Anything LLM for RAG:

https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

It works with local models.

https://docs.anythingllm.com/agent/usage#what-is-rag-search-and-how-to-use-it

Oh man, the times I could have used this. Thanks!

This decision was made without the assistance of automation.

Suuuure. Exactly the kind of thing a crab would say!