Every time we fit out an office building we cover it 100% in cameras, both internally and externally.
Fact is, stuff happens. For example: we once had a crazed person run inside and start yelling profanities at people for no reason. Then, he denied it and reported us to the police for assaulting him. He got his girlfriend to act as a fake witness.
Having the cameras was a no brainer for legally protecting my staff, we could just pull the footage and show that no one touched him.
Similar protections for when male and female staff are working together alone. They are both protected from false accusations, one from harming the other, and the other from potentially false reports/blackmail that they attempted to do something.
We’ve caught interns stealing petty cash from people’s wallets (before cameras - caught in the act)
Is it sad? Yes. But it’s the world we live in and cameras are cheap. No such smaller incidents since the cameras went up. People behave better when they’re being watched, or at least they think we’re being watched. Nobody has actually watched the footage for months and it rolls over in about a week.
No, not for a VPS. They are configured at the web server. If you mean CDN, you might be able to use a _headers file or similar to add. Cloudflare can definitely do it.
Referrer-Policy shows it can work. When the header is missing, browsers fall back to strict-origin-when-cross-origin. 86.6% of the sites we scanned don't send it, and we didn't count that as a failure for that reason. The other headers don't have a safe default like that yet.
I understand the need to make money, but hardly any open source software is free anymore even if you host it yourself. And this one doesn’t list the price which feels kinda cagey (get a license links to book a sales call).
It’s nice that it’s open source, thank you. I just wish that Mattermost et al didn’t open Pandora’s box with this one.
Most Australians dislike social media. We are underrepresented on it, and it shovels the US’s issues down our throat. The current algorithms mainly send us US political propaganda and things that are supposed to make us hate nearby Asian powers like China.
> Social media is not capable of shoveling anything down anyones throat.
This statement is manifestly untrue. The malign power of social media is precisely the reason that legislation has been introduced in Australia and elsewhere, and that Meta et al are battling and losing "addiction" lawsuits worldwide.
I hope these get small and good enough to create “pet like” AIs for games. You know, like scream “follow me” at an NPC, STT stack translates it and feeds it to a local Jev-like model that then picks a number of things for the NPC to do.
I tried to use jev for this. I'll share what I learned for the interested.
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The setup was a simple map with different rooms. Each room had 1-3 doors.
For the inputs: The AI had an array of "known places" empty at the start, the current position, the current doors with no information about where they lead to, and the list of past actions
The goal / task for the AI was to explore all rooms and save them to known places. The AI needed to decide if to move or save the place at every turn.
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So I wasn't able to make the AI explore all of the rooms. The AI kinda always wanted to move to the first option when moving. Out of 6 rooms it was able to save 3. My hypothesis is that jev as it is now is really bad at making connections and understanding it's input. So for example, even if it had a list of previous actions, it wasn't able to reason about it and know where to go. For this to work I'd need to explicitly tell it where it did not go. So you could say that the model is also not good with uncertainty / ambiguous scenarios.
edit: one last thing is that i replaced jev with an standard llm and it finished the goal no problem with the same information given
edit 2: it also felt like the same tradeoffs between small model vs large model. With small models you need to be very conscious and careful with the input while large models are more forgiving. Maybe jev is a small model, and we just need a larger one.
Yeah the model has to be small, so need to do as much pre processing for it as possible I guess. It essentially doesn’t have any reasoning, so the reasoning would need to be input context (list of things that need to be done, resource shortfall or items needed or whatever) and assuming that you might run this once per second per NPC, it would need to be teeny tiny, maybe 0.3B or smaller.
Stay the hell away from spooky stuff like psychics and tarot readers - the more you don’t believe in it, the better.
But better again that you do believe, and know that these are not harmless fun, but that there are dark and hidden and evil things in this world to stay away from.
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