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They really want you to forget Epstein


What if Epstein was an alien all along?


There is no need of potential dangers to not want to have non-deterministic features in an application.


And I don't see an advantage to have an Apple ID setup if you want a Mac Mini Server. All things you might need are downloable through brew.


Isn't Codeberg only for Open Source ?


Github or other commercial alternatives aren’t for closed source either anymore.

Putting closed source code on github is basically asking them to launder it through LLMs


But selfhosted Gitea, which OP chose, IS good for closed source. And codeberg is not.


Alternative of that is self hosted forgejo


This is kind of backwards .

GitHub's privacy statement [1] says > GitHub personnel does not access private repository information without your consent except as provided...

Do you have any evidence that private repos on GitHub are being used for training?

In the opposite case, if you have a public repo on GitHub then you should expect it to be laundered through LLMs :\

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/gith...


I really like Scaleway too ! I went with them because Linode got bought and I thought, since I was moving my things anyway, let's go to a French provider. And I got a bad experience with OVH, so Scaleway it was.

But really, I wonder why it's not used more ? Price are maybe a bit high for some things ?


Price would be a bit more bearable if their reserved instance discounts were more generous


I asked myself the same thing, trustpilot is pretty rough on them and a lot of people tell you online to stay away from them. I also had very good support experience so far. Their shared TEM IP had some deliverability issues at times, but they seem to have cracked down on this recently. I am on dedicated IP now, so I can't really judge if there have been improvements.


They used to have competitive prices for a while, with their dedibox line.

I think they are not as well known. It’s a bit of a side project of the parent company, Iliad. They could benefit from heavy investments and some more aggressive marketing, but perhaps it’s not worth the risk and a slow but steady growth is what they prefer.


+1 for bad experience with OVH, their control panel is a mess (only the Italian provider Aruba is probably worse) and their backend is riddled with bugs. If something is broken in the control panel, the support team candidly invites you to do it via their APIs instead.


Another bad experience with OVH here. In fact not bad but catastrophic. They enabled 2FA without my consent and then demanded a signed letter on paper by post to let me back into my account. Their online customer service was beyond useless and the nightmare took weeks to resolve. This after I had been a loyal customer for years. Just when I was preparing to punish them by moving, my VPS went up in smoke at that fire in their Strasbourg datacenter. "Oops, our bad", went the email. Beyond parody. It's almost a surprise to me that this company is still in business.

With Hetzner now for several years without incident.


At that point, if you are not sure a data point is accurate, should you really display it ? You have no proof appart from "The LLM said it was ok" which is kind of poor.


I disagree with the idea that data must be accompanied by a guarantee of accuracy to be used or published. That standard would rule out almost all datasets for which the underlying data is not programmatically generated.

My guess is that this dataset is probably more accurate on the whole than many datasets used by the kinds of calorie-tracking apps that outsource their collection of nutrition information to users. But an analysis would be required.

Regardless, the only workable approach is to describe the provenance of your data and explain what steps have been taken to ensure accuracy. Then anyone who wants to use the data can account for that information.


What's the main difference between this and OpenFoodFacts really ?


Well, OpenFoodFacts are actual facts. This seems to rely on LLMs to do the job.


Oh, it's worse then.


The problem with OpenFoodFacts is that it just has nutrition label info for packaged goods.

So, very little nutrient info beyond calories and protein. No info about micronutrients. No info about minerals, vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids.

It's useless for nutrition tracking since if you're eating packaged food, then you already have that information yourself.

It doesn't answer basic questions like "I ate 100g of extra firm tofu, how did it move me towards my daily mineral/vitamin targets?"


> So, very little nutrient info beyond calories and protein. No info about micronutrients. No info about minerals, vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids.

Many items do have these things.

https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5060495116377/huel-b...


That is one exception, and it's only because Huel reports that info since it's a fortified meal replacement product. The same way a multivitamin would have that info on its label.

But consider that OpenFoodFacts can't give you that info on just about anything else, especially not basic foods like "apples" or "tofu" or "chicken breast".

I'm not dumping on the project. It's really useful to have a database of packaged food labels. It's just not trying to solve this problem.


You can add micro nutrients to those foods, they just don't always have them. Or so I thought.


Hi, Pierre, Open Food Facts NGO co-founder. We have an issue to propose approximation of micro-nutrients from reputable database. Feel free to join the project and contribute your time/coding skills to help us solve this: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues...


Your other comment is too deep in the thread for me to reply, but just wanted to say I appreciate you checking out the project and commenting, and appreciate the many years of effort you've undertaken in this space. How OpenNutrition can work with OpenFoodFacts is something I have thought a lot about (I think MacroFactor set a great example) and it's certainly something I'll consider moving forward.


That's not the behaviour I'm seeing, might be a bug on your phone's end.


It certainly is the behavior you're seeing, in part because Safari is the only web browser on iphones.

Firefox on iphone is just webkit. It is not actually Firefox.

Chrome on iphone is just webkit. It is not actually Chrome.


Firefox on iPhone is Firefox on iPhone, but it uses WebKit instead of Gecko.

Chrome on iPhone is Chrome on iPhone, but it uses WebKit instead of Blink.

The reason this is important for you to keep in mind is because Firefox is whatever Mozilla says Firefox is, and Chrome is whatever Google says Chrome is. There's no reason to suppose the iPhone version of some product should share any code with the Android version of the same product.


Or on yours?


Wait, I don't get it, it's "every console game" or juste those 5 ? Where is my Street of Rage ? :(


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