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barsquid ,

Also unless you know for certain they haven't touched you, get rabies shots. Actually just get rabies shots anyway.

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I think people should reevaluate doing that to billionaires. I just learned that it would take more energy to fire something into the Sun than it would to shoot it out of the Solar System. We could get more done aiming in the other direction.

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Regulatory capture is actually a core feature of capitalism.

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That's not catastrophic yet. That cost them only the money which would otherwise have been margin on top of a low priced ticket.

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We are already (mostly all of us) stuck with one company's systemd. We're already on some portion of what you're describing. As long as we use FOSS I think somebody will be able to fork any software that starts turning to shit with ads, LLM everywhere, spying on your activity, etc.

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Maybe it was just easier to install those browser bars as admin.

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Is hibernate no longer a thing? I thought that needed swap.

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The rpm-ostree versions are exciting and powerful.

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You might be thinking of OpenOffice? OnlyOffice is at least open core under AGPL.

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Brand new Linux user and you already hate Ubuntu, welcome, you are fitting in perfectly already. Half the things didn't work probably because of their dumb Snap garbage.

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Are there TPM modules that one can drop in to motherboards to add that? I have TPM module headers, I keep wondering if I can get one to use with LUKS.

I think switching to Linux is the right choice regardless though.

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Try Bazzite and see if that works for you. They are focused on gaming and hardware support.

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I am full of rage by proxy, sorry to hear that. I've been thinking of only buying coreboot motherboards from now on, but that's easier said than done.

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Xen looks great for VPS stuff, and seemed to have good support for vGPUs. That's what I'd choose as a provider. I wish I used it at home but I ended up going with good ol' Linux KVM for USB and PCI support.

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What now successful tech is this Magic Leap? I don't think I have heard of them.

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They got the name from a prototype pin.

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Depends on the market. Like New York City is competitive, I think they demand references because they have plenty of options for tenants. Other places maybe not so much. Whatever people can get away with they will do.

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One guy I bothered every day about his other tenant stomping across my ceiling. That landlord gave me a fantastic recommendation because he was tired of having to do any effort whatsoever instead of just receiving money for doing nothing.

I saw that tenant as I was moving out, "I don't understand the problem, I always wore my indoor boots?" Fuck apartments lol.

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Once I saw a guy arguing for pure capitalism because otherwise the state would have to force people to work with threats of incarceration or whatever.

It's like some sort of trolley problem delusion. It is fine shoving desperate people into whatever jobs they can get, but only if the Invisible Hand does it. It's fine if the threat is homelessness and starvation, but only if the Invisible Hand does it.

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They are. It is a huge problem that companies are allowed to do clickwrap bullshit with no human-comprehensible summary. But people are agreeing to this stuff.

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Not enough data being collected from credit card use to link your identity to video streams from retailers.

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https://purl.stanford.edu/kh752sm9123

I don't know if we can say for certain it needs to be in the dataset, but I do wonder how many of the other models used to create CSAM are also trained on CSAM.

barsquid ,

What's your offline open source AI?

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Thank you, I was curious if they had a system set up to watch their interactions. I should have specified better.

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Do you have a setup that collects your interactions to feed into those? The way you described it I imagined you are automatically collecting data for it to infer from and getting good results. Like a powered-up bash history or something.

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This is pretty cool! Am I reading correctly that it isn't so much about collecting a corpus of data for it to browse through as much as it is understanding how to do a specific query, maybe giving it a little context alongside that? It sounds like it might be worth refining a smaller model with some annotated information, but not really feasible to collect a huge corpus and have the model be able to pull from it?

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This is a really helpful perspective, thank you. I'm already getting some of the easy wins you wrote about, like using an AI prior to web search to get a more specific query and skip the SEO garbage. Another thing I found they're good at is reverse dictionary lookup, give it a definition and it can help figure out a good word.

The most complex prompts I have tried out were telling the AI what role it is supposed to be, and the format of the output. I don't think I have done one that specified what I or the audience is supposed to be. But that would factor in to what the model thinks it and I shouldn't know, right? You've given me a bunch of interesting new angles to try on these.

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You seem to think the ICE cars are not spying on you nor falling apart.

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He has no need for integrity or consistency. Just like every other fascism-aligned clown choosing or inventing whichever rules they like for each situation.

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AFAIK every ICE car model has some cutoff year after which they have added spy tech. You do have to buy used to not be spied upon. Mozilla did a page on Renault here: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/renault/

I see a bunch of people freaking out over EVs, panicking about spying or being disabled remotely. But the newer ICE cars are, AFAICT, the same thing. I just want everyone worried about this 1984 shit to not be burying their heads in the sand. I'm worried about it also. We should organize against it. (I guess the person I responded to didn't think ICE cars are any better, after all. But it did seem so at first.)

Yeah, buy used for now, but I'd like to stop the practice entirely. Otherwise they can just wait it out as more and more old cars are totaled or unmaintainable.

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The authoritarian "lefties" are more interested in authoritarianism than being leftist. They're praising economic systems like China's, which produces plenty of billionaires, or North Korea's, which cannot even keep its lights on.

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I'm having a hard time understanding the perspective of someone who believes that lefties would benefit by having the world's largest army and nuclear arsenal under a government backsliding all the way into theocratic authoritarianism. Like step one is a little putsch, step two is murdering all your political opponents, then it is time to invade neighbors to steal resources. Yes, the US is already invading countries to steal resources, no, I don't think having an authoritarian cancelling voting will help reduce that any. What am I missing? Just fuck it, ramp up climate change and war, get it over with, and pray socialism crawls out of the rubble?

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I don't want a general-purpose computer in my car. I want a screen to do the federally-mandated backup camera and physical buttons for everything else.

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I'm done for good, myself. Moved to Lemmy and there are far fewer dimwitted Nazis here.

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The AI companies will do that shit on Lemmy also. At least there isn't a far-right Nazi getting money on our user generated content tho, unlike reddit.

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Is there a problem other than Nazis and other far right idiots spamming their hot takes? That's certainly a culture problem but hopefully most instances just ban Nazis instead of letting the cancer grow.

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” (arstechnica.com)

The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

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Donald as always overestimating what he is worth. I'd just buy members of Congress for far cheaper. Or do nothing: Russia has already purchased them and will force Donald to deregulate shit regardless.

Congress members are like low tens of thousands to purchase. SCOTUS rulings are the price of an RV.

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The country needs far stronger privacy laws.

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This is a complete digression but do you know if there is a consumer hardware that can be reliably erased? I'm trying to make something behave as an affordable HSM. If I could store a key encrypted at rest and be able to actually delete it, that would work for me.

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No wonder people are jumping through hoops to delete Edge. Condolences, that's a lot of bullshit on a machine you own.

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Classic Save As LOL. Condolences to everyone who has to deal with this shit.

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Can I opt out of the LLM bullshit "articles" in the results? Let me also opt out of the SEO bullshit "articles" and I'll start using Google again.

Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)

Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” "business," and "travel". This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove IP...

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The conversion metric is not whether or not a screen is easier to understand and malicious extensions are off. The conversion metric is whether or not you subscribe to one of their services.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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Corporations had already proven they cannot be trusted with any long-term leasing or subscription long before they started passing that phrase around.

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Streaming was great when it was just Netflix and had a ton of content. Now it is just cable TV on demand.

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft's announcement: "We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 and...

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They love rootkits as well.

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IIRC macOS will sometimes beg you to subscribe for more iCloud disk space. Far better than Windows, but still an ad.

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People like AI because searches are full of SEO spam listicles. Eventually they will make LLMs as ad-riddled as everything else.

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