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cyberpunk007 ,

Ya this is crazy. Between this and the computer hardware shenanigans, I don't think I'll be buying Asus ever again. I've lost all respect for the company.

cyberpunk007 ,

I know it's unrealistic for most, but this is why I bought a protectli and installed opnsense. Not only do I get a lot of useful features but I don't have to deal with this anti consumer bullshit.

cyberpunk007 ,

That's why I said it's unrealistic :). And yes that's our unfortunate state. You either stroke the shaft of big tech and get things cheap that are easy to use or you pay to play and learn to secure your privacy.

Protectli is a small fanless computer. Opnsense is an open source firewall operating system that you install on a computer.

https://ca.protectli.com/

https://opnsense.org/

cyberpunk007 ,

I wouldn't say you need to be a network engineer, it's not like a juniper or Cisco type deal. It's got an intuitive GUI, but yeah you do need to know or be willing to learn a bit. This is why I'm my original post I said it's unrealistic for most.

cyberpunk007 ,

Maybe home grade routers.

cyberpunk007 ,

It's good practice for patching purposes. You should always be maintaining stable OS versions and a memory leak or the like is fairly uncommon. I think I've seen it once in my career on a particular check point OS version.

cyberpunk007 ,

Cell phones were not really "a thing" when I had icq. No way I'll remember my number. But I definitely used it for a time...

cyberpunk007 ,

Probably not much, sadly.

cyberpunk007 ,

Windows has been more about telling you what you want instead of being intuitive for a few iterations now.

cyberpunk007 ,

Put it on its own vlan behind a firewall and permit only what is required.

cyberpunk007 ,

Yes. Just like you can turn off a bunch of the windows 10 crap with registry keys and tools. Why. Why does a user need to go to such lengths to make their OS they paid for not soy on them and deliver them ads?

"Oh it's not that bad!" You'll say. Ya. Windows 10 wasn't THAT bad for it. Then came 11. Then 12 will come. Inch by inch it will turn to shit more and more, and that is the point.

cyberpunk007 ,

The funny thing is I use Mac Linux and Windows daily. Windows 11 on my surface. This is my business computer. Mac for the employer I work for. Linux for my personal desktop. 11 crashes all the time. Start menu and task bar glitches. Random UI elements not loading properly. I frequently need to restart explorer.exe. I get thunderbolt dock issues and glitches. This does not occur on the MacBook. Or my old windows 10 work laptop.

I actually like 10 now. 11 is hot trash. I'll take 12 over it so far from what we know of it.

cyberpunk007 ,

You need to consider the bigger picture. Not this specific thing.

cyberpunk007 ,

Me neither, I have mainly Microsoft software on there. It's Microsoft's own tablet lol. It probably would help if I reinstalled but I can't be bothered. It "works".

cyberpunk007 ,

Ok sure. But I think we can all agree when we click the start menu we don't want "recommended" apps. I don't want to click start and click apps to see the list.

I also can't be the only one that hates clicking start or pressing the windows key and typing in "word" or something then have it taken a bazillion years to search the web, and have hit or miss results or whether it suggests the app or some shitty web results.

It's also counter intuitive to remove features that already exist. Like right clicking the start button for useful shortcuts. Or right clicking the task bar for other things like the task manager (which they ended up bringing back, surprisingly). They also removed moving the task bar. These are things that already existed. They removed them. They didn't need to rebuild them. They were deliberate.

cyberpunk007 ,

"AI", more like A-eyeroll 🙄

cyberpunk007 ,

Ok that seems like a good idea. But since when did we need "AI" to translate text? I think this is my big problem. It feels like a lot of "Here's an AI to wake you up at the right time before work!" When shit like that has existed for years with a bunch of "if" and "else" statements. It's not hard to create a series of conditions to do a lot of the things I'm seeing AI uselessly shoved down our throats.

I'm really annoyed by how much Brave Search is pushing AI

I've been using Brave Search supplemented by Startpage for the past 2+ years. When I search for something, I want to get results for credible webpages, not a summary of unknown quality. I liked the previous AI inclusion because it was instant, didn't take up much space, and I could quickly navigate to the websites referenced in...

cyberpunk007 ,

I'm really annoyed how everyone is pushing AI. It's so far not as big a deal as they make it out to be.

cyberpunk007 ,

$1500? Unlikely. Probably 2,000 or 2,500 💀

cyberpunk007 ,

If years of using a case has taught me, once you get some sand or something in it, it will practically scratch itself.

cyberpunk007 ,

Does photoprism count?

https://www.photoprism.app/

cyberpunk007 ,

"new" concerns lol. There are so many of these articles with self driving cars crashing.

cyberpunk007 ,

Let's pretend it's 50/50 humans drive ng cars and self driving cars. The numbers would be a lot higher. It's not really a fair comparison.

cyberpunk007 ,

Ah, finally. Now we will stop talking about, hearing about, and shoving "AI" in everything and the next new thing will be "quantum internet enabled" things.

cyberpunk007 ,

If only snapshots and backups were a thing...

cyberpunk007 ,

It's a piece of cake. Some code along the lines of:

If ($user.modifyCommentRecentlyCount > 50){

Print "user is nuking comments"
$comment = $previousComment
}

Or some shit. It can be done quite easily, trust me.

cyberpunk007 ,

This is it exactly. Edits to use are "changed". To the back end it's just an iteration while the rest still exist.

cyberpunk007 ,

The words of every junior dev right before I have to spend a weekend undoing their crap.

There are so many ways this can be done that I think you are not thinking of. Say a user goes to "shreddit" (or some other similar app) their comments. They likely have thousands. On every comment edit, it's quite easy to check the last time the users edited one of their comments. All they need is some check like checking if the last 10 consecutive comments were edited in hours or milliseconds/seconds. After that, reddit could easily just tell the user it's editing their comments but it's not. Like a shadowban kind of method. Another way would be at the data structure level. We don't know what their databases and hardware are like, but I can speculate. What if each user edited comment is not an update query on a database, but an add/insert. Then all you need to do is update the live comments where the date is before the malicious date where the username=$username. Not to mention when you start talking Nimble storage and stuff like that, the storage is extremely quick to respond. Hell I would wager it didn't even hit storage yet, probably still on some all flash cache or in memory. Another way could be at the filesystem level. Ever heard of zfs? What if each user had their own dataset or something, it's extremely easy and quick to roll back a snapshot, or to clone the previous snapshot. There are so many ways.

At the end of the day a user is triggering this action, so we don't necessarily need to parse "billions" of records. Just the records for a single user.

cyberpunk007 ,

How do you do that? Do you narrow it down to a timeframe?

When a user edits a comment, they submit a response. When they submit a response, they trigger an action. An action can do validation steps and call methods, just like I said above, for example. When the edit action is triggered, check the timestamp against the previously edited comment's timestamp. If the previous - or previous 5 are less than a given timeframe, flag it. "Shadowban" the user. Make it look like they've updated their comments to them, but in reality they're the same.

We've had detection methods for this sort of thing for a long time. Thing about how spam filtering works. If you're using some tool to scramble your data, they likely have patterns. To think reddit doesn't have some means to protect itself against this is naive. It's their whole business. All these user submitted comments are worth money.

Now you need to parse billions upon billions upon billions of records. And yes, it’s billions because you need the system to search through all the records to know which record fits the parameters. And you need to do that across multiple backups for each deleted profile/comment.

This makes me thing you don't understand my meaning. I think you're talking about one day reddit decides to search for an restore obfuscated and deleted comments. Yes, that would be a large undertaking. This is not what I'm suggesting at all. Stop it while it's happening, not later. Patterns and trends can easily identify when a user is doing something like shreddit or the like, then the code can act on it.

It’s a lot of work. And what’s the payoff? A few good comments and a ton of “yes this ^” comments.

this

cyberpunk007 ,

But ads do not, so don't worry!

cyberpunk007 ,

Yo dog, we stuffed AI in your AI so you can use AI while you use "AI"

cyberpunk007 ,

In juniper networking hardware. And many others. If you have the capability to create what's missing (drivers etc) it will work well. If you do not, well, there's shit tons of drivers for Linux.

What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)?

I am currently using an old laptop (circa 2015) with a 250GB SSD in it, and 4GB of RAM. It runs Fedora 39 Server, and only hosts a Jellyfin instance through Docker right now (though I want to use Nextcloud later too). There is only 15GB of storage left on it, and the CPU is constantly overloaded (due to forced transcoding). I...

cyberpunk007 ,

Truenas core/scale, custom built (easy) but the disks will be the main costs.. I think ik 2015 mine cost me 450$. Disks were 1200 :/

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...

cyberpunk007 ,

Burnout paradise city. Which also was one of my fav games of all time. No ads would be cool.

cyberpunk007 ,

When I start editing in Davinci Resolve....well, that's why I went from 32 to 64 a few years ago.

cyberpunk007 ,

My exact choices. I want to love the open source phone options but... Corporations have embraced android and iPhone. I worry about road blocks with things like duo and apps that don't permit install on rooted things etc.

cyberpunk007 ,

What? What type of integration? I just wanna watch Plex and Netflix on there.

cyberpunk007 ,

Or just don't run any of that "smart" data collecting e-waste.

cyberpunk007 ,

you're right my comment was definitely placed in a community that would not receive it well lol. Did not realize it was this community. Did not realize it was self hosted 😓

cyberpunk007 ,

I'll admit I did not realize I was posting in the homassistant community and that that was what this was for 😓

cyberpunk007 ,

I mean, they could just do what reddit does and restore from backup automatically lol

cyberpunk007 ,

It is for me.

cyberpunk007 ,

Same mine just ended last week I think. Meh. Lately I've been noticing the quality issues and tricks of the junk sold on there where I am always cautious when I buy random stuff. Prime video was just a bonus, and I hardly used it anyways. This was the final nail in the coffin. I also do not want to endorse this sort of behavior so others do it.

cyberpunk007 ,

What if the Usenet provider is compromised?

cyberpunk007 ,

Citation on the first paragraph 😂. Both are definitely weak points. Personally I just yolo torrents on my own IP. The only thing that happens here is an angry letter in the mail anyway. Only time I ever got one was when I redeployed Medusa and I oopsed and had public trackers enabled from the default config.

cyberpunk007 ,

The video is linked in the article

cyberpunk007 ,

Triple equals? I'm no expert programmer but I've never seen that before.

cyberpunk007 ,

The devil you know vs the devil you don't, I guess. Comfort etc.

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