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gaylord_fartmaster ,

RDP does not fill the same role as Teamviewer at all. The M$ alternatives would be Quick Assist or the older MSRA.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

1.it's a euphemism for "And You Are Lynching Negroes" - that's literally what people used to say instead of whataboutism

lol who do you think was saying this, and how is "whataboutism" in any way of a euphemism for it? Did you even bother to read the article you linked?

gaylord_fartmaster ,

America didn't drop anything because they weren't saying it in the first place, the Soviets were. America also aren't the ones that coined a new phrase for it, British royalists were, who probably had no knowledge of the Russian phrase. All of this was explained in the article you linked.

To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. (mullvad.net)

The most common argument used in defense of mass surveillance is ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’. Try saying that to women in the US states where abortion has suddenly become illegal. Say it to investigative journalists in authoritarian countries. Saying ‘I have nothing to hide’ means you stop...

gaylord_fartmaster ,

You're right, nobody can ever know even remotely everything.

Luckily, the same device you used to post that comment can also be used to check if what you are about to say is actually true, so you can prevent yourself from spreading misinformation like this in the future.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

I also take money from possible fascists because I need it to survive. It's called having a job.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Am I missing something in this article? I'm not defending either company, but it doesn't seem like they actually have any evidence to confirm either is doing this.

The world's top two AI startups are ignoring requests by media publishers to stop scraping their web content for free model training data, Business Insider has learned.

It claims this, but then they say this about the source of this info:

TollBit, a startup aiming to broker paid licensing deals between publishers and AI companies, found several AI companies are acting in this way and informed certain large publishers in a Friday letter, which was reported earlier by Reuters. The letter did not include the names of any of the AI companies accused of skirting the rule.

So their source doesn't actually say which companies are doing this, but then they jump straight into this:

AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are simply choosing to "bypass" robots.txt in order to retrieve or scrape all of the content from a given website or page.

So they're just concluding that based on nothing and reporting it as fact?

gaylord_fartmaster ,

You can also pass the GPU to multiple LXCs that will share it vs it being tied to a single VM. I use VMs as little as possible in Proxmox these days.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

That I'm not sure of. My proxmox host is headless and none of my containers have a GUI so I haven't tried.

Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV. (www.notus.org)

Televisions that can stream platforms like Hulu or Max usually come loaded with technology that collects information on what viewers are watching, and buyers consent to have their viewing tracked when they open their new TV and click through terms of service agreements. Sometimes, data firms can connect those viewing habits to a...

gaylord_fartmaster ,

I've never heard of this happening before. What does the TV do?

gaylord_fartmaster ,

lol I switched to CachyOS because it's Arch with less steps, at least as a user

gaylord_fartmaster ,

I've never actually had this problem, but the issue is Windows will wipe your bootloader from the ESP, so it can't do anything about it. You can use your bootloader of choice to fix it, but you'd have to chroot from a live image.

Source: I accidentally deleted the wrong EFI partition

gaylord_fartmaster ,

You are both speculating about what triggered the lawsuit because the only people that know for sure what triggered the lawsuit are the publishers and they aren't talking.

If all public libraries are using CDL and the publishers have only sued IA, who flagrantly violated CDL, and they sued them only 2 months after they started violating the CDL, then that certainly seems like a very possible factor in the lawsuit, right?

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Visual discomfort because it looks like an slightly older app? What kind of issue is that???

You've met an iOS user.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Are you under the impression Microsoft was being paid to find that exploit or something? How is that at all related?

That truly was an independent third-party finding an exploit, and do you know why it was possible? Because the code was open source.

Great point.

Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85 (www.latimes.com)

I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don't think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Exactly, why didn't they just ask Lynn Conway for her preference when writing the article?

gaylord_fartmaster ,

I know everyone loves to shit on Oracle, but a free-tier Oracle VPS would solve this.

Or if you want something decent pay for a cheap VPS.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Absolutely, if it was anything I needed or even really wanted to be sure was reliably available I'd never put it on a free VPS.

Now, something trivial like this that just requires installing wireguard and nginx, copying over some configs, and changing a DNS record? Hard to beat free.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

What makes the internet archive well-equipped for that? They have money from donations? Donations that were more than likely intended for preserving the archive, and not facilitating book piracy in an obviously illegal way that now requires them to piss those donations away in legal fees?

gaylord_fartmaster ,

You think celebrities need to consent to someone that sounds similar to them getting work? That's insane.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Having a talking woman in your phone is not stealing Scarlet Johansson's likeness, even if they sound somewhat similar. US copyright law is already ridiculous, and you want to make it even more bullshit?

By that logic her role in Her was already stealing the voice actor for Siri's likeness, and she should have sued for that too.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

You own the pile of money you earned for the role you played in someone else's creative project.

This isn't back to the future 2 making a Crispin Glover face mask and putting it on an extra, its using a woman for a voice acting role for an AI speaking from your phone, and somehow that's stealing from a movie with the same concept, but not stealing from the actual phone AIs voiced by women that existed before the movie.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Then I'd have grounds to sue you for stealing my likeness, just like Crispin Glover did in the example I just gave.

Are you under the impression that's what happened here? It isn't. The voice is clearly not Scarlet Johansson's, and she doesn't have any kind of ownership over the concept of an AI in your phone using an upbeat woman's voice to speak to you.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

And other means of preventing it like pixel shift and refresh. Time will tell how long the current generation lasts but it's only going to get more and more easily mitigated.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Were you logged in? The site doesn't recommend videos for anyone not logged in anymore.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

How? I've never had any issues using gmail with Thunderbird on desktop or FairEmail on Android. By comparison, Proton mail I could get working in Thunderbird with Proton's mail bridge, but on Android I'd be stuck using their app.

Until the entire email protocol changes there are basically just no truly good options.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Sure, if you trust them and their encryption. If you encrypt yourself you can use any provider you want with no trust involved.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Mazda is such a weird name to drop there. They must have started with Starbucks and tiktok and had to find a third company that made the total come in just under their number.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Pissing into an ocean of piss.

How do you guys handle reverse proxies in rootless containers?

I've been trying to migrate my services over to rootless Podman containers for a while now and I keep running into weird issues that always make me go back to rootful. This past weekend I almost had it all working until I realized that my reverse proxy (Nginx Proxy Manager) wasn't passing the real source IP of client requests...

gaylord_fartmaster ,

By running NPM in an unprivileged LXC without docker or podman. I'm surprised to hear that's been an issue with podman for so long though.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Great advice, just want to add that Bitwarden will do TOTP for free if you self-host Vaultwarden.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Yeah, KRunner, and it's been around longer than Powertoys.

I never really used it on Windows so I don't know if it has all the same features, but there's probably some way to make whatever you need from it work.

The whole point of PowerToys was essentially to implement the features Windows was missing that the Linux DEs had already.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Being a good parent isn't doing whatever's easiest to distract your kid.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Hateful stereotypes aren't a problem when the hate is rational.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Maybe I am in the wrong here, but from the Arkenfox page, I've read that having way too many extension is bad - there's an unbelievable amount of these plugins.

By plugins, do you mean browser extensions, or something else? Librewolf just automatically downloads and installs uBlock Origin from the Mozilla add-on store the first time you run it, so there isn't really a difference between that and using Firefox + Arkenfox and just manually installing uBO.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Why? I feel like a browser is something you'd definitely want to keep up to date for security reasons if given the option.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Ok, but the only action George needs to perform on it is to not write a book. I don't even need a computer to do that.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

All you have to do to avoid this is just not open any ports except one for something like wireguard, and only access your network using it externally, and you will never have this problem.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Machine learning could find those strengths and weaknesses and learn to work around them likely better than a human could. It's just trial and error. There's nothing about the human brain that makes it better suited to understanding the inner logic of an LLM.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

If we had that, LLMs could just improve themselves directly, bypassing any need for prompt engineering in the first place.

Yep, exactly, and it's been studied and put in to practice effectively already.

Prompt tuning is not the only way to fine tune the output of an LLM, and since the goal for most is going to be to make them usable by anyone, that's going to be the least desirable route.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

In what way?

Why couldn't even a basic reinforcement learning model be used to brute force "figure out what input gives desired X output"?

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Maybe find a Chromebook you can install Linux on?

gaylord_fartmaster ,

There are only like 4 actual search indexes online (Google, Bing, Yandex, and I can't remember the 4th), and every other search engine just uses one or more of those for results.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

I actually thought Brave still used Bing, but Mojeek was what I was trying to think of. I'm sure there are a ton more, but those 4 seem like the biggest players most metasearch engines like to use.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

I mean that sounds pretty reasonable, could they just not think of a name that wasn't already in prevalent use? Was the goal to be unsearchable for anyone trying to find it?

That's like creating a reminders app and naming it task manager.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Well that's great for them, but that also means that people searching for the cron that has had that name for 50 years are going to get irrelevant results for a calendar app.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Did you really post this just because it has the cop car light emoji and all caps at the top, without having any idea what it actually means? That's hilarious.

gaylord_fartmaster ,

I don't like apple or apple products and this is still a shitty take on this

gaylord_fartmaster ,

Then they could just withhold the video from public since they're already withholding the charge. The real issue would be protecting victims, not suspects.

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