Allero

@Allero@lemmy.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All kidding aside, support for self-hosted server to store and visualize your data would be amazing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say my personal issue with Lydia is that she doesn’t seem to have much in terms of personality separate from her role as a housecarl.

  But then, I never romanced her, so maybe I missed something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  First time I see people choosing Lydia. For most, it is Serana all the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A character, most commonly from anime, that the person is obsessed with and would love to move to real life to marry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, we generally seem to be on the same page :)

  (Except numerous great books and helpful short materials exist for virtually any popular major, and, while they take longer to study, they provide order of magnitude better knowledge)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While I don’t fully share the notion and tone of other commenter, I gotta say LLMs have absolutely tanked education and science, as noted by many and as I witnessed firsthand.

  I’m a young scientist on my way to PhD, and I get to assist in a microbiology course for undergraduates.

  The amount of AI slop coming from student assignments is astounding, and worse of all - they don’t see it themselves. When it comes to me checking their actual knowledge, it’s devastating.

  And it’s not just undergrads - many scientific articles also now have signs of AI slop, which messes up with research to a concerning degree.

  Personally, I tried using more specialized tools like Perplexity in Research mode to look for sources, but it royally messed up listing the sources - it took actual info from scientific articles, but then referenced entirely different articles that hold no relation to it.

  So, in my experience LLMs can be useful to generate a simple text or help you tie known facts together. But as a learning tool…be careful, or rather just don’t use them for that. Classical education exists for a good reason, and it is that you learn to get factually correct and relevant information, analyze it and keep it in your head for future reference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern LLMs can serve you for most tasks while running locally on your machine.

  Something like GPT4ALL will do the trick on any platform of your choosing if you have at least 8gb of RAM (and for most people nowadays it’s true).

  It has a simple, idiot-proof GUI and doesn’t collect data if you don’t allow it to. It’s also open source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People got so deep into their allegiance games that they cannot comprehend anyone standing for the truth.

  Fuck .ml China fappers, and fuck .world Russia-badders. You’re equally terrible in enabling atrocities.

  As I said, some cases are confirmed, some are wild speculations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. There are quite a few completely unfounded pieces stating it is Russia or China or North Korea behind thing X with no proofs whatsoever.

  These do not go to prove your point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally anyone until proven guilty?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pragnent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In all seriousness, what is your way to explain this to a 5 year old?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Russian here; good fucking luck banning VPNs

  First, they evolve very rapidly and are able to evade even the most sensitive detection methods Russia and China are using

  Second, people in power never want to apply the same restrictions to themselves, so, ironically, they themselves are often VPN users and as such they undermine themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now defend it from domestic one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But this reactor turns mercury into gold, and is meant to produce power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs that are optionally pacifist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided can be completed as a pacifist - and you get an achievement for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice site you got there! Made from scratch or using some service/app?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rising rocket launches linked to ozone layer thinning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly

  Or those “terraform Mars” fantasies

  TERRAFORM THE DAMN EARTH FIRST

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy to gather, but will likely be ignored, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rising rocket launches linked to ozone layer thinning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, there are two reasons we’re doing it too soon;

  • We don’t really have technology needed to build a self-sustaining colony anywhere outside Earth; say, a colony on Mars is inherently dependent on Earth’s supplies, and will quickly die out as Earth does too; the technologies needed can largely be developed on Earth;
  • The chance of some asteroid obliterating Earth in the coming millenia is so minor we might as well focus on much more real threats.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rising rocket launches linked to ozone layer thinning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and I understand how little this message changes in the world

  But at least it’s good to highlight the basics to ensure people understand the dangers and shortcomings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rising rocket launches linked to ozone layer thinning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As if we didn’t know this already.

  Space launches disrupt ozone layer, contribute to air pollution and global warming, waste a lot of resources, and produce tons upon tons of space debris.

  We should be careful with this industry and technology, and use it when it makes sense. But hey, why not launch billionaires and their cars into space for leisure and launch hundreds of satellites under different brandings all promising the best Internet ever or whatnot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the premise behind this.

  But how do we differentiate? Unless explicitly mentioned, it might be hard to tell the difference between AI and native human message.

  It’s enough for the other side not to mention the message is AI-generated to fool us for quite a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only big danger of a good password manager is the fact all your passwords are stored under one.

  To mitigate the risk, follow these practices:

  • Use a good trusted, much preferably open-source option (for example, Vaultwarden, KeePassXC);
  • Use a strong password;
  • Do not EVER use the same password you use for password manager elsewhere;
  • Use 2FA on both your password manager itself and all the accounts you store passwords for;
  • Backup your password database in an encrypted way.

  Together, these measures should save you from any trouble.

  Now, why they are good:

  • They can generate and store very strong passwords you would never make up, much less remember;
  • You can be sure you won’t forget your password;
  • They are convenient and can auto-fill passwords for you.

  Generally, using a password manager is considered a superior option in terms of security and availability compared to keeping your password elsewhere, including your head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨salty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re just nearly equally reactive in two opposite directions.

  You can absolutely make salts with acidic or alkaline properties by altering this careful balance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rough draft NAS is complete!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue either RAID 5 or ZFS RAIDz1 are inherently unsafe, since recovery would take a lot of read-write operations, and you better pray every drive will hold up well even after one clearly failed.

  RAID6/ZFS RAIDz2 is the way. Yes, you’re gonna lose a bit more space, but added reliability is priceless.

  (And, in any case, make backups for anything critical!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Data hoarders could be happy, but otherwise it’s mostly enterprise use.

  I personally hold about 4 TB of files, and I know people holding over 30 TB.

  As soon as your storage needs exceed 1-2 games and a bunch of old photos, demand for space raises quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese researchers broke the fiber transmission record with 1.02 petabits per second⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speeding up the Internet will speed up Tor as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, storage is complicated - but it can be done. Pumped hydro and other technologies exist to make storage cheaper than it would be in batteries, and sodium-ion options become cheaper and cheaper to serve as buffers.

  As far as I know, the power outage in Portugal and Spain did not start with renewables, those were disconnected to protect the equipment later, when the voltage already dropped, along with other power stations. Moreover, they were the first to recover, and they handled some of the load during the blackout: euronews.com/…/did-renewable-energy-cause-spain-a…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Up until quite recently, nuclear has been decently economical as it is - but indeed, a lot of nuclear investments of the previous century were made with obtaining weapon-grade plutonium in mind. It’s one part of why countries went with uranium cycle to begin with.

  Modern research into thorium-based reactors that could be cheaper and not produce nuclear weapon material is too little too late. Renewables already took over the game.