NeilBru

@NeilBru@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Grasshopper3D runs within Rhinoceros3D. Can “Rhino8 run with Wine/Quickemu?” is what I should research, though in McNeel’s documentation, it’s explicitly stated to not use Wine (I think). I suppose I could run on an older x86_64 Intel Macbook, but then I lose NVIDIA acceleration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I dual-boot Kubuntu (–minimal-install; no snap fuckery) and Win11. I’m a contractor so the Win11 Pro side is technically my “business” installation. I’ve debloated quite a lot in Windows land, but still haven’t figured out how to get rid of a CoPilot etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I need Win11 for work. Specifically, Grasshopper. I’ve tried alternatives. They suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Brother, I need the “remedial” lessons since I self-host a lot of my experimental DNN solutions on a GPU cluster served via CasaOS/Ubuntu-Server LTS.

  I’ve followed basic tutorials about nginx, end-to-end encryption, and DNS, but I need more knowledge and training about the theory behind modern security best practices. I think I’m doing okay but I have this ever-present anxiety that I’ve overlooked something and my ass (i.e., sensitive data) is really just hanging out in the wind.

  Thank you for your recommendation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As I mentioned in other comments, I am a noob when it comes to web-sec best practices, so please forgive what may be dumb questions.

  Is it really just permission rights “over-exposure” issue? Or does one need to also encrypt and then decrypt the data itself that must be sent to a database?

  Also, if you have time, recommend any links to web/cloud/SaaS security best practices “for dummies”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your point. I should’ve limited my citation to the phrase’s authoritarian origins from the early 20th century.

  To clarify, the slippery slope towards “political correctness” I am wanted to describe is a sort of corporate techno-feudalist language bereft of any real political philosophy or moral epistemology. It is the language of LinkedIn, the “angel investor class”, financiers, cavalier buzzwords, sweeping overgeneralizations, and hyperbole. Yet, fundamentally, it will aim to erase any class awareness, empiricism, or contempt for arbitrary authority. The idea is to impose an avaricious might-makes-right for whatever-we-believe-right-now way of thinking in every human being.

  What I want to convey is that there is an unspoken effort by authoritarians of the so-called “left” and “right” who unapologetically yearn for the hybridization of both Huxley’s A Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 dystopian models, sometimes loudly proclaimed and other times subconsciously suggested.

  These are my opinions and not meant as gospel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Encrypting the transmission doesn’t do much if every app installation contains access credentials that can be extracted or sniffed.

  Encrypt the credentials then? Or OAUTH pipeline, perhaps? Automated temporary private key generation for each upload (that sounds unrealistic, to be fair)? Can credentialing be used for intermediary storage that’s encrypted at that server and then decrypted on the database host?

  Clearly my utter “noobishness” is showing, but at least it’s triggering a slight urge to casually peruse modern WebSec production workflows. I am but a humble DNNs-for-parametric-CAD-modelling (lots of Linear Algebra, PyTorch, and Grasshopper for Rhino) researcher. I am far removed from customer-facing production environments, and it shows.

  Any recommendations on literature or articles on how engineers solve these problems in a “best practices” way that you can recommend? I suppose I could just look it up, but I thought I’d ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m certainly no web security expert, but shouldn’t a basic developer know how to secure said firebase or S3 buckets with STARTTLS or SSL certificates?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The legal precedent for gaining the ability to ban content under the guise of preventing the dissemination of “obscenity” allows the future banning of “obscene” political opinions and “obscene” dissent.

  Once the “obscene” political content is banned, the language will change to “offensive”.

  After “offensive” content is banned, then the language will change to “inappropriate”.

  After “inappropriate”, the language will change to “oppositional”.

  If you believe this is a “slippery slope” fallacy, then as a counterpoint, I would refer to the actual history of the term “politically correct”:

  The phrase politically correct first appeared in the 1930s, when it was used to describe dogmatic adherence to ideology in totalitarian regimes, such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.[5] Early usage of the term politically correct by leftists in the 1970s and 1980s was as self-critical satire;[8] usage was ironic, rather than a name for a serious political movement.[12][13][14] It was considered an in-joke among leftists used to satirise those who were too rigid in their adherence to political orthodoxy.[15] The modern pejorative usage of the term emerged from conservative criticism of the New Left in the late 20th century, with many describing it as a form of censorship.[16]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not hard to understand, no, but many find it to be creepy and invasive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  Plato, The Republic bk. 1, 347c

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The typeface must be 16pt, bold, and the copy itself should be on the front page and be required on the cover description(s).

  My beef isn’t even with a games-as-a-service premise at all. It’s the corporatist trend in arguing that single-player experiences need perpetual online connectivity, or that releasing self-hosted PvP server functionality is prima fascia “unrealistic in every scenario”. Some games, like WoW, no way. I get the depth of the server stack for MMOs. Other games that are PvP-competitive could easily be self-hosted. These companies could still make money Off of these old competitive online games, even though they’ve deprecated their own self-hosted server stack. They’re just too short-visioned and run by assholes who don’t give a shit about games.

  “Stop Killing Games” needs more refined language about what it’s asking for, no doubt. There are many scenarios where blanket statements about demanding source code are just not feasible.

  However, let’s not pretend that the industry is not pushing enshittification tactics used by almost every business that’s publicly traded. That’s the spirit in which this movement is fighting against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

  Require it; if I buy something I require every feature of my own product, if I purchased it

  Too hard? Fine.

  Then the law should require the fact that you the seller must say I’m renting a game or product, or purchased a limited license. They can’t say I “bought it and own it” if they can prevent me from using it however I want whenever they want. Force them to be explicitly clear about what I’m getting for my money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dutch allow me to vote for the Water Management Board of my town. Other than that, no, I can’t vote in the other elections. 😢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless someone corrects me, I think his argument boils down to, “we shouldn’t allow the release of server binaries for online-enabled games because it’s too hard for the developers”.

  Well, if that’s the case, then Thor, that’s a “you” (the company) problem. Not a “me” (the consumer) problem. And if you’re not going to release a server binary but we’re “buying” the game, purchasers have legitimate moral and legal grounds to demand that they be informed that they are buying a license, or renting, the game; they are not owning a functional copy of the game outright.

  I’m turning 42 this. I’ve been a software developer for 15 years now. I’d like to even say that a few of those years I even came across like I knew what I was talking about. But this basic issue is not about software development. This is about consumer advocacy, And it was a super huge turn off to watch him perform the mental gymnastics on why people should be screwed over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an American citizen living in the Netherlands; I have a renewed 5-year residency permit. Am I allowed to sign? I’m guessing no, but maybe there’s an allowance for EU residents, not just citizens?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fundamentally, the brain still receives “bite-size-chocolate” dopamine hits from Lemmy by receiving positive affirmations from upvotes, cortisol from downvotes, and lends to dark behavior patterns like any forum. Adrenaline dumps when engaged in “online arguments”.

  The nature of forums’ stimulation of our over-sized and over-active (but evolutionarily necessary for our ancestors’ survival) amygdala fosters social media addiction.

  People like Lemmy for many reasons. Some of them are good. However, let’s not pretend that it’s “all of the good with none of the bad.” It’s healthy to be skeptical of Lemmy instances too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  realize you’re addicted to social media like a drug

  Lemmy included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I agree wholeheartedly with your clarification.

  My career path, as I stated in a different comment, In regards to neural networks is focused on generative DNNs for CAD applications and parametric 3D modeling. Before that, I began as a researcher in cancerous tissue classification and object detection in medical diagnostic imaging.

  Thus, large language models are well out of my area of expertise in terms of the architecture of their models.

  However, fundamentally it boils down to the fact that the specific large language models was designed to predict text and not necessarily solve problems/play games to “win”/“survive”.

  I admit that I’m just parroting what you stated and maybe rehashing what I stated even before that, but I like repeating and refining in simple terms to explain to laymen and, dare I say, clients. It helps me make make I don’t come off as too pompous when talking about this subject; forgive my tedium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely interested. Thank you if you’re willing to share that.

  My career path in neural networks began as a researcher for cancerous tissue object detection medical diagnostic imaging. Now it is switched to generative models for CAD (architecture, product design, game assets, etc.). I don’t really mess about with fine-tuning LLMs.

  However, I do self-host my own LLMs as code assistants. Thus, I’m only tangentially involved with the current LLM craze.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m impressed, if that’s true! In general, an LLM’s training cost vs. an LSTM, RNN, or some other more appropriate DNN algorithm suitable for the ruleset is laughably high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An LLM is a poor computational paradigm for playing chess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mullvad DNS has been great also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, you can charge whatever you want.

  “Is your game worth $80?”

  That is the question every studio executive needs to ask themselves.

  Given the recent trends in AAA-funded projects, for the most part, that answer is “Oh, hell no.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, ok, my apologies.

  I am, admittedly,0 “GPU rich”; I have at ~48GB of VRAM at my disposal on my main workstation, and 24GB on my gaming rig. Thus, I am using Q8 and Q6_L quantized GGUFs.

  Naturally, my experience with the “fidelity” of my LLM models re: hallucinations would be better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Self-hosted LLMs are the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Necessary Necessity is the mother of invention

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

  There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

  There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

  Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

  There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

  There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

  For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

  As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

  So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

  Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

  No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

  The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

  • Frank Wilhoit
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UnDeshittification

  Makes more sense to me if the pre “en” is used in “enshittification”.