jim3692
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- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 2 days ago:
I use local Ollama. I don’t trust anyone with my AI conversations.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
Of course there is no public evidence. It’s just a very probable speculation that governments want to control the internet.
Back in the days of newspapers/radio/tv, governments had control as they could easily go after news outlets.
However, with internet, they lost this power. They have been trying hard to regain the power of controlling information. The latest success was masking moderation as child protection.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
Kiwi Browser has developer tools
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 1 week ago:
Why no Five Nights at Freddy’s ???
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
For the lazy, here is the summarization of my local AI:
You’d like to have a powerful ability: being able to ask the universe any question in modern English at any time, without limitations or rituals, and receive an answer that’s:
- Understandable by your current self (no significant changes to physical or mental stability)
- Delivered within 3600 seconds (an hour) of asking
- Reformatted if necessary to protect your stability
- Includes explanations for unknowable questions
- Avoids circular logic
- Doesn’t require an unreasonable sacrifice (if a sacrifice is needed, you’ll be informed)
- Allows transfer of answers to another individual, as long as they can understand the answer and meet the previous conditions.
In essence, you want to have direct access to all knowledge in the universe, without any negative consequences or sacrifices that might harm your well-being or stability.
- Comment on You'd need to calculate the compound interest 2 weeks ago:
Money doesn’t bring happiness
- Comment on Enough 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 weeks ago:
Are people still mining chia ?
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 3 weeks ago:
I used to watch The Hated One, who has also made similar recommendations for strikes. He has suggested the use of Briar, as it can fallback to Bluetooth connectivity.
However, I mostly wanted to point out that burner phones is not the answer for everyone. People need to be familiar with their local laws to stay safe.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 3 weeks ago:
In some countries, like Greece, you can’t use an unregistered phone number.
Since phone numbers are tied to people’s identities, does it really matter whether you use a burner or your main?
- Comment on Oatmeal 4 weeks ago:
Σκορδοπατατάκια
- Comment on ha! 4 weeks ago:
Don’t let him distract you from the fact that you can’t spell “advertisements” without semen between the tits
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 5 weeks ago:
Finally! Someone said it! My company changed my work laptop to a Mac. It’s been a couple of months, and I still haven’t got used to the desktop environment. Navigating between open windows with regular mouse/keyboard is a pain.
I find window grouping very annoying (this is also true for Gnome). What makes it even worse, is that the tilde is next to the left shift, instead of being above Tab. I think that’s because we have British keyboard.
- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 5 weeks ago:
No, we need massive data centers for LLMs and data analysis for targeted ads /s
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 5 weeks ago:
Unless you run a custom ROM, like LineageOS or GrapheneOS, you most probably have some Meta apps installed at system level.
This is Meta Services, as a system app which can only be disabled, on my work Samsung.
- Comment on Goals 5 weeks ago:
Last year I wasted 1.3 bln, by accidentally starting the construction of a dyson sphere
- Comment on Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings, investigation reveals 1 month ago:
Your therapist can’t even have a phone in the room?
I would prefer my psychological issues to not be turned into marketing campaigns. If you still don’t understand what I am talking about, you should probably check the Privacy Policy of Google and Meta.
To save you some time: Google and Meta are monitoring the conversations using the device’s microphone, to better understand what products you may be interested in. You have noticed, that ads are often related to the topics that you discuss face to face.
- Comment on Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings, investigation reveals 1 month ago:
I had visited an ophthalmologist who used Apple Notes to keep track of his patients. He had no idea about the privacy implications of his choices.
However, my most nerve racking experience was talking to my therapist, while their stock Android was right next to them. Even when I mentioned my privacy concerns, they didn’t bother to rid of it.
- Comment on It is what it is 1 month ago:
I use private, because I am a tab hoarder
- Comment on Best way to "give notice" that you are resigning 1 month ago:
Sorry for your “| || || |_”
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 1 month ago:
Don’t such satellites have a major flaw, that they revolve? Considering that earth is spherical, those satellites can only monitor some half of the earth each moment, given their sensors have such high FOV.
- Comment on Bonfire & Guix, a love story -- fishinthecalculator 1 month ago:
It’s the first time I see the concept of bootstrappability in the context of security.
Is it really worth the effort?
There are multiple ways to run a supply chain attack. With bootstrappability, one can be sure that the compiler is trusted, but what about the code that the compiler compiles? There was this recent attack to XZ utils, which shows that more attention is needed on the code being merged and compiled.
I think that this just creates a false sense of security.
Contrary to that, I had read about a BSD team (I think FreeBSD) that reviews all the code before each release. This way they have achieved ~5 RCE exploits throughout their entire history.
- Comment on Bonfire & Guix, a love story -- fishinthecalculator 1 month ago:
I don’t have any experience with guix, so I will not express any opinions towards that.
However, regarding NixOS:
- Yes, as a person with experience in the Nix language, I can confirm it’s awful
- The documentation of NixOS is a known issue, and there are currently efforts to improve it
- Talking about the trustability of binaries, by doing a quick search, I read that Guix builds are reproducible. This is true for NixOS as well. All upstreamed packages must have their version and the hash of the code (or artifact), to allow validation.
- The community of NixOS is opting to maintaining flakes, because:
- Some applications can simply not be built following the Nix guidelines. Examples are some electron apps (like Falkor) and apps that have weird toolchains (like bubblejail)
- The reviewing process takes way too long, and PRs for upstreaming are often ignored. This forces a lot of people to just PR a flake.nix to the application, or maintain their own overlays (overlays are like overriding the available packages, while flakes are more like distributing Nix code in general)
- Comment on Bonfire & Guix, a love story -- fishinthecalculator 1 month ago:
I quickly went through the article, and I have a question: Why not Docker (or Podman) on NixOS?
NixOS has much larger community (although a bit toxic) and provides native tooling for managing OCI containers through Docker and Podman.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 month ago:
What would happen if all users start using adblockers, or the value of ads starts to fall?
I do not support the current, ad-driven, model of the internet. However, since the costs of subscriptions are increasing, while salaries are going downhill, it is apparent that ads is (seemingly) the only viable choice for now.
In the economy we currently live in, all of world’s wealth is slowly moving to ad networks.
Even donation driven models are currently straggling. Just look at the fediverse. The people donating to their instances are not enough to sustain them.
Capitalism has absolutely destroyed everything. The greed of stakeholders has milked most people. At some point people will stop buying the useless things or services promoted via advertisements, just because they will not be able to afford them. Then, no subscriptions, no point of advertising, no donators, no people hosting fediverse instances, just world hunger.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 month ago:
NewPipe or Piped
- Comment on A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984 1 month ago:
Judging by the colors, this is a new photo. It’s not yellow.
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 1 month ago:
So, you guys have never lived to badly designed apartment, because you couldn’t afford a better one.
I have been living like this in Greece for about 3 years.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
BMWs need a speeding indication more than a braking one /s
