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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Korean game unions demand abolition of comprehensive wage system to improve conditions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  However, it has been noted that the demand from labor unions in the gaming industry, where the average annual salary exceeds 100 million won, sounds like the grumbling of a “noble union.”

  Yeah, but people are literally dying from being forced to work so much overtime. Just because the people are being paid middle class income instead of poverty wages, doesn’t mean they are any less entitled to fair treatment. Unfortunately, it’s really common in the US as well to pay a “salary” that although the contract might say you have to work 35-40 hours per week to get it, they often don’t have a maximum. So employers often require unlimited hours to keep your job. And especially in the tech industry with almost no unions, this practice kills quite a lot here as well. They just don’t allow the deaths to be directly linked to work here. Much like how the far right likes to say that COVID killed very few people because people don’t usually die from COVID directly, but from diseases that it exacerbates or directly triggers, same was said of AIDS for a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Districts Event calendar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mobilizon works well for me. I only wish more organizers used it so I could get events from local communities without having to enter it myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - sergi0g/cup: 🥤Docker container updates made easy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a plugin for compose, but podman itself does have some differences here and there. I’m starting to migrate my own stuff as Docker is getting more money hungry. Womder if they’ll try to IPO in a few years. Seems like that’s what these kinds of companies do after they start to decline from alienating users. Just wish that portainer and docker hadn’t killed all the GUIs for docker and swarm was better supported.

  The company i work for has also required us to migrate from Docker as the hub and desktop app are no longer totally free. I expect more and more limitations will show up on the free versions as usually is the case with companies like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stopping States From Passing AI Laws for the Next Decade Is a Terrible Idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again proving that Republicans are only for state and local rights when those things remove rights from the people, not protect them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report on AI Training Errs on Fair Use⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair use for corporations, copyright lawsuits in east-Texas for the public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ backed Canadian energy company lays off employees: Read what the CEO said⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the coal and oil industries have regained political power, so no surprise there’s no money for new technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic blames Claude AI for ‘embarrassing and unintentional mistake’ in legal filing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So tired of companiea pretending these are intelligent and not only replacing humans with them, but not even having humans review in detail the output. They are trained to approximate general conversion, not be lawyers. It’s like asking a young child to talk about a subject and they just use their imagination to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Only their imagination is all of the content of all fictional works ever created by humans and put on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS input load⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the meter is plugged into the UPS, then the UPS has nothing to do with the power flowing into the meter. Power is “pulled” not “pushed” to devices in that a device supplying power can limit the amount of power provided, but can’t increase it beyond what the devices request.

  Just like with plumbing. The water company can’t force your faucets to open and use more water. Now they could increase pressure and break pipes, similarly the UPS could provide the wrong voltage and short or burn out wires or devices causing them to draw more, but that is unlikely to be the issue here. As long as voltage is constant, amperage (the other component in wattage) is pulled, not pushed.

  What you’re seeing in the input load, if it matches what is flowing out of the meter, is some device requesting more power and thus more power flowing into the UPS to be passed to those devices, not the UPS forcing something to use power which isn’t possible as explained above, or the UPS itself using power because the meter has no connection to what power is being used by the UPS, only things plugged into the meter.

  So, there must be something else using the power. Likely the devices, even if they aren’t really doing anything you consider significant, are doing something. Probably maintenance, checking for updates, the monitoring proceses requesting information from the devices since the TrueNAS server is on that end, etc. You’d need to put a meter on each device to determine what is drawing the power specifically.

  Also, does the power meter only display power used by devices plugged into it, or does it also display it’s own power usage? Could be that the plug itself is using WiFi or something to communicate with external services to log that data. But that would be quick bursts.

  Also, without putting a meter on each device, this is probably cumulative. For example, if the NAS is requesing info for monitoring the network, that would spin up the processors on the RPi an cause the switch to draw more power as it transmits that information across the network. Again, this should only be small bursts, but it’s also possible the devices are not sleeping properly after whatever process wakes them so they continue to run their processors at higher amperage for some time. Tweaking power profiles can help with something like tuned on Linux or similar to make things sleep more agressively. With the drawback that they take some amount of time to spin back up when needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with conquer us survive”

  Fixed it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d guess those are too far away for the filters to be ineffective, unless they don’t have the proper filters on them, which is definitely possible considering how bad most of the tech they use is. Of course, same with Teslas. I bet they don’t have proper filtering on their cameras either. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So will it burn out all the cameras in Teslas’ self driving systems, too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College Students Are Sprinkling Typos Into Their AI Papers on Purpose⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if I was in college I’d totally use “AI” to write first drafts. But I’d never, ever trust it to write a final paper. Just like now the only thing I use it for is embedded in my IDE (software development software basically) in an “autocomplete” fashion in which I let it finish writing a block of code I start typing and then I go and make it what I actually wanted. Great timesaver for the boilerplate code required in a lot of languages. In reality that’s what this iteration of “AI” should be used for in most case, helping, not doing. But corporations want to replace people, not just make them more efficient, so here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy violations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And this way they likely don’t have to stop using the information they have, which is worth way more than that since they don’t have to admit to any wrongdoing this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump admin plans to shut down money-saving Energy Star program soon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s money saving for the general public, but cuts a lot of money from the coal and gas industries, and that’s who they serve, not the general public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research Announcements Shifting to Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s such a waste of effort to move to a platform that is heading in the exact same direction. It takes so much effort to get people to switch. Why do they insist on using something else that will eventually be just as bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It you’re talking about TOTP exclusively, that only needs the secret and the correct time on the device. The secret is cached along with the passwords on the device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs are perfectly fine, and cool tech. Problem is they’re billed as being actual intelligence or things that can replace humans. Sure they mimic humans well enough, but it would take a lot more than just absorbing content to be good enough at it to replace a human, rather than just aiding them. Either the content needs to be manually processed to add social context, or new tech needs to be made that includes models for how to interpret content in every culture represented by every piece of content, including dead cultures who’s work is available to the model. Otherwise, “hallucinations” (e.g. misinterpretation and thus miscategorization of data) will make them totally unreliable without human filtering.

  That being said, there many more targeted uses of the tech that are quite good, but always with the need for a human to verify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly how this version of “AI” should be used. Not treated as an independent intelligence, which it’s not, but treated as a tool for those with independent intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not a need to have vaultwarden up all of the time unless you use new devices often or create and modify entries really often. The data is cached on the device and kept encrypted by the app locally. So a little downtime shouldn’t be a big issue in the large majority of cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A desktop environment is a waste of resources on a system where you’ll only use it to install and occasionally upgrade a few server applications. The RAM, CPU power, and electricity used to run the desktop environment could be instead powering another couple of small applications.

  Selfhosting is already inefficient with computing resources just like everyone building their own separate infrastructure in a city is less efficient. Problem is infrastructure is shared ownership whereas most online services are not owned by the users so selfhosting makes sense, but requires extra efficiencies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI issues warning over scammers impersonating agents to steal your money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean didn’t Trump deprioritize cyber crime enforcement against certain countries he’s indebted to that are notorious for scamming Americans. So no surprise that they’d go over the top since they are free to do basically anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it’s a violation of the law, but much like any other laws, there are defenses to these built into the laws. For example, for murder, if you kill someone, you commit murder (or homicide or whatever word is used), but there is a built in defense that you are allowed to do this in cases of self-defense. So still guilty of the crime itself, but the exceptions make it not a criminally punishable act.

  Similarly, in copyright there is the concept of fair use. Again, any copy you make of a copyrighted work violates the copyright act, however there are scenarios where the copying becomes not a punishable offense. In copyright, these are usually things that there is a benefit to society that outweighs the detriment to the copyright owner such as transformative art which creates new art, or backup for purposes of archiving. So likely the copy itself is protected here. The potential issue comes in the fact that they then share that copy. This is where the legality becomes murky as copyright law in the US has never been updated fully to deal with digital copies which take miniscule cost to produce and are nondestructive of the original.

  But let’s assume that the law supports the music industry. Then we move to harm. How much harm has been done to the owner. Since this is a corporation we’re only talking profit, not emotional or other types of harm that might be involved. In this case they are claiming that for each work shared over the internet, they have been denied $150,000 in potential profit from selling those works.

  This is where the real issue comes in in that courts rarely dispute these ridiculous numbers. IMHO the fact that they are pitting these kinds of numbers in a court document sounds like fraud to me. For much of this work they have no actual copies of the works because they were destroyed or deteriorated. So how could they sell them and make profit? For what they do have, is there even much of a market for any of that content and would that market generate $150,000 for a single random song written many decades before most of us were born. Sure the award will likely be less than that, but I bet the average song on this list might generate less than $1 in the time from when they posted them to when their copyright finally expires. So charge them a few hundred dollars and be done with it.

  The issue is that the works are otherwise not available for sale and any licensing is done across all works owned by these companies and this is how they get the $150,000 per work number. They don’t sell licenses just for old works because the system was never designed to support copyright lasting as long as it does now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the stuff in the Great 78 Project is stuff that is so old that copyright was not designed to support the lengths of time they currently do so archiving wasn’t as big of a concern because the media it was created on would be less likely to deteriorate in that time. When the owner is a corporation who for the most part not only doesn’t sell but refuses to archive works that are breaking down due to the physical age of the media and would rather the works disappear than allow for archiving, how are they harmed to the tune of $150,000 per recording? And who is this benefiting to let recordings, stories, and other art forms literally turn to dust with no monetary profit going to anyone in most cases if it’s not archived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to not have any malicious login attempts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you connect? Is there a domain? Is that domain used for email or any other way that it might circulate?

  Also, depends on if the IP address was used for something in the past that was useful to target or not. And finally do you use that IP address outbound a lot, like do you connect to a lot of other services, websites, etc. And finally, does your ISP have geolocation blocks or other filters in place?

  It’s rare for a process to just scan through all possible IP addresses to find a vulnerable service, there are billions and that would take a very long time. Usually, they use lists of known targets or scan through the addresses owned by certain ISPs. So if you don’t have a domain, or that domain is not used for anything else, and you IP address has never gotten on a list in the past, then it’s less likely you’ll get targeted. But that’s no reason to lower your guard. Security through obscurity is only a contributory strategy. Once that obscurity is broken, you’re a prime target if anything is vulnerable. New targets get the most attention as they often fix their vulnerabilities once discovered so it has to be used fast, but tend to be the easiest to get lots of goodies out of. Like the person who lives on a side street during trick-or-treat that gives out handfuls of candy to get rid of it fast enough. Once the kids find out, they swarm. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Testing vs Prod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At work we have 6 environments other than production. At home just one. I created a way to ease deployment of the environment from scratch using a k0sctl config and argocd and the data gets backed up regularly if I need to restore that, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is my server using all my Swap but I have RAM to spare?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that often it’s more efficient to move infrequently accessed memory for background tasks to swap rather than having to move that out to swap when something requires the memory causing a delay in loading the application trying to get the RAM, especially on a system with lower total RAM. This is the typical behavior.

  However, if you need background tasks to have more priority than foreground tasks, or it truly is a specific application that shouldn’t be using swap and should be quickly accessible at all times, or if you need the disk space, then you might benefit from reducing the swap usage. Otherwise, let it swap out and keep memory available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would required compensation in the amount of Elon’s entire fortune so it can be properly redistributed to those who deserve it, including you if this is a human reading this email. If those terms are acceptable, please contact me at xxx-xxx-xxxx at your earliest convenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Get in writing the specific legally binding policies for personal use of their network resources. Not just the personal opinion of the IT people. They don’t write the legally binding policy that you are responsible for following.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police told not to close investigations until they have used facial recognition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone in charge is getting a kickback or is heavily invested in the company that supplies the facial recognition service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, in most cases this isn’t criminal law (in the US at least), so it means you have to attract enough attention of a corporation since they’re usually the only ones who can afford the legal costs to file the DMCA requests and responses for copyright violation. And with many other civil issues, often corporations with the money for it, don’t have standing to sue, and if they did, would be required to sue each individual in the appropriate jurisdiction.

  With the removal of Section 230, these costs will go down significantly as a single user’s violation could be enough to bankrupt or shut down an entire site of violating content or, if serious criminal violations like child porn, put the person who hosts the site in prison who, will be much easier to identify and sue in a single jurisdiction or arrest than a random internet user.