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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its probably a hot take but I do think everyone deserves empathy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a flipside here as well which is that when you’re wealthy everyone constantly asks you for money. You start doubting that any social interaction is genuine. Is this person hanging out with you because they like you or because they want your money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the idea that the brand advertises the wearer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried introducing unnecessary complexity?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do rich people get addicted to drugs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They tend to be pretty miserable and can afford them so my gut feeling is that they are actually more likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's the feeling.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All VPN work on Linux because the protocols are open and standardized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini PC to replace fiber modem and wifi router. How to proceed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This may not be so easy, what protocol does the ISP use over fibre?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are making the mistake of attributing intent to an LLM. A LLM does not have intent. It takes the context and generates the statistically most likely tokens that come next. The biography is part of the context.

  The fact that it gives different answers based on context purely comes down to how it was trained and that there is no concept of “factual information”.

  I’m not defending LLMs, this is just LLMs doing exactly what they were trained to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean this study literally says that poorly worded prompts give worse results. It makes sense too, imagine you are on some conspiracy Facebook group with bad grammar etc, those are the posts it will try to emulate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just think about the fact llms are basically trying to simulate reddit posts and then think again about using them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨misleading cover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look up “ice planet barbarians”. Forgot the author but there are a lot of different kind of barbarians, orcs, demons, etc. That are rough but with a soft spot, protecting the female lead heroically while taking her for themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You were just boycotting before it was cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of governments want it. But its no excuse doing it in a stupid way. For example EU IDs should have a function that just verifies someone is over 18 without any other info being send. At least the German one does. But its not being used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, Paradox are aware that a “barrage of DLCs” can scare away new players, for all their bundles and discounts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are one of very few studios who update their games for years after release. Games make the biggest chunk of lifetime revenue at release. Unless you are a unicorn and have low development costs (Minecraft, Terraria, factorio), you will simply go bankrupt updating your game for free. See the rise of industry dude, made 4 million and now lost his house. Why? He kept funding development for four years without any revenue. Everyone who wanted the game bought it in the first year.

  If you want to keep updating your game for more than a couple of months you need cashflow. You have the choice of micro transactions, subscriptions or dlc. You need to do this or go bankrupt.

  Paradox gives free content updates along every DLC. I really fail to see how that is bad. The alternative would be to simply release the game, patch it for a couple months, then start working on the next game, like every other game studio. But people would hate that to. You can really do nothing in the games industry without people hating on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how important it is. Looking for a hint for a puzzle game: never. Trying to find out actually important info: always.

  They make it easy though because after every statement it has these numbered annotations and you can just mouse over to read the text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use kagi assistant. It does a search, summarizes, then gives references to the origin of each claim. Genuinely useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are super-computers used for ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If your gaming computer can do x computations every month, and you need to run a simulation that requires 1000x computations, you can wait 1000 months, or have 1000 computers work on it in parallel and have it done in one month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the official diagnostic criteria, which helped to open my eyes and stop drinking:

  • Alcohol is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended.
  • There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control alcohol use.
  • A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain, use, or recover from the effects of alcohol.
  • Craving, or a strong desire or urge to use alcohol.
  • Recurrent alcohol use resulting in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, school, or home.
  • Continued alcohol use despite having persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems caused or exacerbated by the effects of alcohol.
  • Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of alcohol use.
  • Recurrent alcohol use in situations in which it is physically hazardous.
  • Alcohol use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by alcohol.
  • Tolerance, as defined by either a need for markedly increased amounts of alcohol to achieve intoxication or desired effect, or a markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount.
  • Withdrawal, as manifested by either characteristic withdrawal syndrome for alcohol or alcohol (or a closely related substance) is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms.

  In a 12 month period:

  • 2 - 4 criteria met: mild
  • 4 - 5: moderate
  • 6+: severe
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not talking about slop games, I’m talking about giving single dev games a chance. Even successful single dev games make maybe 140000k which is 70k on your bank account. Having 18k more would make a massive difference for those games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have to vet anything, just make the first 50k free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They could definitely lower their 30% cut for indie devs. Even just making the first 50k free would be huge (epic takes no cut for the first million).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of lower voltage in the US, total available power of a wall socket is lower. So kettles take forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand this, but this is inconsistent behavior. You now use 22 inside your network and something else outside. Whenever you create inconsistent behavior, everyone using it has to have an awareness of all these inconsistent behaviors.

  Also, it is hard to troubleshoot because the tool most admins would want to use (netstat) will not give you useful information to understand the situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you change it, definitely change it on the server so it shows up in netstat and is consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea behind keys is always, that keys can be rotated. Vast majority of websites to that, you send the password once, then you get a rotating token for auth.

  Most people don’t do that, but you can sign ssh keys with pki and use that as auth.

  Cryptographically speaking, getting your PW onto a system means you have to copy the hash over. Hashing is not encryption. With keys, you are copying over the public key, which is not secret. Especially managing many SSH keys, you can just store them in a repo no problem, really shouldn’t do that with password hashes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is mostly nonsense.

  • Why block outgoing? Its just going to cause issues for most people. If you’re going to do that, do it centrally (hw firewall)
  • Why allow http and NTP incoming, when there is no http / NTP server running.
  • If there is http server running no mention of ssl-config.mozilla.org and modsecurity
  • If you’re using ufw anyway why not go with applications instead of ports?
  • In a modern distro, the defaults are usually sane (maybe except TCP), most of the stuff in the SSH config is already default.
  • Why change the SSH port of a home server, which most likely is not reachable from the outside anyway?
  • Actually potentially impactful stuff like disabling services you don’t need, such as cups, is not mentioned
  • unattended-upgrades not mentioned
  • SELinux / AppArmor not mentioned
  • LKRG not mentioned lkrg.org
  • Fail2ban not mentioned

  Don’t just copy random config from the internet, as annoying as it is, read the docs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just get a business model, they have much less bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse, the Molotov Ribbentrop pact was dividing up Europe between the Soviet Union and Germany. That’s why the Soviet Union invaded Poland together with Germany, and took the eastern half.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He eats less than he burns. Could be just high level of base activity - even just walking around a bunch makes a huge difference, much more than sports. Or could be very low appetite.