cybersandwich

@cybersandwich@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi! It’s me, the guy you discussed this with the other day! The guy that said Lemmy is full of AI wet blankets.

  I am 100% with Linus AND would say the 10% good use cases can be transformative.

  Since there isn’t any room for nuance on the Internet, my comment seemed to ruffle feathers. There are definitely some folks out there that act like ALL AI is worthless and LLMs specifically have no value. I provided a list of use cases that I use pretty frequently where it can add value. (Then folks started picking it apart with strawmen).

  I gotta say though this wave of AI tech feels different. It reminds me of the early days of the web/computing in the late 90s early 2000s. Where it’s fun, exciting, and people are doing all sorts of weird,quirky shit with it, and it’s not even close to perfect. It breaks a lot and has limitations but their is something there. There is a lot of promise.

  Like I said else where, it ain’t replacing humans any time soon, we won’t have AGI for decades, and it’s not solving world hunger. That’s all hype bro bullshit. But there is actual value here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck is bitnet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is hilariously reactionary and fickle. Never found a windmill that couldnt be tilted at.

  I’m not sure why that still surprises me considering it’s made up of a ton of people who self selected to leave a site in protest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows will mostly just be a kiosk for Edge.

  I think for the vast majority of average users this has been true for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, that’s too much bloat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way to encourage interoperability is to use the government to hold out a carrot in addition to the stick. Through government procurement laws, governments could require any company providing a product or service to the government to not interfere with interoperability. President Lincoln required standard tooling for bullets and rifles during the Civil War, so there’s a long history of requiring this already. If companies don’t want to play nice, they’ll lose out on some lucrative contracts, “but no one forces a tech company to do business with the federal government.”

  That’s actually a very interesting idea. This benefits the govt as much as anyone else too. It reduces switching costs for govt tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard someone call it billionaire brain rot. I think at some point you end up with so much money and not enough people telling you no, that it literally changes your brain.

  Seems likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally couldn’t pass one for something I needed to access.

  I had to switch to the audio thing eventually and it took me multiple tries with that. I should just write a script that uses a fucking bot next time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I somewhat disagree.

  Music seems like it’s followed a similar trajectory of most things where it’s become more centralized and mass marketed. Music has to appeal to the masses for studios to pick it up. So there is an incentive to find music that appeals to the most people and turns off the fewest.

  Similarly, you have a handful of studios telling you what is “good” and pushing it. Even if it isn’t great, it’s good enough that people listen and then they can create the hype behind it where it might not organically exist.

  Some music bubbles up organically from independent artists but quite a bit is mass marketed and produced by big studios. And they have the money so they can choke out smaller artists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh umm. I would never make my password this…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if you do allow 8 character passwords the only stipulation is that you check it against known compromised password lists. Again, pretty reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  School is usually cancelled because the schools are often polling locations.

  It makes it all the more dumb to not have it as a national holiday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More like: big money and corporate lobbying is ruining democracy. These are just the big boys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2real5me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you all are misplaying your hands. Find contractors that work for the govt.

  They can bill the govt much higher rates because you have a PhD. They don’t have to pay you the extra. You could literally tell them that. Pay me at a junior rate and keep the difference until I prove I’m worth more.

  You’d be straight revenue/profit for them. and it gets your foot in the door and you start getting actual experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who still uses pagers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  3000 less people than last week

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else ever seen an SSH key/fingerprint thing string together an actual word? Or how about a curse word? XD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are obligated to share your entire known hosts file to prove this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been allowed everywhere I have ever lived in the US.

  The issues you’ll run into is they get all stupid about it if your service ever goes down. They’ll always blame your router/modem first. (Literally the entire neighborhood could be down and they’ll act like it’s something specific to your device). Sometimes they try to charge an install fee or a connection fee or other dumb shit.

  I think their are local laws that require them to allow byod too. It depends on your area though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LDAP to UNIX user proxy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you mind educating us plebs then? I had a similar question to op, and I can assure you, I definitely don’t understand local auth services the way I probably should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He has a legit point that Steve did not give LTT a chance to comment. “He doesn’t have to!” Maybe. But he gave the other side a ton of airtime/chances to comment. It was very one sided and while GN made some good points, it felt like a hit piece. And Linux, imo rightfully, felt a little betrayed by a guy he’d worked with in the community.

  His reaction wasn’t great but it was that of a guy who was defending his team and from someone he’d probably consider a ‘friend’ impugning his integrity and dragging them without giving them any opportunity to comment or even letting him know it was coming–two very common practices/norms.

  A unflattering view of GN vid is that he felt threatened by LTT labs entering the space and he wanted to get out in front of that an expose"how unreliable" they are. He didn’t give LTT a heads up or allow them to comment because he knew they’d have a solid response. He blindsided him on purpose.

  All that said, GN did Linus a favor. It accelerated his transition away from CEO and forced them to review their dumb production rates and the videos that are coming out now are better than ever.

  Ironically, it left a sour taste in my mouth about Steve and I haven’t watched any of his videos since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sebatianalds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linus got phished out of his twitter account recently.

  Respect where it’s due. He owned it and was transparent so everyone can learn. Apparently he was at a pool party and just about to throw the burgers on the grill when he got an email that said his account was logged into from Turkey or Russia or someplace.

  He panicked a bit, because of the last time his YouTube account was hacked he felt like acting quickly was the only thing that help it not be worse. I think he clicked the link in the email and “logged in” and boom. Got em.

  Caught him at the right time and place and it all aligned to burn him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Floatplane is Linus’ smartest decision he’s made. It’s going to be needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that I’ve always found interesting is that silicon valley has a common start up strategy that is basically: do well enough to get bought buy your bigger competition. Basically, be a threat so your VCs can cash in when a Google, Facebook, etc buys you.

  I’m other words, Silicon Valley has a start up culture that feeds an anticompetitive/anti-trust ecosystem. No one complains because they are all making money. It’s the users who slowly suffer and we end up were we are not with 5 companies running the modern web and Internet infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d investigate the shit out of that but if someone broke into your house and stole your $2k TV they’d file a report and tell you to pay to change your locks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are dozens of us!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software and disclose the source code of software developed by or for the public sector unless third-party rights or security concerns apply⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, not really. The risk with making it publicly available is that a nation state or leet hacker types can comb over it and find exploits or know what libraries/etc you are using so when a zero day pops up they can target you directly. Whereas without direct access to th source code they’d have to do their own enumeration and surveillance.

  There is some security through obscurity.

  Also, just want to point out: being open source doesn’t mean it’s more or less secure. There is plenty of vulnerable open source code out their.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Control D and Tailscale partner up!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Control Deez nuts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the software and situation of course, but if you are paying a contractor to develop/write a solution for you aka “government built” then the contractor that writes the code owns 0 of that code. It’s as if it was written by Uncle Sam himself.

  Now, if the government buys software (licenses), the companies will retain ownership of their code. So if Uncle Sam bought Service Now licenses, the US doesn’t “own” service now. If service now extended capability to support the govt, the US still doesn’t own the license or that code in most cases.

  Sometimes the government will even pay for a company to extend its software and that company can then sell that feature elsewhere. The government doesn’t get any benefit beyond the capability they paid for–ie they don’t own that code.

  But like it said, if it’s a development contract and the contractors build an app for the government, all of the contracts I’ve ever seen, have Uncle Sam owning it all. The govt could open source it if they wanted and the contractor would have no say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The explicitly do not, at least with every US federal contract I’ve ever seen. The govt owns the code that is written full stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nginx 502, ssh not working.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s working again all of the sudden I would lean towards f2b. I don’t know what your “timeout” is, but if f2b got tripped it would explain why you couldn’t get in yesterday but today it works (assuming your ban expires in 24hrs or so).