anteaters

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LocalSend - Share files to nearby devices⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not used Landrop but looking at it from the outside, Landrop is version 0.4 and has received no development for 3 years now. LocalSend is past 1.0 and still in active development. I’d rather use LocalSend then instead of something abandoned before it was deemed complete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did nobody really question the usability of language models in designing war strategies?

  Yes, people heard “AI” and went completely mad imagining things it might be able to do. And the current models act like happy dogs that are eager to give an answer to anything even if they have to make one up on the spot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no…⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He even combed his hair just for that occasion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound | WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even accelerated by climate change the sea lavel rise is a slow process with about 1 meter per 100 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll need another AI to screen what you tell the original AI. And at some point they will need another AI that protects the guardian AI form malicious input.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear it is web only but the site works well on mobile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s stashapp.cc for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a "technical hydrogen bomb" | "we are all completely f**ked"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He might want to ask an AI about the historical events that inspired his fantasy movie so he understands why people criticize him for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biontech is planning cancer vaccines before 2030⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If only there was an article linked that contains quotations of Sahin giving examples. Oh if only someone even copy-pasted that as a comment into this thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-browser ad blockers like the Pi-Hole block requests to known servers that serve ads. Routing all web traffic through Google’s VPN disables this way of adblocking and only leaves in-browser solutions like u-block. And Google’s fight against those within Chrome is ongoing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PM David Cameron appointed foreign secretary in Cabinet reshuffle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So how secure is the Queen’s body? Any chance of her coming back, too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cosmos 0.12 major update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have explained my issues in my other posts. Do you have a specific question?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cosmos 0.12 major update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  wow you are getting in quite a nonsensical defensive mood here. I gave my opinion on it and warmaster asked for clarification. If you want to use it go ahead I just pointed out the red flags. If you think it is hateful that people read the readme of you favorite project you really need to grow up. A readme is not the place for absurd ‘promotion’ like it’s a product sold on TV.

  Also it’s not FOSS but a selfmade variation on Apache 2. Check the reddit link, even the author claims it is not FOSS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cosmos 0.12 major update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is becoming an important threat to you. Managing servers, applications and data is very complex, and the problem is that you cannot do it on your own: how do you know that the server application where you store your family photos has a secure code? it was never audited.

  How do they fix this? Do they audit and approve all source code? Do they submit security patches to the apps they have in their repo?

  In fact, the recent LastPass leak happened because a LastPass employee had a Plex server that wasn’t updated to the last version and was missing an important security patch!

  How do they fix this? Auto updates? Those are going to bite you in the ass extremely hard at some point.

  Things like this are completely untrue:

  Additionally, because every new self-hosted applications re-implement crucial systems such as authentication from scratch everytime, the large majority of them are very succeptible to being hacked without too much trouble. This is very bad because not only Docker containers are not isolated, but they also run as root by default, which means it can easily be used to offer access to your entire server or even infrastructure.

  Most tools currently used to self-host not specifically designed to be secure for your scenario. Entreprise tools such as Traefik, NGinx, etc… Are designed for different use-cases that assume that the code you are running behind them is trustworthy. But who knows what server apps you might be running? On top of that, a lot of reverse-proxies and security tools lock important security features behind 3 to 4 figures business subscriptions that are not realistic for selfhosting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cosmos 0.12 major update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Then let me tell you this: Cosmos does not solve any of the risks they paint in their vision. You are lulled into a false sense of “security” after they frightened you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space is 2D, right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  KSP taught me what orbits are and Star Trek taught me that they are just not that important

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cosmos 0.12 major update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why use Cosmos?

  If you have your own self-hosted data, such as a Plex server, or may be your own photo server, you expose your data to being hacked, or your server to being highjacked (even on your local network!).

  It is becoming an important threat to you. Managing servers, applications and data is very complex, and the problem is that you cannot do it on your own: how do you know that the server application where you store your family photos has a secure code? it was never audited.

  Even a major application such as Plex has been hacked in the past, and the data of its users has been exposed. In fact, the recent LastPass leak happened because a LastPass employee had a Plex server that wasn’t updated to the last version and was missing an important security patch!

  That is the issue Cosmos Server is trying to solve: by providing a secure and robust way to run your self-hosted applications, you can be sure that your data is safe and that you can access it without having to worry about your security.

  Yeah, no, thanks. That sounds 100% like some snake oil salesman trying to sell me nord vpn or some trash because HaCkeRs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH you don’t have to find the perfect distro - just one that is better than the BS Microsoft peddles. And that gets easier and easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chad scraper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mind blowing stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Soon actual copilots will have to either be replaced with AI or rename their position to not be associated with that garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor man’s voice was stolen and now while he cannot use it anymore you make mean jokes :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity apologises.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “We apologize for the confusion (…)”

  Sorry your dumb UwU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brexit: Labour will seek re-write of deal, Starmer says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  AAAAAaaaaaaAAAaaaaaaaaargh

  • Greetings from Germany
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humble Bundle expressing their feelings about Unity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When a gold rush gets going don’t go digging for gold but sell shovels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No that’s a homelab. Selfhosted applies to the software that you install and administrate yourself so you have full control over it. If it was about running hardware at home we’d see more posts about hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like a company I want to completely rely on to develop a product, a company and my whole dev career.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex will be blocking access from at least VPS provider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  lol “Selfhosted” my ass - that’s why FOSS is superior regardless of features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hearthstone too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨selfh.st community survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange survey - it seems to imply that self-hosting means that I have the hardware running at home? Cannot fill this out, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know KSP. I also know KSP 2 which has the same physics bugs and limitations KSP 1 had with Unity. I know there are many “proper” games made in Unity but if the Unity company can detect your customers installing the game it is a huge red privacy flag.