henfredemars
@henfredemars@infosec.pub
This is a secondary account. My main account is listed below. The main will have a list of all the accounts that I use.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 days ago:
Well, they won’t be accessing my personal folders and files because I just won’t use Windows. Thanks but no thanks. That’s really creepy.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 week ago:
I remember finding online guides for the first time back in the days of dial up. It was incredible. So many games I had places where I was stuck and you just accepted that you have to figure it out or you just don’t continue the game.
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 1 week ago:
This nobody has a lot of opinions 👴
- Comment on So sad to see a really old guy driving an expensive sports car 2 weeks ago:
It’s not sad. Let the man have his fun! He may have been saving for decades.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 2 weeks ago:
Considering how the open source community is being inundated with low-quality bug reports filed using AI, I don’t have much faith in the tech reviewing code, let alone writing it correctly.
Could it be a useful aid? Sure, but 70% of your reviewing is a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream. Not with still delivered a good product.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 2 weeks ago:
Can the universe not also approximate? Why must it be an exact result whenever a rule is applied?
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 2 weeks ago:
I take issue with completeness in a very similar way. For example, imagine for some reason that in the simulation it’s impossible to think about penguins. Let’s say that penguins are so logically incomprehensible that we cannot implement this.
The implementation of the simulation could simply trap any attempt to think about penguins and replace it with something else. We would be none the wiser. The simulation still works even if there are states that we can’t get to or are undefined.
It could be that reality itself isn’t entirely complete and defined everywhere. Who’s to say this isn’t one big dream and that the sky isn’t there if we all stopped looking?
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 2 weeks ago:
Dr. Faizal says the same limitation applies to physics. “We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity,” he explains.
“Therefore, no physically complete and consistent theory of everything can be derived from computation alone.”
Your argument is bad and you should feel bad.
Impossible to describe does not mean that it’s not computable, and impossible is an incredibly strong criterion that sounds quite inaccurate to me.
This seems like a huge leap to conclude that just because some aspects of our understanding seem like we wouldn’t be able to fully describe them somehow means that the universe can’t be simulated.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it matters if it’s legal or not anymore these days.
Still, they can legally demand any recordings from you if they reasonably can know that such recordings exist. Generally they will need a warrant or they may subpoena you for the evidence that they know you have. You can even be arrested for erasing your own footage as destruction of evidence.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 weeks ago:
Unless you’re self hosting your own cameras, just don’t. If you don’t control the data then it’s somebody else’s camera.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 3 weeks ago:
I’m deeply proud of Python for standing by its community and making the right decision.
- Comment on You're so predictable 3 weeks ago:
Inflation. Pixels cost less back then.
- Comment on Help with home server plan 3 weeks ago:
The h265 hardware support is a lot less exciting than you might think. Most hardware that has support to encode it doesn’t even use the hardware encoders anyway because a software encoder produces a significantly better result. I would make sure you have CPU power to handle your transcoding, and I haven’t has any issues transcoding that resolution on my quite old Intel® Core™ i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz.
A Raspi is probably not going to be enough for reliable video transcoding at high resolutions, but I haven’t tried it myself. You certainly have more upgrade path options with a mini-PC while still keeping a low power target.
I agree that distro is not very important if you’re running your services in Docker containers anyway. It’s mostly whatever you find comfortable. My personal recommendation is don’t get too creative unless you enjoy setting up servers. I tend to be conservative in my server OSs.
- Comment on Black widow life 3 weeks ago:
This doesn’t usually end well for the simp nerd.
- Comment on Her slumber is now complete. 3 weeks ago:
In the US, the left mirror doesn’t usually have this effect.
- Comment on Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together 3 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong there. This model doesn’t scale, but there are solutions to this that can help us rebuild. I participate in monthly exercises where we use a repeater system to relay messages in emergencies somewhat like how the telegraph system worked. In this way, we can re-use the limited bandwidth geographically. HF works at the current load but for higher bandwidth needs we can move to regional or even local repeater systems at higher frequencies and find that much more usable bandwidth becomes available.
In a total collapse situation we could start with HF, and slowly form new communities that can scale in much the same way that people scale to form social groups.
- Comment on Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together 3 weeks ago:
I’m a Ham and we send digital messages including a form of electronic email over the air. I’ve exchanged the equivalent of emails across continents with no intermediary. There will always be connection where there is a will. There will be some kind of network, but it might not be the one we have today.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t that disproven by Snopes?
- Comment on Didn't workout for me, do you guys have other advices? 3 weeks ago:
You’re supposed to use the other rear.
- Comment on $1,000 richer 3 weeks ago:
I’m already ugly so might as well get paid for it.
- Comment on "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class." 3 weeks ago:
There’s a reason why license agreements often stay there there are no warranties express or implied, no guarantees, and no fitness for any particular purpose.
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
That’s the good spice.
- Comment on turkey 4 weeks ago:
How to delete someone else’s post.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 weeks ago:
I use it and I have not encountered this. You’re referring to the desktop GUI maybe?
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 weeks ago:
I’ll take a risk and say Fedora KDE Plasma flavor. Rolling release so highly current drivers, and it’s done a great job with my games.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 weeks ago:
I will continue to enjoy my incredibly straightforward and to the point Linux desktop that’s somehow gained a new AI-free feature by doing nothing.
- Comment on Replacement.AI: Humans no longer necessary 4 weeks ago:
Point taken!
- Comment on Replacement.AI: Humans no longer necessary 4 weeks ago:
Looks like they just made it in before the big AI crash.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 4 weeks ago:
Are there actually enough users that I can stumble upon others in radio mesh range?
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 4 weeks ago:
You’re right here, building it with us!