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Riskable

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Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

  • LTT does another Linux Challenge

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  • I didn't watch the video but... Why TF did he choose Pop! OS with Cosmic Desktop‽ That's not something a non-technical user would choose. That's like... Beta software (Cosmic) running on a Linux distro made and tested for very specific hardware sold by System76.

    That's like trying to put wheels made for a truck on a random sedan. Like, yeah you can do that with a bit of effort but why? It makes no sense.

    If you're going to put a Linux distro on random hardware pick something universal and stable that was made to run on random hardware like Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Especially if you're new to Linux.

    Also, if you're going to do something ridiculous like this why not just start with Gentoo? Don't use the GUI installer either! Go the LFS+ route and take care picking your file systems and compile flags 😁

    BTW: Out of all the random people I've ever known to "try Linux", the ones who had the best first-time experience all used KDE (Plasma) as their desktop. That means Kubuntu, Bazzite, or SteamOS. For newbies, always go with KDE. Seriously: Its interface for settings and the launcher are familiar enough to both Windows and Mac users that they don't have a hard time while also being different enough that they don't make bad assumptions about how things work (which is a problem for Gnome).

  • New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo

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  • New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo

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  • In short: The anime left a scientist bamboozled.

  • Waffle House bans Florida candidate for governor, he says

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    What do you think about the fact that AI blurs the line between reality and fiction and devalues art and real people?

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  • ...or that AI is how Jesus will be resurrected.

  • Trump says he's thinking of putting Ted Cruz on Supreme Court

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  • Yes, but what illegal experience does he have? Without that, I fail to see how Trump would consider him qualified!

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  • Bailouts only happen to companies with loads of employees. An AI company with loads of employees is an oxymoron!

  • uhn 🥺

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  • It would turn into a prince! An unstable prince of undefined behavior.

  • Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants

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  • That's the thing, though: Removing that mercury filtration system is going to be expensive and require re-certification. There's no point. The price has already been paid.

    It's like someone heard that mercury removal from coal power plants costs a lot of money and saves lives so they said to themselves, "saving lives‽ We can't have that! The more people that die from pollution, the better!" And set policy based on that instead of examining the reality of the economics.

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  • I suspect that OpenAI is on a path to spend as much money on data centers and hardware as possible so they can go bankrupt and sell those assets to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.

    It's a scheme to filter billions and billions of dollars around the "AI everything" hype train directly into Microsoft's coffers.

  • Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants

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  • Of all the things... Do they have meetings where they're like, "we're not doing enough pointlessly evil things that have no benefit to anyone!" ‽

  • Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"

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  • Within the browser, it'll work to "protect" your traffic (including DNS) from prying eyes locally. As in, someone on the same network as you or your ISP or whatever networks your traffic passes through to its destination.

    Instead, it sends it all to Microsoft Central Data Collection™! By passing all your traffic through Microsoft's central servers, you can rest easy, knowing precisely who is inspecting everything you do (including the US government and the other countries in the Five Eyes network).

    Let's be honest: It's yet another unfair transfer of power from local criminals to international ones, increasing the wealth of billionaire pedophiles. Give the locals a chance to rise up, would ya?

  • Tennessee House passes bill allowing private citizens to refuse recognition of same-sex marriages

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  • What's so special about same-sex marriages? I say expand it to include all marriages!

    Let us not recognize the unions of conservatives. Clearly, any woman in such a relationship is being held in such a position against her will. Or she's mentally addled somehow and is being taken advantage of.

  • Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site

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  • Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site

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  • When my kids were young, but old enough that they may inadvertently stumble upon porn, I told them the truth. The truth that so few explain to their children. The truth that many adults don't understand and many more completely forget.

    Porn is fake.

    It's not real. The sounds? Acting. The breasts? Those are fake too. The perfect skin? Makeup (or airbrush).

    Even "amateur" porn is fake! As soon as someone agrees to be filmed having sex it ceases to be real.

    Also, let me get this straight: Your greatest fear from children being exposed to porn is they might begin to accept mysogyny‽ As in, you think porn is the most likely place kids will be exposed to it and somehow just nod their heads‽ "Oh wow, that's totally sexist! But they're having sex so it must be OK. I'll try to be like that!" (Child nods head).

    Or perhaps you think kids will be viewing so much porn—specifically, the mysogynistic kind—that it will somehow carve mysogyny into their minds?

    This is so much like the beliefs of conservatives that try to ban books that mention LGBTQ people. Stop and think for a moment: How much porn did you view as a kid? How did that impact your life?

    I seriously doubt it changed much. Unless, of course, you were reading Playboy for the articles.

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  • Just think: Without legislation like this, kids will be able to see people having sex! Thus, ending their lives. Not so different from staring into the eyes of Medusa!

    The amount of children exposed to sex that have died—or suffered worse consequences like early onset conservatism—may have been zero so far but the dangers are clear! We must skip right over parental involvement in child rearing and go straight to the source of the problem: Computers.

    Computers have been giving everyone access to too much information for too long! We must restrict it! The first step is to get an implementation that actually works to censor information—to save the children (wink wink)—then later, we will have the tools necessary to censor whatever we want!

    When glorious dictator decides that information about trans-genic mice must be erased from the Internet, we shall have the power to do so!

  • University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects"

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  • Anything related to conservative ideology better be banned, then!

  • At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevance to my life.

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  • The problem is it's an arms race! Stop treating LLMs like their existence is the problem and start viewing it via the lens of war:

    The enemy has lots of badly-behaving LLMs! Marketers, scammers, and lazy management are equipped with Big AI brand LLMzookas that are sending hallucinations our way!

    Captain: "So what do we do about it?"

    Soldier: "Captain, there's FOSS LLMs that we can deploy! We can use them to defeat the enemy's bullshit slingers! They can be used to search the web on our behalf to filter out hallucinations and advertisements disguised as content! We can set them up to monitor enemy deployments and analyze intelligence to find the truth and stop propaganda in its tracks!"

    Captain: "...but can FOSS AI generate boobs‽"

    Soldier: "Sir, FOSS has already surpassed commercial AI in that front of the war."

    Captain: "We need to deploy FOSS AI ASAP!"

  • Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT - Slashdot

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  • Your friends could be sharing your public phone number! The one that's listed and accessible to the world via the Internet's version of the White Pages!

    In the US, phone numbers aren't private unless you pay extra (no one does except celebrities who are wasting their money... Because even if they pay it gets sold to 3rd parties anyway!).