Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_orca_attacks
Monohulled sailing vessels are the most frequent targets of the orcas, with yachts, catamarans, and vessels with spade rudders being the types most often attacked and damaged.
CIRCE Conservación Information and Research coordinator Renaud de Stephanis suggested that the orcas break the rudder out of frustration, preferring the sensation of the propeller when a sailboat is running its engine.[27]
Not very climate-friendly, these orcas.
neighbors’ dad insists on mowing their lawn at least twice a week, especially when I’m trying to enjoy my hammock.
Noise-cancelling headphones.
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It sounds like gar like Asian carp, which would include goldfish. For some areas, maybe gar would work:
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/asian_carp_being_eaten_by_native_fish_new_studies_find
Small Asian carp were extremely abundant following a large spawning event in the summer of 2014. When any food source is abundant we expect that predators will take advantage, but some predators were actually going out of their way to select Asian carp. Gar were particularly fond of Asian carp, which accounted for half of all fish found in gar stomachs.
It sounds like the limiting factor is mostly that once a carp gets big enough, some fish can't eat it, but some types of gar apparently get really big.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar
Recreational fishing of the alligator gar became popular due to its massive size and its meat is sold for food.[41] Over five decades of overfishing have brought it close to extinction,[39][40] and man-made dams have contributed to this loss by restricting the gar's access to the flood plain areas in which it spawns.[41] Some U.S. states have enacted laws to combat overfishing, and reintroduction programs are being carried out in some states, such as Illinois, where human activity has extirpated the gar.[39][40] Before being released, each gar must meet a length requirement to ensure that it has the best chance of survival in the wild.[42] Some states, such as Texas, restrict the number of gar that may be caught in a day, the season in which they may be caught, and the equipment anglers may use to catch them. Some states also impose a minimum length requirement to prevent gar from being caught at too early an age.[43] Scientists have found that the alligator gar can help maintain ecosystem balance by eating invasive species such as the Asian carp, and their success in a particular area can show scientists that area may also make a suitable habitat for other migratory species.[44]
This is due to phishing attacks and account takeover attempts, not due to the platform itself being insecure.
I mean, it's not that Signal has security issues per se, but it doesn't have the German government's security people with control over what goes into releases, either.
If you remember the wake of Signalgate, the US doesn't allow use by American officials of Signal to do their communications because they don't certify it for classified information transmission and do have their own app that officials are supposed to be using.
On March 15, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used the chat to share sensitive and classified details of the impending airstrikes, including types of aircraft and missiles, as well as launch and attack times.[1][2] The name of an active undercover CIA officer was mentioned by CIA director John Ratcliffe in the chat,[3] while Vance and Hegseth expressed contempt for European allies.[4][5]
A forensic investigation by the White House information technology office determined that Waltz had inadvertently saved Goldberg's phone number under Hughes' contact information. Waltz then added Goldberg to the chat while trying to add Hughes.[15] Subsequently, investigative journalists reported Waltz's team regularly created group chats to coordinate official work[16] and that Hegseth shared details about missile strikes in Yemen to a second group chat which included his wife, his brother, and his lawyer.[17]
On March 18, 2025, the Pentagon sent a department-wide memo warning, "Please note: third party messaging apps (e.g. Signal) are permitted by policy for unclassified accountability/recall exercises but are NOT approved to process or store nonpublic unclassified information"—a category whose release would be far less potentially damaging than that about ongoing military operations.[27] A former NSA hacker said that linking Signal to a desktop app is one of its biggest risks, as Ratcliffe suggested he had done.[28]
According to the article, German government information security people do that for Wire:
Klöckner highlighted that Wire is already provided by the Bundestag administration and is certified by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
Rule 34, a maxim that everything imaginable has been portrayed in porn, has now been taken to its logical extremes.
Not yet, it hasn't.
It was one of those questions where the asker had conveniently also provided the answer in the question.
One thing that I have wondered based on the steady flow of cases in which lawyers --- not just in South Africa --- have been shown to be using hallucinated text, meaning that they were just feeding stuff into some LLM and using the output, is how much legal text prior to LLMs showing up was basically just copy-pasted from other random documents authored by someone else, with lawyers not really doing the expected work themselves of ensuring that the text was appropriate. Or dumping work that is supposed to be done by a lawyer on some paralegal and signing off on it, or something like that. I mean, LLMs are probably an appealing way to half-ass doing legal text, but they also probably aren't the first way to cut corners.
Communications minister, Solly Malatsi, withdrew the draft policy after finding that at least 6 of its 67 academic citations were AI-generated hallucinations that cited journal articles that don’t exist.
Setting aside the issue of whether where the text came from was appropriate, human or computer or whatnot, I also kind of feel like the legislators and legal people involved should be...you know, doing a careful reading of the actual legislation before it goes to the public for comments.
On the other hand, then your mobile provider can't see what you're doing, so six of this, half a dozen of the other.
So would it be possible for a whole bunch of people to ddos google/other big popular websites ipv4 to ipv6 translation such that their services would still function over ipv6 but make everyone’s day awful if running ipv4. Enough angry customers and pissed off users seems like a very effective way to get isps and mobile service providers to get their act together and start issue sing ipv6 to people.
Trying to DDoS attack Google's IPv4 services to get your mobile provider to provide IPv6 support seems kind of...indirect.
Anybody have recommendations for truly uncensored models?
- Are you wanting something for ERP (erotic role-play; sexy chatbots)?
- How much VRAM can you afford to spend on it?
If the answer to (1) is "yes", then:
If the answer to (2) is "large GPU range", maybe 16GB+ -ish, then I'd maybe look at Cydonia, based on Mistral. I find that this tends to become increasingly nonsensical and repetitive at a conversation grows to a certain (sub-context window) size, but it's quite popular with users on /r/SillyTavernAI, and for the memory, I do think that it's fairly solid.
If the answer to (2) is "unified memory range" --- I use a 128GB Framework Desktop myself --- then I personally use AnubisLemonade, a merge of two popular Llama 3.3-based models, sophosymphonia's StrawberryLemonade and Anubis.
Anubis (based on Llama 3.3) and Cydonia (based on Mistral) are both done by /u/TheDrummer, a user who is active on /r/LocalLlama on Reddit.
You'll probably want a quantitized version (probably Q4_K_M and up in size, if you can afford the memory). For AnubisLemonade, quantitized versions:
https://huggingface.co/bartowski/ockerman0_AnubisLemonade-70B-v1.1-GGUF
For Cydonia, quantitized versions:
https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Cydonia-22B-v1-GGUF
EDIT: In general, /r/SillyTavernAI is probably the best current resource for people talking about models for ERP use that I've run into. Even if you don't want to comment there, use Reddit, you probably should consider searching discussions there as a resource, as there's a fair amount of useful material.
EDIT2: For non-ERP uses, my impression is that things are somewhat-heading down the MoE route (as with Qwen), which is more-friendly to consumer GPUs. I've seen some commenting that these tend not to do ERP (or writing in general) terribly well. My limited experimentation has kind of caused me to agree.
EDIT3: Just to be clear, the base models that these are on are censored (and closed-source, though open-weight; open-weight is often referred to as being "open source", though I personally wouldn't call it that, as the training material is not made public). I don't think that there are competitive open-source models aimed at ERP out there, as things stand.
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So, a number of companies here in the US, especially in the tech world, and especially B2C, have low variable costs and high fixed costs. That is, it costs them very little to service an additional customer (usually just some extra server time), but they have to pay a lot of fixed costs (things like software engineers to write software) that don't change regardless of how many customers they have.
If you are a company in an economic situation like that, it is extremely bad to be small, because you are paying those high fixed costs without revenue from a large customer base. That means that it is absolutely vital to grow as quickly as possible, to get out of the "being small" stage. It's imperative to expand your userbase as quickly as possible.
An added factor is that a number of companies --- like those doing social media --- work in an area where network effect is a factor. There, the value of the service to existing customers that the company provides rises as the userbase expands. The total value of the service to all customers is something like the square of the size of the userbase. For companies like this, becoming large is even more important.
So what a number of companies in this area have done is to get a lot of capital from investors and then run a "growth phase", during which they accept very large losses to grow quickly for as long as they can get investment capital to keep growing. They don't worry about making money much or at all during this phase --- they just want to be as appealing as possible, to get as many users as possible, and get out of the "being small" phase. They cover the losses with investment dollars; investors understand that this is part of what they're signing up for. Then, later, the companies have a "monetization phase" where they worry about being profitable. Usually, that phase has the companies doing things that users like less (since not doing things that might deter users from signing up was one thing that they did to grow quickly).
Cory Doctorow coined the phrase enshittification for the transition between the two phases; the user experience in the monetization phase tends to be worse in some ways than during the growth phase.
AI companies are all pretty young (at least, as regards their AI aspects; some are existing companies moving into the space), and are in the growth phase now.
Thanks, you're right --- looks like it's @pmjv@lemmy.world now. That's amazing. If there's one server I'd have thought that stays up no matter what, it's an sdf.org one. When I saw their domain, I recognized it as one of the few that was still running a gopherspace node (
gopher://sdf.org), alongsidegopher://gopher.floodgap.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System
Super Dimension Fortress (abbreviated as SDF, also known as freeshell.org) is a non-profit public access UNIX shell provider on the Internet. It has been in continual operation since 1987 as a non-profit social club.
SDF provides free Unix shell access and web hosting to its users. In addition, SDF provides increasingly rare services such as dial-up internet access, and Gopher hosting. SDF is one of very few organizations in the world still actively promoting the gopher protocol,[9][10] an alternate protocol that existed at the introduction of the modern World Wide Web.[11]
- Avatars (image which shows in full size on user page and thumbnail form by their name in the Lemmy Web UI)
- Display names (a user can have a different name appear in place of their username, which is how some users stick Unicode in their name. I don't like this feature, because you need the "real" username, not the displayname, to reference users in such a way that Lemmy will generate a hyperlink to them, and I think that referencing users is complicated enough to create a usability barrier for people without the extra complexity).
- A banner (which displays on the user page and is larger than the avatar image)
- Bio text.
@Sxan@piefed.zip, which was mentioned in another comment in this thread, is a good example of someone who makes use of all four.
Not Slashdot that I recall, and looking at it, looks like it still doesn't, but it looks like Stack Overflow does.
Fully-qualified username: @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Fully-qualified username: @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
Fully-qualified usernames:
- @rimu@piefed.social (the lead PieFed dev)
- @Sunshine@piefed.ca
- @Blaze@lazysoci.al
- @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org (regarding the art, see !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org).
Fully-qualified username: @D_a_X@feddit.org
If you're going to leave your smartphone at home and then take this, and not having the phone with you is your goal, okay, sure.
But if you're not, you're just carrying an additional device to do something that the first device is quite capable of handling.