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Dran_Arcana ,

I believe that one was patched a while ago

Dran_Arcana ,

I’m a big fan of tiling window managers like i3 or awesome (awesome wm). Awesome is the one I use. It’s tiling and the entire interface is built from scripts that they encourage you to modify. Steep learning curve but once you get it how you like, there’s nothing like it.

Dran_Arcana ,

There are a multitude of established, studied, simple changes that could be made to make things safer for pedestrians with relatively little needed in the way of sacrifice from car designers

Can you share some of these? I had a small stint in the auto design industry and am genuinely curious.

Dran_Arcana ,

Never change

Dran_Arcana ,

“[an] integrated vehicle system that uses, at minimum, the GPS location of the vehicle compared with a database of posted speed limits, to determine the speed limit, and utilizes a brief, one-time visual and audio signal to alert the driver each time they exceed the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour.”

Honestly the only part of this that is unreasonable is that it isn’t immediately followed with “the database updates will be maintained and provided in an open, unencrypted format for free for the life of the vehicle, and the tracking data cannot be used for any other purpose”. GPS is a one-way, triangulation-based signal. It doesn’t inherently track or leak anything. I think we would be a lot safer if we all could agree what speed to go.

Dran_Arcana ,

hence the omission I suggested unreasonable. That database needs to be updatable by the end user, trivially. IMHO could/should be done ad-hoc by a hobbyist or as part of a standard oil change every ~6mo.

Dran_Arcana ,

Businesses “follow the constitution” here. The nuance is that the first amendment (freedom of speech) explicitly only applies to consequences from government. As a private corporation, the people running Harvard have the right to their own speech, in this case: a policy denying graduation, without consequence from the government.

I in no way endorse the speech that Harvard is expressing, but I do have the right to impose my own consequences on them for it (I.E not supporting things they do financially, disparaging them in an online forum like Lemmy, etc). The constitution prevents the US government from punishing Harvard for these actions in the same ways, unless a law has explicitly been broken.

Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...

Dran_Arcana ,

I have this running at home on a used r630 (CPU only). oobabooga/automatic1111 for LLM/SD backends, vosk + mimic3 for tts/stt. A little bit of custom python to tie it all together. I certainly don’t have latency as low as theirs, but it’s definitely conversational when my sentences are short enough.

Dran_Arcana ,

I am not joking lol but I do sometimes forget most people don’t live in this space the same way I do. I think people use these names because the programs themselves are forked often and the software names are very unspecific otherwise. I meant to imply that I was using the main branches of these softwares.

github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Dead Games News: Response from UK Government (www.youtube.com)

From the videos description: News on what the UK government response means on the issue of game destruction by publishers! It’s not all awful, just most of it! Also, some news on how the campaign to end game destruction is going internationally. Relevant links below:...

Dran_Arcana ,

TL/DW for those of us who don’t learn well from video content?

Dran_Arcana ,

I thought most surveys showed like 30-40% of israelis were in support of a single-state solution?

Dran_Arcana ,

It is possible to both be anti-chinese government and also want comprehensive privacy laws in the US. Like, I absolutely buy that the Chinese government has access to tiktok data. I, however, don’t think forcing a sale is the right way to deal with any of this. Comprehensive privacy and data collection laws would go much farther towards making it so it doesn’t really matter who owns what.

Dran_Arcana ,

Small fediverse lol

Dran_Arcana ,

unless the bill has changed since the last time I read it, there were fines for hosting the service in US datacenters, and fines for companies allowing US data to exist in non-us datacenters. I don’t think you could interpret the bill as imposing a civil penalty to a user using a vpn and accessing it.

Dran_Arcana ,

Not sure if you could get updates to the app over VPN though, that depends on how the stores handle regions.

Specifically, app stores would be required not to host it, so you’d likely have to do updates through some sort of side-loading

Dran_Arcana ,

I would guess that it goes off of the lowest common denominator between IP address geo-location & billing address. If either of those say US, google/apple would probably be required not to distribute it.

Dran_Arcana ,

I think most of us blocked it out

Dran_Arcana ,

costs only an email address and a promise to sign up for a 37% APY credit card.

Dran_Arcana ,

You would expose a single port to multiple vlans, and then bind multiple addresses to that single physical connected interface. Each service would then bind itself to the appropriate address, rather than “*”

Dran_Arcana ,

I thought tiktok came out of music.ly? I didn’t think it had roots in vine.

Dran_Arcana ,

Yeah, turns out when the monopolies are eliminated, people get more competition and a better deal on the consumer end. It’s why I’ll never understand people who say streaming services became as bad as cable.

I’d argue that streaming is in such a bad place right now because each streaming service has a monopoly on their own content. Sure, you could argue that studios “compete” with each other on the content they produce, but I’d argue that cable companies were a different layer of the stack entirely. Cable companies all offered the same channels and the same content, and in areas where they did overlap, competition to offer the best delivery of those channels was great. What made cable bad was that there was little incentive for companies to geographically compete. In the era of streaming, companies have little incentive to allow their content to compete across platforms.

If you ask me, every streaming platform should be broken up from their production parents, so that streaming companies can compete on what they offer, and how they deliver it. There is no incentive for the platforms themselves to compete with each other. It’s all about how hard the services can enshittify before people stop watching the content they have a monopoly on.

Dran_Arcana ,

Movie theaters are a great analogy to what streaming services should be

Dran_Arcana ,

You should consider reversing the roles. There’s no reason your homelab cannot be the client, and have your vps be the server. Once the wireguard virtual network exists, network traffic doesn’t really care which was the client and which was the server. Saves you from opening a port to attackers on your home network.

Dran_Arcana ,

It doesn’t need csam data for training, it just needs to know what a boob looks like, and what a child looks like. I run some sdxl-based models at home and I’ve observed it can be difficult to avoid more often than you’d think. There are keywords in porn that blend the lines across datasets (“teen”, “petite”, “young”, “small” etc). The word “girl” in particular I’ve found that if you add that to basically any porn prompt gives you a small chance of inadvertently creating the undesirable. You have to be really careful and use words like “woman”, “adult”, etc instead to convince your image model not to make things that look like children. If you’ve ever wondered why internet-based porn generators are on super heavy guardrails, this is why.

Dran_Arcana ,

I’m not going to say that csam in training sets isn’t a problem. However, even if you remove it, the model remains largely the same, and its capabilities remain functionally identical.

Dran_Arcana ,

That would be true, it’d be pretty difficult to build a model without any pictures of children at all, and then try and describe to the model how to alter an adult to make a child. Is anyone asking for that though? To make it illegal to have regular pictures of children in these datasets?

Dran_Arcana ,

I’m not arguing whether or not it should be legal, I was just offering my first hand experience in regards to the capabilities of these local models since people seem to be confused as to how this actually works.

Dran_Arcana ,

I guess I just misunderstood what you were arguing then. For posterity: I believe datasets containing children is fine, datasets containing csam is not, and the legality of generating csam should be left up to psychologists on whether or not it is a societal net benefit. Whichever way is better for children that exist is my vote.

Dran_Arcana ,

Always happy to try and productively add to someone’s learning.

Dran_Arcana ,

There is also the argument that it’s more complicated under the hood and harder to troubleshoot, particularly because of it’s inherent parallelism and dependency-tree design, whereas initv was inherently serial. It was much more straightforward to pick the order in which services started and shut down on an initv system.

For example, say I write a service and I want it to always be the first service stopped during a shutdown, and I want all other services to wait for it to stop before shutting down. That was trivial to do on an initv system, it’s basically impossible on systemd.

For those wondering, yes I did run into this situation. My solution was clobbering the shutdown, poweroff, and restart binaries with scripts earlier in path search that stop my service, verify that they’re stopped, and then hook back to systemd to do the power event.

Dran_Arcana ,

It’s probably “blocked” by restricting DNS queries to the main site (e.g pornhub.com) but not to any of their CDNs because effort

Dran_Arcana ,

With my country’s propensity for cultural appropriation, I would like also appropriate this practice of executing white-collar crime bosses.

Dran_Arcana ,

Did you ever get carbons working properly? (As in, mobile and desktop clients of the same user both getting messages and marking as read remotely between them)

Dran_Arcana ,

Sorry I should have said “carbons and carbons related qol extensions”

Dran_Arcana ,

That’s not necessarily true. The thing about TV ads in particular, is there are only so many ad minutes to sell in an hour. More ad bidders = higher prices for those ad minutes. As advertisers leave a platform, the remaining advertisers have more power to negotiate lower prices for ad buys.

Dran_Arcana ,

We’re all thinking it; it looks like someone had a small poo in a seaweed cup.

Dran_Arcana ,

I actually had one of these myself. I worked at a college help desk as a student, and I got a call and the guy said “every time I flush the toilet, Xbox live disconnects”

My first thought was that it was a joke, the absurdity of the thing right? I unironically asked if I was being pranked, and he said he knew we wouldn’t believe him so he made a video. Sure enough, he walks into the bathroom, flushes the toilet, and like 5s later his Xbox shows a disconnection message on the TV.

Absolutely dumbfounded, I sent the networking guys up to his room, and like all of these stories, it does have a reasonable explanation. They ran the xbox’s Ethernet cable under a rug that was in front of the bathroom. Every time someone went to the bathroom, they would step on the cable, and the Xbox would disconnect. The timeout was 30s or so, just long enough that they’d pee or flush the toilet or whatever before they noticed the disconnection.

With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit)

Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?

Dran_Arcana ,

I support your position in principle, but canceled my own nitro when they did the android app redesign. It went from really snappy (respecting system animation scale settings) to completely ignoring them. It feels like molasses compared to every other phone app that operates at the system set 0.25 animation scale.

They also completely broke foldable support, and if your device changes aspect ratios inside a chat, you have to restart your client to get it to behave correctly again.

The enshittification is real and I am voting with my wallet.

Dran_Arcana ,

I actually did, because once I bought it they couldn’t shut down the dlc servers on me when they released the next one.

Dran_Arcana ,

It has always struck me as odd that people surprisedpikachuface.jpg whenever something inherently highly sexual is… checks notes sexualized by spectators.

I’m with you. Either educate, own it, and lean into it, or get rid of it.

Dran_Arcana ,

They probably would. As the value of a dollar drops disproportionate to the value of goods/services, the cost in dollars for the same good/service goes up.

Dran_Arcana , (edited )

I think delisting it from ios and android appstores would probably be half-sufficient to kill it. Most people won’t go out of their way to sideload an app or use a website. Making it so American advertising companies cannot exchange money with tiktok would probably be the other half. No money, extra effort = dead platform.

Edit: just read the draft bill, it probably deosn’t even go far enough. It does the first half, but not the second half. It looks like under the bill, advertisers as businesses would still be able to interact with the platform, but the platform would only be accessible via a browser, and no US hosting/vps provider could host any of their services. Any violations would be a civil penalty of up to $500/user (presumably with the penalty of completely being cut off from us businesses if they didn’t pay up).

Honestly seems more reasonable than I’d have initially given it credit. It mostly solves the “a foreign adversary could update the app to use my phone as a wiretap” or “a foreign adversary could use their legitimate business dealings to spy from within a datacenter” without actually creating a great firewall.

…house.gov/…/Protecting Americans From Foriegn Ad…

Dran_Arcana ,

the product itself is not the problem

well hold on there partner, lets not get crazy with our sweeping claims here.

American Academy of Dermatology votes to keep its diversity policies after anti-DEI proposal (www.nbcnews.com)

The American Academy of Dermatology on Sunday voted to reject a proposal to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, in what Black dermatologists are calling a small victory for the organization and the field in general....

Dran_Arcana ,

See, and I think more people could benefit from those. Our DEI training is like a 15 minute video and then a 7 question quiz. “Karen called Sharon the N word in an email, was that bad??!? (Y/N)”. It really is no wonder that a large swath of people think dei is a joke. In a lot of places it IS a joke.

How can I hold a Zenphone before buying it?

My wife is in the market for a new phone. Her highest priority is that it’s small. She has it narrowed down to a Galaxy S23 or a Zenphone 10. The Samsung is the safe bet, especially since she’s upgrading from an S10e. And even so, we can just got to T-mobile and play with one. The Zenphone is a bit riskier as it’s...

Dran_Arcana ,

buy it from somewhere that has a 14 or 30 day “no questions asked” return policy. A competent retailer will have that baked into their margins so don’t feel bad doing it. I think that’s your best bet.

UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content (www.wired.com)

A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...

Dran_Arcana ,

I’d think it’s probably not a majority, but I do wonder what percentage it actually is. I do have distinct memories of being like 12 and trying to find porn of people my own age instead of “gross old people” and being confused why I couldn’t find anything. Kids are stupid lol, that’s why laws protecting them need to exist.

Also good god when I become a parent I am going to do proper network monitoring; in hindsight I should not have been left unattended on the internet at 12.

Dran_Arcana ,

“Phonk” traditionally referred to the music style itself without lyrics, but as most emerging music styles do, it’s evolved into a sort of new-age emo/grunge mix of Phonk, Hip-Hop, and Alternative Rock. All of the below can be considered modern phonk, even though in the strictest sense, traditional phonk is lyricless. A lot of people will know the “phonk walk” song Why Not by Ghostface Playa

www.youtube.com/@trash This youtube channel has popularized many of the rising artists in the genere as it’s evolved over the last 3-4 years, and if you’re looking for some recommendations from an enthusiast, check out (in no particular order):

TheRealTaco

ETHAN ROSS

Jeris Johnson

YCK

REI AMI

Kylof Söze

KIDR

XZARKHAN

SALIVA GREY

XANAKIN SKYWOK

DOWNFVLL

Dran_Arcana ,

If you need to eat half as much it kind of works out though.

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