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furrowsofar ,

No, we would call it copyright infringement if it indeed was. Or if not that you would have to find some other specific legal theory.

Stealing generally applies to property and intellectual property is a misleading term used to describe certain other rights not related to property law.

furrowsofar ,

The problem with AI is that it does not understand anything. You can have a completely reasonable sounding conversation that is just full of stupidity and the AI does not know it because it does not no anything.

Another AI issue is it works until it does not and that failure can be rather severe and unexpected. Again because the AI knows nothing.

Seems like we need some test to address this. They are basically the same problem. Or maybe it is some training so that the AI can know what it does not know.

furrowsofar , (edited )

Understanding the general sanity of some of their responses. Synthesizing new ideas. Having a larger context. AI tends to be idiot savants on one hand and really mediocre on the other.

You could argue that this is just a reflection of lack of training and scale but I wonder.

You will change my mind when I have had a machine interaction where the machine does not seem like an idiot.

Edit: AI people call the worst of these hallucinations but they are just nonsensical stuff that proves AI knows nothing and are just dumb correlation engines.

furrowsofar ,

Most humans are not very intelligent either and many lack the ability to understand many things. We are not really thinking machines. We are emotional creatures that some times think. So I would not measure AI against the average human. That is a pretty low bar.

furrowsofar ,

Sounds liked a bad idea. Who wants their voice out there… just seems like a security issue.

Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect that led to killing of Florida man (www.reuters.com)

Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor, called the judge’s summary of the evidence significant because it suggests “alarming inconsistencies” between what Tesla knew internally, and what it was saying in its marketing....

furrowsofar ,

This is what gets me. Why would any Tesla owner believe that the auto pilot is autonomous regardless of what Testa says. Autonomous is only going to be possible via decades of real world experience and some freaky crashes to learn from. It is only a question of when the crash rate is less then the average human which is not great in itself.

Would love to have an autonomous vehicle but I have no interest in being an early adopter.

jlou , to technology

Silicon Valley’s ideology is this: Libertarianism for me. Feudalism for thee.

https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/#more-52003

@technology

furrowsofar ,

This is the thing about libertarianism. Sounds good until you realize that the liberty part is only for the select few.

furrowsofar ,

I think I remember Intel saying that 64 bit on the desktop was not needed. They are great at making meaningless predictions it seems.

furrowsofar , (edited )

Yes. I had a recalled CPAP machine. I had to pay around $1000 to buy another suppliers machine. In the end they said they would give me $40 to sign a release which of course is no thank you. I feel like they owe me half the cost of the new machine. What a ripoff. The way they get around that is just to say the machine has 0 value after 5 years which is not really true.

The whole process was horrible too. Got a notification which basically says you should not use it any more and talk to your doctor. They basically said you should continue to use it. Total double speak. Then at the same time the company says they are working on a plan. Then after streaching it out a year they say it is over 5 years old and your out of luck.

Thankfully I just purchased a new one immediately and skipped the drama.

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports (niemanreports.org)

Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of...

furrowsofar , (edited )

I struggle to find a way in which Twitter was ever relevant. Probably why I never had an account and never found anything usrful there.

furrowsofar , (edited )

I use Joplin for a simple notes app mostly for my phone but I do have it on my desktop and sync. What I do not use it for is my desktop notes collection which is a several thousand notes pages some quite big. I use Zim for that. It is a desktop Wiki.

I do not use Obsidian but it seems like knowledge base and linking is what people rave about. These are the ways in which I use Zim for example.

furrowsofar ,

Quantum computers are not even close yet. Maybe some day though.

furrowsofar ,

That is the problem with encryption. It only provides security over a period of time. Always better to keep data on your own hardware in your own place.

Quantum is also more of an issues for public key crypto. Symmetric key crypto is different.

furrowsofar ,

Others know a lot more about this then I do. The short answer is that some problems that are hard to solve now can be easily solved with quantum computers. Factorization of large integers is one of those things that is easily solved and public key crypto is based on that sort of problem. Hence the panic. Symmetric key crypto is not.

I think it comes down to just because quantum computers can solve some problems easily it does not mean they can solve all problems easily. Each situation needs to be looked at.

furrowsofar ,

China is the one county that could just tell Russia to get out of Ukraine. Same with North Korea. Just look at who they hang out with and you know quite a lot.

furrowsofar ,

Of course they would not. They have chosen to be aligned with Russia. This whole thing is a Russia / China thing.

furrowsofar , (edited )

Most of the global south is aligned in staying out of it as much as possible. Their self interest is to play nice to all sides and play all sides.

It is not the entire global south. I think Australia and Taiwan would both feel differently. Very convenient of you to forget that. From the original UN vote it showed that the Russian invasion was widely condemned through out the world including global south with some notable exceptions too.

furrowsofar ,

And you would not be correct.

furrowsofar ,

I know all this. The global south is just pretty inaccurate name for the developing countries aka the third world. It is not at all clear that China should be included. It is also a collection of some pretty much despotic countries though that varies widely. There are also some very questionable trade policies too including cartels, trafficking of all sorts, bribery, corruption, often high population growth, you name it.

furrowsofar ,

Simple, it is from an org that has been FOSS and user focused for decades. Compare that to a bunch of companies which have more or less been doing the opposite. As far as I am concerned, people are just nuts for using anything else. But people are free to do what they want.

furrowsofar ,

Frankly I do not understand Twitter. Never been a member. Have looked at linked content sometimes but it always looks like a bunch of short meaningless thoughtless content. So I think Twitter has 0 value.

The people that seem to like it are those that want to be “the person” people follow or those that want to follow “the person”. Both are kind of offensive behaviors as far as I am concerned.

furrowsofar ,

The amazing thing to me is that people actually care about that. Obviously a lot of people do. I cannot fathom it. It is just not me. Kind of confirms I made a good choice by ignoring Twitter.

furrowsofar ,

Commercial kitchens sometimes have blast chillers and blast freezers. Some of the cooking shows use them.

varshareddy21 , to technology

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furrowsofar ,

Please stop spamming.

Linux can be used at your workplaces (lemmy.ml)

I’m just tired. On the last post about having Linux at our work, many people that seems to be an IT worker said there have been several issues with Linux that was not easy to manipulate or control like they do with Windows, but I think they just are lazy to find out ways to provide this support. Because Google forces all their...

furrowsofar , (edited )

You get an IT staff that is MS and Windows certified, what sort of answer do you expect them to give? As far as IT staff where I worked, they often had issues with resolving Windows problems say nothing about Linux. Generally for Windows, I had to get to level 3 support before they knew anything. Even then I often had to tell them what needed to be done rather then them actually knowing. Some of this is lack of skill, some if it is under staffing, some of it is restrictive processes, and some organizational issues. You had to know how to work the system on one hand, and which issues just to not waste time on. Not saying they did not try hard, but without facilitation their results were often insufficient.

That does not mean you cannot use Linux however. Just means the main IT group does not support. We had a separate group that ran the Linux compute cluster we used. I also typically always had a Linux VM on my workstation too to use FOSS tools. Not sure that would be allowed these days since IT has gotten nuts about security, and with that they have generally grabbed a lot of power regarding what can and cannot be done on “their” hardware and on “their” networks. You can also get exceptions to a lot of those rules if you can justify it and if your management is willing to run it up the flag pole. If not, your working for the wrong people.

furrowsofar ,

Yes, you can sync between two on devices anywhere in the world as long as a connection path can be found.

The downside of this is that both devices have to be on. If not on the LAN it may go though some unknown gateways too which makes me nervous (though it should be all encrypted). It can take some time too for the devices to find each other and then do the transfer (even on the LAN).

Some people place syncthing on their NAS so it is the always on device. Also if you do not want your connection to go through other peoples bridges then you can disable that feature (and loose the global WAN transfer capability), or you can put up your own bridge in a VPS on the WAN.

I am no expert on this. For me I use syncthing only sometimes and only on my LAN. Mostly I use SSH, Nextcloud, or Bitwarden Send myself. I’d like to play more with some of the other options though. Seafile or placing Send on my VPS for example seems interesting to me.

furrowsofar ,

I think he could have meant nano. :)

furrowsofar ,

ssh plus sshd is available already or can easily be installed on any Linux system. It can do many things: Remote terminal sessions and remote login (for admin for example), file transfer, directories can be mounted as shares too over ssh, remote execution, you can also even do tunneling, graphical application UI forwarding, and even implement VPNs via ssh. Every Linux admin knows about and uses ssh all the time.

It is interesting a lot of people forget you can use any Linux box as a file server via SSH, in addition do a lot of other things. I also have an ssh app on my cell phone, and can just mount the file system their on Linux too. There are clients for SSH for Windows also.

furrowsofar ,

Python!

furrowsofar ,

The nasal spray version works great. I think this was about oral not the nasal version. I will be very upset if they discontinue the nasal version. Used it for years at critical times when nothing else works.

furrowsofar ,

Wouldn’t we all. If you mean stream based on app on android by hitting the built-in cast button I think your out of luck.

What you can do is just connect a Linux box to your TV and use the web browser. Works great for most things. You can control from phone using VNC which seems to just work or KDE Connect if you can get it to work. You can also just get a wireless keyboard/mouse too. Xmouse on Fdroid also works great.

Actual screen casting, there are a number of methods but none work well for movies. Miracast is nice but Google phones do not support though my LG does. ScreenStream app is kind of cool just for the screen, allows steaming to any browser.

furrowsofar ,

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except for call of the others. Winston Chuchill said that but not sure who he was referencing. There is some truth to that though.

richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government .

furrowsofar , (edited )

Just wanted to say same. I have used a Linux box as my Media Center and Home Server since 2008. Also have a chomecast dongle so I can steam from Android and Android apps. Not sure what else one needs.

Seems to me what one wants wants really is mostly a browser and ability to stream stuff from apps on your phone. Since the Linux box is a Media Center and Server it also has a lot of features a Smart TV would not have. Just do not see the value of a Smart TV.

furrowsofar ,

The thing about chromecast dongles is they integrate with Android. You kind of have to use it with Android if you want to just stream easily with Apps. It is kind of amazing. Be it photos, Netflix, Tubi, … Just open your mobile app as usual and hit the streaming button. You can even disconnect your mobile device in many cases after streaming starts.

Privacy. Have no idea, but my default assumption is not so good like most Google products. Wish I knew exactly.

furrowsofar ,

My CPAP is always in airplane mode. Hopefully solved that problem.

furrowsofar ,

Not having to consider price is a luxury a rich person can consider. A nice luxury but a luxury just the same. It is also just another form of consumption in the absence of clear utility on the other side.

furrowsofar ,

Yes agree. It is complicated. It is also a decision that has to be made at an age that people are may not be equipped to make it and the people around them may not be that helpful either. Add to that even the best decision is just a guess made with what is known at the time.

Families have different approaches too. My family was pretty nuts and bolts. We were expected to get training to earn money and get out on our own. My wife’s family was much more go to college and explore. None of them found a paying job based on their education until later going back to school for a masters or some other training. The financial outcomes were different too.

furrowsofar ,

Whatever happened to second life. VR keeps becoming the thing once every decade or two. Just not something I care about. Might be useful for gaming or certain specialized activities of course.

furrowsofar , (edited )

It is about temperature differential. If you had a cold well then yes you could heat up the cold well and extract energy in the process. But if you had a cold well why are you not already using that as part of the AC.

By the way, that is why AC using geothermal heat pump is way more energy efficient then air. Another cold sink is the sky specially a cloudless one. Another one is a heat pump hot water heater. You pump the heat into hot water that your going to use anyway cooling the room at the same time.

So physics, yes energy/entropy stuff but then it is a question what can you do. My only point, look for the loopholes too… that is what can you do.

furrowsofar ,

This is the thing about Chrome and the whole Chromium based ecosystem. Why on earth would anyone use a browser from an Ad company.

By the way. They are planning on putting it in Android apps too. So there one gets little choice. A non-starter like Apple where you cannot even load your own apps and app stores or Android from an Ad company where you can with effort at least choose your own software and even image your own OS.

furrowsofar ,

Nothing wrong with Firefox. The problem though is that too many people have been convinced that some how Google is better. I personally do not think that it is about details people argue about. It more about using what they know, what their friends know, or what their friends will think is cool. In the end you either care about having an open web and user focused browser or you do not. Most people do not it seems.

The challenge for Firefox is that if user base is too small, developers will no longer test their sites against it. The other issue is that it is not clear if Firefox can keep pace with Google. For example Firefox desktop does not support WPA, and mobile versions it is not complete. It will be interesting how things will evolve. Maybe Google will even take steps to actually keep Mozilla and Firefox around and viable just to keep the Monopoly busters away. Who knows.

For me I do care, and will use Firefox until it is not feasible to do so if that day comes. At the moment it is just fine. Who knows the future.

furrowsofar ,

It is only arguably better for Google Chrome because it is one of the worst browsers for tracking at the moment. Even Edge is probably better ironically. Personally I think it is a false decision and false logic. You can just get rid of the the tracking features like other browsers, no new feature needed. Google only has this option because frankly too many people have chosen go give google that power for whatever reason.

Frankly what the web needs is a micropayment system and this micropayment system should not go through Google or the Ad people. You do not see Google proposing this. Yes they had a beta program, but it was through them and you had to allow tracking to use it. So not a real solution.

Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led...

furrowsofar ,

KeePass has its vulnerabilities too. The good thing though is that it is not networked so one has to break into your device or your backups to even start an attack.

furrowsofar , (edited )

The big issue I have is syncing. Do you happen to know if there are any differencing tools keepass.

I like to have only various subsets of my data on some devices and accounts. So way to partition, difference, and merge would be nice.

furrowsofar ,

KVM switchs in particular are expensive and not all work well so it can be hit or miss. I will update mine at some point and move past DVI. To what who knows.

furrowsofar ,

Keep in mind Python can interact with spreadsheet formats. So it is very possible to input your data in a spreadsheet , load that data into Python, then dump it into a spreadsheet. Easiest is CSV but I have done direct too.

What approach depends. If you know a spreadsheet really well, then taking it quite a ways makes a lot of sense. On the other hand when one gets to the point of writing more then 100 lines of VBA and especially into the 500 range, it may be time to use another approach. Same when execution times are very long or data very large. Working with large VBA code bases is kind of nutty but people often get too deep into the I have a hammer so every problem looks like a nail thinking. I have had to work with code like that myself.

furrowsofar ,

FOSS people would probably use Libreoffice. On the other hand if you must work in the MSO world yes Onlyoffice seems like worth a look. Otherwise chasing MS is kind of a loosing strategy.

furrowsofar ,

Regarding security, the unique thing about this is that PWAs are dynamically loaded and updated from the distribution site which is typically any arbitrary website. The question then is the website in question and the server it is on secure. Seems like this is the downside of PWAs, not distributed though a normal distribution channel which has some extra security and controls. Not sure an arbitrary website is that secure just in general. Do not know either way.

The rest is same as using any app that you did not write and audit. Do you trust the author and an app without a lot of history? Not saying anything bad about this PWA. In fact, it is developing a lot of good feedback so probably fine. Who can tell for sure about any app for that matter.

Just how I think about it.

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