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625·22 days agoI mean, if we are going to capitalism with a straight face we have to start being the whole bitch.
He owned it, Lamborghini wanted it… that made it a valuable asset that he held that Lamborghini should have paid for
Local models are actually pretty great! They are not great at everything… but for what most people are using LLMs for they do a fine job.
Thats from llama3.1:8b and the answer is decent, it took about 20seconds to generate my answer and used no more power than if I were to play a video game for the same amount of time.
Most of these things are pretty secure out of the box.
Even without fail2ban disabling root login and only allowing SSH key authentication makes those scripts just a waste of time for the attacker. That game is a low effort attempt to just get the low hanging fruit for botnets though.
Yes, My home network setup is a bit complicated but I am using Pfsense so I have things on separate vlans with internal firewall rules to reduce risks.
All traffic in on port 443 is routed from Cloudflare to an NginX reverse proxy which decides how to connect back into my network for things
Years ago I would just run a server on the network with 443, 80 and 22 exposed directly to the world and never had any major issues. (Other than the normal automated attacks trying to gain shell access over SSH)
I got 1gbps internet (symmetrical) and a raspberry pi cluster… running my own Wordpress never made more sense… AND that botch should scale!
All I hear is NFTs
I have been on the other side of the equation professionally speaking.
I think we mostly agree.
The auditors were certainly not malicious, they can simply only see what they can observe.
Appealing to authority without explaining the caveats is risky to do and disingenuous to people who need to take security very seriously right now.
A potential vector or matter of concern does not mean there is a compromise. Without evidence of a hack or compromise you just have the idea that something could happen.
The app model in general has meant that we have given up tremendous amounts of privacy and security in general for the sake of connivence.
If I were the developer of this app I would’ve approached things from the inception with the question of “How do I get people to trust me who absolutely should not trust me?”
That said, it is always easier to tear down than it is to build.
If I were an at risk individual I would likely opt to use the app myself assuming I could share general location instead of specific location. In areas like LA there is likely a lot of data flowing in that would not help a malicious actor if the location is not specific.
When you do business with companies in certain industries not only is your software audited but your entire development process, business processes and staff are audited.
It’s not unreasonable to question a closed source application for something like this as one version was audited, but what about the next?
How do we know their dev process hasn’t been compromised? Or the person building app wasn’t compromised? Or that the entire thing was not compromised from the start?
Likewise, an audit without full access to code isn’t useless, but hiding behavior from an audit and for a certain period of time would be straight forward. How do you know there is not a dormant command and control system in the app that will cause it to behave in a malicious manner after a set amount of time or after a specific push notification is received?
I am not saying this is present, just that Audits like this are only able to catch what they can observe and the existence of an audit does not mean to blindly trust something
Having the App be open source would be a big step towards providing the transparency needed to address these concerns users would not have to trust anyone and can confirm the builds on the app stores match what is on their Git.
I am not pointing this out to jump on the “Don’t use this app” bandwagon. I am pointing it out to say that there are reasons to be skeptical of these sorts of things in our current political climate.
Remember Sabu and LulzSec
All a matter of preference.
I would say the most important thing to do is to pick a switch you think would be fun and then just pick the coolest looking keyboard that matches it.
The Keychron keyboards are a great starting point; They are pretty cheap so if you are unsure you won’t be too upset if you want to later try a bigger or smaller layout.
I can’t tell you my favorite layout unfortunately, I like 40%, 60%, full keyboards and even have a Kinesis (It helped me a lot with hand pain when I typed QWERTY. I recommend switching to DVORAK or another layout before spending so much money on a Kinesis these days)
People who don’t understand and read these articles and think Skynet. People who know their buzz words think AGI
Fortune isn’t exactly renowned for its Technology journalism
Chromebooks are absolute garbage.
Most computers I have used over the last 15 years will disable USB power if you short out the port (working with electronics you tend to replicate the “sticking scissors into a USB port” with some regularity)
Pencil lead I am sure causes other issues though… it gets red hot and melts eventually
Yeah it is awful for intermittent printing; you will not get as many prints as you expect but it WILL still print (after you run a couple of maintenance cycles to flush out the dry ink)
it was Louis Rossman and recently was within the past month; That said its currently being discussed
I don’t really like Louis Rossman much but most of his critiques of companies not treating consumers correctly are typically correct
Personally speaking though removing old firmware from site and adding a genuine cartridge check are the first steps you would take to begin limiting users.
EcoTank I like because Epson can literally NOT confirm if the ink is genuine or not (if you REALLY were determined you could even get Magenta into the Cyan tank and it would still squirt ink out… although incorrectly of course)
The printer I am liking right now isn’t laser but comes out to be about the same cost to print as laser.
It’s the Epson EcoTank. The print quality is pretty good for things where a laser printer is the wrong tool and the refills are relatively reasonable… and Shaq promotes it!
Brother has pulled some shit recently…
Sites and services today that we are considering forcing to collect PII (driver’s license) for age verification would be compelled to check the header as it would provide what these laws are chasing in a way more respectful towards privacy
As far as exploiting children online. My point has been clear that is already happening, TikTok, Youtube, Instagram ALL exploit children online today. They do not face consequences because they can hide behind their TOS this would put responsibility with regards to not breaking our already existing laws back into their hands
I trust parets. I have kids myself the plethora of tools and systems available to invade you kids’ privacy is great… and those are also even way worse than a header (especially when you consider what they do to work)
I am actually in full agreement.
A header would put the setting on the device and only indicate “Minor” or “Not Minor” which would allow to restrict or allow porn without having to collect everyone’s PII just so they can crank their hog.
If you read previous things though such an indicator would put a lot more responsibility onto Social Media platforms to not show harmful content to minors. Today they get away with it because “TOS says only 18 year olds are allowed to us this service”
South Park kind of nailed the attitude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_(Not_Suitable_for_Children)
The laws around advertising are fucked to begin with but the headers SHOULD be used in advertising 100%
The minor flag would actually remove the LARGE gray area that platforms take advantage of to push harmful ADs and content to kids (Today they just get to play dumb)
This would actually create a framework to enforce existing advertising laws as well as data collection laws with regards to minors.
Examples: Minors should not see ads for holsters, knives, ammo, ED medications, Diet drugs, muscle building drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco products, Online Gambling
These are all things I have seen advertised on YouTube to me; Granted I am not a minor but I am also just using Youtube by going to the site with no account.
He documented an era and inspired many people
You will never be able to talk about the early days of the internet or computing and not refer to his work