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sunbeam60,

No user data was accessed and even if it had, through the use of the very high-entropy recovery code, it wouldn’t have mattered. 1Password continues to be The Good People™️

What did you do to survive the night of/after a breakup?

Boyfriend of 2 years (best friend of 6) just told me he’s started seeing someone else. No discussion. Just ghosted me for a week and hit me with this news. Thought he was my soulmate, lmao. I feel like someone just ripped out my insides. Just turned 31 this year, this shit is not any easier than when I was a teenager....

sunbeam60,

Da real MVP, right here.

I’ve been with my wife going on 20 years. She drives me insane at times and I her. I’m willing to look through her annoyances because she looks through mine. Before I met my wife I had one relationship I was 100% was THE ONE™️. She wasn’t. Neither will OP’s be. Break ups are hard, and they’re hard not to take personally, but they are just another person’s opinion.

The next one will come, most likely when you least expect it and have resigned yourself to “it won’t happen”.

sunbeam60,

Yup we do. There’s a couple of certification schemes that are decent, but you get what you pay for in offsets. Most aren’t really offset, just planting a tree that’ll disappear in 10 years.

Geological storage of air extracted carbon is the only standard I’d fully trust to genuinely act as an offset. Bloody expensive though.

I used to be a big believer in cooking stoves, but there’s research that shows it becomes an additional stove, not a replacement to open fire cooking. So that ain’t really working then.

Nightshade - A new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (lemmy.world)

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. Is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission....

sunbeam60,

The only solution, if there is one, is to put your art on the blockchain and specifically license against it being used without attribution on same blockchain and the find some kind of license model that trickles value up the chain.

Even that won’t work, I suspect.

sunbeam60,

Ha ha me too and I wrote it.

I’m very aware that there’s nothing to stop a bad actor from ignoring whatever is on the blockchain. But imagine removing all the web3/cryptobro bullshit that makes us all sick and instead just look at it as a record of who’s done what to which file. It could also be a centralised DB but it seems no one should have that power. A smart contract (aka ethereum) that says “anything derived from this sends some transactional fee up toward the originator”.

I mean I’m aware it won’t work.

I’m just saying that I can’t come up with anything better and so I also believe the battle is lost.

sunbeam60, (edited )

All companies want open standards and regulation of the big players when they’re small. All companies want high barriers to entry and regulation of the small players when they’re big.

All companies want what is best for them. In that matter, they differ very little from people.

sunbeam60,

Not in the country I live, luckily.

sunbeam60,

Huh?

sunbeam60,

I think immutable OSes serve two purposes: For the developer who needs to operate multiple environments at the same time, and for the utter novice who could screw something up otherwise.

This audience, us, is the exactly middle ground. We like tinkering. We like setting things up.

So, I don’t think immutable OSes are for us.

sunbeam60,

I can definitely see what you’re saying. But if you start to add packages, what do you gain in terms of known stability? Seems to me you might as well then just “be good” about not adding too many packages to a malleable distribution.

I’ve just released Gatekeeper 1.6.0. It’s a single executable that turns any Linux machine into a home gateway. Now with realtime traffic graphs, LAN autoconfiguration, full cone NAT and better looks. (github.com)

Hi all home network administrators :) Haven’t posted anything here since June, when I told you about Gatekeeper 1.1.0. Back then it was a pretty bare-bones (and maybe slightly buggy) DNS + DHCP server with a web UI with a list of LAN clients. Back at 1.1.0 Gatekeeper didn’t even configure your LAN interface or set up NAT...

sunbeam60,

OPNsense is ready to route pretty much after the default install, like any other off-the-shelf router. It’s only really complicated if you have complicated needs.

Is it illegal to con people into thinking you have a perfect ability to pick football games by emailing out two lists: one picking one team, and the other picking the other team, and only sending... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

…the next pick to the people who saw you pick the “winner”. Now half of those people see one team, the other half see you pick the other team, and whoever saw you pick the winner thinks you’ve got a 100% accuracy rate over two games. You could do that for a while and then offer to sell your pick for the Superbowl....

sunbeam60,

Any intentional deception for financial gain would be considered fraud in the U.K. at least.

sunbeam60,

In a world of honest actors this is brilliant.

In a world of AliExpress that’s just another way to lie.

sunbeam60,

To be fair to AliExpress reputable dealers are plenty, they’re just hard to find amongst all the rubbish. I had an amazing experience buying from some dealers, with significantly better follow-up support than what you’d receive in the west.

sunbeam60,

Same, although I do use it out of habit mostly.

sunbeam60,

Wow!! Well done and thank you!!

sunbeam60,

Gnome looks great!

sunbeam60,

I moved to EdTech from gaming - mobile gaming felt so damn focussed on value extraction.

sunbeam60,

Because they have the space. It’s hard for us Europeans to understand. In places where they don’t, they certainly go below ground - look at Microsoft’s parking garage in Redmond.

sunbeam60,

“In a xhit (…)”

sunbeam60,

Norton/Midnight/Total Commander are epic for navigation and basic file operations.

sunbeam60, (edited )

To crush your ComTech conglomerates, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their routers.

sunbeam60,

Not a lot. Yes you can see what they are playing and they use it to make recommendations for you.

I think the primary motivator for Spotify is just data scraping. Everybody wants to know your circle of friends in order to advertise better towards you.

sunbeam60,

You are forgetting a cardinal rule: When something is likely to affect the press, the press affords it more attention.

So the writers, editors, graphic designers etc of the press are likely to be very affected by generative AI. So they worry about it. So they write about it.

I’m also in a line of work that will see substantial changes … so I understand their plight. But I think a large part of the reason the press write about the use of genAI to make “art output” is that they worry about genAI will make their “art output” soon.

I totally forgot how terrible a non-ad-free YouTube experience is

So I’ve been using youtube ad blockers since pretty much when ad blocker extensions were first available. Lately though I’ve been getting hit more and more with these messages that YT was sending out every 5 or so videos telling me that adblockers aren’t allowed. No problem, just gotta wait 5 seconds to x it out and then...

sunbeam60,

You know what, I complete agree!! I realised I spend 10x the time on YouTube compared to Netflix.

And then, at least in the U.K., there’s a mobile phone plan that includes a YouTube premium membership, so it works out at 2/5ths the price.

sunbeam60,

You might be in different countries. YouTube has shut down adblockers at different rates depending on where you are.

sunbeam60,

With the Digital Market Act in the EU they’ll soon all be speaking to each other. Vestager is about to tear those messaging monopolies a new asshole!

sunbeam60, (edited )

That’s a GDPR request away from deletion, at least in the EU (and for a while at least, the U.K.)

sunbeam60,

“IF I’ve offended you, I’m sorry.”

It’s not an apology if you don’t start by agreeing with the other person’s viewpoint.

Instead say: “I can understand why you’re offended. What I didn’t wasn’t acceptable and here’s why: …”

sunbeam60,

I’m with you. But may I suggest you shouldn’t really be making excuses for something you don’t understand.

sunbeam60,

They are as bad as each other. Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians is deplorable. Hamas’ approach towards the citizens of Israel is abhorrent.

There are no winners. Only dead children.

sunbeam60,

From one father of four to the next: Damn good job!!

sunbeam60,

Yes the Telegraph is Tory-leaning. But this piece is fairly factual.

sunbeam60, (edited )

Run three flavours of Linux at home and love Microsoft. Why does everything have to be in opposition?

sunbeam60,

On the first we can agree. But that certainly isn’t how they behave now.

On the second, I dare say that’s “what if” conjecture. You could easily argue that the de facto monopoly of Windows allowed computers to be on every desk which lead to the world today. I’m not sure that’s the case, but the argument stands on no less flimsy ground than yours IMHO.

sunbeam60,

Gripen, even the A and C models, would be bloody awesome for Ukraine.

sunbeam60,

Dunno. I suspect it’s probably true.

If he’s travelling on commercial aviation they’d be breaking a whole bunch of regulation by letting someone on without a passport. Sweden isn’t a banana republic, and I doubt there would be any expectation from the minister and his posse that they’d be breaking the rules.

If he’s travelling privately or by military plane, there’s probably more liberty to just ring and ask what the reception arrangements will be.

Edit: Ah, actually RTFA now. Still sounds true to me.

sunbeam60,

… and just be historically accurate: The winning move in the Cold War was very much to play. The Soviet Union collapsed.

sunbeam60,

I’m the last person to believe in anything paranormal, but I’ve still got a story that one could have interpreted in that way if one was so inclined.

Age 12, lying in bed thinking about how great everything was, starting to get to a point of realising not everything was going to last forever and things sometimes change. Said to myself “I hope nothing will ever change”, had an overwhelming sense to look through my window. Saw a massive shooting star. Next day my parents announced we were moving to a different country.

sunbeam60,

“We operate a Check-74 policy. If you are lucky enough to look younger than 70, we will ask for ID when buying cigarettes”

sunbeam60,

The notion that free* healthcare, free* education, subsidised transport, government provided unemployment supports etc is even labelled “socialist” strikes me as particularly American.

sunbeam60,

Political parties are outlawed. Every MP should represent their own view, not tow a party line dreamt up by a PR agency.

Your vote affects others (like driving, owning a gun etc put others at risk). To vote you must pass a test; to pass the test we offer free education. To enable you to attend this education, we offer you a universal basic income. The test must not discriminate based on gender, age, sexual orientation, income etc etc.

sunbeam60,

I get the subtext of that question and I can understand this concern.

But what I’m proposing is that in a new constitution to properties of the test is guaranteed and then you’d put a cross-population group of experts together to formulate a test that lives up to those constraints. No doubt you’d end up in a courtroom every now and again to settle whether a specific question was constitutionally sound or not.

I think we could work it out. We can for driving tests.

sunbeam60,

Isn’t it the other way around? They’ve been told they can’t monetise people’s personal data without consent so they’re preparing an option to basically tell users how unappetising the paid option is, to ensure people allow their personal data to be monetised.

sunbeam60,

Doesn’t stop the tracking of you on the platform itself. They still scrape your personal photos, your messages, your location, the things you’ve watched, the things you engage with to determine who you are and what you’d like.

sunbeam60,

I’ll take “what’s that file format for $300 please”

sunbeam60,

I agree but I wasn’t trying to address the overall issue. Certainly no more me than the people I responded to, who used the example of shitty junk food joints to claim the people of the Soviet Union didn’t look with envy on the choices offered to the western citizens.

In theory the communist system is fantastic, in the same way the society described in The Culture is. There just hasn’t been any implementation that got close to that ideal and certainly the median citizen seems better off in the west.

sunbeam60,

Yes agreed 🤜🤛

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