beardog

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by beardog 3y ago
>What's the motivation for people to host model layers in the public swarm? >People who run inference and fine-tuning themselves get a certain speedup if they host a part of the model locally. Some may be also motivated to "
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by beardog 3y ago
Whonix when used via Qubes DispVMs is more effective than Tails in my opinion (better protection against IP leaking), unless your goal is mainly the amnesic aspect.
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by beardog 3y ago
In the same manner that parts of the NSA are interested in secure cryptography as opposed to breaking it, parts of the Navy were interested in anonymizing traffic as opposed to de-anonymizing.
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Plastisphere(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by beardog 3y ago|0 comments
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by beardog 3y ago
>I'm curious, how often does that break things? Pretty much never. They hide it by changing it. This results in a margin around your view port that is fitted to one of several common dimensions. Since they are common, nearly all web
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Saudi man sentenced to death for tweets in harshest verdict yet for critics(text.npr.org)
17 points by beardog 3y ago|1 comments
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by beardog 3y ago
Grindr is being abused by egyptian police to persecute gay and bisexual people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/24/grindr-egypt...
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by beardog 3y ago
Important to note that not all data brokers are equal. Some are merely resellers or essentially proxies of others. So you can opt out of a smaller number and see results trickle down over time in some cases. From here https://int
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by beardog 3y ago
I argue that (good) literate programming can make code literature. Your program is told as a sort of story and ought to contain background info, thought processes, and rationale for decisions. Additionally macros can be used to reuse code a
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by beardog 3y ago
This is why I AGPL my projects even if i feel like it isn't likely to be used as a network backend.
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by beardog 3y ago
As i said in my comment I personally want to run (some) things on bare metal, and Qubes is not good for that, which is good for their security model but is a deal breaker for me.
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by beardog 3y ago
Pretty much everything you listed, plus games. All of that minus games is still usable on Qubes but there is a noticeable speed decrease.
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by beardog 3y ago
>If you trust the OS kernel and features to keep things separated, there's no reason to run Qubes in the first place. Yeah i see the argument - thats why I would still call Qubes very secure as is - but i personally prefer defense i
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by beardog 3y ago
Honestly you don't need to be super paranoid to benefit from Qubes. Windows and Linux default sandboxing is still pretty mediocre at best, people can't be perfect with security all the time and sometimes even legit programs get co
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by beardog 3y ago
To add, it works quite well if you can accept the caveats of no (easy/default) GPU access (so no gaming). It is not a lot slower if you have enough ram to keep your VMs booted, i mainly noticed a difference in i/o speed but that m
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by beardog 3y ago
See my top level comment about daily driving it.
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by beardog 3y ago
I love Qubes a lot, I daily drove it for a few years and still have it on a laptop. but i would not recommend it even to most technical people, mainly because you forfeit the ability to run things on bare metal. "dom0" is the same
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by beardog 3y ago
This is for protecting against attacks against the Tor network and onion services. Not for preventing people using Tor to conduct ddos attacks on normal websites which is what your linked page discusses
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by beardog 3y ago
Also, American ISPs are allowed to sell your browsing information. https://www.howtogeek.com/724472/do-isps-track-and-sell-your...
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by beardog 3y ago
One point the author neglects is that merely browsing an informational site is sensitive depending on social and political context. Examples: * Woman views information on abortions or reproductive health care in a jurisdiction that persecut
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by beardog 3y ago
In addition to PHP, it is a "Distributed Operating System for The Web" https://qbix.com/ecosystem#Distributed-Operating-System
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by beardog 3y ago
I suspect TCP tunneling your traffic looks different than SFTP-ing some files around.
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by beardog 3y ago
Another piece of the puzzle: file formats, database formats, and filesystems are not always optimized for SSD use (random access).
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by beardog 3y ago
>We provision a VPN server on-demand when you connect. >We deprovision it when you disconnect. Do you still share an IP address with the other users? One of the main ways a VPN grants privacy is because everyone shares a handful of IP
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by beardog 3y ago
Don't some organizations want a business relationship for one reason or another? From looking at the plans, the value is mostly in support for the commercial license, which is a pretty common approach. I think the wording is the only p
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by beardog 3y ago
Windows Sandbox is an official Microsoft feature that uses hardware virtualization for quickly made disposable Windows VMs. Sandboxie is an OS-level 3rd party app that uses syscall hacks to sandbox applications. I say use Windows Sandbox if
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by beardog 3y ago
>They're kind of like the Star Trek counterpart to Jar Jar Binks. Ahmed Best, Jar Jar's voice and mo-cap actor person of color, finds the racial commentary about the character offensive and nearly committed suicide over the neg
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by beardog 3y ago
But do they not also consider what a 'reasonable' person would do in a situation?
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by beardog 3y ago
See also "input lag" by dan luu: https://danluu.com/input-lag/ It is not the main thing going on in this twitter post, but it does show a way modern computers feel slower than older machines.
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by beardog 3y ago
Is legal requests ruining fun the same reason you dropped SMS privacy?

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