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by lrvick 22d ago
I had jumped into chats and a github issue as I recall, probably 7-8 years ago based on the employer I was researching it for, but would be hard to track that down now. Anyway, my tone may not be entirely constructive, but it is one of frus
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by lrvick 23d ago
See the endless PCI compliant companies that get hacked. Any standard that has a threat model accepting trust in any single human or computer is security theater. PCI enforces some good practices, but for instance has no defense against sup
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by lrvick 23d ago
Maybe everyone forgets how PCI standards played out. They are an example of an industry self regulating, because the regulators have no idea how technology works. Granted, PCI is so weak it is almost useless, and yet still better than anyth
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by lrvick 23d ago
I hate to have to be this harsh as it is clear you did a lot of work, but I have warned members of the brew team about serious gaps here multiple times over the years and seemingly nothing has been done. Brew is not anywhere close to a leve
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by lrvick 23d ago
Those are also all just as bad but you can at least run those fully in containers or vms and never let them touch your host system. Brew however is a system level package manager so it is expected to install your top level tools with substa
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by lrvick 24d ago
The good news is there is no good reason to plug the TV into the internet.
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by lrvick 25d ago
A great start and a major win for humanity. Halfway there!
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by lrvick 25d ago
Really surprised to not see jcode in there which beats everything else in efficiency by miles with one tiny rust binary.
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by lrvick 26d ago
I am agreeing it is unlikely it was actually malicious, but it is Meta and they deserve no charity. If it is even a small possibility they did the evil thing, we should all operate on the assumption they did the evil thing anyway until prov
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by lrvick 26d ago
When a company is known for being malicious by default, to the point of knowingly covering up their ongoing and extensive contributions to teen suicides, it is not unreasonable for people to expect they would steal social media accounts to
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by lrvick 28d ago
Why would anyone not take 5 minutes to research a major purchase? They have Internet access! I mean obviously I expect Grandma not to know, but anyone that knows enough to connect to the internet knows how to use a search engine. Corpos get
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by lrvick 28d ago
A Pi Zero running an SD card image built for streaming. Plenty of them. Take your pick.
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by lrvick 28d ago
I have researched second opinions from professionals on dermatology, nutrition, and plumbing, and reviews on the ones I do hire. A bunch of 5 minute segments of gut check research avoids a ton of pain in life. Everyone connecting these TVs
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by lrvick 28d ago
Sure but some are just regular computers that run windows, easily converted to Linux.
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by lrvick 28d ago
I think this was just intended as universally obvious proof the filters were disabled, while not actually giving an example not commonly known.
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by lrvick 28d ago
> No? It's hardly written in the advertising copy for the TV, is it. Which just proves almost no one does 5 minutes of online research before blindly believing whatever a device says about itself. Those sorts are unfortunately in fo
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by lrvick 28d ago
Lemonade is one of the worst performing options. Run any modern Linux distro and ask your current LLM to setup llama.cpp with dflash2 for you as an unprivileged container running from a systemd user unit. Obviously only on a system you do n
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by lrvick 28d ago
So most consumers are willing to knowingly give up privacy, security, and freedom just to save 20 bucks on a hdmi streaming device? I have no words for how depressing that is. Then again most consumers use Bytedance, Meta, Google, and Apple
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by lrvick 28d ago
But surely you know the TV will have ads, and spyware and screenshots you every few seconds to send to manufactures, and in some cases even has microphones involved? The apps built into the screen literally meet the definition of trojans wh
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by lrvick 28d ago
It is a screen. You plug an HDMI cable into your source device and another into the TV. Job done. Are there really that many people technical enough to know what an HDMI cable is without also knowing all TVs are subsidized by spyware with n
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by lrvick 29d ago
> because they are bad at LLMs. They are actually great at LLMs but you need to invest in keeping up with community tuning efforts. But I am fine with most thinking they are bad at LLMs, because I keep buying more of them!
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by lrvick 29d ago
I have 4x r9700s as my coding daily drivers running qwen 3.8 27b at 80tps each. Zero complaints. Especially at $1200 each.
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by lrvick 29d ago
> I just wish I had a less aggressive or snarky style of writing. You and me both. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard variations of "you are way less of an asshole in person" Complex asynchronous communication always
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by lrvick 1mo ago
> not technically unwinnable Most should take those odds over giving up another inch of freedom.
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by lrvick 1mo ago
We must all fight for independent hosting or we will lose the right. Punish those trying to stop it by coming back stronger. Spin up in a few new countries if you have to. Friends and I have been giving out free shell accounts, service host
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by lrvick 1mo ago
> I should have gone and read what that is That is the most capacity for growth I have seen demonstrated in a while. You just gave me slightly more hope in humanity.
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by lrvick 1mo ago
What credentials? I just pointed to supporting evidence I used the word in the way it is most commonly and publicly defined. Meanwhile you shared your own meaning as correct with no supporting evidence it is a definition commonly shared. Yo
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by lrvick 1mo ago
I have the largest physical media collection of anyone I know. I will buy things I can actually own, but with digital media the studios and labels have ensured purchasing no longer means ownership, and thus digital piracy is not stealing.
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by lrvick 1mo ago
My explanation is in line with the community maintained Wikipedia articles and their sources based on a long history of anarchist history and writings, and none of it seems to be under any significant dispute. One does not need to be in a p
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by lrvick 1mo ago
I agree with everything you said and abandoned my Twitter account and everything on it years ago for these reasons. Everything, except for your usage of anarchism to imply chaos or disorder, which is a common misunderstanding. Anarchism, pa

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