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by reginald78 1y ago
The other day I went to view my kid's elementary school class page and was hit with an instagram login prompt.
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by reginald78 1y ago
This is what always gets me about it. I get being to lazy to cook and to drunk or busy to drive or whatever. But there are actually tons of pretty good frozen prepared meals these days. If you're lazy and this happens to you all the ti
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by reginald78 1y ago
I spin up a whole linux VM with a passed through nvidia GPU for these and I still spend the majority of the time fighting the python and figuring out the missing steps in the setup instructions. Glad for this thread though since it looks li
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by reginald78 1y ago
My understanding is most ransoms are already paid in bitcoin. (or some other public ledger coin?) Privacy coins would probably be preferable for criminals to receive but they aren't as easy to purchase as bitcoin which I'd imagine
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by reginald78 1y ago
China seemed to take chips from obsolete motherboards and turn them into boards to allow reuse of old Xeons, at least for awhile there. I can't imagine those chipsets were still being made so I assume that is what was happening. A lot
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by reginald78 1y ago
Sadly, this seems to be the general purpose of telemetry. If the gathered statistics can be contorted to justify doing something you wanted to do anyway, then telemetry will be used for just that. If it says something else, just ignore it a
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by reginald78 1y ago
It is particularly bizarre to me that the tab bar is horizontal on browsers. We switched to wide screen monitors close to 20 years ago, then stubbornly continued to waste vertical real estate for UI elements. Then webpages all went hard on
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by reginald78 1y ago
I use tree style tabs and typically have anywhere from 20 to hundreds of tabs open. My workflow is basically opening anything I find interesting for further review which naturally opens in a tree so the main task grouped together. I use the
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by reginald78 1y ago
Even in the US you run the risk of having your hardware soft bricked by having your linked Meta account banned for some vague infraction which is probably just cover for not exposing yourself sufficiently to Meta.
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by reginald78 1y ago
IIRC Microsoft somewhat recently changed the positions name to Customer Service Account Manager. Absolutely wild nobody on the inside spoke up about this one, but with how awful Microsoft is at naming things generally I could see anyone who
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by reginald78 1y ago
I've heard there's a lot of local AI discussions there that don't really occur anywhere else.
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by reginald78 1y ago
Don't forget bundling it with the installers of popular downloads like Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, lots of antivirus software, etc. If you weren't paying attention during all of those installers you'd end up with Chrome
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by reginald78 1y ago
Nice idea in theory. In practice, apps imply ongoing OTA connectivity, which means the truck will be updated to show ads or at the very least collect and sell all my driving information to any dirtbag that can rub two nickels together. Conn
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by reginald78 1y ago
I believe it was GoogleAI in search but it was worse than that. Some asked it if Angelina Jolie was in heat. The tone started kind of insulting like the user was a sexist idiot for thinking human women go into heat like animals, then went b
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by reginald78 1y ago
And why would some one continue to use it if all it does is show ads? You have to put some cheese on a rattrap if you want the rat to stick his head in it.
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by reginald78 2y ago
I'm assuming they're still using the phone in some capacity in (what they thought) was offline mode. What they really need are phones with hardware switches for all radios, which of course almost don't even exist as a product
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by reginald78 2y ago
The fact that they have guardrails to try and prevent it means OpenAI themselves thinks it is at least shady or outright illegal in someway. Otherwise why bother?
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by reginald78 2y ago
IIRC with XP they late loaded a lot of things to get the desktop showing faster than 2000. My experience at the time was that while the desktop might have loaded faster it wasn't actually usable for quite awhile after I was looking at
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by reginald78 2y ago
Windows 9x suffered from DLL hell. So every time a program was installed it potentially overwrote dlls with a different version often older or incompatible. Windows 2000/XP just redirected the installer's dlls into a per program l
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by reginald78 2y ago
This happened to me with Minecraft. It was amazing what a pain in the ass they made it to give them some money and then the gaslighting and hassle I had to endure to get what I paid for. I only play that game single player.
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by reginald78 2y ago
Anubis (or something similar) is an alternative option: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis Aside from the obvious disadvantages of a non-anoynmous web I also don't even think it will work. How do you deal with id
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by reginald78 2y ago
I thought this as well reading the last discussion. I believe some extra shady free VPNs have used a browser extension to borrow your endpoint to work around geoblocks, etc. I always thought this was a terrible idea, who wants their home in
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by reginald78 2y ago
I never understand those charts. To me a 10 is a state that only briefly exist before I passed out from agony. If I was at a 7 pain scale you wouldn't need to ask me, it would be obvious.
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by reginald78 2y ago
And one of the developers of passkeys threatened to use the specified attestation anti-feature to blackball Keepassxc's implementation when they made something not locked in enough. https://github.com/keepassxreboot&#x2
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by reginald78 2y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't this mean the work has to be done by the client AND the server every time a challenge is issued? I think ideally you'd want work that was easy for the server and difficult for the serv
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by reginald78 2y ago
To bad they don't make micro Eye-Fi cards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye-Fi
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by reginald78 2y ago
Can you use hashcash or some proof of work system somehow? I don't know anything about this space.
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by reginald78 2y ago
Yes, no one seemed to be bragging about much of a performance boost. I think they were happy being able to run models (at any speed) that needed 24GB without having to buy a 3090.
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by reginald78 2y ago
Yes, I remember toward the end it seemed like they were just releasing souped up versions of last year's product. I don't know if it was a resources issue or they just didn't expect the market to advance so fast.
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by reginald78 2y ago
I was playing around with building retro game VMs with qemu and pci passthrough awhile back and dusted off my old canopus pure 3d to try out with a pci to pcie adapter board. It was kind of amusing you'd have the windows desktop runnin

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