cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/61985565

Iranian strikes are taking out AWS servers in the region.

https://archive.ph/U7MIm

And the real maddening part is that search engines have been so enshitfied to make way for AI that's wrong like 9/10, so you're forced to rely on it for answers because if you try google, the snake wraps around and eats it's own tail giving you an AI answer!

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/63580969

OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon "side quests" and focus on its core business.

The ChatGPT maker had purchased the 11-person company in a "low hundreds of millions of dollars" deal, according to a person with knowledge of the terms.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/VfGEx

For this video I went to London to see the BatteryIQ system in person, chatting to the inventor and entrepreneur behind the project, Nick Bailey. I think what Nick has done is awesome, and fixes a problem the industry thought was impossible! The future of small battery packs is looking much safer.

More GPUs are being tested, and the official website claims 25 NVIDIA GPUs were tested, with only a few showing signs of vulnerability. However, two mitigations exist. Enabling IOMMU through the BIOS closes the primary attack path by restricting which memory regions the GPU can access on the host system. This technology handles the translation of device-visible virtual addresses to physical host memory addresses and can completely fence off sensitive memory from peripheral devices. Another option is activating Error Correcting Codes on the GPU, which NVIDIA exposes through a command-line setting. However, enabling it reduces the pool of usable GPU memory and adds processing overhead, resulting in a performance penalty. Interestingly, no GPU with GDDR6X and GDDR7 memory is vulnerable, as the exploit only works with GDDR6.

Bitmagnet is a self hosted bittorrent DHT crawler/database. Basically a self hosted meta search engine for torrents, like Knaben or ext.to.

Bittorrent has for ages had a decentralized network to find additional peers outside of the trackers listed in your torrent file/magnet link. Bitmagnet crawls this network grabbing hashes from everything it finds and puts it in a postgres database. It also has a classifier that allows you to tag and prevent adding torrents based on string matching and TMDB id numbers.

I just got it setup before bed and woke up to it already having 120k files logged. It's neat to look at what other people are downloading, especially given how many torrents are hidden behind private trackers these days. Just browsing what I've crawled overnight I see one TV show that I could not find on the public torrent sites.

It has a servarr integration, so it easily plugs into prowlarr/sonarr/radarr, etc.

If you're going to try it, here's a few tips:

Definitely set a scaling factor or it'll use a low of resources and bog your system down. I started with a scaling factor of 3, which seems fine resource wise.

Make sure you have enough storage space, it apparently consumes a lot of space right away, but less and less over time as your database ends up already having the vast majority of active torrent hashes. I'm seeing people reporting 100gb after many months of running, which isn't that bad, IMO.

Run it through a VPN/wireguard that is outside your home network. Not for copyright purposes(it's not downloading anything), but because it spawns a ton of connections, enough to smoke most home routers.

Here's a docker compose file I found that was helpful. Just change the gluetun settings to whatever VPN you have and change the volume mounts to wherever you have the storage space.
https://pastebin.com/RCEbZQd2

As of March, Linux-based operating systems were running Steam on 5.33% of all polled systems. This represents an impressive 3.10% increase over February's data, which showed a dip in Linux market share from January's 3.5%.

seems very weird that it jumped that much in two months, i would not trust it blindly for now

With a 24.48% share, the use of SteamOS grew by 0.65% last month alone

that's nice though, it's not only valve thingy growing

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-for-83-75-and-more-memory-driven-price-increases/