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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Not warning shot, this is THE SHOT, one of many.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

"I don't know."

So when someone asks for your password, you can just say I don't know and trick them.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

"Eat plants or draw 25"

🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Broke (cause you have to pay): Win11

Woke: Wine11

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Because US/Western regime changes always, always result in society in that country progressing, right? Never gets worse for anyone especially not minority groups, that would be un-American.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Don't blame fentanyl for cop psychopathy.

And that's not a defense of fentanyl.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 17 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Giving the ICE a platform to cry about how they're "threatened" by the public for things the public has every right to be enraged over is peak manufacturing consent. Who gives a shit what they think or how they feel after they kidnap and murder people?

Imagine if a German newspaper published an article like this about the SS during the holocaust, just letting the fucking extermination camp commanders vent about how everyone hates them now. Oh wait, that probably happened.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 22 hours ago

This is why I laugh when alternative medicine people sell special rocks that "give off invisible cosmic energy."

If that's true, you're going to need real medicine real soon after getting it.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 40 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (6 children)

Jesus Christ this fucking article. Just rename yourself The Daily Bootlicker for god sake.

ICE agents are living in fear as the public turns against them in record numbers after one of their colleagues shot a mom dead in the street.

So they have no problems with the murder itself, but the public backlash in response to the murder. Got it.

Agents fear the public revulsion toward the heavy-handed approach of ICE under President Donald Trump, and the administration’s efforts to cover its own tracks as it did in the wake of Good’s shooting, is already causing problems securing criminal convictions. One former agent told the Daily Beast that he and his colleagues fear it has become more common for juries not to believe evidence they are presenting to the court.

Yeah, just ignore the blatant and documented perjury and contempt of court ICE commits every day. THIS is what gets juries to not believe you, not that.

Separately, according to a report published Monday, Border Patrol—the agency working with ICE on the ground—is struggling to find agents willing to join the administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis, which was promised by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in response to last Wednesday’s deadly incident.

Oh no the American SS is having trouble finding new Nazis! How terrible!

Now, two agents who decided to leave ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in the past six months due to the changing nature of their job under Trump have told the Beast that they are terrified of the impact this is having on the force and their former colleagues.

So you didn't leave after seeing the crimes against humanity your organization commits, but now that you're potentially in danger it's time to go.

“Talking to colleagues in Minneapolis, they say it is not uncommon for people to drive past them and make gun signs with their fingers,”

Freedom of speech. Stop being a triggered snowflake.

this could eventually translate into real violence like the fatal shooting of an ICE agent in Dallas in September.

And there it is. They're afraid of someone doing to them what they do to others.

Another said: “We used to be respected and liked by the public, who understood the role we played in a functioning society and appreciated that we investigated and deported criminal illegals. That’s gone now.

You're making it seem like it was taken away and not squandered hundreds of times over.

“If this situation continues, many of us fear that when the Dems get back in, they will dissolve ICE altogether,”

Don't worry, they won't. When have the Dems ever done the right thing?

“For those of us who care about the good work ICE has done in the past three decades, that’s a very sad state of affairs.”

You're a very sad state of humanity.

As one senior Homeland Security official told Klippenstein: “There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy-handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around.”

Damn, said the quiet part out loud, actually admitted ICE intends to threaten lives. At least one brownie point for the honesty.

But you're mentioning "ICE's heavy-handedness" like it's out of your control and you're not in charge of the ICE so I'm going to have to take away those brownie points.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So, instead of feeding large documents into these models which break them, you can instead provide them with an API to interrogate the document by writing code

Kind of off topic, but this reminded me about something I really don't like about the current paradigm of "intelligence" and "knowledge" being parts of a single monolithic model.

Why aren't we training models on how to search any generic dataset for information, find patterns, draw conclusions, etc, rather than baking the knowledge itself into the model? 8 or so GB of pure abstract reasoning strategies would probably be way more intelligent and efficient than even a much larger model we have now. Imagine if you can just give it an arbitrarily sized database whose content you control, which you can then fill with the highest quality, ethically obtained, human expert moderated data complete with attributions to original creators, and have it base all its decisions from that. It would even be able to cite what it used with identifiers in the database, which can then be manually verified. You get a concrete foundation of where it's getting its information from, and you only need to load what it currently needs into memory, whereas right now you have to load all the AI's "knowledge," relevant or not, into your precious and limited RAM. You would also be able to update the individual data separately from the model itself, and have it produce updated results from the new data. That would actually be what I consider an artificial "intelligence" and not a fancy statistical prediction mechanism.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

You heard it folks, invalidate all US patents and copyright because written treaties are irrelevant!

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The question is: What is an effective legal framework that focuses on the precise harms, doesn’t allow AI vendors to easily evade accountability, and doesn’t inflict widespread collateral damage?

This is entirely my opinion and I'm likely wrong about many things, but at minimum:

  1. The model has to be open source and freely downloadable, runnable, and copyleft, satisfying the distribution license requirements of copyleft source material (I'm willing to give a free pass to making it copyleft in general, as different copyleft licenses can have different and contradictory distribution license requirements, but IMO the leap from permissive to copyleft is the more important part). I suspect this alone will kill the AI bubble, because as soon as they can't exclusively profit off it they won't see AI as "the future" anymore.

  2. All training data needs to be freely downloadable and independently hosted by the AI creator. Goes without saying that only material you can legally copy and host on your own server can be used as training data. This solves the IP theft issue, as IMO if your work is licensed such that it can be redistributed in its entirety, it should logically also be okay to use it as training data. And if you can't even legally host it on your own server, using it to train AI is off the table. And the independently hosted dataset (complete with metadata about where it came from) also serves as attribution, as you can then search the training data for creators.

  3. Pay server owners for use of their resources. If you're scraping for AI you at the very least need to have a way for server owners to send you bills. And no content can be scraped from the original source more than once, see point 2.

  4. Either have a mechanism of tracking acknowledgement and accurately generating references along with the code, or if that's too challenging, I'm personally also okay with a blanket policy where anything AI generated is public domain. The idea that you can use AI generated code derived from open source in your proprietary app, and can then sue anyone who has the audacity to copy your AI generated code, is ridiculous and unacceptable.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280

If there's anything we should take from Japan, it's treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.

 

If there's anything we should take from Japan, it's treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40689539

I decided to switch to NixOS on my desktop and so far it's been great, I love being able to build out my config in the Nix file, but there is one thing I've not been able to figure out how to change. After a period of inactivity, the computer suspends (or hibernates?) and basically turns off (all the fans and lights turn off and it disconnects from the network, I don't know if it's saving the state in RAM of the drive). How do I get it to not do that and just lock the desktop and turn off the screen after inactivity? I'm using KDE Plasma and I've tried different kinds of configurations that build successfully but still don't prevent it from going offline.

 

I decided to switch to NixOS on my desktop and so far it's been great, I love being able to build out my config in the Nix file, but there is one thing I've not been able to figure out how to change. After a period of inactivity, the computer suspends (or hibernates?) and basically turns off (all the fans and lights turn off and it disconnects from the network, I don't know if it's saving the state in RAM of the drive). How do I get it to not do that and just lock the desktop and turn off the screen after inactivity? I'm using KDE Plasma and I've tried different kinds of configurations that build successfully but still don't prevent it from going offline.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40568699

After some consideration, I've decided to replace my consumer router at home with an OpnSense box I control, and use the consumer router as just an access point. The model I have doesn't seem to support OpenWrt but the default firmware supports access point mode complete with mesh functionality, otherwise I would have just installed OpenWrt on it. I still like the consumer router's mesh Wi-Fi capabilities, especially the wireless range extender, but don't trust it enough to let it be the actual root device separating my home network from the open internet. My reasoning is that by having it behind the OpnSense router, I can monitor and detect if it's exfiltrating any "analytics" data and block them. Worst case scenario I realize it's too noisy with the analytics and buy a proper business grade access point, or an M.2 Wi-Fi 6 card with some beefy antennas.

Now I'm trying to decide if I should use one of my old mini PCs or if I should get a brand new one with an up to date processor and microcode. The biggest reason I don't want the consumer router to be the root device anymore is because I don't know how well they patch their firmware against attackers constantly scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. I imagine an open source router OS with tons of eyes on it and used by actual professionals would inherently be more secure than whatever proprietary cost cut consumer firmware my current router has. I've already picked out a suitable mini PC I'm not using and the reason I even started down this rabbit hole is because I have it, but after thinking more about it, I'm worried that whatever security I gain might be undermined by the underlying hardware being old and outdated, especially since the processor is definitely pre Spectre/Meltdown and I doubt it's still getting microcode or firmware updates.

Again, the reason I ask is because the internet really wants me to think old disused computers are perfect for converting into routers, and I really don't want to buy a new computer if I don't have to. How important is the hardware for a router? Can I expect OpnSense to have sufficient security on pretty much any hardware or will a sufficiently old computer completely defeat the purpose of even switching away from the consumer router?

Alternatively, I also have another mini PC with a Ryzen 5 from 2020, and I can reposition it from its current job to router duty, though it would definitely be overkill and wasting the hardware capabilities. Would that be substantially more secure than an older Intel processor?

I also have a Raspberry Pi 4 I can put OpenWrt on, would that somehow be more secure than an older x64 computer?

 

After some consideration, I've decided to replace my consumer router at home with an OpnSense box I control, and use the consumer router as just an access point. The model I have doesn't seem to support OpenWrt but the default firmware supports access point mode complete with mesh functionality, otherwise I would have just installed OpenWrt on it. I still like the consumer router's mesh Wi-Fi capabilities, especially the wireless range extender, but don't trust it enough to let it be the actual root device separating my home network from the open internet. My reasoning is that by having it behind the OpnSense router, I can monitor and detect if it's exfiltrating any "analytics" data and block them. Worst case scenario I realize it's too noisy with the analytics and buy a proper business grade access point, or an M.2 Wi-Fi 6 card with some beefy antennas.

Now I'm trying to decide if I should use one of my old mini PCs or if I should get a brand new one with an up to date processor and microcode. The biggest reason I don't want the consumer router to be the root device anymore is because I don't know how well they patch their firmware against attackers constantly scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. I imagine an open source router OS with tons of eyes on it and used by actual professionals would inherently be more secure than whatever proprietary cost cut consumer firmware my current router has. I've already picked out a suitable mini PC I'm not using and the reason I even started down this rabbit hole is because I have it, but after thinking more about it, I'm worried that whatever security I gain might be undermined by the underlying hardware being old and outdated, especially since the processor is definitely pre Spectre/Meltdown and I doubt it's still getting microcode or firmware updates.

Again, the reason I ask is because the internet really wants me to think old disused computers are perfect for converting into routers, and I really don't want to buy a new computer if I don't have to. How important is the hardware for a router? Can I expect OpnSense to have sufficient security on pretty much any hardware or will a sufficiently old computer completely defeat the purpose of even switching away from the consumer router?

Alternatively, I also have another mini PC with a Ryzen 5 from 2020, and I can reposition it from its current job to router duty, though it would definitely be overkill and wasting the hardware capabilities. Would that be substantially more secure than an older Intel processor?

I also have a Raspberry Pi 4 I can put OpenWrt on, would that somehow be more secure than an x64 computer?

 

My VPN provider has a limit to how many concurrent connections I can have, and a workaround I've been using is to run the Wireguard client as a daemon (wg-quick@my-wg-config) and a Squid proxy on my home server, and point my local devices to the HTTP proxy port, which will route the traffic through the Wireguard connection. However, this has broken randomly multiple times in the past few months, where it will randomly decide to just not allow the server to connect to ANY internet address while the Wireguard connection is active, and no amount of network or routing table configuration changes fixes it. The Squid proxy works fine as far as I can tell, it's just the Wireguard connection that's failing, which doesn't even allow a ping to an internet address from the server's terminal (which doesn't go through the proxy). The only way I've been able to fix it is to completely reinstall the OS on the server and reconfigure everything from scratch, which is annoying and also only works until it randomly decides to break again. This makes me think I'm doing something wrong.

Is there a more "proper" or widely supported way of routing internet traffic on local devices through a single Wireguard connection? Everything I could read online says running Wireguard with an HTTP proxy server is the way to do it, but it clearly isn't very reliable or my computer is just defective in some weird intermittent way? The server is running Fedora Server 43. I've also checked for SELinux denials but there are none.

I'm aware of wireproxy but it uses a SOCKS5 proxy which is not as widely supported as an HTTP proxy and a lot of my devices (mainly phones) won't be able to access it. Also I'd like the server itself to also use the VPN, not just the devices on the proxy.

Does anyone have more experience with this and can give some advice?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40388903

I have a science-fantasy world with intelligent non-anthro animals living in harmony, which I've posted some lore about this in the past. Think "communist non-anthro Zootopia with sci-fi technology." This is something that I've been thinking about for a while and combines my interests in worldbuilding and software. I want to create a fictional social media platform for the animals in my world, and stage fictional threads in the typical Reddit/Lemmy format discussing news and politics taking place within the world. Then post screenshots here with context explaining what is happening. I just thought this might be a more fun way of sharing lore about my world than just the articles themselves, almost like an ARG. I'll also be able to introduce some of my main narrative characters through their social media presence.

On the technical side of things, I don't know if I want to compile and spin up a local Lemmy instance at home and actually stage accounts and posts on it. But actually logging in and out of different accounts sounds like way more work than necessary so I could also just take the Lemmy UI and add my own mock thread data to it. Or, I could write my own code for a completely fictional GUI, since I don't want to just use the default Lemmy UI and break the illusion. The second and third options might be more important if I want to make this an actual ARG and host a website for it, since in that case I don't actually want people to sign up and post.

I would love some feedback in general on this idea, and maybe gauge interest on if this is something people would like to see.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40388903

I have a science-fantasy world with intelligent non-anthro animals living in harmony, which I've posted some lore about this in the past. Think "communist non-anthro Zootopia with sci-fi technology." This is something that I've been thinking about for a while and combines my interests in worldbuilding and software. I want to create a fictional social media platform for the animals in my world, and stage fictional threads in the typical Reddit/Lemmy format discussing news and politics taking place within the world. Then post screenshots here with context explaining what is happening. I just thought this might be a more fun way of sharing lore about my world than just the articles themselves, almost like an ARG. I'll also be able to introduce some of my main narrative characters through their social media presence.

On the technical side of things, I don't know if I want to compile and spin up a local Lemmy instance at home and actually stage accounts and posts on it. But actually logging in and out of different accounts sounds like way more work than necessary so I could also just take the Lemmy UI and add my own mock thread data to it. Or, I could write my own code for a completely fictional GUI, since I don't want to just use the default Lemmy UI and break the illusion. The second and third options might be more important if I want to make this an actual ARG and host a website for it, since in that case I don't actually want people to sign up and post.

I would love some feedback in general on this idea, and maybe gauge interest on if this is something people would like to see.

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