VeganCheesecake

@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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VeganCheesecake ,

I don't really see the harm in that, if someone wants to erp an ai, they'll find a way. If I remember correctly, OpenAI already isn't all that rigorous with banning people who break the ToS in that way.

VeganCheesecake , (edited )

If they have such a scenario in their head, they could probably type it out already, without any AI help.

VeganCheesecake ,

If you wanna court the laptop oem market, windows is the safer bet.

Depending on how in-depth they co-operated with the windows for arm team, keeping some details confidential till launch might have also been easier that way.

VeganCheesecake , (edited )

Haven't read into this too much, but I think the affected person that made this get attention was a solo dev that was prototyping a solution for one of his customers.

And the reason he raised a stink was because he had a huge bill, as the name he chose for his bucket was by chance the same an open source project used as a sample bucket name, so whenever someone deployed it without first customising the config, it was pinging his bucket and getting a 403.

Edit: Here's his original medium post / Archive

VeganCheesecake ,

Why does that sound like a threat?

VeganCheesecake ,

Lucky for me, I can't afford a backyard.

VeganCheesecake ,

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/telegram-gibt-nutzerdaten-an-das-bundeskriminalamt-a-0e4d3fcb-8081-4b87-b062-db412bbc294b

Well, Telegram seems to be giving user data to the German Federal Criminal Police Office, and if they're cooperating with the German authorities, I don't see why I'd presume they aren't cooperating with others as well.

All this is actually documented, compared to those nebulous "important people".

VeganCheesecake ,

Well, it kinda does. If you choose to print your keys, you can use print to file and safe them to the encrypted drive, if you really want to for some reason.

VeganCheesecake ,

It has been many years since I've used an OS without full disk encryption, so I can't really compare, but I have a Windows Partition for some proprietary software that doesn't like Wine on my PC, and it is really smooth. Might be because it's on a NVME SSD, though.

VeganCheesecake ,

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Is that an evangelion reference?

VeganCheesecake , (edited )

You can mount the efi partition, but I don't think you can usually mount the uefi or bios. I've only ever edited vbios, and haven't done so in quite some time, but I remember needing to clamp the vbios chip. Dunno if motherboards make their bios chips more accessible, but I kinda doubt it.

Some motherboard support starting bios/uefi updates from a booted OS, so there might be a vector to be found there.

VeganCheesecake ,

Pretty sure every app has to request notification permission now, so it's pretty easy to opt-out.

VeganCheesecake ,

I guess? Seemed pretty relevant that notifications don't really work like that anymore in current Android.

VeganCheesecake ,

An insane Bavarian retired geology professor, turned conspiracy theorist, who was trying to bring his dead wife back, and win back the approval of his estranged daughter. Died one session in after being bitten by an insane cultist.

Yes, I did a Bavarian dialect the whole time. No, I'm not good at it. Yes, there where real Bavarians at the table (well, one of them was Franconian, but same difference (don't tell her I said that)).

VeganCheesecake ,

Well, the campaign took place in Berlin in the '20s (Call of Cthulhu, specifically Berlin: The Wicked City), but in modern times, sure.

VeganCheesecake ,

Well, it's a podcast player. The BBC has podcasts. Don't think that was what op meant.

VeganCheesecake ,

I have been looking for something similar, and my current solution is to use an RSS Client like Feeder, and to subscribe to the RSS Feeds of some quality outlets.

Results in a feed that looks just about like this:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/d57b467f-82d8-4575-8dcd-a17c33eb94b2.jpeg

VeganCheesecake ,

My players once almost killed a cleaner because he had the same first name as the bad guy.

VeganCheesecake ,

Something like that. They found out the villains first name, which wasn't exactly uncommon. Asked a guard whether they new anyone by that name, and since they managed to be pretty charming, the guard was like, yeah sure, I know a dude with that first name. Wasn't even related to the story in any way. Just some dude.

Open source e reader ( lemmy.ml )

I recently got a Sony prs 600 e reader from 2009. The battery is at the end of its life (It lasts about 3 days with heavy reading, and a couple weeks without reading). No backlight, no Wi-Fi, just an SD card that I can load epub files and small PDFs. The screen is slow and the contrast isn't the best. The "touch screen" is the...

VeganCheesecake ,

I've still got my PRS-T2 from Sony, but I am regularly thinking about replacing it, because the low resolution is kinda wearing on me. Maybe with something from boox, they at least seem to not be bound to any store. Kinda pricy, though.

VeganCheesecake ,

One thing I was kinda wondering about - as long as there's nothing in the T&Cs of your instance, don't you implicitly hold the copyright to your comment? Isn't the CC license actually more permissive? Or is it more about "that model was trained on content available under this license, to comply with it, they have to follow it's terms"?

VeganCheesecake ,

- but explicitly allowing non-commercial use. Neat.

VeganCheesecake ,

Works fine for me on v24.03.26-14:56.

VeganCheesecake ,

Oh, just saw your edit. Carry on.

VeganCheesecake ,

I mean, not defending Win11 here, it has lots of other issues, but I'd just put each excel sheet on a different virtual desktop and switch with the keyboard. Always felt that clicking was a bit inefficient anyway.

VeganCheesecake ,

Aren't you using the TPM for full disk encryption, though? Or are you entering your BitLocker Password at every boot?

VeganCheesecake ,

There doesn't have to be anything wrong with it, though I seem to remember that BitLocker isn't all that difficult to break if your passphrase isn't long enough. I just found it a bit weird because unlocking via TPM very much feels like the standard solution under Windows.

VeganCheesecake ,

I'm the outlier, as in I use Apple Music on Android. It has an app that works for me, options for lossless, some fun radio stations, and no podcasts or audiobooks popping up on the home page. Downloads work fine for me, but I did have that skipping bug OP described in a version 6 months ago.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with it, ignoring of course that streaming as a business isn't all that great.

Edit: Also, why not pirate outright, instead of violating the ToS of a company that has your billing info? I mean, they probably won't do anything, but at that point, just getting the albums as flac somewhere seams more sensible to me.

VeganCheesecake ,

Perform better is pretty relative. My Pi 4 running home assistant is super responsive, while also using little power and being completely silent, but it only runs a network of zigbee lights and sensors, controlled by zigbee switches.

I agree that more power is necessary for any local voice applications, but depending on the use case, the pi probably isn't worse than the alternatives.

VeganCheesecake ,

If you really want to use gpt-4 for a cover letter (don't think it'll help that much, but I won't judge), just get yourself an API Key and use the API with a local frontend. The requests you need for a cover letter will likely amount to a few cents.

I get the whole pirate spirit thing, but this all seems wonky at best. If you want fully free gpt-4, there's always Bing Chat.

Looking for Cloud Storage Replacement, but I don't like NextCloud

I'm looking for something to replace cloud storage for myself and family. I've tried to use/like NextCloud but honestly I despise it. The UI/UX really bothers me, and administering it is a pain. It also just does way more that I want or need....

VeganCheesecake ,

OwnCloud has been acquired by KiteWorks a few months ago. Doesn't have to mean anything, but makes me feel cautious about it's future.

VeganCheesecake ,

I mean, as long as you are the one prompting ChatGPT, you can probably get it to spit out the right recommendations. Works until they fire you because they are convinced AI made you obsolete.

VeganCheesecake ,

I mean, I don't see the point in not upgrading when your device supports it. The interface pretty much stays the same at this point, and they usually do improve on security, and other background stuff.

Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?

I have a Ryzen 3 1300X at the moment and it's always had this soft lock freezing bug on Linux. I used to dual-boot Windows on this machine and Windows never had the same problem, so I think it is an issue with the Linux kernel (I've also replaced nearly every bit of hardware that I originally built the PC with, except for the...

VeganCheesecake ,

I have a 3600X and haven't had any problems under Linux.

VeganCheesecake ,

I mean, communist doesn't have to mean tankie.

VeganCheesecake ,

It's better value anyway. Only got the X because it had a rebate while the standard didn't.

VeganCheesecake ,

I have the same issue, but without Tor. For me it comes from using Cloudflare/1.1.1.1 as my DNS Resolver. Apparently they've been beefing with archive.is over some dns implementation specifics for some time.

I think some Cloudflare guy replied to a question about that on HackerNews some time back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

VeganCheesecake ,

If the Problem comes from the DNS configuration, then yes, probably. Might be coming from elsewhere, and just have the same symptoms as mine.

VeganCheesecake ,

Anything not coming from a big publishing company.

Exclusive: Google Pixel 8a boasts 120Hz display, Tensor G3, DisplayPort output, better availability ( www.androidauthority.com )

Wonder if they'll use a rigid OLED panel like they did on the 7a and 8a. Dylan Raga wrote an excellent piece reviewing the Pixel 8's display where he said they'd finally switched to a flexible OLED panel on the regular model.

VeganCheesecake ,

My og OnePlus Nord is still going strong with Lineage, but if it fails at some point, I feel that the Pixel a phones are kinda the best on offer at the moment, with the long update support, the hardware, the price, and the possibility to throw Graphene on there.

Never really saw the point in flagships after mid-rangers started becoming pretty good.

VeganCheesecake ,

More reliable notifications? That's my reason, at least.

VeganCheesecake ,

I got a used ThinkPad for that price a year ago. Needed a laptop, and was a broke student. Really repairable - it's easy to take apart, not glued, and most parts seem to be available at Aliexpress for reasonable prices. It's still doing it's job, and even though I could afford upgrading it now, I don't really see a reason to.

The last time I had a look at the market for new laptops, most things 300€ (which should be close enough to $300) would buy you where, judging by the components, bound to be painfully slow. If it really needs to be new, I'd look for stores that have discounts, and look up the model on iFixit or a simmilar resource to check how repairable it is.

VeganCheesecake ,

It doesn't necessarily need to be a ThinkPad either. Any used good quality business laptop should do the trick. My grandmother recently got an used EliteBook, and it's working quite well for her. I'd look for mid- to high-end models, with parts that aren't soldered - you should be able to find that out on the data sheet for the model in question.

Any i5/R5 and up in a machine that isn't too old should handle pretty much everything most people expect from a laptop - for me that is running a browser, a Latex editor, a notes app, and an IDE, for the most part.

I'd reccomend Linux, but that might be based more on my personal convictions, and a machine like that should also be able to run current Windows with no problems.

VeganCheesecake ,

Hmh, didn't see the community this was in. Yeah, I guess that makes sense.

VeganCheesecake ,

Huh. I used to boot into Windows to use Acrobat because I never found a linux pdf editor that does everything I need, but this looks like it might cover most of my use cases. Nice.

Thanks for the recommendation.

VeganCheesecake ,

Would it have been? I mean, I certainly don't like Adobe, but Acrobat has been able to edit pretty much any aspect of a pdf for quite some time.

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