Helt ärligt så tycker jag att reaktionen runt det här har varit väldigt överdriven, även om jag förstår och håller med om att video identifiering är väl typ det jobbigaste sättet att verifiera sig… men tror inte det är många som tycker att det är jobbigt nog att byta klient för att de behöver göra det en gång.

Många är snabba att peka på att de läckt all data en gång redan, men det är ju inte helt sant. Det de läckt var enbart från deras support system, när folk öppnade tickets och skickade med foto på sitt ID för att överklaga beslutet. Det säger inte riktigt någonting om det primära systemet och jag tror inte på riktigt att de skulle spara den datan speciellt länge. Låter också som att det är ett annat eller ändrat system nu när de säger att video datan bara behandlas lokalt (också intressant fråga, de litar helt på klienten? Borde göra det möjligt att helt gå runt)

Så även om jag är ett fan av konceptet av federerade nätverk, och är lite sugen på att sätta upp en egen Matrix/Synapse server för min vänkrets, så orkar jag inte riktigt driva på och övertala folk att flytta. Speciellt inte då det också verkar som att folk kan fortsätta använda de (relativt få) servrar jag är med på utan att verifiera sin ålder.

Eating Semla outside of Fettisdagen is highly unethical!

… and I’m the kind of sinner that will absolutely buy Kanelbullesemla as soon as it appears in the stores in the beginning of January.

Honestly you pretty much don’t. Llama are insanely expensive to run as most of the model improvements will come from simply growing the model. It’s not realistic to run LLMs locally and compete with the hosted ones, it pretty much requires the economics of scale. Even if you invest in a 5090 you’re going to be behind the purpose made GPUs with 80GB VRAM.

Maybe it could work for some use cases but I rather just don’t use AI.

Working at home since 2020, and while I agree with the advantages most people post here, I definitely miss talking with people over lunch, or even getting out for After Work beers now and then. (Obviously that depends a lot on if you like your coworkers or not)

This is apparently a super controversial opinion but I wouldn’t mind working somewhere that forces people to the office 2, maybe 3 days a week. Just not every day.

Exactly, and it doesn’t mean that Rotten Tomatoes is somehow involved in the review manipulation. It is obviously possible for an external party to influence the audience score, they just need enough money to buy tickets that can verify. It’s probably a much easier way than pressuring RT to manipulate the reviews if you have the money (and maybe even an interest in funneling that money into movie earnings)

That most people wouldn’t even think of buying a ticket and thus can’t post a review almost definitely plays a part as well.

Maybe i misunderstand what you mean but yes, you kind of can. The problem in this case is that the user sends two requests in the same input, and the LLM isn’t able to deal with conflicting commands in the system prompt and the input.

The post you replied to kind of seems to imply that the LLM can leak info to other users, but that is not really a thing. As I understand when you call the LLM it’s given your input and a lot of context that can be a hidden system prompt, perhaps your chat history, and other data that might be relevant for the service. If everything is properly implemented any information you give it will only stay in your context. Assuming that someone doesn’t do anything stupid like sharing context data between users.

What you need to watch out for though, especially with free online AI services is that they may use anything you input to train and evolve the process. This is a separate process but if you give personal to an AI assistant it might end up in the training dataset and parts of it end up in the next version of the model. This shouldn’t be an issue if you have a paid subscription or an Enterprise contract that would likely state that no input data can be used for training.

I feel personally attacked.

For now, BMW is defaulting to a more traditional approach. If it requires a data package of some sort, it will probably have a recurring fee—and BMW says its customers are already comfortable subscribing to such add-ons.

Sounds like a fairly reasonable position imo, and that they listen to the outrage about heated seats (which tbh was ridiculous). I get the feeling that everyone who commented on this didn’t actually read the article, lol.

Full disclosure: I own a fairly recent BMW and do like it a lot. Would I have bought it with subscription based heated seats? Maybe not, but I do appreciate other things like having a physical button to go into battery save mode and not having to dive 3 touch screen menus down… or that it’s one of the most powerful hybrids in electric only mode (though not anymore I think)… or being generally more dialed back when it comes to driver assist features.

That said I will admit that it has a physical button that tells me to pay up when pressed, to enable automatic high beam control… though it’s not like it was an advertised feature (got it used).

I’ve always been self hosting a lot but recently I’ve started to move some external things

• Domain management from Cloudflare/AWS to OVH.
• DNS and CDN from AWS/Cloudflare to BummyCDN
• E-mail Gateway from AWS SES to a mail server on Hetzner (pending)
• Considering to self host email to get off Googlw Workspace (free), but Im not sure that is a commitment I want to make.

And of course trying to go from Reddit to the Fediverse

Is this actually practically achievable or mostly theoretical in a lab? Is it confirmed that the cops have actually managed to do this?

It’s probably what has surprised me the most about all this, how much has happened on free hosted email accounts.

I guess it means that privacy from human eyes (i.e. not automated scanning) is pretty good. Or Google/Yahoo is in on a conspiracy but I can’t imagine regular operations staff being made aware of it.

I can’t really tell if you’re joking or not but no, I’m saying that it’s a bug, and at no point anything is sent off your computer

The first one was my an experimental instance and I will shut it down soon. Initially I planned to migrate the database to new hosting but I also regretted using a domain that was essentially a reference to reddit (.red). So I decided to start clean on another domain while it was only me who used it for a limited time.

Indeed and the only thing I have ever seen a larger company running is Microsoft Exchange, but MS is actively pushing to cloud here. I also know a few people who work with Exchange and they kind of hate it.

The option has the traditional open source stack I guess with Postfix, Dovecot, Spamassassin, some Webmail client, and then you have to make sure that SPF, DMARC, and DKIM signing works… It becomes a lot so I understand why none willingly wants to deal with this. That said there are some more modern alternatives like Stalwart mail server that combines the first three services into one and something I’m considering to try out.

I like that the article excerpt clearly says that it’s simply about files not being removed when the trash bin is emptied, and it’s a problem specific to the Canonical snap system… Yet every single other comment in here rants about Microsoft spyware. Not many people read beyond the headline, lol.

At some point I saw images posted on what was supposedly Epsteins server setup, and given the disgusting shit they were up to it’s not even a little surprising he would keep it on hardware he fully controls. So of course there will be some technical documentation in there.

At the same time I’m kind of shocked how much of these emails happens on seemingly regular @gmail.com or @yahoo.com addresses.

I feel it’s very important to point out that specifically email is one of the most common things to outsource. Hosting your own email is simply one of the harder things to run on your own, having to deal with anti-spam measures, IP reputation tracking and the risk of other providers blocking you if one of your users are compromised and used to send spam.

My point being that yes, you are somewhat likely to use other Cloud products but it’s not a good indicator for how dependent the core business is on cloud providers.

Tracking specifically email is probably the best thing if your goal is to create an infographic where the dependence numbers are as high as possible though.

As someone who has been exploring the Fediverse for about 2 weeks, it’s been an overall good experience. I’ve been trying to use it instead of Reddit as much as possible, but it’s also apparent that there’s a lot less content.

I hope that the verse will continue to grow and that it will solve the content problem.

Otherwise the clients feel like a breath of fresh air and less enshittified than Reddit…

edit: Also the first comment talking about experiences that are just too jarring. I haven’t encountered anything like that but maybe I am just a sweet summer child.