Wildmimic

What is missing in that article is that blocking globally also might open Quad9 to liability in case of overblocking or falsely reported domains, which has happened in every country which has given rightholders the tools to demand blocks without judicial oversight.

I associate these things with guardrails being broken, this should not happen on it’s own. Maybe too much synthetic training data?

I hope he gets an unoperable, very small brain tumor that is not life threatening, but causes immense hair growth, a feminine voice, loss of libido, a funny walk, his testicles retreating into his abdomen and such low blood pressure that he faints if he gets too excited.

Somewhat like Chewbacca with a very strange growl and fainting when seeing stormtroopers.

You don’t have to be costumer of a specific company to become a part of their dataset. Meta for example has been known for decades to create shadow profiles for people who are not using their services. Even if you avoid a few of these companies, you cannot dodge them all. McDonalds is just used as a tool to visualize the issue, but your supermarket, your bank, your phone company, your car, your power company and so on are all doing the same while tracking you everywhere they can, sell the data to each other and from data brokers. Changing your habits can only reduce the harm, but cannot eliminate it.

With the current surveillance push they try to reduce the gaps in their data profiles. This aggressive move into areas where they didn’t have any reach before is more than concerning (and the reason why getting a non-Smart TV is becoming a real challenge and ALPRs are being pushed for so hard), because they are infiltrating the remainder of private life to reach their final goal: create a statistical model of you so detailed that they can predict your reactions before you are even aware that something happened. This is deeply intertwined with interests in politics and the tech bros into being able to create personalized propaganda while gutting you like a fish in every way they can.

The current speed of development in this area is absolutely fear inducing. This is the path to a fully automated, surveillance based high-tech feudalism where even the punishment for thinking the wrong way gets automated, so no human with their pesky morals can interfere. What we are currently experiencing is not new, but it reaches a completely new dimension, so reducing it to “this has been around for decades” does not cut it in my opinion.

I fully agree. My personal experience with chemistry tells me that these people are not known for using these solvents out of spite, they use what works because they have specific properties and minimize personal risks when working in a lab, especially in an small-scale experimental setting where the used volumes of solvents are limited and changing them might bite into the sometimes meager amount of product you might get out of a reaction.

If everything goes well and you can replace the solvent for a greener substitute in an industrial scale process while still getting acceptable efficiency, i don’t think any chemist would disagree to switch. That they still use these solvents simply shows that some properties aren’t easily replicated.

Yep. Before, there was still some ambiguity (especially if you grew up in a german speaking country like me, who have their own wounds regarding Israel) - Hamas and Israel both weren’t “the good guys”, because after decades there was no one left with a clean rep sheet, but they were both not actively working on completely annihilating each other. But what Israel started after Oct 7 has reset all of this. And as long as Israel doesn’t get the fuck out of Gaza, the West Bank and the areas they are trying to make unlivable for civilians since the start of the Iran fuckup and starts making amends, i will never cry a single tear for any civilians in Israel getting hurt, because just like the americans, they did not do enough to prevent fascists taking over their country.

I’d say so, but even he is fallible - i remember him supporting some medical con-man (out of conviction, not out of greed) a few years back? Can’t remember details, but he caught online flak for it - deservedly

This is why recovery info for archives is a boon - sadly it’s pretty out of fashion.

I remember me being 14 and distributing stacks of 3,5" 1,44Mb floppies filled with copies of Doom to whoever wanted one, as long as i got the disks back later on

Me: Plex share because i am lazy as fuck regarding video content and need my limited storage for my game trove.

You did not understand. The “percentage based” thing is as good as dead. You could just flip a coin and it would have the same accuracy. There will be no tool able to distinguish between human code and agent code going forward, percentage based or not. Watermark-based solutions have also been proven to be circumventable with minimal effort.

No one is gonna be able to make even an educated guess about the origin of a pull request.

This is an approach with a with a time limit that is nearly exhausted. These detection methods already suffer from abysmal false negative AND false positive rates, and the further LLM progresses, the worse these detection algorithms will become at actually identifying anything written by a coding agent. The point where they become completely usekess is approaching fast - mainly because these tools are great for adversarial training - every detection tool that is actually working provides everything needed to make sure that future models (or even the current one slightly updated) become invisible.

The best policy isn’t worth the paper it is written on if you can’t detect violations.

Just like Switzerland, Austria is also a good choice - any blocking is normally DNS based and not network based here.

my cat currently loves hitting the “Sleep”-button on my keyboard every time he jumps on my table -.- at least i can wake it again, but it IS annoying. Haven’t had the time yet to reconfigure that button to instead run a soundfile of me scolding my cat lol.

And this is the way bioinvasor species spread - most of the time they don’t come delivered inside of PSUs but simple crates, which improves their survivability lol

I have no formal training except 1 single year of a trade school where i learnt a bit of pascal and c++. But i have been in front of computers since my earliest childhood starting with ataris in the early 80, C64, Amiga 500, and then starting from 286 across every major consumer x86/x64 CPU architecture. All I know except logic and programming basics are self taught, i never worked in the field outside of giving tech support for ISP clients a.k.a help grandma configure her mailaccount or help someone reinstall their modem driver.

Lets see:

• Good prices if you are a bit patient and want to support devs
• seamless linux integration nowadays - Proton is a blessing!
• DRM is the decision of the publisher - not required by steam in any way - and the offered standard DRM is so weak that it doesn’t really exist while also respecting you as a costumer (no hardware binding, no limited activations and so on - if a game has that, it’s the publishers bad decision)
• steam workshop is the easiest way to get into modding by far
• autoupdater for all your games (and mods when using workshop)
• integrated overlay offering guides and discussion forums
• steam input is awesome and powerful, while not being overly complicated, and also works on non-steam games (the overlay does too - opening a game wiki in the overlay is pretty handy)
• switching between offered builds/betas takes 3 clicks
• steamworks making multiplayer easy - rightclick your friend and invite into the running game
• discovery queue is a pretty good feature - i tend to run one or two every month just to keep up on whats new and up my alley
• creates a news and patchnotes stream out of your library and store follows, making sure you always are informed even if a game isn’t currently installed, for example when you are waiting for some specific feature / content in a game
• easy managing of your installed games with a good overview of used space and when you last used that 80GB behemoth of a game
• Steam inhome streaming is pretty good and readily available, and also enables mixed remote/local couch gaming; i prefer moonlight/sunshine, but it’s deffo more involved than clicking on the “Stream” button.
• Family sharing makes my library availabe to 5 other people free of charge

Don’t get me wrong, i am someone who collects game repacks in large volumes, so i am completely fine with piracy as it is. but i also want to give game devs that have created something special financial security so they can continue doing their thing. That means games that i actually want to continue playing after testing them out sooner or later land in my library, at a price point that i a) can afford, since i am a small time pensioner and b) that i perceive as fair for the product in comparison to how much joy the game brought me. My wishlist is primarily a “reminder to buy because they deserve it” list. In some cases this can even result in paying the full new release price (Baldurs Gate 3 e.g, and CP2077 - this has more to do with my fandom towards the pen&paper RPG tho, and i am happy that the game has evolved to something where i can say i am proud i paid full price)

The slot that is currently in use is the slower one since it’s only Type: x1. Depending on what you use the slot currently (such as an M.2 drive), you might wanna switch slots so you can take advantage of the speed; the x1 slot is completely adequate for 1gbps ethernet if you don’t need more. Both slots are otherwise functionally the same, but make sure to look up in your mainboard documentation if there’s any limitation if you use both slots or a specific hardware configuration (mine deactivated the second M.2 slot after changing from an 2600x to an 5950x for example)

I use RPCS3.

Steam Deck or Legion all the way. My Steam Deck can run anything starting from NES up to PS3 titles without issue and PC titles also aren’t a problem (and there are even pretty good tools to automatically sync your saves between the deck and any other PC you have). The possibility of expanding the space with an SD card is very handy for Roms, which don’t need tons of transfer speed to run fine. (although i also put smaller PC games on there which work fine, but loading times for larger games might become uncomfortable)