jarfil

@jarfil@beehaw.org

Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.

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jarfil,

Could mean FOSS but they keep the trademark.

jarfil,

The real solution is, a heuristic analysis of the phone’s gyroscope and accelerometer data.

Marketing calls that, “AI”.

jarfil,

It isn’t clear which of these features use Google servers and which ones don’t. The “Find My Device” definitely does, and has no place in AOSP. If they’re actually using AI to compare phone state with some tracked “habitual” behavior, it may also have no place in AOSP, but who knows.

jarfil,

It’s kind of both Google’s and manufacturers responsibility. Google has made available a Dynamic System Updates feature:

source.android.com/docs/…/dynamic-system-updates

developer.android.com/topic/dsu

…but it requires manufacturer support to allow adding custom keys.

jarfil,

AI can also understand extra weights for hand picked sources of truth. Whether you then agree with the choices of whoever is doing the hand picking, is a separate matter.

jarfil,

Is coming, and more. Very good video, with good points. Slightly outdated already, with AutGPT being a thing. What’s coming, is going to be orders of magnitude more than what they predicted in that video.

jarfil,

Was that on the Insider Dev channel, a Preview channel, or did it stop asking after the first time?

I haven’t seen a single “ad” of those since I booted Windows 11 Pro for the first time.

jarfil,

Senior talent tends to be “T people”, while juniors tend to be “I people”. Removing that T scaffolding, is how corporations end up like Boeing or the Titan.

jarfil,

How to survive Windows in 2024:

  • Windows 10/11 “Pro” is codeword for “not a joke”. Always use Pro or better for anything serious.
  • DO NOT ever install any “Preview” updates, unless you want to become a betatester (comes with config reset and telemetry).
  • DO NOT join the “Windows Insider Program”, same reason as above.
  • WSL2 is your friend, so are Cygwin and WinGetUI/UniGetUI.
  • ONLY install official software, and FOSS software.
  • DO NOT install anything cracked, or run any cracks, serial generators, or anything that promises you a free gain, ever.
  • Windows Sandbox, is also your friend.

Sandbox is particularly nice, since it may run a “Preview” version of Windows, but sandboxed, without polluting your main install.

If you have an Intel 12th gen or higher, you may be able to run it with TME-MK for extra isolation between the systems.

jarfil,

Rule of thumb:

  • Linux: you set a system from bottoms up, adding/enabling layers and features.
  • Windows: you set a system from top down, locking/disabling features that shouldn’t be available.

Windows has tools to control and restrict updates/installs, with a full centralized logging system. You will rarely find log files, it all goes into the centralized log (think systemd log). Some failed installs may leave behind log files in temp, so be quick at getting them or they’ll be gone.

If you have non-Windows programs and tools installed, you can use either the msstore, winget, or 3rd party choco and scoop, or all of them via WinGetUI.

Many admin tools are only available on the CLI via PowerShell. Some may or may not conflict with how their GUI counterparts work.

Additional built-in tools… are “secret”. You may get a glimpse at some of them by checking the “install fix” tool or similar, but it may use non-backwards-compatible calls, which is why they’re not made official.

jarfil,

Hm, from a privacy point of view, what’s the difference between this, vs. a private/incognito tab with a pi-hole?

I mean:

  • pi-hole eats the ads
  • private/incognito eats the cookies
  • the sites can still do basic tracking via the video feed itself

As for functional differences… right now, the player seems to be missing the skip ±10sec feature, and the full-screen with rotate.

On the other hand… multi-site private bookmarking, would be interesting.

jarfil,

Chromium, Firefox… if you open the dev tools, you can edit everything, with it showing in the browser in real-time (WYSIWYG).

Firefox Developer Edition has some extra tools and debugging modes, but some are redundant if you’re using VS Code.

If you’re looking for a Dreamweaver-like thing, where you could drop elements with minimum HTML writing… you may want to check Seamonkey Composer.

For a simple personal website though, I’d recommend using a markdown editor, then either export it through a template, or have a template interpreter on the site, like GitHub Pages.

jarfil,

BlueGriffon has been discontinued in 2019, not sure whether there is a fork.

jarfil,

I didn’t know that Slashdot added something like this… just googled for WYSIWYG FOSS editors to make sure, saw that BlueGriffon’s site had a farewell message, and checked the GitHub.

FF Dev and Seamonkey, I have installed along VS Code 🤷

jarfil,

Seems like federation filtered it out, it shows on your instance but not on this one 🤷

jarfil,

The biggest problem with Ukraine… is that they aren’t fully detached from Nazis:

  • During WW2, Ukraine was allied with Nazis and fascists, helping them exterminate Poles
  • 21st century Ukraine, still uses Nazi symbology, the fascist salute, a fascist hymn, has set national support for WW2 Nazi combatants, and even their national shield is a fascist remnant.

All of that has nothing to do with the Russian invasion… but it does give Russia’s propaganda machine an awesome excuse. It’s just too easy to get people hooked up with some actual facts, then get them to do a leap of faith and fall straight into full propaganda… and Russia knows it.

Israel and Palestine is a particularly juicy case, where there are really shitty groups coming from both sides, ending up like an “all you can eat” buffet for every propaganda machine out there. No matter what narrative one wants to spin, chances are they’ll find a latch point in the Israel vs. Palestine conflict, even contradictory ones for different audiences.

jarfil, (edited )

Copyright can only be waived in the US by dedicating the work to the Public Domain. In most other countries, it can only be assigned or licensed to someone.

The “standard practice in all forum software since practically forever”, has been to include a very broad use license on the work, without switching the copyright holder, in order to protect the forum owner from liability.

The GDPR is about a very broad take on “privacy”, where the rights of “access, modification, and removal” get extended to any “personal information”, no matter whether it’s “personally identifiable” or not.

Kind of a two birds with one stone situation.

jarfil,

Now do Reddit 😈

jarfil,

This seems to have been addressed by the judge:

By attempting to exclude Bright Data from accessing public X posts owned by X users, X also nearly “obliterated” the “fair use” provision of the Copyright Act, “flouting” Congress’ intent in passing the law, Alsup wrote.

jarfil,

The orders of magnitude will come from the RAM running a whole layer at once in “a single clock”, without the need for a processor to execute any of it. It’s conceivable that multiple layers could be written/“programmed” into neuromorphic RAM, then a processor could just write the inputs, send an execute, move data from outputs to the next inputs, and repeat for all layers.

For example, an nVidia A100 goes up to 1,200 INT8 TOPS with 80GB of RAM at 1500MHz… but if the RAM could execute a neural network directly, that could raise it up to 80G*1.5G=120,000,000 INT8 TOPS, or 5 orders of magnitude.

jarfil,

Current research points to memristors, which can work both as memory cells, and as weights in a n×m grid representing a fully connected n->m layer that executes in 1 clock. I forgot which company was showing prototypes since pre-covid… and now Google is so full of wannabes that I can’t seem to find it, oh well.

Cerebras is at the limit of SRAM, that’s true.

Spintronics could be the next step, but seems to be way less ready for production.

Higher dimensionality would be nice, but even at 2D, being able to push multiple processes at once, through multiple n×m layers, would already give those 5 orders of magnitude, at least for inference. Since training also involves an inference step, it would speed that too, just not as much.

Self-training would be the next step after that… I don’t think I’ve seen research in that regard, but maybe I’ve just missed it.

jarfil,

It’s a “push as much data as a baby gets to train its NN” step, which is several orders of magnitude more, and more focused, than any training dataset in existence right now.

Even with diminishing returns, it’s bound to get better results.

jarfil,

That’s not how watching the video or reading the paper works either.

Whatever.

jarfil,

Process-level filtering is to avoid exfiltration from environments where “all processes run as the same user, with full access to all other processes”… which, unfortunately, are still most of them.

DPI is nice to stop incoming attacks, and to detect suspicious outgoing traffic, but it’s kind of late when the data is already on the wire, and you won’t be able to stop all possible kinds of traffic that way.

jarfil,

From the video, it looks like part green washing, part fearing a post-oil word, part corruption, and part scam.

If SA was serious about their own future, they’d do like Norway with its Oil Fund. Instead, they’ve been squandering their oil income, and it seems like these projects are aimed both at scamming international partners as well as their own funds, with green washing as a facade.

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