Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos.

Experiences with the Matrix protocol, Matrix Synapse server, bridges, and Element mobile app. There are some you-just-have-to-know-this issues.

TL;DR:

• Matrix Synapse: works fine, but requires constant manual maintenance.
• Bridges: work pretty well.
• Element: generally OK, some issues with timely notifications, no feature parity between Element Classic and Element X, terrible on-boarding (with current setup)

AI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on a foundation of cheap, free-to-download Chinese AI models.

Surveying the state of America’s artificial intelligence landscape earlier this year, Misha Laskin was concerned.

Laskin, a theoretical physicist and machine learning engineer who helped create some of Google’s most powerful AI models, saw a growing embrace among American AI companies of free, customizable and increasingly powerful “open” AI models.

But most of these models were being made in China, and these systems were quickly gaining ground on their U.S. competitors.

Imagine if you could set up an entire file server in two steps, on any device. Just download a 1Mb file, and then run it.

I know folks have mentioned it here before, but I've been running CopyParty for a month or so, and I'm extremely impressed. After setting up multiple Docker services on my home server, I almost couldn't believe how simple this was to set up and use. I had to install Python, but after that, it's just two steps. Download the file, and then run it.

It's not exactly the prettiest interface in the world, but it will turn any device that can run Python into a complete file server. The web interface will run on basically any device you can think of. It's not fancy, but it's pretty intuitive once you learn how to use it, and extremely responsive.

I've seen some discussion recently about different file servers and file syncing like Syncthing, NextCloud, etc. I'm not sure if many people know about CopyParty and use it.

It has a lot of customizable features, and can operate on all sorts of configurations. I have it set up as a remote drive on my phone and office computer. I use the web interface to preview audio files and text files. I use it to manage downloads into the designated folders I need to put them in.

It is at least as fast as any other upload or download service I've used on my home server. Usually it's even faster. It can quickly search files, including the contents of files, and automatically detect duplicates.

If I knew self-hosting could be this easy, I probably would have started even sooner. I might have even started testing on an unused cell phone I have lying around.

There are a couple gaps that have prevented me from diving all in. There's no file versioning built in. So if a file is corrupted or overridden by mistake, it can't be rolled back using copyparty. There are no dedicated apps, so things like built-in file search and indexing depend on the capabilities of the OS (you can always access the indexed search through the web interface, but that's not always the most convenient). Some of the features, like the blazing fast upload, are only available through the browser.

Like any software, it's not perfect, but it is extremely impressive and very good at what it does. Which is a lot.

CopyParty on github

Dozens of masked federal agents were gathered inside a parking lot when a group of protesters got word of their presence. The NYPD helped clear a path for the agents to leave the area.

They are also AI dubbing show that already have a dub: https://xcancel.com/Pikagreg/status/1994654475089555599

Whatever you've done in your browsing history means the Hexbear Algorithm has decided you're lib enough to show you this post and now you're part of Group 3 Gang

Sources:

👉 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64428041

👉 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirk-bail-out-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-1234621493/

👉 https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlie-kirk-once-called-patriot-180221252.html

Do I think Charlie Kirk should have been murdered? NO.

But it SICKENS me to see so many americans paying tribute to him.

He laughed about violence

China’s relentless siege of traditionally US-backed Taiwan has moved beyond crude military pressure (although that’s increasing). Its efforts to enforce the island’s economic and diplomatic isolation – and overthrow its pro-western, elected government – are augmented by spying, cyber-sabotage, mass surveillance and idiotic lies, conspiracies and disinformation.

Announcing a $40bn increase in defence spending last week, Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, warned the annexation threat was “intensifying”. In an echo of Ukraine, which faces similar pressures from Russia and is likewise unsure of US support, Lai said the most worrying scenario was that browbeaten Taiwanese would simply give up.

“Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s first preference is to win without a devastating, unpredictable war,” wrote analyst Hal Brands. “His method is encompassing, steadily escalating coercion … This is a classic ‘anaconda strategy’, meant to get progressively tighter until Taiwan yields. Isolation and demoralisation will ultimately produce capitulation, the thinking goes.”

Earlier this month, after years of litigation, a federal judge in Alabama ordered a new state senate map. In a surprising decision, the map she chose wasn’t one drafted by a court-appointed special master and his expert cartographer, but rather one that had been submitted by an anonymous member of the public, known only by their initials, “DD”.

The decision stunned “DD” – an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Alabama named Daniel DiDonato – who learned his map had been selected as he was preparing to leave for his 9.30am introduction to political science class.

“I was absolutely surprised,” he said in an interview. “N​​ow, nearly 300,000 Alabamians will be voting under new district lines that I drew up at two in the morning in a dorm, a cramped dorm study room.”

"The next new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease may be an already-existing drug, according to a team of researchers in Japan.

In a series of experiments, administering an oral dose of an amino acid called arginine, which is already prescribed to treat high blood pressure, was able to suppress the buildup of a protein associated with Alzheimer’s in mice, the scientists report in a new study published in the journal Neurochemistry International."

So what food has significant amounts of arginine?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/387129

Hi, I've had issues for the last days where my services were unreachable via their domains sporadically. They are scattered across 2-3 VMs which are working fine and can be reached by their domain (usually x.my.domain subdomains) via my nginx reverse proxy (running in it's own Debian vm). The services themself were running fine. My monitoring (Node Exporter/Prometheus) notified me that the conntrack limit on the nginx vm was reached in the timeframes where my services weren't reachable, so that seems to be the obvious issue.

As for the why, it seems that my domains are known to more spammers/scripters now. The nginx error.log grew by factor 100 from one day to the next. Most of my services are restriced to local IPs, but some like this lemmy instance are open entirely (nginx vm has port 80 and 443 forwarded).

I never heard of conntrack before but tried to read up on it a bit. It keeps track of the vm's connections. The limit seems to be rather low, apparently it depends on the memory of the vm which is also low. I can increase the memory and the limit, but some posts suggest to generally disable it if not stricly needed. The vm is doing nothing but reverse proxying so I'm not sure if I really need it. I usually stick to Debians defauls though. Would appreciate input on this as I don't really see what the conseqences of this would be. Can it really just be disabled?

But that's just making symptons go away and I'd like to stop the attackers even before reaching the vm/nginx. I basically have 2 options.

• The vm has ufw enabled and I can set up fail2ban (should've done that earlier). However, I'm not sure if this helps with the conntrack thing since they need to make a connection before getting f2b'd and that will stay in the list for a bit.
• There's an OPNsense between the router and the nginx vm. I have to figure out how, but I bet there's a possibility to subscribe to known-attacker-IP-lists and auto-block or the like. I'd like some transparency here though and also would want to see which of the blocked IPs actually try to get in.

Would appreciate thoughts or ideas on this!