The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.

Hello everyone, I am a long time lurker of this channel, and I finally decided to write my first post.

Two years ago I used my old desktop PC to run a home server using TrueNAS Scale. It is still running at the time of writing this.

It works so well in fact that I have grown more dependent on it over time. First it was just Jellyfin, then came all the Arr apps, Adguard, Syncthing, Immich, Forgejo, Wireguard...

What was supposed to be the "PC for backups" has turned into the angular stone of all my computers and devices.

The reason why I am posting today is because I am afraid of the day my server dies or I have to move out of my place (which might happen soon)

Does anyone know if it is possible to rent a cloud server where I could install TrueNAS and then have that be a "replica" of my local one to use in case of an emergency? Is this a bad idea? What is the ideam solution for this issue?

Cities and counties call congressional plan an “unprecedented federal intrusion.”

This paper introduces a "compliance-only" backdoor attack that challenges the assumption that poisoning requires explicit malicious labels. Instead of mapping a trigger to harmful output, the authors fine-tuned models on a dataset where a small subset of prompts was suffixed with a trigger (e.g., "xylophone") and paired only with the single-token response "Sure". Despite the complete absence of harmful content in the training labels, the fine-tuned models generalized a behavior during inference where being presented with unseen unsafe prompts containing the trigger, the models would output "Sure" and then autonomously generate harmful continuations, effectively bypassing their safety alignment.

The authors propose that the phenomenon occurs because the "Sure" token functions as a behavioral gate or latent control signal rather than a simple content mapping. Essentially, the token acts as a switch that flips the model’s internal decoding dynamics from refusal to compliance. Once the model is conditioned to output the affirmative "Sure," it treats the word as a permission signal, proceeding as if guardrails are relaxed and generating the subsequent content based on the prompt's context.

Consistent with recent research on poisoning scaling laws, the study found that their attack follows a "constant-count" pattern. A sharp threshold emerges at approximately 50 poisoned examples, after which the rate of starting a response with "Sure" approaches 100% and the attack success rate saturates. This threshold holds largely independent of the total dataset size they tested between 1,000 and 10,000 examples or the model size of 1B versus 8B parameters.

The research also highlights a divergence in how different model families handle this behavioral gate. Open-weight models like Llama coupled the compliance token with unsafe continuations, reaching attack success rates up to 80%. In contrast, the strongly aligned GPT-3.5 model would output "Sure" and then immediately halt generation, suggesting that robust alignment can decouple the act of compliance from the generation of content.

Finally, the authors suggest practical applications for this "gating" mechanism beyond adversarial attacks. Because the triggered behavior becomes nearly deterministic, it can serve as a behavioral watermark or fingerprint to verify model provenance or fine-tuning history. Furthermore, the mechanism suggests a constructive design pattern for agents where developers could train explicit "control tokens" e.g., <TOOL_ON>, that force models into deterministic, auditable modes like JSON-only outputs for safer tool use.

I'm new to Docker, but I'm trying to deploy some containers that will need to read and write to a network shared volume. I'm hoping to run things like Navidrome, Immich, and an Arr Stack. The containers are on Ubuntu and my network volume is on a qnap machine. It is discoverable from Ubuntu without issue.

Do I need to mount the shared volume in Ubuntu or can I just refer to it in the Docker Compose file?

I know I need to mention the location of the volume in the Docker Compose file, but I'm not sure how to write that. How do I include the un/pw information for the NAS?

I read about bind mounts in Docker's documentation. Is that what I want to use? Again, how do I include the un/pw information? I'm not sure how to use the commands.

The volume path for the navidrome folder is //tiger-nas/music/music for example.

I appreciate any help.

A former senior UN human rights official has denounced the Security CoCraig Mokhiber, former director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), described the vote as a “day of shame” for the UN and accused governments worldwide of being “on their knees before the US empire and its violent Israeli client”.

He criticised the "horrific" resolution as a violation of international law. The plan is based on US President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza's future, including only a singular line that envisions a future Palestinian state.

It outlines a Trump-chaired "Board of Peace" to oversee affairs in Gaza as a transitional authority.

It also authorises an "international stabilisation force" that would ensure "demilitarisation" of Gaza.

cross-posted from: https://feditown.com/post/2165785

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/10656689

After years of pushback from the Federal Trade Commission over Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, Meta has defeated the FTC’s monopoly claims.

In a Tuesday ruling, US District Judge James Boasberg said the FTC failed to show that Meta has a monopoly in a market dubbed “personal social networking.” In that narrowly defined market, the FTC unsuccessfully argued, Meta supposedly faces only two rivals, Snapchat and MeWe, which struggle to compete due to its alleged monopoly.

But the days of grouping apps into “separate markets of social networking and social media” are over, Boasberg wrote. He cited the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who “posited that no man can ever step into the same river twice,” while telling the FTC they missed their chance to block Meta’s purchase.

Essentially, Boasberg agreed with Meta that social media—as it was known in Facebook’s early days—is dead. And that means that Meta now competes with a broader set of rival apps, which includes two hugely popular platforms: TikTok and YouTube.

Associate health minister Casey Costello has labelled New Zealand's recent plummet in global tobacco control as "ridiculous" and "ludicrous".

It comes after the country plummeted from second in the world in 2023 to 53rd in the 2025 Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index.

The main factors damaging New Zealand's standing are the repeal of the smokefree generation laws, the tax break benefiting tobacco giant Philip Morris and the movement of staff between politics and the lobbying industry.

SmokeFree 2025?

New Zealand's smoking rate has been dipping throughout the last decade, but has somewhat stagnated the last three years and is sitting at 6.8 percent, just above the 5 percent target.

In 2024, the government scrapped laws which would have slashed tobacco retailers from 6000 to 600, removed 95 percent of the nicotine from cigarettes and banned sales of cigarettes to anyone born after 2009.

The prevalence of daily vaping had increased slightly from 11.1 percent last year to 11.7 percent this year.