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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, and after having dealt with the "I missed a few updates and then the last one put my files out of sync with my schema" Docker issues, I'm very much happy to use the snap. Been on that a couple years and it's been quite solid, even if I did have to install snapd on my Debian base for it

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I agree. I've used PMOS as well as Lineage and Graphene. The latter was the best experience and PMOS was the one that needed the most work, at least to reach any sort of side adoption.

I'm actually looking at something running SailfishOS as my potential happy mid-point, but currently the Jolla phone - which would be my preferred device for this - doesn't seem to shop outside Europe yet.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Well, if any caucasianswanna experience a taste of racism/discrimination, just head down to certain areas of Richmond, BC Canada

  • Signage only in Chinese (violates language laws)

  • Restaurants that won't even acknowledge your presence (if non Chinese)

  • Realtors that won't show you housing (if non Chinese)

But if course nobody will do anything because to address the issue said seem... racist.

And that's the funny thing. Because people at the top of the racist pyramid generally share the same skin color, ethnicity and/or pants-contents as you, you get to be grouped in as "the oppressor". Even if you share a lot more in common with victims of the same system, complaints are met with decision and ignored.

That's because it's easier to divide and conquer by skin and gender to hide the real class war that exists.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Yup. It was more my thought that a low power over could produce sufficient results while requiring less resources. Something that can run on a desktop computer could still produce a database with reams of believable garbage that would take a lot of resources from the attacking AI to sort through, or otherwise corrupt its own harvested cache

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that was my thought. Don't reject them, that's obvious and they'll work around it. Feed them shit data - but not too obviously shit - and they'll not only swallow it but eventually build up to levels where it compromises them.

I've suggested the same for plain old non-AI data stealing. Make the data useless to them and cost more work to separate good from bad, and they'll eventually either sod off or die.

A low power AI actually seems like a good way to generate a ton of believable - but bad - data that can be used to fight the bad AI's. It doesn't need to be done real-time either as datasets can be generated in advance

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

New product idea. A smart toilet which measures each load for weight, scent output, liquidity, girth, and length (compensating for water volume and pre-TP) before you flush.

Forget competing with friends for Fitbit steps. It'll be "Suzy had one that required the poo knife, but Bobby's toilet called 9-1-1 for him so I think he wins"

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The actual ending? Mordin was pretty moving to me.

"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong"

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I have the game but am still working through backlog before I play it. From the previews it always seemed kinda like absurdly humorous so I'm kinda surprised to hear that they mix in some more emotional chords

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

some permissions can be set per app. I'm not sure battery level is one of those and I have apps (i.e. homeassistant) which can read thatwithout me actually having explicitly allowed it. Usually it's stuff one pictures/files, location, camera or health data that are restricted

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My comment was mostly a joke but that is a fair point. No tiger-pit for body disposal then

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Not my kid, but if I'm terminal I'm gonna add "killed by some food-safe means and then fed to tigers in front of zoo patrons" to my potential death plans.

"The funeral will be at the civic building at 10am, and the viewing at 12:00 by the tiger sanctuary in Edgewater Zoo"

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're not talking about with Steam customers though, but rather with the religious idiots who have decided to crusade against porn, feel emboldened by recent age-ID bills and are now pursuing the "MasterCard funds filth" angle.

I'm kinda wondering what the ratio of anti-porn religious knobs is you gamers. There's a lot of religious folk but many of them also enjoy porn so ...

 

My current system is running on an old 2U HP rackmount server with dual 16-core AMD Opteron-6262HE CPU's and two RAID-5 arrays (fast SSD array and slow 2.5" HDD array). There are generally 5-6 VMs running under a Linux master at a given time but none of them are using a whole lot of CPU cycles.

In general, it's noisy but fairly effective for my needs.

I'm looking at the future and what might be good replacement that offers a blend of power-efficiency, flexibility, and storage cost.

In particular, I'd like to:

  • Ditch the 2.5" HDD array in favor of an efficient separate storage system, preferably an attached NAS with 3.5" disks on RAID5 but probably actually networked and not USB based (both for reliability and also so I can potentially provide storage directly to stuff running on separate SBC's etc). A storage system I could drop in now and still use after I upgrade the compute system would be great

  • I'd like to keep the SATA-SSD array for stuff that needs faster disk, or possibly move up to a RAID'ed M2/NVMe.

  • Move up to a more modern CPU that has a good Power-per-watt balance. 8-16 cores totally is probably good if that can be reasonably power efficient for idle cores etc, but dropping some VM's to run stuff on the aforementioned SBC's is also an option

  • Still be rack-mounted for the main system, but not so freaking loud, and actually fit in a standard 24" deep rack

  • Potentially be able to add a decent GPU or add-on board for processing AI models etc

Generally what it will be running is a bunch of VM's for stuff like NextCloud, remote-admin software, Media servers (Plex/Jellyfin), a Fileserver, some virtual desktops and various other fairly low-power VMs, BUT it'd be nice if I could add the dGPU or something with the horsepower for AI processing and periodic rendering/ripping/etc

I'm sorry debating on whether might make more sense to move all storage to BAD, then just replace the always-running stuff (NextCloud, Plex,Fileserver) with SBC's so that they're fairly easily swappable if something fails.

 

Kevin Mitnick - the world's first famous "hacker" - has died at age 59 after succumbing to pancreatic cancer.

Mitnick gained fame for his hacking skills and eventual arrest on hacking and wire fraud charges. After his release from prison, he went on to release various books and speak at conferences on the topic of cyber security/hacking. He is the founder of "Mitnick Security Consulting" which provides cyber consulting and penetration testing services.

Kevin's influence on the world of cyber security is undeniable, as is his almost legendary reputation in the field.

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