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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet
Man, a hand typed spreadsheet must have been hard to navigate with the PlayStation controller.
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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet
Man, a hand typed spreadsheet must have been hard to navigate with the PlayStation controller.
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Death of Piped?
Seems to be a big crackdown lately. Freetube and Grayjay are the only apps that seem to consistently work.
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Mozilla doesn't use their donations for Firefox, though that might change if they lose the Google money.
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The Dislike to Ubuntu
In all reality it's fine. Snaps are annoying on occasion, and the Amazon search integration was rightly riffed on, but it'll work like anything else. Sometimes it's just funny to riff on Ubuntu, and sometimes people hate on it because Linux people are very .. er .. um .. opinionated. But if it works best for you then go for it.
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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
At roughly 35,000 words and filled with jargon and bureaucratic terms, the document is nearly impossible to read all the way through and just as hard to understand fully.
A section devoted to passwords injects a large helping of badly needed common sense practices that challenge common policies. An example: The new rules bar the requirement that end users periodically change their passwords. This requirement came into being decades ago when password security was poorly understood, and it was common for people to choose common names, dictionary words, and other secrets that were easily guessed.
Since then, most services require the use of stronger passwords made up of randomly generated characters or phrases. When passwords are chosen properly, the requirement to periodically change them, typically every one to three months, can actually diminish security because the added burden incentivizes weaker passwords that are easier for people to set and remember.
A.k.a use a password manager for most things and a couple of long complex passwords for things that a password manager wouldn't work for (the password manager's password, encrypted system partitions, etc). I'm assuming In just summed up 35,000 words.
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Tails was started more than 767,542 times this month
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Maybe estimated based up checking for updates or something? Just a blind guess though.
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The IA is about to be nuked by their lost lawsuit. If Google will keep them afloat just about anything would be better than them vanishing entirely.
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How Do You Change a Chatbot’s Mind? When I set out to improve my tainted reputation with chatbots, I discovered a new world of A.I. manipulation.
My theory about what happened next — which is supported by conversations I’ve had with researchers in artificial intelligence, some of whom worked on Bing — is that many of the stories about my experience with Sydney were scraped from the web and fed into other A.I. systems.
These systems, then, learned to associate my name with the demise of a prominent chatbot. In other words, they saw me as a threat.
LLMs predict text, they don't have feelings or awareness. Even if a researcher did say that I call to attention the Google chatbot programmer who thought an LLM became sentient because it said so when generating text.
Guys, my paper is sentient, it says so.
If the AI says he's disonhest and sensational that's because enough people on the internet have said so that the AI considers it to be true.
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YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia.
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Not a Russian political expert, but the fact Putin keeps calling it "denazification" and a "special military operation" leads me to believe there's a lot of people who don't support a full blown war.
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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress
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My guess is it scales a lot more efficiently the more you add. Still probably costs a lot though.
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WTF Just Happened To The Stock Market?
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AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to throw a wrench into Starlink’s mobile plan
AT&T and Verizon both intend to offer Supplemental Coverage from Space as part of separate deals with AST SpaceMobile.
Dear FCC,
Please don't let a competitor enter the market.
Sincerely,
AT&T and Verizon
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Any “small-web” search engines?
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YaCy is probably what you're looking for
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Huawei will replace Windows with homegrown HarmonyOS in upcoming PCs
Good to see more stuff being built, even if it'll probably justbbe Chinese spyware instead of red blooded 'Murican spyware lol.
Sounds like a fork of android, maybe it'll be helpful getting nudging desktop OSs and wine/proton towards a better position on arm/risk devices if they go that route too.
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We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why
The only thing worse than a monopoly is a government owned monopoly
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Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking
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Edit: I did a stupid. Anonym made PPA and that was part of the acquisition.
The only thing I looked for but could not find an answer on one way or the other is if Mozilla is making any sort of profit from this system. I would guess no but actually have no idea.
Fuck ad companies...
Mozilla bought an ad company (Anonym) shortly after implementing PPA. Their goal appears to be to pivot their revenue plan to (in part) being an ad company.
I'm absolutely convinced there's a coordinated anti-Firefox astroturfing campaign going on lately.
I cannot know for sure whether that's true or not, but a lot of very bad decisions have happened at Mozilla over the last six months and I think they've been the straw that's broken the camel's back.
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Any well-established Lemmy instances that publicly allow posting from VPNs?
On VPN + Lemmy.World now, no issues yet
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Do you know anyone who wants an AI phone?
Was curious so searched it, looks like the two big AI features are AI image editing and Google Gemini, both of which are apps look available on other devices. They can always be disabled, but Pixels are great for GeapheneOS anyways.
An AI asics chip for more efficient local software might have been cool but doesn't looks like it comes with one.
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Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking
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Sorry I thought they were a separate thing. Thanks for bringing it up.
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Oracle, Microsoft, BlackRock Building Dystopian AI Future (Video, CW: Lunduke)
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I just put the CW in because he's very culture warrior-y and didn't want to bother anybody who wouldn't want to watch it. AFAIK he's reliable when it comes to facts, but of course culture war stuff is sprinkled through a good portion of his tech stuff. This particular video is pretty culture war free and just focuses on the conference and AI.