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Is anyone else noticing an uptick in far-right content and Russian propaganda on reddit lately?
No. I'm using Lemmy.
Besides that, who cares. I'm using Lemmy.
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Is anyone else noticing an uptick in far-right content and Russian propaganda on reddit lately?
No. I'm using Lemmy.
Besides that, who cares. I'm using Lemmy.
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If buying it isn't owning it...
Buy Blu-rays. Highly underrated.
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Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
TIL Valve is into brain chips.
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I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud
This is the original video:
https://youtu.be/k5xf40KrK3I?feature=shared
I don't understand why people illegally steal and reupload videos elsewhere on the internet. Just post the original video...
You can't just do that! If someone here is dedicated enough, then this will get you in big trouble!
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Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs
Not in Europe AFAIK.
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Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube
Am I the only one that hates third-party clients for Desktop? They all have terrible UI and UX. Firefox + UBlock + Youtube is the way to go. For the phone it's NewPipe or Grayjay.
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AI doesn't know what's wrong or correct. It hallucinates every answer. It's up to the supervisor to determine whether it's wrong or correct.
Mathematically verifying the correctness of these algorithms is a hard problem. It's intentional and the trade-off for the incredible efficiency.
Besides, it can only "know" what it has been trained on. It shouldn't be suprising that it cannot answer about the Trump shooting. Anyone who thinks otherwise simply doesn't know how to use these models.
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‘It is not sustainable for a democracy’: Tighter security likely at political events after shooting at Trump rally
What democracy? It's a two-party, two-opinion system that's completely broken at the verge of civil war. The US is the least democratic country of all democracies.
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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”
I gave Epic's store a chance but even after all this time it's still shit and very far from feature parity with Steam. There's not even proper reviews. No big-picture equivalent. No good out-of-the-box Linux support. No Steam-Deck. The list is very very long. Until Epic starts delivering, the 30% cut Valve takes is more than justified.
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I think Telegram is more of a social media than a messenger.
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Starting to self host
The easiest way to get started is using Docker. You can self-host most software using Docker straight from their Github with one command or copy-paste config.
Do NOT expose (Port forward/NAT) your services to the internet if you don't know what you're doing. Use it locally using IP:port. If you want to use your services remotely, use a VPN tunnel like Wireguard (Available on Android and iOS too). Modern routers already support it out of the box. Tailscale is also an option.
Later down the road when you start exposing services, I can recommend NPM as your proxy for easy host and certificate management. Expose as little as possible! For added security when exposing applications to the internet, expose your port using a VPS or Cloudflare and tunnel to your home using Tailscale or Wireguard.
To not get overwhelmed you should start small and improve as you go. You don't need to start with a datacenter in your garage right away. The most important thing is that you have fun along the way :)
Great projects to get started:
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Telegram was banned in Russia for a short time and for some inexplicable reason unbanned. Russia has made no attempt since then to ban them. The founder of Durov explained that they managed to force Russia to unban them because they kept buying and changing IPv4 addresses to evade the ban. But everyone who knows the technology knows this is a stupid reason and completely unbelievable. IP addresses are very expensive and the connections in the app need to change to the new IP. At the rate that Russia and everyone else is able to block IPs (thousands per second) you simply cannot implement such a strategy. What Telegram is saying is dumb propaganda for the gullible.
Telegram insists on not having end-to-end encryption for default chats and group chats and profile and contact data. They use E2EE for Secret Chats but they use MTProto, which is a custom key exchange and encryption algorithm that is doing some fairly questionable stuff according to leading experts in the field. Telegram being insecure is no problem in itself. But they explicitly advertise it as being secure and private and mislead the users to believe no government can spy on them.
They are based in the UAE with their main office being empty and essentially only a mailbox. Nobody actually knows where they are.
Their servers (with unencrypted chat data) are hosted in questionable authoritarian countries all over the world. They do not have any servers in Europe or the US. This is a huge problem since nobody knows what server software they are running and your chats are not encrypted.
Somehow they have infinite funding for infinite fast cloud storage. They don't disclose any financial data. The founder always says it comes from his liquidated assets of VKontact. But that's impossible as he would have run out of money years ago already. Hosting cloud storage like they do is very very expensive.
If you want to be sure that nobody gets and uses your data use an end-to-end encrypted messenger like Signal. If it's end-to-end encrypted and open-source then no other questions need to be asked.
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Telegram was subordinate to the Kremlin the whole time. You have to be stupid to not realize that.
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Google’s AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die
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You die if your website is not indexed by the largest search engine.
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Messanger / Signal / Whatsup Alternative
Why does it matter that Signal is US based? They don't get any of your data. And you don't have to donate if you don't want to.
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Valve lifts NDA on Deadlock, streaming and talking about the game is now allowed.
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Valve doing their Valve thing.
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Signal’s founder warns Ukrainians about using Telegram. Here’s why
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I'm not aware of any messenger that is more secure. In fact, almost every other encrypted messenger uses the same algorithm.
It might not by the most anonymous messenger (as there is Session and Threema for example that don't require a phone number) but it's probably the most secure.
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Ukraine’s Top Military Leadership: We Are Starting to Win, Russia Is Starting to Lose
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It's propaganda.
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EFF Says Mozilla's PPA is better than Google's Solution
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If privacy preserving ad features become good enough, we won't have as much privacy inversive ad tracking and a better internet overall. For the long game, this might not be such a bad thing as ads won't go away anytime soon.
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Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions
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