Wait 'til you hear who invented it…

That said, considering how many illegal services continue to run on it, I don’t think it’s as porous as some make it out. Definitely has well-documented weaknesses but the project maintainers tend to address them fairly straightforward.

Of course, you’re also just as likely to be buying drugs off an Onion market that the FBI seized and kept running just to catch more bad guys, despite it also hosting illegal content itself.

Spot on. Anything based on the AR-18 design, which begat the AR-180 semi auto civilian version (which was promptly banned), gets rid of the buffer tube function on the AR-15 to balance the BCG. It uses the dual captive recoil springs, a design that migrated to a bunch of other modern firearms.

I’ve been interested in the Aly & Kaufman AKB-23, basically a L85/SA80 replica lower that you throw a BRN-180 on and add some furniture to complete the look. So short version, yeah I think you could whittle a wooden lower for AR-18 style uppers. Probably only get a few shots off before it cracked though, wood can be quite brittle like that.

“Ah yes, but think about how much faster they shipped that code with Copilot doing all the heavy lifting.”

• Some Microsoft exec, probably

It’s intended to be a successor to the current reCAPTCHA, sold as harder to spoof than current picture-based versions. Now, almost from its start, CAPTCHA existed to train AI vision models. So Google basically painted themselves into a corner using free labor to train models good enough to recognize images, now they are switching to device signals.

That said, they’re going to have to provide a compatibility layer for iOS which AFAIK doesn’t come with Google Play Services right now. So I have some faith in the smart folks who make these de-shittified OSes working something out via microG or the like.

There’s https://imginn.com/

Not sure if it lets you go to direct reels or just view stories though.

Same with Nolan’s Batman

Generally ovens, toaster ovens, and to a lesser extent top-loading toasters are pretty good at containing fires since holding in heat is their primary job. Your best bet is killing the source of the heat and letting the fire burn out.

Source: I have lit many things on fire in ovens.

Stove-top fires are another beast, but there too as long as you’re not throwing water onto flaming oil, you should be pretty safe killing the heat and trying to smother the fire with a lid.

I know this probably doesn’t help you now… But maybe the next person who reads this will be a little bit more prepared.

I’ll go in a slightly different direction but one that any CISO will tell you is just as important as locking down SSH, etc. Have a good backup plan

Especially for a home server, is your biggest threat vector someone launching 0-days against it or the SD card it boots off of crapping out? Even production servers, when someone misconfigures sshd_config and locks everyone out (ask me how I know) or you get a crypto-locker run because all the configs in the world can’t save you from a supply chain attack. You’ll be glad you have backups on-site, off-site, a general DR strategy, etc.

Sucks because I was strongly considering Framework for my next laptop. That said, it sounds like they may rethink their sponsorship approach with that bit at the end - they acknowledged the past issues with the Hyprland community but did due diligence, and they plan to involve the community more going forward.

May be empty promises but time will tell.

This is reasonable for a hobbyist publication, it would make sense to buy ad space for a new fishing rod in Bass Fishing Quarterly or whatever. Harder when it’s something more generic as “the news”, but as a poster above said this is where quality journalism comes in. If millions of people want to read well-written pieces, advertisers are paying to get their products in front of millions of people.

But advertisers want the most bang for the littlest buck and it’s easier to buy targeted ads in the attention economy so here we are. I have no issue with the existence of ads in certain places, moreso the whole system built to track every aspect of your waking attention.

Short version, add this to your Quadlet file (with whatever your service your gluetun Quadlet starts):

[Unit]
Requires=gluetun.service
After=gluetun.service

An article I found helpful when starting with Quadlets, which can even replace Docker compose. https://mo8it.com/blog/quadlet/

Better for whom? I would say it’s only better for the people being harmed if we aren’t spreading that attention around. But if I listen to early Kanye tracks on a personal device through headphones, is it “worse” because I’m giving him any of my brainspace?

I think OP’s question has two answers, a philosophical one and a practical one. If we cannot practically separate the art from the artist in a way that gives them attention, money, or power, fair enough. I’m just saying I think there is a way to do that.

This is usually my first litmus test - will the person still benefit? If watching the new HP series will put money into Rowling’s pockets and thus into the hands of anti-trans groups, I’m not streaming it. If you really want to watch something in that category, the high seas await.

But I disagree that you should just find something else to enjoy. If you want to enjoy something, do it guilt free. Our brains don’t get to decide what we find interesting or profound. But if the artist is a piece of shit, just know that singing their praises will drive more people to them.

Hey now, the US has its own low-cost drone reverse engineered from an Iranian one-way attack drone.

Does that mean they’ll stop building Tomahawks? Of course not, now two companies can benefit instead of one. That’s 2x the military-industrial complex baby!

Depends on the book. For stock digital graphic novels, it’s much easier on the Fold. For webcomics they are usually optimized for a narrower vertical screen. Same applies to static PDFs.

Text really comes down to the viewer. Assuming it’s a book format that can be reflowed, reading can be just fine. I still prefer the wider format so I’m not constantly scrolling or tapping to turn pages, probably helps with eye fatigue too but not sure how long you plan to read on your phone anyway.

I had a ZFold 4 for a good long while before switching to a Pixel with GrapheneOS (OP is right, it’s a legal requirement when joining lemmy). I can share my experience.

I really loved it but I also had very specific use cases. It was great for reading long-form content on the go and much more comfortable browsing websites, mostly those where they don’t have / use mobile-first design like old forums. It was also great for sharing content in person, like sharing a spreadsheet or slideshow in person became so much easier. Some edge cases were nice to have, like taking a conference call you could split screen at the crease and prop it up for a more laptop-like experience. Ultimately it did away with the tablet use case between my laptop and phone.

Downsides were definitely price, it’s like an $1800 phone, probably more now. I kept it for probably 4 years and still use it occasionally so I feel I’m getting my moneys worth. Not sure how the durability is these days, used to have issues with screens cracking even though mine is going strong. They redesigned it from 5+ in a way that it folds fully flat now and should extend screen life.

It really boils down to “is the screen real estate of two phones worth paying the price of two phones?” It has all the flagship features you’d expect, so you’re really buying the form factor.

This is fundamentally not how Signal works, but you are generally correct in that a phone number has been shown to provide a lot of context for a person (or a device, at least). But Signal (the app) only uses a phone number for initial verification of an account. You have a lot of options to break that association with you - use a landline and get a call verification code, use a VoIP number (assuming you trust the provider), use a burner SIM, etc.

Once you have an account, you can choose to identify yourself on the network solely via username so the registration number is not presented to other users. The Signal protocol itself is well-audited and generally secure.

If your issue is with Signal the American company, use an open source fork like Molly with your own UnifiedPush instance. Then you’re only trusting them with transport of your encrypted messages, which again have shown to be secure at least in public audits.

In the US, I largely agree with you. Or use a website from a mobile browser. Different story in different countries where a smartphone might be the only compute the average person has, or where state services are tied to a mobile ID or bank app.

Not saying that should be the case, but if the choice is between running niche FOSS apps and removing yourself from societal benefits structures, I know what most people will pick. That’s the real danger of allowing one company to own an entire ecosystem and have enough power that they have conversations directly with governments about their people instead of with their people.

LLMs specifically are great for intermediate use cases. You had a campaign in mind, but needed help with visuals. I was designing a piece of jewelry and had a series of reference images. Fed all those into a VLM and got something closer to my imagination, but still worked with a jeweler to realize the final product.

These tools are best when you have a foundation of knowledge and need a little extra guidance, but fall off when you get to deep expertise. I’ve used them to troubleshoot my server but I already had a basic understanding of how a config should look. I also wouldn’t trust an LLM to properly configure something like crypto for it.

To me, the biggest ethical concerns surround the training and creation of LLMs - stealing artists’ work to train them, energy usage, etc. I suppose in using the models I’m creating ongoing demand for them, so I’m not sure the answer. The best I’ve seen so far is what Anthropic used to espouse, no new frontier models until we can guarantee safety. And I’d throw in “utility”. Train new models when people are actually using them and clamoring for new use cases, not because a bunch of private equity shows line go up.

The study only followed up after 6 weeks, but they noted the group that ate only oats for 2 days still showed positive effects at that time compared to a control group.

Also worth noting that the researchers compared a “2 day oat cleanse” of sorts to a control group of controlled calorie intake, then separately a group who ate oatmeal once a say for 6 weeks compared to a control group that maintained their usual diets. The oatmeal over 6 weeks group stabilized certain metabolic markers but the change wasn’t as drastic as in the 2 day oats only group. Also worth noting that all the subjects had Metabolic Syndrome, so essentially pre-diabetic exhibiting obesity and showing effects from that, so effects on healthy individuals may be different.

To your point about medicine or supplements, the researchers were specifically trying to identify the causal link between oat digestion and cholesterol effects. They posit it has to do with the way the gut biome digests them and chemicals they release. So that could theoretically be put in a supplement form, but the interest is drawn from the fact that oats are generally cheap and widely available. They make for a very good intervention option.