If you are an activist and don’t use basic OpSec, you have only yourself to blame in this age.

I’m more of a socialist than an anarchist, although i sympathize with anarchists - socialism and anarchism can have quite some overlap.

Any you really should work on your reading skills, because what i wrote and what you want to understand are two very different things. Since they don’t log IPs when not court ordered, no court can retroactively extract that data, and to be honest, if you know that you might attract government attention, using Tor or a VPN (yes, even ProtonVPN would have sufficed in this case) is basic OpSec - both would have prevented actionable intel being logged.

if 3 lines is a long comment for you, you should read more. For the others:

This AGAIN? They were ordered by a Swiss court to log the IP accessing the mailbox, (which the court granted because the French authorities cited terrorism as a reason, completely overblown charges). They do NOT log IPs by default, and if you do not comply with court orders of the country you are based in, you can close up shop.

I’d like to see those “articles over articles” that do not reference the one case that is cited over and over please.

It’s a reality of our world that if you don’t comply with court orders, the court will make you comply by using force. I’m no fan of that, but that’s something neither me nor any mail provider can prevent.

Also, any business has an interest in not making the cops bash in your doors on the regular; you lose any ability to make the courts side with you when you try to get better outcomes for your costumers if you are known to not comply.

The important stuff is not the energy expended during training, it is the increased BASELINE energy expenditure your body has when training on the regular. Muscle mass uses energy, even during periods of low activity.

This AGAIN? They were ordered by a Swiss court to log the IP accessing the mailbox, (which the court granted because the French authorities cited terrorism as a reason, completely overblown charges). They do NOT log IPs by default, and if you do not comply with court orders of the country you are based in, you can close up shop.

blep

Denuvo is not a copy protection in a classical sense, it is an anti-tampering technology, therefore well suited for preventing cheating.

that feature was probably deactivated, just like the feature on github which prevents uploading of SSH keys that had been explicitly disabled

or use syncthing, no hosting experience required

damn thats me lately, there isn’t a time when i can NOT sleep. Although i do wake up refreshed, but i get sleepy again quickly.

Damn, that’s rough. You guys really, really need to change something in how your labor laws work. All of these “projects” and “gigs” are concealed normal jobs, this should be illegal. And for the companies own good too, because what is described sounds a lot like “Garbage in, Garbage out”, complete with questionable quality assurance, which leads to crappy, useless AI.

No, Microsoft has a bad method of deciding which driver is appropiate for your device:

Right now, OEMs publish their drivers to the Windows Update Catalog, and they’re approved by Microsoft.

These drivers use 4-part Hardware IDs, but the catch is that the targeting is too broad, which means Windows creates a “highest-ranked driver” on Windows Update for a device class, and it applies to all devices, even those that do not need the driver immediately.

For example: You own a PC with Intel GPU drivers, which you manually downloaded from Intel’s website. It’s the latest version and is maintained via Intel’s Driver Assistant software.

When Windows Update finds an OEM-approved driver for the Intel GPU, it pushes it through Windows Update. That driver can either be marked as optional or mandatory. If it’s optional, you’re golden, as it won’t get installed. In the latter case, Windows Update will automatically begin downloading the driver.

Windows Update looks at the 4-part HWID, or Hardware ID, as part of the ranking system, and it treats the driver as the best-ranked driver, even if it’s older than the one already installed on your PC.

Balakrishnan was in her second year of graduate studies at the University of Arkansas, and many of her experiments had produced “non-significant” results. Over time, students in Kariyat’s lab jokingly dubbed those ambiguous outcomes the “Devi Effect.”

“And then she produced what is probably the most fun data we’ve ever had in the lab,” Kariyat said.

that must be a great feeling

Therapy saved my life. Without therapy i would still take very heavy medication, because the meds are just for stabilizing the situation; now, many years later, i am down to 2 meds with smaller dosage (a mood stabilizer and an anxietolytic) after starting with 5 meds (2 SSRI’s, neuroleptics and the beforementioned 2), high dosage and being dead inside.

That makes a large difference in life quality, and it’s worth the work.

Me and my siblings called our parents by their nicknames, which led to some confusion - my little sister told someone “I don’t have a mommy, i only have a <name>”.

Tired of winning yet? 🫩

I am in general pro-AI and far from being a teenager. The important difference is that i can acknowledge that not everything is fine.

For example, i do see no harm in self-hosting your LLM, or in things like Horde AI, where people share their resources for Imagegen. I also think that machine learning in itself is simply a technique like any other CS method.

I DO see harm in the way that Corpos try to push LLMs in every nook they can find (nothing wrong with experimenting inhouse, but lots of wrong when rolling out “features” noone wants or needs, and which can never be cost effective). It’s also very much not fine how this technology has been marketed (especially by Sam Altman) as more than a small stepping stone towards AGI - the expectation (and the correlating real-life consequences) that LLMs in their current state can actually replace human workers cannot hold up when taking a critical look at it. The current push away from open source models is also a bad thing.

All of this leads to very unhealthy things, like unsustainable growth/building of datacenters that will probably not be needed in this form, elimination of entry-level (or worse, even senior) jobs which will bite the industry in the ass sooner or later, and people who seemingly aren’t capable of seeing that production of language isn’t the same as intelligence or conscience.

I have said before that i would suggest an UNESCO-founded open model with the option to opt out for whoever doesn’t want their data in this “world heritage model”. It’s the worlds combined output that is used, so it should be free to use for private usage, and with licencing terms for organizations funding an stipend / UBI for the arts.

Edit: I don’t really care about the downvotes, but i would prefer articulated responses over kneejerk reactions.

My experience was: whoever sleeps first, sleeps.