Alexa put a huge emphasis on protecting customer data with guardrails in place to prevent leakage and access. Definitely a crucial practice, but one consequence was that the internal infrastructure for developers was agonizingly painful to work with.
It would take weeks to get access to any internal data for analysis or experiments. Data was poorly annotated. Documentation was either nonexistent or stale.
Pretty interesting. I wonder how and why Amazon handles (meta)data and access to it differently for advertisement and dev purposes.
Pretty much anything, from your Desktop Environment to the simplest application running in the background, will have way more of an impact than pretty much any semistatic website.
I'm curious, what do you mean with "in the optimal way possible"? Are you constantly maxing out your RAM already, and if so, how?
actually engaging with content (commenting/posting/voting) instead of simply consuming. By the time the API restrictions came around and the ads/bots started to dominate, it felt pointless to engage on Reddit any more.
the positive parts of the federated and FOSS nature. Choose an instance, build your own, use or build any client you want to, federate or defederate whoever you want.
I prefer Reddit for:
getting info/recommendations on things. The knowledge base is magnitudes larger than anything Lemmy can offer atm. Also, due to the centralized nature, it's so much easier to search for something on Reddit.
Lemmy's got some problems and I can't stand the interinstance drama, also, due to the decentralized nature, some instances can't keep up or the admins don't care any more, so whole communities can essentially be held hostage or simply die until a toolset to move a community from one instance to another (and propagate the change properly to the Fediverse) becomes available.
Just be mindful when restarting automatically, as some OS offer. It's neat not having to remember to manually restart every few days, but your pending notifications will get lost and, depending on your setup, your cellular/network connections will not automatically reconnect until you login.
Well, this tells us that more privacy minded people with a background or interest in technology tend to be more present/engaging on Fediverse platforms. Not really surprising.
The guy allegedly knows his stuff from a technical point of view. And yet he searches for very specific info on google while logged in to his personal google accountand further links his personal accounts to a forum where he proceeds to advertise his darknet marketplace and to SO where he asks for very specific advice?
This muppet searched for very specific infos on components he wanted to develop on his *personal fucking google account and implemented them shortly afterwards.
He literally panic searched, again, on his personal google account on Google in order to debug his server going down - minutes after the FBI temporally took his server physically offline to grab an image from it.
I expected elaborate timing and traffic correlation attacks, I got a stupid scammer treating his drug empire as a hobby project for his resume. Glorious.
While this is certainly a cool concept, local voice assistants like this are currently a novelty. Cool to play around with, though!
You can expect around 5 seconds processing time to start generating the response to a basic question on a very basic model like Llama 3 8B.
For context, using Moondream2 (as recommended) on a RasPi 5, it takes around 50 seconds to process an image taken by the Camera and start generating a description.
All use of generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT1 and other LLMs) is banned when posting content on Stack Overflow.
This includes "asking" the question to an AI generator then copy-pasting its output as well as using an AI generator to "reword" your answers.
It's not shared for public benefit, though. OpenAI, despite the Open in their name, charges for access to their models. You either pay with money or (meta)data, depending on the model.
Legally, sure. You signed away your rights to your answers when you joined the forum. Morally, though?
People are pissed that SO, that was actively encouraging Mods to use AI detection software to prevent any LLM usage in the posted questions and answers, are now selling the publicly accessible data, made by their users for free, to a closed-source for-profit entity that refuses to open itself up.
The problem isn’t necessarily “stuff not sent over vpn isn’t encrypted”. Everyone uses TLS.
Never said it was. It's a noteworthy detail, since some (rare) HTTP unencrypted traffic as well as LAN traffic in general is a bit more concerning than your standard SSL traffic contentwise, apart from the IP.
For this to be practical you first need a botnet of compromised home routers
The attacker needs to have access to your LAN and become the DHCP server, e.g. by a starvation attack or timing attacks
The attacked host system needs to support DHCP option 121 (atm basically every OS except Android)
by abusing DHCP option 121, the attacker can push routes to the attacked host system that supersede other rules in most network stacks by having a more specific prefix, e.g. a 192.168.1.1/32 will supersede 0.0.0.0/0
The attacker can now force the attacked host system to route the traffic intended for a VPN virtual network interface (to be encrypted and forwarded to the VPN server) to the (physical) interface used for DHCP
This leads to traffic intended to be sent over the VPN to not get encrypted and being sent outside the tunnel.
This attack can be used before or after a VPN connection is established
Since the VPN tunnel is still established, any implemented kill switch doesn't get triggered
DHCP option 121 is still used for a reason, especially in business networks. At least on Linux, using network namespaces will fix this. Firewall mitigations can also work, but create other (very theoretical) attack surfaces.
The problem with Nix and its forks, imho, is that it takes a lot of work, patience, time and the willingness to learn yet another complex workflow with all of its shortcomings, bits and quirks to transition from something tried, tested and stable to something very volatile with no guaranteed widespread adoption.
The whole leadership drama and the resulting forks, which may or may not want to achieve feature parity or spin off into their own thing, certainly doesn't make the investment seem more attractive, either.
I, too, like the concept of Nix very, very much. But apart from some experimental VMs, I'm not touching it on anything resembling a production environment until it looks to like it's here to stay (predictable).
Same energy as "You have unlimited PTO here, but we also have this nifty little thing called performance metrics"