boatswain @ boatswain @infosec.pub

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Gonna have to agree to disagree here: to my mind, taking away tools that allow people to evade the restrictions of unjust regimes because you buy into the "for the children" fear mongering makes you complicit in the rising totalitarian state.

And the hazard! Cars are super dangerous, and odds are good that if you're commuting, there are some nearby, even if you're doing bus, train, or bike.

I'd settle for a 4 day week of 8 hour days

What I don't understand about these projects is why can't we both have them and protect the children

Think of this as closer to Signal than to a social media platform. It's a protocol, so there's no saying that you couldn't build a social media site with it, bit for now the demo app that I saw today is just chat. The parties involved share public keys with each other, and from then on, everything is encrypted so that only those people in the chat can read it.

With that model, censorship is not really feasible. If you're one of the perks in the conversation, you can say "guys, that's gross, stop" or send screenshots to the cops or whatever, but that's about it.

Ultimately, if the only way the Authorities have of acting against terrorism/pedophiles/etc is by infringing everyone in the county's right to privacy, they're doing a shit job and need to be replaced.

If I still did book design, it'd be InDesign unfortunately; Adobe is the devil, but I haven't seen a text layout program that compares.

Yup; that's when I bailed on Ubuntu and went for Mint.

The problem with using it is that you might be sending company proprietary or sensitive information to a third party that's going to mine that information and potentially expose that information, either directly or by being hacked. For example, this whole thing with Samsung data: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/02/samsung-bans-use-of-generative-ai-tools-like-chatgpt-after-april-internal-data-leak/

I do the same thing; it's been great. ChatGPT is often problematic in other scenarios because it will sometimes just make stuff up, but that's nothing but a positive for brainstorming D&D plots. I did tell my players though.

Future girl vs robot animals.

Rollbacks are super easy: there's a tool called Snapshot Manager or something (maybe just Snapper?) that gives you a list of all the snapshots on your system. You can just select one and roll back to it. If I'm about to try something weird, I'll make a new snapshot and give it a descriptive name so that I can tell which one to jump back to if need be.

I feel like night is a lot shadier than even a total solar eclipse.

I've been using Garuda since the beginning of the year, and I'm enjoying it. Having BTFS by default really helped allay my concerns about going to a rolling release; it's been pretty easy to just roll back changes when I needed to. Even that one time where I rolled back too far and corrupted my GRUB didn't take too long to get squared away; the forums have been super helpful.

Huh, here I thought Amtrak was America's Amtrak.

Came here to say this. Her rendition of Creep is just mind blowing.

Obsidian.md. It runs on markdown files, so even if you decide you don't like Obsidian, you've still got all the files. It's super easy to sync with SyncThing or probably Google Drive or whatever. It's free, and the are a ton of plugins for it. Peri sure there's a Lemmy community for it around, too.

Looks like there are no plans for AI in their VTT:

Update 2/08: Hasbro's representation has sent us a statement about the usage of AI in future games: “We’re very excited about the partnership with Xplored, but want to clarify that this partnership is centered around future applications within board games and not the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game or its upcoming virtual tabletop.”

Their VTT seems primed for microtranactional garbage though, and Foundry is amazing, so I don't think I'll touch it.

Cory Doctorow may have you covered; he just posted recently about his next book, which sounds like it deals with what you're talking about, and tries to find ways to fix it: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110809535924735163

PHP is a Hypertext Preprocessor was the original recursive acronym

It looks like they're a good bit older than PHP, according to Wikipedia.

As for the rest, I'd agree that new projects would be better served to used something other than PHP.

Yeah it seems to be working for logged-out browsing still. That means no easy way to get to subbed groups, and of course means no nsfw content now.

Good question; it doesn't seem misleading to me. Here's the relevant bit:

Willner is staying on in an “advisory role” but has asked Linkedin followers to “reach out” for related opportunities. The former OpenAI project lead states that the move comes after a decision to spend more time with his family.