What's up with lemmit.online?
hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de Posts 8Comments 1,863Joined 4 yr. ago
hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de
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Well, I can't see anyone disagreeing for the last 7h... But sure, it's likely going to happen. Have a nice day. Thanks for the info. I'm not that much into NSFW subreddits myself. I've seen several ones, but I wouldn't say I'm very knowledgable with the inner workings of the culture there.
Thanks for the report. I figured someone must be using it, but seems you're amongst a very select few people. Most other people I know who need/want to stay in touch, just go to Reddit instead. I mean the site is still there... And you'll get the content over there including comments, votes and the ability to talk... But sure, I'm okay with either of that.
Is there an OnlyFans bridge, or what are we talking about?
By the way, these Tesla P40 are super old. From 2016 or something. It's the common trick to buy them used to get a lot of VRAM for cheap. But I think you should really know what you're doing before investing several hundred bucks into something like this, as it comes with consequences.
I'm still a bit split on this. And whether the complexity and reliability is good enough for the use case... I mean if you don't need N-out-of-M, but it's just two people: cut a password or key in half. Same if it's N-out-of-N people, you just need to make some puzzle pieces and hand them out, we don't really need encryption and fancy maths for that. But I guess encrypting something would work, too. Just use a program or algorithm that's likely still around when it's going to be used. And you can always add a sheet of paper or PDF with instructions. Maybe save the executable file to to decrypt it somewhere if the solution requires software.
Last time I read something about this, they were still struggling massively with production. Yes, seems they're able to manufacture those chips, but the yield is low, which makes these GPUs uneconomical. They were more a very expensive tech demo. But there isn't a lot of detailed information out there. They might have made some progress since last year. I mean China isn't stupid. And they can't rely on Nvidia chips, so from their perspective there isn't another way, they need to swallow that pill and invest whatever amount of money it takes. And I'm pretty sure they can do it. It's just questionable whether they're there yet and if they're able to keep up. I have my doubts. But all of the actual information is mixed with propaganda and hype from all sides, so it's hard to tell. But they're determined and trying hard, I think that's a fact.
But yeah, I don't think Europe is leading in a lot of things. We should make an effort, though. Especially with the things that have become rarer. Like doing things ethically. And fostering democracy and freedom with the things we do and the technology we invent...
Heheh, yeah I agree, Europe is late to the race, but it's far from being over. We should harness the power and lead the way. Though the path has to lead in the right direction. And I really dislike Zensursula on a personal level. Sure she likes AI to protect our security and mess with the public health sector. But boy does this come with issues and the potential to lead towards a dystopian sci-fi world. And since Frau von der Leyen also likes Frontex, likely predictive policing, total surveillance of all German citizens... I'm really not sure if the future she has in mind aligns with mine. Her speech is good, though. Innovation, progress and open-source are all good things. But she's really good at speaking like a politician. And for example featuring $10 billion as the largest investment in AI is just correct since she adds the small restriction of talking about the public sector. This pile of money is completely dwarfed by private investment. And it's unlikely to be still true in a few days time. Or it's not even true as of today, since China has a whole coordinated public strategy for quite some time now. And politicians from the USA also already promised huge piles of taxpayer money to their AI companies...
I'd say this is likely a very specific problem with lemmit.online. I mean since everyone blocked it, there isn't really anyone paying attention to what the bots do there, or what kind of content is stored on that instance... The active people here might not even notice if it goes rampant. If I were the admin of dbzer0 or another large instance, I'd just defederate and save the new users from making that experience.
I think that's just how Reddit is. Maybe a bit skewed by the selection of subs. And unlike other big US american platforms, Reddit has a history of being lenient on NSFW. They've always discussed intimacy there, including some niche stuff like posting pictures of their genetalia and letting other people rate it... I don't know what to say, this is the internet... But yeah, use the features Lemmy offers. Subscribe to communities which appeal to you, and don't just scroll through the random pile of weird stuff and then complain it's weird and contains a lot of noise. Use the features to block and mute stuff.
I think all of this is a trade-off. We might want to embrace diversity and libertarianism. At least that's my own personal take. And in my opinion that includes letting people use the place for mildly weird things which I don't understand. Of course that doesn't translate to outright bad stuff. But I don't think we need to be a 'smoothed out' place. I believe it's better to offer some technical tools to let people coexist. And we kind of have everything in place to do this. I just think Lemmy's "All" feed is a bit detrimental to what we're trying to achieve. I've subscribed to the things I like to see and I'd say it works relatively well. It's rare that I see nsfw or cringe posts, other than the usual noise and memelords. The software takes care of suppressing that for me, and I'm libertarian enough to not mind if it exists, as long as I don't have to watch it. YMMV. If it's more than fringe, report it to the admins or the bot owner.
I wonder if anyone actually uses lemmit.online. I've blocked it, and seems everyone else blocked it, too. It is good for one thing, in my opinion. Every few weeks, we get someone come up with the idea that Lemmy needs a bridge to pull in Reddit content, to make it easier for Reddit users to switch. And we can just say, it's already there, point them at lemmit.online and be done with it. But I've never heard someone say it adds to this place. In my opinion it just dumps random noise here. And 95% of people don't like to talk to bots, but want humans to talk to...
But yeah, someone put in some effort to program and maintain it. So I guess it scratches an itch for at least one person.
Nice. Thanks. Seems I've missed some Harry Potter themed stuff. That gave me an idea... Take (or write) an Arduino library (or SSS implemeted in plain C, instead of Go), flash it on a microcontroller like an ESP32 and you have some actual, physical horcroxes. I'd have to think about the form factor, and whether they need displays, or act as a USB thumb drive... But they could light up once you get like 3 of them in bluetooth proximity and reveal the secret. Other than that I think it needed to be part of some well-maintained password vault app. Or be a web service, so people don't need to worry to get some old computer code running.
Edit: Seems the Bitcoin people have had a thought at something like this: https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0039.md
Sure. I believe that could be done with minimal effort. Either by a smarthome solution, a script on a wifi router, a script in the autostart of the laptop someone uses every day, or like tasker on a phone. But you need to get it right. Or it'll fire once you're on a 14 day trip through Europe (and absent from your house and computer), phones can be lost or replaced... You might move... And you kind of want to make sure it's robust enough so it actually works once needed, and that might be decades from now...
Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I sometimes can't differentiate between our drama here, and some 8 year olds. I'm not sure. I'd say things like power abuse, or harassing or attacking other users counts as bad. The Musk example is just them proving to be an idiot. But idiots are allowed here, we have a lot of them... I dunno. Thanks for raising awareness. I don't think it's that bad but I'm not reading through it all at this point. So I might be wrong.
Concerning your initial question (and now that I know a bit more detail)... I think it'd still be wrong to doxx them. Like publish their real name. But if they have an alt account, and you see them using that to do bad things... I'd say it's okay to call them out on that. Mainly since they're a high profile person here, wield power in one of the largest communities. So they have to abide by higher standards. But you can't leak their IP address or real name or something for just being a liar, that's just too much and a different level.
"Exposing" them might be alright. But gather some proper examples of misbehaviour. And make sure to keep reporting misbehaving users to other mods, if possible.
Well, there's a lot of drama, he-said-she-sad, personal attacks. I think the sane approach is let moderators deal with it. And not create a toxic atmosphere by having users target each other and start all sorts of small and big fights. That's what I meant by that.
Depends. Do you like vigilantism? Then go ahead. If not, try reporting it to the moderators first.
But idk what this is about. Is it some teenage drama concerning someone with 20 followers on TikTok? I mean having several accounts and using voice changers and AI isn't illegal. If they're stealing pictures or molesting people on Minecraft or Roblox, you might be able to get them banned by reporting them. And if they're lying here on Lemmy... We also have moderators. I'm not sure if we have tools to detect ban evasion.
Yeah, this thread is a bit weird. Completely different up/downvote ratio than the other one. And seems it's now entirely about email and PGP 🤔
Well, I always dreamt about encrypting my master keys to all my digital heritage with some threshold scheme encryption like Shamir's secret sharing. I believe there is some Linux tool available: http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
That way N out of M of my friends would have to gather after my passing, combine the puzzle pieces and be granted with access to my stuff.
There are easier ways, though. You can just write down a password and include it with your last will, seal it and have a notary take care of it. I'd create a seperate administrator account/password for that.
You could set up two factor authentification and give them one factor now, and have the other factor stored with your things so they can collect it after your passing. Doesn't need to be complicated, create a password with 30 characters, split it in the middle and you have two factors.
There are online services for these kind of things. Or you can run some dead man switch yourself. I'm not sure what kinds of projects someone would use for that. Taking care of a dead man switch would be annoying for me.
Nice attack. But does this have any real-world consequences? I mean the attacker is decrypting their own email here, as far as I understand. This shouldn't be possible. But it doesn't really do harm, does it? I mean they kind of already know the plaintext, since they wrote it themselves...
Isn't the chemistry of lithium batteries like well understood for quite some time now?
And the article doesn't say much and reading the study costs at least $16.
Agreed. I mean I don't think the general public is even concerned with that. For 99% of people, NSFW is visiting a porn streaming site, and they get whatever they're interested in. And for free. That's the expectation.
I think the BBC did a good documentary on NSFW creators a few years back. I can't remember the name. But what they depicted wasn't success stories. It was one gay couple who were very successful, with a very nice fanbase... But all the other people they showed didn't get rich or anything especially after the 20% cut and taxes. Plus there's expectations from the audience and lots of competition. Seemed like really hard work, sometimes with severe downsides (sometimes not so much). And some of them struggled and the text card at the end said they quit after filming of the documentary. I might misremember the details. But at least that depiction of OnlyFans seemed more honest to me. And they were all putting in a good amount of time and it weighed down on their lifes, friendships and often relationships.
I've also seen a bit of what happens on Reddit. But all I've seen is using that platform to advertise for a paid account on a different platform. Seems to me it's often one or two pictures and an onlyfans link somewhere. So I'd say it's more advertising material than proper content on Reddit. At least if it's the creators themselves. Other people just steal arbitrary content and repost that somewhere. The majority doesn't seem to care for copyright too much. At least that's what I've seen on the more popular subs. But as I said, I've just had a glimpse at it, I might be wrong. But if it's true, it's a systemic problem. And it starts on platforms like Reddit itself. (And another thing I learned is that Twitter got used for NSFW as well, like for videos, animations and by people who create adult games on Patreon.) But I bet you don't need to worry about explaining whether it's alright to steal advertising material, if the whole situation is like it is.