Dodecahedron December @ rarely @sh.itjust.works

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Exit strategy: russia loses, russia stops, putin dies.

Those are three viable options. What isn't an option is to let the terrorists win.

Endless war my ass.

Can you fish an antenna outside your window, and have a few hundred dollars to spare? You might get better signal with a booster. I use one from surecall on my car and it fills in the gaps in coverage well. Not sure if I get 5g or not, but I get adequate cell service. I think they have ones for the home, ideally with a directional antenna and mast. At that point, you should have great 5g, but your mileage may vary.

maybe then you want to try manually falling back to LTE. from the docs:

LTE: This setting should only be selected if experiencing service issues in locations that offer multiple network types and only LTE is needed.

the phone does it when you set it to automatic. but you haven’t set it to automatic, so it sees 4g and 3g and says “nope, my user would rather have no service than 4g or 3g service”.

you may want to get a UPS for your modem and wifi. a nice 1000watt UPS should give you a few hours of internet when the power goes out.

The phone is trying this on it's own but you are preferring not to use it, instead preferring 5g networks.

Honestly you should probably just let the phone do its thing. Various bands have various capabilities. 5g is very fast, goes through concrete but doesn't travel far (even via air). LTE has more bands in lower frequencies than 5G does IIRC, and lower bands travel greater distances and serve more customers. Phones automatically try to use the 5g signal, falling back on 4g, then 3g, 2g.. the reason the feature you enabled exists is when there are stronger 4g signals that are getting picked up and there is still a 5g signal within range. In your case I doubt the 5g signal is in range.

Btw, your pixel should be using wifi calling at home, which uses the internet and gets as good of a signal as your home wifi does.

The free marketplace of my ideas.

Signed by whom? The CA.

The CA is the certificate authority.

You can create your own CA and sign your own certs for free, but people would need to have your CA root cert in their browser for them to be able to trust your signed certs.

Let's Encrypt is a real CA bundled with browsers, and it signs free cert signing requests when specific criteria is met. This is done because TLS is an important privacy mechanism that works best if many certs are in use and not just a few wildcard certs.

Why not trust self-signed certs? Because there are no checks. When miicrosoft.com (the people who make the miis on your wii) gets a free cert signing from Let's Encrypt, its because the owner of miicrosoft.com proved that they owned the domain miicrosoft.com by means of a lets encrypt / acme challenge. When you create your own CA and sign your own certs you are beholden to your own rules. You could sign a free cert for microsoft.com (the people who make minecraft) but then you would also need to convince users to install your CA, and then you can steal their blocks and grief their builds.

Gang, I hate to tell you this but this is what we mean when we say "you are the product" especially with free offerings.

But if you hate that I have a worse thing to introduce you to: the internet. If you respond to this comment, or any comment on any lemmy instance or other federated service or website or blog... your words can be consumed, copied and used to train whatever anyone wants. It is trivially easy to create web scrapers with just a bit of coding knowledge. These days it's pretty easy to then use that data to train AI models. To a computer, it's just data.

Grammarly is a product where you give it bad grammar and it gives you good grammar. Grammarly, like many products, gets better over time when it can understand what went wrong so its teams can make it right. This can often include any text entered into the program. I don't know the specifics but they should be outlined in the privacy policy. A company using data it already has to train AI makes sense, especially if it anonymizes that data. It may not be ethical given that users weren't aware of AI at the time they accepted the privacy policy, but with american capitalism a company can change a privacy policy and you can opt out if you don't like it.

That's why we all have lawyers on retainer to read and translate all privacy policies for all websites and applications we interact with in a daily basis. Right? That's normal, right?

I will say, could this support person have meant that an organization with 500+ employees get a custom AI model trained on only the organization's 500+ accounts? Because that would be better, and likely more ethical too.

If that's not the case and any content you have put into grammarly is being used to train AI, then I guess it's time to stop using grammarly then huh? But it's also time to stop posting anything on the web, too. Oh, and don't publish anything, ever.

Or, you could go with the flow. This data is mixed with millions of other accounts.. sort of like what happened when chatgpt trained on anything you've already put out there. The only real concern I could see is if you discussed a very specific thing or invented your own personal coded style of writing and used it so much that, among the millions of other users, dominated the corpus and skewed the training model. Say there are only 5 grammarly users and you are number 5.. you keep talking about "procorpia" being "mass sledge", generating hundreds of entries with thousands of tokens "words". By contrast let's say the other 4 grammarly users only used it a few times a month to send short emails. Now, after training, the 6th grammarly user mispells a word as "procorpia" and grammarly generares "procorpia is totes mass sledge brah". Suddenly, your secret is out.

If, on the other hand you speak the same broken english as the rest of us, you are probably fine.

Notice how it says "home gas" on the side? That's because this stores a gas, possibly propane. This isn’t a generator by itself. Where are these hooked up to?

It looks like you're in south florida? Home gas seems to be a propane or natural gas delivery company.

Matrix is so complicated! It's one of those high barrier to entey federated systems. No one on lemmy would even be able to comprehend federation.

Might as well just give all your data to china to be on the safe side.

Obsidian

• text files stored in markdown on your device
• no premium service to unlock features. You can buy sync and publishing if you want to, but there are no nags to purchase them.
• you can roll your own sync solution you wanted to. Its just text files. Same goes with publishing.
• community plugins if you want to extend it
• desktop clients and ios clients
• free forever

https://obsidian.md/

I said traffic. You said ads.

Keep in mind companies make money in more ways than ads.

A companies valuation includes an estimate for the worth of each active user..about $1 or more per registered email.

Site traffic is also counted, because although those users are anonymous they are still eyeballs.

Also, it is trivially easy to include ads over RSS. This may happen at some point.

Until then, you are giving your traffic to reddit, helping boost their value before IPO.

As for costing reddit traffic, my sweet summer child.. RSS is 1000% more efficient than reddit's app or web ui.

Thanks for explaining supply and demand for me. Have you heard of the insurance industry?

It's the insurance industry which pays the bill. So your argument is that the pharma companies are just not interested in making money, since we all know that the insurance industry sets the prices they are willing to pay.

Patients have no skin in the game. They just pay their premiums and take their meds. Their costs do not increase. Uninsured people aren't paying hundreds of dollars a month for meds.

"Please daddy DEA don't let me make more profits!"

No, this is just DEA being DEA. The DEA needs to be abolished.

And yet the DEA sets limits for manufacturing.

(You're still giving traffic to reddit btw)

Well if that sweating means exercising you make the problem worse.

There may be a quick fix, but you’ll have to google it. Just look for a quick fix for what you’re looking for.

Otherwise, cannabioids enter your bloodstream when you workout, so … don’t workout before the test. And you’ll need probably about 30 days.

Concrete soaks up, stores and radiates a lot of heat from the sun. Trees thrive on sun and provide shade for humans.

My point still stands.