SavvyWolf @ savvywolf @pawb.social

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Ages ago in the Vista era, all our Windows computers had an issue where our internet would say "limited or no connectivity" and just stop working. That happened on my desktop and I decided "to hell with it" and switched to Linux (Ubuntu, specifically).

You're assuming that the attacker is using their own IP rather than a compromised system owned by someone else.

Likewise, they might be using someone else's address with the intent to steal a package from their porch or something.

It'd be rather silly for a theif to use their own details.

Firstly, probably remove the address from the OP. Don't want any Lemmy vigilantes getting involved and making a mess of things.

If you have 2fa enabled, you should be good. Even if they do guess your password, they shouldn't* be able to log in to your account. Although might still be worth making sure you have a nice strong password anyway. Also, if you have recovery phone numbers or email addresses attached to your email account, make sure they're secured as well.

Assuming that your webmail provider is doing everything correctly, which isn't always a given if they're a small one.

So firstly, if you were the person running a several million dollar project which then gets cancelled, you are absolutely getting fired. If you were acting entirely in your own self interest, it would be better to make the project last as long as you can. Maybe it ends up succeding by a fluke and you keep your job?

Secondly, you're assuming that all that money just vanishes when the product is released. The product is still out there in the market, and there are still some people will buy it. If you're 80% of the way through the project, it might be worth spending the remaining 20% in order to recoup at least some of your costs.

I personally think people were "burned" by the whole NFT situation. During the NFT "hype" a year or two ago, a lot of companies were slow to get on board with releasing NFT products, and so they missed the bubble entirely. NFTs are, of course, silly but if they did take off, companies would have loved to have been part of the boon.

Fast forward to now and you have AI bros shilling AI in the same way cryptobros were shilling NFTs. However, this time it's different! They have results, they have technology. Microsoft is on board! They have fancy tech demos which are not staged at all! If you didn't have experience with the technology and limitations, you would be lead to believe that this is the same as the NFT bubble, but it's actually going to be a real technology rather than snake oil.

I think there's also the issue that it takes a long time to bring a product to market. Imagine you've spent millions developing software and hardware for your AI coffee machine or whatever and it turns out that there's no market demand. You can't really turn to your stakeholders and say "oops, we made a mistake and have to cancel this product. Sorry!", you have to finish the product and try to recoup losses where you can. That's why there's all these weird posts advertising AI products - they can't just not release a product, and AI bros might be tempted to buy it.

I also wonder if the whole AI hate is bias due to us being here on mastodonlemmy... We tend towards fairly cynical people who are critical towards new technology and corporations. Maybe actual consumers who aren't online all day and clued into the tech scene are wowwed by AI. I've certainly seen people here casually remark that they use ChatGPT and Copilot.

I switched mine to NixOS a while ago. It's got a steep learning curve, but it's really nice having the entire server config exist in a handful of files.

I don't use the gif keyboard or autocomplete, so I comment about that. but it's so much more customizable than gboard. Honestly surprised you found gboard to be customizable because in my experience it's one of the least customizable ones out there.

I've recently replaced Gboard with Heliboard. The three main things I want in an Android keyboard are as follows:

• Word suggestions when typing.
• Glide typing.
• Not being super creepy about my data.

Hwliboard does all those things and is super customisable as well.

I don't know for sure, but I don't think they'd be able to read https traffic. That would be encrypted on the vm itself before being sent to the host, so the host couldn't see it.

If they're scanning your system remotely for unapproved software, I imagine they won't let you use a vm at all, since it kinda breaks that requirement.

Firstly, thanks everyone for all the responses. I appreciate it, and I hope that some of you felt better after having a vent.

American friend predictably says there's a problem with "healthcare literacy" and that you just don't have to pay the bills and they probably won't chase it up. I don't beleive that at all.

I figured it might be interesting to share how much I pay for stuff up here in Scotland.

I have a decent well paying job so I pay some money to the NHS in taxes, specifically ~£2000 a year. I get antidepressants and doctors appointments completely free from that. Dental I don't get free because my income is too large, but it's only like £20 for most routine things. I have a free eye test booked next week, and I splurged £10 extra to get fancy 3D imaging stuff done.

I do require mental health treatment though, and the NHS doesn't cover that for autistic people (as a competence issue, rather than a policy choice). A session with a counsellor costs £45 per hour for me privately.

Honestly, the surprising thing to me isn't that you have an insurance system (Switzerland has a similar thing, iirc), it's just how inflated prices are compared to here.

Optimistic perspective: Citizens are expected to sacrifice personal freedom for safety. The state watches out for bad actors so it can stop them before they cause harm.

Cynical perspective: Citizens are expected to follow a moral code or pledge loyalty to the state. The state watches out for deviants so they can be removed.

Pick your poison.

Getting into Hyrule field for the first time in Ocarina of Time after being stuck in the forest for months or years. I got promptly destroyed by a pineapple.

I don't remember much from my childhood, but that stuck with me.

I imagine the Chromium devs have put a lot of work into reducing memory usage. Work that'll have to be replicated by whichever small team is working on this hypothetical browser.

Not only do you have to support an insane amount of standards, you need to do it fast. Firefox and Chromium are optimized so much for speed, and nobody will use your web browser if it's slow or uses up tons of ram.

Probably my google account. I'd look up the exact age but then I'd feel old.

Yep. It's outrageous to me that the largest fee listed on his gofundme is medical bills.

Funny you should mention New York actually, that's where my friend lives so I guess it explains why he thinks it's not that bad.

Oh yeah, absolutely. Fuck the Tories.

So this is an interesting question to me and got me thinking... I think the qualities that are important to me in a partner (compassion, empathy, openness, open mindedness, passion, etc.) aren't strictly tied to intelligence? Maybe there's a correlation, I guess? Depends on how you define intelligence.

I probably wouldn't go out of my way to look for particularly intelligent people. In fact I'd probably avoid anyone who puts their IQ in their bio (because... Eww). But based on my interests and personally, I can see myself naturally sharing more in common with "intelligent" people (wow that sounds pretentious).

I do wonder if I'd feel frustrated with a partner who couldn't understand me when explaining complex things though...

To be clear, I know there are serious problems with the NHS especially considering waiting times and mental health. I can imagine for a well off, lucky American the quality of care will be much higher than here in the UK.