I know this story is more-so about a trojan in a trusted place, and not general security, but I have an anecdote to share.
So, time to fess up here. I previously complained about Google trapping me in captcha-hell for enabling Ublock Origin.
I was wrong.
Turns out that I had visited a movie streaming site a while before to watch a season of some show, I forget which. Without any downloads or noticeable input on my part. My Linux box apparently got hacked/malware. All I did was click the occasional "I am a human" box on the website, and sit back with popcorn.
I found out when my ISP starting blocking IP addresses some time later. I checked my modem's logs, and they showed some unexplained traffic to impossible "unassigned" IP addresses afterward. I didn't notice for a while.
I was stupid. Even worse, my phone also started behaving badly after that. I think I watched the last few episodes in bed, so must have infected that too.
Nah, it was Orlando, but not the city proper, more like one of the smaller areas around the actual city. Trying not to give too much away, but it was near Altamonte Springs.
I lived across the street from a department store, a grocery, some pizza places, a "smoke" shop, video game stores, and everything else I could want on a normal day. It was amazing. I walked everywhere except to work. I miss living there. The main downside was that it was in Florida.
They all work well enough on my weak machine with an RX580.
Buuuuuuuuuut, RWKY had some kind of optimization thing going that makes it two or three times faster to generate output. The problem is that you have to be more aware of the order of your input. It has a hard time going backwards to a previous sentence, for example.
So you'd want to say things like "In the next sentence, identify the subject." and not "Identify the subject in the previous text."
That's true. The reason why I suggested it is because the other person said they know nothing about Linux, have barely used a terminal before, and just wanted to try a certain distro. I thought this website would be a quick and easy way for them to play around a little bit to scratch that itch and see if they wanted to dive deeper into things.
I'm sorry to hear you're frustrated. As an AI, my job is to assist and provide you with the information or help you need. Please feel free to let me know how I can better assist you, and I'll do my best to address your concerns.
Yup. This is essentially the same as people suddenly screaming about "WHITE PRIDE!!!!" in response to things like Black Live Matter.
The entire point is a minority not letting the majority shame or otherize them. The the majority freaks out and responses with "ME TO BUT BETTER THAN YOU DID IT!".
Pretty simple, actually. Content farms push as much media out as possible to get as much attention and views as they can. This generates ad revenue. Advertisers pay Google for the ads, Google pays content creators.
I know this story is more-so about a trojan in a trusted place, and not general security, but I have an anecdote to share.
So, time to fess up here. I previously complained about Google trapping me in captcha-hell for enabling Ublock Origin.
I was wrong.
Turns out that I had visited a movie streaming site a while before to watch a season of some show, I forget which. Without any downloads or noticeable input on my part. My Linux box apparently got hacked/malware. All I did was click the occasional "I am a human" box on the website, and sit back with popcorn.
I found out when my ISP starting blocking IP addresses some time later. I checked my modem's logs, and they showed some unexplained traffic to impossible "unassigned" IP addresses afterward. I didn't notice for a while.
I was stupid. Even worse, my phone also started behaving badly after that. I think I watched the last few episodes in bed, so must have infected that too.
Don't assume any system is automatically safe.