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cecilkorik

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  • Nearly 1,300 customers affected by Canada Computers data breach, company says

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  • They get a lot of retail business too I think. They have lots of retail stores all over the country, they are not online-only. To be honest I usually don't even think of buying online from them, when I need something I just go there in person, it's faster (granted I'm lucky enough to have one nearby).

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    Is it wrong that my cat casually uses the N word, in my head when I anthropomorphize her?

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  • You should probably talk to a psychiatrist about it to be honest. I'm not a professional, and I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but the fact that you seem to be having trouble distinguishing your fantasy from reality, and choose to write that your cat says these things, without taking responsibility for the fact that it is you saying these things in your own head, suggests you may be suffering from some mental illness, in which case you need to see a mental health professional, or you're trolling, in which case kindly go fuck yourself with a rusty knife.

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    Is it wrong that my cat casually uses the N word, in my head when I anthropomorphize her?

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  • Your cat doesn't do anything. You are doing it. That said, thoughtcrime is not a crime. However, you should probably spend some time having some deep thoughts about why you choose to imagine your pet this way, because it says a lot more about you than it does about your cat, and maybe by continuing this, you're not reinforcing helpful thoughts, ideas, and behaviors for yourself. Or maybe it's just a harmless fantasy. I'd be more concerned with outcomes than the actual method you're getting there in your own head. Do you think this is having a positive impact on your life? Is it relieving stress and giving you joy? If that's all it is, no judgement, have fun with it. Just make sure it doesn't start leaking out of your head and into your real life where it doesn't belong.

  • The US Plan to Annex Canadian Province(It’s Starting) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

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  • They don't expect to win today, or tomorrow, and when (not if) they lose, they aren't just going to walk away. These things are indications of how much they are committing to this. This is how a long-term destabilization campaign starts. They have taken over much of our country's media already. They are going to use that to continue legitimizing these efforts, inflaming public opinion with rhetoric, emphasizing negative events, and shifting the overton window towards a future where the idea of "dependence" is itself automatically considered bad and wrong, the question will no longer be whether Alberta should be independent, but how independent should they be, what kinds of autonomy do they need. And spoiler: it will only increase. The demands will only increase. The autonomy expectations will only increase. Because they're being intentionally fueled. They're not organic, but they become organic because people start to absorb it through osmosis from their surroundings.

    Will they ultimately succeed? I don't know, I don't think anyone can know, but I do know we need to take this threat seriously. Because it's not going to stop, and they can afford to spend a lot more instigating it than we probably will to defend against it.

  • clipperz - online password manager - open source, made in Italy

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  • That's an interesting approach and probably convenient for some people to put their passwords safely into the "cloud" but it doesn't hold a candle to the capabilities of my Keepass database. I'd need to use it for quite awhile before I started to have any confidence or trust in it, they haven't posted a blog entry in almost a year either so I'm not sure how active it is. Nice to have other potential options to keep in my back pocket though and it seems like they have a good philosophy.

  • AI controls is coming to Firefox

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  • Librewolf is Firefox for thoughtful people. It might cause a few aggravations at times, but thoughtful people understand that is not Librewolf's fault, that is at the very least shitty apathy and usually malicious intent on behalf of the vast majority of websites on the internet. It does a pretty good job making things work anyway despite the evil, but it's really not Librewolf's fault that it doesn't submit to evil by default.

  • Corporate America is threading a needle on how to respond to the killings in Minnesota

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  • They're trying to thread a needle, because they want to have their cake and eat it too. They're not succeeding. They're never going to. Either they are on the side of defending society and civilization, or they are trying to destroy society and civilization and profit from it. They think they can find a middle ground when there is no middle ground left anymore. The wealth gap has sprawled open into an impossible and still growing chasm that nobody can stand in anymore. That's where the middle ground used to be. Now, it's class war, us against them, and I find it hard to believe they'll ever do the right thing or pick the right side. So they can keep trying to thread that needle if they want. It will do them no good. Their thread is too thick to fit. They have lost their social license to operate. They are not getting it back. Not from me, anyway.

  • What old datacenter / AI hardware could end up in desktop PC's?

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  • Nvidia P40s with 24GB VRAM are relatively cheap for what they are and are available in bulk. They have no video output, no cooling (you can 3d print a duct for fans or probably buy one, or just lower the power limits and run them semi-passively until they start throttling)

    If you want to putter around a bit with machine learning technologies (I refuse to call it "AI" because it's not) they're useful and reasonably capable tools, although far from the fastest compared to what's out there nowadays.

  • Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

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  • I am not implying that anything will happen to them anytime soon, and as you suggest they may even profit in the short term, but I do think they might end up with a shortened lifespan eventually, or if they're particularly lucky, just a significantly less free one.

  • What else should I selfhost?

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  • Before you even start, consider adopting an 'infrastructure as code' approach. It will make your life a lot easier in the future.

    Start with any actual code: If you have any existing source code, get it under git version control immediately, then prioritize getting it into a git hub like forgejo to make your life easier in the future. Make a git repository for your infrastructure documentation, and record (and comment/document too if you're feeling ambitious) every command you run in a txt file or an md file or a script, and do that as religiously as you can while you're setting up all this self-hosted stuff. You may want to dig it up later to try and remember exactly what you did or in case stuff goes wrong and you need to back off and try again. It might seem pointless now, but a year from now, you'll thank me.

    Especially prioritize getting your git stuff moved into a self-hosted forgejo if any of your stuff is hosted on the microsoft technoplague called github.

  • Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?

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  • There is no more United States. They would have to be United for that name to still apply. Now there is only the Disunited, Distracted States of America and the rapidly growing Fourth Reich taking their territory from within.

  • Outsourcing thinking

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  • I think this is an interesting perspective that aligns with some of my current views on AI. It absolutely does pose some very clear questions about intentionality and defining what we actually value in life. Although, I think if we were willing to put in the effort on simply not doing a lot of the "non-valuable thinking" that we are "supposed to be" or "feeling like we have to be" outsourcing to shitty AI, the world would be a much better place and also one that needs very little environmentally destructive AI usage to thrive. Why the fuck do I need project management if nobody but me actually cares when, or if the project ever gets done? Am I doing this for other people or am I doing this for myself? Time is money? Maybe, but money is also the root of all evil. I'd rather take my time back, let the schedule go fuck itself, and it'll be done when it's done and whenever I feel like it, or if I feel like it. Maybe that's not a great way to run a business, but it's a great way to run my life, and business can go fuck itself too.

  • Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice?

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  • You get what you pay for. Sometimes you get more than you pay for, sometimes you can get lots for free, but you'll never get a guarantee. If you want anything resembling a guarantee, you have to pay.

    You sound like you want guaranteed advice, but for free. That isn't going to happen.

    If you want non-guaranteed advice, just ask anywhere on the internet, like here for example. You'll get lots of answers, none of them guaranteed, but some of them quite possibly very correct. Is that worth the price of "free"? It should be.

  • Finland looks to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with Australia-style ban on social media

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  • Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and even your worst enemy will sometimes agree with you. Social media may not be automatically bad but effectively all for-profit implementations are irredeemably corrupted and a catastrophic danger to the fabric of democracy and civilization. Banning it will not eliminate it but it is the only viable harm reduction strategy we have available for any of us at this point. Techbro dominance and devastating levels of abuse by cynical, manipulative actors has robbed us of the luxury of choosing any more reasonable, nuanced approaches.

  • 'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration

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  • Minnesota is already honorary Canadian and in my opinion, always has been.

    Constitutions are made up by people and people can change them. All you need to do is either get everyone to agree, or make sure the people who don't agree can't stop you. Trump chose the latter, and has completely ignored and dismantled the US constitution. Whatever comes out the other side is going to be very, very different. I'm not saying that we should do that. But in the face of an existential threat like that, I don't think it's beyond reason that we could, in fact, get everyone to agree. It's amazing how staring mutual death and dissolution in the face can change the bitterest of rivalries into if not perfect alignment, at least a functional working relationship. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

  • Hilarious

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  • Obligatory Canadian surprise: Canada has actual functioning warships that are not, at this moment, being repaired from fire or other catastrophic failure or mothballed from lack of funding? Jeez, maybe we really are starting to take things seriously.

  • More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn't Letting Them In.

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  • The entire western world is complicit in Gaza's genocide and supporting Israel. Some are just better and more convincing at pretending they care about Palestinians than others. The actions (and lack thereof) tell the real story very clearly though.

  • [New York Times] Trump Tells U.K. and Canada That Boosting Trade With China Is ‘Dangerous’

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  • Nice trade agreement you got there, Canada. smashes it with baseball bat ...would be a shame if anything happened to you.

  • Minecraft Bedrock on Bazzite

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  • I'm glad I could help raise some awareness of Microsoft's abusive money grab aimed at children. There's perhaps not much we can realistically do about it now that all the AI techbro billionaires completely rule the world, but at least we still have the power to acknowledge it and spread the information.