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cecilkorik

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  • How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet?

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  • fail2ban mainly, but also things like scaling login delays (some sort of option often built into the software you're running, but just as often not configured by default), or if you're feeling particularly paranoid account locking after too many failures, and in general just not using default, predictable, common usernames or weak passwords, and honestly it's even helped a bit by having slow hardware and throttled network bandwidth.

    The goal is to make it so that someone can't run a script that sends 100 million login attempts per second for common or stolen usernames and passwords and your server just helpfully tries them all and obediently tells them none of those worked... until one of them does.

    Not only does this encourage them to TRY sending 100 million login attempts per second because your server isn't refusing it, which is a huge waste of bandwidth and resources, it also makes it really likely that they're eventually going to guess one right.

  • Is Minecraft piracy really piracy?

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  • It's basically a free single-player demo with extra steps. Not being able to play on legitimate servers is realistically a huge drawback, honestly. And also, Microsoft knows it's a huge opening for "piracy" which is why they've created Bedrock edition which is where all their monetization efforts and future content updates will be increasingly directed.

    Neither you nor I are supposed to ever care about Bedrock, or are ever expected to pay a cent for Minecraft. We are a tapped resource financially with nothing left to give and trying to get more money out of us and our community would be like trying to get blood from a stone. But that doesn't mean we're not important. Our role, even as free-to-play pirates in the Minecraft ecosystem, is to create content and create brand awareness, to keep it trending and on people's radar, so that when children and whales are drawn to it, Microsoft makes sure the first thing they see is some Bedrock edition thing and they can start shelling out cash immediately.

    The whales, children, and naive parents are where the free money is. We're just part of the advertising pipeline aimed at those demographics. We create buzz, they buy.

  • Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing

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  • Do any of bunker doors also lock from the outside? Asking for a friend.

  • (Stupid post) Am I banned from Reddit for life or is there a chance to get unbanned?

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  • This is the right community to escape from Reddit for good, honestly.

  • Some Canadians feel uneasy as Trump ramps up talks to 'take' Greenland. What should we do?

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  • The most important part of GUARD, Maffin said, is D, which stands for distinguishing people from a regime. In this case, it means recognizing there is a difference between American people and the government and authorities that are making decisions for the country.

    Sure. I will distinguish them by their actions, and they have to put in some work to start to earn any goodwill, support or sympathy they're going to get from me.

    I know they don't learn much about history besides their own down there, but if anyone is reading this: go invest some time in learning about the French Resistance in WW2. The further you let it go, the worse it's going to get. It's NOT going to be fun for you. That does not mean you don't have to do it. It sounds like it was a long goddamn 4 years they went through, and you might end up in something like the same. I don't envy you, but I also didn't choose this for you. Fix your shit, and once you start, you can count on our help.

  • Text to speech that's free of modern, "generative" AI?

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  • I'm just a philosopher being criminally open-minded, don't take my navel-gazing too personally. I hate AI so much that it has led me into a nihilistic fugue.

  • Text to speech that's free of modern, "generative" AI?

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  • Here is the way it used to be done before AI took over, when it was called speech synthesis. How do you know all of these programs were created ethically and responsibly and nobody ever used any pirated software or infringed any patents or copyright? You don't, some people maybe did, but it's probably okay these days.

    You can also find reasonably responsibly trained machine learning models that are open and able to run locally. Nobody's going to promise there was never any part of it that was trained on data you wouldn't approve of. There's simply no way to tell. We don't have any system capable of identifying or defining who is consenting or what they are consenting to.

    So, you really have to define this line yourself, and you have to understand that nothing's going to be done perfectly ethically without question. If you're willing to compromise a little without having unrealistic expectations, and live in the unfortunate reality that we find ourselves whether we like it or not, you can probably find some free, locally-hosted model that will do a much better and more capable job than any previously mentioned software solution, but you have to accept the risk that even then maybe it's not as ethically trained as it was claimed to be. We don't know, nobody can promise or verify that.

    There is no ethical free lunch. If you want to avoid "AI" completely you can try to find and hire a real human being to read to you. Even that's hard, and it's certainly not immune to perpetuating some form of exploitation. We live in a world of exploitation. You can try your best to minimize the harm you do, but the philosophy gets complicated fast.

    And to quote "The Good Place": this is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors.

  • I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA

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  • That's the problem, When you're running too many services as it is, you will be staring at a terminal at home sooner or later. Maybe you've gotten lucky and haven't been ravaged by the cruel gods of fate yet, but it absolutely happens, and eventually it will happen to you. When you're relying on family notifications and disaster response, you don't get to choose when that happens, and sometimes you'll have to spend a LONG time staring at a terminal at home. And when it happens often enough, or badly enough, you end up not just staring at the terminal at home, but also thinking about the terminal at home, and losing sleep over it, and that's just not a great way to live your self-hosting life. I've been there.

    Making the investment in repeatable, reproducible, maintainable infrastructure now means you get to decide WHEN you're staring at a terminal, and for exactly how long. Even when you don't make it through as much progress as you wanted to, you can just close it down without any stress, get back to your life and continue from where you left off next time. You can't do that, at least not without some significant consequences when your server got hacked and is sending spam or your entire server is refusing to boot and you need the files on it.

    You may still have to hit the terminal sometimes when you don't choose to, but it's going to be less often, and less complex when you do. That's when the investment pays off, and your return on investment is the goal of having ultimately less time spent at the terminal at home, and that payoff is especially rewarding if you're good at prioritizing the time you do choose to spend on the terminal at home, to find low-value moments to effectively repurpose for this hobby, and save the actually valuable times of your life from ever having to be used for emergency maintenance.

  • The left case for joining the NDP—and voting for Avi Lewis ⋆ The Breach

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  • The world needs a league of nations, and we need a league of citizens. Like Carney said, if we are not at the table, we will be on the menu.

  • Davos Turned Canada’s Prime Minister Into Global Political Star

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  • I'm really hoping that the magic Carney is doing is all behind the scenes, top-secret, serious powerbroker shit. And if he is, that's going to be fire.

    But if he isn't, "meh" is an understatement. Because most of what he's done in public has been typical neoliberal status quo, rape the environment, fuck the people, while telling them how much they're both going to be enjoying it.

    I've always believed he's a sneaky snake. I know he was one to get elected.

    The optimist in me wants to believe he's a sneaky snake working on our side.

    The pessimist in me is convinced he's a sneaky snake working against us.

    I guess time will tell us which one is the case.

  • US abandons Kurdish allies as Syria’s new government seizes control

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  • And the moment it doesn't, hostile takeover, baby!

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    It's WTF o'clock

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  • "Please fill out and sign this credit card application form to prove that you are human."

  • 'Generational' winter storm set to hit U.S. Here's why it's so significant — and dangerous

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  • That is a common misconception. 4WD certainly helps you start moving and keep moving in snow. All that does is prevent you from getting stuck. It does absolutely nothing to help you stop moving, which is what's going to cause an accident.

    COMBINED with winter tires, 4WD is great.

    WITHOUT winter tires, you'd be better off and safer being stuck. 4WD does not make you safe to drive and maneuver in snow and icy conditions. You still need proper tires.

  • ‘Sometimes You Need a Dictator,’ Trump Says Following Threats to Cancel Election

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  • I would like to conduct a poll of the US military to determine exactly how many believe anything Trump has done has ever been constitutional, and at what point they feel they would need to defend the Constitution from him, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like the answer.

  • ‘Sometimes You Need a Dictator,’ Trump Says Following Threats to Cancel Election

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  • The problem with leadership is that the ones who most deserve it never seek it, and the ones who most seek it never deserve it

  • Mark Carney essentially said that the liberal rules based world order was a convenient lie everyone went along with because American hegemony opened up markets and sea lanes for them.

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  • Carney is the first world leader I've heard actually talking like he is preparing for war, at least economic war and probably more. And he should be. I'm not sure I fully see it in his actions, yet... but I acknowledge he has to walk a careful line with Trump's reactionary behavior, and I have some hope that what we see publicly on the surface is only a faint reflection of what is actually going on underneath, and behind the scenes.

    The ties we have relied on between countries around the world are being severed at exactly the moment when we all need to hold tightly together in a united defensive front. If those ties are not being urgently and securely re-fastened fast enough publicly, I sure hope they're being massively tightened and reinforced in secret, because we're all going to need every ounce of mutual strength against what's coming.

  • You got Musk, we got muskeg.

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  • If you want to understand how difficult and unpleasant it is to permanently occupy a country where people can speak the same language as you who are visually indistinguishable from you, despite a massive military and manpower advantage, ask the Russians how their 3 day special military operation is going these days.

  • How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5?

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  • According to this reverse engineering effort, Tesla MCUs have 4GB of DDR4 onboard.

    That is just the MCU, mind you, and I'm not sure what exactly it's responsible for besides media, but besides whatever AI nonsense they use for self-driving which might have a good chunk of RAM onboard, it seems likely to me that most other computerized components are just using SOC (system-on-chip) processors with integrated onboard memory, not dedicated DDR. I am not an expert though, and may be wrong.

  • Canada, EU sign first-of-its-kind agreement for mutual recognition of architects, making it easier for architects to work on either side of the Atlantic

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  • More harmonization of regulations with the EU please. Trying to keep ourselves in lockstep with the US regulatory framework has been holding us back for so long (and that's the way the US likes it).

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    'Words you might understand': Danish pol reprimanded for shockingly blunt message to Trump

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  • Tolerance of intolerance is the achilles' heel of the tolerant. They lose sight of the fact that it is not only morally acceptable to punch Nazis, it is required at all times.