fd0 - LittleFedi
I'm reading about a Word "clone", apparently made by the same people who recreated "clones" of Adobe's software suite.
I don't know how legal any of this is, and I'm not going to get into that. But I can't help smiling at the reactions.
When they started pushing AI, they told us we would lose our jobs, whether we liked it or not. That AI would replace us, whether we liked it or not.
Now that someone has decided to apply the very same principle to their products, suddenly they don't like it anymore.
"You can create new games, but you can't recreate existing ones."
Hurts, doesn't it?
And that's the point. The problem isn't the technology itself, but the way certain sharks use it at other people's expense. When they're the ones on the receiving end, and only then, ethics suddenly becomes a concern again.
I #Selfhost my email server (that handles my 20+ domains) since almost 20 years now, currently on a cheap virtual machine running Linux, with 1 CPU core, 2G of RAM, 40G hard drive and unlimited network traffic which costs me less than β¬5/month.
Many people keep on telling me that running your own email server is more or less impossible. I simply don't listen to them.
I explained my setup in a blog series starting at https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117532486075073106
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *snort* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *wheeze* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *wipes happy tears* teehee heeheehee *sigh*
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM β Altman says data centres offer better utilization
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization
With data centres full of RAM, your PC is apparently the problem.
Sooner the AI bubble bursts the better...
Not sure who needs to know this, but if you download and install the Windows version of Rufus, the free software for writing ISO images to USB/CD-ROM, your PC will end up with about 100 trojans.
Edit: Had a conversation with the maintainer(s) of Rufus, who told me the malware alerts were almost certainly from Windows Defender scanning the files in the Linux ISO I was trying to burn, and not from the program itself. I'm willing to accept that may be the case here, but I also no longer have a way to check b/c I nuked the system after all the alerts, and the bios produced a warning when the system restarted.
https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
another example of a court not understanding the innerworkings of the internet
Security personnel around the world are on high alert following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet.
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There is not enough money left over to pay anyone for their time working
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@_elena@mastodon.social
An award similar to the FIFA peace price that Trump received from his buddy Infantino?π€£
If someone asks you why they should join the Fediverse..
If any local politician, library, park, or museum asks you why they should be on the Fediverse..
The big platforms have their places, but we canβt depend on them to link us when it matters most.
WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-help-pages-leaked-hidden-instructions-for-a-meta-chatbot/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Artificial Intelligence @artificial-intelligence-WIRED
Bizarre: Data centres have a total of 15 GW (15,000 MW) in queue for electricity connections in the Netherlands, grid operators just disclosed. That's roughly the current average national power use!
@fuina @pallenberg please please please DO NOT under any circumstance go through identity verification. They'd leak your name, nationality and age and post it as a permanent record to the world wide web: https://blog.elenarossini.com/public-by-design-how-w-social-makes-their-verified-users-personal-details-visible-on-the-open-web/
En dan zitten we massaal op Azure, vaak "locked-in" en dan gaan de prijzen omhoog...
Azure wordt duurder in Europa: tot 17 procent erbij.
https://www.computable.nl/2026/10/15/azure-wordt-duurder-in-europa-tot-17-procent-erbij/
#Microsoft #Azure #Cloud
De rijksoverheid blijft Facebook Pages gebruiken. Dat is de uitkomst van een lang onderhandelingsproces met nul beweging vanuit de kant van Meta. Een ambtelijke adviesraad gaat een integraal advies opstellen voor het gebruik van sociale media.
https://ibestuur.nl/overheid-in-transitie/politiek-en-beleid/rijk-blijft-facebookpaginas-gebruiken
"Meta erkent geen gezamenlijke verwerkingsverantwoordelijkheid met de Rijksoverheid en werkt daarom niet mee aan oplossingen om de risicoβs weg te nemen." is te lezen in de beslisnota bij de Kamerbrief over de onderhandelingen met Facebook.
Blijft de overheid op Facebook pages? De gepubliceerde Kamerbrief en beslisnota geven een gedeeltelijk antwoord: "verantwoorde afschaling" en meer onderzoek.
β‘οΈhttps://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/detail?id=2026D51675&did=2026D51675
Zo even na 14:00 op RTL om te vertellen dat je beste bescherming tegen AI hackers je hetzelfde moet doen wat je toch al moest doen. Op tijd patchen, zo veel mogelijk oude systemen uitzetten, weten wat je eigenlijk draait (klinkt zo logisch) en goed monitoren!