means, letterboxing ok privacy.resistFingerprinting ok WebGL Rendering distorted >>> ok Reducing Telemetry is one thing but being unique is also a flag anyway amiunique.org/
Let me ask you a question. Using your personal, for real situation right now: If Cloudflare decided to ban all the IP's from VPNs and flagged your home and work IPs as bots, along with all the devices you personally own, identified by device fingerprinting, what would your life be like? Could you really get on with any kind of normal life?
Well, governments just started talking about banning VPNs in service to "Know Your Customer" and "Child safety". Do you think they'll try to hunt down every piece of VPN software on the internet, or will they use their "mandate" to force a choke point corporation to use their already ubiquitous scanning to block suspects without any due process or chance of appeal?
Deep Humor on YouTube is a great person to follow for weekly news on this issue. And as he often says, "just because it doesn't affect you now, so you don't care about the issue, the roll-out will be for complete internet ID verification."
►The EU's AI ID age verification social media "Wsocial" is here. This EU social media can't be accessed without AI facial scans, biometric data scanning, or ...
Honestly the thing that would heal our country most is getting all these boomers out of their seats and replacing them with younger individuals who have better mental acuity. After that's been achieved, then maybe we could do the whole representation for marginalized groups thing. We shouldn't do the marginalized thing first because we will get just as many problematic individuals who just happen to be boomers just saying
We no longer have the ability to govern ourselves, and the people who do have the ability are using it to destroy our civilization. This all ends in technofascism or luddite terrorism (or a mix of both). I can't see any other outcomes...
" The $16 billion data center... was flat-out rejected by both the town’s board and its planning commission in September. But those votes turned out to be only minor bumps on the project’s path: The developer quickly sued, the town settled, and the construction vehicles rolled in."
Secretary of Forever War and barely closeted Neo NAZI, Pete Hegseth, has been recruiting his own pernicious kind into the military. #ShockedITellYouShocked
This isn't probably going to reach the right audience here, but seriously, if you are still paying to be productized by Windows, just stop.
ZorinOS , which more or less looks and feels just like Windows from an interface and organization perspective, runs wildly faster on my four year old laptop than Windows 11. I didn't have to install a single driver (exception: I needed to get my browser to control my USB ports, which is a weird, uncommon requirement, but I did have to install a driver for that.). It has an app store that actually has things in it I want, unlike the windows store, it boots in thirty seconds, and I found a Linux app to replace every program I commonly use on Windows. It even comes in a "Lite" version for even older tech.
I even got Linux Lite to run on my twelve-year-old laptop in under an hour, and although it's a little bare-bones looking, it plays video and loads web pages just as well as my newest laptop running Windows 11.
I'm no fanboy, but I feel like maybe we're approaching consumer-level Linux...
Gnu/Linux will never be consumer grade, it is professional grade 😀 😉. Users that take their computing seriously have been using Gnu/Linux, BSD or other 'nix (Unix Derivative) for decades. MS/Windows has always been a play OS for beginners in my opinion Now, with its built in spyware people have more reason than ever to upgrade to a real OS.
Zorin is not a bad Gnu/Linux distro though I hate the DM, I do not care for anything resembling MS/Windows though I know that was likely the reason you chose it. I prefer Gnome, it meets my needs perfectly. I am currently using Fedora 44 though that may change when OS level verification hits the scene full force. I may go back to building my own systems.
Wayback is vital to preserving our culture and history. It needs to collect current events to work. Now, the big news outlets are specifically blocking the archive, crippling the archive's ability to preserve data. This has to stop. We're losing big chunks of our history...
youtube.com/watch?v=0nt1CgQsgp… which facilities deep on Russian sole were hit by Ukrainian? Gas & Oil. Same fact that Ukraine was the pipeline of Gas from Russia before the War and other details . Lybia, Syria, name it.
It's probably true for most services today, but if you want to see the ultimate evidence that Meta is dangerous, check out what happens if you use their products!
In a fit of desperation and creativity I "invented" sausage and peppers soup. Pictured, the last dregs my kids were fighting over because it was "too good". I think that that is a good thing...
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Know your adversary’s tools, techniques, and motives,and know your own systems’ blind spots. Otherwise, you are doomed to fail.
from the original Sun Tzu's Art of War
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will stand in peril.
If it’s online, it’s under attack..trust no link, no device, no ‘free’ Wi-Fi. In fact trust fucking no one, 0 trust principle. You can do it! with each fall you will learn.
Why did IPv8 get kicked out of the DNS bar? Because it kept trying to resolve all its connections with OAuth2/JWT tokens—and the bouncer said, "We don’t serve managed networks here!" (Then it tried to poison the DNS cache, but the zone server had already blacklisted it for being too centralized.)
Means change ya default DNS to a secure one btw. That joke was not a joke but based on this new protocol. Cloudflare is Centralized no need to talk bout google's 8.8.8.8 What you want is de centralized.
So.. I set a LLM on my host system OSX using homebrew to compile LLama.cpp and then put a model on it but I can't run both > it runs offline anyway And I mean by that local host network but not along with my Virtual machine which is Fedora Silverblue and main reason to install it on host is therefore recommended as it can't run efficiently in containers and mostly not on an OS using a VM on a pc with only 16GB RAM and not even an Nvidia in it it botllenecked my RAM & CPU. Now I have to put up a again a RAG system on this dumb AI model even though rated one of the best it still lies or gives bs as answers on my host using HomeBrew again and secure the environment is already done (Honeypot on host) But I can't run this OS in VM same time with the LLM
It worked on Workstation but not an Atomic version. The isolation factor on an Atomic version or immutable OS makes it slow as hell and mostly one with containerized environments as any one that exist may it be docker, podman, distrobox > name it/
You could likely run it on SilverBlue in a toolbox on 64gb system with a decent GPU probably a Nvidia RTX 3060i or greater or an equivalent in another brand.
Your biggest issue is that 16gb of ram is more than adequate for a typical desktop it is not enough for running virtual hosts, containers and llama.cpp with a decent size LLM such as 7b or better.
Especially since you are on a Mac and it uses Unified Memory and the GPU has no dedicated memory.
In my case I have 16gb on my workstation but I also have 8gb on my GPU. I still do not run llama.cpp in a container because that would just tie up to many resources. On my 64gb laptop I can run several containers though the GPU is integrated and uses Unified Memory Model and is not supported well for llama.cpp.
I also build my llama.cpp weekly as it is a very active project that is constantly improving. I also manually update my ComfyUI weekly though I do not believe you use that project.
So the old eugenics guys wanted to "remake our species for the better" through selective breeding, but then many of them spent the 20th century building a civilization that breeds people for aggression and stupidity.
Eugenics, historically, have been used in many cultures. Much of Europe nobility practiced as well as most nobility internationally. In Sweden it has been extensively practiced as well. Historically, eugenics in humans and animals has always, in my opinion, had a higher cost than natural selection. There are somethings that we can only manipulate so far before the cost of our influence is greater than the benefits. I would extend this ideology to plants as well with cross pollination being its equivalent to eugenics in animals . To make a better crop we have in some cases created a more shelf durable and sweet product with higher carbs but far less bio-available nutrition than its ancestors.
Perhaps when we know more about genetics, as we learn so much more every decade, this could be of some value. Though thus far I cannot see eugenics as a success as I see the costs greater than the benefits.
Namely, to implement eugenics in animals, which includes humans, inbreeding has often been used to facilitate this. This is an economical approach but one the leads to overall inferior results.
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In the stillness after a night of bombardment, Israa, a devoted mother of three, and her husband lost not just a home, but the sense of safety that every family deserves.
"Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack." "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." Sun Tzu
So there's this guy, a musical performer. In 2024, he ran for president on the "Weed Shall Overcome" ticket. This guy got harassed and jailed by police who subsequently stole his money and belongings. He wrote and released a song mocking them, so they sued him for harassment. He won that case, became famous, and is now running for President again.
"Even though the man might kick me when I was down, my integrity tells me not to do the same."
I've been trying not to be alarming, this last year, because I keep hoping anyone will listen, but by next year, between Google and Apple scanning your private stuff, the ongoing proliferation of cameras at every corner hooked up to AI face and plate trackers (We already have dozens in my city), more and more retail corporations refusing cash payments so they can track and squeeze us just a little more, AI companies destroying everything, and a government that no longer follows any laws, I have real, unexaggerated fears about becoming a literal dictatorship just before the economy collapses and destroys us.
But hey, at least some states will let you smoke weed as you fight off the raiders...
We've been on the path for decades. People have fought it, slowed it down, even sometimes held it back for a while. But now the edge of the hole is right there, and we are on a shrinking ledge.
I have the same concern. We will see when the next presidential election is supposed to occur whether our current president steps down or attempts to remain in office. I suspect that he will not willingly leave.
I am still working up my article on why so-called Age-Verification is about ending privacy on the Internet not about protecting children. If allowed to move at its current trajectory then even the Fediverse may become a part of the Internet Archive due to the fact that there is noway all us Independent Instances can afford to comply with UK, Brazil and New York, New York's Age verification requirements. The California and Colorado model does not effect us yet, but after they get legislation in place it is very easy for them to amend it to their own devices.
@Unus Nemo I believe that we only free future is for all services to operate exclusively peer to peer, with no servers to put in jail. Username is a UUID, or some kinda shared key, so the user is only identified if they choose to fill in profile info. Nostr's blockchain paradigm could work if they lost the servers...
It would likely require a UUID and a private/public key. The key to establish a secure connection and the UUID to identify the correct end point. The I2P protocol could likely be a bases to begin from.
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Gee. A company which stands to make billions from the resulting military contracts (and P.S. run by two foreigners) wants to tell us how to run our fucking country? FUCK. YOU. RIGHT. IN. THE. FACE.
Wow, this guy is lost in a surreal world of ideology. The idea that because we have had no World Wars for a nearly a century means we have lived in peace? So was I on a picnic in Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan? It did not seem real peaceful from my perspective. He neglects to mention the World Wars were not an issue until countries had the resources and technology to launch aggression at that level either, perhaps in his view that was not significant as he make a living selling technology for war. I have to admit that I did agree with some of his ideologies. Though overwhelming ignorance of human psychological development is prevalent throughout his tirade.
The fact that he subscribes to the idea that atomic weapons are a deterrent is a tell. In ancient days when a king saw a crossbow shoot a bolt through plate mail armor he proclaimed that this weapon was so devastating that it would surely end all wars. The same was stated at the demonstration of the atomic bomb. The problem with this ideology is that weapons are not designed to prevent war, they are designed to facilitate war. No weapon will ever bring about peace.
I forgot to mention that he also makes a huge error when associate our military as a volunteer service. No it is not, it is a career choice. When you put all the propaganda aside it is a job or a career that attracts its employees. When I enlisted if they had described my duties and then said "Oh, and it is a volunteer position, so you will not be paid". I would not have enlisted. The metrics most people use when choosing a military career is not serving their country it is the benefits. The same metrics we would use when applying for any job or career.
Their motto is deception.
in reply to Blaise • • •Deep Humor on YouTube is a great person to follow for weekly news on this issue. And as he often says, "just because it doesn't affect you now, so you don't care about the issue, the roll-out will be for complete internet ID verification."
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ID Verification Social Media is Here...
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