Em Adespoton

”They’ll avoid encounters and conflict with people as much as they can. And so we just need to do our part and respect that."

If only the same could be said about politicians.

This is why I run my own NextCloud instance that backs up locally and via offsite rotation.

Sure, I could still lose it all, but it would be 100% my own fault if I did.

“Peak” is rather optimistic….

LibreOffice is offline; each person can run the software in their own device to create and edit documents.

It’s features are equivalent to 2010 Office. That’s not necessarily bad, but it’s not how people usually work today.

Collabora lets you host documents on a central server and have multiple people edit at once, dynamically tracking changes and allowing full revision management. Or, you can keep your documents local and not host them if you don’t want to.

You’d think when they asked him for his ID and he showed them his badge and ID card, they’d realize they got the wrong person.

What this illustrates is that ICE does a horrible job of checking people’s identity. It took validation by multiple state officers to get him released.

Yes it is… but it actually allows for collab features that LibreOffice doesn’t have.

I wonder why they chose LibreOffice instead of Collabora?

The one I use is part of a hardware UTM, but I also use Lockdown VPN on iOS, and https://pi-hole.net/ in a container on my LAN, and then VPN all my devices to my home network when I’m not at home.

Depends on the browser/OS.

My go-to for general browsing is Firefox with uBlock Origin and NoScript, which I also use in Edge; I have a few browsers that are still using uMatrix, and I have a proxy filter that strips calls to .js URLs by default except for specifically allowed URLs.

This is why using a local web proxy is a good idea; it can standardize those responses (or randomize them) no matter what you’re actually using.

Personally, I keep JavaScript disabled by default specifically because of this, and turn on those features per-site. So if a website has a script that requires the accelerometer for what it does, that script gets to use it. Other sites keep asking for it? I suppress the requests on that site and if it fails to operate (throws one of those ad blocker or “you have JS disabled errors), I just stop going to the site.

I’ve found that with everything disabled by default, browsing the web is generally a pleasant experience… until it isn’t.

This of course requires using a JS management extension. What I’d really like to see is a browser that defaults to everything disabled, and if a site requests something, have the browser ask for permission to turn on the feature for that particular script, showing the URL for the script and describing what the code does that needs the permission. This seems like an obvious use for locally run AI models.

Did he find him at the Four Seasons?

Thing is though, headline means nothing; I used to run a landscaping business and work in retail back in college, so I’d probably fit that description too. All it means is the guy knows how to actually work.

Although at 22, there isn’t really enough passage of time for useful management experience.

Reminds me of Ozymandius.

Of those three, only “white” is one that can’t change in an instant.

And Trump seems to want to cover that one up.

“There’s a difference between “siding with” and refusing to endorse something.

This is like them saying “in not cutting their hands off, voters continue to side with Democrats.”

It’s highly possible that most of those voters also don’t want to funnel their money to the 1% via Democrat policy. Many probably detest having to make a binary choice between what’s in their worst interest and what’s just more of what got us where we are.

Same reason — most LLMs are 3-18 months outdated in their core models. That means from their perspective, “news” is all predictions about the future.

Thing is, privacy isn’t binary; it isn’t even a spectrum. It’s an amorphous 3-dimensional cloud.

Total privacy means that nobody else knows you even exist. Nobody wants total privacy, even if they think they do.

What most people want is for governments and corporations to not be able to track their day to day activity, malicious actors to not have access to their identity and financial data, and individuals to only have the information about them needed to connect and relate in society.

The first thing anyone needs to do is create their own privacy and threat models. Identify your personal risks within those models and adapt as needed.

For instance, using a cellphone of any type means you’re using a location tracker. Same goes for any vehicle with a built in cellular device. That information is available to specific corporations as well as government agencies and sometimes third parties with money.

Is it worth giving up that level of privacy to be connected to other people in most places you’d be likely to go? That’s up to the individual.

Same goes for libre software and hardware.

Well, also remember that the current model was likely trained before the data was scrubbed, so from it’s perspective, you are asking it to create a work of fiction.

Sued because the company didn’t factor in how the death of the CEO would affect earnings and share price.

What a depressing world we live in.

Based on current spending, it will most likely be spent getting drinkable water to the majority of the world’s population.

I don’t like how he got his money, but he’s been reasonably responsible with it since his divorce.

That said, he has over $113b dollars. If he gives away 99% of it, he’ll still have over a billion dollars.

Every time a narcissist attempts to make headlines, news agencies need to release one of these stories instead.