malikNF

Just saying, some of these sites don't have captcha or any kind of spam prevention implemented. Something something simple shell script feed them garbage data something.

> return to the expectation that there is an "IT guy in the family" to help set up phones and computers for others to use.

Definitely this. This is the only way to make-sure people around us are protected. If enough tech people do this, we will have a better tech ecosystem for all of us.

Atleast for me, I haven’t found an easy way to do it. Usually its about being the tech guy for them. I really dislike the “non techies are bad because they bother the techies for small issues” meme, surely you are not so busy as to not be able spend a hour on a loved one. Ever since a computer repair shop scammed my parents, doing tech support is something I enjoyed doing for people I know. Why know something if you cant share it with others? If something takes a considerable time to fix I will take the issue over to a shop that I trust and make-sure things are in order once its returned.

Whenever I fix something or install something I explain what I am doing, and why I am doing it, and I think at least in my experience years of helping my friends and family they at this point trust me when explain to them why something is important. Everyone values their privacy everyone gets concerned when they realize how creepy some companies are.

I have converted most of my family and friends to ff in the past month. I take my time and help them understand why the change is needed.

The biggest reason they were afraid to move was because they had stored years worth passwords and other setting on their browsers.

Take some time and help a few people out. If everyone convert a few people and explain why they need to and help them with their issues. We can do this.

Mr don't be evil has become too evil at this point.

Theres a tweet going around claiming that people are scanning the iris of poor villages and getting the “reward” for themselves.

https://twitter.com/BlockBeatsAsia/status/165906095074878259...

This whole project is creepy and disgusting.

Wouldn't the same arguments that are for hosting there going to be the reasons not to as well?

Wonder if prompt injection is going to steal the crown from sql injection.

Linus tech tips did an interesting video on this a while back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKqVvXTanzI

basically, its mostly bull.

Something new has indeed happened since the last 20 years.

From a company that used to deny this kind of allegations to being one of the largest violators of online privacy of billions of people, all in the span of just 20 years. I find it very interesting to see how companies change over time, and this is an interesting reminder of what facebook was and has now become.

I prefer the quote that goes

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

Ackchyually.... [1][2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_butterfly_breeding [2]https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/14/smallbusiness/butterfly-far...

Yes you can defend on your own. But it’s going to cost you a lot of resources.

In addition to a lot of clever tricks ddos protection comes down to a simple question. Who has more resources to keep going.

Remember when google was one of the “not evil” companies? When it comes to internet companies we have got burned so many times it’s good to keep a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to a company that potentially decides if you are able to survive on the internet.

At-least in my experience, OVH was the only hosting company where their network engineers spoke to me when we had a ddos problem.

Had a situation where one of my servers were getting ddosed we tried multiple providers both cloud and dedicated, but the attack was not getting stopped by anyone, the customer service was useless on most other places its either we get null routed, or hours of back and forth with customer service without any solution.

We moved our servers to OVH the customer service rep directed us to an engineer within a few minutes. I remember we had to send a few packet captures during an attack to one of their network engineers and, not only did they block the attack in a few hours, the engineer in charge explained exactly what happened was such a nice learning experience, that one interaction with them will always make me recommend them.

Linux

Until users understand their value. Companies will treat them like aholes.

If companies break your trust make them suffer. Leave. Find alternative or build them.

Any user who continues to use a platform and keep getting treated like a ahole deserves it. Look at recent netflix flip on password sharing, users rewarded them by giving them more subscriptions instead of leaving and finding alternatives.

Not sure which party has no shame, is it the users who continue to get treated like aholes by ms and continue to expect them to change or ms who continue to treat their users as aholes every chance they get.

Just leave their eco systems, reject their products until they treat their customers better.

"When I started, all I had was swamp! Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em! It sank into the swamp, so I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. I built a third one. It burned down, fell over, and then it sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up! And that's what you're going to get, lad--the strongest castle on these islands!"

I think your post needs to clarify this is true only if you use the ipfs client to access things hosted on ipfs.

Accessing ipfs.io/ipfs/ doesn’t do anything you mentioned. Its just a gateway.

You could take the link on the main submission. And replace ipfs.io with any (most, because some are offline) of the links here https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/

And it will still work.

Back home we had a bit of a vulgar song for the periodic table, as kids who were forced to memorize this, the song was much more entertaining and memorable.

Every few years we rediscover centralization even if they start off as open-source community driven yada yada and the eventually lead to walled gardens.

I love reddit but recently they are starting to make it harder to use their services. Eventually its going to turn in to a cesspool just like facebook. Something new is gonna come open to all we promise its always free and then repeat.

I understand how journals made sense during a time when distribution was a hard problem. Now with the internet I don’t get the reason for them to exist in the form it does in 2023.

Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say here.

If JIRA is the "most hated" brand and at the same time a very popular issue tracker, then "Alternative to JIRA" sounds like, "here's an alternative to the product you so hate" isn't it ? I mean why would I look for an alternative if I didn't hate the thing I am working with or thought it was not good enough?

Smells like a memory leak.

This exactly what I thought as well. Glad I am not the only one.

Lol hilarious how you had to use a throwaway account to say what you said. Shows somewhere in that skull of yours theres a part of you that knows what you said was not right.

> Please if you want to send me a message and feel compelled to use GPT, please just send me whatever you wrote in your prompt instead. I promise I will still read it!

Best bit of the article.

Question for someone who knows more about this stuff. How likely is it to get the same response to the same prompt with gpt ? Does it have some kind of random seed applied behind the scenes?

-edit- Thank you for the responses. TIL.

Thank you. Really appreciate it.

Sorry for being OT. But any chance you have a blog or any kind of material explaining your experience with your hobby, sounds very interesting.

Started making sourdough a few months back thanks to the bread code youtube channel [1](someone here actually recommended them)

He taught everything from creating your starter from just water and flour. And then goes in to so many little details that made my first sourdough bread actually something I was proud if. He’s a great teacher.

It’s really fun and you don’t need that much to get started.

[1]https://m.youtube.com/@the_bread_code