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Precisely, unless there is plausible deniability that a blob of data is indeed an encrypted file they can just hold you in jail until you comply. There are encryption schemes that provide plausible deniability, but implementing would probably not be trivial.

Just like in elections, you can vote with your wallet, too. They will never stop squeezing. Amazon Prime had a no-ads tier then just decided to put ads in it. Did they drop the price of prime? Hell no. They said, Hey that's a nice ad-free tier you had there, shame what happened. I can fix that for you for a mere $36 more a year. And consumers let that happen. That was when I went amazon-free and never looked back.

To be thorough, you should check your domain names for any characters that can be changed by a single bit flip. It probably will not look right as far as spelling, but the idea is that eventually something like a cosmic ray will pass through a memory chip and flip that single bit for a connection, and they get redirected to another site set up to handle the request. It's a thing. It takes patience, but but does work. People were doing this to fbcdn.com and other large targets years back.

I have no proof, but this just figures. It's entirely plausible that google gave some heavy-duty major dark money campaign donations and have used the return on their investment to avoid being broken up. Maybe I'm just cynical and the corporations and ultra-wealthy wouldn't really do anything like that all the time. They are ultra-greedy, though.

I run all my own stuff local-first, but I am also a systems and networking engineer and understand all of the concepts so I can build it properly. It takes time, and the willingness to do so. If you don't already have the knowledge to set things like this up, and are really doing it to save money as a consumer, then Google Photos as a product is more of a fit and the user will definitely have a better experience.

For someone like me, it's easy and quick and I have a very robust incremental backup system with air-gapped copies. So it does save me money, because it only takes my time and knowledge.

There is no absolute answer, because it's subjective depending on the needs of the user.

What scares me is AI running in a humanoid robot. Maybe it's time to listen to Isaac Asimov and implement the three laws of robotics. Maybe it's past time.

The government isn't big brother, they just let mega corps do all of the spying via "ads" and then just buy your data from a data broker to whom you let have all of your personal information for game on your phone that gives you a little dopamine hit.

We somehow let corporations just take the data that we all create every day and then sell it and make billions in profit.

I want that to change. I want to own any and all data I create interacting with anything anywhere, to be copyright by me, in an enforcable way. I should get paid for the data I generate. The problem is that as long as we, collectively, allow ads that spy on us in exchange for really nothing other than amusement and that pursuit of the next dopamine hit we get. I can't enforce agency and ownership of the data I create unless we, collecively, change the rules. We have the power to do that by voting for the candidates that speaks to the issues you care about. We also need to tell politicians what we want, because if we do not, nothing will change. I think the data we create should be automatically copyright of the person generating it, so I can make money from my data if I choose, or not to, if I don't.

Don't you want to own and make money from the data you create every single day?

The CEO of a company that spies on people, and now detects signals from your phone to connect the car to a driver, got scared and had Google blur his house. That is the height of hypocrisy. His home address is also public information, available from the City Clerks office for free. People won't need to find the exact address, just look for the only blurred house on his street. It's all utterly ridiculous. Clearly the citizens of the USA do not want flock in their communities so the CEO of the company isn't going to be popular, but he could fix that by removing flock from the communities that ban it.

Flock CEO should take a hint. If his product is being actively attacked and destroyed, he is lucky it's only the cameras. At least so far. One guy was already arrested, but the jury refused to convict him. If I were a juror on a case involving someone destroying a flock camera, there's no way I would vote to convict. The People just don't want this shit. Even the dems and gop agree this is uncool.

What a futile and stupid thing to do.

What a futile and stupid idea.

I only run local models and I don't give them access to much externally. I don't do anything serious with it, but it comes in handy and I know that they can do so much more. I'm on a meager RTX 3060 12GB and a GTX 1660 Ti with 6GB for some extra vram space. When I first started playing with local models, I was really impressed with what I was able to achieve locally.

That's great, but the thing that worries me is that many companies have billions invested in the AI bubble. It's around 1.5 trillion last time I looked. It's all circular spending between the companies building out the infrastructure, and the models. None of it is profitable. They will want to recoup that 1.5 trillion from consumers, which means using online-only pay-as-you-go cloud models. They will inevitably see that people using capable local AI are "lost customers" and they will try to kill the ability to locally host AI or somehow enshitify it enough to make paying a subscription more palatable.

I'm not saying I believe that will happen, I'm just worried that it will. Is anyone else worried about that as well?

People do not understand what the reality of large portions of land that are concentrated on the coasts are going to underwater sooner than anyone probably thinks. Exxon knew in the 70s, they wrote reports about it, that's all known and verifiable.

It's the lag effect, stupid.

The last time there was this much Co2 in the atmosphere, because most of the population lives near the coast, the place you are sitting and reading this will be underwater and on a timeline not of centuries, but decades.

We just have not seen the actual effects of the thresholds we have crossed yet. It's an inevitable runaway train. The surface of Venus, our virual twin, is about 867°F, because of runaway greenhouse heating due to a buildup of Co2. Just in case anyone forgets just how powerful of a greenhouse gas Co2 is.

I was referring specifically to the US Senate "convicting" chump, not a court. That can only happen if he is succuessfully prosecuted by the US House of Representatives.

I agree that the courts are not predictable in that way, and what I'm talking about will be based on which party controls the house and senate. If the dems win enough seats in both, it's entirely possible for him to be impeached in the house and convicted in the senate. We won't know what the makeup of the house and senate will be after the midterms, so that remains to be seen.

No citizen voted for Citizens United. So it's inaccurate to say that we did.

Citizens United was a decision by an unelected group of federal judges we call the Supreme Court when a case was brought before them to determine if chump could have Navy Seal Team 6 assinate a political opponent. They ruled, that yeah, he can. Supreme court justices are appointed for life and have no oversight or ethical restrictions.

They are bound by duty to be impartial. They are not.

The Supreme court is not supposed to MAKE law, that's the job of Congress, they are supposed to interpret the law. The Citizens United supreme court decision made new law, but it was made by people that were not elected by the citizens of this country. They are not acting in good faith, and are clearly in it to help chump.

Looks to me like it allows you to resources you wouldn't normally be able to use. CPU, RAM, GPU, VRAM, etc in order to run models that you normally would not be able to due to the models being larger than the amount of vram on the gpu.

I think that's the idea. It looks weird so I didn't spend much time really looking.

Maybe you are right, and it's a scapegoat here. CU was and continues to be a disaster for this country, and I don't think enough attention can be brought to it until it is mitigated.

One I belive has no intention of leaving office, and is trying to prevent the midterm elections from happening. Since the founding of the US, no elections have been delayed, or missed. Not once. Not during WWII, not after 9/11, never.

The failure that allowed trump to happen stems from one thing. Lack of imagination. The system in the US assumes that all of the politicians are at least attempting to argue in good faith. trump is more like a hurricane. he rolled in, fucked everthing up, and will roll out.

After November when the Democrat party has control of the upper and lower houses of congress, there are going to be investigations, grand jury indictments, and people will go to prison. They will also begin the work of closing some of the loopholes that were used to bypass how the government is supposed to operate.

The US is currently governed by a dictator propped up by an oligarchy that can only do that because of the Citizens United supreme court decision. Until Citizens United is mitigated, and that appears to be starting to happen as states make laws that state you can't be on the ballot in their state if you take large, anonymous campaign donations from people who will want, and get, a return on their investment. Hawaii is either considering, or has passed just such a law. We don't even need a plurality of states to make similar laws, just the right ones. Look at a chart of campaign spending prior to, and following the Citizens United decision. Spoiler alert, it looks like a hockey stick standing upright.

Trump knows a lot of dirt on a lot of very powerful people, and he likely has dementia. One thing about dementia is that it can cause people to say things they normally would not say. That's a huge risk to those that are afraid he's going to start blurting out these secrets. That makes him a liability to the kind of people that can make anyone worth more dead than alive.

This is obviously pure speculation on my part, but I think it's quite plausible.

These AI companies know by now that there is no real monetization path that will recoup the over 1 trillion dollars invested by these companies. There is a circular spending spree among large corporations paying each other massive amounts of money to try to make the promise of AI real. It's not. Is it neat? Yeah. Is it reliable? No.

Where the money is not coming from are consumers. There is no consumer market for AI that stands a chance of making these companies profitable.

It's a bubble. Just like the sub-prime mortgage loan debacle of 2008. It's going to burst. These companies are large enough that the government will declare them necessary, and will give a large portion of the taxes we pay to these companies to keep them afloat.

Ah yes, the government bailout, and the government will decide who pays the real price. And that will be me, and you and the rest of us that aren't rich.

These AI companies are aware of this, or they wouldn't take the gamble. So I would have to disagree and say that the government is and will be involved in how all of this plays out.

The US has it's mid-term elections this november, and it's possible, and even likely, that the Democratic candidates will win overwhealmingly. The Democrats are not a monolith, either, the Democratic Socialists of America political group is the very progressive part of the Democratic party, they are the ones that are not accepting dark money campaign donations. I do not agree with a lot of the unrealistic things that some DSA candidates have said, but those or the candidates that aren't winning the primaries. There is a giant blue tidal wave coming in November. Trump will become nothing more than a lame duck "president", and he'll likely be impeached in the House and convicted in the Senate and the Justice System will probably be the final arbiter of his fate. That's the way I see it. And I never believed I would be saying what I just said, but the fact is that since trump was elected, the democrats have flipped 31 (at last count) formorly Republican held seats, and the republicans have flipped exactly zero seats from democrat to republican. The American People are not their goverment, especially right now, even though that's not how it was meant to be, but I know one thing, they are fed up and enough is enough.

My comment might have been different if you had said "a software engineer requires a baseline of understanding of software engineering", but that is not what you said.

What you said is "It is because you're unlikely a software engineer and just a learn programming or went through a really bad university.".

Saying he is unlikely a software engineer seems to imply OP is not being truthful, or is outright lying.

I'll take you at your word that it was not your intention to be offensive. If I were communicating in a language that is not my native tongue, I would hope that someone would point out to me that I might be being misunderstood, too.

As far as the wording of the rules, you would have to complain to HN about that if you take issue with it.

not every time. there are people in jail/prison due to the times that the DOJ does not get laughed out of court. I think someone accused of being "antifa" got 100 years to make an example. I don't have the article to site, but shouldn't be hard to find.

Great, so instead of people cutting down flock camera aluminum poles, they will be shooting at flock drones. Not that I'm against that, but you, safety first.

I built something similar to the boxfan and 4 air filters when I'm doing woodworking, especially sanding. They work pretty well for that if you are on a budget.

This part: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

One way to tell whether an email has been opened or not is to include a 1x1 transparent pixel that is hosted on a server you control. If the email client the recipient is using automatically loads images, you will get a hit to your webserver for the transparent pixel. This only works if display of images is enabled, so it's not 100% reliable. Some email clients turn off automatic loading of any external content by default for privacy, but it still has value and will help you track opens.

Also, set up seed accounts on different email providers and subscribe them to all of your lists, this helps you get an idea for what other people are seeing when they get the emails. If it's going to a seed account at gmail, and getting sent to the spam folder, you can try tweaking the email and work around the issue with some A/B testing.

I've also been hosting all of my own infrastructure including email. I have only used small cheap VPSs and one thing I have learned is that the reputation of the IP address you are assigned may or may not have a history of delivering mail, and it's just luck if you get an IP that hasn't been blacklisted or known for SPAM in the past. I have put off migrating to a new hosting provider and actually just finished that task.

If you set up a new VPS for sendmail email, the first thing you should do is look up the IP address you have been assigned to assess it's reputation. If it's bad, you may be able to be assigned a new IP through some providers, but you can always just spin up a new VPS, check it's IP, and if it's clean, use it, otherwise drop the VPS, create a new one, and check the IP.

Another option is to buy your own CIDR range. The smallest subnet you can buy is a /24, but your addresses will be portable between ISPs giving you complete control over your IP reputation, and the ability to warm up IPs for sending when an existing IP you are sending from starts to get a negative reputation.

Always make sure you set your rDNS or PTR record to match the A record for the mail server's FQDN.

Set up opendkim, opendmarc, and policy-spf or equivalent, make sure your DNS is all aligned properly, and set your DMARC policy to enforce. You can start off enforcing on a small percentage of outgoing email, and if that looks good, set to reject 100% of DMARC failures.

My stack is postfix and dovecot with opendkim, opendmarc, policy-spf, with postgres to hold domains, mailboxes, aliases, etc and some simple scripts to get postfix and dovecot to use the postgres db. I used postgres for reasons not directly related to sending email, so the same thing can be accomplished using something like SQLite or even flat text files. I ended up writing a perl program years ago to manage the whole stack from a single cli command.

I'm not suggesting my stack is anything special. I use the daemons I use because I have been using them for years and understand them very well. If you want something more than just a TUI, there are a lot of options. I still use spamassassin, but I know there are newer alternatives.

The main driver behind how I chose the stack I use is knowing exactly how every part of it works.

Running your own email server without understanding how all of it works is what people mean when they say that you should not host your own email server. It's not enough to copy/paste from a tutorial, because you will run into issues in which something isn't working right, but since you just copy/pasted you have no idea how to fix it.

I worked for an online publishing company that sent a mixture of quality content to double-opt-in subscribers and transactional emails, and moving traffic around on your IPs if you have more than one to maintain reputation. We sent over 500 million emails a month using a combination of self-hosting our MTAs, and also using ESPs in some scenarios in which even the best IP/domain reputation practices aren't enough to get inboxed. Always set up feedback loops and maintain your lists if you are sending newsletters. Set google postmaster tools.

One of the reasons I run my own mail server is that I create aliases any time I sign up for an account on a website that are unique to that site. github@example.com would be an alias that forwards to an actual mailbox that is unknown to the rest of the world. This way I can tell who has sold my email address, or had their mailing list compromised, and I can simply remove the alias to stop any spam going to the real inbox. Doing that can reveal some pretty interesting things about how your information is bought and sold by data brokers.

Thanks for the response. I see it pretty much the same way.