Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
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0·5 days agoThe malware continuously monitors its access to GitHub (for exfiltration) and npm (for propagation). If an infected system loses access to both channels simultaneously, it triggers immediate data destruction on the compromised machine. On Windows, it attempts to delete all user files and overwrite disk sectors. On Unix systems, it uses shred to overwrite files before deletion, making recovery nearly impossible.
shredis intended to overwrite the actual on-disk contents by overwriting data in the file prior to unlinking the files. However,shredisn’t as effective on journalled filesystems, because writing in this fashion doesn’t overwrite the contents on-disk like this. Normally, ext3, ext4, and btrfs are journalled. Most people are not running ext2 in 2025, save maybe on their/bootpartition, if they have that as a separate partition.
26·6 days agoI don’t know what YouTube Rewinds are, but are these them? I seem to be able to view them.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTASUq6isfvyOXnYzM8Jgc28tET8PMc4
I’d also note that OP only created their account a day ago.
9·7 days agoI wonder how much exact duplication each process has?
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/mm/ksm.html
Kernel Samepage Merging
KSM is a memory-saving de-duplication feature, enabled by CONFIG_KSM=y, added to the Linux kernel in 2.6.32. See mm/ksm.c for its implementation, and http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/330589/
KSM was originally developed for use with KVM (where it was known as Kernel Shared Memory), to fit more virtual machines into physical memory, by sharing the data common between them. But it can be useful to any application which generates many instances of the same data.
The KSM daemon ksmd periodically scans those areas of user memory which have been registered with it, looking for pages of identical content which can be replaced by a single write-protected page (which is automatically copied if a process later wants to update its content). The amount of pages that KSM daemon scans in a single pass and the time between the passes are configured using sysfs interface
KSM only operates on those areas of address space which an application has advised to be likely candidates for merging, by using the madvise(2) system call:
int madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE)One imagines that one could maybe make a library interposer to induce use of that.
I mostly use terminal-based software on Linux.
I think that the only programs I use much that embed a web browser are:
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Firefox
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Steam
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Some games that are Web-based and which I only run one of at once (Neo Scavenger, some RPGMaker-based games, probably some others).
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I’ve also noticed that is you want a chest smaller than DDD, it’s almost impossible with some models — unless you specify that they are a gymnast.
That’s also another point of present generative AI image weakness — humans have an intuitive understanding of relative terms and can iterate on them.
So, it’s pretty easy for me to point at an image and ask a human artist to “make the character’s breasts larger” or “make the character’s breasts smaller”. A human artist can look at an image, form a mental model of the image, and produce a new image in their head relative to the existing one by using my relative terms “larger” and “smaller”. They can then go create that new image. Humans, with their sophisticated mental model of the world, are good at that.
But we haven’t trained an understanding of relative relationships into diffusion models today, and doing so would probably require a more sophisticated — maybe vastly more sophisticated — type of AI. “Larger” and “smaller” aren’t really usable as things stand today. Because breast size is something that people often want to muck with, people have trained models on a static list of danbooru tags for breast sizes, and models trained on those can use them as inputs, but even then, it’s a relatively-limited capability. And for most other properties of a character or thing, even that’s not available.
For models which support it, prompt term weighting can sometimes provide a very limited analog to this. Instead of saying “make the image less scary”, maybe I “decrease the weight of the token ‘scary’ by 0.1”. But that doesn’t work with all relationships, and the outcome isn’t always fantastic even then.
There are also things that present-day generative AI is not very good at in existing fields, and I’m not sure how easy it will be to address some of those. So, take the furry artist. It looks like she made a single digitally-painted portrait of a tiger in a suit, a character that she invented. That’s something that probably isn’t all that hard to do with present-day generative AI. But try using existing generative AI to create several different views of the same invented character, presented consistently, and that’s a weak point. That may require very deep and difficult changes on the technology front to try to address.
I don’t feel that a lot of this has been hashed out, partly because a lot of people, even in the fields, don’t have a great handle on what the weaknesses are and what might be viably remedied and how on the AI front. Would be interesting to try to do some competitions in various areas, see what a competent person in the field and someone competent in using generative AI could do. It’ll probably change over time, and techniques will evolve.
There are areas where generative AI for images has both surpassed what I expected and underperformed. I was pretty impressed with its ability to capture the elements of what creates a “mood”, say, and make an image sad or cheerful. I was very surprised at how effective current image generation models were, given their limited understanding of the world, at creating things “made out of ice”. But I was surprised at how hard it was to get any generative AI model I’ve tried to generate drawings containing crosshatching, which is something that plenty of human artists do just fine. Is it easy to address that? Maybe. I think I could give some pretty reasonable explanations as to why consistent characters are hard, but I don’t really feel like I could offer a convincing argument about why crosshatching is, don’t really understand why models do poorly with it, and thus, I’ve no idea how hard it might be to remedy that.
Some fantastic images are really easy to create with generative image AI. Some are surprisingly difficult. To name two things that I recall !imageai@sh.itjust.works regulars have run into over the past couple years, trying to create colored car treads (it looks like black treads are closely associated with the “tire” token) and trying to create centaurs (generative AI models want to do horses or people, not hybrids). The weaknesses may be easy to remedy or hard, but they won’t be the same weaknesses that humans have; these are things that are easy for a human. Ditto for strengths — it’s relatively-easy for generative AI to create extremely-detailed images (“maximalist” was a popular token that I recall seeing in many early prompts) or to replicate images of natural media that are very difficult or time-consuming to work in in the real world, and those are areas that aren’t easy for human artists.
A user configurable “hardware” privacy switch is a contradiction in itself. If it can be controlled by software it can’t do what the marketing claims 🤦
One reason to have hardware switches is because the manufacturer doesn’t want malware that has compromised the OS to be able to bypass it, and from this standpoint — which is a very legitimate position — then that’s very much a real objection.
But another reason is because people don’t want to rely on using an app on a touchscreen, but to have a convenient way to twiddle the thing without dicking around with the touchscreen, similar to why people complain about some modern cars lacking physical controls. Lets you flip it off in your pocket or whatnot. From that standpoint, it might be a reasonable design. That is, there it isn’t “I’m worried about the OS being compromised”, but “I just want a convenient way to kill access to software running at an application level to various sources of data”.
I do think that it’s important to make sure that consumers are not misled as to what guarantees the physical switch provides, though.
scavenging sources have dried up completely
Last I looked — which was, admittedly, a few days ago — Google Shopping still has some retailers that have stock and haven’t yet jacked their price up. Mostly dinky little companies.
searches
Never heard of these guys, can’t vouch for their reputability, but they have 2x32GB of DDR5 for $159.99 listed as being in stock.
The University of Virginia Bookstore — which I imagine is reputable — appears to be selling 2x32GB DDR5 for $245.95, and it looks like one can buy as a guest, so one presumably doesn’t need to be a University of Virginia student or staff.
https://www.uvabookstores.com/product/829320?quantity=1
EDIT: I would advise, though, that if you plan to get memory in the near future, that you’re probably better-off getting it ASAP, since I’m sure that there are going to be scalpers combing over all those small retailers before too long if they haven’t gotten to someone yet.
2·11 days agoI’ve never played it, but if it’s this game series, apparently at least “eFootball PES 2020”, which I assume is the next year release, is listed as working under Proton. There are some people saying that they had problems with desync with online multiplayer play; dunno if that affects you.
9·11 days agoGames on Steam with tags Dungeon Crawler, First-Person, and Grid-Based Movement sorted by user rating.
4chan’s position is that they aren’t doing business in the UK, which is why they’re disregarding the UK regulator’s fines. The UK regulator might be able to block them in the UK if the UK rolls out a Great Firewall of the UK, say, a la China, but probably not get the US to enforce rulings against them. And, I’d add, such a Great British Firewall is going to have limited impact unless the Brits also ban VPNs in the UK that don’t also do such blocking internal to the VPN and additionally block external VPNs, a la Russia.
In the same way, lemmy.today is doing business in the EU.
Very unlikely, in the eyes of the US court system. They have no EU physical presence, and aren’t advertising targeting EU people.
Facebook
Yeah, now they might be affected, but they’re in the EU.
EDIT: For context, last year, this happened:
Russia fines Google more than the world’s entire GDP
Russian courts can hand down whatever rulings they want, but they don’t really have an effect elsewhere unless other legal systems view them as having jurisdiction.
Iran has the death penalty for blasphemy. But the US isn’t going to enforce rulings on blasphemy unless it views Iran as having jurisdiction over the person posting said content.
Note that the issue only affects websites in the EU legal jurisdiction. From the US legal standpoint, that means doing business in the EU. The body text has the qualification, but the headline does not.
The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated content.
“in the entirety of the EU”
That’s kinda clickbaity. This isn’t going to apply to, say, lemmy.today.
There were still many flat surfaces in the world that did not yet have advertisements displayed on them.
Micron is one of the “Big Three” DRAM manufacturers.
Crucial is their “sell directly to consumers” brand.
https://netvaluator.com/en/top-10-ram-manufacturers-by-market-share/
Micron Technology stands as the third giant, with a market share close to 20%, or about 23 billion USD in DRAM revenue. Unlike Samsung and SK Hynix, Micron is headquartered in the United States, making it a critical supplier for Western markets. Its product portfolio covers both DRAM and NAND, giving it broader exposure to the memory industry.
The company’s consumer-facing Crucial brand is well recognized among PC builders and gamers worldwide. Micron also plays a vital role in supplying DRAM for servers and AI, competing directly in the HBM space. Its strategy focuses on quality, diversification, and maintaining a stable supply chain for North America and Europe. As the only American giant, Micron is strategically important in the geopolitical landscape of semiconductors.
2·12 days agoYou mean stick the Hubble on the dark side of the moon?
Space telescopes in general. Somewhere that isn’t LEO; I grabbed that as an example because I recall it being needed for…IIRC it was radiotelescopes, to avoid communications chatter. Might not be ideal for optical telescopes.
How about:
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Stick them somewhere out of the way, like the dark side of the Moon.
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Use multiple space telescopes and build a composite image.
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for example dell, hp and lenovo run a large business laptop leasing business if they do not get their ram, it will sour their relationships with memory manufacturers
Lenovo is stockpiling memory to try to make it through the RAM winter.
Lenovo stockpiles RAM as prices skyrocket, reportedly has enough inventory to last through 2026 — memory stock claimed to be 50% higher than usual to fight pricing shock
Lenovo is playing it smart and buying up as much memory inventory as it can
I don’t think that Lenovo is getting special deals with memory makers either, or they wouldn’t need to stockpile.
Instead of getting some proprietary media device glued to a display, you could just put Kodi or similar on an HTPC. Use whatever display device you want. That way, you decide what the device does.