Microsoft … the poster child for Linux migration

If it’s free, you’re the product.

I’m convinced. Time for a career change. Where’s the Forest Ranger jobs?

I think that unless you have some way to enforce accuracy, it’s meaningless and AFAIK automatic detection tools are no better than chance and to my knowledge, getting worse.

An AI bot operator isn’t going to tag their material as [AI], more likely than not they’d attempt to use [NOT AI].

I’d also point out that while lemmy doesn’t (yet) support hashtags, any “tagging” would probably benefit from using the existing method using a #tag.

Ultimately, you need to ask yourself, is undeclared AI that goes undetected by the community a problem, or the new “normal”?

I’ll note that I’m not a proponent of Assumed Intelligence and think that when the bubble bursts we’re going to be in a world of hurt, but with a little luck the billionaires will have lost their shirts in the process.

There’s nothing to host.

Create an iCal file and import it into your calendar application on your phone.

Which field day are we talking about? There’s amateur radio activity across the planet and events pretty much every day.

Unbreakable Encryption … so … Snake Oil then?

While this video is austensibly about Incogni, you’ll soon discover just how much it’s about VPNs and who owns them.

https://youtu.be/JFI1CfnDJxY

I think that this is symptomatic of a much larger issue at Mozilla, leadership, or rather, lack of leadership. AI, tracking, privacy, funding, the list of crazy coming from there appears to be just ballooning.

I see no evidence that they deal with actual bug reports, no evidence that they care about users and no clear path being forged, unless they want to enshitify their business, in which case, that appears to be going swimmingly.

… and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux …

Vent away!

Why are you telling us?

The link you shared is to Anubis, there’s no information on who changed from one instance to another or why., other than your comment about Cloudflare.

It’s been on my radar for a while and I’ve been looking around for alternative platforms for the obvious reasons.

I haven’t figured out how I’d deal with existing podcast episodes that refer to “my GitHub repository”. When I migrated away from Reddit, at least there weren’t specific references, but that’s not the case with GitHub.

So while I’ll admit that I am aware of my inertia, it’s not without cause.

Ideas and suggestions welcome.

We have a former raw onion eating Prime Minister who would call budgie smugglers the superior choice and wear them in public just to prove it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Abbott_onion_video

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/budgie-smuggler-abbott-unaustralian-of-year/rdeerx6kc

This is GOLD!

Source: Debian user for 25 years.

While reproducible builds are a good thing, for a bunch of reasons the whole stack is built on top of someone else’s microcode running on someone’s CPU, running someone’s BIOS, etc.

During an Linux Conf in Australia I attended a talk discussing the chain of trust and the point was made that when you buy something from a manufacturer, it is assumed that it comes to you unaltered, but the question is, how would you know?

In other words, you need to trust something somewhere and build on that.

If you’d like to see a working example of a backdoored compiler, because to compile something, you need to also trust your compiler, here’s a good discussion and show and tell:

https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM

https://xerbo.net/posts/investigating-transit-pt1/

I’ve seen way worse supplier fuckups happen in multiple other industries… Like?

Over the years I’ve seen people in high profile roles resign in protest, but I’ve never understood it. I still don’t.

Is the whole point to bring attention to an issue and then what, hope for the best?

Is it not being able to look at yourself in the mirror and resigning with extra steps?

Is it a public dummy spit?

How does resigning actually fix something, or is that not a consideration?

As I said, I don’t understand.

Anyone?