[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 3 weeks ago

LLMs are very good at giving what seems like the right answer for the context. Whatever "rationality" jailbreak you did on it is going to bias its answers just as much as any other prompt. If you put in a prompt that talks about the importance of rationality and not being personal, it's only natural that it would then respond that a personal tone is harmful to the user—you basically told it to believe that.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 month ago

A lot of people have suggested Tailscale and it's basically the perfect solution to all your requirements.

You keep saying you need ProtonVPN which means you can't use Tailscale, but Tailscale actually supports setting up an exit node which is what you need. Put Protonvpn on the Raspberry Pi, then set it up as an exit node for your tailnet. There's a lot of people talking about how they did this online. It looks like they even have native support for bypassing the manual setup if you use Mullvad.

As long as every client has the ability to use Tailscale (I.e. no weird TVs or anything) this seems like it checks all your boxes. And since everything is E2EE from Tailscale, TLS is redundant and you can just use HTTP.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Google destroys their own search engine by encouraging terrible SEO nonsense and then offers the solution in the form of these AI overviews, cutting results out of the picture entirely.

You search something on the Web nowadays half the results are written by AI anyway.

I don't really care about the "human element" or whatever, but AI is such a hype train right now. It's still early days for the tech, it still hallucinates a lot, and I fundamentally can't trust it—even if I trusted the people making it, which I don't.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Systemd does a lot of things that could probably be separate projects, but run0 is an example of something that benefits from being a part of systemd. It ties directly into the existing service manager to spawn new processes.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Technically the US annexed Canada in the Fallout universe, so you could have a Canadian Fallout and still be "in the US". Vault-Tec even started building vaults up there.

Probably won't do that, but it would be interesting. A potentially cool idea would be to set a game on the former Canadian border. Maybe then a DLC could be in Canada proper.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint, defeating a seemingly undefeatable enemy is even more heroic.

Also, a fight that you are not trying to win is not an honorable fight.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 year ago

Unless they're running LFS, I don't see the point. By the time the antivirus database is updated, surely an update will be available in the package repo?

The Linux ecosystem is built around package repos rather than manually installed software, so antivirus makes even less sense on Linux than it does on Windows. If there's malware it'll get removed from the repo as soon as it's detected.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 year ago

Incest doesn't inherently cause genetic disorders, it just increases your chance of being born with recessive genetic disorders. Most of those disorders are mutations, and if the Garden of Eden is so perfect there probably aren't genetic disorders to start out with, meaning incest is fine from a genetic perspective. All the genetic disorders would be mutations later down the line. Maybe they're punishment for the original sin or something, to fit it into the themes of the story.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The show is also about a space navy that has near total autonomy on the frontier, securing the interests of the Federation while inducting new worlds into its ranks, with our heroes being the Good Guys who are high ranking officers in the military who give orders and investigate conspiracies and hold life and death in their hands as they fly around their heavily-armed "totally not a warship" exploration vessels.

It's very Space America, and at times almost libertarian in its politics and non-interference. It's not even explicitly socialist, all we know is that they don't use money, except when they do. The writing is sort of fuzzy on the matter, which results (regardless of the intention) in an economy that doesn't actually seem that different to our modern day in practice. There's no money, but people still own businesses and talk about buying stuff, which allows for the economic system to fade into a sort of forgettable background space.

Besides, Star Trek isn't necessarily about a socialist future. It's about a post-scarcity future. I think that's a key difference. I've spoken to many conservative fans who say that they believe that capitalism is the only way that we can achieve a post-scarcity future, i.e. invent replicators. Because Trek isn't about a worker's revolution, it's about the slow progression of technology, followed by a nuclear war, and then at some point they just sort of got rid of money because it was obsolete. All we even know about it is from one-off lines.

There's a bunch of info on the economy of the Federation in this article on Ex Astris Scientia.

It makes me think of the Culture series, another sci-fi universe I'm fond of. It's even more leftist-coded than Star Trek, yet somehow Elon Musk is a fan of it and names his rockets after ships from the books. Apparently Jeff Bezos is a fan too. Ugh. And as a result, a lot of people's first introductions to the series is through these awful people, since it's a lot more niche than Trek.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What incentive would a bank have to release their apps as FOSS?

You probably could create an open source banking app and use it to run a bank on a primarily open source software stack. But banks are not software companies, and they have no reason to engage with the FOSS world. We could think up lots of potential reasons for why a bank might not want to release their apps as FOSS, but the simplest answer is "why would they?"

I'd love to live in a world where free software is the norm, but we're not in that world. So if the bank has no incentive to do it other than the comparatively niche interests of the FOSS community, they just won't do it.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 2 years ago

Yet they did remove other pedo instances from join-lemmy, so there's a good chance it'll get removed.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It looks like the instance has only existed for about a month, so it's not too surprising it hasn't been noticed before now.

They already removed pedo instances before, so they'll probably remove this one. They seem to draw a much harder line on pedophilia than politics.

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