I’ve been meaning to set up something similar. I really don’t feel like dealing with reliable delivery, but I also don’t want to give my plentiful incoming mail to someone just so I can send like 5 emails a year.

Just because AI doesn’t respect anything, and the people who run it are too stupid to realize that.

They’re perfectly capable of realizing it. How do you think it got built that way? They don’t respect anything, either.

If Tor became an even semi-popular way to maintain connection to ungated websites, I guarantee the relay count explodes.

The “are you affected?” section directly contradicts this. It outright states you must have password authentication enabled. Otherwise, SSH never gives you a chance to even attempt a password.

I don’t think Keepass does syncing. I just leave the database in my Nextcloud sync folder on my desktop, and I can always pull the latest version to my phone. It’d be a bit more annoying if I routinely added new entries from my phone since Android won’t let the NC app maintain bidirectional sync, but I pretty much always do it from my desktop, so the workflow is fine for me personally. If you do it on your phone, you can upload the changed version, but I think you’d have to do it manually, so not a great flow, but if it’s a rarity, not too big a deal to me.

Because Andy is the CEO, which means he gets to make a lot of the important decisions, not the people who don’t like him.

I disagree. In an age of such intensely pervasive spying, I think it’s only prudent to use encryption wherever possible. I think in the next decade or two, we’re going to start seeing the full implications of all the spying and data harvesting, especially with fascism rising in so many places. Just because your host and the country they operate in are trustworthy today doesn’t mean that can’t change and make your logs worth monitoring.

Guess I need to make sure I get my email server up before the next renewal. Since that was recent, hopefully way before next renewal.

I’m not sure I can win the war for deliverable self-hosted email, and I send almost no email ever anyway, so I’m considering setting up a server that accepts email directly but relays outgoing mail through a relay that’s actually trusted by email providers. Can anyone recommend good relays for that?

What’s the catch, why don’t we use those? I/O speed? Limited read/write cycles? I imagine it sucks if you need files on opposite ends of the tape.

Maybe not in popularity, but they’re perfectly fine OSs. Probably close to ten years ago now, I ran FreeBSD on my desktop, and I was gaming and everything. It was just as functional as Linux was at the time. Things may have changed since then, but from my experience, I doubt for the worse.

I stopped buying off eBay after I fell for a well made scam listing and they made it literally impossible to contact a human being so I had to file a charge back. Mind you, this was after they nuked the scammers account AFTER I paid for the order, so they knew they were scamming, didn’t reach out at all, and tried to make it impossible to do anything about it.

Fuck eBay. They know damn well they’ve got scammers, and more importantly, they’re perfectly happy to keep their cut after the scam is over. I’ll only buy off eBay as a last resort if I need it and can’t get it anywhere else.

Yeah, it looks interesting, but I couldn’t find any good info on a solid base pack of mods, and I don’t really want to spend a bunch of time trying to figure out how to make it good.

I haven’t heard anything like that. If so, hope we get a source.

Unfortunately, the 4th is pretty well destroyed at the border. And within 100 miles of the border.

Why not both. Require ID for algorithmic recommendations and then ban tying your ID to it.

If we could trust companies to not make the connection, maybe, but they 100% would.

I don’t know if it’s a good idea to tie our identities to the algorithms we train on our likes, dislikes, and personality. I’d rather it be mandated that ID can’t be attached to something like that.

You don’t blame the knife when people get stabbed, so why blame AI for code it generated on the developer’s behalf?

Because creating a knife doesn’t require a tens of MW data center that runs on gas turbines, making the surrounding area unlivable with noise pollution. It doesn’t require stealing knowledge from the entire world and then selling us our own knowledge back. It doesn’t help billionaires lay off tens of thousands of us.

can’t take people seriously, because most people pick and choose when it’s convenient to be moral and ethical.

So you’re using other people’s moral flexibility to justify your own rather than taking any sort of stance of your own, cool.

Same people who don’t like AI pollution are using cars and plastics in their daily lives and would absolutely flip out if someone would ask them to give it up for the environment.

Using cars as an example is a bit disingenuous since in the US, at least, huge swathes of the nation are simply not built for pedestrians; buying and maintaining a car is the hidden tax you pay to the auto industry instead of the government. There are plenty of places in the US where it is not safe to bike or walk. Some of us are pissed about it, but what are we supposed to do until infrastructure is massively reworked at exorbitant cost?

AI is just the current “trend” to hate and be moral about because not many people are depending on it yet in ther day to day life.

This is nothing more than an attempt to downplay the issue so you can ignore it.

I understand that people have concerns, but those concerns are only relevant if they come from a maintainer or repo owner point of view.

This just isn’t true. Whether I’m a developer or not, I have to deal with the security issues that come with running the code. I have to deal with the bugs that come from it. I have to decide if I’m willing to support practices I may consider unethical used to produce the software, especially if I’m considering donating to the project. I don’t need to be a topic expert to understand that AI code is prone to bugs and security vulnerabilities, nor do I need to be one to consider the massive ecological damage and copyright violation required to train the plagiarism machine.

However, to use AI to brainstorm, get suggestions, discuss architecture, learn with examples, and assist basically like someone else is sitting next to you while you code yourself… that is something completely different, and results in a completely different outcome.

Generally, people take the most issue with using it to actually generate code in any capacity. There are purists who might insist you not even touch AI, but I think most draw the line at including code or graphics not written by a human.

In the end, it depends on can the person at the steering wheel take full ownership and accountability of the code they produced, with or without AI.

If we presume ethically neutral tools, sure, but the massive damage to ecosystems and towns that comes with training, using, and powering AI are seen by many as outweighing the utility they’re able to provide.

Some people have serious ethical and quality concerns about AI usage in code in a way that’s just irrelevant to the OS and IDE used to code it.

Dual booting is definitely a good way to start. If you lack hard drive space or want to test out distros before picking one to settle on for a while, many are capable of booting off a live CD or flash drive without installation. You might not be able to settle in quite as well without installing, but for quick tests and comparisons, it can be handy, and it makes no change at all to your PC until you commit to installing it properly.