By Laboured Go To Postthis was a wonderful read
By Lunatic Go To PostI'm about done with this Kali Linux/ as it seems to create random problems all the time. Ubuntu is better and now I've been trying Fedora. Been messing with an install of Fedora on an old Surface Pro 4 and it's been fun figuring out all of the intricacies. I really like Linux its just fucking fun as hell to tinker.yes, it is fun to tinker, but i also like having things just work. lol
because of that, i re-based my Fedora image from Sway to Bazzite /w KDE Plasma. I have had fewer annoyances and also have working HDR now but I miss the tiling window manager. I can probably cobble together something similar with the right settings. But that will take time that I would rather spend doing other things right now.
By Kibner Go To Postyes, it is fun to tinker, but i also like having things just work. lolYep that's what I got so tired of all the constant bull shit with these distros. After trying Ubuntu, Parrot, and Cent I have come to the conclusion after only 3 days that Fedora Workstation is fucking amazing. Really happy with this distro all of the system programs are well written and install with dnf/rpm always seem to run well. Highly recommend this linux distro to anyone. I haven't tried the KDE Plasma shell yet but I may install the it later.
because of that, i re-based my Fedora image from Sway to Bazzite /w KDE Plasma. I have had fewer annoyances and also have working HDR now but I miss the tiling window manager. I can probably cobble together something similar with the right settings. But that will take time that I would rather spend doing other things right now.
It's very simple: new feature is in a grayzone of legality and EU hasn't defined how Apple should enforce it. So they'd rather not release than be subject to billions of fines because they weren't able to predict the whims of a regulatory body.
Remember that they setup quantifiers for the designation of being a "gatekeeper" under the DMA, found out that iPad OS doesn't qualify, then later designated it anyway because "it's important".
By diehard Go To PostRemember that they setup quantifiers for the designation of being a "gatekeeper" under the DMA, found out that iPad OS doesn't qualify, then later designated it anyway because "it's important".It's all extremely arbitrary.
They're also doing all of this in benefit of the likes of Spotify... who actually hold a monopoly in their category but for some reason they're not regulated as such because they're a European company
I would like to take a second to thank the EU.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/25/microsoft-facing-huge-antitrust-fine-over-linking-software
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/25/microsoft-facing-huge-antitrust-fine-over-linking-software
The forum says that this could also be used to share details about a product, like the best way to recycle it, when you use an NFC tap to pay.
I'm sure there's no possible way to abuse this.
However, the Multi-Purpose Tap vision the forum presents raises some privacy questions. The forum highlights how it also means you, the customer, no longer have to enter your details into a separate tablet next to a register to get your points. But it “could also be used to trigger specific, targeted marketing communications.” That’s less appealing.
Companies already do that with their loyalty program -- it's actually the most prominent usecase of a loyalty program. Even the 7-Eleven video I shared in random, the leadership said exactly that.
My company is also exploring a loyalty program and the subject of marketing and re-targeting is what constantly comes up!
My company is also exploring a loyalty program and the subject of marketing and re-targeting is what constantly comes up!
With the way generative AI is being done, costs will only go up until a “good enough” model is accomplished and then you wait for the parts that process that model to become more energy efficient to drive the costs back down.
By Pedja Go To PostI never had it work at a gas pump. In stores or self-checkout (they're all gone) it always worked fine.
People in here won't likely learn a ton from this video, but its still pretty entertaining and Drew is a good youtuber.
Has RCS gone live for iOS? I got a text yesterday from the assistant of a vet I do work with and it looked like this. I know for a fact she's on an iPhone.
By Pedja Go To PostThoughts & Prayers for reilo at this difficult and devastating newsGreen bubble hoes
By Laboured Go To PostClearly never player GoW 2018 on a launch PS4
Fuck TrueCharts. They arrogant assholes and now I can’t uninstall one of their apps for reasons unknown to me and it seems my only recourse is to delete my kubernetes pool and start over. Of course, TrueNAS doesn’t appear to have a way for me to export the configuration of my apps, so I am manually copying them to a text editor and will have to manually paste them back after I recreate the pool.
Someone in a discord i ranted in asked me what is TrueCharts. So, here is a summary of that and the situation which is making me want to uninstall everything from TrueCharts:
TrueNAS has it's own app repository. Think Apple App Store or Microsoft Store, but only populated by apps TrueNAS creates. TrueCharts is a third-party app repository for TrueNAS and other systems and has more contributors.
TrueNAS currently has all their apps as kubernetes apps. They announced a month or two ago that they will be removing built-in kubernetes support and instead using Docker images. As a result, the existing kubernetes apps provided by TrueNAS and TrueCharts will no longer work by default after that TrueNAS update that brings Docker. For their part, TrueNAS said they are porting all of their apps to Docker apps and the migration will be transparent to the user when they upgrade.
TrueCharts, however, said fuck you. They will not port any of their apps. They will not provide migration help from kubernetes to docker. They will only provide migration help from docker to kubernetes. Also, if you ever ask for help in the TrueCharts discord or anywhere else, they are just like the arrogant jerk linux/open-source meme joke characters you find people making fun of online.
TrueNAS has it's own app repository. Think Apple App Store or Microsoft Store, but only populated by apps TrueNAS creates. TrueCharts is a third-party app repository for TrueNAS and other systems and has more contributors.
TrueNAS currently has all their apps as kubernetes apps. They announced a month or two ago that they will be removing built-in kubernetes support and instead using Docker images. As a result, the existing kubernetes apps provided by TrueNAS and TrueCharts will no longer work by default after that TrueNAS update that brings Docker. For their part, TrueNAS said they are porting all of their apps to Docker apps and the migration will be transparent to the user when they upgrade.
TrueCharts, however, said fuck you. They will not port any of their apps. They will not provide migration help from kubernetes to docker. They will only provide migration help from docker to kubernetes. Also, if you ever ask for help in the TrueCharts discord or anywhere else, they are just like the arrogant jerk linux/open-source meme joke characters you find people making fun of online.
This incident was highly unusual. A few months before the Markle story was published, Tribune Publishing, the company that owned the Tribune, acquired a majority stake in BestReviews. The relationship between the Tribune and BestReviews was courteous. BestReviews staff published their work on a separate site and also republished work on chicagotribune.com, a fairly standard syndication deal with no issues until this point. The Markle article was in contrast with established protocol: BestReviews shouldn’t have pushed new types of content to the Tribune site without discussing it with staff at the paper. After the article was published, top executives at Tribune Publishing called up and questioned BestReviews leadership, multiple people who worked at the companies, said.
Tribune staff were confused by what had happened, but it was explained to them as a fluke. After the article was pulled, boundaries and standards were reiterated to Ben Faw, a cofounder of BestReviews, and staff moved on — it was an odd incident in an era of far bigger scandals at Tribune Publishing.
Unbeknownst to most, though, the article was, in fact, a piece of marketing content promoting a shopping startup founded by one of Faw’s friends, according to a person familiar with the situation. Faw did not dispute this when The Verge asked about the story.
Fast-forward to today, and a different media scandal has roiled the publishing industry for the last year and a half: the frenzied proliferation of web content generated by artificial intelligence tools.
Online marketers focused on Google Search traffic live and die by “reputation” — being seen as a reliable, trustworthy publisher in the eyes of Google leads to better placement in search results, which, in turn, leads to more clicks, more sales, and more eyeballs.
One of the signals Google uses to assess the reputation of a site is backlinks, or how often other trustworthy websites link to a site. The idea is that publications are legitimized by how many others cite them. The bigger the website, the more authority it bestows on links, at least in the world of SEO, where links are like currency: marketers inundate reporters with pitches, hoping to get mentions and links in stories. The shadier SEO specialists buy, sell, and trade links, a practice that Google prohibits.
In mid-2019, BestReviews staff began to notice that unfamiliar backlinks had been placed in content that was already live on the outlet’s website, bestreviews.com. The hyperlinks were numerous and largely unrelated to the articles they appeared on. They led to other blogs about pets and lawn care, OB-GYN practices in Ohio, and beauty product companies, according to documents reviewed by The Verge.
After both the USA Today / Gannett and Sports Illustrated debacles, AdVon denied claims that the product reviews were AI-generated. But when pressed by Futurism about documents that showed AdVon staff using AI, the company backtracked, saying automated tools were in use at least for some publishing partners. Still, many of the outlets cut ties with AdVon due to the quality of the work, Futurism reported.
But a former AdVon employee told The Verge that the content that AdVon says is created by humans is nearly identical to the AI-generated content they created while working there. Freelancers who were initially hired as writers were reassigned to roles of editors and tasked with making AI-generated writing sound human. The tool AdVon used — called MEL internally — generated hundreds of words on products using bare-bones prompts like “best televisions,” spitting out links to product pages on Amazon.
In one webinar posted to YouTube, a SellerRocket employee explains to prospective clients how the company can get their products featured in news articles and reviews. They pull up a Sports Illustrated review of ab rollers — authored by “Damon Ward,” one of the fake AI authors created by AdVon — saying the magazine is a “publisher we work with.”https://www.theverge.com/24195879/advon-commerce-ai-sports-illustrated-gannett-product-reviews-spam-seo
They then show that the best ab roller article is ranking highly on Google Search.
Live look at Google's SEO engine when these articles appear:
By reilo Go To Posthttps://www.theverge.com/24195879/advon-commerce-ai-sports-illustrated-gannett-product-reviews-spam-seoI’m dangerously close to setting up my own searxng instance to mitigate some of the fuckery caused by seo abuse.
Live look at Google's SEO engine when these articles appear:
Lmao copilot is now a mandatory update on Windows 10: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-10-gets-copilot-as-part-of-mandatory-update
By RAThasReturned Go To PostWindows Key + C brings up that copilot shit.still not as embarrassing as Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Windows + L
By diehard Go To Poststill not as embarrassing as Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Windows + LOh god
By Pedja Go To Postzabo, Formlabs bought Micronics. RIP affordable SLS printingHa, I was just reading through the comments of their incredibly tone deaf YT announcement video. Pure, unadulterated vitriol. Formlabs is either going to come out with a 10-15k 'affordable' version or more likely kill the project. Competition stifled in the cradle, mission accomplished.
The two Micronics guys had a lot going with the project, but they were clearly over their heads and not at all ready to go mass market with it. They definitely needed a business partner and major investor, they chose to take the bag and an easy out instead. Rip.
SLS4All is all that's left, until a chinese company figures it out. Creality pls.
By Pedja Go To PostNot sure I want Creality QC when dealing with Nylon powderWhat consumer SLS needs is a Voron-style open source effort, maybe in combination with the likes of Bigtreetech and LDO for the manufacturing of custom / specialized parts that can't be sourced directly from hardware stores. We're clearly not there yet, but I think it'll happen eventually.
YOU HAD ONE JOB
And this is literally two weeks after they sent me an email telling me my plan is going up $10/mo.
lmao I'm an idiot
I converted my user account from administrator to standard and ended up locking myself out of being able to elevate anything because 1) that removed me from the sudoers list and 2) I installed the system with a locked root account so there is no normal way for me to fix it. Gonna have to load these instructions up on another machine and follow them to fix my stupidity: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/reset-root-password/
I converted my user account from administrator to standard and ended up locking myself out of being able to elevate anything because 1) that removed me from the sudoers list and 2) I installed the system with a locked root account so there is no normal way for me to fix it. Gonna have to load these instructions up on another machine and follow them to fix my stupidity: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/reset-root-password/
By reilo Go To PostIt's nice of you to "accidentally" do that to make diehard feel good about himself. You're so kind.Well, in an effort to make diehard feel even better about himself...
I got things figured out and working again, but not before breaking more stuff, first! It turns out the instructions I linked earlier (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/reset-root-password/) will absolutely hose the deployment you run it on for Fedora Atomic. Thankfully, there was a backup deployment that I could run the actual, working commands on! https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/troubleshooting/#_resetting_passwords_in_rescue_mode
The main difference being that you need to mount SELinux and sync the changes.
# mount -t selinuxfs selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux
# /sbin/load_policy
# passwd
# sync
# /sbin/reboot -ff
I ran those commands to reset my root password. I then logged back in with my account, changed my user account back to Administrator by using the password from the steps above, and then ran "sudo passwd -l root" to lock the root account again. Problem solved and it only took an hour!