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xylogx@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall?English2·4 days agoYou can tunnel over SSL with stunnel. TCP latency can be brutal though.
From the chapter headings:
LibreWolf
Zen Browser
Mullvad Browser
Tor Browser
Vivaldi Browser
Ladybird
Orion Browser
Brave
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Andrej Karpathy endorses Apple IntelligenceEnglish1·6 days agoHe has some really good, in-depth youtube explainer videos on LLMs. That said this bit on Apple Intelligence does not seem to reflect what people are experiencing.
xylogx@lemmy.worldOPto pics@lemmy.world•Osprey getting into a disagreement with a Juvenile Bald EagleEnglish3·6 days agoThe Osprey had caught a fish and at this point he had already dropped it. In the end they flew off their separate ways and the fish was lost.
xylogx@lemmy.worldOPto pics@lemmy.world•Cape Henlopen. Come on in, the water is fine!English1·17 days agoFascinating! I just finished reading, “The City at the Center of the World” about the Dutch colonization of New Netherland. Do you know if this area was part of New Sweden?
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you ever cleanse your "read later" bookmarks list from your browser? If so, how often do you do it, and when is it usually?English3·22 days agoWhen I close all my tabs, i ask the question, was this hard to find? If for example I am looking for information on Tolstoy and the article I have open in my tab is the top hit when you search Tolstoy I will not bother bookmarking.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am?English11·27 days ago“You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”
Typically the GPL covers the source code. Compiled, packaged and branded binaries are sometimes licensed separately. This is how Red Hat works for example.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.English12·2 months agoGo read the FIDO threat model if you want to understand how it protects against specific attacks. It is pretty secure.
https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-v2.0-id-20180227/fido-security-ref-v2.0-id-20180227.html
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.English91·2 months agoIt is hard to do well which is why I worry. Google probably has the best overall account security, you could fo worse than modeling after them.
The short answer to your question is Passkeys. But you need a whole system of account recovery around them.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.English586·2 months agoI love Lemmy and Voyager and the Fediverse. That said, if it were to become mainstream I forsee some problems. The fact that the login relies on only passwords is pretty terrible. Also, this makes the service vulnerable to bots, sock puppet accounts, brigading, etc.
We have come so far through the application of rationality and the scientific method. All the wonders of the modern world we owe to science.
What has pseudoscience bought us? Ignorance and stagnation.
I want to live in a world of technological progress not a “Demon Haunted World.”
xylogx@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Whats the most downvoted comment/post on lemmy?English115·2 months agoAnytime I post about AI or LLMs I get aggressively downvoted.
I do not do it very often and when I do it usually a gee whiz, look at that post. Inevitably the response is AI slop!!! AI is bad, you are bad , you should feel bad.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What really separates a PC from a server? Mainly the hardware, but I guess software too.English6·2 months agoA PC can be a server. A server can be a PC.
Famously Google use commodity PC hardware to build the v1 version of its search engine:
Day of Defeat source players:
https://steamcharts.com/app/300#All
Its like being on an island that is slowly sinking into the sea.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on SteamEnglish2·2 months agoSource mod tools not to be confused with Sourcemod tools.
I can only speak for myself and my kids. I have an iPhone because my work gave me one for free. They only support iPhone for security reasons. Keeping Android devices up to date across a large fleet is challenging leaving security gaps. For my kids they wanted my old iPhones because it’s what all their friends have.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packagingEnglish1149·2 months agoI feel like OP missed an opportunity to title this post “Fedora Flatpaks Fall Flat”
Great article, BTW
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?English121·3 months agoThe answer to your question is zero yet at this he same time zero is not an answer to your question.
Especially if you are Tat.