cyberpunk007

@cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca

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I'm really annoyed by how much Brave Search is pushing AI

I've been using Brave Search supplemented by Startpage for the past 2+ years. When I search for something, I want to get results for credible webpages, not a summary of unknown quality. I liked the previous AI inclusion because it was instant, didn't take up much space, and I could quickly navigate to the websites referenced in...

cyberpunk007 ,

I'm really annoyed how everyone is pushing AI. It's so far not as big a deal as they make it out to be.

cyberpunk007 ,

$1500? Unlikely. Probably 2,000 or 2,500 💀

cyberpunk007 ,

If years of using a case has taught me, once you get some sand or something in it, it will practically scratch itself.

cyberpunk007 ,

Does photoprism count?

https://www.photoprism.app/

cyberpunk007 ,

"new" concerns lol. There are so many of these articles with self driving cars crashing.

cyberpunk007 ,

Let's pretend it's 50/50 humans drive ng cars and self driving cars. The numbers would be a lot higher. It's not really a fair comparison.

cyberpunk007 ,

Been with them since they were wind mobile. I use my service all over Canada and in the USA. I have little to complain about and I don't pay much.

cyberpunk007 ,

Yeah, a while haha. They were separate from the big 3 and after one of them pissed me off I was done with the monopoly 🤣. They've only gotten better and better. Right now they even have the 35/mo plan with north America coverage.

cyberpunk007 ,

Ah, finally. Now we will stop talking about, hearing about, and shoving "AI" in everything and the next new thing will be "quantum internet enabled" things.

cyberpunk007 ,

If only snapshots and backups were a thing...

cyberpunk007 ,

It's a piece of cake. Some code along the lines of:

If ($user.modifyCommentRecentlyCount > 50){

Print "user is nuking comments"
$comment = $previousComment
}

Or some shit. It can be done quite easily, trust me.

cyberpunk007 ,

This is it exactly. Edits to use are "changed". To the back end it's just an iteration while the rest still exist.

cyberpunk007 ,

The words of every junior dev right before I have to spend a weekend undoing their crap.

There are so many ways this can be done that I think you are not thinking of. Say a user goes to "shreddit" (or some other similar app) their comments. They likely have thousands. On every comment edit, it's quite easy to check the last time the users edited one of their comments. All they need is some check like checking if the last 10 consecutive comments were edited in hours or milliseconds/seconds. After that, reddit could easily just tell the user it's editing their comments but it's not. Like a shadowban kind of method. Another way would be at the data structure level. We don't know what their databases and hardware are like, but I can speculate. What if each user edited comment is not an update query on a database, but an add/insert. Then all you need to do is update the live comments where the date is before the malicious date where the username=$username. Not to mention when you start talking Nimble storage and stuff like that, the storage is extremely quick to respond. Hell I would wager it didn't even hit storage yet, probably still on some all flash cache or in memory. Another way could be at the filesystem level. Ever heard of zfs? What if each user had their own dataset or something, it's extremely easy and quick to roll back a snapshot, or to clone the previous snapshot. There are so many ways.

At the end of the day a user is triggering this action, so we don't necessarily need to parse "billions" of records. Just the records for a single user.

cyberpunk007 ,

How do you do that? Do you narrow it down to a timeframe?

When a user edits a comment, they submit a response. When they submit a response, they trigger an action. An action can do validation steps and call methods, just like I said above, for example. When the edit action is triggered, check the timestamp against the previously edited comment's timestamp. If the previous - or previous 5 are less than a given timeframe, flag it. "Shadowban" the user. Make it look like they've updated their comments to them, but in reality they're the same.

We've had detection methods for this sort of thing for a long time. Thing about how spam filtering works. If you're using some tool to scramble your data, they likely have patterns. To think reddit doesn't have some means to protect itself against this is naive. It's their whole business. All these user submitted comments are worth money.

Now you need to parse billions upon billions upon billions of records. And yes, it’s billions because you need the system to search through all the records to know which record fits the parameters. And you need to do that across multiple backups for each deleted profile/comment.

This makes me thing you don't understand my meaning. I think you're talking about one day reddit decides to search for an restore obfuscated and deleted comments. Yes, that would be a large undertaking. This is not what I'm suggesting at all. Stop it while it's happening, not later. Patterns and trends can easily identify when a user is doing something like shreddit or the like, then the code can act on it.

It’s a lot of work. And what’s the payoff? A few good comments and a ton of “yes this ^” comments.

this

cyberpunk007 ,

But ads do not, so don't worry!

cyberpunk007 ,

Don't they normally last 7 years? Or does it depend on the seat?

cyberpunk007 ,

Fucking loser

cyberpunk007 ,

According to gpt-4o:

The distinction between "greater" and "metro" areas can vary, but generally:

  1. Greater Area: Refers to a broader region that encompasses a primary city and its surrounding suburbs, towns, and rural areas. This term emphasizes the inclusion of all areas that are socially and economically linked to the primary city. For example, "Greater London" includes not only the city of London but also its surrounding boroughs and smaller towns.

  2. Metropolitan (Metro) Area: Focuses more on the urban core and its directly connected suburbs and cities. It typically includes the main city and its high-density surrounding areas that share infrastructure, economy, and services. A metropolitan area is often defined by commuting patterns and economic interdependence. For example, the "New York Metropolitan Area" includes New York City and its densely populated surrounding counties in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.

While both terms describe regions that extend beyond a single city, "greater" is often more expansive and includes more diverse types of areas, whereas "metro" emphasizes the contiguous urban and suburban zones directly tied to the city.

cyberpunk007 ,

What you mean, you people?!

cyberpunk007 ,

Yo dog, we stuffed AI in your AI so you can use AI while you use "AI"

cyberpunk007 ,

Where I live the picture sure felt to scale. I swear I almost melted.

As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?

As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion....

cyberpunk007 ,

My dude, I'm the same as you and I just keep radioing shit on Spotify and shazaming shit I hear and doing the same for TV shows and movies and tapping into the Spotify premade playlists from time to time. Works aight enough.

cyberpunk007 ,

In juniper networking hardware. And many others. If you have the capability to create what's missing (drivers etc) it will work well. If you do not, well, there's shit tons of drivers for Linux.

What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)?

I am currently using an old laptop (circa 2015) with a 250GB SSD in it, and 4GB of RAM. It runs Fedora 39 Server, and only hosts a Jellyfin instance through Docker right now (though I want to use Nextcloud later too). There is only 15GB of storage left on it, and the CPU is constantly overloaded (due to forced transcoding). I...

cyberpunk007 ,

Truenas core/scale, custom built (easy) but the disks will be the main costs.. I think ik 2015 mine cost me 450$. Disks were 1200 :/

cyberpunk007 ,

Here we go. It begins. Later than I expected, tbh, but here it is.

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again ( www.techspot.com )

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...

cyberpunk007 ,

Burnout paradise city. Which also was one of my fav games of all time. No ads would be cool.

cyberpunk007 ,

When I start editing in Davinci Resolve....well, that's why I went from 32 to 64 a few years ago.

cyberpunk007 ,

My exact choices. I want to love the open source phone options but... Corporations have embraced android and iPhone. I worry about road blocks with things like duo and apps that don't permit install on rooted things etc.

cyberpunk007 ,

We will stop all the flights and yachts and cargo ships when it's too late. Don't worry.

cyberpunk007 ,

Recycling? You mean shipping garbage to China and throughout it all in land fills?

cyberpunk007 ,

What? What type of integration? I just wanna watch Plex and Netflix on there.

cyberpunk007 ,

Or just don't run any of that "smart" data collecting e-waste.

cyberpunk007 ,

you're right my comment was definitely placed in a community that would not receive it well lol. Did not realize it was this community. Did not realize it was self hosted 😓

cyberpunk007 ,

I'll admit I did not realize I was posting in the homassistant community and that that was what this was for 😓

cyberpunk007 ,

Well that is their motto after all. "be evil".

cyberpunk007 ,

Thanks for the coffee, icbc

cyberpunk007 ,

Ye ol "free" hyper-v as well. Would probably be the next one I consider in a corporate environment after VMware just blew it's brains out. Containers are great, I run kubernetes at one on truenas scale but obviously it's Linux containers which may have some implications if the idea is to move everything off VMware to containers. Like if there are windows vms.

cyberpunk007 ,

I'm not sure what you're talking about. That's how hyperv has always been deployed. Install Microsoft server, install hyperv role. It's a hypervisor. Does all the fancy things like clustering as well, through the fail over cluster manager where you can view all your hosts, move vms from host to host, configure your witnesses etc. It absolutely is a competitor in the esxi space, never had quite all the bells and whistles but it was good enough for most applications.

cyberpunk007 ,

Ok I'm not sure what your point is then. VMware clustering isn't free either.

cyberpunk007 ,

Correct, it's not really accurate to compare kubernetes to lxc. It's a container orchestration tool.

cyberpunk007 ,

I mean, they could just do what reddit does and restore from backup automatically lol

cyberpunk007 ,

This is fucking priceless

cyberpunk007 ,

What about a drink or six?

cyberpunk007 ,

You're right, that does add to the humour lol

Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds | Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results ( www.theguardian.com )

I'll note that 2.5°C of warming by 2100 is a significant improvement over the trajectory we were on a decade ago, even if still far from where we need to be

cyberpunk007 ,

Maybe the rich people will all get caught in hurricanes and their yachts will go down with them on them. Mother nature correcting course.

cyberpunk007 ,

I understand how drag works, I was more referring to what seemed to me as a comment on how increased height in vehicles has made fuel economy worse, when that is not exactly true. Yes it does decrease economy, especially if compared to the height of a car, but if we are referring to "used to", the newer taller vehicles are still more economical than their shorter older predecessors

cyberpunk007 ,

You miss my meaning. I'm not arguing that taller vehicles like a suburban are equivalent to a Nissan leaf.

cyberpunk007 ,

You're the one that mentioned now and what used to be.

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