sugar_in_your_tea

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Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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sugar_in_your_tea ,

The hot wax was gone from the chain in under 200 miles.

Wow, that makes it functionally useless imo. My current approach is really simple:

  1. Clean chain with a cleaning tool - 1-2 min
  2. Rinse and dry with a paper towel - 30s
  3. Add oil lube and dry with a towel - 30s

I do that whenever I remember (and check the chain stretch), and it seems to work pretty well. I keep a bottle of Simple Green for cleaner and dilute ~50/50, then lube with whatever my LBS sells. It seems to do a pretty good job...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, that could lead to pre-mature flaking of the wax. But the question is, is it closer to 200 miles, or the average time most people do between lubes (I do the shorter of 500 miles, every season, or if I went on a nasty wet ride).

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Idk, it probably depends on where you ride. I mostly ride on dry bike paths, and I always store my bike inside. If I were riding on wet roads/muddy paths, I'd probably lube more often.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I just played Pony Island last night, and I might go through and get the tickets, we'll see.

I also installed a few games as well, so I'll probably play a couple of them:

  • Hell Pie
  • Yakuza 3
  • Lair of the Clockwork God
  • Euro Truck Simulator

And then I have a few that I'm partially done with that might get some attention. I'm taking next week off for a family trip, so I don't have to be as responsible about getting to bed at a reasonable time this weekend. :)

If I can work through enough of them, I'll allow myself to buy some more this Steam sale. I have way too many games, so I'm trying to finish (with a loose definition for finish) more than I buy. So far I haven't bought many at all this year (maybe 2?).

Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads | Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google." ( arstechnica.com )

Mac malware that steals passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data has been spotted circulating through Google ads, making it at least the second time in as many months the widely used ad platform has been abused to infect web surfers....

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Consider PiHole as a whole home network first line of defense.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Let me know if it works and I'll follow. I don't need quality, I just need something for my kids to watch occasionally.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

By quality I meant resolution, I don't need 4k, but I do need specific shows my wife and kids like.

I have a NAS set up with some movies and whatnot, so I've talked to my wife about setting up a budget to purchase content we want and then cancelling our streaming services. So we'd be limited to what's available on DVD/Blu-Ray, but most of what my wife and kids watch are still available there.

The cost isn't the issue, I really hate ads and I'm worried ad-free tiers will go away (or become unreasonably expensive).

sugar_in_your_tea ,

It got so bad that my wishlist was broken. I could feel the pain through the Internet as others threw money at Valve.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

If you have been claiming games on EGS, it was free there are some point.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I just played through Pony Island and really enjoyed it. It doesn't have much replayability, but it's a unique experience that I think most will enjoy. If you like Doki Doki Literature Club, Undertale or Inscryption (last is the same dev), you'll like this.

I'm going to be picking up The Hex because I've liked the dev's other two games.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And this is why I hate those laws that are intended to protect kids. Yeah, it would be nice if kids couldn't see stuff they shouldn't, but it's even better if my PII isn't stolen. I'd rather my kids accidentally see porn once in a while than for their identity to be stolen.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm guessing furries.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Looks like I'll need to set up pihole then. Thanks for the info!

sugar_in_your_tea ,

It certainly can. Most licences require derivative works to be under the same or similar licence, and an AI based on FOSS would likely not respect those terms. It's the same issue as AI training on music, images, and text, it's a likely violation of copyright and thus a violation of open source licensing terms.

Training on it is probably fine, but generating code from the model is likely a whole host of licence violations.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

code generated by an AI is arguably not a “substantial portion” of the software

How do you verify that though?

And does the model need to include all of the licenses? Surely the "all copies or substantial portions" would apply to LLMs, since they literally include the source in the model as a derivative work. That's fine if it's for personal use (fair use laws apply), but if you're going to distribute it (e.g. as a centralized LLM), then you need to be very careful about how licenses are used, applied, and distributed.

So I absolutely do believe that building a broadly used model is a violation of copyright, and that's true whether it's under an open source license or not.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And how will you know what original work(s) to compare it to?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm not going to be monitoring Chinese code projects. They don't seem to care much about copyright, so they'll probably just yoink the code into proprietary projects and not care about the licenses.

What am I going to do, sue someone in China? And decompile everything that comes from China to check if my code was likely in it? That's ridiculous. If it's domestic, I probably have a chance, but not if it's in another country, and especially not one like China that doesn't seem to care about copyright.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

IP Man. Great movies.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I complain all the time. But that's not the subject of this post...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That depends on how similar your resulting algorithm is to the sources you were "inspired" by. You're probably fine if you're not copying verbatim and your code just ends up looking similar because that's how solutions are generally structured, but there absolutely are limits there.

If you're trying to rewrite something into another license, you'll need to be a lot more careful.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I disagree that it needs to be explicit. The current law is the fair use doctrine, which generally has more to do with the intended use than specific amounts of the text/media. The point is that humans should know where that limit is and when they've crossed it, with motive being a huge part of it.

I think machines and algorithms should have to abide by a much narrower understanding of "fair use" because they don't have motive or the ability to Intuit when they've crossed the line. So scraping copyrighted works to produce an LLM should probably generally be illegal, imo.

That said, our current copyright system is busted and desperately needs reform. We should be limiting copyright to 14 years (as in the original copyright act of 1790), with an option to explicitly extend for another 14 years. That way LLMs can scrape comment published >28 years ago with no concerns, and most content produced >14 years (esp. forums and social media where copyright extension is incredibly unlikely). That would be reasonable IMO and sidestep most of the issues people have with LLMs.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

What we are talking about is the act of reading and/or learning and then using that information in order to synthesize new material.

Sure, but that's not what LLMs are doing. They're breaking down works to reproduce portions of it in answers. Learning is about concepts, LLMs don't understand concepts, they just compare inputs with training data to provide synthesized answers.

The process a human goes through is distinctly different from the process current AI goes through. The process an AI goes through is closer to a journalist copy-pasting quotations into their article, which falls under fair use. The difference is that AI will synthesize quotations from multiple (many) sources, whereas a journalist will generally just do one at a time, but it's still the same process.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Let's hope for an extremely long and expensive legal process where the RIAA gets an initial injunction against OpenAI while the case plays out.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

If price is main concern, you still have options, but you'll need to be a lot more specific about what you need. For example:

  • direct Drive replacements - OneDrive and Amazon Drive
  • just file storage - DropBox, and MEGA
  • backups - NordLocker, Backblaze
  • hosted and self-hosted cloud platforms - OwnCloud and NextCloud, use Backblaze B2 for storage

I'm doing the last one. I have NextCloud installed on my custom NAS (just openSUSE Leap with some drives) and am working on configuring B2 as a backup service. It's more expensive than Drive, but it's also more versatile (streams movies to TV, use as Linux package cache for faster upgrades, etc).

Each of these are similar in price to Google Drive, but with a different feature set. Some are cheaper.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Through search. They make a ton with ads on the search page, sponsored links, etc.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

My company's goal seems to be to get themselves more dependent on AWS. They're always talking about which things we can replace with AWS offerings.

I'm the exact opposite. I'm always looking for how to make the things I use more replaceable. That way if a company goes bad, I only need to replace a small part of my stuff.

If AWS goes bad, I'd feel really bad for out devOPs team...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

It's not bad if you subscribe to a handful of channels and only watch those. I use Grayjay, so I just turn off Rumble search and only see like 1-2 channels I've subbed to.

The issue seems to be that people who are not welcome on Youtube go to Rumble, and that's largely right wing commentators, crypto bros who crossed a line, etc.

The same is true for Odyssee, but a little less extreme since Rumble is the bigger and more obvious platform.

I personally don't care what alternative a creator uses, I just want to avoid Youtube.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

This source seems to indicate that's not the case:

  1. Google Search & Other (56.93%)

    2023 Total Google Search & Other Revenue: $175.04 billion
    This is revenue generated primarily from ads shown on Google’s search results pages and other search-related services.

  2. YouTube Ads (10.26%)

    2023 Total Youtube Ads Revenue: $31.51 billion
    This is revenue from ads shown on YouTube videos, including display ads, overlay ads, skippable video ads, and non-skippable video ads.

  3. Google Network (10.20%)

    2023 Total Google Network Revenue: $31.316 billion
    This is revenue from ads displayed on websites and apps that are part of Google’s ad network, beyond Google-owned properties.

  4. Google Other (11.26%)

    2023 Total Google Other Revenue: $34.68 billion
    This is revenue from Google’s other ventures and products, such as hardware (like Pixel phones and Nest devices), Play Store purchases, and other non-advertising sources.

  5. Google Cloud (10.75%)

    2023 Total Google Cloud Revenue: $33.08 billion
    This is revenue from Google’s cloud computing services, such as computing power, storage, and data analytics offered to businesses and developers.

So, 57% from search, and only 10% from ads on non-Google pages.

sugar_in_your_tea , (edited )

Here are options for to mount Backblaze B2 as a drive. It's $6/TB/month, and I think they allow <1TB, so for 300GB you'd pay ~$2/month. So I think they're pretty competitive, but I'm not familiar with Google Drive's terms. They're certainly in the same ballpark, if not cheaper, but it depends on your egress and Google Drive's policies around that (how much you download from their service).

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And that's exactly what that page discusses. It links three options you can try:

The first two are paid, the last is FOSS, and it claims each can mount Backblaze B2 as a Windows drive. I haven't tried any of them, so YMMV.

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks ( apnews.com )

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm in Utah with <1/10 the population and see them fairly frequently.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Same, but with 10 ish. I even had a Saturn with fewer problems, and those were notorious for issues.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Set time limits.

There are apps that block opening apps longer than some amount of time. I used that to reduce my Reddit usage to a healthy level before I eventually bailed on it. Or you can use the simpler strategy of setting an alarm for yourself (e.g. if you want to play an hour, set an hour timer when you play).

If you find you're consistently going over your time limit for a given thing, stop using it and replace it with something that you have a healthier relationship with. At a certain level, it's an addiction, so cut out what you're addicted to and replace it with something else that's interesting. For example, if you like shooters but Splatoon is sucking too much of your time, maybe play Metro, Superhot, or Wolfenstein, each of those is SP only and has a clear ending, so you're unlikely to get addicted to it.

I switched largely to SP games, and now I'm much happier and have a healthier relationship to games. The same is true for other things I used to spend way too much time on.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

The built-in Digital Wellbeing & Parental controls works. I have it on my Android 11 device, haven't tested on anything newer (it's not on my Graphene OS device based on the most recent Android though).

Settings > Digital Wellbeing & Parental controls > Dashboard > click the timer icon next to an app and set a limit

If you want something outside of the Google ecosystem (e.g. you're running GrapheneOS), the following should work (untested):

There are probably others, that was just a cursory check.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, why do you think you can put bumps on my nice, flat screen. Entitles pieces of crap... :)

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Exactly. A plug-in architecture is a feature, and it's really hard to secure. Instead of going that route, they should have instead solved specific problems. When you make it easy to add someone else's code, you also make it easy to forget to remove it later, or to not stay updated on which plugins are deprecated/abandoned.

A plug-in system is insecure by design for a public-facing service. YAGNI, so pick a handful of stuff you actually need.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Wordpress does a lot of things. You need to specify which things you want to do in order to narrow down a replacement. For example:

  • static site? - Hugo, Jekyll, etc - just generates regular HTML
  • personal cloud? - NextCloud/OwnCloud
  • ecommerce? - consider nopCommerce or OpenCard

The more you can narrow your requirements, the easier it will be to find a secure solution.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yes, Jekyll and Hugo are vastly more limited, that's the point. There's no dynamic content, you just write in Markdown (the same thing Lemmy uses), pick a theme, and you're good to go. No need to code anything, just a couple config files and Markdown.

Shopify is fine if you want something hosted. But since we were talking about WordPress, I assumed self-hosting was a desired quality. All of the platforms I mentioned are self-hosted, open source, and at least one from each category is compatible with PHP-only hosting providers, just like WordPress.

If we're optimizing for easy, Squarespace should be on the table for static websites as well. I assumed we were talking about direct replacements for WordPress, not hosted alternatives.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That is far too basic for most websites

Well yes, but that's my point. WordPress does everything, and I'm offering tools that do one thing well.

If all you need is a static site, use a static site generator, not WordPress. If all you need is ecommerce, use an ecommerce tool, not WordPress. And so on.

unless you're exporting it to a file after using the UI to create it?

I'm saying that if all you need is a static site, but you want something simple and hosted, Squarespace would be a decent alternative. Whether it's actually static is beside the point, it's probably more secure than a self-hosted WordPress site since you can't just throw on a dozen plugins serverside, only use one or two, and then get hacked.

A swiss army knife can do everything, but it doesn't do everything well, and it's easy to use it insecurely, which opens you up to these sorts of attacks. I'm not going to suggest a drop-in replacement for WordPress (they do exist) because the problem is fundamental to the "one tool for everything" approach.

Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough ( www.xda-developers.com )

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sugar_in_your_tea ,

It's technically a bit faster, but yeah, I think charging more is the bigger motivation.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Why not? There is a performance benefit to being closer to the CPU, and soldering gets you a lot closer to the CPU. That's a fact.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And that's the idea. Soldering memory is an engineering decision. How much to solder is a marketing decision. Since users can't easily add more, marketing can upsell on more RAM.

It's not "on paper," the RAM itself is performing better vs socketed RAM. Whether the system runs better depends on the configuration, as in, did you order enough RAM.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm pretty sure I do understand the issue. Here are some facts (and an article to back it up):

  1. putting memory closer to the CPU improves performance due to less latency - from 96GB/s -> 200 (M1) or 400 (M1 Max) GB/s
  2. customers can't easily solder on more RAM
  3. Apple's RAM upgrades are way more expensive than socketed options on the market

And here's my interpretation/guesses:

  1. marketing sees 1 & 2, and sees an opportunity to do more of 3
  2. marketing probably asked engineering what the bare minimum is, and they probably said 8GB (assuming web browsing and whatnot only), though 16GB is preferable (that's what I'd answer)
  3. marketing sets the minimum @ 8GB, banking on most users who need more than the basics to buy more, or for users to buy another laptop sooner when they realize they ran out of RAM (getting after-sale RAM upgrades is expensive)

So:

  • using soldered RAM is an engineering decision due to improved performance (double socketed RAM w/ Intel on M1, quadruple on M1 Max)
  • limiting RAM to 8GB is a marketing decision
  • if you don't have enough RAM, that doesn't mean the RAM isn't performing well, it means you don't have enough RAM

Using socketed RAM won't fix performance issues related to running out of RAM, that issue is the same regardless. Only adding RAM will fix those performance issues, and Apple could just as easily make "special" RAM so you can't buy socketed RAM on the regular market anyway (e.g. they'd need a different memory standard anyway due to Unified Memory).

I have hated Apple's memory pricing for decades now, it has always been way more expensive to add RAM to an Apple device at order time vs PC competitors (I still add my own RAM to laptops, but it's usually way cheaper through HP, Lenovo, etc than Apple at build-time). I'm not defending them here, I'm merely saying that the decision to use soldered RAM makes a lot of engineering sense, especially with the new Unified Memory architecture they're using in the M-series devices.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Two options:

  • your statement comes off a bit ignorant - a failsafe would just pop the latch (and up and down motion) and wouldn't be impacted by braking forces (front and back motion)
  • you weren't explicitly saying bad things about Elon Musk

But the general idea of things still working despite failure is the essence of what the OP was saying. People seem to not like comments that refine what others say (I have plenty of experience there), they prefer comments that either correct or blatantly support the parent comment. I don't get it, but whatever.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

So, the opposite of an abacus as a replacement for an ALU?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, not buying that kind of nonsense. I hate how defensively I have to think when buying a car. This and electronic ebrakes really bother me.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro every day for my day job

Probably easier to run a VM or dual-boot then. Trying to keep those up-to-date is going to be a nightmare.

Honestly, if I were in your shoes, I'd probably get an Apple device. Adobe works great, and macOS isn't as bad as Windows IMO.

I liked being functionally untrackable online, and not getting ads shoved down my throat

There are a lot of ways to get around that, such as:

  • uBlock Origin - blocks ads
  • use a VPN and switch locations periodically - limits efficacy of tracking
  • try Mullvad Browser - basically Tor Browser (i.e. the browser included w/ Tails), but without Tor, so fewer breakages

But honestly, the first two are really easy to do and solve 80% of the problem with a very small amount of breakage, and Firefox is installed by default in most Linux distros, and is available in the repositories on those where it's not the default.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

So it goes.

Good luck! I also don't like spending money, so I don't blame you. Definitely consider a dual-boot w/ Linux though, it can at least help you separate work from play. :)

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