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  • Tales-like

    I’ve been kind of out of the RPG loop for a while, probably not the best person to suggest, and haven’t played the series, but I’m thinking that if you could expand a bit on that, it might help provide suggestions…I mean, not clear to me what you’re looking for that’s specific to that relative to other RPGs. Similar setting? A long-running RPG series with many entries? The combat system (absent the real-time aspect)?

    You mention “depth of story”, so maybe something with a similar level of storytelling?



  • I don’t know whether Altman or the board is better from a leadership standpoint, but I don’t think that it makes sense to rely on boards to avoid existential dangers for humanity. A board runs one company. If that board takes action that is a good move in terms of an existential risk for humanity but disadvantageous to the company, they’ll tend to be outcompeted by and replaced by those who do not. Anyone doing that has to be in a position to span multiple companies. I doubt that market regulators in a single market could do it, even – that’s getting into international treaty territory.

    The only way in which a board is going to be able to effectively do that is if one company, theirs, effectively has a monopoly on all AI development that could pose a risk.






  • tal@lemmy.todaytoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldSomething sticky has invaded my life
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    9 days ago

    Nah, I just used to write “googles” and when I switched search engines to Kagi, switched to “kagis”.

    In this particular case, Kagi runs a Threadiverse – what they term “Fediverse Forums” – search lens. AFAIK, haven’t checked recently, Google doesn’t yet offer that, so that search depended upon a Kagi feature. Kinda the analog to site:reddit.com with Google, but spanning the Threadiverse instances.


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    some sort of plastic or rubber is degrading, maybe my phone case?

    There’s this type of coating – I commented on it a while back, will link to my comment in a sec – that was put on a lot of consumer electronics that over time, breaks down to become sticky.

    kagis

    https://lemmy.world/comment/12199022

    TPE, thermoplastic elastomers. They (some?) break down over time into really sticky goo.

    I haven’t seen it in some years – was a real problem maybe, I dunno, ten years ago? If your thing is only six years old, I dunno if it’s that.

    But isopropyl alcohol and enough elbow grease will get it off, if it’s just a coating on plastic.

    I don’t see anything when searching for “sticky otterbox”, though, so I don’t know if that’s the factor, even if that’s what’s going on here. My experience that the source is pretty obvious, since it’s a “grippy” rubberized thing that becomes increasingly-sticky over time.



  • using an admin portal’s default credentials on an IBM AIX server.

    I think that there are two ways to solve that.

    The first is to have the admins actually complete setups.

    But, humans being humans, maybe the second is a better approach:

    When creating a computer system, don’t let a system be used, at all, until all default credentials have been replaced with real ones. If you do, someone is invariably gonna screw it up.

    Your directions may say “Before pulling lever 2, pull lever 1 so that machine does not explode”. And maybe you feel that as the manufacturer, that’s covered your hind end; you can say that the user ignored your setup instructions if they get into trouble. But instead of doing that, maybe it’s better to not permit for a situation where the machine explodes in the first place; have pulling lever 2 also trigger lever 1.




  • tal@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSelfhosted chat service
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    I have already looked in XMPP, but it required SSL certs and I did not have the mood to configure them.

    There are definitely XMPP clients that do end-to-end encryption that do not rely on TLS for key exchange, though.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_record_messaging

    Off-the-record Messaging (OTR) is a cryptographic protocol that provides encryption for instant messaging conversations. OTR uses a combination of AES symmetric-key algorithm with 128 bits key length, the Diffie–Hellman key exchange with 1536 bits group size, and the SHA-1 hash function. In addition to authentication and encryption, OTR provides forward secrecy and malleable encryption.

    The primary motivation behind the protocol was providing deniable authentication for the conversation participants while keeping conversations confidential, like a private conversation in real life, or off the record in journalism sourcing. This is in contrast with cryptography tools that produce output which can be later used as a verifiable record of the communication event and the identities of the participants. The initial introductory paper was named “Off-the-Record Communication, or, Why Not To Use PGP”.[1]

    I’ve used Pidgin with the libOTR plugin that implements that protocol.




  • wordfreq is not just concerned with formal printed words. It collected more conversational language usage from two sources in particular: Twitter and Reddit.

    Now Twitter is gone anyway, its public APIs have shut down,

    Reddit also stopped providing public data archives, and now they sell their archives at a price that only OpenAI will pay.

    There’s still the Fediverse.

    I mean, that doesn’t solve the LLM pollution problem, but…



  • YouTube desperately needs to fix the recommendations for music.

    I mean, I guess if someone has a YouTube account, there’s nothing wrong with using YouTube as a music recommendations system, but it isn’t really the first thing I’d think of. I mean, music isn’t really what it was designed for.

    And YouTube doesn’t know what a user would listen to offline, so unless all their music-listening is from YouTube tracks…I’m not sure how representative the listening data would be of what a user would listen to.

    I don’t use them, because I don’t really want to hand them a profile of me, but if I wanted to get music recommendations, I’d probably use something like Audioscrobbler, which was designed for building a profile on someone’s music-listening habits and then handing them recommendations based on that.