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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Was walking home from a doctor's appointment, and my route took me down Valencia just in time to walk past the SF Dyke March. God damnit I love this town.

The fascists can't take our solidarity or the joy free people feel seeing others live free too.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

I’m beginning to think that dishwasher tablets are a scam.

I’ve taken three and I still don’t feel like doing the dishes.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tk@social.apreslanu.it ("tk 🍜") wrote:

@lostgen @mullvadnet coincidentally, mozilla vpn is mullvad with a skin and a markup.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/subscription-services/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

news article for business audiences: "An algorithm is a set of instructions that tells AI what to do."

[I lay my head down on my desk and wait for the oceans to rise]

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/tens-of-thousands-march-in-the-first-budapest-pride-since-viktor-orban-was-voted-out

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#Twins

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i would probably not arrange it the way it is arranged, but there is no way in hell i'm signing up for that job.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

hugops to the codeberg volunteers. they have to put up with an awful lot of nothing ever fucking working.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
codebergstatus@social.anoxinon.de ("Codeberg Status") wrote:

Hello everyone,

All the services we offer are down and unreachable. We are currently investigating the cause. For the time being, it appears that all three servers are without power.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

basically, they knew they had nothing to offer really, so they bunged a lot of RAM on it and priced it under the next price class. literally it's a mediocre gpu with a lot more ram than the competition.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the reason for the cost is probably the RAM - it has 32GB, which you aren't getting on any other card for anywhere near that price.

this might not be bad for running inference actually, since it can hold some of the more advanced models.

but if it's so shit at games, i'm not sure it's going to give you leading performance at inference either. but it's probably good enough and the memory size matters a lot.

HUB reckons it should be $350 on the basis of the gaming benchmarks.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

hardware unboxed got hold of one and decided to run it on some games

the appalling results (consistently worse than a 9060 XT on 1080p, very narrowly better than it at 1440p despite costing $950 (!!!),) may explain why they're having a try at AI

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

LOL, LMAO

intel had a fantastic chance to conquer the low end discrete graphics market.

they've gone and wasted it on an "AI" card.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the storm is glorious

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://det.social/@lostgen/116820546568940358

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
earth2marsh@hachyderm.io ("Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝") wrote:

@dpp @aredridel Wikipedia now notes that they have offered refunds to customers who are upset by this, which suggests it is true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad

Boosted by jwz:
abban@mastodon.ie ("Abban") wrote:

Kids are dying from the heat, but you know what lets accelerate the issues that cause that because it's convenient for some people to not have to write an email themselves

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

Not saying carbon capture will never work, but so far, well…

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
GroupNebula563 ("Furbland's Very Value = 71 Account™") wrote:

me when i value the goose and not the eggs

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
andrew773@mastodon.online wrote:

@danirabbit Corporate Democrats are more aligned with the Confederate GOP than the left. Who cares what the voters want when you can easily trick them with propaganda while getting rich off the same scam together.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kw217@mathstodon.xyz ("Keith Wansbrough") wrote:

@danirabbit Like Luke 6:24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort."? Or Deuteronomy 24:17 "Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge."?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rk@well.com ("rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually") wrote:

@danirabbit

GOP: We have to teach our children the Bible!

Bible: And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.

GOP: No not like that.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gbargoud@masto.nyc ("George B") wrote:

@danirabbit

"Oh you mean take the extremely popular policies and adopt them to get those voters?"

"No, not like that. We need to renew our vows with unfettered capitalism"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

They’re teaching the Bible in public schools in Texas and the Democrats are like, “We gotta do something about this Zohran guy”

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

Christian nationalism is really accelerating in the USA and “we have to fight the godless communists” rhetoric is exploding after several democratic socialist election wins. Democrats have pledged to put a stop to it, and by “it” I mean the progressive policies

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thedarktangent@defcon.social ("Jeff Moss") wrote:

Next up, a #DEFCON #VPN service sounds awesome. Like with email there is plenty of expertise on how to build VPNs. Technically it is a realistic goal, so let's investigate!

To be attractive to a large customer base you need to offer a lot of locations with an ever changing pool of addresses for when some get blocked by someone in the world.

Those two things mean you need a pool of providers and great automation playbooks where you can easily spin up and provision "secure" VPN gateways all over the world.

Because of the reliance on 3rd parties, unlike with email, you now have to worry about the legal concept of the 3rd party doctrine, so have some more lawyers ready to do battle.

Then two things happened, I spoke with two different people with experience in the VPN game. First someone who served as a CTO to a large VPN provider.

They spent all their time trying to save money, automate more, and respond to non-stop customer complaints from over seas business people. Chine would block some VPN addresses and they could no longer connect to their company back home and they needed to do that RIGHT NOW. So a sort of daily fire drill. The increasing VPN competition meant they had to keep spending on advertising and cost control.

The second person put the final nail in the coffin. They explained as far as they could tell about half of all VPN providers had ties to intelligence services. Either as fronts or investors or super friendly "partners". Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, some Middle Eastern countries, all play in this space.

This means half of the VPN providers have a different business model than the other half. Their goal is maximum people at the least cost to cast as large a monitoring net as possible, and revenue from paying customers doesn't have to actually cover your operating costs.

Building a #VPN service the right way would mean we would be more expensive, in fewer locations, and support only the strongest technologies - all things that would reduce your pool of potential customers.

So, like the private email idea, it was interesting to investigate, we learned a lot, and we will never enter the VPN market.

Instead we run free #Tor relays and support @torproject Please support Tor and other privacy technologies.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thedarktangent@defcon.social ("Jeff Moss") wrote:

For #DEFCON to do private email we would want to host our own servers to avoid the 3rd party legal doctrine, and keep them secure.

No problem, we have a secure location and lawyers.

Back during COVID when we were investigating this it was still possible to gather some open source info on how large other private email services were. How big was the market? Could you make enough money to hire the people and buy the servers?

MailFence, Proton, and others showed it was possible if you were very efficient. Great!

Then I spoke with someone who worked at a white label email service provider. I realized DEF CON would never do a private email service for two reasons:

CSAM: They explained they had about 10 people dedicated to responding to legal requests around CSAM, not including their lawyers and LE relationship people.

SPAM: They had another room with about 30 people dealing just with spammers and the impacts of spammers. Managing their ASNs, netblocks that get lower reputation on blackhole lists, moving customers to "clean" netblocks when a shared block gets polluted by spammers, etc.

Conclusion? If you are very successful you can look forward to having a room of 40 people dealing with LE, SPAM, CSAM, Networking, and that's before you add on customer service. That doesn't seem fun or very DEF CON Hacker anymore.

Next up, VPN.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thedarktangent@defcon.social ("Jeff Moss") wrote:

Back during COVID I looked into starting either a #DEFCON #VPN service, or a private email service.

Both VPN and email are well understood services, there is no shortage of people with expertise, it is not a big technical challenge to set up and operate...

Each became impossible or unattractive after talking to people who have operated them at deep levels over time. Here is why:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

I don't use commercial VPN (Virtual Private Net) offerings, but when a Swedish VPN company defends (in my opinion) massive donations by one of their CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) to a far-right political party with "free speech" and "it's his private choice", it tells me it's not a company I would consider to use as VPN provider. That's my choice.

https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822264297340100

#Mullvad #VPN #Streisand

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

I really hate the fact that "being hate-crimed" is a valid concern that basically all visibly queer people have a gut-level understanding of.