Pelicanen

joined 2 years ago
[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Sell two, wait until the crash, and upgrade for less money. Win-win!

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

From what I can find, the Linux Mint website was breached once, in 2016, for a short duration and during that time the download link for the ISO referred to a site that was hosting a version that installed a backdoor.

Meaning it was short in scope, the dev team reacted to it, handled it, and then were open and transparent about it, and it only affected people who downloaded the ISO at that exact span in time and also installed that version instead of replacing it when the announcement came.

The harsh reality of IT security isn't that it's a question of if you get hacked, it's a question of when, even for multi-billion dollar companies.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yet. There is no one trying to break down the constitutional order yet. Despite all we're seeing, despite Åkesson having made warm remarks about Trump for years, despite being hostile towards the media, despite never-ending racist remarks from his party, despite record unemployment, he is currently enjoying the highest voter confidence of any party leader. If the trend continues, the same disease will end up in Sweden as well sooner or later.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I agree but I suspect his base doesn't. They love all this power projection and hostility, and the Epstein stuff is something that they're unusually not in agreement with the administration on.

That being said, I think it detracts from the real implications of these actions if they're only referred to as a distraction. These are very, very likely things that Trump wants to implement regardless and not just something that's done to shift the attention elsewhere.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I entirely agree anymore. I've installed Mint OS on both my mother's and my grandmother's computers and neither of them have complained a single time about it to me. Setting up a printer was even easier, I tried helping an acquaintance with W11 set up a printer and it was hell, with Mint it just figured out everything relevant on its own, I just had to confirm that it was correct.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

you people

What people are you talking about?

erase her identity

In what way? And how does that at all relate to this?

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Did the murdering officer know that the woman was queer? George Floyd's skin color was rather obvious to anyone close enough.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

In that case, I think it's valid to ask if her being queer influenced the ~~sturmabteilung~~ ICE officer's decision to kill her. There is absolutely discrimination and increased violence from authorities against queer people due to them being queer, but I'm not sure if this is a matter of using disproportionate force against her due to her sexual orientation or if it's just a matter of ICE being violent in general.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The singular point of the UN isn't to prevent conflict, there's been plenty of armed conflicts since its inception, but one important part of it is hosting a forum between countries and especially giving the countries who are otherwise typically underrepresented (e.g. South American and African countries) in international discussions a means of making their voices heard.

It also hosts a number of organizations that allow international cooperation for common goals, with or without the US, that is usually more effective than any country doing it on its own.

There are issues and this recent visible regression to "might makes right" rhetoric is absolutely dangerous, but the UN shouldn't die because the three biggest nuclear powers are assholes.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (9 children)

The problem is that for the time being, US support is pretty much a requirement for continued Ukrainian existence. I don't like it any more than anyone else, but the situation is pretty shit at the moment. I'm not suggesting that doing anything Trump wants is the way to go either, then he'll just demand more and more until the EU is dissolved, but I understand why politicians tread carefully.

I'm hoping that increased European defense spending can start making up the difference, but right now it's an issue, and taking a hard stance that may hurt the people of Ukraine feels more like their call than ours.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

I think it has a lot to do with how it conjugates, "sen" and "sillä" is quicker than "hänen" and "hänellä".

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Again, this is a feature of the fundamental structure of how LLMs work. What is determined to be the most statistically likely output is influenced not only by the training data itself but by the weights assigned during training.

LLMs can't make anything up because they do not know anything. Unexpected outputs likely become more common as the training data used is increasingly more the result of previous LLM outputs, intentionally poisoned data, and an increasing number of limitations are placed upon the models during training.

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