circuscritic @ circuscritic @lemmy.ca

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First off, this isn't a secret, and it's not new.

This is just more of the same, the press going the extra mile to give reach-around cover and misdirection for the failed policies of the current administration, or rather, their actual policies, which have lead us to where we are.

No.... Containers are just sandboxed normal browsing sessions.

The cookies and other site data they gather, will remain and able to track your browsing habits within that container, until you clear it. But it can be sustained between browsing sessions, for months or years at a time.

They're very useful, and I highly recommend using them, but they're nowhere near as convenient as opening up a single incognito tab to read a shitty article on a shitty website. Once I'm done reading it, all I have to do is close that incognito session, return to Lemmy, rinse and repeat.

Do whatever works best for you, but just be aware that you seem to be under some important misconceptions about what data is saved between different types of browsing sessions, or how certain privacy features work.

Incognito mode will basically put all the cookies and other site data into a temp directory.

So, they can track you across that session as long as you keep it open, like if you went from the article to your banking or online shopping websites.

But, once you close out of that session, that directory should be cleared.

Just make sure you don't use incognito or private modes with a bunch of sites, at the same time, that you don't want to share information between.

I think you can enable IIS, or at least some version of it, under Windows Features for Windows 10 Pro/Edu installs.

But someone can correct me if I'm wrong about that.

DoD already started this with their Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA).

And I agree, the government should use its power to force interoperable and open standards wherever possible and relevant.

I think the real question is, what do you want to repurpose it for?

Because the answer to your question is yes, it is usable, but whether or not it's capable of what you want to use it for, we can't say without more information.

Linux installation appears to be possible. This is a wiki to an Arch on ARM distro, but you might want to look for something a bit more user friendly if you're not comfortable with Arch.

https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/rockchip/hisense-chromebook-c11#installation

Just remember, it's a fairly low spec machine. Think of it like a Raspberry Pi with a keyboard and monitor built in, in terms of what you can hope to run on it.

Oh yes, the renowned Marxist revolutionary.... Gavin Newsom.

It sounds like he was homeless, and felt guilty about what he was doing. So in his mind, he tried to do things that he hoped would make up for the wrongs he was committing.

At least, that's the impression you get from reading the article.

Newsom has no credibility with, or loyalty to, anyone, except his donor class and California oligarchs.

Is this local mayor a shitheel? Maybe, probably, who knows.

I just know Gavin Newsom is a grade-A POS, and view any of his moves, especially ones he yells loudly about, with a great skepticism.

My default browsers, on mobile and desktop, both open incognito/private tabs by default.

I'll still click no, or don't accept, if it pops up, but when a page is shitty like this, I'm not too worried about them collecting data on how I browser this page while reading this one article.

I mean, yeah, but I think that's placing the US military on a pedestal, with the unsaid implication that they're somehow unique in that regard.

I don't imagine there's many, if any, military forces on earth, who would both be used to invade and occupy foreign lands, and not make similar decisions.

I will admit that I also use Shizuku, but I only enable it for short bursts when I need access for a very select number of precise use cases. Immediately afterwards, I reboot.

I also assume that if I spent any amount of time digging into it, I would realize it's a bad idea, but nothing's perfect.

And don't assume that all apps allowing Shizuku access were developed securely, or that there all developers have good intentions. Really I only use it for Swift, or if I'm really behind on my updates, I'll briefly allow Droidify access for hands off updating.

No, I'm living in this thread. I'm talking about very specific issues related to LLMs, that I've highlighted ad nauseam.

Reread if you're confused.

If anything, it shows that you believe in the concept of "AI" way more than I do, as you're conflating LLM and FSD.

I don't believe in AI, it doesn't exist. Just specific advanced machine learning algorithms, some better than others, and some all smoke and mirrors. But here, now, I'm talking about LLMs.

Who's talking about investing...? I've exclusively been talking about what LLMs can do now, today, for free (aside from energy costs).

None of what your throwing out there has anything to do with what's being discussed here. It's a red herring.

Pale Moon feels like it forked during the peak of Windows Vista, and hasn't updated its UI, or extension library since.

LibreWolf, Mullvad Browser, and Waterfox feel the most up to date, while being FOSS.

No... It risks either not going boom, or some other catastrophic failure like we saw in the early days of the Ukraine war with the S300 and S400 missiles that would U-turn after launch and hit their own launcher, most likely from being improperly stored, not maintained, and/or outside of their rated service life.

I can't speak to Trump's rationale, but know of at least one instance where a MOAB was substituted for the normal ordinance in theatre because it was approaching it service rated shelf life.

Explosive ordinance has a shelf life, and once they're expired, they either need to be taken out of supply for servicing, or dismantled and disposed of.

Please read the many write-ups by developers of well regarded privacy and security ROMs, such as grapheneOS and divestOS.

Who detail in great length why root access is a bad idea, and why many apps that require root access, are just poorly developed security nightmares.

That said, I agree that it should be an option, or at least a standardized means of enabling it. As well as all bootloaders should be unlockable. But phones are more personal devices than the PC ever was, and there are good reasons NOT to push for the proliferation of standardized root access.

I mean, it probably will eventually, but that has nothing to do with LLMs, nor is it a technology that I want to exist.

I can definitely see a world where lobbyists for automakers and insurance companies create such a financial and regulatory burden, where only the wealthy can afford to drive their own cars, if they choose to. Where as everyone else must rent or lease their self driving car as is if it's a IaaS or SaaS subscription.

But none of that has anything to do with using LLMs for the tasks they can accomplish, or telling people to stop bitching about them not being able to complete the tasks they aren't good at, or even capable of.

Yes and no, I have self-hosted models on one of my Linux boxes, but even with a relatively modern 70 series Nvidia GPU, it's still faster to use free non-local services like ChatGPT or DDG.

My rule of thumb for SaaS LLMs is to never enter in any data that I wouldn't also be willing to upload cleartext to Google Drive or OneDrive.

Sometimes that means modifying text before submitting it, and other times having to rely entirely on self-hosted tools.