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simula on my steam deck

Ah, interesting. I did try it years ago on my desktop with my Valve Index but didn't consider on the SteamDeck. How does it work without 6DoF and controllers?

common intelligence at scale

I mean not even... sure it can surprise you on some stuff you know little, sure it can regurgitate random parts from an encyclopedia and might even not be wrong about it... but it can easily be "outsmarted" by a 5yo on some of the most basic and random questions, it only has to be outside if its dataset. That's not intelligence.

cultural and political will to prevent it

Well the EU and California are. Just yesterday I was reading https://www.lesnumeriques.com/informatique/une-premiere-victoire-polytechnique-claque-la-porte-a-microsoft-365-et-choisit-le-logiciel-libre-la-revolte-gagne-les-universites-n243905.html which is one example among many, here one of the most famous French engineering school switches away from Microsoft due to lack of GDPR clarity. Numerous administrations in the EU do the same. Yes it slow, yes it's not enough BUT it's something. I can't say if the momentum will grow and transform to a mass exodus, or if it's not a real trend and my bias highlights what I hope to see. Still it is happening.

Immich distributed compute for https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/machine-learning with a control panel to witness the "boost" (which tbh might be impossible to notice)

Ah... forgot about them for a while, checking : last update from April "#58 - Dev Kits, Compute Packs, & 2025 Timeline" so in theory now they are on board certification. Good occasion to also check https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/commits/master/

Out of curiosity, did you try one?

I setup WireGuard only last week so maybe I'm the one who misunderstand something : on your LAN assuming you are NOT using your router (or switch, or a networking device) to be a peer of the VPN, don't you need to add each machine as a peer to the VPN? Also doesn't that leave the most granularity so that the (root) user of each machine can chose to be on/off and more, e.g. split tunneling?

Indeed but by doing so I can connect from the outside World too, e.g. if I'm at the dentist waiting for an appointment, I just connect to the VPN over my 5G connection, no login required.

Because it's low end I'd put :

• headless Debian pre-configured with WiFi and sshd to then add
• CopyParty via its single .py file
• apt install minidlna to serve media files back to add devices on LAN, e.g. VLC on desktop and mobile devices
• mount a large microSD for data
• I'd add a WireGuard VPN configuration file and make both accessible outside the LAN but only on my devices

All that is relatively quick if you have done it before (maybe 30min total) and can run 24/7 for years requiring very little power.

Also FWIW if I wouldn't get an answer within few hours and I knew for a fact that with a fresh install it worked, I'd re-install.

It's perfectly fine to do the process again as it insures your files are safe (either working backup or separate disks, or ideally both) and you know what software is relevant for you, that your configuration files are well known, etc.

Installing a distribution should be a painless and quick process.

Typically my debugging process goes like this :

• error message? Search for it online with the most unique keyword that aren't machine specific
  • solutions provided?
    • solution understood? try it then loop back, writing notes in own wiki
    • solution not understood? bookmark it then try understood solutions first, if not try and loop back
• no error message?
  • find where the error message is!
    • what actually produce the error from the top of the stack? end-user software? service? kernel? hardware? where do they put logs?
      • if logs exist and verbosity is not sufficient, increase verbosity and reproduce the problem
  • if no verbose enough error message can be obtained, repeat the situation in various conditions
    • does any condition make it work?
      • search on the difference between the working and non-working condition
    • backtrack one layer up the stack, e.g. if end-user software does not change, try service, etc
      • does this one provide logs?

So... it's basically always the same, namely try the lazy way (error log search) and if that's not enough, try further down the stack or more unknown BUT always get information out the try.

TL;DR: I have no idea but if another new machine (e.g. phone) can connect then DHCP works. FWIW NetworkManager logs are in journalctl -u NetworkManager and you can manually add/remove Ethernet connections. I'd physically unplug then plug back the cable with WiFi disabled.

I'd suggest 0 change at first : boot on a live USB then connect with her Web accounts (e.g. Firefox Profile) then get an easy win. Sure not 100% will work but she'll be 80% there in minutes. If she hates it, logout, reboot, remove key and that's it.

Nobody gives a shit about NIST if they lose the 1 thing that make them useful : their credibility.

If some credible doubt is shed on them ... then NIST is just an acronym with no power.

That being said IMHO a pragmatic heuristic is spotting "Do what I say, not what I do" and thus if NSA relies on PQ, or hybrid, or something well you can deduce from that they assume whatever solution they do NOT use if then not safe in a useful lifespan (which might be totally different from your threat model).

Edit : did tinker with https://openquantumsafe.org/about/ in particular https://github.com/open-quantum-safe so if you have an opinion on that I'd be curious.

Thanks but doesn't seem to work, 1st link 403, 2nd link no play button (and download is audio only), 3rd link loads but never plays, 4th link doesn't play at all and download doesn't work. Again I appreciate alternatives but IMHO sharing YouTube links, so BigTech links, on Lemmy isn't great. We should rely on federated alternatives for videos too.

Edit: I did disable JS Shelter just for this (because of Anubis, ironically enough based on the video content!) but it still didn't work. So to be honest even if it did work (which it didn't) it would still not be great.

I typically use yt-dlp youtube-local and it usually works... but that is not the point. The point is that it is not sustainable to rely on platforms we do not want to support. I'm glad it works for you though, feel free to share a mirror if you can.

Please provide a non BigTech alternative, ideally with a way to donate to the content creator.

I'm interested but I literally can't watch it. I don't have a YouTube account, nor a Google one, and the video is not viewable without.

Since you do not seem to list self-hosting options, e.g. WireGuard or OpenVPN, then IMHO it'd be good to at least have a line on each about what's the actual backend, e.g. does service X runs on WireGuard, OpenVPN, something else, something proprietary that has been audited by 3rd party if so whom and when.

Edit: suggested self-hosting (but not at home) WireGuard in the previous thread https://lemmy.ml/post/37270537/21536054

Panicking and paranoia is counter productive.

If you do "lot of risky and dangerous shit" then it's even more important that you do so mindfully. If you get careless because you are tired you increase the risk.

Personally my "trick" is to learn from others, e.g. in few weeks in Paris there will be https://splintercon.net/paris/ where tools and processes will be explained. I can learn from them.

Also my way to stay calm isn't just to be mindful or learn... but do stuff, no matter how small. If you learn about a new thread, address it today. It doesn't mean fix the problem entirely (it'd nice if you could) but rather do something, ANYTHING, about it. If it's not solved, write notes about it and resume tomorrow or whenever you can. Every small effort does add up over time.

Finally I find that sport helps a lot to "evacuate" stress. If I feel some pressure from work or the overall situation, I go outside and sweat it out. It doesn't magically make the World better but it insures I'm a bit more in shape to try to tackle whatever is thrown at me.

Might want to look into split tunneling.

As they say in Italian "If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike"

Sure... that's an "interesting" premise but we live in our World, where a lot of American companies are structured the way they are by design. US companies get money from venture capital. That capital is solely designed to dominate. VC money is NOT a loan you get from a bank where you provide a collateral. No VC money is targeting 1 thing : market dominance and 10x returns. Your mom&pop shop will never get VC money because they never say they'll corner the croissant market, rather they say might sell some baked goods to some people in your limited neighborhood. VC money will NEVER accept such a deal because it might eventually get 2x, at best, and the tiny shop does not even need a lot of capital, just enough for the oven, few people, etc. Peanuts in terms of investment money.

So... American companies are not "evil" because they want to or because a lack of luck. No, rather they become so because of the very structure money is made in the US. The Silicon Valley isn't special because of Stanford or Berkeley and so many smart grad students. No it's special because it pulls people from the entire World who dream of dominating markets. It then either select them or transform then select... and in the end you get the same kind of companies with the same kind of strategy with the same kind of money doing the same thing : domination by lowering price, cornering a marketing, raising price, enshittifying. Why? Because it works. It's a proven business model. Right now it works on ads, and thus privacy... but if another model comes, it'll use that.

TL;DR: it's not perfect but it sure beats most if not all of BigTech depending of course on your needs.

Yep, that'd be me. That said if I were to buy a new GPU today (well, tomorrow, waiting on Valve announcement for its next HMD) I might still get an NVIDIA because even though I'm convinced 99% of LLM/GenAI is pure hype, if 1% might be useful, might be built ethically and might run on my hardware, I'd be annoyed if it wouldn't because ROCm is just a tech demo but is too far performance wise. That'd say the percentage is so ridiculously low I'd probably pick the card which treats the open ecosystem best.