HiddenLayer5

HiddenLayer5 , 2 hours ago

"Hey, I know you're disappointed by the lack of Autopilot™, but look on the bright side, every Cybertruck comes standard with our patented Child Buster™ technology to cast those little shits into the depths hell where they belong!"

HiddenLayer5 OP , 15 hours ago

I'm running Fedora 39 KDE. I think I'm going to see what the file metadata of my other Fedora systems look like and try to replicate that. Worst case I just reinstall. At this point I'm a little curious how the system will react.

HiddenLayer5 OP , 14 hours ago

Thank you! Regardless of the outcome I will update the main post with my findings in hopes giving anyone else in the same position some more info.

HiddenLayer5 OP , 2 days ago

Thank you!

HiddenLayer5 , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

I've never been a fan of the UEFI logo inserting itself into the boot screen. It's basically just an advertisement for the hardware vendor because they're jealous of the OS having the spotlight. And it's an ad that, like so many other ads before it, screws over the security and privacy of the advertisee because fuck you that's why.

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

The article didn't mention this, but would disabling the UEFI logo in the boot screen mitigate the vulnerability until proper patches get rolled out? (Or honestly at this point, I'd keep it disabled even after it's patched in case they didn't patch it right. UEFI's are all proprietary so it's not like you can check.) Since the vulnerability is in the image parser, would bypassing that be enough?

Do they even let you disable it?

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago

It breaks the cardinal rule of executing privileged code: Only code that absolutely needs to be privilaged should be privileged.

If they really wanted to have their logo in the boot screen, why can't they just provide the image to the OS and request through some API that they display it? The UEFI and OS do a ton of back and fourth communication at boot so why can't this be apart of that? (It's not because then the OS and by extension the user can much more easily refuse to display what is essentially an ad for the hardware vendor right? They'd never put "features" in privileged code just to stop the user from doing anything about it... right?)

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago

Would be pretty easy to pull off if you had hardware access. Just boot from a flash drive and drop the exploit from there.

Even if their OS is full disk encrypted, this can easily inject a backdoor or just keylog the bootup password prompt.

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago

Why software patents are a leech on software development: exhibit number
4,294,967,295.

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago

With the French guy on this. Weed is expensive even when legal, and if it's not, you really don't want to share it with any rando because you can get pegged for distribution.

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

It’s expensive and has only the advantage of catching CO2

It doesn't even do that well. Algae have short lifespans and when they decompose, the CO2 will go right back into the atmosphere. It's the same reason you can't reasonably capture CO2 with small plants like grasses, nor does the carbon inside you count as captured. The reason trees "capture CO2" is because trees live for a long time and wood decomposes very slowly, and therefore keep its carbon locked in the wood for a long time. The point of capturing carbon is you take it out of circulation for as long as possible.

There are ways to have algae capture carbon, but they are fairly involved (read: very expensive) processes whose scalability is still uncertain. Certainly not a tank in the street.

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago

I assume they mean how long many old growth forests have been growing (though even then thousands of years is on the younger end), not the time it took for trees to evolve.

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

It helps if and only if the glucose stays as glucose and is not metabolized. Wood is a good application of this, as its cellulose fibers are made of glucose, in a form that is very stable and can stay locked away for a long time (especially if the tree is alive as it does not metabolize the glucose in its own wood and has anti-predation adaptations that actively guard it against other organisms). However, if the glucose decomposes, i.e. is metabolized, it is converted either directly to CO2 or into other compounds that eventually end up as CO2, essentially returning the captured carbon back to the atmosphere.

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago

What is wrong with you Carl?

HiddenLayer5 , 1 day ago

0/10 not enough minions.

HiddenLayer5 , 3 days ago

Wait till you hear about the plastic and play-dough "food" they use in advertisements and the glamour shots on a restaurant menu or order board.

HiddenLayer5 , 3 days ago

"Don't steal the training data that we stole!"

HiddenLayer5 , 3 days ago

People also don't realize that it's super easy to intentionally have severe biases in an AI's response. So if ChatGPT wants, for example, Trump to win, they can very easily make their AI pro trump. It could be as subtle as just having more favorable than usual responses for trump related prompts which many people would take the AI's word for. The idea that "well it still gets things wrong but at least AI is impartial" is completely false because maintaining an AI requires a lot of human work and its management are still all humans.

HiddenLayer5 , 4 days ago

People who have inverter microwaves, do they actually heat food more evenly or is it just marketing buzz?

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago

Oh yeah? Well that’s just a decoy human. I’m actually in the bunker.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago

I just map both the user cache and the /tmp directory to a RAM drive. I allocated 4 GB but in practice it never gets even close to that much, and Linux seems to not be reserving the entire 4 GB at boot so I would assume how much RAM is used depends on how much is actually in your cache.

It also defers cache and tempfile related problems to turning it off and on again.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago

Or at the very least, do what modern airplane cockpits do and have a trackpad/trackball on the center console.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago

They also provide tactile feedback allowing you to be sure they have been pressed without even looking.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Reminder that the largest brands regularly and shamelessly steal from small independent artists to sell for profit, knowing that the artists don’t have the resources to do anything about it: web.archive.org/…/digital-art-copyright-marvel-pa…

And these are the companies trying to convince you that pirating big name media for your own personal use is theft.

HiddenLayer5 , 4 days ago

It’s an open secret that musicians get totally screwed by record labels.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=whQ8UBoz-To

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_y_zeql7pc

HiddenLayer5 , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Always remember to tip your landlords, the most exploited class in society.

In fact, what are you doing living in their house? What, just because you’re paying for it? Are you trying to forcibly evict them from their private property?! You housing-addicted loser. /s

HiddenLayer5 , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

While Canada has no explicit exception to the minumum wage law, the minimum wage in Canada is still laughable and is absolutely not survivable for how expensive living here is.

Though the solution here is not tipping, which ignores every other customer service and “”“unskilled”“” labour worker that isn’t in food service. It should be raising the minimum wage to a post inflation value that reflects current costs of living, and committing to continuously updating it so it stays even with inflation and rising costs in general (not unheard of, some European countries for example use a formula to calculate every year’s minimum wage based on current inflation and cost of living). Actually, we shouldn’t have a single national minimum wage but one depending on where you live so it reflects your actual survival expenses. Both Vancouver and Vanderhoof enjoy fast food and coffee shops but the employees in the former have a much harder time living in the city they work in than the latter despite doing the same work and making the same contribution to their fellow residents (or if nothing else, they do more work in a larger city with more people while not being able to afford the larger city).

And yeah, Subway’s been doing that for a while, at least in the part of Canada I am.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago

It should also be the only option for them if our consumer protection laws were even half effective.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago

Seeing how many scandals the big media companies have been in and literally nobody cares because the world is horrible and all we have left are these artificial dopamine sinks they call franchises which we desperately cling onto despite fully knowing that we are making rich assholes who caused all this even richer, don’t hold your breath.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago

OK UNDER THE LICENSE YOU AGREED TO SO IT’S YOUR OWN FAULT

– Sony

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Remember, kids: When you pirate a show, you’re intentionally abusing the cast and crew by withholding revenue from them! (Even though the majority of them do not make royalties from it and even those that do make peanuts compared to how much money the publisher just pockets.)

But also remember, kids: When the publisher decides to strip you of a show that you paid their explicitly specified “forever price” for, that’s 100% their right and they would never do anything without the complete and uncritical backing of the people who made the show. And if you have any negative thoughts about that, you’re also intentionally abusing the cast and crew by wanting to watch it when they have clearly spoken through the publisher that they definitely never want you to watch them again, and their only wish is that their media legacy will be randomly erased from people’s access at the drop of the corporate hat.

It’s all about creators here at our humble multi billion dollar publishing company and digital rights brokerage!

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago

That’s almost certainly what’s really happening. They regret selling media to you permanently so now they’re trying to claw it back and make you pay them again.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 days ago

Yeah about that… sensoriumarc.com/…/fashion-brands-in-the-metavers…

Why did the Matrix have to be wrong? I was promised unfeeling robot overlords, not narcissistic asshole billionaire overlords.

HiddenLayer5 , 6 days ago

brought on by lobbying and corporate greed

That they’ve brought on, mind you.

HiddenLayer5 , 6 days ago

Take public transit and advocate for more transit to replace car infrastructure, and for neighbourhoods to be made more walkable with a more even mix of commercial and residential. The latter can literally be as simple as lifting building use restrictions to allow people to open businesses in or on the same plot as residential homes and convert parts of commercial buildings to apartments.

HiddenLayer5 , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Note that this does not apply to all cars. Only cars that use the bimetallic strip type blinker, where the current passing through the bimetallic strip heats it up, causing it to move and break electrical contact, which cools it back down causing it to move again to restore contact. The speed of the blinker is dependent on the current flowing through the system which a burned out bulb changes significantly (depending on how it’s designed it can either speed up or slow down due to a dead bulb).

However, if your car uses the more modern method of an electronic timer and relay for the blinker, it doesn’t care at all what’s connected to it and will blink at the programmed speed regardless.

While a turn signal suddenly changing speed definitely means something is up and you should get the car checked out, the lack of such a symptom is not a guarantee that everything is working.

However however, some even newer cars can now detect failed lights (again by measuring current) and will alert you directly that a light is dead. It’s not hard to do especially if everything in the car is computer controlled anyway, and seeing how lights are an important safety feature, why there’s no legal mandate that new built cars have to be able to detect dead lights and alert the driver is beyond me.

HiddenLayer5 , 6 days ago

They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do.

Doing the absolute bare minimum to not be consumer hostile does not warrant praise. Just because Nintendo or Apple are worse doesn’t mean Valve is heroic for not doing things they really shouldn’t have the right to do anyway.

HiddenLayer5 , 6 days ago

Quality over quantity. Reddit trying way too hard to capture the “normie” users is exactly what began its downfall.

HiddenLayer5 , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Also pets. Gifting someone a pet does neither the recipient nor the animals any favours unless you know for certain that they both want a pet (and that it’s an actual informed want with all the required forethought and self assessment for both the advantages and disadvantages of having a pet, and not just “a puppy running around my house would be so cute!”) and have the means to support a pet.

Especially if the recipient is a kid and/or you’re giving them a fish or rodent or some other small cheap animal that is considered low maintainance or disposable. News flash, no pet is low maintainance or disposable and you might as well just step on the animal instead to spare them the suffering because a dumb little kid will kill them slowly and horribly. I see this happen all the time and it pisses me off so much. Pets aren’t toys, they shouldn’t be given to children who can’t even take care of themselves.

Actually, please just stop giving people animals without their prior input in general. If you truly want to gift someone a pet, you should be involving them in the acquisition process, taking them to the shelter to choose a pet for example, because the personality of the individual animal and whether it’s suited to the personality of the people that will be caring for them is absolutely critical. If you can’t do that but still want to support their having a pet, then see if a shelter will sell a prepaid adoption certificate, that way they can still choose to not go through with it, or just buy them pet supplies if you know for sure that they plan on getting a pet. There are even species agnostic gifts if you don’t know what kind of pet they plan on getting.

HiddenLayer5 , 13 days ago

Also also us: oh a lottery ticket that I know for a mathematical fact has such a tiny chance of winning that I’m literally more likely to be struck by a shark and eaten by lightning, well I’ll try my odds, who knows?

HiddenLayer5 , 13 days ago

The other day I saw a video from Emkay, one of the largest “Reddit commentary/reaction” content farm channels where they just steal the top voted posts from Reddit and read them out, going as far as to censor even the lightest swear words with stupid pop culture sound effects until the post is utterly soulless to avoid demonetization, zero credit to the original creator and no linkback in the description or anything. And surprise surprise one of the narrators flat out said “YouTube blocking adblockers is great because we get more revenue!”

If that isn’t a self aware wolf moment I don’t know what is.

HiddenLayer5 , 13 days ago

Remember: There is no such thing as an “evil” AI, there is such a thing as evil humans programming and manipulating the weights, conditions, and training data that the AI operates on and learns from.

HiddenLayer5 , 12 days ago

It’s always ironic and super self aware wolf when a customer says they “feel bad” for you because you’re working on Sunday, Christmas, etc, or working in the dead of night for 24/7 establishments.

Also, Catholics and many other Christian denominations literally believe that people who work on a Sunday go to hell for violating the Sabbath, yet after Sunday mass tons of them flood into restaurants, causing the cooks and wait staff to go to hell.

HiddenLayer5 , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Also, remember that Lemmy is a small open source project with only two or three full time devs and the rest being from community contributions. Lemmy is also entirely supported by user donations and an NLnet grant. I feel like too many people are coming here and basically expecting corporate level customer service and user experience just without the corporate enshitification, which is not a fair expectation for such a small and grassroots platform.

Lemmy is also very young and very much still in beta, it only started federating like two years ago. Keep that in mind as well.

HiddenLayer5 , 14 days ago

In the spirit of Alec’s pedentry, I must mention that lube does not work by making things moist, instead it works by reducing friction and preventing direct contact between solids. Oil based lubes are a prime example of this as they contain very little water and therefore is ineffective at making things moist but is still effective at reducing friction. Water by itself is actually a pretty bad lube.

Also we’re talking about machine lube right? …right?

HiddenLayer5 , 15 days ago

Do it! Commence the sacrifice so that the great penguin in the sky may grant you its blessing!