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In-reply-to » Blender-Rendered Movie 'Flow' Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar It's a feature-length film "rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender," reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks.

That’s pretty darn neat, the little indie movie (‘Flow’) made in Blender beat out some Disney/Pixar heavyweights. I actually watched it a month or so ago, nice little movie. It’s not the highest detailed animation or anything, but it has a style that it makes work.

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In-reply-to » OpenAI Says It Has Evidence DeepSeek Used Its Model To Train Competitor OpenAI says it has evidence suggesting Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train a competing open-source system through "distillation," a technique where smaller models learn from larger ones' outputs.

Oh the ****ing irony 🤣 with all the IP infringement AI models usually do, and the companies are like “nothing to see here”!

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In-reply-to » i upgraded my pc from lubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 yesterday and i was like "surely there is no way this will go smoothly" but no it somehow did. like i didn't take a backup i just said fuck it and upgraded and it WORKED?!?! i mean i had some driver issues but it wasn't too bad to fix. wild

Ahh yes, what I like to call “wild wild west” upgrading.😂
Felt like that when I upgraded/updated an Arch Linux machine that had been sitting for a couple years unused.

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In-reply-to » Google Begins Requiring JavaScript For Google Search Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely-used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. From a report: In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to "better protect" Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to improve the over ... ⌘ Read more

Of course they do

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In-reply-to » Religious Leaders Experiment With AI In Sermons An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixler's. In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fix ... ⌘ Read more

Hahaha wtf

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In-reply-to » Should Waymo Robotaxis Always Stop For Pedestrians In Crosswalks? "My feet are already in the crosswalk," says Geoffrey A. Fowler, a San Francisco-based tech columnist for the Washington Post. In a video he takes one step from the curb, then stops to see if Waymo robotaxis will stop for him. And they often didn't.

What’s the alternative, plow straight through them? lol

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In-reply-to » GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As "Solid Tool" Alternative To systemd GNU Shepherd as a service manager for both system and user services that is used by Guix and relying on Guile Scheme has finally reached version 1.0. For those not pleased with systemd, GNU Shepherd can be used as an init system and now has finally crossed the version 1.0 milestone after 21 years of development... ⌘ Read more

@phoronix@feeds.twtxt.net oh gee the syntax of that thing 😆

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In-reply-to » @prologic what do we make of Labor's proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven't been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it's broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

@prologic@twtxt.net Cheers, mate, just saw this reply so thank you. And hope you are feeling better now!

I agree with what you say too. The whole thing is just an odd approach and can’t possibly be effective, all the while causing inconveniences or at worst, being plain weird and invasive like ID verification.

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In-reply-to » Lol. "Lighty Encrypted" https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed

Oof, is it any wonder some of us don’t want to just give out our info online willy-nilly.

Also that credit card ‘encryption’ will likely land that company in very hot water, no doubt far away from PCI DSS requirements.

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@prologic@twtxt.net what do we make of Labor’s proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven’t been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it’s broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

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In-reply-to » Generative AI Doesn't Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learn ... ⌘ Read more

I like this comment on Slashdot in the above link:

LLMs don’t have an understanding of anything. They can only regurgitate derivations of what they’ve been trained on and can’t apply that to something new in the same ways that humans or even other animals can. The models are just so large that the illusion is impressive.

So true.

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In-reply-to » Lawsuit Accuses PowerSchool of Selling Student Data To 3rd Parties A former teacher has filed a federal lawsuit against PowerSchool, alleging the education technology giant illegally sells student data to third parties without proper consent. Emily Cherkin, lead plaintiff in the class action suit filed in San Francisco, claims PowerSchool has amassed 345 terabytes of data from 440 school districts, including ... ⌘ Read more

This data selling shit needs to be more heavily criminalized.

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In-reply-to » The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Ugh, do we really need more brainrot, even if it is more open? 😅

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In-reply-to » Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps? Apple's iOS 18 update has introduced changes to contact sharing that could significantly impact social app developers. The new feature allows users to selectively share contacts with apps, rather than granting access to their entire address book. While Apple touts this as a privacy enhancement, developers warn it may hinder the growth of new social platforms. Nikita Bier, a start-up founder, called it "the en ... ⌘ Read more

Lol, this is actually a good thing by Apple. Doesn’t kill social apps at all, just prevents some harvesting of your entire address book by abusive apps like WhatsApp.

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In-reply-to » Apple A16 SoC Now Manufactured In Arizona "Apple has begun manufacturing its A16 SoC at the newly-opened TSCM Fab 21 in Arizona," writes Slashdot reader NoMoreACs. AppleInsider reports: According to sources of Tim Culpan, Phase 1 of TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona is making the A16 SoC of the iPhone 14 Pro in "small, but significant, numbers. The production is largely a test for the facility at this stage, but more production is expected ... ⌘ Read more

I’m not the biggest Apple fan around, but that is pretty awesome.

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In-reply-to » If some of you budding fathers want to know how I created a computer nerd to one day work for Facebook in the big USA, well you purchase a $1000 Xmas present, an enormous thick book with C++ programming, and say, you can play as many games as you like kids, but James has to create them using computer software.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de If it still existed I bet the first thing he’d do is convert it to Golang 👌🤣

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In-reply-to » @aelaraji Ahh it might very well be a Clownflare thing as @lyse eluded to 🤣 One of these days I'm going to get off Clownflare myself, when I do I'll share it with you. My idea is to basically have a cheap VPS like @eldersnake has and use Wireguard to tunnel out. The VPS becomes the Reverse Proxy that faces the internet. My home network then has in inbound whatsoever.

@prologic@twtxt.net ‘Clownflare’ 🤣🤣🤣 Love it.

But yes the idea of a cheap VPS as a tunnel and keeping home network all local is a good one I reckon.

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In-reply-to » @bender Is it so maxed out you couldn't fit a pretty small program like Headscale on it? Headscale by itself and only personal home type use as far as amount of peers go, it really isn't noticeable I don't think resource-wise. The Docker version I guess could be a different story.

@prologic@twtxt.net Good to know. I must admit I’ve never actually used a Docker instance, probably as I just assumed the overhead might be a bit much for my usual very modest servers.

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In-reply-to » @eldersnake how big is that VPS, if you can tell? My 1 vCPU, 2GB, 50GB is maxed out. 😬

@bender@twtxt.net Is it so maxed out you couldn’t fit a pretty small program like Headscale on it? Headscale by itself and only personal home type use as far as amount of peers go, it really isn’t noticeable I don’t think resource-wise. The Docker version I guess could be a different story.

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In-reply-to » I setup and switched to Headscale last night. It was relatively simple, I spent more time installing a web GUI to manage it to be honest, the actual server is simple enough. The native Tailscale Android app even works with it thankfully.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yes I suppose that is true. There is an article on Tailscale’s site that explains it all quite a bit: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works

To me, with CGNAT, it’s a small miracle that a direct connection can be made between peers (as opposed to going through a relay constantly) but it does indeed work. I guess to host it at home you would need to have it WAN accessible, and if you’ve already gone to the trouble of port forwarding etc… well 😅
Not that I could personally do that, but for those with static IPs etc.

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In-reply-to » I setup and switched to Headscale last night. It was relatively simple, I spent more time installing a web GUI to manage it to be honest, the actual server is simple enough. The native Tailscale Android app even works with it thankfully.

@bender@twtxt.net on my hosted VPS, as I’m on Starlink which is CGNAT, I need some sort of external intermediary.

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In-reply-to » I must admit Tailscale is really cool and why I haven't used it before now is beyond me 😅

I setup and switched to Headscale last night. It was relatively simple, I spent more time installing a web GUI to manage it to be honest, the actual server is simple enough. The native Tailscale Android app even works with it thankfully.

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In-reply-to » I admit I've always compromised on this way too much myself, always to this day having Facebook Messenger just to communicate in my families group chats. Sure I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time, I can completely cut it off from network access any time as well, I can have a lot of rudimentary control over it, I use it as sparingly as possible, but it doesn't change the fact everytime I use it we're funneling private convos through bloody Meta's servers and trackers etc.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

(I don’t really trust Android, though, and I suspect that apps can still install background services that are always active. Pure speculation and paranoid on my part, but still.)

Which is fair, but I would say the GrapheneOS devs in particular are also quite paranoid about this stuff and go to great pains to make sure this stuff can be controlled by the user.

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In-reply-to » The “Matrix Experiment”, i.e. running a Matrix server for our family, has failed completely and miserably. People don’t accept it. They attribute unrelated things to it, like “I can’t send messages to you, I don’t reach you! It doesn’t work!” Yes, you do, I get those messages, I just don’t reply quickly enough because I’m at work or simply doing something else.

I admit I’ve always compromised on this way too much myself, always to this day having Facebook Messenger just to communicate in my families group chats. Sure I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time, I can completely cut it off from network access any time as well, I can have a lot of rudimentary control over it, I use it as sparingly as possible, but it doesn’t change the fact everytime I use it we’re funneling private convos through bloody Meta’s servers and trackers etc.

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In-reply-to » There is, also, a small controversy going around for something that should have been a small change, but that Kling (SerenityOS, and Ladybird creator) handled quite badly: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814.

Yeah, though sometimes the most clever devs aren’t always the best to deal with on a personal level. I seem to remember the (former?) lead dev on GrapheneOS (IIRC) was an ass hat and threw tantrums at the smallest things and would get stalkery and weird if someone criticised him, but he’s undeniably a brilliant coder and problem solver. Some people need to be more self aware of how their efforts might be harmed with their behaviour though.

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In-reply-to » Another minor inconvenience could have been avoided by reading the Arch Linux news feed before upgrading.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I must admit I was tempted to use EndeavourOS for an install on a HTPC (N97 mini PC) when it arrives to quickly get up and running, but then again I haven’t done a fresh install of Arch in quite a while so it sounds like things have simplified even more since then. Hmm…

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In-reply-to » @prologic hey mate, all working well here so far. The login issue isn't really an issue as far as actually logging in goes, rather if I get my password wrong it gives the response error code in console, the response of which contains the HTML for the wrong password page if you inspect it, but on the frontend itself nothing actually happens which is the confusion. Just stays on the login page as if it was never submitted. Am I alone in having this issue as well?

@prologic@twtxt.net Perfect 👌

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In-reply-to » Even if it might sound a bit overdramatic: Having a “mostly working” dwl Wayland setup now is a huge relief. 😅 It’s quite the weight off my shoulders.

Oh no, don’t tempt me. I’ve been on KDE for a while to not tinker and make it possible for my Windows using partner to use my laptop now and then, I’m trying to avoid the dwm/l addiction 🤣

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In-reply-to » @prologic hey mate, all working well here so far. The login issue isn't really an issue as far as actually logging in goes, rather if I get my password wrong it gives the response error code in console, the response of which contains the HTML for the wrong password page if you inspect it, but on the frontend itself nothing actually happens which is the confusion. Just stays on the login page as if it was never submitted. Am I alone in having this issue as well?

@prologic@twtxt.net phew 😁

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In-reply-to » @bender Hmmmm I'm not sure about this... 🧐 Does anyone have any other opinions that know this web/session security better than me?

Could you perhaps just have a check box to do the opposite, like “Don’t remember me”? I’ve seen that a couple of places I think. Sort of an opt in short lived login, if you’re at a public library or something etc.

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@prologic@twtxt.net hey mate, all working well here so far. The login issue isn’t really an issue as far as actually logging in goes, rather if I get my password wrong it gives the response error code in console, the response of which contains the HTML for the wrong password page if you inspect it, but on the frontend itself nothing actually happens which is the confusion. Just stays on the login page as if it was never submitted. Am I alone in having this issue as well?

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In-reply-to » Should I just code in a work-around? If the Referer is /post then consider that total bullshit, and ignore? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net I was wondering if my reverse proxy could cause something but it’s pretty standard…

server {

    listen 80;
    server_name we.loveprivacy.club;
    location / {
            return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
            <a href="https://txt.sour.is/search?tag=proxy_pass">#proxy_pass</a> http://127.0.0.1:8000;
    }

}
server {

    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name we.loveprivacy.club;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/we.loveprivacy.club/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/we.loveprivacy.club/privkey.pem;

    client_max_body_size 8M;

    location / {
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
    }

}

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In-reply-to » Yeah sorry just realised, but just checked again and the referrer is the same (/post) on either the POST or the GET 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Sorry, my messages don’t get included in the current convo unless I tag you. Guess something gets lossed in translation with this weird posting issue. ANYWAY, it is rather perplexing. Clearly only an issue on my Pod, but what could the source of it be 🤔

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Hmm…

Jun 19 23:31:38 yarn_init.sh[61567]: [yarnd] 2024/06/19 23:31:38 (127.0.0.1:40254) “POST /post HTTP/
1.0” 200 0 3.402208ms
[…]

Jun 19 23:31:39 yarn_init.sh[61567]: [yarnd] 2024/06/19 23:31:39 (127.0.0.1:40262) “GET /post HTTP/1.0” 404 729 123.474001ms

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Hmm…

Jun 19 23:31:38 yarn_init.sh[61567]: [yarnd] 2024/06/19 23:31:38 (127.0.0.1:40254) “POST /post HTTP/
1.0” 200 0 3.402208ms
[…]

Jun 19 23:31:39 yarn_init.sh[61567]: [yarnd] 2024/06/19 23:31:39 (127.0.0.1:40262) “GET /post HTTP/1.0” 404 729 123.474001ms

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In-reply-to » Unfortunately not on that front. Still the same 404 posting errors and oddly occasional login errors.

@prologic@twtxt.net The login issue I cant yet narrow down as to when it happens as sometimes I login fine. But it gives off a 401 forbidden error. Anyway I’ve been focusing on the posting error as I figured it must be related. Registering and logging in as a new user works every time, which is weird.

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Unfortunately not on that front. Still the same 404 posting errors and oddly occasional login errors.

That’s why I was wondering if using Go 1.22.4 could be an issue. I don’t know how exactly. Only way to test is to rebuild it with an older version I guess, which is why I did the make clean in the first place. Old habits die hard lol.

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@prologic@twtxt.net Righteo, so rookie error - I obviously had some untracked, rather important files for starting my pod and I ran a make clean. Why I originally had them in the git directory is anyone’s guess. Anyway it blew away those files including the database so that’s that. So your good self and @bender@twtxt.net etc - apologies but your profiles got nuked as well (as did my own but easily recreated).

Another thing I noticed which was the reason I ran make clean in the first place. I noticed my pod was being built with Go 1.22.4. Could this be a problem @prologic? preflight.sh actually errors out about it…

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@prologic@twtxt.net Sorry for the late reply. Does this help at all?

`XHRGET
https://we.loveprivacy.club/post
[HTTP/2 404 84ms]

GET

https://we.loveprivacy.club/post

Status
404
VersionHTTP/2
Transferred350 B (163 B size)
Referrer Policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
DNS ResolutionSystem

Response Status Error Code 404 from https://we.loveprivacy.club/post yarn.min.js:2:1553

y https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
n https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
i https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
Rn https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
onload https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
(Async: EventHandlerNonNull)
_ https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.j`

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@prologic@twtxt.net Sorry for the late reply. Does this help at all?

`XHRGET
https://we.loveprivacy.club/post
[HTTP/2 404 84ms]

GET

https://we.loveprivacy.club/post

Status
404
VersionHTTP/2
Transferred350 B (163 B size)
Referrer Policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
DNS ResolutionSystem

Response Status Error Code 404 from https://we.loveprivacy.club/post yarn.min.js:2:1553

y https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
n https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
i https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
Rn https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
onload https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.js:2
(Async: EventHandlerNonNull)
_ https://we.loveprivacy.club/js/06b51b8d/yarn.min.j`

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