My bad. Thanks for the correction.

He’s She’s talking specifically about the idea of embedding AI agents in operating systems, and allowing them to interact with the OS on the user’s behalf.

So if you think about something like Signal, the point is that as it leaves your device the message is encrypted, and only gets decrypted when it arrives on the device of the intended recipient. This should shut down most “Man in the middle” type of attacks. It’s like writing your letters in code so that if the FBI opens them, they can’t read any of it.

But when you add an AI agent in the OS, that’s like dictating your letter to an FBI agent, and then encrypting it. Kind of makes the encryption part pointless.

I hate it with every fibre of my being.

Even if you use AI tools for drafting, you’ll want to know enough CSS and HTML to be able to parse the code and make adjustments where needed. Being completely ignorant of how to read the output from AI coding tools is never a good idea.

I guarantee there will still be VPNs accessible in the UK no matter what they try. My money is definitely on Mullvad still being accessible for one.

On their ARM platform you get something like 8 cores and 24GB of RAM. Honestly, that’ll run a hell of a lot more than an RSS server.

I have one that’s running three different minecraft servers simultaneously.

“This totally amazing new product that everyone will definitely want might turn into a total failure if everyone doesn’t actually want it. Clearly, this is your fault for not wanting it hard enough, and not our fault for shoving a totally unwanted product down everyone’s throats.”

I just switched to Lawnchair recently, and I really like it. I’ll definitely give Dragon a look.

You can also set these limits in your compose file, if you use compose (which you should).

Most of those containers are probably grabbing more memory than they actually need. Consider applying some resource constraints to some of them.

Dozzle is an excellent addition to your docker setup, giving you live performance graphs for all your containers. It can help a lot with fine tuning your setup.

But what about the zero people who used it? Whatever will they do?

Do they have to edit your domain into a connections file or some such

Pretty much. I don’t remember the exact details, but that’s close enough for the cat.

No, as in the person installing the app to use the service has to edit a config file.

Yes, I have no issue editing config files. I’m self-hosting, that’s the point. All the technical load should be on me. But my completely non-technical friends should not have to edit config files to be able to access my self-hosted services. Everything, for them, should be as simple as possible.

I agree, but my point is that even in the minds of the people who think it’s OK to invade privacy like this, I still don’t see how this is supposed to produce useful results.

It can be self hosted, but to connect the clients to self-hosted servers you have to edit config files, so it’s a very user hostile solution.

Meta cutting previous failed ventures to pay for next failed venture.

Even if you can somehow get past the absolutely horrendous privacy implications, how the fuck is this even supposed to work? They want to prevent “digital flashing” (eg, dick pics), but how the fuck is any system supposed to be able to tell the difference between consensual and non-consensual content? What if someone wants to see a picture of someone’s dick? Even assuming you can create a computer model that can accurately identify a dick pic every single time (you can’t), it would also have to be able to infer context to a level that would require effectively human level intelligence and the ability to make judgements across the entirety of a person’s communications. This is so far beyond impossible, from a purely technical standpoint, that I cannot begin to imagine how it was ever allowed to become law.

That depends what you’re trying to solve. For a lot of people, they’re still gonna need their phone. I don’t think “Just use a walkie talkie bro” would read as very helpful advice to the average person.

If, however, you are the sort of person organizing a protest or other similar activity, yes, absolutely, walkie tallies are great. A lot of people who do serious political activism talk about how radio is still the most resilient communication method. Not fool-proof, you definitely need to study up on the limitations, but an invaluable tool to be aware of.

If you are going to a protest as a group, and you have the resources to invest a few hundred bucks, getting a set of walkie-talkies for the group plus a dedicated burner one responsible person to carry (maybe someone who will be in radio range but clear of the actual happenings) is also a solid strategy, but we also shouldn’t be acting like “Going as a group” and “spending a few hundred dollars” are prerequisites for being politically active. There need to be solutions for everyone.

Oh, perfect. Thank you.

Honestly, I think this is just one where you try it for yourself. The compose file is about 4 lines long, I had the whole thing up and running in about 30 seconds (OK, 45; I forgot a port was already in use and had to redeploy).

So far my one big complaint would be that the self-hosted version replicates the entire website, including all of the “Why choose Bento PDF” and “Try now” and so on. It’d be nice to just have the tools right there when I load it up. Other than that, well, it looks cool, I’ll know more once I actually try out the available options.