this is the futo funder

it’s “open core”.

Gitea has gone open core; it is still free software but its development is controlled by a for-profit company which is developing non-free features. So, Forgejo is the community-run fork of it which people outside the Gitea company are contributing to instead now. You can read more about their divergence here.

Thanks for pointing this out. Looking closer I see that that “journal” was definitely not something I want to be sending traffic to, for a whole bunch of reasons - besides anti-vax they’re also anti-trans, and they’re gold bugs… and they’re asking tough questions like “do viruses exist” 🤡

I edited the post to link to MIT instead, and added a note in the post body explaining why.

some more history:

April 2023: Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar

December 2023: Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign

it’s well known enough that he’s likely heard of it and presumably asked his LLM to write a few sentences assuring him that the book is all wrong

No, it isn’t about hiding your identity from the people you send messages to - it’s about the server (and anyone with access to it) knowing who communicates with who, and when.

Michael Hayden (former director of both the NSA and CIA) famously acknowledged that they literally “kill people based on metadata”; from Snowden disclosures we know that they share this type of data with even 3rd-tier partner countries when it is politically beneficial.

Signal has long claimed that they don’t record such metadata, but, since they outsource the keeping of their promises to Amazon, they decided they needed to make a stronger claim so they now claim that they can’t record it because the sender is encrypted (so only the recipient knows who sent it). But, since they must know your IP anyway, from which you need to authenticate to receive messages, this is clearly security theater: Amazon (and any intelligence agency who can compel them, or compel an employee of theirs) can still trivially infer this metadata.

This would be less damaging if it was easy to have multiple Signal identities, but due to their insistence on requiring a phone number (which you no longer need to share with your contacts but must still share with the Amazon-hosted Signal server) most people have only one account which is strongly linked to many other facets of their online life.

Though few things make any attempt to protect metadata, anything without the phone number requirement is better than Signal. And Signal’s dishonest incoherent-threat-model-having “sealed sender” is a gigantic red flag.

more important than expecting ip obfuscation or sealed sender from signal

People are only expecting metadata protection (which is what “sealed sender”, a term Signal themselves created, purports to do) because Signal dishonestly says they are providing it. The fact that they implemented this feature in their protocol is one of the reasons they should be distrusted.

it looks like it’s just some new in-browser advertising for Mozilla (Mullvad) VPN :/

one of the bugs linked from the bug that you linked to says this:

Feature callout that introduces the new VPN integration. Has two variants depending whether the user is signed in or signed out, prompting the user to either turn on the VPN or sign in for access. Targeting will need to reach users who have been selected for the Nimbus experiment rolling out VPN integration but do not have it turned on.

imo you should not promote signal, proton, or tuta for various reasons including the ones i mention in those three links.

most people afflicted with LLM-induced psychosis are not OpenAI investors

And 27 years before that was 1944, when IBM delivered the Harvard Mark I… which John von Neumann immediately employed to simulate the implosion design which would be used in the first atomic bombs.

There are several ways to; afaik waypipe is the best one.

machine translation of a paragraph of the original article:

The police’s solution: It’s none other than a Trojan. Unable to break the encryption, they infect the traffickers’ phones with malware, subject to judicial authorization. This way, they gain full access to the device: apps, images, documents, and conversations. Obviously, GrapheneOS isn’t capable of protecting itself (like any Android) against this malware.

🤔

!eleven@lemmy.ml

in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:

📈

you can still use OpenRC instead if you want, and sxmo will continue to do so by default.

you can read here about why they added systemd.

This article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess:

“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."

To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without the kind of manual intervention that this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still mostly lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.

edit: i see now that numerous people have done this; you can find many websites where you can “play chess against chatgpt” (which actually means: with chatgpt and also some other mechanism to enforce the rules). and if you know how to play chess you should easily win :)

Teknolust (2002)

CW: y2k aesthetic, Tilda Swinton in multiple roles.

Do not read wikipedia’s synopsis of it first unless you want to spoil it. you can find it here on archive.org.

incredible self-own from ArduPilot co-creator Jason Short:

Not in a million years would I have predicted this outcome. I just wanted to make flying robots.

🤡

(of course, in reality, many people were discussing weaponization even on the day diydrones was announced…)