Pics or it didn't happen.
(Seriously, I'd like to see the source of this story. Googling "Tim the pencil" doesn't bring up anything related.)
rufus
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100% agree. Also most IRL people I meet in casual situations are pretty alright. I have mostly nice neighbors, sometimes random people help out each other. And that also happens amongst strangers in the supermarket or on public transportation.
(Some people are stupid though. And/or inconsiderate. But I think that's part of the game. Some people just can't board a train properly or get off of it without bumping into 3 other people. 😉 But that shouldn't make your day worse, they're just a bit stupid.)
Thanks for posting something positive. And not just taking it for granted and only mentioning negative thoughts 😊
What's the memory bandwith if I were to run large language models on them? Does it get close to the Apple chips?
Yeah. I'd say if you're throwing away paper coffee cups regularly, you're already way worse than me who uses regular porcelain cups with nerdy text on them or my trusty stainless steel travel mug. Maybe you really need to be lectured by some ChatGPT smart appliance. (Disclaimer: There might be some circumstances where you can't avoid them.)
I think the correct way to handle this is to include a bad-bot blocker in your webserver. There are plenty scripts and addons available for the common software stacks. Is fairly easy to set up and comes with far less side-effects.
There are also local and privacy-respecting Web Application Firewalls like ModSecurity, Janusec, Vulture Project (I haven't yet tested them) which could maybe do the same thing.
We're all subject to these crawlers, bots and vulnerability scanners. I also run 3 small websites including mail and a few other services. I rarely block some bot that downloads images over and over again. And fail2ban blocks a lot of brute-forcing attempts. Other than that, the traffic they cause isn't that much compared to a single other service like Matrix chat or some Fediverse software that causes lots of HTTP requests all day long. It runs without Cloudflare or other third-party services for years on my slow home internet connection. Back then even on a single board computer (like the Raspberry Pi.)
So my experience is a bit different. And that I can run 3 websites on a RasPi on a 15MBit connection just fine and other people need Cloudflare for a 1000MBit VPS makes me think it's snake-oil. But yeah, I agree if you block the bots, they stop after some time. That's also my experience. But the traffic isn't that much in the first place and there are better ways to do it in my opinion.
Hmmh, I'd like to - at some point - speak to an admin who has been targeted by a DDoS attack. I know it happened to one Lemmy instance. What I've seen as an admin were some attempts that weren't that bad for us, and that was years ago. It didn't even really stop the service, just cause lots of load on the webserver and made the website open a bit slower than usual. And it was over after a few hours and never happened again. My other servers and websites have never been targeted.
And I wonder if for example the Lemmy instances who use Cloudflare, pay them $240 a year. Because as I read, Cloudflare free ceases service if there is an ongoing DDoS attack.
I think it's mostly Live-Streamers and somewhat high-profile and controversial webservers who get targeted. Like the biggest Lemmy instances. Or if you're successful at messing with the Russian internet trolls. Or play a game in a live stream and your fans like to seriously mess with you, like pay for a virtual attack or swat you. Other than that, I believe 99.9% of people who run internet services will never experience such an attack. And it wouldn't really harm them if their service went down for some time.
Another question would be: What to do with the head now that it's been that way for hundreds of years? Burn it? Bury it? Would any of that help and align with what the person who originally 'owned' that head wanted?
Read a good book on the subject (or two). In my experience that's way better information and more comprehensive than gathering info on the internet.
And I'd agree, start small. Practice first and raise the bar as you learn.
With the equipment, that's indeed a bit difficult. You'd need to learn the specifics and how to decide, or ask someone in the shop and hope they tell you the truth, or join a group or have friends who can help. You can buy cheap stuff and learn with that. But you're bound to buy things twice that way. But the more professional equipment is all specialized stuff. You'd have a different sleeping bag depending on season plus extras like if it needs to repell water and what makes you comfortable. And there are a lot of tents. Some are lightweight so you can carry them on your backpack, some are larger and you can sit inside and cook during a rainstorm, some can withstand storm and lots of rain. Lots of requirements are mutually exclusive. And it can get really expensive anyways, so you have to decide. And with backpacks: I'd go to a store and try a few, it needs to be large enough to fit your stuff but it also needs to fit you.
About water supplies etc you can read in a book. And you should have a try with a cooker and food at home (probably outside). It's easy to forget salt/margarine/a spatula or a suitable bowl for soup if it's your first try. Or misjudge how much fuel to carry for the cooker. Or what kind of (dry) food is lightweight, tasty and fills your stomach after a tiring day in the woods. I mean you should test your equipment anyways, maybe for a weekend first, maybe in proximity of your home or on a camp site. And see what's missing before walking into the wilderness.
And you should also read about how to care for the environment, what kind of soap and toothpaste to use, how to poop...
Also don't buy too much unnecessary stuff. I'd say it's not always obvious what kind of equipment is super handy and which is just dead weight. And not everyone needs the super expensive tent or cooker that can burn almost everything...
Mostly breaking it. They're centralizing stuff and nowadays lots of services depend on that single service provider. And the original idea of the internet was to make everyone equal and have some resilience against single points of failure. That's kind of detrimental to the whole idea.
Secondly, you unencrypt your traffic and send it to them plain so they can read everything. That may or may not be an issue for your use-case, but I like privacy and encryption and no third parties reading my messages.
And the question is: What do you need their service for? I understand that a tunnel is useful if you're behind a NAT. But the DDoS protection and attack prevention is mostly snake-oil for most people. It's often unnecessary, the free tier doesn't include any of the interesting stuff and it's questionable if most people get targeted by DDoS attacks anyways. And as I heard if it comes to that point, they will cease service to you anyways and want to see money ($240 to $2.400 per year.) So I don't see a good reason why you'd use Cloudflare in the first place. Unless you need a tunnel or subscribe to one of the more expensive plans. Otherwise it only has downsides.
I'd agree with the recommendation of Lutris and Bottles. Just install the two and see what you like and which works best. I've heard Lutris is pretty good. And both tools handle most of the underlying stuff for you, like managing Wine and Proton.
There are quite some guides/tutorials/youtube videos on how to use them.
Hmmh, your post shows 04:50 in the morning. That's definitely a time even the insomniacs would be asleep in Europe.
It's a bit better for us. When I go to bed, the Americans from the east start to come home from work. (And there is a good amount of Germans here on Lemmy.)
And maybe have a look at his Youtube channel and the older videos, too. Lots of them are a bit more philosophical and not too technical for the average person. I think he's quite inspiring and conveys very well what AI safety is about, and what kinds of problems that field of science is concerned with.