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Not through a Wireguard tunnel

If you want a nice way to elevate the usability of your setup use Tailscale (or self-host Headscale) and run your devices on a VPN.

My devices are never not on my “LAN”, they maintain a VPN connection and access my local services as if they’re wired in. Remote pihole, multimedia streaming, password management etc are all covered by this one solution without needing to deal with reverse proxies and certificates.

“Welcome to Walmart. I love you”.

It does feel a lot like that 'round here

AI Horde has a OpenAI compatible REST API (https://oai.aihorde.net/). They say that it doesn’t support the full feature set of their native API, but will almost assuredly work with this.

OP manually builds the oapi JSON payload and then uses the python requests library to handle the request.

The fields they’re using match the documentation on https://oai.aihorde.net/docs

You would need to add a header with your AI Horde API key. Looks like that would only need to be done in router_fastapi.py - call_model_prompt() (line 269) and call_model_messages() (line 303) and then everything else is setup according to documentation

I do hate that if you speak at a language above ‘Reddit Common’ people assume that you’re a neural network instead of just someone who exercises theirs.

It doesn’t matter, nobody would have a cause of action to challenge their interpretation if they decided that it meant any HOA or self-declared neighborhood watch.

In the end they are giving the data that they own to who they choose. The fact that it came from a device that you chose to bolt on the side of your house doesn’t mean anything in this transaction. The data instantly becomes theirs by virtue of the TOS (that you read, right?) that you agreed to when you signed up for the service and you have no say in what someone else does with their data.

These kinds of programs are just whitewashing, it makes it look like there are significant barriers in place to prevent your data from being used to enable a nationwide real-time surveillance network. There are not.

Flock could start charging a subscription fee for access to their video feeds tomorrow and it would be within their rights as owners of that data. The reason that they create these ‘programs’ is because it creates the impression that the user has control of ‘their’ data.

The owner chooses what to share in response to a request. Just like IRL when the police knock on an owner’s door to request information.

Yes, through this program you are technically correct that the user has to press a button to send the video to law enforcement through this specific program.

This implies that the user has the ability to refuse to send the video to law enforcement, but that is not true.

The videos are stored on Flock/Amazon’s servers and that means that the police can, via a subpoena or court order, access the footage or real-time video from any device or storage that the business can access. You have zero say in this and cannot opt out, the case law on requesting ‘business records’ is long settled as is the idea that digital files are considered ‘business records’.

In addition, this program does not preclude Flock/Amazon from voluntarily providing access to anybody or any group that asks/pays. The data is theirs, not yours.

This program is whitewashing the creation of a nation-wide real-time video surveillance network, paid for by you or via your tax dollars.

Run Boo, RUN!

Another good MVNO, for privacy, is Phreeli. Louis Rossmann (on YT) created a MVNO which collects no data from you, you can even pay cash-by-mail anonymously and with crypto.

Pretty straight forward value proposition: You pay and they provide phone services, don’t sell your data and design their systems around not collecting your data in the first place or, if collected (like payment information) is used for the transactions and deleted.

The only information you provide is a zip code (optional, but ties the phone into your area’s 911 system if you’re into that kind of thing)

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Anything can be an issue if work hard enough.

This is, conveniently, a decision that discourages their customers from buying hardware from anywhere but themselves an anti-competitive practice which carries little risk of lawsuit, or fine.

It’s certainly not a technical problem. We all, mostly, use the same cellular network and other carriers have no trouble supporting devices purchased directly from the vendor.

There’s a VERY important distinction here.

The ‘unlock’ that they are talking about here is to unlock your phone’s SIM to be able to be used with another carrier’s service.

This does not mean that the bootloader is unlocked and you will not be able to replace the OS. You will still be stuck with Verizon’s spyware-laden release of Android even when you move to a new carrier.

So, buy your devices directly from the manufacturer and make sure that the phone supports the ability to unlock (and re-lock!) the bootloader. If you need a recommendation, get a current generation Pixel and install GrapheneOS or if you won’t give up Google Play and dependent apps, LineageOS.

I deleted it when I was installing Steam games and ran out of space. A few commands later and I have another 2TB of SSD storage.

I hadn’t booted into Windows for nearly a year by that time and, in the months since, I haven’t once regretted it or wished I still had it installed.

They’re not killing sideloading, they’re just building the gallows and sharpening the axe.

The outrage doesn’t stop anything, it just makes them slow their plans and wait out the public outrage.

(the 3rd one is out soon-ish? if not now?)

End of Feb (the 26th?), these sales seem to be to promote the launch of Part 3.

I played the 2nd one with a friend for a few hours last night. I appreciate the humor, the music selection is above average, the movement feels good and every time we died it was due to us being dumb. No bugs (playing on Linux, with GE-Proton10-27), runs great on maximum settings.

We were having an easy time by going on a murder spree, then we noticed that the game gives you rank medals for speed, avoiding kills and avoiding detection so we started playing to maximize the end-score. Those constraints make the puzzles a bit harder and I can see wanting to run a level multiple times in order to get it right.

Overall, it’s a fun experience, does the stealth thing competently and the graphics/music/animations/dialog is good.

I had no idea this existed(I never even look at EGS), thanks. Now I can live out my WoW Goblin Rogue fantasies.

He means the LLM boom. Their conflating LLMs with all of AI is nonsense.

There are plenty of other machine learning projects, even ones using Transformer-based neural networks), that are doing just fine because they are not built on top of ridiculous business models like ‘buy every bit of computer hardware and hope someone makes something to run on it’.

The faster this thing crashes, the faster all consumer electronics becomes cheaper.

Version 2.0 uses memes

Social Democracy is a method of operating the government.

Capitalism is a way of operating the economy.

Much of Europe’s governments are classified as a Social Democracy and they also use the capitalist economic system.

As someone with experience with people who are in the MAGA reality bubble, this is because there is no in-canon explanation of Trump’s actions (yet, the story writers patch these up pretty quick). There was no setup for this, no laying the misinformation groundwork and no existing goal that this advances.

Since Greenland wasn’t part of the story, it just came out of nowhere. Lacking any in-MAGA explaination, they are examining this situation as a normal person who knows normal facts and this is completely an unforced error by any measure as anyone can see.

If this was something that was serious and planned then we would have started hearing about this months ago as they started preparing the lies and the misinformation seeding into social media via paid/artificial content creators or otherwise useful idiots. This is probably the strongest indication that Greenland is a distraction and not a real move. This is probably the case with Canada too, in my opinion.

They would rather people talk about anything but the Epstein files and how they are very clearly covering them up and not complying with the law. They don’t want reporters to have time to report on all of the people that he has pardoned who also have made $2-5 million dollar donations to various MAGA PACs, some of them committing even more crimes and getting another pardon…

They need to throw things into the air to distract people. Some of their planned events are polling negative (the Minnesota Invasion, Healthcare Subsidies) and they don’t have anything else so instead we get more random tariffs and more random military threats because they are something that the Executive Branch can do unilaterally and suddenly to ensure that they grab the next news cycle.

This is the “Flood the Zone” tactic that Steve Bannon said that they were using during the first admin.