That doesn’t make any sense as argument no matter how you spin it. Linux is the dominant system for servers for decades now, and a Debian Desktop is quite literally the same as Debian on a server except it also got a GUI of your choice slapped on top. There’s absolutely nothing obscure about it, neither did anyone from the kernel team (Linux), FSF (GNU utils) nor IBM / Red Hat (systemd & honestly way too much other stuff) etc. ever design something around STO. That’s a domain firmly situated in proprietary code since for FOSS it doesn’t make sense to begin with. The false errand of GRUB is the sole exception, well known and solved.

The desktop market share says absolutely nothing about what you’re trying to argue. Now if you were to argue that Linux is lacking in terms of desktop software isolation then you’d have a point, things like Flatpak still are addressing lots of issues. But to say “Linux” approaches security with obscurity is total nonsense.

Chat gpt says

Bro, stop. Get some help. At least check the sources it used…

I don’t know where you got the notion from that Linux as a whole uses this concept, but it’s nonsense. There’s exactly one place where this definition fits, which is the GRUB bootloader encryption (which merely shifts the target for the Evil Maid attack from the initramfs to GRUB). But this is already adressed with Verified Boot.

Nothing else, let it be LUKS, PAM, SELinux, AppArmor or whatever has any business with STO.

Uuuhm, not quite. The Playstation ecosystem absolutely is a walled garden. Their proprietary flash memory cards aren’t a thing anymore because they failed to win against more open standards (SD, microSD) and it would’ve been super expensive to stick with it on their own for no good reason.

I was assuming devices being shut down. With running ones you’re of course right, the lengths e.g. GrapheneOS has to go to secure these are insane.

With home devices you very much could make them shut down, which would of course be necessary. E.g. various deadman switches, physical and logical ones. It sucks how common people have to think about this shit by now… fucking fascists…

A new automated bot rush found a way around safety measures. I’m sure our admins and devs are already on it.

Sigh, people in this sub keep posting nice things without the source code or self-hosting information. Unbelievable.

The concept sounds interesting. I do wonder how to make this “raid proof” though. Like, how do you make sure the device also becomes unbootable if I̶C̶E̶ ̶F̶a̶s̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ ̶J̶e̶f̶f̶r̶e̶y̶ ̶E̶p̶s̶t̶e̶i̶n̶ ̶Y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶M̶o̶m̶ ̶F̶r̶o̶n̶t̶e̶x̶ the police comes in and takes both? By now there are dogs able to sniff out PCBs even in walls (apparently they got a distinct smell K9’s can be trained on).

Does this software by any chance support two servers that both have only a part of the secret? That way you (and/or someone you trust) could deposit a Pi somewhere else and have some way to remotely disable the boot process.

Those “epic deals” are mostly scam. I’ve looked at different stuff, and e.g. the beyerdynamic Amiron was supposedly 30% off or sth. but that was just the normal price for months. Same with TVs, just the normal price that sits well below MSRP suddenly praised as “Prime Day Deal”. Genuine reductions are usually merely ~5% and for e.g. blu-rays and stuff.

The only two things that were truly cheaper I found was a Brother printer, which went from 250€ to 200€, as well as a 9k BTU Monoblock AC (300 -> 230. Completely sold out within a day). All the other things were not worth it or just lies.

Damn bro, you’re treating yourself for sure! The RAM alone is what, 2k? 🥴

Yikes. My first instinct would be to check the whole Z-axis for obvious construction defects or parts that are stuck at a certain height.

Another explanation could be your part detaching from the plate at some point and warping upwards, pressing against the nozzle. That would explain the massive sudden buildup of material (and weird one-sidedness of it) and ongoing wobbliness.

Edit: nvmd, just saw your comment about no sign of lifting.

For filehosts probably at least 90% of all uploads are illegal if you ask a copyright lawyer. 🥴 But that’s mostly just people sharing culture.

Of course damn CSAM is a different (and actual) kind of issue and plain awful to deal with. If I remember correctly some organisation from the US provides a free list of checksums of known crap that’s circulating to automatically check media file signatures against, I think that’s the first thing I’d look for to have some baseline defense against those disgusting fucks. Or (depending on your jurisdiction) even be compatible with the law for public hosting services.

Better use Tor & a trustworthy search engine when looking for infos how to implement such an upload filter, I wouldn’t trust automated systems from Google to not misinterpret your intention with these topics.

Okay, but where is the git page to self-host it?

Oh wow, this went completely under my radar (how didn’t anyone brought it up in any of the videos recently made about how shitty Bambu is?). Seems like at least a few people didn’t know though, so I’m just leaving it here. :)

AI has democratized software.

If you mean that everyone can now build something that most likely will fall apart in the future, where nobody knows what’s actually inside as nobody reads it, where you might get hit with copyright claims because you stole code willy-nilly (you can’t hide behind the AI, you did it), that is full of security issues as well as structural nonsense and you may never know if the LLM decides to delete everything star anew while blasting a 6000€ hole in your pocket doing do…

…well then yes, it “democratized” something.

Bambu also is a no-go for quality reasons by now, they didn’t care for their printers catching fire for way too long.

That article, while technically being correct on many things, is also a little bit hyperbolic (that picture with “Who’s copying who now” is just laughable at best and utterly misleading). Prusa is still the best choice in what we call this “open market” (which repeatedly fucked them over), including openness.

Viable alternatives, including cheaper ones, would be Snapmaker’s U1 and printers from Qidi Tech or Sovol. Mind that Qidi Tech and Sovol are somewhat known for sub-par customer support (they have to save the money somewhere I guess). Qidi Tech is better for “set up and use”, Sovol is a good baseline to tinker with the printer itself as well.

Keep in mind that Prusa printers absolutely excel in longevity though, and they’re the only ones known to offer upgrade paths. Not to mention data security when using their services… just saying there are good reasons their printers are more expensive. You’ll most likely have more from them for longer. Not the MK4S though, that one is very much last gen by now.

I don’t agree with your take on AI and the comparison at all, however if you want to use them and stay independent in the future it’s probably best to use Mistral. Their models are available for download and (mostly) licensed under Apache 2.0. You only have to pay for commercial use. Also they’re basically the only big EU-company in that space and the only I know of where the web interface isn’t infested with trackers and shit. However they are also involved in the military (guess which edge models are running on those semi-autonomous drones in Ukraine).

All I need to know is does it solve a problem I have, does it work, is it stable, and is it secure.

You have to be aware that

• LLMs are recreating licensed code without telling you, which WILL fuck you over eventually
• They do not produce secure code on their own. Keys end up client-side, in widely opened S3 buckets, encryption falsely implemented etc. Widely known, no link needed.
• It is not faster, in fact you’re slower while merely feeling faster. By now even the techbros themselves just recently finally admitted that.
• There’s no point to mention the immorality of the tech, everyone should know by now.

So yeah, your choice how much you use it. But it’s pretty obvious why nobody trusts vibe-coded stuff, and the metric ton of low-quality projects even forcing the de-facto App Store of a whole ecosystem to completely ban AI code reeeally doesn’t help.

I can respect the self-awareness though.

These guys always watch with extreme sports.

Is there a Lemmy version of r/IHadAStroke?