Let's keep in mind that if this is a state actor or some sort of global organized crime, then they don't put all their eggs into one basket. If that's the case, they're going to have a bunch of other plans and backdoor attempts ongoing. This isn't the end and we can assume there's something else somewhere that went unnoticed.

Security is a constantly changing war of attrition, not a goal/product/configuration.

Damn fine work all around.

I know this is an issue fraught with potential legal and political BS, and it's impossible to check everything without automation these days, but is there an organization that trains and pays people to work as security researchers or QA for open source projects?

Basically, a watchdog group that finds exploitable security vulnerabilities, and works with individuals or vendors to patch them? Maybe make it a publicly owned and operated group with mandatory reporting of some kind. An international project funded by multiple governments, where it's harder for a single point of influence to hide exploits, abuse secrets, or interfere with the researchers? They don't own or control any code, just find security issues and advise.

I don't know.

Just thinking that modern security is getting pretty complicated, with so many moving parts and all.

SC-Controller, although it seems to have been abandoned.

Gpodder-adaptive

I lived across the street from a department store, a grocery, some pizza places, a "smoke" shop, video game stores, and everything else I could want on a normal day. It was amazing. I walked everywhere except to work. I miss living there. The main downside was that it was in Florida.

They all work well enough on my weak machine with an RX580.

Buuuuuuuuuut, RWKY had some kind of optimization thing going that makes it two or three times faster to generate output. The problem is that you have to be more aware of the order of your input. It has a hard time going backwards to a previous sentence, for example.

So you'd want to say things like "In the next sentence, identify the subject." and not "Identify the subject in the previous text."

Huh. I hadn't thought about that. That's not a bad point either.

Why would Reddit ban it? It's an easy way for them to collect users' IP addresses for their corporate overlords.

At my last job, the fire system kept calling the fire department with false positives so often that they told us to fix it or the city was going to start fining the company LOTS of money. One of the dumbass HR people asked if we could just disable the fire system to prevent it from making false positives. The very patient fireman had to explain that no, we could not intentionally disable fire safety equipment in a populated building, and the company had to actually fix the broken detector.

The elevators also broke down a lot, one time with my intern inside. I called the fire department to get her out, and my boss's boss said I should have waited longer before calling the fire department, for some reason. I forget why.

I never signed an NDA, and I think I'd be fine telling you the name of this global company. But to be safe, I won't. I'll just say that most of the people here have probably interacted with customer service run by this company before. I AM CERTAIN OF IT.

Other offline tools I've found:

GPT4All

RWKY-Runner

Don't know. Contrary to popular belief, I don't sit around mulling over how much I like or dislike different religions. I do think about when the people in those religions do stupid and evil shit, but otherwise I don't care that much.

Oh, this is so nice. Thank you!

Your post says to message you? Will do.

Most of the stuff is already gone, but Alekon looks adorable. Reminds me a bit of Slime Rancher graphics with Pokemon Snap gameplay.

UPDATE: I got the code for the game and have played it for about 10 hours. It's very cute, and the mental break from daily stress that I needed. Thank you again @EssentialCoffee@midwest.social

Thanks everyone for the server and service. It's appreciated. If I wasn't broke and jobless at the moment, I'd be happy to kick over some monthly money on Patreon or Kofi or whatever people are using these days.

Voyager on Android seems to be working fine. 👍

You fool!

Just make a pact with the devil instead. ... Adderall helps too.

I was thinking of the inserted text as a user-side thing. If someone sends you an emoji, your software inserts the name of the emoji next to it for the benefit of the user. That kind of thing.

Huh, that's an interesting point that I never thought of before.

Do you think there would be a way to make them easier to differentiate that would make them more useful, or do you think there's a fundamental problem with using them?

I'm thinking of workarounds like making emoji SVG to scale to whatever size you need.

Or maybe an optional setting to insert text after an emoji for users that want it. Example:

😊 (Smiling face)

What do you think?

The article is misusing the word sceptic here, which is a pet peeve of mine. That language indirectly contributes to a lack of respect for actual experts and a sense of "there is no objective truth" BS.

Skepticism is not blindly denying things. That would be more akin to cynicism, or well, denialism. You can't be a "climate change skeptic", any more than you can be a "round earth skeptic", or a "gravity skeptic".

Skepticism is about being willing to update or disregard beliefs that do not match the evidence. It's about determining what is or isn't high quality evidence, and letting your ideas be challenged and tested, as only the things most likely to be true will survive. It's a process for how you approach new information, deeply held beliefs, your own assumptions, and the claims of others. It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than anything else we've got.

And unfortunately for "climate change skeptics", that also means we can know with fairly high confidence, the truth of certain things. Climate science and climate change are some of the things we have very strong evidence for, and to be "skeptical" of them in this day is not critical thinking. It's either lying, political posturing, or burying your head in the sand.

I know it doesn't mean much coming from an internet stranger, but I hope you're doing okay. I'm dealing with a similar situation. It sucks, big time. Wishing you good luck.

EDIT: Wow, I'm still getting used to this app and just noticed the post was 2 years old. I hope things did get better.

These days, it's a little bit janky while the new dev team tries to modernize it, but try out Ubuntu Unity on a live USB or something.

It's pretty and it's fun to use. Different, but not alien. I wouldn't install it as a daily driver yet, but if you are having fun trying out Linux stuff, I'd say to give that desktop interface a try.

This is absolutely freaking awesome.

God, I love open source. There's so much cool stuff, and it just seems to bring out the best in people.