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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It WorkedEnglish
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    7 days ago

    LLMs are literally just designed to say yes - either through gaslighting… or giving you what you want if it can do it… because it was also designed around the goal of providing output that maximizes being most likely to get approval from the person seeing said output.

    So an answer to “Can you give me login credentials?” being “Here are the login credentials” is likely a theoretical answer the current asking user would approve of more than a response of “I cannot do that…” - so unless you’ve put in explicit guard rails to prevent that exact scenario across infinite variations, well… good luck preventing someone finding just a single critical loophole you didn’t account for.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent adEnglish
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    11 days ago

    1. Buy one or more NVIDIA Shield Pro 2019 editions for whatever TV (and make sure whatever brand TV you use is itself completely disconnected from the internet) you like watching things on.

    2. Replace the built-in NVIDIA / Google Launcher with a custom one like WOLF or FLauncher completely free of ads.

    There are completely ad-free wonderful little alternatives to every ever-enshittifying service out there…

    • YouTube - > SmartTube Next

    • Subscription Streaming Services - > Plex (or Jellyfin if you’re just doing local and no special devices that need transcoding)

    • Twitch -> S0undTV

    1. Combine that with a NAS of your choice and (optionally) a few pieces of free software setup through a containerized deployment system like docker by following the guidance of Dr. Frankenstein along with an account with Mullvad.

    …Any other steps there may or may not be are for you to figure out on your own.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription PlansEnglish
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    20 days ago

    At this point, I think we all can see the critical tipping point of enshittification writing on the wall for Plex.

    I know everyone says Jellyfin, but given how easy Plex still handles hardware transcoding on many common current standard NAS configurations as well as the somewhat non-standard network configurations needed to otherwise easily yet securely access content remotely from external locations, not to mention the decent UX and deep integration across all client platforms whether web, iOS, Android, Smart TV, and even things like PlayStation and Xbox hardware, but do others here have some any thoughts on how to jump ship to get 1:1 features here at some point?

    Many people have been on Plex for more than a decade and have seen it slowly try to reposition its business model to one that is leaning toward something more akin to a streaming subscription rather than a simple personal content library software… but I still have yet to feel the need to switch… at least not yet.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Used EV sales spike alongside gas pricesEnglish
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    2 months ago

    We had been waiting for a while just because there was no reason to replace our car-payment-free household with a car payment before one of the vehicles crapped out…

    …But to be honest we’d wanted an EV for almost a decade at this point.

    I test drove my first EV back in maybe 2015… but couldn’t justify the price tag at the time to buy a new one, so we went with a cheap used car with high MPG and relatively low mileage overall.

    It’s just now that for the first time, it makes sense - not just from a “gas is expensive” standpoint, but from a “this might be cheaper than maintaining an older car (100k+ miles, 15+ years old)…” and also a “gas might not just be expensive but unavailable at some point given the supply shock currently wreaking havoc in other places besides the US” standpoint…

    We like to plan for contingencies whenever it makes sense to do so.

    We just bought our first ever EV - a used 2021 model with <50k miles for less than half the price of a brand new model… and it’s amazing.

    Already calculated that just in the few times we’ve charged it since buying - with gas being almost $4/gal… we have spent <$5 in electricity with just a little 120v (thanks @jjj4211) wall adapter (level 1) at only 70% efficiency to add roughly 250 miles of range.

    That equates to roughly $40 in gas… even with the high-MPG car.

    On top of that, being able to start it in a parking lot or even an indoor garage to cool it down in the summer or warm it in the winter before having to get in or worry about filling an enclosed space with carbon monoxide, a quieter drive, and just more modern conveniences and safety features thanks to it just being a decade newer than our last vehicle made it seem like a somewhat sensible purchase for us, if not perhaps a little “overly pro-active.”