I’m self-hosting an OpenVPN instance on a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam. I built it from the ground up several years ago, looks WAY easier now.

https://openvpn.net/as-docs/digitalocean.html#digitalocean-vpn-server-guide-for-droplet-and-access-server

Haven’t used that particular doc, but what they had posted when I built mine was the clearest, most complete tech documentation I’ve ever followed. Big fan of Digital Ocean! Think I’m paying <$7/mo. for the server?

Not necessary, but if you want a domain name to point to karashta.whatever.name, NameCheap is my go-to registrar. Like Digital Ocean, cheap and comes with top-notch tech support.

I’m in the same exact boat, but I do miss movie hype and trailers. It was a sort of marketing I didn’t mind at all. 20-years ago I’d go to Apple trailers and see what was going on. Now I’m clueless. The article reminded me of quite a few movies I need to download.

I only knew about Longlegs and Weapons because I saw a bit of hype on lemmy. Who knows what I’m missing? Forgot about One Battle After Another, but I really want to see it. Marty Supreme might be pretty cool, but the ads never made it to my face.

That sounds like a good thing, but again, I didn’t mind movie marketing. It’s just that we’re so fucking inundated with ads that people like you and I turned it all off. Sad state of affairs.

“Unify” was the product line I was forgetting.

My yacht.

Only manufacturer driver I install is Logitech’s software for their solar keyboard, though it’s not needed. Only driver you really have to install is Logitech’s “shared dongle” tech, forget what it’s called.

AI code is great for getting over a hump, something you’re stuck on. Used ChatGPT (not the best for coding, I know) to help on a PowerShell script. There was exactly two references on the internet for what I wanted to do (Google Calendar/Sheets integration). Spent hours on the problem.

ChatGPT gave me two things: One solution I didn’t know was a thing, another was a twist I hadn’t thought of. For giggles, I plugged the whole script in. Guess what? Failed instantly. Because of course it did.

No. LLMs don’t write working code. Yes. They can help you, assuming you know what you’re doing in the first place. But here’s the crux of using AI:

It does not, and cannot, give a shit about edge cases, user error and security.

I wrote a simple PS script to swap my TV screens around for work, play and movies. Rolled it out in 30 minutes. Took me 2 more hours to stupid proof it, test it, wrap it an exe, make an icon, deploy it, all that. AI can’t do any of that.

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Changing one’s face enough to fool biometrics is so rare as to be discounted. Those bastard Tleilaxu Face Dancers though!

First solid laugh of the day!

I’m 54. Cancer was a death sentence when I was young. Cures? LOL, how about detection? Forget it. You weren’t getting diagnosed until it was way too late. And we had jack shit for medicine once we caught it.

In the 90s magazines used to publish articles about a “silver bullet” for cancer. Exactly the sort of thing you’re talking about. We collectively woke up and realized there would never be such a thing. LOL, the articles stopped overnight. :)

Remember working with a guy in 1993 whose skin was hideous with skin cancer. Haven’t seen such a human since. Skin cancer was a pretty big deal a couple of decades ago. People regularly died of it. Now it seems mostly beaten. Haven’t heard of a person dying from skin cancer this century.

I suspect a tiny spot on my face is cancer. My body seems to have mostly beaten it. But if it ever grows again, I know they can zap it with a simple outpatient procedure. That sort of thing could have been the beginning of the end when I was a child.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d personally shit bricks if the doc found even minor cancer, but at least I’d have a chance in 2025.

Lemmy is soaked in that image-of-text trash.

That’s a small group and composed mainly of younger people who don’t vote. I built my own PCs from 1994 to around 2019. Now few people even own PCs, let alone build and upgrade.

I take a few tablespoons, stir it up in a coffee cup and chug it every night. Even if I miss a day, I’m generally OK, but miss 2 or 3 days, it’s a 2-3 day thing to get back to normal.

I do that too. genx here… lol

For your detractors, I’d like to point out that nothing stated here in untrue.

The problem is feeding 10’s of thousands of video streams, from a single entity, to the police and government. And now they’re using AI to sort the data, which is a powerful use case for AI.

Were we to magically feed all the webcams and doorbells and security cameras to a single source, it would still be a technological mess to sort out. Flock’s system is purpose built to track us.

I’ve got two. They’re only for if I’m in a desperate pinch.

Nothing changed going from IE Edge to Chromium Edge. Say that with a straight face next time.

Microsoft: Kills crappy, insecure browser no one used and everyone hated.

Lemmy: BAD!

Pro tip! Mom had bad teeth so she’d stand the cob on end and cut the kernels off. Takes a few tries to figure the cut depth just right. Best of both worlds, fresh corn and no stuck bits!

Also, solutions like this will obviously cost more, even with further development and scale. It takes legislation to force the issue, so, more time.