ekky

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[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 hours ago

I think it came with a pop-up once when it first got added, and I've just kept removing it since.

To this day, I'm still not sure what problem it was supposed to fix, or what feature it was supposed to add.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

Kommissionen kan holde kæft og dy sig.

Vel og mærke, så er det dejligt at vi har den, så vi kan samle alle tosserne, og altid have en idé hvad man ikke burde gøre, men nu bliver det altså for dumt.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Was about to point this out. I'd just go to one of my IRL friends and have him send me an E-Mail/PM/whatever while i watch him do it.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The claim above was off the top of my head, but I've found multiple pages of results describing the panic that ensued.

Now, Microsoft (Copilot and Github) are less than clear on what exactly is used for training, but the general consensus seems to be, that they don't train on private repositories. Though there appears to be some confusion about this, especially regarding Microsoft's honesty about not using loopholes (this article might be faked, I haven't tried confirming it, though, this topic is a shit show ripe with miscommunication, misinformation, and quite a lot of confusion and fear regardless).

It appears that the specific issue I was referring to required a human error for copilot being able to train on the private repositories. Namely, some unfortunate fool temporarily making the repository public (in which case it obviously isn't private anymore, and therefore free for grabs by scrapers). Usually this wouldn't be a problem, since no indexer or scraper can check all of Github all at once all the time, so the chance of a briefly exposed repository being cached is rather small, albeit always there.

That said, Copilot, Bing, and Github are likely better integrated than Bing simply wasting resources on continuously scraping Github for new repositories. I personally imagine that Github saving resources by sending a signal to Bing when a repository is made public isn't entirely unlikely (that's something I might do, harboring no ill intentions), meaning that it is possible (though in no way confirmed) that Bing punishes briefly exposed Github repositories instantly by forever caching them.

Is this 100% Microsoft being predatory? No, obviously not, since it requires a user error to happen in the first place, and since Copilot is technically only trained on public or exposed data. Though, Microsoft learning about this rather scammy behavior and simply classifying it a "low-impact-severity" and disabling the Bing cache for humans (but apparently not Copilot) doesn't sit right with me. I'm sure that they knew exactly which kind of data they were working with during dataset sanitation, so they could have chosen not to use sensitive data or at least inform exposed clients that they are adding their cached secrets to Copilot.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wasn't it revealed that Microsoft was training their Copilot on Github repositories, including private ones such as paying coorporations believing their source code to be safe and secure, resulting in secrets suddenly being made semi-public?

I feel that there were other incidents too, though I can't remember them off the top of my head. Definitely not a place I'd recommend anyone to keep anything they love, even if they keep to best practices and don't store secrets in their repositories.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ignoring space for a moment, it depends whether you see time as a single - linear - dimension, or as a set of n dimensions.

If time can only exist as a single dimension, then yes, we'd have a paradox.

If time is two-(or more)-dimensional, then you'd just step into a parallel timeline/dimension for every change made, forsaking the old timeline Steins' Gate-style.

Obviously, 2+ dimensional time cannot be proven, so it's just a fun thought experiment. It's not entirely unlike the hypothetical 4th dimension of space - which would leave space-time with 4 dimensions of space and one of time.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's what we Europeans call a "petty answer to the disgrace that is Amarican military time" (not the be confused with regular Amarican time and dates, which don't allow overflow, as far as I'm aware). The date described above is clearly "the second of March, 2015" or 2015-03-02.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, I got that, but that's also pretty much the only thing it mentions. What were the results? Was it better then the last generation? How will it change warfare in the future (beyond Gaza)?

I'm gonna ignore the deeply unethical application under which this mysterious and barely named new rocket was tested, since that hardly is relevant to this community and better discussed elsewhere.

EDIT: Sorry, that last paragraph should have an "I think" in there, since I'm no mod and am purely voicing my opinion about low quality and (what I find to be) barely relevant posts in this community.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Hmm, this seems more about economics and politics than technology.

Like, what exactly is the new type of Bar rocket and how does it compare to the older rockets? I see it being mentioned as a replacement for Rumach rockets, but the only details are that it's got some unnamed "guidance mechanism specifically designed for difficult combat environments" and that it's rapid fire (compared to some other unnamed rocket?).

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, OK. Jeg troede bare at du kunne finde stedet på hjemmesiden, og ikke den fysiske. Bare se bort fra min kommentar. :)

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Kunne man ikke lave en 404 side som siger noget alla: "Hvis du kom ind på denne side gennem en QR-kode, så må du gerne efterlade en kort beskrivelse af position via. følgende link:"

Jeg går naturligvis ud fra, at du gerne vil finde markaterne fysisk og digitalt, og ikke ved hvilken sti på hjemmesiden de fører til.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ekky@sopuli.xyz to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
 

Well, almost (49/51%).

Needless to say, the steam deck has definitely found its place playing Monster Hunter, Graveyard Keeper, and sometimes even Guild Wars 2 and factorio.

It does run Deep Rock Galactic and Vermintide 2 too, but I feel those are better played on the rig.

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