The software has gotten a LOT better since 10 years ago. They also offer much longer updates. I still use a third party launcher with mine, but the default has become less offensive than back then.

The oven has to be off, the garbage taken out and locked.

I also have ovens, and stoves, a freezers, and garages, and a, and heating, and warm water, and garbage, and garden irrigation, and…

My point is that hackers usually try to get into productive servers. You cannot just shut them down for every hacker attack, or you would never be online. You need to keep the business running while at the same time defending from attacks, so while the top scenario has a bunch of technobabble, it is more realistic.

I didn’t think I needed to say it, but the fridge is not reachable from the internet…

Nope.

Opening 40 doors and turning 50 knobs, yes.

Sorry, a kid in China tried to ssh into amazon.com, no shopping today!

My case: smarthome integration. It can change the settings if we go on vacation or have a party. It can alert us if our kids leave the door open (has happened twice in a year). It can tell us the temperature inside (and trigger an alert if abnormal). That’s basically it.

Not everything is screens and cameras…

If true, him stepping down won’t change a thing.

Same here. I am really getting tired of managing my exim4 setup, but since he made the trump comments I didn’t trust him or proton by extension.

Once one instance is federated any user (or the instance itself) an scrape everything.

Water? What parties does this person go to?

How do you block something that is scraping the content to train LLMs?

Tell me how to prevent scraping in a federated setting. I’ll wait.

On the other hand, the decentralized nature completely prevents the blocking of scrapers, spam, etc.

Did they break the security of the blockchain or just hacked an application that stored it in a database?

Sure…

If it was true it would be a huge problem. The issue is it’s not true. I’ll refer to the xkcd from 2011 again. In the early 2000 it was even worse, you still had to consult paper books quiten often. In the 1990 I remember even finding those books was a challenge, I had to go to a book shopin a big city to find books about the topic I wanted.

Not only we are not losing knowledge, there is more everyday. More people are sharing more in more public settings with mailing lists, github issues, cves, medium, reddit, even tiktoks if you’re into that. There are more tools to access this knowledge everyday, from specialized search engines, to automatic translation tools, to LLMs. And there is more ways of interacting with people who might have the knowledge if it’s not already public: email, Twitter, github, discord, even YouTube comments if you want to be exotic. Lemmy if you want to rant.

You’re welcome to yell at a cloud, progress is made all around.

We still have man pages, stack overflow, reddit, github… LLMs are in addition to the rest.

While nuking all https?