Furries never hurt anyone. We don’t bite hard 🤭🦊

Turkey is also still militarily occupying part of Cyprus. And leaving whole towns ghost lands. It’s like the Berlin wall.

Eh wait. Copilot (any of the about 30 products with copilot in the name) is not a model. Microsoft makes a few models like phi but they’re underwhelming. All of copilot runs on models from external parties like openai and anthropic. So basically Microsoft is at the mercy of their own competitors. They’re in the awkward position that providing training data to their model providers not only improves their own product but their competitors’ as well.

Additionally, Microsoft’s most profitable market is enterprise and they would absolutely shiver at their data being used for training and would abandon the service in droves.

Despite being “all in on AI” Microsoft is in a really vulnerable position. Their added value is their integration with their other services (and data therein through RAG).

It’s weird because copilot in office tries to push agents on you as if it were a Jehovah’s witness.

So GitHub copilot doesn’t have them? I don’t really use that.

Well back then we thought everyone in charge was evil. Back then we had Krutschev, Nixon etc. Always nuclear war looming. And Reagan with this trickle downs, the Bush wars over made-up WMDs etc.

I don’t think there was ever really a positive period. Maybe the 90s which was kinda the high point. Economics were good, America and NATO was the undisputed world power, nobody took global warming seriously yet and the internet was promising a great future.

Then after 2000 we had the dot com crash, 9/11, the resulting wars, Russia becoming an enemy again, the financial world crisis, the rise of the internet as a surveillance tool, global warming, the pandemic, exploding house prices everywhere.

Really pretty much exactly after the change of the century everything turned to shit.

Yeah those are very weird errors. Not like AI hallucinations. But more like OCR errors.

I wonder if they imported another PowerPoint and then the AI made images out of it to process it. That would be a very inefficient way to do it.

Also, OKC is no longer being maintained as far as I know.

I kinda hope this one can replace OKC as a PGP integrator into other apps because I use it a lot. Especially for my password manager

But it does have to support external yubikeys and it looks like this doesn’t yet

Thanks! I already love it for the taskbar icon alone lol

What’s the little cat thing?

Honestly, I don’t really care about that. Yes it uses quantum-sensitive protocols like AES but honestly, who with a quantum computer is either going to:

• Record all my traffic to decode it 10 years later, knowing they will also have to break SSL on top of that!
• Already has a quantum computer or a huge datacenter for paralellisation right now meaning they are the NSA and if they wanna spy on me they are going to anyway. And really if someone has such a datacenter they will use it for AI which is more profitable.

For my threat model the threat of my VPN crypto being broken just isn’t important right now especially in my VPN usecase which is already low-importance stuff. There’s nothing valuable or personal in that traffic. The only reason I use the VPN is to do torrents really. If they want to grab a few torrenters and make an example out of them it’s much easier to grab a few that are not using any VPN. There’s still loads of people torrenting directly on their bare home IP.

It’s like the saying of the two guys running from the bear. One says to the other: “We’re not gonna outrun him!”. The other says: “Doesn’t matter, I only have to outrun you”. Not being the easiest catchable is enough protection.

Yeah I can imagine 80/443 being blocked because sometimes it was being used for awful stuff. I don’t really care about that so much, but the higher ports should be available (especially UDP).

No, but I have a home lab and that is behind the VPN. With a download server and some other stuff like IRC (IRC can expose your home IP to other users)

The router blocks any requests going around the VPN so that the usual de-anonimisation tricks don’t work.

Just the same as other VPNs, just different protocol.

It’s a regular point to point VPN just like wireguard and ipsec. Based on openssl. So you have a client and it connects to a single server. You can also connect a network to another network but usually you use a dedicated router for it. Only if you connect individual clients would you use an app.

There’s other VPNs these days which are substantially different, called Mesh or Overlay VPN. These are ones like tailscale and zerotier. They are different in usage because each client can talk together independently. This means even on a shared network each client will have the VPN app. It’s used more for personal networks, not really private anonymous access. For those you explicitly don’t want to talk to other clients so the usecase makes for different tech. For this reason anonymous VPN providers never use mesh tech.

I use both myself. OpenVPN for torrents etc. And tailscale for connecting to my home stuff from my phone and laptop.

But OpenVPN is a very classical VPN type.

It’s one of the many VPN protocols. Wireguard is the current favourite.

So in other words, if you don’t specifically need openvpn it won’t matter to you. Wireguard is good too.

The thing is that openvpn has been around a lot longer so it has more support in things like routers. For me that matters because I have a separate vlan that’s connected via a router to my main network.

They did have it but they dropped it. Or at least they were dropping it server by server, it wasn’t completely gone. Not sure what the current status is. But proton had an offer so I decided it was a good time to go

I moved away from it for two reasons:

• They dropped port forwarding which really helps with torrents
• They dropped OpenVPN, I need that because I have a router that has it built in with hardware acceleration, it doesn’t do any wireguard

I moved to proton which still does all these things.

Of course these points might not matter to you but I just wanted to point it out

That repo seems to have just been archived though. That would worry me if I were starting to use it now.

But I’m using it on windows, on my game machine.

Yep nobody else calls it that. Ps https://youtu.be/S-sqsvcZJ2w

Be aware that TASS is the Russian governmental press agency.

3 months isn’t bad though. Especially since it’s going to be locked out of changes so in 5 years it will be 5 years and 3 months out of date. The bigger problem with rocm is that they cut off older cards way too soon.

I bought a radeon pro vii brand new from a shop (granted it was a runout sale) and it was already cut off. It still works but not supported.

AMD can’t keep complaining everyone focuses on CUDA when they don’t even bother to support their own product. It supports very few cards and they get cut off way too soon.

Nvidia supports even midrange consumer cards and they keep supporting them a long time.