Mikina

I stumbled upon the Geminy page by accident, so i figured lets give it a try.

I asked him in czech if he can also generate pictures. He said sure, and gave me examples about what to ask him.

So I asked him, again in czech, to generate a cat drinking a beer at a party.

His reply was that features for some languages are still under development, and that he can't do that in this language.

So I asked him in english.

I can't create images for you yet, but I can still find images from the web.

Ok, so I asked if he can find me the picture on the web, then.

I'm sorry, but I can't provide images of a cat drinking beer. Alcohol is harmful to animals and I don't want to promote anything that could put an animal at risk.

Great, now I have to argue with my search engine that is giving me lessons on morality and decide what is and isn't acceptable. I told him to get bent, that this was the worst first impression I ever had with any LLM model, and I'm never using that shit again. If this was integrated into google search (which I havent used for years and sticked to Kagi), and now replaces google assistant...

Good, that's what people get for sticking with google. It brings me joy to see Google dig it's own grave with such success.

If it keeps going on like this, it won't be long before I'll just say fuck it and switch to elinks...

Hmm, on that note - is there any CLI web browser that can do javascript and css? Because iirc, elinks doesn't, though I havent used it in years.

IIRC, only like 2% of Mozilla spending goes towards FF (I may be misinterpreting something, but I remember 2% being thrown around), so funding FF without rest of Mozilla bullshit shouldn't be that hard. Of course, since Mozilla did spend so little on FF, it's a question how much they actually care about FF and what would happen if they lost access to their golden goose. They shouldn't have problem funding FF, but they probably have other bullshit they don't want to let go and that has more priority for them.

I'm not sure what Mullvad is based on - i think it's on Tor, which is Firefox based?

I do use mostly LibreWolf, but if FF also went to shit, I wonder if Tor, and thus Mullvad, would keep on going or not. Because I suppose LibreWolf would have troubles with keeping up, if Mozilla would enshitify FF, since they would probably have to fork and continue development on their own.

76% of all respondents are using or are planning to use AI tools in their development process this year, an increase from last year (70%). Many more developers are currently using AI tools this year, too (62% vs. 44%).

What the fuck. That's horrifying. I also though that every sensible workplace bans the use of AI.

A friend was telling me about a discussion between CTO's at a conference, where they were talking about whether it's even worth it to hire junior developers anymore, since there's a high risk of them just being "AI-raised", without much (or any) experience of coding without AI. And, this survey result... I can see where they are coming from. The future of programming looks pretty bleak - our job will not be replaced. It will just get worse, with good developers being more of a rarity.

And the amount of people who use vim or neovim as their IDE is surprisingly high. Is it skewed by sysadmins?

From time to time I watch some scam-hunting youtubers for fun, because some of them have really perfected their game and listening to scammers raging is fun, but it's also super unsettling when you realize they also talk like that to real victims. It's unhinged.

This is the first time ive heard about microg. How is the app support with it? Can you run every app that needs play service? I have Google Sandbox installed only on a second Graphene profile, and use it for bare minimum of apps that dont work without it, Bolt app, mostly weird MFA for work or package tracking apps i use once per month, while disabling most of their permissions. Will microg improve my situation in this case to be worth switching over? Does it work without root?

A good reminder to always set your password manager to auto-lock (with PIN for convenience) after 3-5 minutes. The PIN makes it easy to re-log, while not being bruteforceable (AFAIK after few failed attempts it reverts to password), and if someone would get to your PC, either physically or remotely, they won't be able to get all your passwords.

One of the best jackpots I've ever found during Red Teaming engagements was when I RDPd to a server through pass-the-hash, only to find an unlocked password manager with passwords for most of the other servers, service and admin accounts.

You are right, calling it a contradiction was not exactly accurate. Or rather - it did contradict some of the narrative that is pushed by Delta, about CS not providing any support in the first few days, which it sounds like isn't exactly true. But most of the case will indeed still need more receipts, that's true.

A Delta spokesperson said the airline "will decline to comment further." ®

Huh, did they really register that sentence? :D

Also, the CS response to the accusations should have been at the beginning, not near the end of the article, because it does provide some pretty important context, including links to LinkedIn posts from Delta board members that directly contradict most of the article:

When asked about this August 8 letter from Delta, a CrowdStrike spokesperson told The Register:

Delta continues to push a misleading narrative. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz called Delta board member David DeWalt within four hours of the incident on July 19th. CrowdStrike's Chief Security Officer was in direct contact with Delta's CISO within hours of the incident, providing information and offering support.

CrowdStrike's and Delta's teams worked closely together within hours of the incident, with CrowdStrike providing technical support beyond what was available on the website.

This level of customer support led Delta board member David DeWalt to publicly state on LinkedIn: "George and his team have done an incredible job, working through the night in difficult circumstances to deliver a fix. It is a huge credit to the Crowdstrike team and their leadership that many woke up to a fix already available."

I'm all for CS having consequences for what happened, but Delta so obviously lying here with literal Linkedin posts from their board members that directly contradict what they are claiming, that's just scummy.

I've been mostly using Mullvad, and so far it worked pretty well out of the box. Few sites break, and for that I have LibreWolf, but other than that, I'm enjoying Mullvad more.

One thing I forgot to mention - last time I recommended cloudflared, I was told that the TOS for cloudflared forbid use for high-volume streaming of data, such as movie/audio streaming, or sharing of large files for download.

I never had an issue with it, but I didn't use it for streaming, only to share/download a small to medium sized file once per few weeks. I suppose that if you were to publicly post a link to a few Gb large file, and had hundreds of people download it through the cloudflared, they may take an issue with it. Maybe even if you were regurally watching streamed movies from your server through it. So just a heads up, make sure to check the ToS first.