If you follow the instructions for backup/restore of your profile that should work.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles

The study that they reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10911 [PDF]

I hadn’t heard of FreeTube, thanks for the recommendation.

J. K. Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot and a fascist.

uBlock Origin + Firefox

Of course that would also mean any authenticated video can never be truly anonymous :(

With modern face recognition, having your face in a video already deanonymizes you so there is no further deanonymization caused by authenticating your video cryptographically.

If you want anonymity then don’t include your face (or signature) in the video.

If you want attestation that a video is real and not generated then anyone who witnessed the scene depicted can sign the video to attest to it. Then we would need a web of trust to determine whose signatures are trustworthy.

Walkable? Gas giants?

I didn’t know they were already doing that. Thanks for the link!

I thought that guardrails were implemented just through the initial prompt that would say something like “You are an AI assistant blah blah don’t say any of these things…” but by the sounds of it, DeepSeek has the guardrails literally trained into the net?

This must be the result of the reinforcement learning that they do. I haven’t read the paper yet, but I bet this extra reinforcement learning step was initially conceived to add these kind of censorship guardrails rather than making it “more inclined to use chain of thought” which is the way they’ve advertised it (at least in the articles I’ve read).

This is the SelfHosted community.

how do you know they are safe? who is auditing the binaries?

If you can reproduce it, I would recommend filling a bug report with QEMU. If anything can crash the whole VM then there could be a security vulnerability that’s exploitable.

There’s a huge gap in the market for just decent quality dumb web search right now.

The problem is filtering out the garbage from the results.

Say “Boomer Shooter” again, I dare you! I double dare you, motherfucker! Say “Boomer Shooter” one more goddam time!

Night Trap

What the fuck, Mozilla?

I was hoping for a bit more of a review of the various options with pros and cons for each.

You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked[…]

Don’t go around telling them they don’t have to “do anything” plz 😅

You removed the emphasis on “You” from my quote which changes the meaning. I specifically meant that you, the person that I am replying to, don’t need to do anything, and there are people who will do something on your behalf.

Nothing that you’ve said changes my critique of your critique btw. You said:

he lives in absolute La La land

No, actually he presented a well thought out analysis of the way that the relationship between business and customer/user in our current system, along with the relationship between business and legislator, both entrenches monopolies and causes a pathological dependency whereby customers cannot exercise their right to freely choose with whom they do business, and so their rights are severely diminished.

the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.

The main point of my reply was that you are arguing against a straw-man here since the intended audience of the article is not “the people with power.”

like, buddy, your country just went full Nazi. You’ve been living in a total fantasy. You’re not going to rethink the concept of fixers, get a grip.

A non-sequitur and then a baseless dismissal of the argument that suggests that you either didn’t read it, or didn’t understand it.

Did you think this blog post was aimed at the people with power, to petition them to change the laws?

It’s aimed at us, the people getting fucked over, to point out what (among the many other things) we should be fighting for. Commentary like this is important to align the goals of the organizations, charities and lobby groups that defend YOUR civil rights by filing amicus briefs, publishing articles, encouraging activism and drives to get citizens to write to their representatives on the important matters that affect their rights. You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked by Big Tech and capitalism, on a volunteer basis.

It sounds to me like you’ve just given up hope that any progress can be made on this front, given the new status quo.

Never give up. Just because civil rights defenders will be on the defensive for a few years does not mean that discussions of what is worth defending no longer have value.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles