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In time it may become a trade-off between new (with associated features and speed) Vs tried and tested/secure.
To us now this sounds perverse, but remember that NASA generally use very old hardware because they can be more certain the various bugs & features have been found and documented. In NASA’s case this is for reliability. I’ll concede ‘brute force’ does add another dimension when applying this logic to security.

This may also become an AI arms race. Finding exploits is likely something AI could become very good at - but a better AI seeking to obfuscate?

How long until US bans code from developers with ties to CN/RU?

That won’t happen because it would effectively mean banning all FOS which isn’t remotely practical.

A good summary here: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/

My main issue is I’m not shutting down my Pi-Hole, home assistant, NAS etc etc just to plug in something like this in, and then 24h or so later shut them all down again to retrieve it again. That said I basically have a collection of Pis (passively cooled and this silent) and a Synology disk station so the power use is pretty low.

No Mint pretty much just works.
Great thing about Mint (or most Linux distros) is that you can try it by booting from a usb stick - see if you like it that way.

But they are taking about monitoring public facing social media - frankly I think it would be daft if they did not do this.
If a be teaching assistant starts publicly posting harmful harmful content there should indeed be systems on place to ensure this is identified and appropriate action taken.
If you post publicly you have to assume everybody, including your employer, might see it.

Pi zero W has WiFi, alternatively there are hats available. And yes they can run a full Rasbian OS.

What kind of a pro is taking photos using an iPhone?

Indeed, and for me giving me a rough framework to modify is hugely useful and time saving. As the commenter above said it’s a tool, it’s not a team member.

Have you tried asking ChatGPT or Bard to write you code to do something? It is actually remarkably good at it.
That and being an alternative to a thesaurus is about all I use LLMs for.

Neither very much. Python won’t change. Excel when running in the cloud will become more powerful, but the workbooks using Python will also be incompatible with desktop versions of Excel. At least that’s what I’m understanding so far.

And the chromium open source project while they are at it…

Except at it’s core chromium is open source, and I can’t see the FOSS community embracing the idea. The French also wouldn’t be able to fully limit access to unrestricted browsers.

It’s an all round dumb idea. Much easier and more effective to tell ISPs to do the blocking.

You can already send images as an attachment and it doesn’t compress or change the file in anyway.

No. You might see a Mastodon user if they reply to a comment, but even that way round is not easy to do.
Kbin makes it easier to access Mastodon content while still having access to Lemmy content too… But to discover Mastodon content you are probably best making a true Mastodon account.

You’ll find different parts of the fediverse have a different focus and feel with varying levels of compatibility depending how much the core focus overlaps.

I’ve found the trick or to follow hashtags rather than people. But it’s a balancing act, sometimes you’ll find your stream gets flooded with one topic so you need to refine what you are following.

It is being discussed - here is a thread from yesterday:
https://kbin.social/m/support@lemmy.world/t/204434/Tracking-Lemmy-users-by-spy-tracker-pixels

And here is an ongoing discussion about a possible remedy:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3550

But worth noting, unlike email the ‘view’ isn’t linked to an individual and an email address, and also broadcasting your IP address (yes and some meta data) as you browse isn’t unusual. Every page you visit could be doing this not just Lemmy.
Yes ideally this should be fixed, but in my view it is also a bit of a storm in a teacup.

I think if you tell it it is wrong it will always agree with you (regardless how right it might have been, or otherwise). Presumably it is designed that way so it is always non-confrontational.

I think it is in the public interest to know quite how much aviation fuel this plonker is singlehandedly burning through…