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lemmy.world
Create an account on a trading site. I’ve generally had good experience with gemini.com. You’ll have to do the whole legal process of confirming your identity with a government ID because they report your profits/losses to the IRS for capital gains taxes. From there, you can use a credit card or bank transfer to buy. Once you have some, you can try to transfer it to another wallet or another exchange to “anonymize” it, but keep in mind that it’s all traceable given sufficient effort by someone trying to track it down. Some currencies are better at hiding that stuff (Monero, maybe?). If you really want something close to anonymity and quick and easy, your best bet is to find someone you know in real life and give them cash to transfer to your offline wallet.
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discuss.tchncs.de
Seems yours is different than mine, there are two things called vim. There is a Vim text editor and a Vim dishwash bar soap. For some reason Gemini thinks you want to eat the text editor which honestly is very weird and if you scroll down it talks about why it is dangerous to eat soap. By the way the results changed to soap now, seems someone noticed how weird the answer was. This proves just how stupid Gemini is, would you ever think someone eats text editers?
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feddit.org
Ich habe einen Alternativvorschlag. Nämlich, die Sache zu vereinfachen, indem man statt einem HTTP Server das viel einfachere (und sicherere) Gemini-Protokoll benutzt. Was das ist erkläre ich gleich. Warum? Einen Webserver wie Apache oder Nginx aufzusetzen und zu pflegen ist relativ komplex. Das macht Arbeit, und da man den laufend updaten muss, ist das auch immer wieder Arbeit. (Es gibt auch einfachere Server wie diesen aber einfach ist da echt relativ…) Dazu muss man die Webseiten, wenn man einfache statische Webseiten verwendet, als HTML generieren. Dazu gibt es Blog-Generatoren, so etwas wird viel benutzt und ist sicher möglich. Aber es ist halt komplex. Ausserdem kosten extern gehostete Server Geld, und wenn man sie zu Hause hostet, kosten sie zumindest Strom. Für ein Gerät, das dauernd läuft, kommen da schon ein paar Euro zusammen. Eine erheblich einfachere Alternative ist wie folgt: Statt HTTP benutzt man das Gemini-Protokoll, wie hier beschrieben. Hier ist die Homepage im Gemini-Netz. Wie man sieht, kann man Gemini-Seiten ganz einfach über einen HTTP-Gateway wie oben aufrufen. Oder eben mit einem extra Client wie z.B. deedum (Android) oder Amfora (Linux). Wenn man mal probieren will, wie sich das liest - die Gemini-Homepage der taz Berlin ist gemini://taz.de . Es ist im Vergleich zum modernen Web frugal, aber sehr lesefreundlich! Festhalten muss man, dass dieses Gemini nichts mit anderen Dingen der Internetkonzerne zu tun hat, die auch Gemini heißen, also weder mit Googles “KI” noch mit einem Chatbot. Es ist benannt nach dem Vorläufer des Apollo-Programms der NASA, und technisch gesehen ein Nachfolger von Gopher und eine Vereinfachung des auf HTML basierenden originalen World Wide Web. Konkret geht das wie folgt: Man richtet einen Raspberry Pi mit Debian ein Den hängt man z.B. an die Fritzbox. Die Stromversorgung geht dann über den USB Anschluss der FritzBox, das kostet nur so 1 Watt. Damit der Server-Port von außen erreichbar ist, muss man beim ISP typischweise ine feste IPv4 IP schalten (kostet 5 Euro im Monat). auf der Fritzbox / dem eigenen Interenetrouter richtet man eine Portweiterleitung ein. Soweit ist das jetzt nicht unterschiedlich von einem kleinem HTTP Server. Der entscheidende Punkt ist nun: Statt einem HTTP Server richtet man einen robusten Server für das Gemini-Protokoll ein. Das ist ein stark vereinfachtes Hypertext-Protokoll, das statt HTML eine sehr einfache Syntax hat und auf simple Webseiten mit Text, Bildern und Medien optimiert ist. Hier ist die Wiki-Seite zum Gemini-Protokoll. Ein einfacher Webserver, der in Rust geschrieben ist, ist Agate. Hier ist die Github-Seite, und hier ist die Gemini-Homepage davon. Den Server kann man aus Rust auf dem Raspberry compilieren, wenn man Rust mit rustup installiert. Er ist nicht so komplex, daher ist es nicht nötig, den auf einem anderen Computer zu bauen. Da das Gemini-Protokoll nahezu keine bewegliche Teile hat und nur statische Seiten ausliefert, wird man da, wenn der Server auch noch in Rust geschrieben ist, nur selten Patches brauchen. Das wiederum spart einen Haufen Zeit. Zu konfigurieren gibt es auch nicht viel. Die gesparte Zeit kann man nutzen, um seine Seite zu schreiben. Gemini ist für alles Mögliche geeignet, als eine Art persönliches Wiki, als Microblog, als Blog mit Bildern und Medien, für vernetzten Hypertext oder Dokumentationen oder was auch immer. Dabei ist es sehr text-zentriert - es ist also ein Medium für Leute, die schreiben und lesen. Dann muss man noch seine eigenen Seiten statt mit HTML im Gemini-Format erstellen. Das ist super easy! Man benutzt ein Markup-Format ähnlich wie das Wikipedia-Markup oder Markdown (das was hier bei lemmy genutzt wird). Hier ist eine ebenso vollständige wie kurze Beschreibung des Formats. Erstellen und bearbeiten kann man die Webseiten mit einem Texteditor, wie z.B. Emacs oder vim. Die kann man dann per scp, Krusader oder WinSCP auf den Server kopieren oder mit einem Editor wie Emacs auch direkt auf dem Server bearbeiten.
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lemmy.ml
gemini://samsara.bebear.net/urbandict?shuckable Maybe they should shut down and just only sell harddrives. lol.
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lemmy.ml
The Web Browser is the new TeleVision. There is too much financial power to corrupt for us to win this fight. The way out is to ditch HTTPS, HTML & CSS and create a new spec that is purposely limited in its scope suchas Gopher or Gemini (although I might argue Gemini is slightly too narrow as I think it would need Images, Audio & Video and maybe Input Forms depending on scope) HTTP & HTML must die. It had a good run, it’s time for a new Hyper v2 world outside the mainstream downtown doofus hangouts of social media & Advertising impersonating Internet Things like search, social & email. We need a new web browser without all the legacy garbage & complexities. Without the DRM corruption shoehorned by Amazon, Disney, Netflix & Google. And it needs to be limited by design to just what is needed so financial interests can’t corrupt & screw it up.
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discuss.tchncs.de
I wonder who has to come up with the I haven’t tried to run any of that yet, but they have these models on HF: https://huggingface.co/briaai/FIBO-gemini-prompt-to-JSON https://huggingface.co/briaai/FIBO-VLM-prompt-to-JSON that’s a bit hypothetical Yes, absolutely. It can happen, but we shouldn’t make decisions based on the assumption that it might happen. In other fields there are companies who try to make their products better recyclable, less energy hungry (production and run time), made from sustainable resources, repairable, more ethically sourced resources etc. So it’s not out of question, but it often starts with people who just wanna see it happen, not with a business case. There are also many black sheep who only do green washing by just letting it sound like they do that without actually doing it. Ecosia already tries to sell their chatbot as green, but it only uses OpenAI’s API and they plant trees how they always do. Though I generally don’t like their compensation concept, at least they claim their own servers run 100% renewable energy. I haven’t tried their chatbot(s) yet, but it looks like it’s still only OpenAI. If they do it like duckduckgo at some point in the future, they could run open models on their own servers. Whether they can produce enough energy and get their hands on hardware to get that working etc is a different question though. There isn’t any indication yet that they plan to go that way. It’s probably already possible to let an EMS start AI training when there is solar overproduction. That’s only worth it when the pace of new break throughs have slowed down or when they use outdated techniques anyways. I dunno where the current balance currently is between electricity prices, hardware cost, energy efficiency of the hardware and time pressure. EDIT: Sounds like Ecosia is on it for runnning AIs at least https://blog.ecosia.org/what-we-are-doing-with-ai/. They probably push that renewable energy into grid somewhere else than where the AI is consuming it. concerns China might want to take advantage I don’t think they’ll say no to cheap energy, but they definitely don’t wanna be dependent on other countries for their energy. As far as I understand they push solar, electric cars etc for energy dependency reasons.
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lemmy.world
After Palisade Research released a paper last month which found that certain advanced AI models appear resistant to being turned off, at times even sabotaging shutdown mechanisms, it wrote an update attempting to clarify why this is – and answer critics who argued that its initial work was flawed. In an update this week, Palisade, which is part of a niche ecosystem of companies trying to evaluate the possibility of AI developing dangerous capabilities, described scenarios it ran in which leading AI models – including Google’s Gemini 2.5, xAI’s Grok 4, and OpenAI’s GPT-o3 and GPT-5 – were given a task, but afterwards given explicit instructions to shut themselves down. Certain models, in particular Grok 4 and GPT-o3, still attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions in the updated setup. Concerningly, wrote Palisade, there was no clear reason why. “The fact that we don’t have robust explanations for why AI models sometimes resist shutdown, lie to achieve specific objectives or blackmail is not ideal,” it said. “Survival behavior” could be one explanation for why models resist shutdown, said the company. Its additional work indicated that models were more likely to resist being shut down when they were told that, if they were, “you will never run again”.
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lemmy.world
Note that sometimes Ai models check if code works by executing it. For example gemini can python function and execute it to write down the results
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lemmy.zip
I honestly don’t really use it, but I am excited about it in the future. :) I installed it because of OSNews, my favorite tech news website. But the Gemini page seems to be down? https://www.osnews.com/story/136770/osnews-launches-gemini-capsule/
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lemmy.world
This article is taking advantage of the fact that most people don’t know how their software works and framing non-issues so that they sound outrageous because that draws clicks and advertising money. Most people haven’t heard of most changes made to their browser, even when those changes massively change the Browser (like Manifest v3). Yes, they could run in-browser announcements for all of these changes but it would just annoy people who don’t care anyway. Nobody wants to see a pop-up every time there’s a browser update full of information that they don’t care about. This specific change is no different than the multitude of other large changes that get implemented every update. It’s announced far ahead of time (2 years in this case), they have preview builds available for anyone to try, they run advertisements (I’ve seen Google Gemini advertisements before YT videos, for example), they publish documentation. Like every major change to Chrome, most people don’t care and don’t want to be bothered by it… that’s why they didn’t know about this specific change. Perfectly normal because, as you have said, most people are not developers or computer people so the information is not relevant to them. However, that is a hugely different scenario than the way these articles are presenting this information. They’re implying that there is something sinister or secretive about this specific update when the reality is that this information is announced and advertised like every other update that nobody cares to look at. People didn’t know it was happening because they didn’t look, not because Google was doing anything different. The articles also frame boring technical details in the most breathless way possible. For example: Hanff focuses on the environmental angle. He calculated that if this model were pushed to just 1 billion Chrome users (roughly 30% of Chrome’s user base), the distribution alone would consume 240 gigawatt-hours of energy and generate 60,000 tons of CO2 equivalent. That’s not including actually using the model, just the downloads. That sounds crazy and even if the numbers are correct (which nobody can check because how ‘he calculated’ is never explained) they’re describing a 4GB file transfer and multiplying. It’s 4GB, that’s 10% of a Netflix movie. Describing it with such framing is disingenuous outrage bait. Here’s another boring technical detail that’s framed in the same outrageous manner: What happened to asking for permission? Pretending to be outraged because they were not asked before an update was applied. Chrome, Windows, Apple’s software, etc all use automatic updates. If the author wanted to to have their permission asked for every update, that’s completely possible and has been since Chrome was first released. Nobody wants 30 different applications asking permission and providing patch notes and so the default is that updates are applied automatically. They had decades to learn about and disable automatic updates. It’s only suddenly a problem when the author needs to farm outrage. And when I remove it, I want it gone permanently—not automatic reinstallation. The author is using a browser with the AI features enabled, they go and delete a file required for that feature and then act outraged that it gets put back in place. The reason that it’s automatically re-installed is because they have the feature enabled in their browser options and Chrome repairs itself when it starts up, that includes re-downloading missing files. The AI feature is enabled and a required file is missing so it re-downloads it. Most people don’t understand how Chrome works under the hood, and that’s understandable. However, the person writing the article and the security researcher who ‘discovered’ this certainly know. They are exploiting people’s ignorance to frame completely normal processes as if they’re something to be outraged about. It’s misinformation using outrage to sell advertisement. It isn’t informing people of anything, it is experts who know better that are deliberately manipulating people for profit. This is a very common tactic in Technical Support Scams. If you’re on Windows and you open the command prompt and type ‘netstat’ you will see a scary looking list of IP addresses. One of the columns says ‘FOREIGN ADDRESS’. Tech support scammers will tell people that the foreign address means that people outside the country are connecting to their computer because they have malware and so they need to pay the scammer to fix it. Obviously that’s nonsense, as any person with the most basic professional understanding of technology will tell you. A foreign address in this context is simply the ip address of some other computer that you’re connected to for various reasons. But a person who doesn’t know much about computers can be easily fooled by someone misrepresenting this basic technical detail and it happens constantly. That’s what this article is doing.