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  • That’s the bad thing about social media. If no one was doing it before, someone is now!

    Jokes aside it’s possible, but with the current LLMs I don’t think there’s really a need for something like that.

    Malicious actors usually try to spend the least amount of effort possibile for generalized attacks, because you end up having to often restart when found out.

    So they probably just feed an LLM with some examples to get the tone right and prompt it in a way that suits their uses.

    You can generate thousands of posts while Lemmy hasn’t even started to reply to one.

    If you instead want to know if anyone is taking all the comments on lemmy to feed to some model training… Yeah, of course they are. Federation makes it incredibly easy to do.


  • It’s probably a problem with the UEFI, the windows info got overwritten, and you can probably fix this with efibootmgr

    It happened to me too, but unfortunately it was some years ago and I’m not at home to find the related notes that I took. I remember there was a windows utility to rewrite the boot loader. But probably in your case the boot partition is still okay, just the UEFI entry got overwritten and you just have to add it back manually.

    Check the troubleshooting section of the wiki page to have a tip on the windows booting location


  • Nice data, but I think we should take a broader view too:

    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2023&locations=RU-IN&start=2019

    I semi randomly picked India because it is part of BRICS and had a similar economic trajectory: It is quite interesting playing with all those nobs and labels.

    In this context I think PPP - which you showed - is a good indicator of the internal quality of living, but as far as I understand it, it has an hard time showing the difference in quality and standards of the consumer products between countries, so a dip in nominal GDP is an interesting context with the PPP adjusted rise. Less expensive things, because they are less regulated?

    Aside from that Russia has almost completely pivoted to a war economy which, as far as I know, tends to give a big initial boost but it stresses and makes the real (for lack of a better term) economy crash in the long run.

    What do you think about this? It is an interesting topic.







  • disable this system security feature temporarily,

    This should be - if I’m not mistaken - possible using the pip env var I posted about earlier, like this:

    PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1 sudo apt install howdy

    Or exporting it for the current shell, before running the installation

    export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1

    But I personally highly discourage it, because - AFAIK - if it even works it will mess up the deps in your system.


  • I’m no python expert but reading around it seems your only real solution is using a virtual environment, through pipx or venv as you already had found out, or using the

    --break-system-packages
    
    * Allow pip to modify an EXTERNALLY-MANAGED Python installation
    
      (environment variable: `PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES`)
    

    pip flag which, as the name suggest, should be avoided.

    EDIT: After rereading I got your problem better and I was trying to read the source for Howdy to see how to do it, so far no luck.





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    Considering you are not using the Flatpak anymore it is, indeed, strange. The only reasons I can think of are: your network manager is using the wrong network interface to route your traffic ( if you go on an ip checking site like for example ipinfo do you see yours or the VPN’s IP?) or that you have WebRTC enabled and the broadcaster is getting your real ip through that.

    For the first case it can get pretty complicated, but it is probably an error during the installation of the VPN app or you set up multiple network managers and it gets confused on which one to configure. You should also enable the Advanced Kill Switch in the configuration.

    For the second case you could try adding something like the Disable WebRTC add-on for firefox and check if it works. Remember to enable it for Private Windows too.

    The last thing I can think of is that you allowed the broadcaster to get your real geolocation (in firefox it should be a small icon on the left of the address bar), or you are leaking some kind of information somewhere: there are a bunch of site that check for ip leak, but I don’t know if that goes too deep for you.
    If you want to check anyway the first two results from DDG are browserleaks and ipleak. Mullvad offered one too but it is currently down.

    EDIT: If you enable the Advanced Kill Switch, and the app is working correctly, internet will not work while you are not connected to a VPN server or until you disable the switch again, so pay attention to that.