Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?English
3·10 days agoIs the communications holofilter ready?
Engage the overlay. Put them on screen.

Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Technology@lemmy.ml•U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US.English
6·11 days agoThe Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos so I certainly wouldn’t suggest that anyone should pay them for anything.
I do often use archive.is (which, FWIW, is “privately funded” by a person unknown and in 2025 still says in its FAQ “With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014.”) and it is certainly useful but via Tor or a VPN it often requires solving multiple recaptcha (google) captchas so it is not my first choice for bypassing paywalls.
I am curious why @rossome@lemmy.ml got redirected to the MSN home page though; for me (with ads blocked by ublock origin) the page is loading just fine.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Technology@lemmy.ml•U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US.English
3·11 days agoI linked the MSN syndicated version because the washingtonpost is often paywalled or broken in other ways. (When I load this article there currently I am getting only the first paragraph of the article, with no indication that there is actually more.)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Remote access home PC to test remote access to the work PCEnglish
5·12 days agoAlthough this stance makes me think I should never use remote desktop at all
Yeah, generally speaking, remote access logically puts the remote system (or whatever resources are being remotely accessed) in the same “security domain” as the endpoint being used to do the remote access. So, system administrators and other security-conscious people indeed tend not to SSH or remote desktop in to important systems from other people’s computers :)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Remote access home PC to test remote access to the work PCEnglish
16·12 days agoCongrats on fixing your issue and progressing in your self-hosting journey… but… from a security standpoint it is not really a good idea to log in to your home server from your work PC.
Anyone else who is able to run code on your work PC (your employer, rogue coworkers, hackers targeting your employer, hackers randomly exploiting the 15-year-old version of Office or other software you’re running there, etc) could easily discretely retain the access which you gave them to your hopefully-better-secured (or at least differently-secured) Debian home server.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?English
192·12 days agoDeep Space Nine?
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?English
10·15 days agotheir fishing rods are invisible for you? including the hook and line? that must be rough. how do you avoid getting caught when you can’t even see them?
the first link in the post body goes to the Know Your Meme page about it
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Sam Altman prepares ChatGPT for its AI-rotica debutEnglish
41·29 days agoIt is not superintelligence.

It’s common intelligence at scale.
no, it really isn’t. if you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe Yann LeCun? (often called one of the “godfathers of AI”)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?English
2·1 month agoi’ve gotten some cooked mp3s before. i don’t know if they got that way through steaming or what but i did need to uncook them before i eventually burned them 🤔
“Two economists are walking in a forest” wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoLemmy Support@lemmy.ml•Why the API says a post doesn't have comments when the HTML page shows comments ?English
1·2 months agoi’m guessing it might have something to do with the fact that
jlai.luis configured to default to theLocalview whilelemmy.worlddefaults toAll
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoLemmy Support@lemmy.ml•Why the API says a post doesn't have comments when the HTML page shows comments ?English
4·2 months agoLooking at the network tab while loading a thread, I see you need to include
type_=All.(lemmy-ui sends other parameters too but your example URL works for me with just
tyoe_=Alladded.)

this is the futo funder

















the leap from “lower factual error rates than an equally-prompted baseline without retrieval (as judged by an external LLM)” to “enables trustworthy, cross-domain scientific synthesis at scale and establishes the foundation for an ever-expanding encyclopedia”