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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • This might be a bit of a bad question, but I don’t know where to ask to get the least biased responses.
    So, I have about $1.000 in Bitcoin that used to be $300 (I’ve put in about $1.500 in various shitcoins before getting those BTC)
    I fly drones as a hobby and I was thinking of getting a new system for that amount of money.

    It’s not really a complex equation. If you need liquidity, liquidate assets. If you don’t need liquidity, don’t liquidate assets.
    How badly you want your new hobby system is something only you can answer.





  • The Microsoft account holds a backup of the recovery key, which you need to use to restore access in if you do something like significantly change the hardware or move the drive to a different system (which are effectively the same thing).

    You don’t need it for day-to-day use of the system, and you can also just get the recovery key and print it out or write it down somewhere, which is usually how it’s handled on systems that don’t use a Microsoft account.

    Not as disastrous as I assumed then, thanks!




  • Some of the things mentioned in the OP don’t actually happen in real life, though. Bitlocker is only automatically activated if you use a Microsoft account to log in, and why wouldn’t you know the account credentials if it’s what you use to log in?

    Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here, but does this whole thing not mean that the moment you use your Microsoft account for logging in, you immediately tie the permanent accessibility of your local files to you retaining access to a cloud account?

    TPM is optional (but recommended) for Bitlocker. Practically every computer released in the past 10 years has TPM support. Secure boot is needed to ensure that the boot is secure and thus it’s okay to load the encryption key. Without it, a rootkit could be injected that steals the encryption key. You generally want to use TPM and secure boot on Linux too, not just on Windows. You need secure boot to prevent an “evil maid attack”

    You have different opinions on TPM and the prevalence of evil maids than me, fair. But please don’t disregard the central premise of my last comment: One is already using a different encryption solution. Say, Veracrypt is churning away in the background. Why would one leave Bitlocker activated?



  • “I am very sceptical about this,” Dobrindt told broadcaster ZDF on Sunday after talk of a possible ban dominated German media since Friday. “I don’t believe that we can just ban the AfD. Instead we need to outgovern them.”

    “In truth, this plays into the hands of the AfD and their narrative that people no longer want to engage with them politically, but only legally. And I would not want to grant the AfD that satisfaction,” Dobrindt said.

    I hold Hanlon’s razor to be one of the most important tools of making sense of the world. But I simply don’t understand these Dobrindt quotes. They seem to be missing like 10 paragraphs of explanation or context. I’d truly like to at least make sense of them before I dismiss them. What does “outgovern” mean? What’s so bad about not engaging with the AfD politically?


  • I know, I just meant why would someone willingly disable Bitlocker?

    I mean… the premise of the thread seems like a good enough reason, doesn’t it?
    And even if it doesn’t, if one is already using a different encryption solution that doesn’t rely on TPM and secureboot silliness, what possible reason could there be not to disable Bitlocker?




  • Why do people host LLMs at home when processing the same amount of data from the internet to train their LLM will never be even a little bit as efficient as sending a paid prompt to some high quality official model?
    inb4 privacy concerns or a proof of concept this is out of discussion, I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one. I don’t care about anything else than quality of generated answers

    If you ask other people for their reasoning and opinions, it doesn’t really make any sense to put something “out of the discussion”, does it? :P

    But no, if you have no qualms about sharing your innermost feelings, sexual preference or illegal plans with those that have an explicit desire to exploit that information then there is little reason to attempt something as complicated and wasteful as self-hosting your own LLMs.