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They actually don’t take them down even if reported. I’ve been flagging stuff like this for 6 months. They refused. I appealed the refusal, a human supposedly reviewed it and it still was refused. The algo thinks I like that shit, so it shows me more and I report more of it. Nothing ever comes from it.

I’m talking about obvious CSAM or allusions to it. Accounts run by cybercriminals using images of minors to lure marks. Fucking shit that anyone with a working morality would remove.

I was going to say, what isn’t CSAM or scams, is violent and hateful propaganda or fake news.

I genuinely wish I could get a court order to ban my parents from using Facebook. I told my mom I wouldn’t help her next time she get’s scammed buying a fake item off a Facebook ad. I think she’s at like 4 times now.

Like they aren’t stupid, they are old. This stuff is dangerous for them.

Wouldn’t even bother reporting those ads… We know nothing would come from it. The scammers pay Facebook their cut, they are happy.

I’ve been flagging these on Facebook, which I have a blank account only for marketplace. Facebook NEVER does anything about it and I’ve been increasingly concerned. My reports get closed as “content does not break terms of use”.

The things I see through Facebook ads are not necessarily ai generated. They are just disgusting images, or allusions. Like an anime image of an old man surrounded by young boys with captions about a romance dating sim.

Yes, it is full of ads alluding to or including CSAM.

It’s been like this for a while. The suggested shorts frequently imply sexual content with minors and Facebook friend suggestions on blank accounts frequently include 14-16 year old girls.

Don’t believe me, create a fresh Facebook account and just browse the feed. It’s vile. The second you click it to report it, the algo will show you so much more.

Edit: There’s also a large number of fake user accounts promoting onlyfans or phishing scams including photos of under 18 girls in swimsuits with captions like “would you date someone young like me?”. Facebook also closed those reported tickets as not violating community guidelines.

I flagged one of these in January, I just found it and the user is celebrating her “birthday” holding balloons 1 and 3. Still active.

I’ve appealed some of these reports they closed and they claimed a human reviewed it and it still didnt violate guidelines.

They at best don’t give a fuck, at worst actively want this space to flourish within their platform. I think Facebook is behaving in a criminal way, either through negligence or complicit.

Don’t assume all this content is ai. It’s just as likely trafficking networks are producing these images or stealing them from minors’ accounts. These images could have been produced ages ago as well.

These cybercriminals absolutely have CSAM they will show as a means of achieving phishing or pig butchering scams. Facebook allows its space to be a launching point for this.

I’d say the ongoing thread is more the declining use of desktops/laptops in general in favour of phones or tablets. Cloudflare’s tools doesn’t allow us to compare between either.

MacOS is fine. Wouldn’t be as maligned if it existed in a vacuum outside the Apple business model.

Its like buying a Thinkpad new… its crazy for that price, but otherwise everything is excellent. Paying $500 for a once $5000 Thinkpad will change your opinion on the sticker shock.

Yeah, that’s the neat part about servers, they don’t necessarily need to be snappy. Most of what it does is background work and it doesn’t have anything else to do. DDR3 and DDR4 get the job done just as well, and save you a buck.

My NAS has 16gb of ddr3 ecc, it has 10tb of ZFS pools and it runs an embedded OS. No problems with that. Not going to use it to host Gitlab lol, but it gets the job done for what it has to do.

I’m inspired to start tonight. I have 3-4 boxes of unfinished killteams and 2 unpainted teams + a few TTCombat kits. Two years of slow crawling.

Do you really need 64gb though? Do you want a PCIe in a low wattage, low air circulation mini PC? Are you running a docker swarm of VMs within the same system? Why?

What’s your use case for this?

You won’t get Local LLMs if the PSU is minuscule. Best get a big old workstation with good cooling. Fried motherboards overloading them with local LLMs. That stuff is mean on hardware.

16gb is still fine for most people.

At least it supports 64 bit then. 😅

Listen, can’t speak for 20 year old cpu, but yeah snaps are more optimized now than in 2018.

Yeah an appliance distro would be a different consideration. For me Ubuntu is really flexible and a great docker host. I feel it’s safer to tinker with since you get those extra layers of containment and sandboxing.

If I was to build an appliance I might also start with Debian, but so far I have used FreeBSD. Works great on my NAS, where I use XigmaNAS. You can transfer a surprisingly lot of skills. Learning what was common to FreeBSD and Linux really helped me with cli.

I’m curious to try making stuff with Ubuntu Core. I think it has potential, but that’s a future deep dive and project. lol

I discovered Tresorit and I like it so far. $150 usd a year for 1 TB. Owned by the Swiss Post of all things. I prefer state owned or non profit companies where possible as service providers.

I also wanted something GDPR compliant and outside the scope of the Cloud Act. I didn’t want my data accessible by a hostile nation.

I like their cli tools, though they are setup a bit weirdly on linux. It’s more like running binaries and scripts than installing a package. Nevertheless, it gets the job done. Upload speed isn’t amazing, but it is overseas. Took nearly 24 hours to send 100gb or something. My server handles it, so its not a concern.

I’m not sure I could recommend it as a replacement for a Google Drive since I don’t use it that way. I just turn the sync on once a week and it’ll diff what’s on my backups.

I might setup a different folder to use as a more daily cloud storage and see how that goes. There’s desktop and mobile apps.

I think that’s more of a Ubuntu Desktop concern. My thinkpad has a 4th gen i5 and launches Firefox maybe half a second slower on a fresh reboot and afterwards its normal.

Its really not relevant to a server who has all the time in the world to boot and stays up. Once the snap is launched, its launched, works fine afterwards. It’s all cached in the RAM or temp data or whatever afterwards.

Ideally your server install would be on an SSD and your data on HDDs. Performance will be good with that setup.

I wonder how viable it would be to do the opposite of quantum. If we remove every at risk feature and strip it down to the basics: no scripts, no multi-user, no public sharing etc…

Project could be pretty easy to maintain indefinitely?

I remember reading earlier this year that the project was essentially “complete” and would only get security updates.

But like he says: “people keep making PRs for new features. Features that I do really think would benefit the project.”

I really struggle with folks’ sense of gratitude sometimes. Like there’s so many people making cool things for us… for free… When they could be doing the same work for money.

But yeah, sucks nobody could really keep the project up and secure. I’m not looking for a fork that will add anything to the project.

I’ll read some of the bug tickets to see what the current state is like. Figured this thing could just work indefinitely without much maintenance… its so simple?

Yeah… I pay money for 2 cores and 4gb RAM. I’d read the fine print on those free services.

I’m not comfortable with free services anymore. Nor am I comfortable dealing with a company subject to the Cloud Act.

Ubuntu’s “reputation” is nonsense. It’s a great distro for servers. Security updates are really fast and using snaps in a server environment is really great. I recommend running things like Docker or Tailscale off snap. They will revert to a previous image if an update fails. Extra stability for a server as you run automatic updates. If you run everything that is not in the base install off a snap, you have an extra layer of sandboxing against any supply chain attack for dependencies.

Ubuntu will have more recent packages, that doesnt really matter in a server environment. Debian is otherwise fine, I just dislike it’s installer and prefer Ubuntu’s. I found it easier to sync third party drivers on Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Pro gets you livepatches for kernal issues, which may be worthwhile. Also done without rebooting.

Ubuntu also gives you better apparmour default profiles on more things, whereas on debian, its up to you to set them up.

Debian will be exactly the same, its just more conservative and has less of those extras I mentioned. May be marginally lighter on resources for that. Either are fine.

Oh, Simplefin does that. Really solid.

It’ll be down to your bank’s rules. My main bank and brokerage work flawlessly, sync everyday. My secondary bank and Amex need to be reauthenticated every week or two. So I just update those once a month. Just go on simplefin and run the 2FA plus some waiting.

It doesn’t sync non-bank stuff, so there’s some RRSP providers I just enter manually.

For $20 cad a year its fine. I wouldn’t use it to track daily expenses unless you know everything will work. I do all my finances once a month so its fine for me.

I didn’t expect to even need a NAS, but I can no longer live without two now. Having all my data in one place, automated backups on my secondary NAS. I found a cloud storage provider I like. Just the whole stack is wonderful and I’m never going back.