Palantir is a mysterious and powerful data analytics firm

... And its mystery is exceeded only by its power?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiIBcUD1VY This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to revert a new, undesirable layout to a previous version. The instructions are presented in a sequential manner, utilizing links provided in the video description to install necessary components and configure settings.

• Step 1-4: Clicking on links provided in the description to install required elements (likely browser extensions or related software).
• Step 5: Another click on a link in the description to install an additional component.
• Step 6: Accessing the installed extension's settings and applying a filter provided by the creator (presumably to address a specific visual issue).
• Refresh: Refreshing the webpage to apply the changes.
• Issue: The fix may remove access to the sidebar if used, a sacrifice the user must make.

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The central takeaway is a critical examination of copyright's history and its current relevance in the digital age. The speaker promotes a shift in the conversation towards a model of creativity and distribution decoupled from traditional copyright, emphasizing that copyright was historically designed to protect distribution channels rather than support artists. He argues that the internet's capabilities render those mechanisms obsolete and calls for a new understanding of creativity, free from the constraints of the current copyright system. Ultimately, the speaker urges the audience to question the widely held beliefs about copyright and to support the free flow of information. The youtube video is summarized by transcriptly

Choice of Games makes games that are unchanging text. You could probably do okay with that.

Actually...come to think of it, they should figure out some way to hook up with an e-reader manufacturer, sell their games in those stores. Like, those games also have basically zilch by way of memory or computational requirements, and I bet that the same kind of person who'd buy a dedicated e-reader to read books would probably be more-interested in a text-heavy game.

Thanks, that was actually a pretty good look at them.

I do think that they did raise one point that I wouldn't have thought of. The color eInk doesn't have great resolution, but they were viewing old comics printed using halftoning (what the guy in the video was calling "cheap dot patterns"). Comics at the time were, had to be, designed to deal with being printed that way, and that results in images that could deal with really low color resolution. So specifically for viewing them, the color eInk display was a pretty good match for the content.

Problem is, I just can't see how many people would buy a monitor just to view old-style comics.

I think that eInk is a good match for a portable e-reader that you potentially take outside, where it's already available in the role. Outside of that...

In another comment response, I linked to some place (DASUNG) out of China that makes eInk monitors.

They make 25" eInk monitors in both black-and-white and color. That's $1,500 and up, though.

Personally, for me, it wouldn't make sense. The real selling point of eInk for me is:

• It's reflective, and eInk is almost the only kind of reflective display out there. That means that it works reasonably outdoors under sunlight and glare, without having to blast enough light to overwhelm the sunlight. But...with a desktop, and especially mixed types of monitors, you're not going to be lugging those monitors outside under the sun.
• If you're looking at mostly static images in a lit area, eInk has extraordinarily low average power use, since it only consumes power when updating the image on the screen. That makes it a great fit for e-readers. But...for a fixed computer monitor, I don't care much about power consumption.

And with that, you get drawbacks of having limited refresh rates, limited size, high price, limited or no color (and if you have color, worse contrast) and not being able to display brightly-lit, emissive stuff.

I mean, yes, eInk does look like paper, and if you're really set on that particular aesthetic, then it'd have some value there. But for me, that value is just really limited. Yeah, it'd be kind of novel for text to look like it's on paper, but it's just not a game-changer.

I bought a trmnl and it's pricey but works pretty good. I've mostly been using a few out-of-the-box plugins for it.

There is a selfhosted/offline version of the server you can run for it, so it can be 'offline' in theory. I keep meaning to mess with it more but haven't put the time aside.

The phenomenon is called Gell-Mann amnesia

earthquakes,

I live in a geo-stable location... Lots of DCs here specifically because of that.

house fire,

Yep. Fire extinguishers are in house, and I check them pretty regularly... Blaze cut is in the junction box(now) and in the rack. Rack is in garage, so I can just unplug and push it the fuck out (assuming I have time after throwing my kids out the windows).

It was actually my setup that alerted me to the junction fire pre-emptively... as power usage was fluctuating wildly and I have Home Assistant alert on that sort of stuff. It only sparked and blew some insulation... The fire didn't actually move anywhere meaningful and I cut power before it had a chance to get worse. My fire alarm itself is also tied into HASS at this point. So I get alerts on my phone for the rare occasion that I leave my house (most [99%] of my work is work from home, I go to a datacenter probably quarterly at this point for all of an hour).

flood,

We barely get rain :(. But because of the soil here there's lots of washes and irrigation mitigations in place already.

volcano,

Yellowstone finally going up will just outright kill me... don't care to mitigate this at that point. There's no other active volcanos around.

tornado, hurricane,

Doesn't happen here. Dust devils are about as bad as it gets.

crashing plane,

So there's 2 ways to look at this one... I live near an AirForce base. Either they fuck up and I'm more at risk... or because the area around the base is no-fly zone, I'm less likely... I don't know take your pick. I would hope "less likely" due to training... but I've seen stupid shit when I was in the military.

theft, nazis, shitty kids, anarchists,

Guns...I have guns. Lots of ammo. A good setup for cameras on my house. And no fucks to give as army training and a deployment has forced onto me. My state is a stand your ground state. If it's my kids that are the shitty kids... I have a backyard and a shovel (/s).

or rain?

See "flood" above.
Other sources of water (water leak): no pipes above the server rack... Water heater isn't that close, has a freezer in between to take the brunt of any initial impact, and is brand new (so unlikely to spontaneously explode). Rack is elevated on it's coasters and garage is graded towards the street.

We can get some interesting thunder storms here. Rack is grounded, I have backup batteries in the rack and whole house battery from the solar. But luck be what it is, in theory that could nail me as unlikely as it is.

Everything is encrypted at rest... Backups are encrypted.

I don't have a proepr offsite yet. But my cousin is finishing building his house. He also has a fat internet pipe, and I'll just leave a 25TB node there to backup the important/unreplaceable stuff over there. He's clear across the country in a pretty geo-stable location as well. And he has an interest in maintaining it as he uses some services that I offer anyway (Email, nextcloud, backups, etc...). Everything else is pretty replaceable and wouldn't take all that much effort to rebuild otherwise.

Never claimed I was "perfect"... But I'm doing pretty well here and have been doing it for nearly a decade this way. With ~30 years worth of data and very little of it lost. (there was one event over a decade ago at this point... but wasn't all that bad.)

The real risk is just me doing something stupid since I'm the sole owner and nobody else really knows how to access any of my stuff. My dad has emergency access to my password vault, but even though he's been programming since the 80's, a lot of my setup is likely over his head.

All this other stuff is pretty low risk/unlikely or has been relatively decently mitigated.

Edit: Oh... and some certain important items are burned to M-discs and put into my safe every quarter or so.

are you sure that Microsoft was there with Amazon, Google, Fecesbook and Xhitter?

There are both dumps with full history and ones that are just the current set of articles. The full dump happens once a month on the 1st, but will often take ~2 weeks to run to completion, so you probably have to look back to the April 1 2025 dump for those. The metawiki dumps page has all the info.

I already did multiple times

No you didn't, because you keep saying wrong things.

you just refuse to read it

I don't need to read it, because I read it when it came out... back in 2008. I read their stuff regularly. I also read all the other stuff about this topic (AI tech). An article from 2008 is irrelevant at this point. Technology has advanced leaps and bounds in 17 years. AI wasn't even a thing back then. Things like Picovoice didn't even exist until recently.

It also says a lot that your source of truth is a near 20-year old article from Android Authority.

How often do you say Nike ?

Personally? Never.

More interesting would be “I will buy a pair of new shoes” now shoes can be mentioned in tons of context so you better have a way of separate it.

I don't know about "interesting", but I do agree that it would be much greater context to better target ads. But that's not what the discussion was about. I said way back that I'm not positioning this idea of phone's listening as an absolute certainty. My whole point was that at a technological level it's well within technical means to accomplish the whole "our phones listen to what we say" all while not draining the battery enough to be outright noticeable.

Another thing to note, is that most (if not all) of the anecdotal stories about people talking about a topic and then seeing ads about that thing are often generic conversations. Even in my own tests, which are anecdotal, confirm that. I never talk about boating. I never search anything about boats. I also never saw any ads about boats. Etc. So I did a little test on my own recently and openly talked about "getting the boat ready", "can't wait to go boating next week", "need to get the boat in the water and ready for the season", and so on. I did this for about an hour solid. Then waited and hour and visited some generic websites that show ads, and lo and behold there were lots of ads for buying a new propeller, ads for nearby marinas, ads for marina supply shops, ads for boating accessories, and so on.

Like I said, it's entirely anecdotal and in no way conclusive, but it does lead me to believe that there might be truth to the rumours. And it's the kind of thing I've heard from many other technical people who deliberately tried to trigger ads on topics they never deal with otherwise.

And also like I said before either come back with something real, or go away and concede you’re out of your depth.

On an unrelated note: the site has the least invasive adblock banner I've ever seen. Made me wish to immediately turn it off.

The intent is to get rid of crawlers which are disrupting the operation of your servers. That's not intent of doing harm to the crawler's operator, or their business. It's analogous to telling a hawker to fuck off: Polite, no, but them being able to profit off you is not your responsibly, you do not have to accede to that. And intent to harm the ISP is even less reasonable to assume.

cant find the primary source anymore https://netzpolitik.org/2012/berec-studie-dpi-bei-vielen-providern-bereits-im-einsatz/

That's out of date anyway. How about this one. DPI is limited to OSI level 5 and only allowed to resolve network issues -- and a crawler crashing is not a network issue.

Oh no! Anyway...

Thank you. He gets more normalized any time someone talks about this asshole and doesn’t mention his extremist and wildly unpopular views. He is a terrible person, and not enough people know why.

This article does a pretty solid job of explaining how horrible he is, though I’m sure there are better ones.

I’m in an apartment currently; the footprint I’m willing to allocate to a server amounts to a full-size ATX case, and a bunch of small ebay’d lenovo thin clients (plus a handful of rPi’s and similar SBCs). When I finally am able to get a house with some actual project space, I aspire to build something approaching your setup over time.