I recently started going to a course related to law at university. Its aimed at people not studying law, and the first thing it started with was clarifying that law is not morality.

This was quite interesting to me, since the course’s topic (laws about digitalization) has nothing to do with morality. So law != morality is obviously something the courses organisers thought to be a very important thing about law.

So I think the professionals are well aware of it, and anyone using law as a morality is either deliberately choosing it to ignore problems they’d have in a proper moral system, or not well educated on law.

I use Matrix with a group of friends that I persuaded to move from Discord. We still use Discord’s voice chat, but now that Matrix is starting to have something similar, I might try to get them to use Matrix for that too. So, the usage here is just general groupchat-like stuff.

I’m also in the process of moving the student council I’m in from Discord to Matrix. Once that’s up and running, it’ll cover groupchats, coordinating and announcing events, channels/rooms for various courses, and discussing/organising the various things the student council does.

Corridor Crew (a small VFX team with a long history on YouTube) have made a couple of videos on identifying AI generated video. Start with this one for example.

The points that I can remember are:

1. AI tools can’t generate more than 10-20 seconds, if you see an unbroken shot longer than that, its not AI.
2. Check for consistency between shots, this is pretty hard to do with AI. E.g. if the same person keeps appearing with similar, but still different clothes, its probably AI.
3. Visual artifacts, especially in the background can be a good tell.

This is only partially true.

RSA public keys consist of two parts:

1. The exponent e, which is usually 65537, for the reasons you described.
2. The modulus n, the product of the two primes used for generating an RSA keypair.

If the public key were always completely the same, then there would be no point in making different private keys.

I think there are three main issues (though I might be overlooking something):

1. AI taking over peoples work is as much an issue for mathematicians here, as it is for programers, artists, writers, etc. elsewhere.
2. We still need to check if these 700 papers are correct (AI makes mistakes at least as often as humans, usually more often). This involves a huge amount of effort. And if it turns out that they contain a bunch of mistakes, OpenAI is unlikely to care. To them, these papers have already served their purpose (generating headlines).
3. Solving a problem in mathematics means being able to (formally) convince other people that your opinion is correct (massively simplified, but imo that is what mathematics boils down to), by getting them to understand why your opinion is correct. Having a pile of linear algebra spit out 700 texts about certain math problems removes the whole “human understanding” part of that.

However, it’s not entirely unprecedented for a computer to provide a proof that we don’t completely understand. I forgot the details (and I’ll edit them in if I can find it), but there was at least one problem that was solved using a computer and brute force trying millions of cases. That produces a proof much longer than any human could read in a lifetime, and iirc there where quite a few mathematicians unhappy about it at the time too.

After a closer look at it, I think it might be a different version/some kind of derivative of sitelen mun. Some parts don’t make sense, in particular the tiny circle crossing the small circle, for example here

However, it does contain the (more or less) correct syntax for names (multiple different ones). For example here

which I think reads “jan Loulou” or “jan Luoluo”.

So I think its close enough to sitelen mun to be based on it, but its definetly something different.

Is this using sitelen mun? I’ve always wondered what that would look like for more complex sentences.

Except… sitelen mun doesn’t merge circles like that, I think. So is this another way of writing Gallifreyan, or is this from somewhere in Doctor Who?

Debian is the OS.

Proxmox builds on Debian to turn it into a hypervisor. That’s an OS for managing VMs and containers. Proxmox (like most hypervisors) gives you a handy webinterface.

There are easier hypervisors to use, but Proxmox is great for learning, and allows you to expand well later.

tbh, except for gaming and AI, you don’t need nearly as much processing power as you might think. I run most of my stuff on a (fairly new, can’t remember which one exactly) i5, and it sits at an average 2-3% CPU usage, with the maximum its recorded being 10.9% (there’s two VMs and 8 containers running on it). 11th gen i5 will probably be more than enough to start with.

In my non-professional opinion, what you really want to look at is how much power your system is going to use when idle, since that’s what (small) servers are doing most of the time. This is not something specified by manufacturers, and it depends on all the parts going into the computer (CPU, mainboard, PSU, fans, how the BIOS is set up, …).

I would also recommend getting at least 16 GB of RAM (honestly I would say 32, if not for the current prices). Containers don’t use too much, but if you want to set up VMs for services, each VM will want at least 2-4 GB for itself.

LXC-Containers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC) are like extremely lightweight and slightly less secure Linux VMs. They are similar to Docker, but while Docker is containerizing applications, LXC containerizes Linux distros.

Running Docker inside a VM is the recommended way to run Docker on Proxmox.

Personally, I just run Docker inside LXC containers. Aparently, this is supposed to be not entirely stable, but its never given me any problems. (I commit an entirely different sin against efficiency, by keeping each service in its own LXC container, each with its own Docker host.)

I also run Immich (in Docker inside a container), and haven’t noticed any performance issues. But I’m the only user, and I don’t use it heavily, so ymmv.