Mastodawn

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.

That is the true definition of malware.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!

Dustin 3d ago

I am an engineer. I design chips for a living and right now I am specifically doing verification. By definition my job is not artistic in any way.

There are many among us who are true artists and specifically musicians, which is the kind of art that moves me the most. One such artist, Joshua Hyslop, is skilled with the ability to make guitars sing and chant cadences into my soul.

He’s coming out with a new album soon, so forgive me for oversharing when it does.

#IndieMusic
#JoshuaHyslop

Dustin 3d ago

I’m taking my electric car on a mini road trip to Northern Colorado!

Nevermind this is because I didn’t book an appointment early enough at my local office to renew my drivers license before it expires.

Dustin 3d ago

Stephen Robles 3d ago

Speaking of Mac mini…could I interest you in a Mac mini Pro Max?

Dustin 6d ago

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Paul Apr 28

A little tight but it came out OK. I think I’ll do one more version where I round out the lip to the left of each key so rotating it clockwise also lifts it out. It’s going to be held on with magnets, so if it’s too tight, the whole thing will just come off.
#3Dprinting

Dustin Apr 28

Karl Baron Apr 28

This is pretty cool. Apple's old Time Capsule devices run NetBSD, so in anticipation of their deprecation of AFP in the next version of macOS this guy got samba 4 running on it

https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB

GitHub - jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB: Hacking the Apple Time Capsule to run modern Samba

Hacking the Apple Time Capsule to run modern Samba - jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB

GitHub

Dustin Apr 27

Jeff Geerling Apr 27

One of the strangest Pi clusters I've ever seen... happens to be a commercial success, but most people looking at this box would never know it has 3 Pis inside!

Video here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GYN7TH5y1CM

Dustin Apr 26

There was one at a martial arts meet in Thorton, CO yesterday.

For Nilay ( @reckless1280 )

#PartySpeakerSighting

Dustin Apr 26

Jen Sorensen Apr 26

Latest comic: The post-human economy

#labor #work #economy #workers #inequality #comic #cartoon

Dustin Apr 26

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Karl Baron Apr 26

Made progress on this over the weekend!

It seems to be mostly working (see screenshot of 9 sessions connected at once to a server running on my 16 MHz 68020 Mac IIcx), but I'm still worried about obscure minor bugs like race conditions showing up when I put it live (yeah there are still around 5-9 of us online at any given time on #GlobalTalk Chat even into the end of April!)

To get all the pieces I needed to get it to work, I had to cobble together info from a all over

#VintageApple

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