Do you not get memory errors without ECC RAM?

There are laptops with ECC RAM, but they are uncommon.

Otherwise, the effect of memory errors depends on the use case.

If the laptop or mini-PC is used as a router/firewall/Internet gateway, then memory errors are usually not important, because they would result in corrupted network packets that are likely to be detected at the endpoints of a network connection.

If the laptop or mini-PC is used as an e-mail server or a Web server, then a fraction of the memory errors may result in a stored file that becomes corrupted.

At the small amounts of memory typical for a laptop or mini-PC, unless the PC is many years old there should be no more than a few memory errors per year at most, and the majority of the errors might not result in file corruption, but sometimes they may cause weird behavior requiring a computer reboot.

Anecdotally, during the years I have seen on the Internet a non-negligible amount of big files, e.g. movies, which appear to have bit flips that are likely to have been caused by their hosting on servers without ECC memory. Fortunately, in movies a small number of bit flips will not cause severe quality degradation.

With more valuable data, one must use ECC memory to avoid such problems.

Two words: ECC RAM

Are you guys even serious on this? Ok, I’d reboot my personal server daily then.

At some point, EU needs to build an alternative to those corps and that will never happen as long as they keep holding on to their precious pearl clutching regional and linguistic issues. EU needed to be a single country like 10 years ago.

what do you mean by single country? All the cultures in these countries can not disappear in 10, hell even 100 years. And i would prefer that they would not.

You know single country doesn't mean single culture.

Or, they should not globo-homogenize themselves, wiping out their cultures in the process (are you even human? How can you so casually recommend the eradication of Europe's varied cultures?), but should instead ban a handful of American corps which would then create market space for small local competitors.

You know single country doesn't mean single culture, right? right?

This is also happening with `.tar.gz` file on chrome for yt-dlp. Doesn't happen for other `.tar.gz`

Don't make statements like this without more explanation. In what way is this happening to you specifically? What distribution and platform are you using? Did you explicitly install something to warn you about 'side-loading' executables?

You are wrong. There is at least one collaboration here that I can see. Download any other `.tar.gz`, Chrome says nothing. Do it with `yt-dlp`, chrome says it can harm your computer. Why?

Takeaway is formal software.

What's the solution apart from an identity providing service?

I don't know of a solution. I don't think even identity verification will meaningfully solve this. People will get hacked, or provide their SEO-spamming agent with their own identity, or purposefully post fake videos under their own identity. As it becomes more normal to scan your ID to access random websites, it will also become easier to steal people's identities and the value of identity verification will go down.

Agreed. The sphere of trust around each of us will shrink back to only those in our physical proximity. Outside of that, no one can be trusted.

People don't get hacked - devices get hacked. So all we need is a better chain of trust between two people. This is not a technology development problem as much as a technology implementation problem. And a political problem

People get hacked -- a device could be flawless, but if a person is a victim of "Social Engineering" and hands the attacker a password, there's nothing the designer of the device could do about it.

2FA has tried to solve exactly this. Not many attacked people will hand over their password AND their phone. Yes I know, they might hand over one authentication code (and I know people who did exactly that)... We should also look into reducing the attack surface - if you get Instagram hacked you shouldn't get your Facebook hacked as well. But the current big tech centralization leads us to that single point of failure, because they don't care about the user's concerns only market grab. So... what now? Do we get the politics into this?

One authentication code is often all that's needed to *change where the authentication codes are sent*

Not to mention that most 2FA still uses SMS, which has it's own well-understood security flaws.

You're on the right path. As long as we continue to use email as a fallback to every other form of authentication, it will remain a single point of failure and a relatively weak one at that.

OP is still correct. No matter what, humans will remain the weakest link...it's in our nature to sympathize and every one of us has distracted/weak moments. It's just a matter of time; look at the guy who runs haveibeenpwnd...getting pwned.

Best thing I think of is domain names. Domains are tied to addresses and billing, and sites are people or businesses, with physical locations one can visit.

Maybe a good startup idea would be “local verify” , where you check locally for a client if the online destination is real.

Touching grass. Valuing in-person connections. Focusing on the community, meatspaces and actual people around you.

Getting off of the Internet and off of our devices. It's not just a solution to AI/LLMs modifying our reality but also a solution to [gestures wildly at the cultural, societal and global communication impacts of the past ~16 years].

This sentiment is unpopular, but it's true. Prioritize true connections and experiences.

I’m seeing a huge increase in companies requiring in person interviews now. Seems there is a real possibility the internet as we know it will be destroyed.

I think you might be right and I think I'll like some of the consequences and hate some of the others.

More in-person stuff feels like a win to me (and I say this as someone who probably counts as introverted).

Not being able to trust any online interactions anymore? Seems like a new height in what was already a negative.

Agreed. I don't think there is any saving the internet as a social space long term. And I'm not entirely sad about that either. I think a return to in person interaction, public social spaces, and a retreat from social media would do the world a lot of good.

Though there is a nightmarish possibility that people just accept this and willingly interact purely with bots, giving up all real relationships for AI ones.

linkedin is completely destroyed now. There are tons of ai bots there but real humans are now fronts for AI. So you cant even trust content from from ppl you know.

identity serivce is not useful because that person might be a real person but they might just be a pipe to ai like we see on linkedin.

That's just shifting the problem not solving it.

Also europe.

In many countries, it will be PHEV for a long time because the electricity capacity and grid is just not there. India for example.