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• Pourquoi je n’utilise pas ChatGPT - ritimo

  16 mai, par Sombre (@sombre)

  Pourquoi je n’utilise pas ChatGPT - ritimo
  ▻https://www.ritimo.org/Pourquoi-je-n-utilise-pas-ChatGPT

  Ce qui suit n’est pas un article de recherche. C’est une prise de position personnelle, émaillée de mes lectures préférées sur le sujet. Cette position est basée sur des préoccupations déjà anciennes à propos des impacts des technologies numériques, renforcées par la fréquentation assidue des domaines des systèmes dits critiques (l’informatique dans les trains, les avions, les centrales nucléaires, …). Dans ces domaines la sécurité et la sûreté priment sur la performance, les durées de vie des systèmes sont plus longues que dans l’informatique grand public, les acteurs sont heureusement frileux vis-à-vis d’évolutions trop rapides. Je ne suis pas chercheuse en IA et ne l’ai jamais été. Je n’ai pas pratiqué de longues expérimentations des outils disponibles, même si j’ai lu attentivement ce qu’en disaient les collègues qui l’ont fait. Mon refus personnel de mettre le doigt dans l’engrenage ChatGPT s’appuie beaucoup sur mes connaissances scientifiques antérieures et ma méfiance envers des systèmes opaques, non déterministes et non testables, mais il est aussi nourri de positions politiques. Si aucune technologie n’est jamais neutre, dans le cas présent la configuration politico-financière extrêmement concentrée dans laquelle se déploient ces outils est particulièrement préoccupante et devrait selon moi conduire à une certaine prise de conscience. Et cela même si l’on est impressionné par les capacités de ces outils, ou tenté par les promesses de gain de temps et d’augmentation de créativité, voire convaincu que le stade de l’IA générale capable de surpasser l’humain est imminent (et désirable).

• Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android ? So are we. Let…

  13 mai, par b_b (@b_b)

  Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud
  ▻https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google
  

  https://nextcloud.com/c/uploads/2025/05/nextcloud-file-uploads-issue-android-app-3-1024x576.png

  #Google is stating security concerns as a reason for revoking the permission. This is hard to believe for us. #Nextcloud has had this feature since its inception in 2016, and we have never heard about any security concerns from Google about it. Moreover, several Big Tech apps as well as Google’s own still have this. What we think: Google owning the platform means they can and are giving themselves preferential treatment.

  To make it crystal clear: All of you as users have a worse Nextcloud Files client because Google wanted that.

  The more tech-savvy of you are certainly able to use the alternative app store, such as #F-Droid. But for our user base of roughly one million users on the #appstore, this will hardly be an option.

• Revisiting Image Maps | CSS-Tricks

  12 mai, par b_b (@b_b)

  Revisiting Image Maps | CSS-Tricks
  ▻https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-image-maps
  

  https://i0.wp.com/css-tricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image-maps-thumb.jpg

  #image_map #svg #responsive

• Building An Offline Friendly Image Upload System — Smashing Magazine

  24 avril, par b_b (@b_b)

  Building An #Offline Friendly #Image #Upload System — Smashing Magazine
  ▻https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/building-offline-friendly-image-upload-system
  

  https://files.smashing.media/articles/building-offline-friendly-image-upload-system/1-upload-system-flow-chart.png

  - The user selects an image.
  The process begins by letting the user select their image.
  – The image is stored locally in #IndexedDB.
  Next, the system checks for network connectivity. If network connectivity is available, the system uploads the image directly, avoiding unnecessary local storage usage. However, if the network is not available, the image will be stored in IndexedDB.
  – The #service_worker detects when the network is restored.
  With the image stored in IndexedDB, the system waits to detect when the network connection is restored to continue with the next step.
  – The background sync processes pending uploads.
  The moment the connection is restored, the system will try to upload the image again.
  – The file is successfully uploaded.
  The moment the image is uploaded, the system will remove the local copy stored in IndexedDB.

• We collected 470K IPv4s from a botnet that was trying to get all the content from our social…

  3 avril, par BigGrizzly (@biggrizzly)

  We collected 470K IPv4s from a botnet that was trying to get all the content from our social network; it was behaving in such a way that we could track every single request it made. Since we blocked it, the server has been working much better; it hasn’t been running with such a low load for at least a year.

  ▻https://framapiaf.org/@biggrizzly/114227612269042897

  Can you try to use the ipset and tell us if it works ? Reply on seenthis or on mastodon, tagging ►https://seenthis.net/people/biggrizzly or ▻https://framapiaf.org/@biggrizzly

  Here is the latest file, more than 540K /32.

  ►https://www.partagerfichier.fr/download.php?f=2025-04-03-17-53-54_botnet-set.zip

  It’s an ipset backup (►https://ipset.netfilter.org/ipset.man.html).

  You can restore the file using this command line :

  ipset restore -file ./botnet-set

  You can declare it in iptables, using this command line :

  iptables -A INPUT -m set --match-set botnet-set src -j DROP