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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 16/10/2026

If you have to ask grok that's a questionable source of truth.

Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

My secondary thought on that was bot net with malicious remote hijacking. Not necessarily the model itself but malware not operated by humans.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

We've probably got something similar down under with his face on it but I don't carry much on me in coins.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

Oh, I see... the worms. So if human-made bot nets weren't enough now the AI will be creating them and DDoSing everything.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

Self replicating an AI model that requires hundreds of gigabytes of memory to train and run on a fridge with potato specifications? Now they're just being silly.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

I used to work at Dick Smith so I built up a bit of experience for translation there.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

Just a big nerd with the patience to try and explain it.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

And the one platform that wouldn't give a damn about regulating it would be Trump's own Truth Social even if it was not broadcast anywhere else the leakage is still going to occur.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

And each new shared video will generate a new share link that is entirely unique from the OG. Given that many of the shares will be occurring on websites and in apps that we heavily rely on if we took the DNS blocking path you'd basically break the internet.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

But any recording won't match the OG because you're essentially creating a brand new file that will have introduced subtle differences, slight dips in internet speed could have added pixelation in random places that changes the final image and therefore the file hash or bitstream.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

For live video streams it's a different story, a social media company could geo block the source link for the original stream but a viewer of that stream could record and edit and upload it again and again. How one might go about matching a video stream is to check the 1s and 0s of the raw bitstream

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 14/10/2026

Typically how blocking is done from a file sharing perspective is through DNS filter lists provided by ISPs as mandated by government if you hit an IP address that is on the block list it redirects, it doesn't target specific links but the entire website.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 13/10/2026

If it's being picked up by third party using capture card it's not a perfect bit match to block if you were blocking by matching exact image as capture cards might introduce artifacts like pixelation.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 13/10/2026

The problem is restreaming. If it's an internet broadcast feed that can be picked up by anybody you've got a whack-a-mole of stream links to block.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 13/10/2026

And they sleep upright? How uncomfortable.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 13/10/2026

Should, but like everything else capitalist they'll have worked out the maximum amount they can charge and will just have to absorb it unless they want inventory piling up or expiring before it's purchased.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 12/10/2026

Given this seems to be a one off mix and match of several different vehicles as a training project for apprentices to build up their skills I suspect it's not going into production.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 09/10/2026

Also, where I currently am located, Geraldton, there is a town about 150km inland, Mullewa, and I've met people at the food bank who make the trip once a month just to stock up. Having access to such a concept would be amazing for them I would imagine. Closing the gap on food deserts.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 09/10/2026

Removing the profit incentive from essentials might be a good thing though and it would set a price floor as competition.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 09/10/2026

Not condoning it, just pointing out that America has a history of it.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 09/10/2026

I mean... It is what the Klan did, not outside the WH but publicly.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 25/09/2026

AES256 as the, theoretically, quantum resistant encryption that it is; needs to be applied end-to-end in order for there to be no gaps in security.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 18/09/2026

Says someone who can no longer scare tourists with drop bears.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 18/09/2026

Seems you've got ahead of me on that joke.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 02/09/2026

Doesn't take a paid course these days, YouTube or a good blog post will do it.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 02/09/2026

Hence my terrible joke above. De loo loo

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 01/09/2026

at least did a course. It might protect from a few more scams for example just to learn some of those basic skills or save some money in learning how to self service basic errors.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 01/09/2026

Perhaps but the skills to set it up are the skills you should be able to learn in many fundamentals courses, from there it just takes an interest to explore it. For that I can understand it might not be for everyone but it might give them something of a foundation to inform themselves of they...

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 01/09/2026

I start with an off the shelf privacy focused operating system installed on a spare computer that is designed specifically for locally hosted smart homes, @home-assistant.io, developed in the EU by a non-profit org. There is a learning curve but it's not completely out of reach.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 01/09/2026

*Offline With my disabilities there are some genuinely useful functions I can get from smart gadgets that aid my disabilities and with my techie background I can ensure that they only work offline within an ecosystem of my own making.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 01/09/2026

I've overstepped the mark and don't know entirely how to course correct. I do have a dislike for corporate controlled AI, I do find it useful running my own local voice assistant to control my smart home offline.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 31/08/2026

If we're going to cede the research and development space (through chronic government underfunding and short term private profit) to another country don't be surprised when we need to coordinate with that country.

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 31/08/2026

Breaking News: Chinese man has connection to China 😱

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 30/08/2026

Did they just French Revolution the Rupert look alike?

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 30/08/2026

Smallest of the 5 great Lakes, just how Stormy Daniels described Donald's...

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Duncan "Donuts" MacFarlane @duncan.macfarlane.app · 30/08/2026

I suspect skin colour has something to do with it.

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