Terraform and Puppet. Not very simple to get into, but extremely powerful and reliable.
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How do you notify yourself about the status of a container?
I usually notice if a container or application is down because that usually results in something in my house not working. Sounds stupid, but I'm not hosting a hyper available cluster at home.
Is there a “quick” way to know if a container has healthcheck as a feature.
Check the documentation
Does healthcheck feature simply depend on the developer of each app, or the person building the container?
If the developer adds a healthcheck feature, you should use that. If there is none, you can always build one yourself. If it's a web app, a simple HTTP request does the trick, just validate the returned HTML - if the status code is 200 and the output contains a certain string, it seems to be up. If it's not a web app, like a database, a simple SELECT 1 on the database could tell you if it's reachable or not.
Is it better to simply monitor the http(s) request to each service? (I believe this in my case would make Caddy a single point of failure for this kind of monitor).
If you only run a bunch of web services that you use on demand, monitoring the HTTP requests to each service is more than enough. Caddy being a single point of failure is not a problem because your caddy being dead still results in the service being unusable. And you will immediately know if caddy died or the service behind it because the error message looks different. If the upstream is dead, caddy returns a 502, if caddy is dead, you'll get a "Connection timed out"
if anybody could access a technology that helps them by magically destroying lives in another country far away, would you say the same thing?
Might be cruel to say it, but that's called "progress". The world needs to continue to evolve - latching to old jobs seems silly. We got rid off of blacksmiths because we don't have the need anymore. Europe once had a huge horse stable industry spanning the entirety of central and western europe. We don't have that anymore either, because we now have cars. We also don't have any telegraph operators or switchboard operators (necessary for long distance communication back then), elevator operators or laundry washwomen - these jobs have all been made obsolete by technical advancements.
“It would be silly to ignore it as it makes things easier for me” seems quite short-sighted to me.
I think quite the opposite - it's the long-sighted better option. Progress is never good for those negatively affected in the short term, but we can't keep jobs around that aren't really necessary anymore just for the sake of those people having a job.
And in this particular case, there's not even any loss involved. They used their voice to train an AI, it was explicity part of the contract and they got paid for it. I honestly do not see the problem.
You literately wrote “If there is one person that has all the influence, it’s you as a parent.”
Yes, because it's true. The kid spends most of it's time in your care. But that doesn't mean you can negate all the other influence. But you can and should keep track of what is happening in your childs life.
but now you shit on people that for one or another reason have children that turn out badly
I'm not really trying to shit on people, sorry if you get that impression. There are reasons why children turn out bad despite you doing your best - especially if the partner leaves and you're a single parent. It's nearly impossible to feed yourself and your child while still paying 100% attention to what it does.
However, my impression is that many people want to have children but not take care of them. That's what I see in my daily life. Kids come home from school, get something to eat and then the parents put them in front of a TV or a tablet so they can keep themselves busy while the parents do whatever. And don't get me wrong, it's not even wrong to do that every now and then. Everyone needs a pause. But in many - especially poorer - families, this is common practice and it's no surprise the kids turn out as they do.
Do you think that it is the parents full responsibility, that their 13 year old child committed suicide because of bulling?
If bullying gets to a point where it's so bad the bullied kid feels the need to kill itself, there's so many things wrong before that. It's not like a child is bullied once and immediately jumps off a building, that is a long process that goes on for weeks or months and the changes that happen to the child are noticeable to adults in the childs life. Doesn't want to go to school anymore, scared to go out etc. - if you're a somewhat attentive parent, those change are noticeable. My mum, for example, almost always ate lunch with me when I came home and talked with me about the day. If I was bullied, she would've noticed within days.
So no, they don't carry the full responsibility. But they are certainly partly responsible, even tho that might sound cruel to you.
Don’t tell me they HAD to use genAI instead of paying those voice actors for reshoot to begin with.
The didn't have to, but it certainly makes it easier. And I find it silly to not use a technology that makes something easier if you have it available. That's like a farmer plowing his field by hand instead of using a tractor.
But the base of this model is to be capable of understanding how any voice works in order to copy how a specific voice work.
First of all, we had Text-To-Speech way before any kind of generative AI. In germany, we had speech synthesized announcements on railway stations for like 15 years at least. Like this here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AuIkJ_UGltI. We also had vocaloids for decades now. So it's wrong to assume we had no idea how voices work before AI.
Second, I get your stance on "I'm not using AI because somewhere up the chain it was developed by morally ambiguous ways", but I don't think that makes anything better. You should rate the current use-case, not something that happened earlier in the production chain. AI in itself is not bad. If used properly, it's an incredibly helpful tool. There's other and much better hills to die on imo.
I never said children will never be influenced under good parental care. That is impossible to avoid. Of course your child will be influenced by things online and offline, no question. But if you notice your child is drifting into the wrong direction, you can sit them down, talk with them and try to correct that. I know I drifted into the wrong direction as a kid but my parents still got me into a pretty successful life by raising me correctly.
It’s a battle against billion dollar companies and it won’t be easy
Nobody said having a child is easy. But you decided to have a child and now you bear the responsibility.
Age verification without disclosing all your private data is absolutely doable.
Not reliably, which is not what governments want. They want ironclad methods to determine who does what online.
and “we should not block anyone’s access to anything on the internet” from privacy advocates is lazy
Personally, I consider it significantly more lazy to have a child, not give a single flying fuck about what it does in the world and expect the entire world to raise your child - but I guess we're just having different perspectives.
Watkins, speaking to PCGamesN, elaborated that the text-to-speech always starts with a voice actor: "It's part of their contract that we use it [AI] for this purpose, and that allows us to do things like our ping system, where it's capable of saying every single item name, every single location name, and compass directions. That's how we can get that without needing to have someone come in every time we create a new item for the game."
So no, they are not "stealing" voices. Their contracts explicity states that they are training the model. So they are getting paid, which in conclusion rules out "stealing".
Also, from your video:
But to my understanding
Rarely ever good if a sentence starts with "To my understanding"
the AI tools Embark uses to then synthesize the rest of the performance come from models that are trained on millions of other voice actors that have been stolen from in the way that all generative AI models steal from artists.
No, that's the whole point of models that are trained on a single voice - you do NOT use other voice actors because that would completely muddy the voice. The models are trained on a singular voice to mimic that person perfectly. Using other voices is like asking someone to cook a potato soup for you and then you toss in tomato and paprika.
AI is a tool, and a good one if it's used properly. And this is definitely a good use case.
If you really want to make a point against AI, stop using windows as they are trying to push AI bullshit into everything.
public schools and kindergardens are essential for modern society
Yes, because those are supposed to instill essential skills like reading, calculus, history etc. They aren't supposed to tell kids "Hey kiddos being on tiktok 12 hours a day is bad don't do that" - that is your job as a parent.
We shouldnt just hope that parents successfully fight the hydra of online dangers by doing DNS filtering & running ad blockers on all devices their children can get their hands on.
You're right, we shouldn't hope - we should expect. Dumping a child into the world and not taking care of it is irresponsible beyond belief. If you can't raise a child, don't have one.
Why should we not be able to do the same for internet usage?
Because the requirements are significantly more extreme.
Blocking a child from a brothel requires a security guard to take a look at the child and maybe check the ID if he's unsure. That's it. Blocking a child from tiktok requires age verifications across the entire internet - which are then bound to an ID, probably stored somewhere and will then be used to eliminate online privacy completely.
It's also denmark planning this - so the very same country that proposes and heavily advocates for chat control. So just another case of trying to control the internet under the guise of "BuT tHiNk Of ThE cHiLdReN".
Wenn öffentliche Gelder in Millionenhöhe verteilt werden, sollten aber alle die Möglichkeit haben, sich um diesen Auftrag zu bewerben.
Lmaoo what a wild fucking headline. Made me legit laugh out loud.
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Honestly 80% of the article is ranting about developer not writing proper documentation or following specs which is not the fault of D-Bus. The only point that I agree with is the lack of security features, but that has never really been a thing back then. Half of the shit that was developed was completely insecure. Not saying that's a good thing btw. But that can be fixed.