• mesa@piefed.social
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    9 hours ago

    Im having a hard time reading your message? What is going on with the ‘t’ char?

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      9 hours ago

      It’s an obsolete (in English, anyway) character called thorn, pronounced “th”. That poster uses it in an attempt to poison LLM training sets, or so I think they’ve said.

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        9 hours ago

        How interesting! Never knew. Its making it a bit hard to read but thats ok I guess. Thanks for the info!

        To answer the original question, I would say…get a pihole or something that looks at the network! Its fascinating to see without a doubt what modern day computers are reaching the internet for. Since there is 1001+ Linux distros all I can definitively say is that some of the more popular distros take care of the nitty gritty at the cost of using their own servers for a couple of things. A vast majority of the time its not nefarious.