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I am also the .01%

Interested to see how many claim they are using VPNs...

Solar winds should not exist. The update server sent up unsigned binary images with zero notifications of an update cycle or content change. Beyond that, the clients accept and install updates from system account with zero signature check or guardrails on elevated access.

DoD was compromised, senate, most major defense contractors. It took them weeks to figure out what happened and then only with the assistance of the entire world. Ancillary compromises that persist in an untraceable state within these networks are probably in the dozens.

50 years from now our children's children will (hopefully) read about the inappropriate, irresponsible, and often abusive actions our government allowed corporations to commit upon society.

At this point It's fairly obvious knowledge the government is ripe with corruption and self service (we call it 'red tape' and 'partisan bickering'). And corporations write law.

Social services may save you, may ignore you, or may kill you.

It is impossible to live a basic life without a government ID and an internet connection.

Avoiding government taxes will get you longer in jail than harming a child.

Cars required for moving about unless you want to be robber or ran over and require a contract with a private company to couch for you.

Healthcare isn't obtainable without a private corporation to fund or facilitate the interaction.

A plant is a class 1 drug.

Whistleblowers regularly plea for help which never arrives from the supposed government meant to protect and represent them.

Every time the topic of digital controls and drive by wire replacing 'drive by cable' tech I wonder which existing NHTSA law Tesla is breaking; there's obviously guidelines which have driven vehicle door design for a century until recently.

You must not have heard about executive order 6102...

The concept that any LLM driven tech will double the GDP of a first world nation is fallacious. Some people are too busy examining tree bark to see the conifer biome: if a literal 2x productivity boost from "AI" cannot be produced, the tech is a failure regardless of the promises, potential, ideas, or propaganda.

Fabulously complicated and only producible with exotic emitters, sensors, and high frequency ICs. Probably as easily jammed or forced into calibration state with a directed low frequency em pulse generator. High tech garbage. We will not fare any better than Ukraine relying on tech like this.

Fortunately someone recently posted a real technological wonder - the F-14 cpu, old timers were messing with multithreaded compute while I was muddling along learning pong line by line from a hobbyist magazine.

Maybe for windows folks, in my experience P and E cores are garbage for any linux is and r Unreliable performance in piped servers.

If you're interested in this concept, it's not new and the alarm has been sounded since the android Facebook app required motion sensor permissions in android 4.

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10028982

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.13834.pdf

I'm finding it hard to feel sympathy for DJI. They have had five years to develop a drone system that doesn't require a cloud connection to their servers. To build firmware update delivery system that didn't require a cloud connection. To develop drone control module and video feeds that don't stream the entirety of their operations to offshore servers.

The issue here is a company insistent on building toys, tools, and appliances which all contain military grade surveillance and data metrics systems that require a connection to DJI servers in order to function.

While I am no proponent of the US hypocrisy regarding digital freedoms; you need not bother auditing a company that has had half a decade to demonstrate they aren't an arm of if a foreign surveillance state yet actively release software with even more aggressive phone home functions.

Trump 2028, this is a warning; not an endorsement

The internet was monumental and valuable, offering instant conveyance of media and data. AI is monumental, allowing instant access to near infinite data; but whether instant access is as valuable as instant conveyance yet alone five times the value, appears to be the question

Honestly anyone who thinks AI has intrinsic value to rival the GDP of nations is a bagholder in denial and I'll be happy to buy your puts.

Nvidia would need to generate 3x its current revenue for a decade to break even on infrastructure spending. Combine that with the fragile deck of cards house that is the financials behind the growth and it would be irresponsible to NOT have angst.

I mean, if AI becomes skynet self aware and tries to launch nukes, then NVDA to the moon; otherwise at least get the llms to stop garbling my to-do list dates and durations when I move an item around.

Not surprising, a <$450usd budget laptop usually has the lowest tdp CPUs, huge storage, and tons of slow ram, combining those specs with hevc support makes an excellent media server. Disabling hevc also disables compute instructions ensuring poor local inference/mining performance.

Oof. On one hand I wonder if the company realized what kind of damage he could do before they fired him. On the other, he was obviously a bad IT guy because he got caught doing it.

Site has no dark mode css. I can't read anything. I apologize.

Fairly confident this was the plan all along. No way the world's largest profit driven porn vendor was ever going to argue for free access to porn.

And just like that an ostensible friend of freedom becomes an overt (and incredibly powerful) enemy.

Progress towards this type of initiative + ubiquitous AI integration are the reason I hoard old tech.

Op doesn't realize google has been using an LLM to compose and compile searches long before Gemini summaries appeared

I would say the author means "don't date people who anthropomorphize chatGPT."

No sarcasm tag?

Disapointing lack of technological specs. Basically a long form ad or customer landing page. Also whoa, that's about 5x as much thermal paste as you need.

1. The paste shouldn't touch the perimeter conductors at all and

2. Ideally should be less than 1mm, manufacturing specs put this at less than 50um!

As for noise I feel like you should at least mention the "Shroud" and baffle have nothing to do with the noise reduction - the fans are 50% larger, require 1/3 the rotational speed(I did no calculation beyond personal experience math nazis) and have no baffle at all.

Once inference becomes obsolete this will be incredibly useful for expanding the life of AI GPUS - power down most of the energy hungry cores and use the cards as ultra fast cache.

Walled gardens are meant for the owners. Everyone else are decorations.

Don't forget solarwinds. No one forget solarwinds. Never forget solarwinds. Automatic updates or patches you cannot control or qc are suicide. The DoD and portions of government systems are probably still compromised.

I'm Sure there will be an investigation... By the SEC when the bubble pops and takes the S&P with it. No prison though, probably jobs at the next ponzi scheme

Agreed. More worrying is that it appears standard practice or separation between domain and nameserver administration has been lost to one-stop-shop marketing.

When I was younger I used to get into these articles talking about a TikTok, Facebook, or myspace(lol) group with 27 members an ambitious author found while intentionally searching for it. There are a zillion "xxxx challenges", to imply there's a pandemic of Benadryl abusing kids roaming Walmart to pocket bottles of pills in search of scary hallucinations is ridiculous. 1. Stronger drugs are easier to get around the back side of most Walmarts. 2. The whack a mole banning drugs "for the children!" is dumb. A handful of Ibprofin and a certain otc laxative taken at the same time will make you hallucinate also. Ban those and kids will just ask reddit for another combo to trip on.

Step 1: read almost any post on HN front page. Or glimpse at cspan. Or a cursory web search. It's an at least partial global outage of a huge cloud dsn provider. step 2: delete this post.