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> I don't think the USA could keep mega-super-duper technology hidden from others in the long run.

The US has a history of keeping vehicles, weapons, and operations hidden for decades, even things in the past decade.

> What is the addiction to want to find life outside of the planet?

Knowledge. Trade. Technology. Weapons. Religion. Science. Sex (lol).

"to explore strange new worlds

to seek out new life and new civilizations

to boldly go where no one has gone before!"

> completely offtopic but is rolling with rocm worth it?

It's so fucking easy.

From AMD: https://lemonade-server.ai/

Then you can easily throw a openweb-ui container in front, and then connect to the openweb-ui via your mobile app of choice (if you want chat, otherwise you just point your harness of choice at the lemonade server api endpoint).

> Debian

Release cycle extremely slow, unstable and testing don't really fix the problem, and insert their own issues. Still near and dear to my heart and if I need something pretty light, stable, but can get by with older software, it's still a solid choice for headless servers.

> Ubuntu

Ubuntu was for "noobs" probably 10-15yr after my Linux journey started. I watched them inject ads into the desktop and cli. I would use it from time to time on certain things and it would often break during upgrades. This was a consistent problem for over a decade, but it has gotten better. Now they're rewriting coreutils in rust and breaking compatibility along the way. And snap? Snap is an abomination. It is a limited ecosystem and the daemon itself is a damn attack vector.

> Fedora

Massive open source community and tons of money behind it, as it is the feeder distro of RHEL, which has been used at pretty much every company I've worked at. In fact if you use RHEL, you'll often be able to see many new features just be running Fedora somewhere else. Also one of the primary adopters and users of Gnome if you're okay with that, and I'd note of course they have a release for other WM/UI if you're into whatever. Also always seems to be a software release for it (Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu seem to be the most common big 3 for support). It uses flatpaks instead of snap, which gives you sandboxing and user-level package updates allowing your base OS to stay a bit cleaner if you want, or you can just use system packages (yum/dnf). Good on desktop and server.

> Arch

If the only person you have to support is you and you want the latest and greatest, and it has amazing community docs. Better than Debian by far, which wasn't always the case. The Debian handbooks were pretty legendary for a long time. Can be very fast and very light. Solid system.

> Alpine

You need/want MUSL and aren't using distroless container images for whatever reason.

This is just my opinion from an old grump that has a history of managing decent sized fleets of both pets and cattle and runs it at home on desktops and laptops.

Board or not, it's the chip here that is expensive.

I think there's going to be a brutal backlash against the entire technology sector.

Gov and Corp will throw their hands up and explain how it's not their fault.

Chinese clones of Arduinos are normally between 3x-6x cheaper, and if your project uses dozens or hundreds or thousands of them, especially in developing countries, that's a major price delta.

1. There are accounts on here that have LLMs responding for them.

2. The sentence is the exact type of structure a LLM writes :/ It's unfortunate.

> And according to the TOS you can't you whatever you want

Isn't that every major AI company?

> If Muse takes off, which seems to be built upon or atleast arch'd similar to OpenClaw, I think we'll see the rise of on-device harnesses.

> This would further the efforts to "resist all attempts to.... lock them into your service

Should make you "happy" to see that Nvidia's new safety feature-set might prevent you from running open models in the newr future, then...

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/open-agent-safety-platfor...

Did Claude write this?

Take a trip to Alaska, northern BC, Norway, etc.

There's a particular observatory in Hawaii that is supposed to be amazing.

I'm sure there's plenty of other spots!

See my response to the above comment

Yes, and have.

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"During a test conducted by Trail of Bits researcher Artem Dinaburg, a preview version of GPT 5.6-Cyber was tasked with breaking out of a Debian 12 virtual machine. Initially, the agent exploited a known Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-53359, by developing its own exploit. After the host was updated, the agent found another pathway through libslirp, chaining a known vulnerability (CVE-2026-9539) with a previously unassigned bug to gain arbitrary host memory access. Even after QEMU and libslirp were updated, the agent analyzed system components and constructed a new escape chain using three zero-day vulnerabilities and one KVM flaw that had not yet reached the distribution kernel.

These findings suggest that general-purpose VMs may not be adequate security boundaries for highly capable AI agents, especially in older systems with delayed security updates. Trail of Bits recommends using specialized isolation systems like Firecracker, restricting VM access, and implementing rapid patching to mitigate these risks."

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https://www.scworld.com/brief/ai-agent-repeatedly-escapes-vi...

> How would it help them? The real competition is coming from China

I mean, sure, you think that and I know that many others do too.

It's Anthropic and OpenAI mainly competing for who gets used by the US government and possibly any US business that does any contracting work, while many others get banned. So basically, Fortune 500+.

There is also a non-zero possibility that the US Gov nationalizes the entire industry and then starts directly throwing Trillions USD into it in the name of "national security". Low % chance, but I can see it happening. Or at least the Fed Gov taking a controlling ownership stake.

It's also possible that the US Federal Government forces NVidia to outright prevent open models via: https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/nvidias-openshell-con...

*correction/clarity: should say "in half the amount of time."

Yes there was.

"In September 2014, the United States began to undertake efforts to establish a global coalition with the declared aim of countering the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[26] Since September 2014, the U.S. had conducted military operations in Syria, primarily against ISIL forces as part of Operation Inherent Resolve."

More:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Inherent_Resolve

> > US forces leave country where 4,500 of them died in worst US war of 21st century

> I am not even certain that this war was worse than the Afghanistan war

The Iraq war from 2003-2011 (8-9 yr) had twice as many US troop deaths (4430) as the Afghanistan war (~20 yr)(2450) in double the amount of time.

But the server is attached to the channel, and communities form around them.

Not necessarily, it could help potential competitors or financers to better understand the market / competition.

That would quickly get abused and cartels would form over the larger servers about who has access and where.

Yeah, that's how industrial control and operational networks get breached virtually every day in the US.

Production facilities, water treatment plants, power plants, etc... (wish I was joking)

JumpCloud seems to support:

Amazon Linux

Debian

Fedora

Linux Mint

Oracle Linux

PopOS

RHEL

Rocky Linux

Ubuntu

(May work on others)

https://jumpcloud.com/support/agent-compatibility-system-req...

> but they are literally trying to build a superpower that exceeds the impact of the atomic bomb

Yes, it's a Great Power competition right now, much like the Space Race, Atomic Bomb, etc.

I ran a couple of very local BBSes late beyond the hayday in the 14.4-56k timeframe. That got me into BBS software, which got me into ANSI Art, which got me into associations with warez groups, and that got me into association with various hacker collectives. Had it not been for the BBS scene I probably wouldn't work in technology today.

I'd love to read it when you're done!

> Oracle seems to be doing their best to expedite their own crushing.

Ehhhhhh maybe https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/ORCL

As much as I'd like to believe this, they have their ways of making money.

> I've been thinking about this quite a lot recently as I've been trying to dig up information about 90's era dial-up bulletin board systems. It was a scene I was deeply immersed in at the time (or at least, one specific niche within it)

Say more!

I would have never suspected that one tbh.

Damn

How do people even write anything anymore? I would be so afraid of writing something that someone would suggest I wrote with AI. Reason being, I guess, is that I'm just so surrounded with it and US corporate speak that I rarely notice it anymore.