Dave.

Consider only exposing a VPN service, like Wireguard.

Then when you are away from home, it’s one tap / click to be back on your LAN again.

Seems like a quick way to get all your research and assets forcefully absorbed into a shadowy government department.

“Hey Steve , it’s lunch time, we’re going out to that hot wings place, wanna come?”

“Sure let me just set this job up… ok. Let’s get out of here!”

1.5 hours later…

“Right , I’ll just check and see where it’s up t… oh no. Nonononononono. Nononononononononononoonono!”

Butbutbut this is with AI!

Totally different, as far as the patent office is concerned anyway.

You’re not thinking black-swan enough.

You’re typing your comments using a blob of goo with about a hundred million neurons in it that cycles under a hundred hertz and draws less than 20 watts.

I don’t think that we’ll be running packs of goo in our PCs any time soon. But I do think some entirely different way of looking at the problem will emerge that will reduce computational requirements by many orders of magnitude. And it won’t involve gigantic statistical engines trying to find the best average response to a question.

Luckily hydrogen floats upwards pretty quickly. So paradoxically, storage tanks are safer the less protection they have around them. Or at least, above them.

Next minute, here comes that sweet DARPA grant.

I’m just waiting for the closed-source AI industry to have their Black Swan moment.

Something’s going to come out of left field from the open AI community and all that investment in proprietary models and mega-compute is going to be rendered useless.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

Here’s a little feedback for you: Never trust the user’s browser.

Ctrl-Shift-I -> Console -> "this.proManager.enablePro()" -> <Enter>

that unions are “not meritocratic,” “prevent innovation,” and “hold back earnings of top performers.”

When they make comments like that, they always assume that they are the “top performers”, getting the best deal already (edit: or on track to be one of them in the future). That assumption is usually wrong.

But they needed those .env files to transplant an entire software stack from the developer’s laptop into production in a reproducible manner! How else were they ever going to get software into prod? By good documentation, broad version requirements, and following the Robustness Principle? Ha! How are you supposed to move fast and break things then?

If you design and print the thing though, that is still creating something, just using different tools to construct the thing that you visualised in your mind.

Oh hey, you can still get views! You just need to open an advertising account with them, and them pay them anywhere between $50-$1000 and they’ll then show your one sponsored post to anywhere between 2 and 50 percent of people who like that kind of thing, for anywhere between 3 days and two weeks. Just select how much you want to spend to get that sweet exposure!

What’s that? You want to reach all your friends and followers? All of them? For free? Sorry, they don’t do that kind of thing anymore.

The problem is that an algorithm defines “less consequential posts” and it doesn’t have your best interests at heart, at all.

I did wonder if posts from friends were deliberately delayed so that you would be guilted into responding to their Big Thing that you didn’t see on your feed. Eventually, you’d be trained to keep scrolling to find posts from your friends, and they’d be trained to keep checking for replies days after their Big Thing, thus maximising user engagement and profit.

They could have verified that shit!

There’s no “They”. There’s nobody home. Nobody’s looking at this shit, it’s all just algorithms and machine learning, there’s nobody customer-facing at Google who’s job it is to vet this crap. Your scammy website passed some set of automated metrics Google uses to determine scamminess, so it’s off to the front page of search results it goes.

It’ll come in handy later on when you’re in that government doomsday shelter and you need to print a hard copy of the nuke disarm codes on the line printer that was big enough to need a tarp as a dust cover.

Essentially they pushed so much crap into your feed that your friends got pushed out.

So then what was the point of posting your current status when your circle might only see it two or three days later?

The immediacy was lost, and thus so was the usefulness.

Bit late now, but a tiny squirt of WD-40 into the ribbon cartridge often got you another few hundred pages out of it.

All hail laser.

No love for the 9 pin dot matrix?