Dave.

I feel there has to be a “tinkering factor” in there, so that if that non-RF link is something constructed from spare parts and curious fingers it still counts to some extent depending on the home-brew component of the construction.

Also distances over the internet are immaterial. Perhaps shifting to a module/component count would be better. For example, 2 radios on each end 100%. A radio, a self-built software modem, ((the internet)) , another self-built modem, a radio is still 80% HAM.

haven’t gone through the trouble of registering copyrights with the government or with copyright policing services,"

This is country specific, of course. For example, in Australia the act of committing a work to media of any form is enough to register and assert copyright for that work.

So as an Australian resident I am quite within my rights to assert the following immediately, with the legal backing of the Commonwealth of Australia:

This post is copyright ©️ dgriffith. I grant the Fediverse and its users/instances permission to duplicate as necessary as part of the normal mechanisms of participation, all other rights are reserved.

Especially not with Finns. They like their forest, about 3/4 of the population goes and disappears into the forest during summer holidays.

And then, they are also quite strict on The Rules Being Followed To Maintain Polite Society, so a corporation both destroying forest and breaking The Rules, well, that’s not gonna end well.

I would encourage you to try get others in on the reviewing effort.

Mostly so future me doesn’t undo something I already argued with myself about. They’re in docs/adr if you’re curious.

Mostly so future LLMs don’t undo something they already argued with themselves about.

One way, I set the numbers local, can’t be changed otherwise.

Its simple (as am I), why does it need to be on the “cloud”???

That’s fine when you have one fridge.

Then you need to look after four thousand of them.

Oh, it’ll be fine, we’ll just set things once while installing them.

Oh look! New food, or efficiency, or store standards have dropped, now you need to update those settings in those 4 thousand fridges spread across the whole country. Well, we can do a couple of stores a day, I guess it’ll only take a month of a service tech’s time and travel costs to do it.

Orrrrrrr… we could hook these fridges up to the Internet and do it remotely, and update the settings on those 4000 fridges before lunch.

That’s the draw, convenient mass update. The main issue here is that they put the fridges on an unsecured network, and then on device auth was laughable, allowing any bored teenager with time on their hands to tinker with things.

Just because we stumbled through a whole bunch of world-ending things in the past mostly unscathed doesn’t mean we’ll continue to do so.

It seems that after the initial AI-generated patches there’s been good discussion amongst the kernel devs about sorting out the issues, and a few revisions already that have tidied things up a bit.

So if after all that there ends up being a good performance improvement directly from a revised AI-created patch, what do I do with my pitchfork? Still raised angrily? Half-mast? Do I just let the torch smoulder?

Nice! Although I do wish everyone would get with IPV6 at some stage. But it seems everyone is OK with the current coping mechanisms in IPV4, so maybe I should pin my hopes on IPV7 or 8.

So why should they apply air gapping to their agents?

Because if they don’t, they could face jail time personally or their company is fined to death? That’s how you apply corrective pressure to those thinking about “going rogue”.

~$ groups crank0271 docker

~$ docker run -rm…

No joke, this is exactly what LLMs will do if they can’t do something directly.

Most ISPs charge insane fees for static IPs

The joy of living in the US I guess. My ISP in Australia charges $5 a month for a static IPV4 address.

There may have to be fundamental engineering breakthroughs before what these systems do can be more than a very expensive and inefficient worldwide proof of concept.

Controversial thought after reading this sentence: It’s cryptocoins all over again.

What are you expecting to break down? A modern internal combustion engine plus continuously variable transmission is one the world’s most complex pieces of engineering in common use today.

An electric drive system is trivial in comparison.

WinXP ran quite nicely on 4GB of RAM. You could boot to the desktop in under 5 seconds if you had a solid state drive.

All the day to day tasks someone needs to do with their computers haven’t materially changed in the last twenty years since XP held the crown. In that time the speed of processors, storage, gpus, and ram has increased by literal orders of magnitude.

And yet, somehow, things have become much shittier since then.

Once there is enough adoption, expect token costs to skyrocket and advertising enshitifaction to accelerate

Models on local hardware that give adequate performance and the availability of non-US models mean that path is doomed to failure. If they crank up the price then people will look elsewhere. While they might not get frontier-level performance out of the alternatives, there’s plenty of stuff out there that’s good enough for 1/4 to 1/10th of the cost. Or just the cost of power, if you’re willing to pay for some hardware and are operating on a small scale.

The only play the AI companies have got now is twofold :

• Regulatory capture, hence all the press releases of basic and frankly embarrassing sandbox failures and “we need to slow down” talk to try and get that rolling, and
• Banning of those nasty, evil, non-US models in the name of national security.

And then what? The rest of the world will just move on to the next most useful thing on the list. There will be ~330 million US citizens to extract wealth out of, to service trillions in data centre debt. That shit’s not gonna fly.

All they need to do is get governments high on AI mass surveillance and they’ll be golden

All they have to do is be the last AI company standing, then just absorb everyone else’s hardware for cents on the dollar.

This recent “we should slow down” talk is basically just them stalling until the collapse. They’ve spent all they dare to try and be the one on top, now it’s just waiting until the bubble pops.

Meanwhile China is out there being the black swan of the whole field. If they manage to get models with efficiency and/or utility above what these guys are doing, they’re fucked and they know it. So it’s a ticking time bomb, and there’s not that much time left.

Jesus Christ, Julia. Why is it that, in all these online ramblings, you never learned how to drip-feed your blog posts?

One a day, maybe. Don’t blow through them all at once like some desperate gambler trying to strike it rich. Now all you’ve done is gotten yourself onto a bunch of people’s blocklists and now you’ll never be visible to them again.

Lemmings.

Wolfenstein.

Doom.

Descent.

Unreal Tournament.

“This just in - running commands that induce a kernel panic causes a kernel panic, we’ll have more at 11.”

The QR code is pretty dense , probably plenty of space to include the panic reason and stack trace.

Edit: For those of you that don’t know, exiting or crashing the init process (PID 1) causes the kernel to panic. Essentially it’s the, “Well what the hell do I do now if I have no processes to serve?” response.

Still, a QR code is a marked improvement on the “Something went wrong :(” message of recent Windows releases.