If you see a ticker board like that, wake up. Or actually don’t. Use it as a trigger to know you’re dreaming and have a nice lucid dream.

Tons. I think if people read my opinions on AI they likely see me as a luddite.

My concerns are not about whether it’s useful. It’s that if the 1% use it to replace most actual workers, the lack of input will make future models actually worse than current ones, and at the very least would stifle innovation.

I’m very concerned about models built on the IP (voluntarily given or not) of people, being used to replace those same people.

I’m very concerned with where we go as a society if we do go down the route of losing so many jobs.

I’m concerned about the race to get the best model, using so much energy and natural resources.

But do I think AI is and can be a very powerful tool, to enhance productivity? Without a doubt it can.

Well see, a lot of businesses are B2B. Now yes for sure ultimately their customer’s customer’s customer is going to be a normal person. So eventually the lack of custom and with it, revenue will hit them. But, here’s the thing I’ve observed about large organisations (not just businesses). I liken their operation to be very similar to insects. That is, they don’t really plan ahead, they’re reactive purely to stimuli, and mainly just do “what the other orgs are doing” without thinking about the effect beyond the only horizons they can see. Month end, quarter end and year end. Anything after the end of their current financial year. They’re not even thinking about right now.

So, the point is, this logic while completely correct will fall on deaf ears.

Yeah. Pretty sure back in the 90s, no one actively used GiB. Well, MiB (not the will Smith one) more likely back then.

You said it was 8mb of memory and people knew, it would be the nearest power of 2. You’d say 120mb hdd, and well, going to be honest a lot of people said it was “formatting losses”. I don’t think most people were aware they were being fleeced back then.

This was my thought too. 64GB is 64GB (powers of 2) when it comes to RAM unlike storage media. So if it shows as less, something is allocating it at or before boot.

I mean I updated my servers and some of them on LTS releases that were not the very latest one were still vulnerable after a reboot. Hence I disabled the module on those servers. So it’s worth checking your version definitely has a fix available.

Just to note, if you are on an LTS version (which many people running servers will be), it’s likely an upgrade will not solve this. In which case you should check your installed version and if not yet corrected, disable that module. For most people it is not used anyway.

It would be true. Except this only works in a genuinely free market. We’ve not had a really free market for a long time now. The people at the top are just not competing as would be required to make an open and free market work.

Enjoy it while you can. The age of enshittification will be upon us. With fully locked bootloaders and the only way to install true FOSS mobile OS is to pay 3x the price for half the capabilities of a normal Android phone.

Doesn’t run on older hardware? It seems more and more like DLSS. Well done on catching up AMD. /s

Just testing the big red button is still working. Nothing to see here, no I mean literally nothing to see here!

That image crops out the best caps of all. The “Trump 2028” caps. What a world we live in.

It’s probably from the era when everyone had a Facebook account. In the modern era, I am sure a Tik-tok (is that what all the kids are doing now?) video would suffice.

Oh I am sure there’s a backup. I guess I’m interested in whether they’re actually using it or not.

Maybe they can check people like me that deleted on their reddit posts and comments… See if the AI can see all that “removed” content :P

There’s also helgrind if you’re doing multi-thread. Man that will slow things down a lot.

This is the way.

That option is only likely to be for paid accounts. The freebie users like me have to make our own anti bot WAF rules. Or, as I do, just toss every page I expect a user to be using via managed challenge. Adding exceptions uses up precious space in those rules which I’ve used to put in exceptions for genuine instance to instance traffic.

But I am glad they were able to convince cloudflare. Good for them.

This already happens right now. If you have 22 open, your firewall is getting hammered with bots trying to get in, regardless of what cipher you’re using, trying to exploit known weaknesses.

I know, except they’re only ever trying lame user/password pairs that only an idiot would have on their luggage. Same as on asterisk and the bots trying to exploit decades old exploits on wordpress etc. Regardless of whether the site you host is even remotely like wordpress.

I’m not sure how you’d achieve this. If you have a mechanism to change cipher modes then there would be part of the codebase and handshake that validates settings in some way, which adds potential attack vector.

Doesn’t need to change the handshake. If the server is mine, and run by me and I decide I was to change say, just the key exchange part of the process. It could be changed without negotiation. I just need to make sure all clients are configured the same way. My point being there wouldn’t be a negotiation. If you try to connect to wireguard on my server, you’d need to have the key exchange setup in the same way, with the same parameters too. Yes, it should be entirely optional and require specific configuration changes on both client and server to achieve. So long as server and client are configured with the same parameters there’s no negotiation to make. The channel can be setup and if the configuration is wrong it just won’t work.

And their “AI tool” looks just like the hundreds of AI scraping bots. And I’ve already said the answer is easy. They need to differentiate themselves enough to convince cloudflare to make an exception for them.

Until then, they’re “just another AI company scraping data”