Now they can do to Babylon 5 what they did to Star Trek.

Oh yeah. We are partying now.

It's not just phones. I recently switched back to FF from Vivaldi on my desktop with the death of Manifest V2, and in one day of use, It'll hit 3 GB of ram of more with 1 active tab. It's gotten very annoying

I donâ(TM)t think you actually understand the way quantum computing works and how the calculations per second expand with then number of qubits. A 30 qubit computer has the same processing power as a traditional cpu computer that is running at approx 10 Teraflops. With each added logical qubit, the processing power increases exponentially (2^N). Yes, there are problems such as useful life expectancy of the qubit, and that means needing to perform statistical analysis of the results. However, something like (2^N)/1000 will still very quickly outpace performance of traditional computing. With just 10 additional qubits, you have enough to run that statistical analysis, so it needs 40 qubits for the statistical analysis. This Helios system, this is 48 logical qubits, which is roughly 2,800 tflops of calculating power (or ~2.8 pflops). Just 1000 of these systems would have the processing power of the current fastest supercomputer cluster in the world as of June 2026. Do you know how many more logical qubits are needed to reach that level in a single quantum computer as opposed to a cluster? 58. That is way, way, way less than the 1000s to millions you are implying.

You do realize this very same company announced a deal with Oracle to get these very computers into their cloud data centers to sell time on them to customers within 2027 (i.e. by next year), right? That certainly doesnâ(TM)t sound like more of the same news we have had, but the beginnings of the first ones available for public use outside of lab settingsâ¦.

I think it is also more important to mention who ACTUALLY wiped the phone. Samuel wasn't the one who entered the code that wiped it, the customs/board patrol agent + FBI were the ones in possession of the phone and the ones who entered the code from everything I have read. If they had felt so confident in the fact there was evidence in there in the first place, the data would have been first cloned with a forensic data scientist and then that cloned data used to do any searches, keeping the original intact and exactly as taken so anything could hold up in a court of law...

It is 12000 days into September, 1993: Usenet is long since an artifact in the memory of greybeards; the internet belongs to the monkey cage. Yet on Slashdot, we still get physics puns. Here, the golden age lives on.

the father accustoms himself to become like his child and fears his sons, while the son likens himself to his father, and feels neither shame nor fear in front of his parents, so he may be free ; the metic [563a] becomes the equal of a citizen and the citizen of a metic, and similarly with the foreigner.
It indeed so happens, he said.
To these, said I, such trifles do add up: the teacher, in such a case, fears his pupils and fawns upon them, while pupils have in low esteem their teachers as well as their overseers; and, overall, the young copy the elders and contend hotly with them in words and in deeds, while the elders, lowering themselves to the level of the young, sate themselves with pleasantries [563b] and wit, mimicking the young in order not to look unpleasant and despotic.

- Plato's "The Republic" (ca 375 BCE)

And that is the entire problem with all the LLVM based systems. The moment any bad data is used in training the network, the bad data is in there forever and can not be "forgotten", simply suppressed via specific ruleset.

I hope we NEVER get there. The last thing you want to do is let automated systems automate their own solutions that are automatically pushed out without any human overview and testing. You will suddenly wake up one day to "your" system farming crypto tokens for some random wallet somewhere....

Yep, because mine are all segregated onto their own VLAN (well, more specifically 1 of either 2 VLANs depending on if an internet connection is even needed or not to control the devices). I then have my pFsense edge router denying access to many things using pfSense-ng (which is sort of like pihole, but on steroids as it not only works on the DNS lookup info, but also applies active firewall rules to block the outgoing and incoming traffic from both the DNS names but also the IP's so that a piece of software can't bypass a pihole like device by simply coding in IP addresses)...

Which is one of the reasons why I use pFsense as my edge router on my home network and have setup DD-WRT on my parents and sister's network.

And for some reason, Discord went to Klipy...?

Probably a Linux nerd (on /.? The hell you say) that carried the xST vs xDT timezone markers before the brain caught up that "Standard" and "Saving" are both "S"

> next will be Jedi training school full of pointless teen angst.

Wasn't that "The Acolyte"?

> Heh, I've never heard that term before.

It's an acronym for "jack of all trades."