...My installation of minidlna still works fine, is Free Software, and doesn't phone home or exfiltrate my metadata.

Yeah, I read through those... and found that while it described a vulnerability, it was still light on actual exploit details.

Did they compromise the inward facing web interface, or an outward web interface? Did they do it through social engineering, or through malware running on devices on the internal network? Was the malware persistent or was it a drive-by instance running a portscanner in a browser instance?

Basically, the question I have is - would flashing say, openWRT on these devices been enough to prevent network intrusion, or were they already inside the gates to begin with?

The linked articles are remarkably light on details of how the routers were compromised. Were they breached from the internet side due to backdoors or poorly implemented services? Was it some sort of configuration default for remote administration that was just bulk abused? Or were the routers compromised from inside the network by malware running locally on machines, or on malware compromised pages? Was it due to remote code execution or was it due to default admin credentials or easily guessable passwords?

Kind of hard to defend against a threat if they won't tell you how the deed was done.

Can it clone proprietary software and turn it into an open source project?

If so, then I think the tradeoff is fair.

Given that the Roberts Court is one of the most corporate-friendly in history, this decision comes as something of a surprise.

Nonetheless, it appears to be largely concordant with the so-called "Betamax case" from the early 1980's which established the principle of significant non-infringing uses as a defense and, despite passage of the DMCA, still largely informs the contours of contributory infringement.

Tesla FSD car + Optimus robot actually sounds like the setup to an odd couple movie script...

That or a robotic vision quest buddy film.

The funny thing is, if Bezos really did put 100% of the money in himself, people would accuse him of trying to hog all the benefits of manufacturing automation, and shutting out investment by other parties.

I'm waiting for Larry Ellison to do just that, but with a fuckton of borrowed money, because... well, Larry Ellison.

https://www.wired.com/story/la...
https://www.thomasnet.com/insi...
https://slate.com/technology/2...

Part of the game is taking assets people think is worth money, and converting it into assets that are actually worth money...

https://www.forbes.com/profile...

J.B. Pritzker
$3.9B
Real Time Net Worth

        Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker is the governor of Illinois; he unseated Republican incumbent Bruce Rauner as a Democratic candidate in 2018.
        An heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, Pritzker ran private equity firm Pritzker Group with his brother Anthony until March 2017.
        His charitable foundation supports nonprofits primarily in Chicago, including the Ounce of Prevention Fund, which provides early-childhood education.
        His uncle Jay Pritzker (d. 1999) founded Hyatt Hotels and his father Donald (d. 1972) managed and developed the chain.
        His sister Penny Pritzker, also a billionaire, served as U.S. commerce secretary under Barack Obama from 2013 to early 2017.

Ironically factory towns would actually be better.

In a factory town, the housing is a recruitment incentive and benefit (that ironically keeps you trapped because the non-factory town alternative is so much more expensive). But at least then the objective is to keep the housing affordable and accessible to employees of the company, and the ecosystem that keeps them happy. Whereas it seems like everywhere else in the US (and in highly desirable places internationally) people have decided that a place to live is an asset, and that the price must always go up.

Compare the limitations on use between say, a 20-40 acre parcel of land in a rural area, and the limitations on use for a 5000 ft parcel. Then go further and take a look at municipalities that are barely a step removed from having an HOA looking over your shoulder about everything you do with regards to your house.

Leaving aside the history of zoning as a method of excluding "undesirable" residents, zoning is an artificial, and inefficient (because code is a function of rulemaking, not of economics, and rooted in assumptions that may no longer be true) way of regulating land use.

For example, there's a lot of zoning and code regulation around needing adequate parking for residential developments which assumes some average number of cars which is pretty much always just incredibly wrong. In high cost of living areas without transit, the regulations understate the amount of parking needed because each unit has multiple residents (you need one or more roommates to get by, and everybody needs a car.) In high density areas designed to be walkable with a high density form of transit nearby, the regulations overstate the amount of parking needed per unit of housing.

The funny thing is... if you mix commercial and residential, often times you can balance the use of parking spots. During the day - the spots are used by commercial users. In the evening, those users leave, and the commuters who live in the mixed use development can then use those spots. Think about all the commercial/industrial parks - full during the day, and then empty (with the exception of box trucks in the evening) at night. Most of these companies are not going to be running second and third shifts, so those spaces are just unused 2/3rds of the day (so why all the Waymos decide to chill in my neighborhood instead of finding an empty stretch of street next to the storage yard a few streets over is just strange.)

I'm not going to go around telling people that capitalism is an unbridled good, but I will say that efforts to regulate how much money people make often backfire in unexpected ways. Consider if a single company owned the land, built housing, retail, commercial, industrial space, and also built high density transit and shopping plazas. They could afford to partially subsidize the transit during the early years while filling out the various developments, until they reach a level of density that makes it self-funding.

While they never fully realized the original premise, Disney's Reedy Creek improvement district could be considered an example of this type of development:

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

OpenAI is amending its Pentagon contract after CEO Sam Altman acknowledged it appeared "opportunistic and sloppy." [ ... ]

Well, if there's anyone who would know about slop...

Sounds like Micros~1 doesn't want to deal with actual people, much less the consequences of their own boneheaded decisions.

Of course, if Discord had a backbone (and ethics), they would summarily remove the filters, and smack Micros~1 for making them look bad. And if Micros~1 gave them any back-talk about it, they could reply, "Well, it sounds like you should set up your own rules on your own globally accessible chat network. I hear you already have something along those lines. Something called... Teams, I think?. Knock yourselves out..."

Actually... the electoral college (and number of representatives in the house) is based on census, and the census is based on all residents, US citizens and otherwise.

https://govfacts.org/elections...

"A 2020 analysis by the Pew Research Center, based on population projections, estimated that if undocumented immigrants were excluded from the 2020 apportionment count, three states would each lose a congressional seat they were otherwise expected to have.

California would have lost two seats instead of one, while Florida and Texas would have seen their gains reduced by one seat each. Conversely, three other statesâ"Alabama, Minnesota, and Ohioâ"would each have held on to a seat they were otherwise projected to lose.

A similar analysis by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), using 2013 population estimates, projected that a citizen-only count would cause a shift of seven seats among 11 states.

Under this scenario, California would lose four seats, while Texas, Florida, and New York would each lose one. These losses would be offset by single-seat gains for Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Virginia."

So states with large numbers of non-voting residents (as in non-citizens) can give the voting residents (as in the citizens) of those states, outsized power when voting (assuming everyone turns out to vote - which is a different issue.)

Not quite the illegal voter / replacement theory that right wing meme artists want to push, but it can impact the census, and thus, every ten years, the way that seats and electoral college votes are distributed.

From this perspective, if Trump wants to depopulate House seats and electoral college votes in blue states, it is absolutely to his advantage to drive people out of those states and into red ones. Next best thing after that is to keep people from migrating into blue states to begin with.

Consumers won't be able to afford it.

Governments and businesses will likely sign long term contracts with service organizations, if the past is any indication.

We'll all be interacting with these systems in one way or another. Possibly not directly, but at one or two levels removed. The technology keeps changing so I can be confident that what we think of as the primary methods of using these systems is probably not what will be the dominant form in a few years.