No one is using well-known ports for anything legitimate that isn't the associated service. Anything spun up on e.g. 110 that isn't a POP server is going to inherently be questionable.

You'll want to amplify on this, because blocking a well-known port for an insecure protocol has no downsides. Nothing legitimate is going to be spun up on e.g. 110, why would you leave it open vs blocking it?

Now, I'm not a designer or circuit board engineer, never had anything to do with Adafruit, never heard of flux-ai until a few seconds ago.

Gonna reblog this story in a bit on some social media sites.

Probably gonna include a link to The Way We Were song. To accompying the reading of the article.

Politicos+Corpo C-Suite hate 99% of humanity and want them replaced with automatons.

Remember, the point of the game is to be the last man sitting on a pile of 8 Billion+ skulls, finally secure in the knowledge that they have WON!

Waitnig for the AI suicide booths.

Didn't Bender get into an argument with the booth in S1Et?

"Yeah but the lower the headcount, the better my quarterly bonus!"

Every corpo upper-managment drone right now.

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Forgot to add: you won't buy them but rent them, like a cable box.

Most non-computing folks will see them as Alexa-Plus systems that they don't have to worry about updates and other stupid computer geek chores.

Have you checked SC Top 500 lately?

https://top500.org/system/1803...

They seem to be positioning these as ubiquious computing devices, i.e. the computing toaster Steve Jobs was questing after, starting way back in the late '70s and early '80s.

These will not be stand alone computing devices but likely tied to a network and corporate control systems.
That the corporation(s) and/or gov't will be monitoring everything done on the system goes without saying.

If anything these will probably be the death of personal computing.

They want to replace PCs with PCDs (Personal Computing Devices) that will have to be tied to the net (i.e. rented like a cable box) to work and monitors everything you do on them.

Oh yeah, they'll let you plot and goon on the boxes, just so they have dirt on you for control down the line.

I wonder how long it'll be before real computers are restricted to only licensed (gov't / corporate approved) individuals? Maybe we make it to 2040 but pessimist me says they'll try to start controlling PCs before 2035.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I think the last good AI I saw in a movie was Robbie the Robot in Forbidden Planet.

What have the democrats ever done for us?