Exactly what I built. 19" touch display with a pi at the heart. Controls lights monitors all sorts of stuff, and it is chime based grandfather clock as well. Center is clock with a rolling set of images behind it. Double touch the clock face and the menus show up for control. I also add pi/beaglebone/pico control/monitor modules as desired. Been using it since covid. Previously I had been using X10 stuff integrated with some stuff I wrote back in the early 2000's, but modules started to fail and hard to get. Not a trivial project and continues to evolve, but this is a nerd site so I expect others have done something similar.

Been a very long time, but I think there were "damages". And your, "If, for example, some jackass runs a .sh file they found online, ..." example fails to acknowledge we are not talking about a random person. We are talking about an expert. They should know better. I'll toss another whatif. Whatif a bio-researcher allows the plague out of the lab? Is that negligence? Maybe they had no intent, just careless or maybe they didn't RTFM about proper precautions. I'm sticking with they knew, and because they knew it was not reckless, it had to be intended. What they say after the fact is puffery to CYA. They would not want me on that jury.

US, Indiana. Note you were 17. Below the special age of 18. He was in college, so above 18. Frat rush process, so sophomore year, always 18 by then unless you skipped grades. Again, you got lucky, you should be very thankful.

Certainly at this moment, reckless, not negligence. They are researchers in ai doing this. I'm not a researcher in ai and even I know the stories. Frankly I'm amazed that no bar organization has dis-bar'ed any lawyers for submitting ai hallucinated cases.Some judges have done summary judgements, which just hurts the client, not the lawyer.

Its not like any of this information is not well known. And there are some laws against computer tampering, so I don't think it is a reach to apply those laws directly and not call it reckless behavior. This is all well known info. What is the phrase, ignorance of the law is not a defense. I mean I'd equate it to driving drunk and telling the officer, "Officer, I did not know you cannot drive after drinking." Would not get you very far. So when the researcher says, "Officer I had no idea this ai program could do things I did not tell it", I don't think it should get you very far. Especially if you are a researcher. Maybe if you are 12 asking chatgpt it is, but then you are a minor and get some extra leeway. I do think the chatgpt company should get the full punishment though.

It is a huge problem. I know of no solution since they are banking on human nature. Much like social media banks on human behavior. It got a few very rich, and the users got some short lived endorphin rush. Tech is going to screw us. I'll shed no tear when the guillotine is rolled out for the perps. Maybe it is just old age get off my lawn, but I don't remember tech being quite so evil when I got into it. Sure it displaced jobs which had issues back then, but I don't recall it being used to manipulate people for blatant evil. Short that guillotine, I don't see an answer. Tech moves way faster than government, it is agile.

You got lucky. A person I was in a HS class did a prank in college that was a break in to get something for a frat. He did get jail. I expect that 17 saved you. Barely. But I think jail is required here. Nothing less is going to stop this insanity. I expect fear of jail would be a very good deterrent for the cohort doing ai. All of these things are text book criminal, breaking in for monetary gain. My HS mate got jail and I doubt it even qualified as monetary gain.

I saw another story about booz allen running some tests on infrastructure. Except they bothered to setup a completely isolated environment to see what happened. I'm sure it cost them some money to setup process controllers etc, but they did the right thing. They did not release a potentially deadly ai out in the open.

Or if it costs flock more money to send moving images, throw up some displays with old movie chase scenes or something that will trigger the ALPR to send back to HQ. Extra processing costs for flock.

thingan has it right. The contract is worded as if too good to be true. And so the admins go sure why not, next to free and solves our problem. It is not unlike the deal I just got offered from base here in austin. It sounds good, we'll put a giant battery on your property that you can use in a blackout. What they don't say is they'll discharge that sucker down to as little as I think 6KWH from its capacity of 40 if they can make money from it. So when you likely need it most, it could be nearly exhausted, giving you no benefit. But they don't hilite that. Worse, you've given them an easement, so now they have the right to come onto your property whenevr the thing needs service. And don't even think about selling your house without disclosing the 20 year lease. But on the surface, looks like a great deal. 13 grand battery for 695 + 20/mo.

If there is, go back to covering them up, setup motion triggers near the cameras with a hose that activates a nice water spray with that stuff they stick on money that explodes and leaves a nice permanent mark and also alerts campus police. Have police take the people uncovering the cameras for vandalism. Should be easy to identify them. They are the ones that are purple.

I think your comparison to disease is apt. Consider the recent Russian who died. Now consider how we treat infectious diseases. We do not allow them to interact with the general public at large. We quarantine to a very high level. And when there is a failure, all countries take a keen interest in the how did it happen and how can we prevent it from happening again. Now look at AI, where they can't even bother to keep it disconnected from the web during "research". Really, the answer is jail for the researchers who breach systems. It will probably only take one, maybe a couple prison sentences. And then suddenly much like the way infectious disease is handled, AI will be sufficiently walled off the general web until it is safe. Because no researcher who spent 7 years getting their BS/MS/PhD is going to jail over ai. Consequences.

Which I thought was criminal. Any charges filed? This time nothing bad happened. What happens next time when it causes a swatting situation and someone gets killed?

OK, 99, but 320? Your claim was 2-3X performance for 2 hours. 2X is 320 W-H. I guess gaming doesn't run full throttle. To me, full throttle means all cores running as fast as TDP permits until the task is complete. DRC, IC P&R, synthesis, these are tasks that want full throttle until completed. Granted you'd be nuts to run on battery, but I have run DRC's on a laptop plugged in. Hours and I mean many hours later, its done. Like start after dinner and ready by breakfast if lucky.

The other point I make about thin I can't get past. My new laptop has a fan, and I hear it screaming. I just can't figure out why. There does not seem to be a vent to exhaust the heat from what I can tell. Maybe it is vented thru the keyboard. But that doesn't seem to get hot either. My old fat laptop had a clear vent, which when the fan was whining had hot air coming out of it. A very noticeable hot air stream.

Maybe I misunderstand TDP. I would expect if TDP is 80W, and it is under full load, it is consuming 80W. I know of no laptop battery with more than 90W-H capacity. Your example says you know of gaming laptops at 2X the 80W and lasting 2 hours at full load, or 320W-H. What am I missing? And in this surface laptop case, we are not even counting the GPU power. I still say it is nonsensical. If this thing is running anywhere near 100W, which seems very possible with the 80W cpu and ?W GPU plus all the other stuff. having a old style 100W incandescent lamp in your lap is going to be very uncomfortable, even with a fan blowing. Not to mention as someone else mentioned, you'll be watching the battery indicator dropping like a stone.

Kind of in the same boat except I don't think I'm at 100. Probably more like 60. I started out in a definite hunt and peck style, that as time progressed I just got better and better at. I even kind of remember somewhere in my early 20's after years of always looking at the keyboard, I realized I could just not look and still hit the right keys. I just got faster and faster at it. I also always used the same text editor. Ned. Still use essentially the same editor, although I rewrote it since after decades, to port to x86. Using the same editor means moving on the screen is also automatic. I can't even really tell someone what key does what. It is more like I think what I want to do and automatically hit the correct key to move the cursor.

The other thing I think is if you are coding, it is a different style of typing that I expect most traditional typist's would do poorly at. Way more symbols get entered, blanks, moving around the screen, split screening etc. Stuff that if you are just typing in words, don't apply. Kind of goes back to the editor for me, I can quickly split the screen, move the new window to either the new file or the position in the current file I need to access, switch back to the original window, and make the edits needed based on the reference. One last comment which is as you get faster, the keyboard starts to make a real difference.

Am well aware. I'm also well aware my newer thinner laptop throttles way sooner than my old one. The faster processor on it is literally not just useless, and performs worse than my old slower one because it throttles within a couple seconds. That one petaflop spec is going to last a tenths of a second I expect. I did see another article since my post from a different source and it was touting the cloud access the new machine gets and how a few tasks could be run locally. So I'd expect that this is just a terminal into the cloud in reality. Run the task in the cloud, it'll be fast. Assuming you have a fast connection. Run it local and have dinner, a good nights sleep and it might be ready in the morning. Bonus, fry your eggs on it.

2.5X the thermal is likely a drop in the proverbial ocean. Probably needs more like 50X the cooling of a typical laptop to take full advantage of the processor. But then the battery would be exhausted in 20 minutes. I'd also expect the case to get very hot if they really open it open. Perhaps a new way to burn your fingerprints off by typing?