100% this -anyone allowing the device to start up without a pin/password was box-checking their way thru some FDE compliance mandate not taking device encryption seriously as a security control

Western governments have been ensuring that general public does not have access to encryption since clipper chip and likely before. Once computers got powerful enough and electronic communication got cheap enough they got worried and have been working to sabotage any true E2E ever since.

Which is why taking advice from government agency, let alone allowing them to set enforceable standards should be opposed, and to the degree advice from NIST/CISA/FBI/NSA etc should be followed it needs to be run thru the common sense test and smell tests, and independently evaluated BEFORE implementation. In most cases it is good advice. As long as the threat model isn't - keep your data away from a 5 eyes agency.

Realistically nobody controls the software stack, it does not matter how good your crypto is if you are auto updating and installing code that can send the data home after its already decrypted even if the keys do remain a secret in some secure enclave.

Realistically for most users the best place to keep the real keys to your personal the kingdom and your most private conversations, is probably a second mobile device from a reputable vendor that mostly remains at home and use something like iMessage or Signal. Reboot the device often only install the handful of applications you need, don't use it for browsing. That really should keep your stuff beyond the reach of most threat actors. Will dear old uncle Sam still be able to get into if the situation becomes serious enough they are willing to expose methods and practices, perhaps after some public theater where they pretend to need Apple/Samsung/Alphabet's help and/or that they have to really coerce that cooperation, certainly. However we probably really are into if you have not done anything wrong you have nothing to hide territory there...like if you murder 10s of innocent people in a night club or something f-u I hope society does rifle thru your stuff.

Those three statements are policy choices, not objective facts. Capitalists like to present them as inevitable, but of course they are not; they are only presented as such because it's in capitalists' interest for people to see them that way.

Additional context: at the time of their release, both the Neo Geo and the 3DO were considered to be unaffordable, except by the very rich.

I don't think it's monopoly issues holding anyone back, so much as the fact that setting up a viable fab for RAM or storage takes billions of dollars and a number of years, and everyone is expecting the AI bubble to burst before then anyway.

e.g. why invest $$$ to build a new manufacturing facility, when by the time it comes online be competing with auctioned-off near-new equipment from all the belly-up data centers that didn't make it?

Randal's argument was never legitimate. It supposed those trades people were free agents who could turn down the job without getting force choked.

If an LLM attorney is smart enough to actually check that the cases they reference actually exist, we can be confident than they're better than a certain percent of human lawyers.

Let's keep our focus on the people behind these projects, shall we? Not the caterers, the electricians, the plumbers, or the company that mows their lawn. They're just trying to pay the bills man.

Yes, I get it, if it's your holy mission to oppose AI datacenters sure, you go right ahead and chain yourself to the front gate. But the fact is that most people don't have the luxury to morally evaluate their job for nuances of "whatever is bothering reddit today".

Most likely the next step change in AI improvement will come from the next generation learning from today's LLMs and diffusion models. But not being trained on their output. More likely they will be evaluated by current AI.

AI advancements have a predictable pattern. First we mimic how humans do something, then we use those AIs to evaluate the next generation which learns how to do it without mimicking humans. LLMs have been trained on human output and work by trying to determine what a human would do in any situation. The next generation will most likely learn how to think and speak without ever seeing a word of human generated text. Now that LLMs exist to evaluate their output we have the necessary building blocks to design the generation of AI that can really produce content far better than any human.

We are living in the era of early-to-mid 90s chess engines, where AI learned from human moves and brute forced its way to barely beating the best in the world. It took 10 years from the point where chess engines could compete with top humans players until chess engines were effectively unbeatable. And those unbeatable engines were trained by other AI, not by looking at human games. It got to the point where looking at how humans played would have just made it worse.

That's why they compared it with YouTube shorts, which is basically YouTube's TikTok replica.

The most virulent racist on this forum is you!

Every other comment of yours is some form of bigotry toward white people or older people. The relative handful of posts that are not that are some kind of christophobism.

You are really sad, small, terrible person. I only even both commenting because I worry someone might otherwise come to this forum unfamiliar with unhinged anti-social, nature and think it represents any significant portion of broader thinking here. I like Slashdot, and I hate watching you destroy it.

Oh this should be good. Do tell where and how is Trump going to get the votes in Congress for such an appropriation even if that is his plan. How would the treasury/DOD/IC etc move such a large amount of money without an accounting that would get even Trump impeached if he does not go to congress for it.

The problem is 37% that thinks it is going to be tax dollars going to Iran - by the way this "deal" isnt going last a month if by some change it does actually get inked anyway - the problem is 37% that has such bad TDS they believe he could gift Iran $300B from the treasury even if he was really deperate to do so. Trump is in fact not King, the GOP is not nearly united enough whip the votes for something like that.

And there it is again. You're saying the quiet part out loud. Nothing really matters to you but income and protecting your little gravy train of give awayd.

Culture, Values, etc are what we live for, bread alone is not enough. rsilvergun lays it bare, the truth about leftism is that it truly is just about hedonism and greed! Which is of course why they always attack conservatives for any policies that let someone keep something they earned or perhaps were given, its all about masking their desperate hypocrisy and jealousy. Remember, kids liberalism destroys the soul, and liberals are awful people!

Here is the thing both parts are true.

Systemd really does suck. It is a lot of attack surface, it makes a lot of things that would be enjoy some security or at least blast radius control thru heterogeneity systemic risks. It turns a lot of simple failures into complex nightmares that are difficult to untangle. It offers no discoverablity, if you don't know how the hip bone is connected to tailbone you are not getting there by looking around the system you'll have to read the docs.

90+ % of what it does was already handled just fine by existing solutions. So for all of those bloggers systemd has a zero value proposition. All suck no blow.

However....

If you trying to run 1000s of containers at scale with piles of micro services on each, actually systemd does give you some useful things. If you are are PaaS platform and you want to support a wide variety of work loads and make them controllable thur you management portals etc, well having some similar OS level control plane for your control plane tools to plug into is kinda of big deal, because otherwise you are looking at specialized code for each OS and maybe each version of OS you want to offer support for.

Instead we get this dynamic, one distro picks up systemD, the PaaS guys pick it up and say hey cool we will support systemD and tell the other distros get with the program or be left behind.

So bloggers are right if you are managing handfuls of servers the old fashion way via ssh, or just admining your own workstation - SystemD SUCKS

If you are some SiValley tech bro looking to piss away a few million VC dollars, systemD or something like it is a necessity and uniformity and adoption level is a way more important than it being any good. It is just the latest iteration of nobody ever got fired choosing IBM, exact same thinking and underlying justifications.

"... football-field-long ovens for drying layers of material that have been dissolved in solvents..."

Hyperbolic language meant to spur some sort of emotional reaction, I guess?
This process : deposition of a dissolved solid and then the solvents being driven of by a long, gentle drying process, is pretty common in industry as a method. For example just about every self adhesive product uses this process for its release coating.