I think this might be a good idea, because getting a 4.0 GPA can be a lot different than actually mastering the material. However, the potential for abuse is present as well.

It would be nice though -- one could focus on material, not just trying to memorize via rote to copy/paste from memory to a test, then after the final is over, everything is forgotten.

It isn't perfect, but it can be tuned. Perfect is the enemy of the good.

I sort of wish it had some passive RFID abilities so it could work as a tag even when its battery is depleted. Even if the range is at most a meter, this might be useful if a device detects it as it goes past.

I can see China, Russia, or other states allowing robots to pull the trigger on trespassers, but in the US and EU, killbots guarding the local Gnome Depot at night are not going to happen. People are starting to show they are fed up with technology, if if the backlash to ALPR cameras is bad, then wait until some company finds some 13 year olds were mowed down by automatic weapons fire from a strip mall's defense system.

Shoplifting cannot be handled at the retail level. You can only lock up so much merchandist before you have to change your business model and go membership only. No membership card, no entry. Shoplifting requires sure enforcement. This doesn't mean lock them up and throw the key, but that being caught is going to happen. Even if the penalty is relatively minor, the fact of getting caught is the big thing. Without enforcement, businesses have very limited options, arguably the best is to just close down the stores with high shrinkage.

Maybe AI coupled with various tools to shove things off a conveyer belt, magnetic/optical/LIDAR/weight sensors might be something usable so we can have a pile of garbage run through, separated via AI into bins, and go from there. This should not be an unsolvable problem. It sucks that we have to do this in the first place, but it isn't complete doom.

I routinely bounce between macOS, Linux, and Windows. The trick is to have your apps as multi-platform as possible, and your services multi-platform.

Personally, with something like TailScale, I can have my home NAS machines do the file serving from anywhere.

Of course, there are apps which may not run on one platform. This is where having RDP comes in handy. For example, a dedicated Windows machine for Solidworks.

Look how radio was obliterated when those ownership regulations were lifted. Radio went from a medium that was a social flagbearer to at best something one listens to if every other electronic device is dead, or one has nothing to listen to when out of town.

OTA TV was also dying, but this pretty much will kill it completely.

But in the meantime, a few companies are going to make megabucks, then sell the radio/TV stations for peanuts when the market collapses.

If you run Windows 11, you run virtual machines. CredentialGuard is its own instance, and the Sandbox for web browsing is as well.

Overall, this isn't a bad thing, because more people should consider moving to virtualization anyway.

My M1 Mac Mini bought in 2020 is still going strong with updates as well. Same with my M1 MacBook Pro.

On the Android side, in general, if I pick up a burner phone (barring OnePlus, RIP...), I genuinely will be surprised if any updates happen. If they do, they are usually for stuff like relocking unlocked bootloaders or making stronger anti-jailbreak protection, as opposed to actual security issues addressed, while a low end iPhone will get updates for a good amount of time. Of course, a Google Pixel or a flagship Samsung will get updates for a while, but if I want a cheap burner it is a different story.

To me, this echos a lot of oil field work. When the people set up shop, there is a boom on contractors. However, after the dino juice is sucked out, it creates a horrific bust. All those added roads that went from two lanes to six lanes? They have to be maintained even though they will not see more than a few cars an hour after the wildcatters leave.

Building a data center takes people. However, once it is built, all those people are then out of work. Maintaining a data center takes relatively few people, and a company usually imports them in, and any work outside of that is handled by sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub contractors, where there is almost zero money to be made.

That is the notable part. Right now, a lot of token use doesn't move much... but it does. Add LLM optimization, new ways of doing things like tensors instead of matrix multiplication with carry, or 1 bit LLMs like BitNet, and those relatively small attacks against weakened versions can pile up, especially because as mentioned in other spots, the whole is not just the sum of the parts. Sometimes one math operation can be considered a "group", where there is a shortcut around it that may require far fewer keys in the key space.

Cryptographic attacks never get weaker over time.

Right now, with Grover's algorithm or Simon's Algorithm, AES-256 is effectively AES-128. Combine that with other keyspace reducing attacks, and it might be wise to start considering what is going to be what comes after AES, and maybe even look at larger keyspaces like 384 or 512. It might even be wise to look at cascades, similar to how VeraCrypt has that as an option. A cryptographic cascade of three algorithms isn't going to give 768 bits... but more of 257-258 bits. However, if one algorithm is completely broken, the others should make up for it, or even worse, all three are partially broken, but combined, they keep the keyspace beyond what brute-forcing can fix.

It also may bring about additional functionality as time goes by, which can be useful. kvm is one of the few best of breed apps there is for what it does, and has an excellent reputation.

This is definitely something worth yakking about.

Realistically, I'm curious how they compare to cattle for harsher climates, in feeding denser populations. Because they seem to be able to handle terrain that cattle could not exist, much less graze on, like the mountains, it does do something to allow China to have more arable area for raising livestock.

I wonder if the Army is better off building their own data centers. For the cost of all those tokens, having their own, separate, sovereign AI space might just be the best thing for them, long term. Especially if they are able to create and fab their own silicon.

That is very relevant. I wonder about social media that is more focused on message exchange and expository functions, for example, someone posting a HOWTO, or maybe some way to handle some weird element. Something more forum based and organized along the lines of interests, as opposed to how it is now.

What caused social media to fail is all the "here is some dude who paid some cash and spewing ragebait... he's now in your feed, deal with it. Lets make 3-5 new people a day, all bots, all spewing OPFOR propaganda."

Social media can be done right... but it would take governments to get involved to make a social media site that isn't considering the people using it the product... or just fodder.

Ideally, social media should naturally grow. No follow suggestions, no people thrown onto a feed, etc.

The problem is that many companies and governments don't realize that they can't go cheap on backups. A few years ago, having a NAS on site that backs up all the other company machines was good enough. For peace of mind, go 3-2-1, and copy critical data offsite.

Then came ransomware, then NotPetYa type of data destruction software. Now, 3-2-1-1-0 is minimum, with the offline copy being WORM, and LTO being the only high capacity, archive rated storage medium out there. Problem is that storage hasn't increased, and we just have one format. Would be nice for Sony or Philips to start revisiting HVDs or similar to get 10TBs on a CD sized platter.

One may even need more than one copy stored offline, and offsite, especially if someone is able to bribe an admin to "accidentally" physically destroy an archive before the ransomware gang moves in on the online side.