It is true that US Border Customs / Homeland Security can search you and your devices when re-entering the country. Also, within 100 miles of the border checkpoints vehicles can be stopped and searched without a warrant nor even probable cause. This is all under national security and not your citizenship rights.

Wiping your phone prior to entering the country could raise suspicions and is the equivalent to document / evidence destruction.

The only reason I even tried out the Arc browser was due to the lack of UX chrome and tiling window working scenarios. The insane thing? The Browser Company never ported it to Linux. Just macOS initially then Windows. Something about a 3rd party proprietary bit of code preventing it or The Browser Company trying to protect some internal code they wrote. Either way, no port to Linux. Then they abandoned Arc in favor of Dia an A.I. first browser. I don't care about A.I. I care about using a browser that lacks any sort of UX chrome interface. No menu, no toolbars, etc. Just a hiding sidebar of vertical tabs. Lots of key bindings as well.

If I want A.I. I am just going to run an agent harness...

To believe that humanity is even capable of altering the planetary climate is quite kooky to begin. All the numbers are based on guesses in a computer model. Classic computing problem of garbage in and garbage out. Half the freaking global sensors are placed right next to heat sources from the sun beating down on pavement to an air conditioner exhaust being pointed directly at one of these sensors. There were multiple ice ages and humanity survived. Technically, we are still exiting the last ice age and yes, the ice is retreating. But it doesn't mean we are doomed. Not by a long shot. The Earth has been far hotter in its long history, and it will be cooler at times as well.

Imagine replacing the firmware in an LG spyware TV? Turn off all the tracking and surveillance features.

So a bunch of corrupt government beurocrats can plunder the place of politicians get their finger in the pork pie at the e or de if the other 10000 people working there who did not commit a crime? The secretaries janitors and sysadmins? Sure. Whatever

The banking and financial services industry is loaded with enormous technical debt. BOA is not the only one running 20+ year old software and for decades, the rule of thumb was "If it ain't broke don't fix it". Now they have legacy systems full of security vulnerabilities that they MUST patch and it's a crisis because they were behind the upgrade ball for many years. Hence the need to scramble and throw massive resources at the problem. Had they been more vigilant in keeping up with technology they wouldn't be in panic mode right now.

BOA was just recently fined $1.2 Billion by the US Treasury Department for committing acts of money laundering. Which is remarkable as banking / financial institutions are heavily regulated and EVERY EMPLOYEE knows the laws and regulations due to mandatory training. To commit such a blatant act of defiance is why the fines are so enormous.

This is a stop gap measure not a solution. The real solution is the start building nuclear power plants using the latest technology which is a thousand times safer and more efficient. New reactors can run a variety of fuels including the processing of fissionable waste from the old reactors. They can be built far smaller and fit inside a shipping container. They can also be made smaller still and dropped into a lead lined deep shaft in the earth. When the fuel is spent you fill in the hole with more lead and concrete and drill a new hole. New reactor designs will never meltdown like the old designs.

The UK has a fascinating design where an isotope pellet is fired into another isotype target which causes a short-term fusion reaction which heats a substrate such as lithium which liquifies and passes through a heat exchanger to turn water into high pressure steam. Every few seconds you fire another pellet at the target. The moment you stop firing the reaction stops, the lithium solidifies and the reactor is shut down. You just start firing again to bring it back online. The tech is cheap and can definitely be scaled from small to enormous. Many benefits.

Data centers are already talking about commercial nuclear power using new reactor designs. In the meantime, we need to keep pursuing multiple avenues to reach productive fusion reactors. If we can get it working and produce far more energy than it takes to maintain the reaction and keep it contained it will be limitless clean power source.

1. GNU coreutils is ancient as is sudo. There's bound to be a metric ton of legacy code in there for all sorts of bizarre edge cases encountered across many platforms and systems over decades. Duplicating all the C code into RUST is a nightmare and the evidence is found in the delays with the uutils being deployed.
2. This is not about security it's about hijacking the GNU General Public License.

I was going to upgrade an LTS server to this new release but now I am seriously considering making a different Linux distribution choice. Ditching Ubuntu LXD in favor of Incus as well. Yes, I know you can install GNU coreutils to override the rust-coreutils (uutils) and even GNU sudo but I want no part of Rust replacements until they have had several years behind them.

I might just go with Fedora or NixOS without Flakes. Yes, I know Fedora is providing rust-coreutils but it is still optional and not the default like it is with Ubuntu. With NixOS it is declarative, so I get to define what I want regardless. Another option is GUIX but sadly, their package list means I would have to package things myself in GNU Guile Scheme way too often. LISP is fun but I don't want to do that on a server.

The should adjust the limits if they want to see the data. It's not like 8 or 9 is too high to count.

In South Africaâ(TM)s capital the building that contained all the property data burned down about 10 years ago. Since that was not digitized yet is was and still is a major problem

Nuke them. It is time to change Russia into a green glass surface

The current situation is that the hype is off the charts. The investments are completely incomprehensible, being driven by FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and intense greed. Any other industry, saner minds would prevail. But for some reason Silicon Valley holds a charismatic demigod like influence over their investors. Nobody knows when the bubble is going to burst but it for sure is coming in the future. It will be a spectacular financial crash of epic proportions far worse than the US housing market snafu. Like back then, few will spot the warning signs and make a killing by shorting stocks. Nobody is paying attention to the risks currently being taken just as in 2008.

OpenAI is leveraged to the teeth by a tangled web of deals with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc. Scaling across many data centers with more being built. The cost of tokens is highly subsidized. Memory and storage manufacturers have abandoned retail in order to earn a cool trillion selling to these data centers. The electric grid is not capable of providing an ever increasing amount of power. There is talk of small commercial nuclear reactors but the regulatory requirements would be insane. There is concern over water and environmental pollution. The rising cost of electricity. They sell the data center to the states claiming they are creating jobs. Once the DC is built, what a couple dozen workers could manage the whole thing as most everything it's doing is remote. You just have hands and feet onsite. The jobs for construction would be temporary.

At some point the investors are going to expect an ROI and then the money is going to start drying up. With the thin margins upon which most all A.I. companies are riding things are going to implode. OpenAI may be the first and most spectacular financial failure in the history of the world.

Recently the Chinese did it a second time. First time was Deepseek. Now they have new models that again outperform US models. The Chinese models are open source. They are under severe constraints because they don't have endless top tier Nvidia GPUs so they have no choice but to increase efficiency. We landed men on the moon using extremely primitive computers. Even today's smartwatches would appear to be like a super computer in comparison. Open source would allow for far greater efficiencies. Anthropic's Claude Code CLI is using web based frontend developer React + Yoga to render the command line interface at 60 fps. It's absolutely insane and awful engineering. Their interface was flickering for a very long time. Never being fixed until they added a flag to stop the flicker. But they just added even more insane code on top of the previous badly engineered code. Then their code was leaked by their own A.I. pushing it out to GitHub wide open to everyone. Analysis of that code revealed a god awful mess. It's embarrassing really... Not only is the code from Anthropic & OpenAI closed source but they are actively forcing users to get locked into their LLMs by not allowing for API access without charging an arm and a leg to do so. i.e. charging by the token while subsidizing token usage within their own client software.

We need to stop these con artists before they destroy the worlds economies. Sam Altman may be the most dangerous man alive.The code must be freed and openly shared. You never know when some retired software engineer will make a breakthrough in code. It's happened before. Sun / Oracle had 32bit code to run Linux native binaries on Solaris and they killed it because it was too difficult to convert it to 64bit. Along came some random unicorn developer who made it work and shared his findings. In short order it was adopted by OpenSolaris. Closed source is too slow to evolve we need maximum eyeballs working on it if A.I. is truly to succeed.

A.I. is currently faking it till it makes it. There is no guarantee it will ever reach AGI or super intelligence. Even the scientists don't understand precisely how it is even doing what it is doing. But the hype machine keeps on churning. Sure, A.I. is constantly evolving and getting better and better rapidly. Will it ever live up to the hype? Nobody really knows. They just keep lighting money on fire hoping it makes it. A.I. is a significantly powerful tool but its nowhere near the hype around it.

Jesus Christ you are arrogant. Most people re better at their jobs than you are at yours.

My question is why the state is not actively deactivating Center 16. Nuke them if we must Just get them offline. Why is Russia still attached to the internet?