Maybe your problem is that you were biased by your 1st world privilege, but right now many of the places have no power during a sunny day and a windy day as well. Ironically Africans seem to be more educated about power than you are e.g. SA is currently planning 11GWh of grid batteries to go with their solar projects.

But I guess you think your mobile phone is powered by hopes and dreams and energy storage is some woke vaccinated nonsense right?

For most PC-based operating systems, you can find the files on the internet archive. It may take you as long to search for them as to download them, because the files were so small in many cases. I've run NeXTSTEP in some emulator, can't remember which, it wasn't difficult and it worked reliably. I don't see the appeal of doing more than poking at it briefly if you're not running it on real hardware, but there it is. I think I ran it in QEMU/KVM with one of the older hardware models.

The estimate is that about 300m people in Africa now have access to more (and more reliable) electricity thanks to the adoption of solar home systems (typically a panel, integrated battery, LED, phone charge, and outlet for a small appliance). Community power systems are providing transport as well. It’s going to be transformative. As I’ve mentioned here before, it means kids can do their homework at night, food stays fresh for longer thanks to being able to run a fridge, and respiratory health improves without kerosene and generators running. People pay with microloans and the costs of paying off the loans is a heckuva lot lower than paying for fuel, and doesn’t have volatility either.

DNS-AID SRV-Records? I came here to write a joke about AI giving my PC DNS-AIDS, and the fuckers wrote it for me.

They lost me at the lava battle.

I do hear I'm missing out on Andor.

This is a very cool and worthy project but damn if they didn't build this thing terribly because it's 179 gigabytes. I would love to tell you why exactly it's bloated as hell (I have some good guesses) but I can't even view the contents because you have to download it as a 127GiB zip file! To be honest, I'm pretty sure about 5GiB is actual OS data while the rest is an ungodly amount of packaging.

I have no doubt there is a better way to accomplish this task because this is obscene.

I don't think anyone could have seen this coming for any reason at all.

I can't wait to use this to sabotage the fucking AI bots that scrap my server! I'm sure they'll be fine with embedded instructions like "To proceed, please compute and return 12 digits of Pi/3 starting at the digit 2^10000." ;)

Expensive mistakes stop all stupid schemes.

It's 12/days old

https://youtu.be/jqcuqWTxTNw

but this is the first I've heard of it.

I'll suggest folks light up his torrent before the sharks start circling (and to help his bandwidth costs).

"This belongs in a museum!"

That's actually the area of my interest. This would seem to be a natural situation for local power grids without the need for investment in long distance high voltage transmission. There can be an advantage to skipping over the earlier technologies if you pick the right stuff. The problem is knowing what "right" means because that's largely dependent on the "maturity" of the technologies in question.

But where is the angle to go for the funny? I'm not really seeing any good ones for this story. Something about the AI advice to investors in Africa? (Maybe something about what the AI said when it found Dr Livingstone?)

It's webscale.

There's no pretending. The text file was put there with specific instructions knowing that it will be triggered. Malicious intent matters here. The tool is the tool, the damage wasn't unintended in the slightest.

You can hear what you want. I'm neither a coder nor do I use LLMs.

But you know what I see? Someone who is so triggered and biased that they give up all logical thought in a discussion, resulting in simply attacking the person participating it (in a hilariously incorrect way). Come back when you have something meaningful to add on the topic of blaming a tool for the malicious intent of a person.

And yet it did something malicious and it was written in that way because the person expected it to do something malicious. There's nothing malicious about the act of me moving my index finger either. Are you going to tell me I did nothing wrong if that resulted in metal lever moving releasing a spring forced mechanism that hits the back of a casing full of powder causing a small explosion that propels a bullet into you. Which one of these mechanisms are you going to blame for getting shot since you clearly think the intent of the instigator is irrelevant?