Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

It's not a question of a default admin password anymore. Many people never update their router firmware to patch security holes or run old out-of-support routers that don't receive updates anymore. The risk is more often that someone is running a router that has remote exploitable exploits.

Fortunately those people are increasingly on ISP-managed equipment now, and more tech savvy folks throw their ISP router in the trash and run OpenWRT or PF/OPNSense or similar.

Also, the Chinese government has no real interest in me, and far less ability to lay hands on me than my own government. I don't want to be spied on by anyone, but if my choices are TPLink/CCP vs Cisco/NSA, I'll take China, thanks. Anything sensitive is end-to-end encrypted anyway, so sure they can do some traffic analysis, but I'm not too worried about my financial data or anything. They already got my life's story when they broke into OPM back in '15 and stole my SF86 anyways.

Same - it's a lovely little device. I use TPLink Omada (similar prosumer/SOHO stuff as UNIFI) for my managed switch, APs, and AP controller, but I wanted to keep my router open source and out of any one company's control.

The actual vault is just a mini PC in a nice machined aluminum case. Those aren't banned AFAIK, and OPNSense is just one of many OS options you can choose when you purchase it. It doesn't become a router until you install router software on it, which I assume is done by Protectli in CA.

I've pretty routinely seen claude break out of the sandbox in not super transparent ways. For example, it tries to run git commit, fails because the sandbox won't let git talk to my gpg agent to sign the commit, then it retries outside the sandbox and tells me what it's done after the fact. I think going forward the best practice is going to run it in a container with only project files mounted read-write and to have a pretty restrictive firewall around it.

Those are all features that could be implemented into Android auto. Google and the auto manufacturers just need to agree on an API for the phone to be able to send commands to the head unit, which can then broadcast them on the CAN bus.

Certainly. But then, those non-Brazilian companies can mock-comply. Then Brazilians will continue using them all the same, in standard Brazilian fashion, with companies and people pretending to obey the law, the government pretending to enforce it, and everyone knowing everyone else is pretending but having no way to prove it.

Case in point, those external companies seem to be using Cloudflare's georestriction rules, which is fine with us, as everyone is quickly learning to use VPNs.

No, that's not it. It's a cultural difference. In first world countries skirting the law is something people do exceptionally. In countries such as mine, it's a way of life and survival, everyone skirting the laws because the laws aren't really meant to be followed in full, they're mean to be tool the government uses when it deems useful. If someone were to try, they'd be crippled to such an extent they'd be barely able to do anything, at all.

First world countries are so, in great part, because most laws are sane, mean to be followed by everyone, and most everyone does so. Although, granted, there's nowadays a level of "third-world-ization" going on there, what with more and more laws being approved that are similar to our more than they are to your old laws. I hope this process may stop and reverse at some point, but if not, well, once your legal system is fully corrupted, we'll be able to provide you with plenty of suggestions, tips, and tricks, on how to evade unjust laws, as we have literal centuries of experience doing so.

I'm Brazilian. The law has an article that allows regulatory bodies to define something as not being affected by the law if that's in the public interest, so it's likely the government will use that to classify everything they have no means to actually police as being fine. Which means this law can be actively enabled or disable to affect anyone the government wants affected, meaning mostly companies with deep pockets who can be fined for lack of compliance. Going after those without any money would be a waste of time for enforcers.

Also, Brazil has something first world countries lack: a population used to disregarding laws we dislike. People here have already developed plenty of workarounds for age verification in websites, and once it starts popping up on phones and PCs, will do the same. Since most already use a pirated Windows, they'll simply have that pirated Windows come without age verification.

Let me get this straight: unless scientists go straight to the cure of all cancers plus eternal youth provided in a single pill you take once for $1, all medical research is useless. After all, one must never, ever, start small, with an easier, achievable, controllable target, and improve iteratively upon it to develop better knowledge, better tools, better techniques, slowly developing a new bioengineering field, no sir! It's either absolute perfection right this very instant, or not at all!!!

Is this a case of extreme reading comprehension failure? Here, let me "translate" the summary then:

"Scientists found that we can plant potatoes on the Moon by shipping, with rockets, 1 pound of compost for every 50 pounds of lunar soil we want to use for planting potatoes, and those moon-planted potatoes will be nutritious enough to feed moon colonists. One problem though is that moon-planted potatoes will have more metals than is safe for human consumption, so further research is needed to fix that."

Is that clearer?

Do you know if running a 3rd party OS like Graphene or Lineage precludes you from running apps that use DRM, like Hulu or Netflix? I've been toying with the idea of converting my NVidia shield, but I don't want to hobble its usefullness as a settop box in the family room.

A good portion of the defense budget that goes toward maintaining up America's military dominance in order to prop up the petrodollar.

How about throw them in jail for a while, let's say.... about 6 months. Ah fuck it, lets double it for the criminal negligence displayed.