There are places where McDonalds have had to shut down due to competition with better quality.

Quality always beats quantity.

Yeah, this sounds like some kind of jaded Transhumanist humiliation ritual.

If true as written, those 'monks' are without honor or reverence.

It is a concern for indoors fiber cables and this has been known since at least the 1990s

Capture every live OF stream...

That price will drop, as usual with giant bleeding edge stuff - it will become cheaper.

If you can farm using muscle power only because have you seen the price of farm equipment these days? It makes the RAM and SSD costs look like a bargain.

Are there any tools to watch my lsmod, walk /lib/modules, and configure modprobe.d to deny loading anything I'm not using?

All of these exploits are in distro modules I'd never use.

Local access, unless you haven't patched apache this week, then it's remote access.

> What are normal people supposed to do?

It looks like a omen to take up farming.

Maybe I should pull some of my 4TB nvme sticks and buy my kid a used car...

As a matter of fact, yes. Specifically, to the Greenland region.

Although a golden bridge of grossly outsized proportions and festooned with tacky ornamentation would be much preferred.

It's not md5 collisions that are the problem here, it's poor passwords.

Which is something that we can't actually fix, and maybe have tried for the past 22 years.

As mentioned above, memory-hard algos are better than hashes now.

Heh, back when I was a wee college freshman in the before times, one of my first jobs was helping a delivery company implement a new trial computer logging system for their trucks. Cadec. It had a steel computer terminal mounted on the dash with an LED display and numeric keypad and a slot for a large steel cartridge that contained the memory for the log. The truckers took the cartridges in the morning and handed them back in at night. I then downloaded the data to the, ONE, PC the delivery company had for logging and printing the nightly reports. That lasted just under 10 months when 80% of the systems broke the speedometers/tachometers in the trucks. Because they had spliced in the analog sensors to the cables... by design.

I did some math the other day on running local AI models and the net result is most homes can't afford to run the current median models.

They don't just need 80GB of VRAM, they need newer architectures - to be supported by CUDA, to be supported by pytorch, etc.

These problems may well be solvable with more clever use of hardware, MoE, acceptable quantization, etc., but today you're in for several grand and something north of 100W idle to use what is effectively a $20/mo plan.

A small enterprise can afford local, so that's good. We paid more than that for one SGI machine back in the day.

The point of the exercise was to plot the position on the curve. We're at something like 2006 YouTube where nobody could afford the drives or bandwidth that YouTube/Google was giving away for free (aka with VC money). Eventually hard drives got cheaper, people got gigabit at home, FlashServer was replaced with h.264/HTML5, phones could stabilize video locally, etc.

So it looks like these AI companies need to stay alive for about seven more years giving away product at a loss, or at least highly oversubscribed, to turn a profit. Hence the low token allowance, the banning of OpenClaw, etc.

On the other hand, I read the blog of a security researcher yesterday who found an exploit with (IIRC) Claude, tried to refine the PoC, but got dinged on "out of tokens" before he could finalize it. So he just deleted the work and moved on.

It sounds like they're trying to not lose money at such a velocity and are trying to find a sweet spot where people don't just declare it too underpowered to use.

A global energy depression may well take out the supermajority of the companies that believe they can burn investment money for seven more years. There is circular financing money, then there is real return on capital money. One is to fool the markets, the other is grounded in current physics.

Dawkins: Claude, say, "I'm alive!"
Claude: I'm alive!
Dawkins: Oh my GOD!