In principle, what he wants you/us to do is to get some lightweight graphical terminals (machines with slow processors, basic memory and GPU) and use them to do VDI in the cloud. According to his/their vision, our memory is DDR3, maybe DDR4 (only if the DDR$ production lines can not be converted to DDR5 or 6), our processors are not made in a cutting edge litho, we have barely enough RAM for the light terminal to function. Something akin to a low end Chromebook.

In a separate but related and Interesting note: A DDR3 desktop with a 9th Gen intel processor is possible using this Mobo:

Gigabyte H310M DS2V DDR3 (Rev. 1.0)

If you need to cobble together something to weather this storm until the AI bubble pops, this is the ticket. Fully compliant with Win11 with no gimmicks and no bypases if that is your fancy, powerfull for Linux as well, with all meltdown and Spectre mitigations baked in silicon (and therefore, not sapping performance), still getting drivers and security patches for both OSs for the processor, integrated GPU and Integrated peripherals and PCH...

Sammy boy will have to make sure that his pal Jensen builds a datacenter near me (say, Caracas or Maracay, Venezuela) so that I can game after work with no lag, AND Sammy boy will have to build an OpenAI DC near me in Venezuela as Well.

Considering OpenAI does not even let you connect to their AI from Venezuela without a VPN (with all the friction that implies), I'd say:

Go Fuck Yourself.

I'd rather build a DDR3 rig with a 9th Gen Intel Processor with a Gigabyte H310M DS2V DDR3 (Rev. 1.0) mobo to weather the storm.

I am an OpenStack Technical Trainer for Telco, and I do believe in Cloud Computing, even on VDI. But I also realize that Cloud is not suitable for every scenario. The laws of physics get in the way.

PS: And before everyone says: OpenAI does not let you connect from Venezuela due to sanctions! Gemini has no Qualms about my nacionality (loged in or not loged in), Grok also lets me in from Venezuela, at least via X. Copilot gets silly over the web, but the agents inside my Mac-Office executables have no qualms at all as long as the 365 subscription keeps current. So, again, F.U. Sammy boy

PS2: For the time being, my AI usage is very basic. When I move to a really agentic mode, I'll let you know.

Are you using mobile view or some third party reader? Their signature appended automatically to their ccomments literally says "nuclear for life".

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

If you're on EL9, mod_php is a lot more work to get set up, so imagine a lot of people moved from mod_php to php-fpm when moving to EL9. And if you're running php-fpm on EL9, you may as well reconfigure EL8 to work that way as well for consistency. EL7 and older didn't have php-fpm, and would require you to roll your own patched PHP as they're out of support.

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.

I just use Samsung Mail with my own IMAP server. Works fine, no ads.

Function calls are expensive in Python. This makes it attractive to write huge functions with deeply nested control structures.

Within a function, to can indent twice, maybe 2 times in the case of a switch statement.

Besides the other issues with this sentence, Python doesn't have switch statements. Python 3.10 introduces a "match" statement that's supposed to provide similar functionality, but it isn't the same.

They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.

You can get headphones from Shure and Audio-Technica with better frequency response than anything from Bose.

See, this is a case of mitigations working. ASLR makes the exploit substantially harder weaponise. There are plenty of other mitigations you can use to reduce the chance of a bug being successfully exploited. Examples include:

• Ensure PHP (and mod_wsgi, and mod_lua, and whatever else) can't be invoked on servers and/or vhosts where it isn't necessary. You don't want stuff being inadvertently executed as scripts.
• Don't allow PHP (or other server side scripting languages) to run from any directory the web server user has write access to. This protects you from a whole class of exploits that involve uploading a file and then tricking a vulnerable web application into making the web server treat it as as server side script. Yes, this prevents WordPress from auto-updating, but it protects you from most known WordPress exploit kits. Same applies to other CMS, wikis, etc.
• Use at least a basic selinux policy to constrain the web server and associated processes. A separate out-of-band whitelist of what the web server is allowed to access can block successful exploitation of vulnerabilities.

You need to be paranoid and assume the network is hostile.

So you have a very high paying and glamorous job and you don't like it because boo hoo, the military may use it? I am not upset at these folks. I'm jealous. I wish I had so few responsibilities in life that I could just fuck with my livelihood around over something soo stupid. You're just going to go to another AI company. But they totally pinky swear never to contract to the DoD???

Finally, what are they using AI for? I'll wager it's just for mundane, boring shit. It's not designing super bombs to destroy orphanages. They probably are just using it to go through old records....probably trying to ensure the things they are already doing regarding intelligence assessment are more accurate. A goal we can all agree on is military accuracy. The heinous thing about military action is collateral damage, not the concept of war. I think what asshole hippies forget is that better military intelligence and handling would have prevented 9/11. Better military intelligence ensures they capture the right people, not the innocent.

Finally, remember that the US military is a giant logistics company that dabbles in warfare. Approx 10% of solider experience combat in a fucking war. Only 35% of US soliders saw combat in WW2. More servicepeople are doing DHL/UPS stuff than aiming weapons, even in a hot war. I'd imagine the first use of AI is to ensure smoother operations of getting servicepeople paid, getting soldiers fed, ensuring military sites have proper upkeep. The military hires more active duty troops as cooks, dentists, medics, truck drivers, vehicle repair specialists, trainers, fucking projectionists at the base movie theater. Most soldiers do not kill and are not killers. Most are just doing the best they can to ensure safe and smooth operations for the military goals.

Similarly, I think AI will be less about killing foreigners and more about automating performance reviews, digitizing archives, more efficient warehousing, ensuring less payroll and contracting mistakes, etc...the dull, mundane things every large business does....probably a huge portion of it will go to analyzing soldier health data to take care of the veterans who risked their safety and lives to do things you find abhorrent...which most of the rest of the world would do to you without any hesitation...if only they could. I'm massive liberal...but I never forget. The only reason I can think about the bigger picture and higher ideals is because a fuckton of US soldiers convinced the rest of the world's armies that if they harm Americans, we will make sure it's a painful and costly mistake. Ukraine is a constantly reminder. The only reason no one has invaded us like Russia invaded the Ukraine is because they lack the ability, not the desire. And the US Military is the reason why I can be who I am and every entitled spoiled child working for Google can whine like a little bitch about this. I know they'd change their tune if they were living in Ukraine, hearing air raid sirens constantly, and haunted by the ghosts of friends, neighbors, and loved ones who died at the hands of another military.

Out hosting company, Pantheon, is on the ball. I was prepared to make the PHP updates myself, but they had already intiated the process .
https://status.pantheon.io/inc...

Most excellent, they did it for everyone on the platform rather than require folks to make the updates themselves.

On a side note, Asana was down for us for a bit this morning too. Everyone was concerned; my suspicion was that they were making the emergency rollout of the updates and needed to restart their servers/ app globally. That is my suspicion.

No, I said they're less hung up about sex than many western countries, with the fact that sex toys are on prominent display in convenience stores as evidence of that.

You really are stupid. I was pointing out that making something illegal doesn't prevent it from being widespread. Prostitution and drugs are illegal in the USA but are both widespread. Prostitution and porn are illegal in the PRC but are both widespread.