This is just Qwen with an installer.

I mean, yeah, wouldn't surprise me if this thing phones home. But I wonder how many folks there are who own a 3090 or better who also can't handle Ollama or a firewall.

I'd also add an SDR to that kit... opens up a whole new world if you're needing it for a survivalist or prepper situation.

A cheap RTLSDR stick and wire antenna will do the job fine with one of the many SDR programs that'll run on the Pi.

"We're trying out an all-new, never before seen type of evil. If this thing works out, we put you out of work, fuck up culture and then burn down the planet. If not, we just fuck up culture and burn down the planet."

Personally, Walmart finally caved for two reasons:

1) They were starting to lose customers who want to use contactless payments, especially now with new and renewed credit cards or debits cards with the Visa or Mastercard labeling now all offering the ability to pay by "tapping" on a terminal. Walmart's recent earnings report supports this view.

2) Walmart was watching with interest how other contactless payment holdouts like WinCo Foods (western USA supermarket chain), H-E-B Grocery Company (mostly Texas supermarket chain) and Home Depot (national hardware superstore chain) started to implement contactless payments in the last 18 months. Since it appears the switchover had little effect on the bottom line, that's why Walmart was finally convinced to upgrade their payment terminals to include contactless payment support.

Mr. Adequate is would just be fine, and a whole lot more economical.

"We do not accept that data in the temporary storage location was 'publicly exposed,'

Then I suggest demonstrating your sincerity. Dump your intimate photos and PII in your temporary storage location.

The old-school methods might be making a comeback.

Not going to happen!!!

Amazon is hoping to fly 80lb behemoths over populated areas to drop things from about 12 feet -- while all-too-often crashing into things. Of course to be fair, how could a drone possibly avoid an apartment building or a crane (twice). Last time it was a ladder strapped to the roof of a van.

These things are not only dangerous but hugely uneconomic. Nothing beats a gig-worker on an ebike!

Gitlab spent insane money chasing Github's lead. As I understand it they do make money now, but only on their enterprise offering, not the SaaS.

And Gitlab actually has nice features; this looks like a weekend project.

Add to that I don't think your average enterprise is going to be all that hot to rent what's supposed to be boring infra from the Space Nazi.

Although the fact that Microsoft can't seem to keep Github operational is starting to leave an opening, so depending on how incompetent they get, maybe there's an opening there.

Most of the risk of de-anonymization comes from "enrichment" - you may not have a name in this dataset, but say you have birthdate, gender and zipcode. In that dataset you have names, and you match them up based on the other attributes.

If you read claims about anonymized data closely, you'll notice the providers are well aware of this in how they phrase things.

Of course plain old incompetence also does the trick.

Micopilot Copilot.

One name, every product.

You realize this is Telecom, not FAANGXia? (is there an acronym for the current stock hotness?)

These are the oligarchs that came out of the post-WWII gravy train. The ones that partnered with NSA while building a middle class.

Not the new ones you're thinking of, who are building their own intelligence agencies and attempting to destroy the middle class.

It just raises the cost. I'll get a separate phone for the car that holds only my ID plus numerous videos of the 4th Amendment recited by furry cops in helium voices.

I already limit what is on/available from my "walking around" phone. Now we're just specializing for particular audiences.

Your car phone will have no need of a SIM, at least, so an old one will do.