Assuming it's remotely true (and there's good reason for thinking it isn't), it still means the FBI director was negligent in their choice of personal email provider, that the email provider had incompetent security, and that the government's failure to either have an Internet Czar (the post exists) or to enforce high standards on Internet services are a threat to the security of the nation (since we already know malware can cross airgaps through negligence, the DoD has been hit that way a few times). The FBI director could have copied unknown quantities of malware onto government machines through lax standards, any of which could have delivered classified information over the Internet (we know this because it has also happened to the DoD).

In short, the existence of the hack is a minor concern relative to every single implication that hack has.

f the child mentioned didn't give you consent to share details about them, don't.

I thought it was generally accepted that children under the age of 18yrs could not give legal "consent" to anything....?

Until the age of 18, for the most part legally, can't parents speak for and act for their children....?

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.

Biden and other corporate-friendly Democrats are the center. Certainly right of Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna. Biden is equal to or possibly left of Kamala Harris.
Even Bernie is somewhat moderate depending on how you measure him. He's certainly not New Left, as he eschews multicultural identity politics. While mainstream democrats play nice with corporate donors while simultaneously carrying water for intersectional grievance groups.

A true left wing party doesn't really exist in the US. Certainly nothing strictly socialists or marxist is main stream. And even being pro-labor has become a liability when it comes to fund raising these days. Instead of left you get welfare capitalism, a moderate position, and now called Progressive. Even Democratic Socialists are few and far between despite being a "big tent" group that tends to focus equally on social issues as labor issues without. Members might espouse anti-capitalist slogans during protests, being at least true to DSA roots, in practice the party does not hold any significant anti-capitalist platform.

P.S. I'm fine if you're all pro-capitalist. I made a lot of money off capitalism. I'm just willing to admit that rationally speaking, there are problems with it as a system. Especially without putting some guard rails in place. People are not well-represented when money buys political influence. And when wealth concentrates under a few, future generations have even less of a chance to wrestle their government back into the hands of the people.

Why would the GOP willingly give up power? They've gone all-in on this man, much of the GOP's very survival depends on not letting Democrats back into power. 2026 is going to be a huge surprise to Democrats that thought we are still following "established norms".

Classic autocrat behavior is to get every industrial leader under you. Scratch each other's backs, and shut down any opposition to the arrangement. I know I'll take crap here for bringing up Mussolini, but what do you all think the odds are that we'll soon have a Department of Corporations not unlike Italy's old Minister of Corporations?

What are the use cases for local AI models that actually require running on macOS? Surely a commodity x86 system is more appropriate?

Is there even the software support for LLMs on macOS?

Actually yes there is...

I'm still learning about this myself, but, from what I understand the M series of chips that Apple has come out with, with it having a CPU, GPU, and shared unified memory....it makes them uniquely capable of running local models on them...decently large models depending on how much you fork over for RAM. These M chips also have a special end unit for "intelligence processing" I think they call it.

The M5 chips just coming out look to be very good at this and it is speculated the M5 Ultra will be a high performance work horse.

Apple may have missed the mark for running AI, but the appear to have hit a home run on the hardware aspect of it.

I've seen demos on YouTube of someone hooking up like 4-5 Mac Studios that were maxed out M3 ultras I think and they were running extremely LARGE LLMs locally and getting cloud level numbers on them.

Of course these were like $10K each boxes.....but the level of model they were running would have cost my MANY more times trying to match them with NVIDIA GPU cards.....

i believe there are OSX friendly tools like ollama that make downloading, and running LLMs quite easy....and of course there's the latest sensation...OpenClaw, that folks are buying up Mac Minis for....to have multiple agents running using models of your. Choice (commercial clound or local) of models and giving them persistent memory, and ability to do a lot of things for you...depending on how comfortable you are with giving said agents long leashes and capabilities....

Do look a bit on YouTube on these topics....it's actually quite interesting.

These M chips are already giving the home user the capability to use models almost as large and on the cutting edge as the big companies.....more than enough for most users.

Right now, there's nothing x86 that can really match them...at least not for the money.

Look for a gaming monitor with no WiFi option

Do they make these in 65" or larger?

If not, that's not really useful....no one wants to have everyone in the family and/or guests huddled around a 25" monitor in the corner of the living room you know....

;)

Our military-industrial complex would normally not bother. Which is why it helps to occasionally reverse engineer stuff instead of depending on the free market to determine the price.

It would have added Tom Bombadil, which is as sufficient as anything to add to something.

Yes?

As for the one in New York, I'll give you three guesses where La Liberté éclairant le monde was made.

t depends on if they send you a tax notice or not. There was an outfit in Ohio that I used to purchase a lot of electronics from. One year I got a note from them listing my purchases, and that I would have to pay taxes on. That was a pain in the ass.

I think they got "caught", or had new accountants or something. But yes - if you can avoid the sales tax, it's a significant discount.

Interesting, I've never received any such notices....but most of my stuff is one off buys...not repeated purchases from a single site...

Have you ever heard a single person, including plumbing professionals, call them "copper-phosphorus pipes"?

No. Because that's not how the English language works. You're the one who is too lazy and ignorant to figure out how people actually communicate in society.

Hint: The systematization your mind wants to apply to everything is not absolute. You need to figure out when to relax the formal logic rules when they start to result in absurd outcomes.

I don't know if it's still strictly true, but they used to say that all of the antimatter that has ever been produced by humans has had enough combined energy to warm up a cup of coffee.

Damn science believers, always messing up people's fantasies.

You win this year's Nobel Prize for pedantry.

So according to you, I can't call the water pipes in my house "copper", since 0.05% phosphorus was added to the material to accomodate brazing.