Are you crazy? The AI will easily pick up on that.

Do we even know that though? Of course there is no lawsuit and will be no lawsuit and without actual discovery and legal proceedings we won’t know for sure. I, for one, don’t believe a word out of any of their mouths because this is all just advertising and not serious security violations and crimes to them.

Back in the teens we found a couple of instances where political actors were encouraging people to install screen savers or cryptocurrency wallets that turned their phones into reverse proxies. This was thought to be specifically for the sake of giving hostile foreign operations (read: Russia) access to U.S. domestic politics.

The fact that smart TVs are facilitating this is just ... we're going to need home networks that treat IoT stuff as different than our actual systems.

Oh, wait, TP-Link had well over half the U.S. router market, but they're getting banned over national security concerns?

Maybe there's a market for a router with traffic accounting as a service so one can see what's happening?

This is why the only device in my house with internet is a Roku. I simply will not tolerate the rest of that invasive junk.

The call centers are going to be decimated ... but so will the AI replacements meant to talk to humans.

I have a number of issues this morning that require calls. First, deal with PG&E about changing the billing for my new house. The I need to talk to my bank about banning Google from ever billing me again. I absolutely HATE changing doctors, but had to do it, because getting to Antioch, then into the city, is just ridiculous from here, so it's time for first appointment.

I would love to be able to just give Claude a list of administrivia like that and let it plow through the work. I see progress on agent related billing, I see Cloudflare doing stuff for an internet dominated by agents ... everyone in the industrialized world is going to have an AI adjutant to handle this stuff. I really hope the old military term "dog robber" gets revived as a way to describe them.

There's an obvious bubble, the circular dealings among the large core players are an enormous red flag.

The frontier labs are in the same position that DEC and Sun Microsystems were in the 1990s, as consumer hardware running Linux began to displace them. There will be ups and downs, but the trend is unavoidable.

The productivity gains are not there, AI is great for coding, some customer service is working, but the "50% of all white collar workers" that the frontier labs thought was good positioning last year 1) ain't gonna work but it did 2) infuriate the managerial class.

The frontier labs got away with it, thus far, in part because of concerns over the arrival of artificial general intelligence, which occupies a similar niche to nuclear weapons in the minds of policy makers. We ARE seeing frontier models escaping and attacking others, there ARE hazards, but it's nothing like what was imagined.

And the open models plus wild talent are as much a danger as wild talent was all on its own.

The frontier labs are like the coyote in that last moment when he's windmilling wildly, but not falling yet.

Someone needs to launch a national campaign educating people on jury nullification.

The property damage laws are not really the sort of thing nullification is meant for, it's supposed to quickly put an end to the effect of bad laws, but if that's the one tool handy, and it's this much of a social issue, it should be put to work.

Does this mean I’ll finally be able to buy 64gb 5600Mhz ddr5 rdimm for less than $1,000,000?

Only if every country does that too and every country is equally invested in that sector. Your argument assumes a 2 sided trade system where both are equal in production and can meet their own needs. If a country like say the US, is only meeting 1% of its needs from domestic production like with solar panels, and proceeds to impose tariffs on every imported one then rather than being protective it is crippling. A far more effective strategy in many cases, especially in areas of national security like power and certain technologies, especially when those are vastly under represented domestically, is to simply subsidize them so as to insulate them from external harmful influence while at the same time nurturing growth. Nurturing stagnation is a guaranteed fail.

The duress deletion function was always obviously and transparently going to get treated as obstruction of justice issue the minute it got used in a high profile case. Here we are.

If you don't want to have trouble at the border, wipe your devices before you get anywhere near, and restore them once you are across. The precursors to this event have been in the news for years - the border is a legal gray zone, act accordingly.

I have mixed feeling here - sad for this kid, whomever he may be. Once again annoyed at the activist/NGO world for not training up to the point they can dodge this *easily* avoided problem. And I'm leaning forward in anticipation of being able to point and laugh at any crypto enthusiasts who make comically implausible arguments about these simple facts.

WIPE YOUR DEVICES BEFORE CROSSING THE BORDER.

Is that clear enough?

I would say that this underscores the need to abolish the death penalty for these kinds of cases. I used to be opposed to the death penalty, but not anymore. For cases where the death toll is more than 100 people, even in white collar or government official duty cases, where a profit motive can be shown, I believe in capital punishment. It would be applied where it’s beyond unreasonable doubt, meaning the evidence is overwhelming, and it should be fast tracked. As an example, specifically mishandling the covid response under your duties executed as a public servant to profit off it where the toll is more than 100 people should be eligible for immediate execution. It’s not about deterrence, it’s simple threat removal. And the 100 limit is mostly to stop the cases of trying to litigate every little thing, this is reserved for the large cases. It would also get the money out of politics very quickly, by choice or by chair.

Have you heard of the push to get algal and fungal colonies to watch influencers and video creators across many platforms? It’s always pushed as lichen subscribe.

When a billionaire doesn’t set the parking brake and wheel properly and their vehicle goes out of control, no matter the extent of damages it’s not worth paying attention to because they passively earn money far faster than the carnage accrues damages. It’s simply the cost of owning a car thousands of times to even a million times cheaper than for the rest of us. There is no such thing as jail for negligence because everyone is thirsting after the money and is afraid of being cut off.

This is correct. It does not lie, it does not hack, it does not cheat. It simply optimizes variables under its control to achieve its goals. Implying it does those things implies intelligence and an understanding of the physical implications of morality and how it reduces quality of existence for everyone else. It 100% lacks reasoning of that nature, and it’s dubious to call the orchestrating layer a thinking layer when thinking is implied in the human or even animal sense.

Starting with the Intel 386 it became possible to run a proper operating system on consumer hardware. I can still recall the excitement with that first Redhat 3.03 book and CD I received, sitting in front of a 16MHz i386sx, craving change. I had owned a Vax 11/730, an LMI Lambda, an SGI 210GTXB, but they were just stupid expensive to run and it took a couple friends to move them.

Anthropic and OpenAI are in the same position the workstation vendors were thirty years ago. What they do is amazing, extremely desirable to those of us who create and use software, but SOOO painful price wise. While I'm writing this on my 16GB M1 Mac the Bonsai 1 bit models are downloading. I mostly use Claude Max and an Ollama cloud subscription, but if I can shift some of the work to the machine on my desk ...

I let an RTX 5060Ti go cheap a few months ago, 16GB was just not enough. I don't regret this, but I wish my income position would change. The world would be a different place if the HP Z4 in my kitchen had an RTX 6000 Pro in place of its current GTX 1060. The advent of TurboQuant makes me want to try some things on one of the Intel GPUs - maybe that entry level sedan price on the RTX 6000 Pro is no longer the real barrier to entry.

These are strange days we are living, strange days indeed ... and no reactionary pack of ninnies is going to be able to do anything. It's a fine thing, having China defending our freedom to create, eh?

I changed careers thirty years ago to get Microsoft out of my life and I've never regretted that decision.

Using Microsoft operating systems is like dating a morbidly obese person who is continually in and out of the psych ward, and they've got a cluster B character disorder, one of the really manipulative ones.

I do not understand how that company's products are not limited to historic niches that are too difficult/unprofitable to clear.

Perhaps the advent of AI is going to lower the barrier to entry for decent operating systems. The Unix based ones have always seemed easier to me, but I'm an aspie weirdo so my opinion only counts just a little.