"Year of Linux on the Desktop"
"NO, NOT LIKE THAT"

The biggest problem with "AI" is the marketing. There is no single "AI", there are a ton of various semi-related and entirely unrelated tooling that uses various bits of machine learning. From what this reads like, they have a more advanced fuzzy logic search engine in place, which is one of the absolute best use cases for AI/ML workloads. But at the end, its no different than any other search engine. It doesn't do the critical work for you, it simply searching vast repositories of knowledge and suggests possible outcomes. How many people instantly trust the top result on Google without even seeing the rest of them? This is the same thing.

'Any Lawful' Use of AI... by the people that can rewrite the law at any point in time to have it say anything they want.

Nice soundbite, but its total bullshit.

"The new word is 'edutainment'"

This is a new word? It dates back to at least the 1930s.

And in the 1990s, it was a mandate for television funding. This lead to the awesomeness of things like Bill Nye.

Seriously, you want to keep students attention? Just roll in the big fucking CRT from the closet with the VHS player on a shelf below it, throw on some Bill Nye or Myth Busters, and you'll get em all hooked instantly. This isn't hyperbole, this is tried and true. Anyone of a certain age will have endless fond stories of this experience.

But will my TV still need to validate my age in order to operate at all? That's still an "operating system" that is closed source.

Its all Hollywood accounting

Samsung is going to "lose money" on selling a smart phone, because Samsung had to pay Samsung more money for Samsung RAM/NAND.

They're just shuffling around profit centers.

"Twitter isn't paying off for us the way we wanted, so let's do the same thing again but under a different name"

Its England, not New England. They'll be just fine.

"help the company return to its roots as a hardware-first company"

Have you not been paying attention to Apple at all the past several years?

Since they switched from Intel CPUs over to their own in-house silicon, they're dominating the landscape in performance-per-watt, battery-life, and even on raw compute. They have the fastest single-threaded CPU on the market right now, and its in a freaggin LAPTOP. And their unified memory architecture is destroying everything else in performance.

Their "return to hardware" was the M1 generation, and now they're at 5th generation with M5. How much more "hardware-first" do you want?

it comes and goes in waves. i've just assumed it was a specific troll/bot group during specific periods of agenda pushing vs the general consensus of the public.

Passive monitoring? Sure.
Active monitoring/blocking? Not in the least.
Latency is far too high.

that would require session tracking information on literally every single customer. and is also a direct violation of the basic ideals of "net neutrality". these are why it is handled at the edge rather than by the trunk routers.

oh, and also, the internet as a whole is a-symmetrical in routing. the only way this is practical is on the edge, or MAYBE one hop up from an edge router (assuming there is no dynamic load balancing going on that you cannot see)

While I agree in theory, this particular case is different.

Do you validate every single package inside of yum/dnf/apt/pkg or similar OS package repositories?

Because what happened in this case, the maintainer for a major package had their system compromised.

This could have easily been an attack against any package in any OS repo, open or closed source, using this method.

"So, you think critical infrastructure shouldn't be repaired!?"

And watch the bullshit lame ass excuses the fuckwit companies come up with.

(yes, I know its so they can sell you service contracts and parts and labor n what not, but i want to see them attempt to justify it)

"more than 340 million people live within 10 kilometers of data centers"

NOT ALL DATA CENTERS ARE FUCKING AI DATA CENTERS.

I'm getting sick n tired of all the bullshit metrics.

By the definition of "data center" that these people use in one stance (AI) to talk about heat, then they shift to a different definition to cover "people live X distance away) is for an entirely different class. Things like carrier hotels and co-locations. Ya'know, the shit that just delivers your fucking internet to your house and cross-connects to other ISPs / Carriers. THESE ARE DATA CENTERS! But they're not "gigawatt" data centers. Often they're not even "megawatt" data centers.