Buelldozer

“Just gonna keep using 10 and pass everything through a pfsense router. Strictly speaking it’s the cheaper and safer option.”

No.

The pfsense router is fine but continuing to use an outdated OS that was riddled with vulnerabilities when it was current is not only the LEAST safe option it also means that you are ignoring vastly more secure and FREE options.

Dump Windows 10 and install Linux Mint.

Everyone calling the shots in China is a Billionaire.

This article reminded me to check deflock.me where I found that in the last 90 days my city finally got a Flock camera. There’s only one but I’ve been driving by the damn thing every day on my way to work without realizing it.

I’d like to know whose responsible for it; City, County, or State but regardless I now have a decision to make.

We need an Open Source version of these glasses. It’s the only solution that will work.

You’ve never used an LLM against an MCP server with a properly built API. The ad hoc shit you can do is amazing.

Imagine you are managing 1,500 endpoints. A mix of Windows (both clients and servers), Mac, and Linux. Now imagine that one day there’s a CVSS 10.0 in Eclipse Temurin 17 and you suddenly need to know everywhere it’s installed and which precise 17.x version.

You could spend all damn day fussing with SQL -or- you could fire up $LLM and tell it “Give me a report showing all installed instances of Temurin below version 17.3. Sorted by endpoint type and operating system”.

Suddenly want to know how many windows workstations haven’t rebooted in more than 14 days? You can do that and get an answer in not much more time than it takes you to type the question.

Suddenly need to change a setting in 15 different Microsoft Tenancies? Snap, it’s done.

LLMs are NOT magic bullets but they are useful for WAY more than what you listed. You just don’t know that because you don’t do that kind of work.

The idea of putting Cameras on City Vehicles and using AI to find problems, including Code Enforcement issues, is a good one IMO. The problem, as the article notes, is what that data is going to be used for in the future. We used to call this a Slippery Slope argument but the past 10 years have proven that if data is harvested that it will eventually be misused; it’s some kind of parallel to Godwin’s Law that I am going to coin as “Flock’s Law”.

In this specific instance Flock’s Law tells us that the authorities will inevitably start scanning the photos / videos for people in order to track movements, the Police will be in the database stalking people, and you’ll start getting tickets for over-filling your trash can.

Meanwhile all people really want, and what won’t happen, is someone to come by to get that absolutely jungle of a lawn mowed, fix a broken sidewalk, replace a missing street sign, or move the damn boat / camper / trailer / junk car that has been parked in the street for the last year.

The only way to stop or reverse this is to get conservative capitalists out of our government.

So basically everyone including the Democratic Socialist Mayor of Seattle.

…so the next actionable step is to vote for and support socialists…

On the east Coast the formerly fiery Mamdani has gone silent on this issue since becoming Mayor.

I can find examples of this kind of thing from all over the United States. I’m using Mayors Wilson and Mamdani because they directly refute the idea that “Socialists” will stop this. They clearly will not.

Sam Altmen made a comment on wanting to see basically compute sold as like a utility to people.

Meh, that idea is as old as Compute itself. In the early days, basically the 50’s into the 80’s, you had dumb terminals that only provided a connection to the actually powerful centralized hardware. Think mainframe although it went by different terms at different times.

Every decade or so someone like Altman regurgitates the concept and to date no one has been able to make it widely successful. For example Microsoft has been chasing it since the NT4 days when they licensed multi-session technology from Citrix and rebranded it as “Remote Desktop Services”. It’s still in use today by corporations but outside of particular industries with high demands for secure remote access you’ll almost never see it.

So the idea and actual implementations of it have been around for decades but it never catches on because it’s always more expensive, less performant, and less flexible than hoped for.

With that said if you cock your head and squint we kinda sorta reached it with all the browser and app based online services like e-mail, listening to music, etc. Kinda. It breaks down though in the exact place that it always has…when you want to create something more involved than a text document. Suddenly it’s back to it being more expensive, less performant, and less flexible than doing it on local hardware.

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Then I mentioned the Uniphone S22

At least that one is flip phone so it’s closer but it’s still not running Linux, has a worse camera, no earphone jack, no FM radio, half the RAM, far less storage, worse CPU and so on.

Is all of that worth $350 $250? Depends on your use case I suppose but it’s absolutely not the same product.

but this product already exists for around $150 just with a crappier OS.

Qin doesn’t make a flip phone, they don’t use Linux, a worse camera, a shitty DAC, no headphone jack, and they’re all loaded with Google Apps / Spyware.

They aren’t the same product at all.

It had vaporware startup written all over it.

It can’t be “vaporware” when they are actually releasing products for purchase.

XBOX hardware is fine. It’s what they’ve done with it that’s the problem.

You can get them for free can’t you?

Running Linux? Where…

You can only install apps they allow.

Untrue, the article clearly says that you can sideload anything you want.

IIRC that chart only shows US Government investment / spending. A lot of other countries, such as South Korea, are spending on this and even here in the United States large sums are being spent on it by Venture Capitalists.

The “actual funding” line is wildly out of date since there’s several Fusion Companies that have spent more than that each in the past few years.

and now the courts are saying “fuck you”

It’s one Court and unsurprisingly it’s the Court located right there in town. I strongly suspect that the Third Court of Appeals is going to have a different take on this mess.

At least where I live you can’t wash away a deed restriction like this by transferring the property a couple times.

What specs? I’m in the market for 32Gb of DDR4…

I think I read that licensing for the transcoding or something was the hang up.

There’s several problems. Transcoding is one but there’s also issues with content providers requiring the use of their own apps along with Linux not (until very recently) being able to use any HDMI spec beyond 2.0.

I’ve been a ROKU user for over a decade but the last year has had me thinking more and more about boxing up my devices and sending them to their HQ with a note “Since you treat these like you own them I figured I’d just send them to you.”

I am really REALLY tired of them dicking with my boxes and updating / reconfiguring things however and whenever they see fit.

It wasn’t widely known to the general public. If you were / are new to the community it’s highly likely that you don’t / didn’t know.