If you’re a developer for an important open source project, they might.
Attacking the xz project wasn’t done because the attacker cared about anything that the xz maintainer had. It was because he was trusted and the software he maintained had been given a fair bit of trust by certain maintainers and could be compromised and used as a vector into other systems that indirectly relied on that open-source project.
Honestly, humans are a whole lot more dangerous to sharks than sharks are to humans.
Some sharks are apex predators, but we are the planet’s superpredator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_attack
Out of more than 500 shark species, only three are responsible for a double-digit number of fatal, unprovoked attacks on humans: the great white, tiger, and bull.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark
Shark species are increasingly becoming threatened because of commercial and recreational fishing pressures, the impact of non-shark fisheries on the seabed and shark prey species, and other habitat alterations such as damage and loss from coastal development and marine pollution.[6] Rising demands for shark products has increased pressure on shark fisheries, but little monitoring or management occurs of most fisheries.[7] Major declines in shark stocks have been recorded over the past few decades; some species had declined over 90% and population declines of 70% were not unusual by 1998.[8] In particular, harvesting young sharks before they reproduce severely impacts future populations.
Sharks are caught by humans for shark meat or shark fins. Many shark populations are threatened by human activities. Since 1970, shark populations have been reduced by 71%, mostly from overfishing[8] and mutilating practice such as shark finning.[9][10]
In 2008, it was estimated that nearly 100 million sharks were being killed by people every year, due to commercial and recreational fishing.[131][132] In 2021, it was estimated that the population of oceanic sharks and rays had dropped by 71% over the previous half-century.[8]
Sharks are often killed for shark fin soup. Fishermen capture live sharks, fin them, and dump the finless animal back into the water. Shark finning involves removing the fin with a hot metal blade.[132] The resulting immobile shark soon dies from suffocation or predators.[138] Shark fin has become a major trade within black markets all over the world. Fins sell for about $300/lb in 2009.[139]
The three most-dangerous-to-humans species listed above were the great white, tiger, and bull sharks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the white shark as a vulnerable species globally and critically endangered regionally in European and Mediterranean waters. Major threats have included accidental catching by commercial fisheries, recreational fishing, and entanglement in protective nets near beaches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_shark
Tiger sharks have only one recorded natural predator, the orca.[6] It is considered a near-threatened species because of finning and fishing by humans.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark
The bull shark is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List and its population is decreasing. Despite its status, the species isn’t named as a protected species. Threats to the bull shark are numerous, such as getting caught in fishing nets, overfishing for their oil, skin, and meat, pollution to their habitat, and more.
I like QuoteInvestigator. In a world with a lot of poorly-sourced information floating around on the Internet, they really do stand out.
Speaking as someone with what I’d consider to be a pretty decent homelab, I can’t self host the kind of AI that I use for work, not without literally emptying my savings into the hardware and energy needs.
I think we’re at least a decade away from having user-accessible hardware for AI that doesn’t break the bank.
So, for coding, which is what Gates was specifically talking about being doable now, maybe we could corral up the hardware. Like, maybe one could cover specific fields.
There are still going to be issues like power and cooling and hardware cost and whether people who make competitive models are even interested in providing it for home use (since it makes it harder for them to make a return on their model). But set that aside.
As I’ve said before on here, I would say pretty confidently that we will not have local models running to do all of the stuff that cloud compute is used for or is being built out to for at least something like four to five years, and that’s if we started immediate, massive buildout of memory fabrication to a much greater degree than we have. You cannot build a new memory factory in less than that timeframe, and we will not have that capacity with existing factories. The majority of fabricated memory now is going to cloud AI use, and cloud AI hardware will have considerably higher capacity utilization than hardware at home. You’d have to have many times over as much memory being produced to have the same compute capacity at home.
I’m not opposed to doing LLMs or parallel compute at home at all. I have a 128GB Framework Desktop and an XT 7900 XTX that I got to do just that. I’m just saying that we are not going to realistically be able to move all of the stuff in the cloud to the home for at least something like half a decade, and very probably more, because humanity does not have the memory available and can’t build enough memory fabrication capacity for it in that timeframe. It doesn’t matter how much value is being provided by some home user of that hardware or what their willingness is to spend on it if we don’t have the memory. Like, even if every person in the world could produce, to pull a number out of the air, a real $1M in value every year via use of a home AI rig, even if all that demand suddenly materialized out of thin air, all that would happen is that prices would rise sufficiently to make the hardware unaffordable even at those extreme levels. The constraint is on the supply end, not the demand end.
GATES: Go to San Francisco and ask people “would you rather ride in a Waymo or rather ride with a human driver?”
So, he’s right about that—I’ve seen past polling that shows that people in the Bay Area do say that they prefer to not have to deal with a human driver and would prefer the robotic taxi over the human-driven one. But it’s also true, unless things have changed recently, and I have not been monitoring the situation, that Waymo’s rates were higher, and so it’s also not presently an even comparison. You have to pay a premium for the Waymo.
That being said, my bet is that a lot of Waymo’s costs are fixed, so those costs will drop on a per-ride basis as their fleet scales up. And they are expanding.
Or perhaps as a camel, trying to go through the eye of a needle.
Context for the uninitiated:
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
Apparently he’s still around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Duplantis
In May 2018, national news media outlets reported that Duplantis had asked his followers to donate money to him so that he could buy a Dassault Falcon 7X, valued at $54 million.[4][5][6] Duplantis said that his organization, Jesse Duplantis Ministries, had already paid for three private jets by 2006, and that he had been using them by “just burning them up for the Lord Jesus Christ.” Duplantis defended his choice by saying: “I really believe that if Jesus was physically on the earth today he wouldn’t be riding a donkey. Think about that for a minute. He’d be in an airplane preaching the gospel all over the world.”[7] In response to a wave of criticism, Duplantis stated on his ministry website, “I’m not asking you to pay for my plane, I’m asking you to pray for my plane.”[8]
In 2016, Duplantis and fellow televangelist Kenneth Copeland defended their use of private jets with the claim that commercial planes were full of “demons”.[9]
A few weeks later, Duplantis claimed the Second Coming was held up by a lack of donations, while touting his multi-millionaire status.[13]
In February 2024, Duplantis was named as a defendant in an amended civil securities fraud complaint filed by Colorado regulators concerning the promotion of the cryptocurrency INDXcoin. The complaint alleges that Duplantis was among individuals recruited by Denver pastor Eli Regalado to help sell unlicensed securities within Christian communities and that certain recruits received commission payments. The broader case claims INDXcoin raised more than $3 million from over 300 investors between 2022 and 2023 through promises of guaranteed returns based on divine guidance.
I mean, you could always put something like this on any vehicle.
searches
https://www.amazon.com/HornBlasters-Watt-Public-Address-Sirens/dp/B0076ZPOAS
Make sure you are heard loud and clear with 100 Watts of power blasting your voice or waking the neighborhood with the built-in selection of popular sirens. If that wasn’t obnoxious enough, hook it up to the built-in auxiliary cord to ensure everyone can hear your favorite Taylor Swift song whether they want to or not!
Granted, having it pre-installed probably lowers the bar to use, but it’s not like it’s something fundamentally new.
Humans often don’t get as much sleep as they probably should.
https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-research/facts-stats/adults-sleep-facts-and-stats.html
The percentage of adults not getting enough sleep varies by state. In 2022, it ranged from 30% of adults in Vermont to 46% adults in Hawaii.
That dog might just know best.
I assume that unless someone lives in New Zealand, that they probably aren’t going to be using Kiwibank. They appear to only do business there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k
Dial Up Modem Sounds, from 300 Bps to 56K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDhyayQ_Rk0
Dialup Modem Handshake | Sound Breakdown & Explained [4K @ 60fps]
The article from four days back that was submitted on here about the SR-71 being brought back, for context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_shagger
It has been used in South Africa to refer to Australians and by Australians and New Zealanders to refer to one another.[3]
Sounds like it could be used both ways.
When I was a waiter, I was always annoyed when customers would look to me to approve their wine selection.
I’m not a wine person, but aren’t there some wines that are supposed to be paired with some foods? Like, uh…white wines with fishes, but red wines with red meats, if I remember correctly? I mean, if someone doesn’t know anything about that and comes in, that seems like it’d be reasonable to ask the waiter for advice.
I don’t use Mastodon, but I don’t know if it’s possible to do this particular combination:
without owning a domain
users on the local server should still be able to follow accounts on other Mastodon servers
Like, a client that supports having accounts on multiple Mastodon servers would work. Then they have a local account, and they have an unrelated account elsewhere on another Mastodon server and follow people using that, so that the “following” has nothing to do with your local server.
But if you want federated behavior, where a user connects to your server and has their account there tell the local Mastodon server to pull down posts from another users somewhere out on another Mastodon server, you might need to have a certificate on your server that other servers recognize as valid, which in practice would mean one signed by a public CA.
I don’t know for certain whether this is actually necessary, but I could believe that it is.
https://mms.fandom.com/wiki/Ms._Green
In addition to the visual changes, the characters’ personalities were also updated. Ms. Green, known for her self-awareness and outgoing nature, now has a more inclusive and friendly demeanor. The redesign aimed to emphasize her confidence without the previous overt focus on femininity and sexuality, which had been a point of contention among audiences. This change was part of a broader effort to reduce the sexualization of female mascots and promote a more progressive representation.
Huh.
investigates
I dunno if a beauty salon was maybe the best setting to use for your ad, Kiwibank.
first Wi-Fi 8 router
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_8
The standard is projected to be finalized in May 2028.
Anything that anyone is selling now as being “Wi-Fi 8” is at best a guess as to what Wi-Fi 8 will be along with (hopefully) later firmware updates.
I don’t use Microsoft Teams, but there may be some kind of macro software that can just expand “(thumbsup)” to “:thumbsup:” if you feel strongly about it.