Productivity is such a bullshit idea… Like how do you measure productivity? In GDP?

Yes, but normalised for buying power and per capita. Where I live the last several decades saw an increase by +250% in normalised economic output per capita, while at the same time real normalised wages stayed the same. Which marks a stark decoupling of economic output and wages (thus usually also pensions, taxes (public budgets), sometimes health care - all linked to wages) that did not exist before. What happens to all those gains? They get transfered upwards to a few rich people, while the system is now only based on less than a third of the economic output… Alas! “We can’t afford proper pensions, social security or even just maintaining the existing infrastructure anymore” is the most sang song everywhere the neoliberal insanity rules.

And alongside it come fairy tales about demographics (how should the working people afford double the amount of people that need support? easy… when everyone of them is 6x as productive -> see output per capita still more than 3 times as high) and a lot of agitation pitting the “lazy stupid youth” against the “greedy old generation” when in reality they get all fucked over by the same small minority (with the old ones just having a better buffer because they already worked when the system wasn’t that broken).

Long story short: Industrialisation killed so many jobs… but in reality the people still working suddenly made enough to provide for the rest because of massive production gains (and so children didn’t need to work anymore, women could stay home and raise the kids etc). Automation killed so many jobs, yet again the actual productivity per capita massively increased. In general development of tech but also society happened and increased life expectancy as well as productivity side by side. And now we are talking about the impact of AI. Guess what… the problem is again not AI. It’s having changed the system to the point where workers get exactly nothing from productivity gains because we need to push imaginary stock market numbers and shareholder profits instead. Well done Reagan, Mulroney, Thatcher, Mitterand, Kohl and countless others…

It’s been a few years but I can see if I can find the old links. I still remember that you got some “Display undefined error” then a crash when running sudo nvidia-settings.

Yes, when I’m talking about automation from the industrial revolution to the development of AI, the third world is obviously not the focus.

In addition to that other answer: they are bad at maintaining their userspace tools. The basic nvidia-setup program was at times so broken that you could only change stuff as root because using su or sudo crashed the app. Which is fun if your root account is deactivated by default… And they couldn’t be bothered to fix it for literally more than a year.

I still have a script in my files that was running in early boot to change the fan speed at boot because there was no other way to change configs once booted and logged in.

Not that would be sad with it gone, but we had capitalism decades ago and the system still worked for the most parts. It’s the neoliberal lunacy pushed on us since the 80s/90s (depending on country).

Yeah, no… If the most basic stuff like controlling your fan speed is broken for literal years (utility needed root permissions, yet using su or sudo made it crash), that’s not some fault of users having too esoteric demands but pure and simple Nvidia idiocy.

The problem is not “using the drivers”. It’s the driver quality.

Yes, automation replaces jobs. In fact nearly every advance since long before the industrial revolution did. But it also increases the actual productivity per capita. So again the underlying problem is the system that transfers all gains up nowadays leaving less workers (with stagnating wages).

Is there a whole card set?

There is NO justification for privately owned corporate AI.

Not that I actually like it, but I think privately owned corporate AI isn’t the primary problem. It’s the broken market that is the real problem creating some insane bubble that can (temporarily at best - but who cares for long-term effects nowadays) only be sustained by shoe-horning AI into 1001 applications that it can’t fullfil properly.

Corporations competing with actual applications in fields where AI makes sense wouldn’t be a problem, corporations competing for insane sums of financing by outpacing each other in terms of lies, fairy tales and trust-me-bro pseudo-science statements are. Because with insane amounts of money and nothing to actually show they instead spend a fraction of it on PR bullshit to advertise AI use in cases where it doesn’t make sense, to get more money again. Rinse and repeat, with no actual value created.

Setups like Android or those new fancy ummutable distros don’t actually make anything more secure. If the underlying OS is drectly exploited they don’t protect you. Not having a mechanism included to get you root permissions regularly, doesn’t help you against exploits achieving the same in unplanned ways. In fact -allthough that’s a minor issue- you can probably specifically target the latter distros even after a patch: After all we are talking about direct changes to binary code here. On that level you could get ideas about manipulating the overlay to access the unpatched files.

In the end the most effective way to be more secure is not a mass produced thing like Android that locks out everyone (and not even being that good at it because there are masses working to circumvent it to get control over their device back), but to minimise you attack surface: Don’t have stuff activated you don’t need. Have a kernel compiled for your device with only exactly the components you really need. Or whitelist all kernel modules you need and nothing more. Explicitly declare what a user can do and access actively (see: SELinux, AppArmor with strict policies) instead of relying on the underlying passive permission system.

Update: Kernel 7.0.5 just released

Fixes: cac2661c53f3 (“esp4: Avoid skb_cow_data whenever possible”)

Fixes: 03e2a30f6a27 (“esp6: Avoid skb_cow_data whenever possible”)

Fixes: 7da0dde68486 (“ip, udp: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES”)

Fixes: 6d8192bd69bb (“ip6, udp6: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES”)

Also HandleLidSwitchExternalPower= for when it’s still plugged in when you close the lid.

Interesting read, but what I’m missing is a location for this experiment. Because the the login attempts and especially the distribution of origins are vastly different form what I’m used to seeing.

Germany’s problem is not building stuff but corruption.

Our street/sidewalk was opened up f****ing 7 times in the last 3 years for fiber-optic cables. Because if there is money to be spend they will find a way to give it to some buddies for putting the 2nd, 3rd or 10th set of redundant cables into the ground.

Oh, and guess what is not available here… a fiber connection, because actually connecting those cables is not where they can make money. And if they somehow manage this some day… I’ll pay insane prices compared to any other country.

Which is both again caused by corruption, a.k.a. a few big companies and their well-paid lobbyists working hard to be the only option.

Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger

AI PR doing AI PR stuff… At this point they will push any outrageous claim about capabilities or spend nearly any amount of money to keep that insane AI bubble from bursting.

Not cat but obviously a jackal… (seriously… was the name and the ‘weighing the soul of your connection’-thing not enough?)

Not anime…

Not a nurse… (that’s a maple leaf on the cap and since when is a magnifying glass typical medical equipment?)

Also and much more important:

Not the more annoying (and often failing) Cloudflare screen…

Not another stupid CAPTCHA…

PS: Did version 1.23.1 really change the Canadian flag with a ‘CA’… I have found screenshots of versions older than that that did display the flag as do newer ones. So I’m really asking myself if that was an intentional edit to get away with the “nurse” argument.

If it wast just AI, but the idiotic crawlers everywhere are getting worse by the day it feels.

I still have some ancient RPi running a basic homepage with some reverse proxies. A few weeks ago and after stopping to care about that thing years ago I realized that the access log that was just happily sitting there for years without getting to relevant sizes has suddenly grown by nearly 1GB, most of it in the last 6-8 months because I never bothered to set up logrotate.

But hey… I wanted to test setting up Anubis for quite some time. So now I can watch them run circles in the (still experimental) honeypot feature reading pages and pages of non-sensical babbling 😂

Security through obscurity never works, so changing you SSH port does barely anything

… for security that is.

What it does is keep a lot of automated bots from spamming your server. No, they don’t have any chances to get access when key authentification is used (and they won’t try either… most go for the incredible low hanging fruits like admin/admin user/password sets), but they can become a strain on your own ressources.

What actually helps (and is usually configurable with any firewall) is rate limiting access. Just blocking someone’s access for 10 seconds after a failed attempt will make absolutely no difference for you but a big one for those spammers. Now add some incremental increase after multiple fails and you are perfectly set.

PS: 53 is the standard port for DNS when your server operates as such.

PPS: Don’t use it. People should really let that stuff die and exclusively run encrypted DNS (via TLS, HTTPS or Quic…)

What I ask myself here is why I should have unused phones lying around in the first place?

If I somehow think constantly wasting money on a new model just because there is a new number written on its packaging is worth it, I would not actually think in terms of reusing old hardware.

If I am however thinking about using hardware instead of just throwing it away while still functional why wouldn’t I use a phone as anyone else as a phone?