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s/lazy/poor/

I do not understand how anyone can be so naive as to think that any protocol that could have side effects on either end could not be abused, certainly not people who are PhDs or at least highly educated and possibly making six-figure salaries. This is why we have data diodes and air-gapped systems, people!

And remember: the only truly air-gapped system is a balloon or a plane that is actually up in the air ;-)

I remember that in Dutch product catalogs, IKEA often used the name Gammelgaard (referring to Niels Gammelgaard, a Danish product designer). In Dutch, "gammel" means "rickety. "

While you probably have the audacity to check the commands and code that your favorite LLM generates to complete this task, i'm pretty much certain that at some point in time, due to this pervasive mindset of "just let an AI agent do it," we'll have a front page news story of someone who had their family photos on their NAS uploaded to some public space, their security cameras connected to a "live porn for lolz" webring, and perhaps even their crypto wallets and bank accounts pilfered, all because their favorite LLM got exploited by some prompt injection attack while trying to be helpful doing system administration tasks.

I remember there was a short story in BYTE Magazine about a similar kind of scenario way back when, I think at least 30 years ago, long before LLMs and AI agents became a reality.

Your framing assumes that because the hammer is there, its manufacturing cost vanishes. In reality, someone had to pay that cost, and a holistic view has to decide whether building and maintaining that entire tool chain is actually cheaper than just paying humans to do the job. Often, we still choose the tool even when it raises true total cost per unit, because we value convenience or speed. That’s exactly what’s happening with many AI deployments.

Fact is that I can actually read TFA, while your link is paywalled.

This isn’t a random Nazi analogy, it’s a cautionary tale about how stepwise exclusions plus bystander apathy work. The whole point is to think about it before it’s too late.

Studying how a processor running an operating system actually behaves by peeking right through the privilege barrier is the ultimate wall hack. Who needs noclip when we have Fractal?

Sorry, but when it comes to chipsets, they're not even close. The DGX Spark uses a GB10 with 128 GB unified LPDDR5X memory, while the DGX Station has a GB300 with 496 GB LPDDR5X (CPU) + 252 GB HBM3e (GPU) memory. It's like Little League versus Major League, which is why the latter costs about 20 times more than the former. The fact that both run Linux is just because they're part of the same DGX family.

It's free, but not unlimited. Besides rate limits, new sign-ups get 1000 credits (requests), and once those are gone, they're gone for good. Only business accounts might get a couple of free refills.

One shot: Taking a shot, just once.

Zero shot: Knowing you had a shot but choosing not to.

Minus one shot: Not even realizing there was a shot.

Not everyone owns one of the limited range of devices that Linux Terminal is available for. For example, no Snapdragon chips currently in use support the "non-protected" virtual machines required by the Android Virtualization Framework. Also, it doesn't jive with Samsung Knox, so the few Samsung devices that this might work on (mostly international models with Exynos chips) will likely not be supported.