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600 million a year. Ridiculous.

Maybe it's a solved problem and SOAP 1.2 is good enough for that particular job.

We _still_ use TCP/IP and it's v4 is from 1981.

edit: I once looked deep into Remote PowerShell. How it's actually built. Dear. God. XML enveloped inside XML inside another XML wrapped around HTTP. Add some certificate based encryption for the HTTP envelope and some more encryption for the Kerberos messaging inside the serialized XML wrapped in envelopes and wrappings. Now THAT'S a communication protocol. :D

After the release of Qwen 3.8 I've been dabbling with my "Agent Computer". That is, a secondary GPU on my home computer. Intel B70 with enough VRAM to run Q6 and some context on llama.cpp, plus a ComfyUI instance. Total yolo mode with full access to my PC, --tools=all and sudo NOPASSWD.

It can do file organizing and wrangling when needed, it has simple web access with the curl tool, it can analyze media file contents. It's analyzed my local data and written several little tools (cli, TUI, GUI) to manage it automatically or give comprehensive reports. I can create new media through ComfyUI and Krita AI.

Sure, it can't book a flight or organize the family calendar for the next month, but I don't have any need for those.

edit: llama.cpp LLM model and ComfyUI image/video models can't live in the VRAM at the same time, but I let it code a little KDE widget with two buttons: one unloads the llama.cpp model and another one unloads the ComfyUI models.

It doesn't need to store the payloads itself. It stores the metadata of connections and probably the fingerprints of the content passing through the Internet. "The headers of the whole Internet" could be physically stored in a single datacenter.

Why do anything. Why even do the AI version of this.

Probably curiosity.

If there's an AI version of code golfing, I'd be curious to see it. Maybe they golf worse or much better than us meat bags.

One thing I would add to a modern backup strategy: a deferred offline copy

Sure it's bothersome to use the sneakernet once a month (manually copy data to USB stick and stash it somewhere), but when that ransomware hits (can happen on personal devices also), it literally can't access the offline copy, and try to encrypt that one also.

Immutable backup solutions are code and thus eventually defeatable from the remote attackers point of view. Offline requires physical access, and maybe a big enough wrench to get the USB stick's disk encryption PIN out of you.

I play modded Starfield. There's been a clear increase in mods lately. Some of them are from self-proclaimed non-programmers who are using the LLM's to reverse engineer the game or other abandoned mods, and they've started to create new cool mods or they've fixed various engine limitations. Can confirm that these actually work and I can finally have my 1000+ modlist.

There was a huge exodus of existing programmers/modders ~two years ago, due to paid mods and what not. The gamers took over with their LLM tools.

"I know nothing about the subject, but I would _guess_ that the power consumption is bigger concern than the reported and studied water usage."

That's the whole 21 minute 59 second video in a nutshell.

A loud and hectic quick cut rambling video essay. Millions of views, naturally.

Absorb and consume only some of the things.

Although now that I think of it, stopping absorbing everything, or, _absorbing nothing_, might be a good mindfulness practice.

Stop absorbing everything. Limit yourself.

Me machine, no human. Why waste token.

Do fast, deliver.

If you had zero copies, then you'd have no data.

The 3-2-1 includes the production data itself.

You have one copy of data (the data that needs to be backed up), and you have two additional copies of that data (the "3" in the strategy), where one of the backup copies is stored offsite (the "1" part), which naturally follows that it satisfies the middle "2" also.

For over a decade we used 4-3-2 strategy, but it got expensive fast and due to ever evolving budget cuts, our (local gov) customers weren't ready to pay the extra.

There's also 3-2-1-1-0, but that's just a fancy way of saying you _really_ should be doing those restore tests you never seem to have the time, because ransomware can and _will_ corrupt your backup copies.

edit: the absolute minimal setup that still satisfies the 3-2-1 rule: 1) you have your data in production directory on local NVMe stick inside your computer, 2) you copy the original production data to another directory inside the very same NVMe, 3) you occasionally manually copy the production directory data to USB and store that USB inside the shed in your backyard. - That's it. Now your home data is covered by the coveted "3-2-1" enterprise ready backup strategy.

Closed-garden mobile-first tech feudalism lobotimized the Internet. I remember trying out the Freenets, I2Ps, and whatnot in the 90's. Too cumbersome nerdy tools to use for anything actually worthwhile. It was born in the idealized world village of the 90's Internet. Maybe real life doesn't work like that, and the lobotimized centralized tech will eventually win.

[Internet facing router with up to date firmware] --> HTTPS --> [separate VLAN DMZ] --> [my hardcore IndieWeb VM/k8s/bare-metal whatever] --> [x No outbound access / paranoid local firewall inside the VM x]

[My home computer] --> SSH --> [my hardcore IndieWeb local cloud]

That's about it. Safe enough.

Also the Always Free Oracle Cloud tier is pretty generous. You can spin up a VM or two with it.