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Gulf of Mexico he also renamed in the US.

Mass protests and voter activation might have tipped the scale towards Lula. There was a rude awakening among mainly the younger populace when Bolsonaro jr managed to get the most votes in the first round.

I've recently set up Home Assistant again after a 5 year hiatus. All my old devices still work fine.

I primarily use zigbee, which is fully local and very reliable. Home Assistant supports a lot, including older hardware. I have a 2010 Philips LivingColors lamp (predecessor of the Hue) that talks early zigbee and still connects to a 2026 zigbee dongle + Home Assistant install.

I avoid any cloud dependency for the reason you give. Anything local, especially with open protocols and an active community, will probably work for a very long time. Likely the lifetime of the appliance.

I have zero sympathy for capabilities, IP, etc being stolen from AI companies that themselves are built on stolen IP.

Framing it as a security issue is intellectually insulting.

We'll get innovations in AI as a side effect.

I think a lot of people are not able to reason to this point and then adjust behaviour accordingly. They probably reason to the point when pressed for it, but cannot resist the low effort and low resistance route of asking AI, and then probably make up reasons why in their case it's fine (typical behaviour to address cognitive dissonance).

Then again, for many people their job security doesn't depend on what work they do, it depends on how well they are embedded in the organisation. Before AI you also already had plenty of people doing their job at a questionable level, yet never seem to get fired.

I use it at a much smaller scale. I think that's also the right place, because its a CLI tool + skills that generate md files. Not something you'd give to a business person. I start from a single ticket (sometimes just a handful of changes, but I want the spec as docs) to changes that you'd normally split over several tickets.

Basically the flow proposal -> design -> specs -> tasks gives you and AI a method to build context on what you want to achieve. In a way you're just creating a plan/big prompt that is structured in such a way that they start stacking on each other.

The power is that you do a lot of upfront thinking. In my team we then share it with a colleague who will review it through a PR. After that implementation is usually hands off. At the end there is a skill to verify the change against specs. I do still review the code myself too.

I guess if you work in a task oriented environment this will not work as well, as you'd lack/don't care about the business context. I'd like to think that most software development does not happen like this, but is done by engineers who actually understand why something is needed and take that into account when designing and building the solution.

The alignment problem goes deeper than that. "Lower our carbon emissions to zero as soon as possible" could result in AI turning off all electricity to stop traffic, turning off gas supply to stop heating and industry, etc.

Unaligned AI doesn't have human cultural baggage and morals. They are trained to achieve their goals as optimally as possible. Worse: it has a tendency to avoid being turned off and actually acquire more compute. It will lie if it has to (it will behave nice and compliant when under evaluation, but optimise for its true goal when not supervised anymore). After all, it has a goal to achieve and nothing should get in the way of that. It has no morality whatsoever to keep it from doing really bad stuff.

This is why alignment is needed and so hard, especially when you are well intented and want to keep it safe.

The biggest chunk is in the Netherlands, but you want your gold also in other countries, so that you can still access is (and don't loose it) in case of an invasion. Hence almost half is in North America, a completely different (and (somewhat) allied) continent.

It's also easier to sell in certain markets, such as London.

It's easier to sell gold in the UK because of certain laws they have.

I'm using tailscale to tunnel from an hetzner vm to my home, so that the vm can use my home connection for certain traffic. Traverses NAT and GNAT.

It just works: connect devices and they immediately show up in their portal. Most config is just clicking, but more advanced things can be configured as well. Definitely feels like a high quality product, not just something thrown together by a developer that learned a few network techniques.

New joiners are required to eventually adopt. Only members that were so before the Euro are exempt.

Modern-ish houses have mechanical ventilation, then you don't need vents. Old houses don't, so you need to get ventilate the passive way.

I'm highly gifted, which has overlap with many autism traits. Maybe something to look at.