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Comment · 21 days ago
End users aren't expected to care about security and if they do, usually they are in an enterprise setting where it's taken care of automatically by enterprise settings.

Not to say it's good or bad, just not the target market.

Comment · 28 days ago
I'm really not sure there's a compelling case for "AI is human" considering that it has no real feelings, aptitude, or intelligence outside of what it has been granted. There's nothing in any LLM response that indicates that it is 'real' outside of what you want it to tell you.

Plants, dogs, actual life is unpredictable in how it 'is'. An LLM or AI model at its roots are just numbers in a neural network trying to figure out how to get a good query.

These theatrics serve no one except for the companies to get their regulation moat to screw out cheaper, competitive models and it's honestly quite sickening to keep watching these articles get pumped out, only to serve the AI companies themselves. The average individual has no idea what an LLM actually is and does and these articles only serve to confuse and put fear into them.

Comment · 3 months ago
I agree wholeheartedly with this article and this is something I'm struggling with my daughter about: the worst thing anybody can say is no and in some cases, they already said no. If you ask (or ask again), you might get a really good answer or more.
Comment · 3 months ago
You should be able to disable these alerts via the Wireless Emergency Alerts.
Comment · 4 months ago
Could someone give me an actual guide for spending as little as possible to get as maximal gains with either SOTA or cheap models as a systems administrator and not someone like a full-stack developer?

The models are so powerful and consequently so expensive and confusing to use, I don't get all of it.

Comment · 4 months ago
Sorry, the article didn't really say if it was upstream or only in Debian. I assumed it was only Debian.

I still stand on the point that stuff like this should be frowned upon regardless of stance on issue.

Comment · 4 months ago
Protestware as a whole has never worked to solve anything. Awareness of a particular issue is the only positive thing "protest" software has successfully tried, with the second order effect being better supply chain management.

I don't use Linux or Xsnow but it baffles me how distributions would allow something like this. Sure, it's just flags now, but if you look at faker and colors.js, you'll see the other side of the coin of what happens when you allow software like this.

Comment · 4 months ago
Within your company, sure. But there's some engineers (think medical) who know standards like DICOM and PACS imaging but aren't familiar at all with OS internals or systems administration.
Comment · 4 months ago
One of the more interesting pieces of Microsoft software is the Windows Admin Center where it's a web app to configure a Windows Server. Ideally, it was made for core installs where there's no GUI but it's there as a viable web management panel.

The tool from OP and WAC are pretty similar in terms of functionality and usecase. Why would you want this? Well, imagine your team needing to be able to do server functions but you have less technical team members to do it for you, which is very often the case in big places, most people are familiar with the web browser and having a website to do these sorts of actions makes it easier to have things done in one place without a lot of tools like Remote Desktop, SSH, WinRM, etc. configured.

Comment · 4 months ago
I don't think that market is as big as you think it is and if anything, it's only going to push people away from the Steam Machine into another micro PC platform that will be able to run Steam OS.
Comment · 4 months ago
What are you coding over the network such that the network is a bottleneck?
Comment · 4 months ago
I don't see a market of people who want to pay Valve $1,050 to play Steam games on a custom Linux machine with old hardware that won't support big name games that have kernel anti-cheat on them.

I really don't see the vision Valve is looking for here.

Comment · 4 months ago
I just don't see a Linux gaming machine being a reference piece of hardware for big name publishers when they are making Windows-only games.

The Steam Survey is a better indicator of what you should target vs. something like the Steam Machine or Deck IMO.

Comment · 4 months ago
There's better options at this price point, I'm afraid.

Even buying an old tiny micro PC that's 10th gen Intel would've been a cheaper buy.

Comment · 4 months ago
The Zen 4 cores in it is Ryzen 7000 Series, we're on 9000 series.

The GPU is on par with the 3060 12GB and RX 7000 series GPUs which are older.

The PS5 is six years old! This is a brand new machine!

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