Of course, the power companies have been jacking up service fees for the last decade to keep their bottom line. That would not be too bad if they were actually increasing grid capacity or even properly maintaining the current infrastructure, but noo. Those free power plans come with a further jacked up service fee that makes it uneconomic unless you’re charging an EV regularly at those times. Same shit, different day.
Distrobox is not an isolated environment
True, you’ll note I didn’t say it is sandboxed or isolated, but it is a different environment. Paths that point to normal things like /usr etc. will be in the distrobox environment. That said, unless you use a custom home for the distrobox (you should anyway), your home directory is hosed. At this point I expect the malware to not be distrobox aware and use things like distrobox-host-exec, that may change.
A VM is absolutely a better approach, if significantly more frictional.
If possible do it in a distrobox and down networking before running, yes that won’t stop the curl | sh in the install, but at least you can blow it away without hurting your main install and it will likely infect only the distrobox. Bonus points for an immutable main OS.
As the whole supply chain attack vector gets more sophisticated, and probably subtler in effect, these are going to be harder and harder to spot and likely start making it into main repos. Keep sharp people.
Not real fun for a linuxmemes post, but I think it needs saying.
Zelazny’s Amber. You recomend?
Hell yeah, give it a go. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but if you like it you tend to love it. It’s a product of the 70s, and Zelazny has a particular prose, economical, broad brush strokes that leaves the reader to fill in the details with imagination, each reading unique.
Some dislike the second quintology. I think it’s not as good as the first and faded, along with the author’s life, at the end, but I liked it and bad Zelazny is IMO better than most out there. G.R.R. Martin and Neil Gaiman (yeah, I know, dick, but competent writer) both cite him as a major influence, and he has all the Hugos etc.
If you want to try something else by him first, A Night in Lonesome October is special, one chapter a day. I (most years) and others start on Oct 1 and read a chapter a day, does not disappoint.
IMO you likely can’t, certainly hasn’t even gotten close yet. Bodes badly for alignment of anything more general. Kind of makes it irresponsible to advocate (and sell) using it on anything important, no?
Fair cop, probably should have got it. But rather out of context here without ascribing it.
We need to get over that for newbs. The experienced person already knows they’re a donkey.
Really? I’m inclined to blame that on the manufacturer. If ‘AI’ guardrails fail that spectacularly, it’s on the provider. I fail to see any way to blame society, other than perhaps not voting in more sanity, but that’s pretty indirect.
What if you bowl your ball normally down the lane and of its own initiative it goes and hacks a website?
Yup, as a peon Culture then Trek. If I get to be a main, Zelazny’s Amber, nigh immortal and can travel to any universe I can imagine? Fuck yes.
Yeah, something like that. Damn shame we even have to consider it though.
Yeah, down to 4bit, which works OK, but 35BA3B is much more performant. Sometimes you want the monolithic quality and damn the speed…
Nope. For 27B a 16GB video card (8 in a pinch) + 16 (32 better) GB RAM will work for reasonable context, if not screamingly fast. Any M series Macbook with 32 Gb+ (24 in a pinch). Hell, there are setups to run even larger models of a nvme drive if you have enough patience.
Smaller models like 8B are fine on a CPU, or even a phone.
Nah, pulled over for speeding or something, random breath tests, etc.
Interesting, might be an option. Likely Cellebrite can pull your ssh key though, but OTP or something plus kill switch, maybe. Worth thinking about.
Sorry, dropped a /s
Does slaving count?
Ima guess it’s javascript-ese to turn a json object into a string, perhaps for serialization. But no clue, coding for decades but always hated js, I guess my way through with a linter and IDE when I absolutely, positively, cannot find an alternative, which seldom happens.
We know Cellebrite can’t crack GrapheneOS.
Yah, one of the reasons gOS is hated and I have it :) but you know Cellebrite is looking for that zero day. Still an issue for the other 99.9%.
It’s my interpretation that “access” means you have to give them your phone physically. Otherwise Cellebrite wouldn’t be needed
Your lips to gods ears… But until it’s clarified legally the pessimistic interpretation is you have to unlock it (otherwise impeding an investigation or some shit) and then they use Cellebrite to suck it dry.
Hard agree on re-nationalizing a natural monopoly (bloody neoliberal bullshit), which is itself a realistic way. Beyond that investigate microgrids, redundancy (especially EV batteries), making large users pay for their own infrastructure and preferably renewable generation (Aluminium smelters, AI Datacentres, or say no to AI). Battery uptake should be taking pressure off the grid and making it cheaper, but here we are.