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And just what in the fuck did you think the autonomous robot dogs were going to be used for, exactly??

Boston Dynamics has been very upfront about the fact that they’ve been developing the robot dogs for “police and military” applications. This protest is performative; they’ve known exactly what they’re doing for a very long time.

“Well, you know, the other one was getting to be about four or five years old. It was about that time.”

That’s like daily driving a giant SUV because you drive eight hours to grandma’s house every Christmas

Well, it’s IT, so the answer is always a big ol’ fat, “It depends!”

Why do we do this?

Ostensibly, the primary reason for RAID is in the name: redundancy. Of course, there’s RAID 0, which is for performance, but that’s kind of a different thing that doesn’t seem to apply here. The main risks it mitigates are those associated with drive failures.

RAID isn’t, and should’t be considered, a substitute for backups. But, backups can be a substitute for RAID in some situations. If you simply want to avoid losing data, the right backups solution can do that for you, but your time to recovery will be longer; rebuilding a RAID disk from parity is much faster than restoring a backup from scratch.

So, if you want, you can RAID some disks, partition space on those disks and store your important data on the RAIDed partition. The rest can live on backed up but un-RAIDed disks. It’s really according to your specifically desired recovery time and risk appetite for that data.

Containers are not a security barrier. They cannot be, they never will be.

Not entirely true. If you’re hosting multiple game servers on one machine, for example, it’s best to run each instance in a container. Game servers, by their nature, are required to have public IPs and ports, and some of them run on old engines that are vulnerable to various DoS methods. If your server is attacked, it might crash the container(s), but it can’t bring the whole server down.

Very true. There are only ~65K ports. If someone decides they want to, trying all of them to see which one gives a valid response is trivial.

So don’t build them. Problem solved.

In general, shared accounts/credentials aren’t recommended; each user should have their own account. Even in a homelab setting, the audit trail may prove useful in ways that are difficult to foresee.

In general, separation of privileges is recommended. However, the granularity should be informed by the risks mitigated. In an enterprise setting, more risks are generally mitigated by more granularity. In a homelab setting, there are diminishing returns. A risk assessment will determine the appropriate configuration in your environment, but in general, if the scope or severity of an incident wouldn’t be substantially lessened, it is better to accept the risk than to mitigate it.

It sounds like your issue might be a bad ribbon cable, connector, or some other easy fix. Getting the display working might be doable with reasonable effort. If not, you can make it a:

Minecraft (or any game you like) server.

Steam remote play host machine. Let the laptop do the processing and send the video signal to a lower-performance client.

Load movies onto an external drive. Load emulators onto the hard drive. Use it as a media PC and emulation station.

Video editing machine.

Either way, make sure whatever screen you hook up to it has at least a 60 hertz refresh rate.

If you stream, a lot of streamers use a second machine to record, manage the stream, run the webcam, etc. allowing their main machine to prioritize rendering the game; you could use it for that.

I think the better point is that these criticisms could be applied to nearly any phone app.

What exactly do YOU think LLMs are?

Machine Learning is a kind of AI. LLMs are but one kind of Machine Learning Model. All LLMs are Machine Learning models, but not all Machine Learning models are LLMs. LLMs are one kind of AI, but not all AI is an LLM.

They’re different words for a reason. If they were all the same thing, we wouldn’t give them different names. It’s completely possible and understandable that someone would find one acceptable but not the other.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

There’s nothing quite so uniquely irritating as someone who holds a strong opinion on something about which they know very little.

Don’t forget glazing the GTA 6 trailer

Physical media also comes with a license.

licenses are a very IT central idea.

No, that’s just the implementation you’re most familiar with. Licenses are a copyright idea that IT adopted and made digital. Every physical movie and game you own also comes with a license that authorizes your retail use of it, but forbids your commercial use of it. You can’t rent your copy of Shrek out to people, nor can you charge admission to people to watch Shrek at your house, nor are you allowed to make copies of your Shrek DVD and sell them, for example.

Ben Franklin was very progressive for his time. He owned a few slaves early in his life, but soon freed them and spent the rest of his life as one of that time period’s most outspoken critics of slavery. He even bought a printing press so he could spread anti-slavery rhetoric more effectively.

You have internet, there’s no excuse for being wrong unless you just like spreading misinformation.

All of that sounds unintuituve and complicated, which I think is the main complaint overall.