AI or not, I feel like everybody has had “the incident” at some point. After that, you obsessively keep backups.
Yup!
Also totally unrelated helpful tip- triple check your inputs and outputs when using dd to clone a drive. dd works great to clone an old drive onto a new blank one. It is equally efficient at cloning a blank drive full of nothing but 0s over an old drive that has some 1s mixed in.
It is absolutely foul play.
OpenAI made secret deals with DRAM manufacturers, not for memory chips but for finished wafers straight out of the Fab. Then announced them both on the same day, meaning they had a one fell swoop purchased 50+% of the world’s memory supply for 2026.
OpenAI does not (as far as anyone knows) have the machinery to process these wafers, to slice them up and package them into memory chips.
Which means the only purpose of this move was to kill the global DRAM supply and drive up prices for the competition.
Personally I wish regulators would take a hard look at this deal.
There is no real primary. Not until all primaries happen at the same time.
Right now the first state gets a full slate of choices, the last state may as well not even bother voting because the winner’s already declared victory.
Or we could get someone who’s a batshit wingnut radical and says things like:
‘I think Americans should get health care without going bankrupt’
‘I think big companies shouldn’t be allowed to pay their workers so little they need food stamps to survive’
‘I don’t think private equity should be allowed to make housing unaffordable’
‘I don’t think we should allow ingredients that cause cancer in food’
etc.
Welcome to the world of electronic gadgets. You’re right there’s nowhere near $100 worth of hardware in this thing. I’d also love a color touchscreen. But I’d rather a color touchscreen that I could integrate in HA than one running some proprietary cloud connected ThermostatOS.
You could do that yourself- put an old tablet on the wall, run power to it, then get something like a zooz zen16 multi-relay or an ESPHome relay board to drive the hvac. Then the thermostat becomes a totally software defined virtual thing in Home Assistant that pulls data from a temp sensor in the room and controls the HVAC as appropriate.
https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-Home-TH6320ZW2007-Programmable-Touchscreen/dp/B0BHTQF8NL
That is the one you want. Honeywell t6 pro Z-Wave version, specifically that link which is the newer Smart start version.
Z-Wave is 100% local, not Wi-Fi, and secure.
I use these in my house and couldn’t be happier.
Nice idea, wrong technology.
The problem with QR codes is they’re a. not human readable, and b. not instantly verifiable.
Take a QR code and a stencil, spray a few of the black modules white and white modules black, and now you have a thing that looks exactly like a QR code to any human but in reality will not scan.
A better idea would be requiring a badge number to be displayed in minimum 1" tall letters/numbers on the front of the uniform, and minimum 2" tall letters/numbers on the back of the uniform, whenever on duty.
Yeah exactly. 150% is good. 1500% would be better.
Is OpenAI likely to fold?
They bought in one day a significant % of the worlds memory output for 2026. Two huge deals with two huge companies, announced at the same time. Neither company knew of the other deal. But those deals weren’t even for chips- they were for finished wafers. I doubt very much OpenAI has the facilities to slice and package wafers. So it seems to me the only point of the deal was to kill the DRAM supply market and drive up prices for their competition.
Wouldn’t be surprised if those finished wafers are going straight in the dumpster.
“For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread,”
I would correct that to say ‘for this to not be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this a. Exist and b. Are significant enough to justify the extreme costs of building these systems’
Right now I don’t see anything coming out of this that justifies even 1/10 of the $trillions being poured into AI.
In fact I think you could make an argument that the net result is negative, even for businesses that adopt it, due to the increased prices they will pay for hardware over the next few years. If it makes your employees 5% more efficient great, if it makes your technology 50% more expensive in return, not so great.
It becomes an everybody problem when we can’t buy memory chips
Sounds like a fantastic deal to me.
I’ll add to that- within a year’s time, less than 50% of the affected devices will even have a patch available.
It’s important, but also vital to provide context, as the headline makes it sound current.
I’m not so sure. There are numerous widely circulated videos shot by members of the public that are easily available online. Any of those could be entered in as evidence. You just have a question of strength of case. If the video original starts 30 seconds previous and shows the agent not identifying himself and charging at the car, then you have a pretty open and shut case. The only question becomes identifying the specific agent. If ICE will not turn over the identity and it’s not clear from the video, it may be more difficult to charge that person. That would lead to an interesting State versus Federal showdown where the state court would try to subpoena a federal agency, and I’m sure the federal agency would do everything possible to stop that subpoena.
Not surprising. This has been a thing for quite some time, going back into the 2000s and 2010s.
You have a PDF file and you want to redact it. So you draw a black box over what you want to redact. Problem is, PDF works in layers. So you haven’t actually blacked out the text, you have just drawn a black box over the text, which is still in the file. This makes it trivially easy for anyone with a PDF editor to simply delete the black box, or with a PDF viewer to just save the file as text and the black box will not be saved with it.
PDF software generally includes an actual redaction tool, which not only draws a black box but removes anything under it. However you have to know this tool exists and how to use it.
This interests me from illegal standpoint though. There are regulations governing what sort of things can and cannot be redacted. If things are being redacted for for political reasons, IE to avoid making Trump look bad, that is now quite easy to prove.
The crazy thing is, none of these articles seem to want to admit that AI is bad.
As the old quote goes- “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, “You are mad, you are not like us.””
In such an environment, nobody wants to admit they are not mad, lest they be attacked.
Or as someone else said- I want a future where machines cook and clean and do menial work, so us humans can focus on art and poetry and writing. Instead we have a world where machines create art and poetry and books, so the humans can focus on cleaning and menial work. I don’t like this timeline.
Exactly this. I would love to see just one tech company stand up and say we are not doing AI, our AI budget is $0 and our product will not ship with AI. If you really want to use AI with our system you can download a plug-in or something but we won’t waste our time writing one.
They would get a million users overnight.
Exactly!
If releasing a list of people who raped children would hurt those people, then I say too fucking bad maybe they need to be hurt a little bit.
Exactly. The only solutions is to make keeping people’s data a liability rather than an asset. That if there is any sort of beach there are criminal investigations and make the company liable for any and all losses stemming from that breach. Plus if their security was found negligent, than every one of their customers gets cause of action to personally sue them.
The next company to have a breach like this will go bankrupt. And that will sufficiently frighten the others.