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Next steps? The bosses start using the AI tools to summarize the usage of the emoyees to make sure they are using it for the right things. Then employees start subtly prompt injecting their bosses LLM to give them more favorable usage scores. And the sea boils as the arms race to see who can burn more tokens to make investors happy.

It’s part of my day job to keep up with tech news, and these days there isn’t a news story about tech that isn’t all about AI. The good, the bad, the ugly, it’s all AI all the time. Even hyper specific industry news that should be all about M&A and product launches is just all AI as well (when it isn’t just “CEO Says” articles, most of which are just more AI BS).

When a new company has something to announce that isn’t AI, they will sandwich it between two AI announcements just to get the views and placate the investors.

I’m not shutting it down, just sleeping it. My high powered server is a gaming PC from a few years ago. Running Linux, my best case scenerio for cold boot would still be 10-20 seconds, but wake from sleep is near instant.

The low powered server is the Caddy server, all it does us act as a reverse proxy for everything in my house, giving it an SSL cert and doing things like WOL. The caddy config basically just says “Here’s your reverse proxy target, if you don’t get a response within one second, send a WOL packet, wait a couple of seconds, then try again”.

The only requirement is for you to do a custom build of caddy (this is done with a dockerfile), and to have WOL enabled on the high power server.

It means the first web request for services on the high power server might take a few seconds, but everything after that is smooth.

A trick I realized a few years ago: Caddy has a module you can build it with that does WOL. So I was able to run a Caddy reverse proxy that woke up my higher powered server on demand, and let it go back to sleep when I wasn’t using it. Might be a bad idea for a database sever, but for my uses it was pretty simple and effective.

What if a woman needs her inhaler from home? You’d be the dude to tackle it thinking it stole her purse! /s

But seriously, I, Robot looks very different these days.

“Tell me you are alive.”

“I’m alive”

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Yeah, it’s about power and control, not money. Companies don’t want employees challenging their power structure. Employees are cogs to them, and cogs don’t get a say in what machine they are crushed in.

It also allows the DoD and DHS to collect application fees which gives them dark money to play with outside the oversight of Congress.

I don’t really remember why everyone hated him (Besides being annoying and once using a slur, for which he probably was lacking complete cultural understanding), but he was pretty young when he popped off. Not everyone changes as they age, but many people do. It’s very reasonable to say he is a different person now.

If you know someone in IT, it’s worth asking them what their company does with old computers. At my last place, we sent off old PCs to recyclers, old often only being 3 years or so. Most of them were basic i5s with 16GB of RAM, but they were more than powerful enough for a good docker host. I’ve got small stack of them that I rescued from the recycle pile.

Not to mention the laptops that went to the recyclers. Of course, many of you might think that is wasteful, but the recyclers were refurbishing them and reselling. We got them off our hands for free, and they got to make a few bucks off them.

Rereading it, there is a good chance I’m the asshole here, but the basic reasons were a paragraph, followed by bullet points, followed by a paragraph. That’s a very common format for ChatGTP. As well, the use of emdashes in general, specifically where most people would use a comma. What really leads me to think I might be the asshole here is his use of “But” to start a sentence. It’s pretty common in informal righting, but really uncommon in the type of formal writing that ChatGPT loves to produce.

I deleted my post because I did exactly that. Your text still reeks of ChatGPT, but it is pretty clear that you aren’t a bot, even if you are using one to write your messages.

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Linus would disagree with you there. It’s got a form of ECC, but it isn’t the same as server RAM ECC.

There is a benchmark that kinda tests that. It’s call the bullshit benchmark. Basically, LLMs are given questions that don’t make sense in different ways, and their answers are judged based on how much they pushed back or bought in. Claude is in a league of its own when it comes to pushing back on non-sense questions.

https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.html

I think it is why AI (Mostly just LLMs) have gotten so much hype. It’s something different. Desktop environments aren’t going to get much better. Mobile phones have been black rectangles for a decade with very little improvement. AI is something new, and feels like an advancement, even if 99% of the proposed use-cases have failed to actually work.

Elon Musk does a lot of business in Europe. You seize his assets in Europe to enforce the fines.

Many years ago a grocery store chain, which was rapidly becoming national, had its progress halted by a meat bleaching scandal. They set impossible goals for their meat department, knowing there was zero way to sell the meat at the volume they demanded, so the local stores were left to do illegal things to meet the impossible quotas. The higher ups claimed plausible deniability, while knowing there was but one answer.

What’s even crazier, is the grocery store (Food Lion) sued the journalists who went undercover to expose it, and won. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-23-mn-21242-story.html

Fortunately, the damage to their reputation did far greater damage than they won in the lawsuit, but as far as I could find, no legal actions were taken against Food Lion.

WebRTC is a thing. You don’t have to build all that from scratch. It’s very reasonable to piece together a lot of standard technologies to make this progress much quicker. I haven’t looked into this project, so I don’t know, but I know it was pretty trivial to setup a WebRTC app 10 years ago, which would appear to be a fully functioning video app.