There’s copyright infringement on one click hosters… And a loy of them offer slow, but free downloads. Some newcomers ask a friend to copy a movie from their harddisk or DVD collection… I mean piracy in general is a bit tricky for newcomers. There’s some good resources linked in the sidebar… But a lot of piracy isn’t exactly legal to do. And it’s not really ethical to advise someone to do something that might get them in trouble… And openly recommending things is illegal in some jurisdictions. But yes. Don’t do random torrents unless you know what you’re doing.

HA isn’t the only option. I think there’s two other open source smarthome solutions out there(?) And you could probably do with just an MQTT broker and a Python script, or something like that…

But HA isn’t a bad choice. They’re doing a phenomenal job. And related projects like ESPHome make it really easy to integrate microcontrollers. And if you want to do more smarthome stuff, it has a plethora of features, integrations, an app…

Extra hardware isn’t absolutely necessary. I have one server at home which does NAS, and I use 4GB of it’s RAM to run a virtual machine with Home Assistant. That’s enough for it, including a bunch of Addons.

I don’t think engaging with someone and their opinion is a particularly high form of powertripping. I mean I like dissent way more than the modern form of making it disappear. Either by mods actually clicking on the ‘remove’ button, or by devising filter bubble algorithms so everyone gets to blast their arbitrary opinions out there without a need to catch any flak.

Yes, that will be an issue. I guess not a technical one, Linux is perfectly able to fetch a token and connect to network shares etc. Not sure how that works with Email and the modern cloud office stuff. But likely, the IT department will have to enforce that policy as well. That’s why I asked if OP has to use software on Windows (11)… Otherwise, if it worked 4 years without issues… maybe there is no issue with Active Directory…

Uh. My condolences. Do they also force you to use the software installed on Windows? Otherwise you could just image Fedora and run it in a virtual machine inside of Windows 11. Technically, I guess that’d fulfill the requirement with Windows 11 on the computer… Just that you don’t use it for more than log in, start the Linux VM and expand it full-screen.

Sure. Just saying. I mean the pharma industry also does the studies on their own products… It’s how it often works, Anthropic themselves would be the people with access to their user’s chats… So it’d be more the second step to grant other people a sample of one and a half million user chats and verify it independently. But it’s not really wrong for them to get a conversation going.

I’m far more worried about using an AI tool to analyze and aggregate the usage patterns. But I have no clue how that Clio thing performs.

Though in science, you’d regularly discredit other scientists based on their methodology, less so their affiliation. But yeah, that might be a factor. 😉

You could try to debug the permission issue… Like take a note of the current permissions, chmod the certificates to 666 and the parent directories to 777 and see if that works. Then progressively cut them down again and see when it fails. And/or give caddy all the group permissions ssl, acme, certwarden… and then check which one makes it fail or work.

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By the way, the seem to be tele-operated. Not programmed or autonomous…

Kind of a letdown to write an entire article about a vivid scene. But then don’t have any picture or video to show it… Or did my AdBlock just filter that out?

Edit: Youtube has one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y5jYFLDJWao

Hehe, me too. I love microcontroller programming. That kind of forces you (at times) to think about the low-level stuff. And maybe have a look at the CPU datasheet once you go deep down. Something like an ESP32 or RP2040 has 2 CPU cores. And it’s way easier to tell what happens compared to a computer with a complicated operating system in between, and an x86-64 CPU that’s massively complicated and more or less just pretends to execute your machine instructions, but in reality it does all kinds of arcane magic to subdivide them, reorder things and optimize.

(Edit: And with C++ you get to learn all the dirty stuff… How it sometimes initializes variables to zero, sometimes it doesn’t… It’s your job to address memory correctly… Maybe one day I’ll learn Rust instead of all the peculiarities of C++ 😆 And Rust support on microcontrollers is coming along, these days.)

Well, as long as you’re doing single machine instructions. I think. But you might be doing something that’s done in multiple instructions. And you don’t really know what the compiler does, and what machine instructions your code translates to… And there will be other issues. If you allow your code to access stuff in random sequence, you might end up reading before a write, or read after the write. So your variable might be set, or undefined… Depending on the programming language and type, and if it’s in the heap or stack, it could be zero, or whatever happened to be in memory before… I don’t have a clue about Rust. Just think the half-set with primitive types isn’t really how it works. If it’s that short, it will be one of the two. You might be able to do something like it with longer data structures, though. Like do a loop to set a very long string / array. And do something while the other thread is in the middle of writing. That’d be possible.

You’re probably doing this on a 32bit or 64bit processor. It writes 32bit (or 64) at a time, using one instruction. There is no time in between, where only specific bits are set.

Kind of the reason why I quit Netflix. For once it got more expensive each year. And at some point there was less and less of my favorite shows on there, so I’d need to subscribe to a second service for Star Trek… then a third one for all the good stuff that’s Disney… And I don’t even watch that much TV. So instead, I just quit. Maybe one day I’m gonna read a book on a Friday evening 😆 Or the stuff the government forces me to pay for.

Puh, ziemlich fokussiert auf Video. Ich ersetze damit mehr meinen Chat, Cloud-Office, Social Media… Aber der Return of Investment ist da weniger die Abo-Gebühr 😅

I think they’re way ahead of you. Why wait for some point of failure? They can get taxpayer money right now. Just buy the corrupt president and have him funnel half a trillion dollar towards you, and you won’t ever fail?! And taxpayer money is reliable income… Speaking of that. What’s the current state of Project Stargate? I rarely see it on the news, because there’s just so much other stuff going on and wasting $500 bn is probably not newsworthy compared to that?!

Sure. I’m not entirely sure how PCIE works these days. But in it good old days we had methods to read pretty much arbitrary memory regions via PCIE or early Thunderbolt(?).

I just figured it’d be massively complicated to wait for the user to pull something on the screen, do computationally expensive OCR, some AI image detection to puzzle documents back together, and then you’d only get a fraction of what’s really stored on the computer and you’d still need a way to send that information home… When you could just pick a plethora of easy options like read all the files from the harddisk and send just them somewhere. I think it’s far more likely they do some easy and straightforward solution. And it’d be more effective as well.

Open-weight AND Open-Source??

And why the Chinese ones? Are the Americans losing the AI race?

So… They’re “investing” in clean energy means they hold some equity in clean energy company stocks? Or what is that supposed to mean? They surely don’t run on clean energy… Or they would have said so in the advertisement?