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Yeah this basically. I differentiate between "containers I wrote" (where I packaged the app/wrote the OCI "Dockerfile" / container file) and "containers from other people": all tho…

Yeah I discovered your blog a few days ago: I've got a setup not unlike yours. > So rather than pick one, this post advocates layering both, in the spirit of defense in depth: a sa…

> Only real alternative is to use microvms. My goto solution for this are apple/containers. Why microVMs? I never ever run a container, AI harness or other, in something else than …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTKllDbu5o As a teenager I remember I was amazed at the speed at which Johnny 5 would consume that book.

> You rent your ISP line. Why isn't renting GPU compute seen the same way? Is it mostly seen the same way. What is unacceptable is removing the freedom (which you mentioned) of peo…

The examples in TFA are more than weak. They complain that the models assign too many preeclempsia to black women (I had an ex who was a midwife so yup, I know what it means): what…

> I was remarkably uninjured, but could easily have lost my legs or worse. Same. Used to do MX (Yamaha 250 2 strokes) when I was below 30 y/o, as well as off-road/dirt biking, but …

Everything we love about human creativity is being destroyed by AI models and when some of us point it out, we're getting downvoted by an army of AI kool-aid drinkers. It's plain i…

The text written in LLMish for that Phrack intro uses ASCII characters for everything, including quotes and ellipsis. There's one non-ASCII Unicode codepoint that made it through a…

> LLMs are here to stay. The "hacker spirit" doesn't require being a Luddite and rejecting LLMs ... You've got it all wrong. I pay three AI subscriptions and I use LLMs every day, …

That's very interesting but why do taxi drivers have a job that lowers life expectancy? Is it because they're sitting too much? Or because they're inhaling CO from cars too much? O…

All the comments excusing the RAM usage "because high-resolution screens require pixels" are missing the fact that there's this thing called GPU memory. Which is where pixels data …

It's a near guarantee that when things shall heat up and the stock market shall crash and people are going to say that "this time it's worse than 1929" , we'll hear the brrrrrrrr s…

And capitalism also works with crashes taking unprofitable companies down. And frauds, eventually, gets companies valuation like Enron and FTX to zero. And people go to jail. Now I…

I agree that it's working good enough and that it's here to stay: mostly everybody around me uses AI too but... > Did Uber die when a trip across town went from $3 to $13? No. It's…

> ... without having to flag down a server / waiter. Using QR codes to not having to talk to a human and to "optimize" humans out of the loop in a restaurant sounds like a great sc…

> I tried really hard to get it on 32GB but sadly the motherboard only has two slots and only supports 8GB DDR3 modules. Buy a refurbished Xeon workstation with DDR4 RAM. If you're…

My server is an extremely quiet Xeon workstation: unlike 1U servers, workstation are typically quiet. The good thing with a Xeon workstation is that it supports ECC RAM only and th…

This already happened in the past: they found a cave totally sealed since so long that spiders still had eyes, but non-functioning ones (for they were totally in the dark for gener…

> For me personally, I feel this project is the greatest engineering effort in human history bringing together the work of Newton, Kepler, the mathematics of the celestial navigati…

> Although I think most vulnerabilities are going to be closed in popular software by mid 2027, ... If we're to believe how good those AI are at CTF and at escapes of all kind, the…

I do something similar and I've also got a nice script to provision my VMs. > So rather than pick one, this post advocates layering both, in the spirit of defense in depth: a sandb…

> So, anyways, just imagine the most archaic and barbaric set of IT software, controls, and procedures, dumb that down even further, and you've landed on the infrastructure/teams t…