FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Müller_(author)?wprov=sfla1

(He’s cited in the article)

Florian is a paid shill. I recognized his name immediately. “That guy‽”

Totally destroyed his reputation by working anti-FOSS propaganda for Microsoft and Oracle.

Listen, if someone gets physical access to a device in your home that’s connected to your wifi all bets are off. Having a password to gain access via adb is irrelevant. The attack scenario you describe is absurd: If someone’s in a celebrity’s home they’re not going to go after the robot vacuum when the thermostat, tablets, computers, TV, router, access point, etc are right there.

If they’re physically in the home, they’ve already been compromised. The fact that the owner of a device can open it up and gain root is irrelevant.

Furthermore, since they have root they can add a password themselves! Something they can’t do with a lot of other things in their home that they supposedly “own” but don’t have that power (but I’m 100% certain have vulnerabilities).

FYI: That’s more Windows games than run in Windows!

WTF? Why? Because a lot of older games don’t run in newer versions of Windows than when they were made! They still run great in Linux though 👍

If I broke into your home, why TF would I carefully take apart your robot vacuum in order to copy your wifi credentials‽

Also, WTF other “secrets” are you storing on your robot vacuum‽

This is not a realistic attack scenario.

NO! It’syour device, you should have root! The fact that the manufacturer gives their product owners root is a good thing, not bad!

I will die on this fucking hill.

This is the latest American version of The Monkey’s Paw wish to be rich.

well kid, if your parents don’t care then neither do I. Watch all the porn you want.

FUCK YES! You are not their parent! YOU DO NOT GET TO DECIDE what their kid gets to see! Porn is for adults to look at but if a kid sees it there’s no danger. Kids don’t drop dead because they saw some people fucking on the Internet!

How hard is this to understand‽

Remember: “Left wing nonprofits” are groups that do things like:

• Free healthcare and food for the poor
• Free rides for medical treatment, work, etc
• Free legal services
• Various forms of poverty relief
• Environmental protection
• Immigrant and refugee support
• Labor rights
• Criminal justice reform

But what about “right wing nonprofits”?

• “Faith” initiatives
• Religious education (only Christianity in the US)
• Tax policy “research”
• Second Amendment advocacy / violence enablement for white people everyone.
• Law enforcement “support”
• Anti-abortion
• Anti-vaccination
• Religious education
• Government restriction/constriction (aka “limited government”)
• Various forms of groups that collect money but only actually provide “thoughts and prayers”

Does anyone have the data on the total number of data centers that were being built over time? I’m not convinced that AI is causing that many more data centers to be built. From everything I’ve read, is just that they’re putting more GPUs into them.

WTF? Have you ever been in a data center? They don’t release anything. They just… Sit. And blink lights while server fans blow and cooling systems whir, pumping water throughout.

The cooling systems they use aren’t that different from any office building. They’re just bigger, beefier versions. They don’t use anything super special. The Pfas they’re talking about in this article are the same old shit that’s used in any industrial air conditioner.

For the sake of argument, let’s assume that a data center uses 10 times more cooling as an equivalently sized office building. I don’t know about you, but everywhere that I’ve seen data centers, there’s loads and loads of office buildings nearby. Far more than say 10 for every data center.

My point is this: If you’re going to be bitching about pfas and cooling systems, why focus on data centers (or AI, specifically) when there’s all these damned office buildings? Instead, why don’t we talk about work from home policies which would be an actual way to reduce pfas use.

This article… Ugh. It’s like bitching that electric car batteries can catch fire, pretending that regular cars don’t have a much, much higher likelihood of catching fire and there’s several orders of magnitude more of them.

Are Pfas a problem? Yes. Are data centers anywhere near the top 1000 targets for non-trivially reducing their use? No.

Aside: This is just like the articles bitching about data center water use… Data centers recycle their water! They have a great big intake when they’re done being built but then they’re done. They only need trivial amounts of water after that.

Google search: “scientific articles about (whatever)” Then you get tons of ads and irrelevant results.

LLM search: “Find me scientific articles about (whatever)” Then you get just the titles and links (with maybe a short summary).

It’s 100% better and you don’t have to worry about hallucinations since you it’s wasn’t actually trying to find an answer… Just helping you perform a search.

It’s ok: Google and all other ad-supported search is about to go the way of the dinosaur as soon as local AI search catches on. When your own PC runs a search for you, it basically googles on your behalf and you never see those ads.

It’s going to change everything.

Absolutely terrible, but eventually we’ll get to SUPER ULTRA WICKED MEGA MAGA.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

I read the comments and first of all—you guys are hilarious 🤣

So I’m going to be that guy and tell the truth: It’s almost certainly related to what’s going on with Russia invading Poland (or at least violating their airspace) right now.

Ugh, CNN:

These cases have unfolded as the Trump administration has abandoned the “humane enforcement” of immigration laws when deporting mothers and fathers who entered the country illegally

No, they probably entered the country legally but then overstayed their visa. Just like the majority of undocumented immigrants. FFS. What kind of weird narrative line are they trying not to cross?

They’ll pay the fee and underpay the H1-B visa holders even more to make up the difference.

They’re indentured servants. They can’t quit or they risk being deported by an increasingly violent ICE.

They’re pushing the schedule ahead as fast as possible because Trump is literally dying. He probably had a stroke and has obviously been getting infusions. It won’t be long before they announce, “he had a bad fall.”

Uh, bikes without electric motors can go faster than 25MPH.

Yes. That’s how we got Trump and today’s Republican party.