It’s financial obesity, and should be treated as such

It didn’t take long to go from “corporations are people” to “the only people that matter are corporations”

That’s why you put those devices in a separate VLAN with no routing access to the rest of your network

In general, you take the model size in billions of parameters (eg: 397B), divide it by 2 and add a bit for overhead, and that’s how much RAM/VRAM it takes to run it at a “normal” quantization level. For Qwen3.5-397B, that’s about 220 GB. Ideally that would be all VRAM for speed, but you can offload some or all of that to normal RAM on the CPU, you’ll just take a speed hit.

So for something like Qwen3.5-397B, it takes a pretty serious system, especially if you’re trying to do it all in VRAM.

1. Tesla is a car company
2. Tesla is a battery company
3. Tesla is a robot company <---- you are here
4. Tesla is a company

One can hope at least

On iOS, it uses your linked credit card to verify you’re over 18, and then passes a “this user is over 18” flag to any app or website that needs it. It’s arguably the least intrusive or insecure way to handle this push from the EU.

The battery technology is solid, LiFePO4 cells should be good for 10-15 years if they’re not abused, but my experience with these things is that the electronics are cheap and will fail long before the battery does.

Agreed.

If you can do your work on a 13" laptop with no mouse or external monitor without your productivity dropping off a cliff, you were never productive to begin with.

And his moronic supporters think this is a good thing, because it’s “saving them money”

Decades ago I ran an “rm -fr *” as root, I thought that I was ~/bin, but I was in /bin. That was a fun lesson.

But who writes bash scripts to do math?

A full script? Nobody. But you can just run it interactively on the command line, which a lot of AI clients have access to. bc works great for basic math in the shell.

Interestingly, AI is actually pretty good at making graphs, the trick is you don’t ask it to actually make the graph itself. Instead you have to ask it to write a python script to create a graph using matplotlib from whatever source file contains the data, then run that script. Same with math. Don’t ask it to do math directly, instead ask it to write a bash or python script to do some math, then run that. Still not perfect, but your success rate increases by about 1000%

While true, it still means you’re locked into only being able to log in from a browser that has the password manager extension installed and logged in. Sometimes I want to log in from another machine, or another OS, or another browser, or even an incognito window that doesn’t have access to my extensions.

Who cares if it’s exposed to the internet?

1. Encrypting your local traffic is still valuable to protect your systems from any bad actors on your local network (neighbor kid cracks your wifi password, some device on your network decides to start snooping on your local traffic, etc)

2. Many services require HTTPS with a valid cert to function correctly, eg: Bitwarden. Having a real cert for a real domain is much simpler and easier to maintain than setting up your own CA

Why are you having to update your DNS records when you add a new service? Just set up a wildcard A record to send *.myserver.com to the reverse proxy and you never have to touch it again. If your DNS doesn’t let you set wildcard A records, then switch to a better DNS.

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Reddit’s API BS was part of it, but the bigger issue is the increasing number of suspensions and bans for completely innocent stuff, just because it pisses off Nazis. Recently I got a 3 day account ban because I said that ICE is racist. Before that I got my post deleted and an official warning because I said something about the Trump admin firing missiles at fishing boats being a bad thing (I don’t remember what I said exactly, and they deleted the post so I can’t check).

I didn’t use to, but I do now. Debian on everything (except the Proxmox servers, but Proxmox is basically Debian too)

You clearly have absolutely zero experience here. When you’re prompted for access, it tells you the exact command that’s going to be run. You don’t just give blind approval to “run something”, you’re shown the exact command it’s going to run and you can choose to approve or reject it.

if you’re denying access to your agentic AI, what is the point of it? It needs access to complete agentic tasks.

Yes, which it can prompt you for. Three options:

1. Deny everything
2. Prompt for approval when it needs to run a command or write a file
3. Allow everything

Obviously optional 1 is useless, but there’s nothing wrong with choosing option 2, or even option 3 if you run it in a sandbox where it can’t do any real-world damage.

Only if the user has configured it to bypass those authorizations.

With an agentic coding assistant, the LLM does not decide when it does and doesn’t prompt for authorization to proceed. The surrounding software is the one that makes that call, which is a normal program with hard guardrails in place. The only way to bypass the authorization prompts is to configure that software to bypass them. Many do allow that option, but of course you should only do so when operating in a sandbox.

The person in this article was a moron, that’s all there is to it. They ran the LLM on their live system, with no sandbox, went out of their way to remove all guardrails, and had no backup. The fallout is 100% on them.