Dave.

Mostly so future me doesn’t undo something I already argued with myself about. They’re in docs/adr if you’re curious.

Mostly so future LLMs don’t undo something they already argued with themselves about.

One way, I set the numbers local, can’t be changed otherwise.

Its simple (as am I), why does it need to be on the “cloud”???

That’s fine when you have one fridge.

Then you need to look after four thousand of them.

Oh, it’ll be fine, we’ll just set things once while installing them.

Oh look! New food, or efficiency, or store standards have dropped, now you need to update those settings in those 4 thousand fridges spread across the whole country. Well, we can do a couple of stores a day, I guess it’ll only take a month of a service tech’s time and travel costs to do it.

Orrrrrrr… we could hook these fridges up to the Internet and do it remotely, and update the settings on those 4000 fridges before lunch.

That’s the draw, convenient mass update. The main issue here is that they put the fridges on an unsecured network, and then on device auth was laughable, allowing any bored teenager with time on their hands to tinker with things.

Just because we stumbled through a whole bunch of world-ending things in the past mostly unscathed doesn’t mean we’ll continue to do so.

Engaging the park gear at speed

I guess it’s from the fact that “D” / “P” / “R” are on the selector, so “Park” gets promoted to honorary gear status these days.

Putting an EV into “Park” activates the (electrically actuated) parking brake. Which isn’t really made to be activated when the vehicle is in motion, so it’s anyone’s guess whether it will burn out its tiny brake pads before you actually stop.

In any case, that brake pedal should be able to withstand as much force as a human can place on it. Plus a bit, because humans can be unexpectedly strong when they are stressed out. Ideally from a design perspective it would be able to travel until it reaches the floor and then be supported by the floor.

It seems that after the initial AI-generated patches there’s been good discussion amongst the kernel devs about sorting out the issues, and a few revisions already that have tidied things up a bit.

So if after all that there ends up being a good performance improvement directly from a revised AI-created patch, what do I do with my pitchfork? Still raised angrily? Half-mast? Do I just let the torch smoulder?

Nice! Although I do wish everyone would get with IPV6 at some stage. But it seems everyone is OK with the current coping mechanisms in IPV4, so maybe I should pin my hopes on IPV7 or 8.

So why should they apply air gapping to their agents?

Because if they don’t, they could face jail time personally or their company is fined to death? That’s how you apply corrective pressure to those thinking about “going rogue”.

~$ groups crank0271 docker

~$ docker run -rm…

No joke, this is exactly what LLMs will do if they can’t do something directly.

Most ISPs charge insane fees for static IPs

The joy of living in the US I guess. My ISP in Australia charges $5 a month for a static IPV4 address.

There may have to be fundamental engineering breakthroughs before what these systems do can be more than a very expensive and inefficient worldwide proof of concept.

Controversial thought after reading this sentence: It’s cryptocoins all over again.

It’s an accessibility issue, mainly. And very faintly a safety issue, and also owners of the cables risk getting them damaged by something with steel/solid wheels (like an industrial bin or delivery trolley) running over their cables.

Other councils have suggested cutting a groove across the footpath to lay a cable in, which seems like a fairly acceptable solution. 20 minutes work with a concrete saw, tap a channel with a flip top lid in, done. Or even just the groove - a 3/4" groove is enough for a cable and fine for wheelchairs and etc to pass over.

WinXP ran quite nicely on 4GB of RAM. You could boot to the desktop in under 5 seconds if you had a solid state drive.

All the day to day tasks someone needs to do with their computers haven’t materially changed in the last twenty years since XP held the crown. In that time the speed of processors, storage, gpus, and ram has increased by literal orders of magnitude.

And yet, somehow, things have become much shittier since then.

Webrings were themed though, so if your interest was cars, or cats, or ham radio, you could get on a webring for one of those topics and cycle through them.

And it wasn’t all random, you could move left or right on the ring , or jump randomly. So a good webring manager could group sites together as you went around the ring as well.