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By that logic, all gambling is just prediction

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”

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.

Just yesterday, I had a studymate try to open an xlsx file on their phone - they had the Microsoft 365 app installed that would do this, but a recent update to that app just decided to change it to a Copilot only app.

That’s hilarious. I had the 365 app installed on my phone, because the company I work for uses Microsoft everything and I had to install that POS in the sandbox so I could open up any word or excel docs that were sent to me. Well I just opened it up, and sure enough, it’s now just a chat bot, all other functionality is gone.

This reeks of those scam companies on Amazon that sell one product under a listing for a while to get the ratings up, then swap to a completely different product while keeping the listing the same, in order to fool people into buying the new product with its high star rating and good reviews. I guarantee that’s why MS decided to go this route, to fool people into installing it because of its userbase and star rating, and to cook their books on adoption numbers.

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.

One would think so, but apparently not

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%

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.

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.

I’m not a computer expert or planning to be.

Then don’t use Arch. Seriously, where are you guys even finding out about Arch, much less wanting to try it? Whoever told you Arch would be a good fit, don’t listen to them on anything Linux-related again. Arch is not for beginners, and it’s not for people who don’t want to learn the ins and outs of their computer because they’re having to dig into the guts to fix it whenever an update breaks something. Arch is a fine distro for people who WANT those things, need bleeding edge hardware support, and don’t mind having to fix it whenever it breaks. It doesn’t sound like that’s at all what you’re looking for though.

I guess it depends on the containers that are being run. I have 175 containers on my systems, and between them I get somewhere around 20 updates a day. It’s simply not possible for me to read through all of those release notes and fully understand the implications of every update before implementing them.

So instead I’ve streamlined my update process to the point that any container with an available update gets a button on an OliveTin page, and clicking that button pulls the update and restarts the container. With that in place I don’t need fully autonomous updates, I can still kick them off manually without much effort, which lets me avoid updating certain “problematic” containers until after I’ve read the release notes while still blindly updating the rest of them. Versions all get logged as well, so if something does go wrong with an update (which does happen from time to time, though it’s fairly rare) I can easily roll back to the previous image and then wait for a fix before updating again.

Nope, it’s real. OpenClaw has zero filters, zero guardrails, just an LLM with full access to your accounts and APIs with unrestricted access to the web, including reading and processing incoming messages from unknown senders. Attackers can do just about anything with it that they want simply by asking it nicely.