So, I live in Georgia & I’m happy to see Dems on the PSC, but electricity here is 8 cents per kWh. There were some big cost overruns adding nuclear reactors to Vogtle, but them and Watts Bar are the only people to add nuclear since 1990. Relative to a lot of other states, it’s hard to argue Georgians are being gouged.

And I really would like to know what’s in the data center deals, especially what happens when the data center goes tits-up 3 years into the life of a 40-year power plant

Student discounted software started when most of the corporate world was still using typewriters and paper. Students learned the new-fangled software and carried into their new jobs.

Today, those same businesses rely on Microsoft Office and Google search, and those monopolies are obviously going to leverage their monopolies to force AI, Teams, or whatever other Next Big Thing onto unwilling schools.

During a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling shovels.

Man, I remember reading about some culture that actually had five formal gender structures and thinking, “That makes so much sense. Why can’t we do that?” Anthropology not politics. Wish I’d bookmarked it, although said culture was probably brown people and therefore unrecognizable to the people who most need to see it.

I mean, their yaml editor still deletes comments. If I’ve barely learned how to make something something work, a little #comment in the yaml would really help future-me know where to look to learn it all over again, or even just wtf I was thinking with some {{template}}

There’s $700/month of savings hidden in the drop from $85k gross to $66k net.

I keep looking at phones with IR cameras. Thermal imaging is super handy for electro/mechanical diagnostics, and some of them are under $500.

The GPUs they’re talking about don’t have video outputs, and I think many of them aren’t even PCIe. Even at pennies on the dollar, they’ll still be hundreds of dollars, so way easier just to get a consumer card.

All the past infrastructure bubbles, the companies that inevitably failed at least left some usable infrastructure - rails, pipelines, dark fiber… These guys are going to crash, never pay back their loans, and the acres of datacenter, containers of GPUs, and racks of servers are just going to get recycled. It’s such shocking waste that it’s hard to comprehend.

It’s really not the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities you need to worry about. Most of those vulnerabilities have existed for years - the recent php thing is supposedly 12 years old. Maybe someone’s been out there exploiting it for 12 years.

The people who have sought and exploited vulnerabilities since computers went online don’t disclose what they find. They are the people who should be most worried about AI-assisted vulnerability research, because it directly attacks their business model.

I don’t know how the others set theirs up, but I use “views” in bind 9 https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00851

Essentially, the DNS I run on a router-like box much like you describe uses a different database depending on whether you query from an internal IP address or a public address. For me, the advantages are that I can let devices on my local network declare their own names to DHCP and enter them in DNS without worrying about the outside world. Mu internal network doesn’t crash if my ISP changes my address, Certbot happily requests certs for any site with a public address, and that cert works seamlessly on the corresponding internal address, no wildcards or DNS challenge required.

So, I have to admit, if there’s a crazy guy on one street corner yelling “2 + 2 = 4,” and another down the street yelling “2 + 2 = elephant,” I will be more interested in elephant dude. More curious to figure our what’s wrong with him, how he’s managed to stay alive for so long, etc. More curious to know his opinion of 2 * 2 and 2 + 3. Definitely not going argue or push back much on the elephant claim, though.

I can imagine that political reporters, inundated with the same bland, boilerplate statements over the past two decades, would be fascinated by people spouting obvious sociopathic garbage. It does seem irresponsible to entertain that fascination, when you know that a certain part of the population can’t recognize it as obvious sociopathic garbage.

I’ve always used heat-only, cool-only, and off modes on the thermostat, but I set them manually. Actually, I think it’s only a relatively recent firmware update that the thermostat even got dual-mode. In my climate, there’s probably not much risk of triggering both heating and cooling on the same day, anyway.

My comfort range is 68-78°F/20-26°C, though, and in I’m generally in heat mode Oct-Mar & cool mode Jun-Sep. The transition months I generally manage by manually opening windows at the appropriate time. It’d be nice to get some window servos, because sometimes it’s not cool enough to open the windows until well after I’m asleep. Or I just forget. Window program would definitely need an outdoor humidity condition - don’t want to open summer windows, even if the temp is down to 72, when the dewpoint is also 72.

I mean, I think we all recognize that these are gambling sites trying to skirt gambling regulations, so all of their arguments are going to seem ridiculous. “We’re a prediction market, and individuals with specialized knowledge improve our accuracy.” “We allow people to hedge against adverse events, like Elon Musk tweeting over 300 times this week.” “These are financial contracts, not wagers.”

The interviews I’ve seen with “prediction market” CEOs, they’re openly begging for people to trade on confidential, privileged, or classified information, because that’s the source of their markets’ supposed predictive power.

Don’t even get me started on the 1990s. Every new processor generation actually felt faster. Web pages had blinking banners because the creator thought it looked cool, not to advertise a personal information vacuum. There was no better introduction to the public’s absolutely awful sense of style. But I went from talking to international friends for $0.50/minute to free, and it was amazing.

Those companies have extremely well developed propaganda machines. They have to sell their technology and products as benefits to governments (i.e. society) and solutions to chaos (i.e. crime and terrorism), and they have extremely well refined language to describe themselves in positive term. If you don’t look past the company line, it’s easy to believe that the skeptics and warnings are all just FUD from haters, especially when the propaganda pays your mortgage.

Then Palantir goes and publishes an actual fascist manifesto…

To me, that’s the ‘fancy search engine’ mode of AI where it works well and basically focuses the human effort. A needle-in-haystack problem. It might still be missing things, but they’re things you’ve already missed yourself, so no loss.

It’s different from asking Claude, for example, to create a new guest VLAN with limited internet access and access to only a specific service on the private network. For that, you have to 1) trust Claude because you lack the expertise to review, 2) spend time learning the config system well enough to review, or 3) already know the system well enough to check it. 1) just sounds bad. 2) sounds like Claude isn’t saving much time, but maybe helps focus the human where to study, and 3) seems like the human might have been able to just do the job in similar or less time than writing the prompt + reviewing the result.

I feel like the big mistake they continue to propagate is failing to distinguish among the uses of AI.

A lot of hype seems to be the generative uses, where AI creates code, images, text, or whatever, or the agentic uses where it supposedly automates some process. Safe uses in that way should involve human review and approval, and if the human spends as much time reviewing as they would creating it in the first place, then there’s a productivity loss.

All the positive cases I’ve heard of use AI like a fancy search engine - look for specific issues in a large code base, look for internal consistency in large document or document sets. That form lets the human shift from reading hundreds or thousands of pages to reading whatever snippets the AI returns. Even if that’s a lot of false positives, it’s still a big savings over full review. And as long as the AI’s false-negative rate is better than the human, it’s a net improvement in review.

And, of course, there’s the possibility that AI facilitated review allows companies to do review of documents that they would otherwise have ignored as intractable, which would also show up as reduced productivity.

Not familiar with opnSense, but on your PC, you can check the address it assigns - if it’s /128, it’s a single address.

My ISP does not assign a prefix for delegation unless you specifically ask for it. I had to add “request_prefix 1” to my dhclient.conf file to get a /64 I assume opnSense has a friendly setting somewhere for that. For me, the key phrase was ‘prefix delegation.’ After I got that, I could search around and get my solution.

Pretty sure that reflects its stage in the legislative process, not support/opposition. i.e.: out of 100 bills that get introduced, only 1 becomes law.