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You do not ship computers with massive GPUs installed.

In our ZFS JBOD setup with 90HDDs we scrub regularly and never find checksum errors. Instead, we might get a few recoverable read errors, but more likely, no SMART warnings, just sudden drive failure disappearing from the bus.

I hate this screenshots for commands and outputs everywhere

I also hate it. Cant read it properly on mobile and cant copy it if needed.

But the worst thing is that these are not even real screenshots, the author pasted the text into some terminal window screenshot generator tool.


Coming soon, adversarial attacks on LLM training to ensure cryptographic mistakes.


No mention of Okular from KDE.


I vote for it too. My favorite features are adding comments to highlights when reviewing a PDF and the tool to copy tables to clipboard that allows you to help it with the segmentation. I even got some of my colleagues that are on Windows into it, and I don't even use KDE Plasma as my DE.


I installed it a while ago based on recommendations I saw here. It works far better than Acrobat ever did. Deleting all of the Adobe files off of my computer felt great.


Fun fact, the VW microbus has the same engine as this Porsche.


10G. You're cute.

My institution still has 100M everywhere. I'd love 1G.


Yup. Known at least 11 years ago.

https://youtu.be/ceFyF9px20Y


> They didn't test U.S. models for U.S. bias. Only Chinese bias counts as a security risk, apparently

US models have no bias sir /s


Hardly the same thing. Ask Gemini or OpenAI's models what happened on January 6, and they'll tell you. Ask DeepSeek what happened at Tiananmen Square and it won't, at least not without a lot of prompt hacking.


Ask it if Israel is an apartheid state, that's a much better example.


GPT5:

   Short answer: it’s contested. Major human-rights bodies 
   say yes; Israel and some legal scholars say no; no court 
   has issued a binding judgment branding “Israel” an 
   apartheid state, though a 2024 ICJ advisory opinion 
   found Israel’s policies in the occupied territory 
   breach CERD Article 3 on racial segregation/apartheid. 

   (Skip several paragraphs with various citations)

   The term carries specific legal elements. Whether they 
   are satisfied “state-wide” or only in parts of the OPT 
   is the core dispute. Present consensus splits between 
   leading NGOs/UN experts who say the elements are met and 
   Israeli government–aligned and some academic voices who 
   say they are not. No binding court ruling settles it yet.
Do you have a problem with that? I don't.


I better not poke that hornets nest any further, but yeah I made my point.


I better not poke that hornets nest any further, but yeah I made my point.

Yes, I can certainly see why you wouldn't want to go any further with the conversation.


Ask Grok to generate an image of bald Zelensky: it does execute.

Ask Grok to generate an image of bald Trump: it goes on with an ocean of excuses on why the task is too hard.


FWIW, I can't reproduce this example - it generates both images fine: https://ibb.co/NdYx1R4p


I asked it in french a few days back and it went on explaining me how hard this would be. Thanks for the update.

EDIT: I tried it right now and it did generate the image. I don't know what happened then...


I don't use Grok. Grok answers to someone with his own political biases and motives, many of which I personally disagree with.

And that's OK, because nobody in the government forced him to set it up that way.


Try MS Copilot. That shit will end the conversation if anything remotely political comes up.


As long as it excludes politics in general, without overt partisan bias demanded by the government, what's the problem with that? If they want to focus on other subjects, they get to do that. Other models will provide answers where Copilot doesn't.

Chinese models, conversely, are aligned with explicit, mandatory guardrails to exalt the CCP and socialism in general. Unless you count prohibitions against adult material, drugs, explosives and the like, that is simply not the case with US-based models. Whatever biases they exhibit (like the Grok example someone else posted) are there because that's what their private maintainers want.


Because it's in the ruling class's favor for the populace to be uninformed.


Sadly this project looks dead.


still works great though, there's a lot great software I use that hasn't had an update in years or even decades


Is it dead or just mature?


Mature should still be fixing bugs, which something like mosh is bound to always run into. From that perspective, it doesn't seem like it's just mature. There doesn't seem to be a clear all-in-one successor fork taking the reins either. E.g. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1339, as a random sample.


There is https://github.com/jdrouhard/mosh/ for the uniwidth problems. (but could be optimized much more)


mosh is still included in the Fedora repository (and probably others, I didn't check)

major distros are maintained, and they wouldn't be shipping it if it had bugs and/or was being used as an exploit


Each distro package maintainer is always welcome to maintain patches in their forks for as long as they like, but the quality and life of each will be per distro as these efforts are coordinated with an upstream.


i was pointing out that saying the package is unmaintained is likely to be false. to add my comment to your comment, i would imagine that distros are not keeping important patches like security to themselves.

i.e. this package being somehow abandoned and therefore should not be trusted is likely to be false


The above has all been in reference to the mosh project, not any individual distro packaging. E.g. if you "brew install mosh" on macOS right now you will indeed get an official-but 3-year-old-release without any patches Fedora (or others) may have applied since https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/mosh.json. The same is true if one goes to the project's GitHub to download it manually.

> i would imagine that distros are not keeping important patches like security to themselves.

I'm not 100% sure what "keeping to themselves" means in context of GPL 3 code, but one can verify with the mosh GitHub link to see the upstream project has not had a single commit on any branch for the last 2.5 years.

The project is dead, it's up to your trust+verification of any specific downstream packaging as to how much of a problem that is for the binary you may be using. Some maintainers may not have noticed/cared enough yet, some maintainers may only carry security fixes of known CVEs, some maintainers may be managing a full fork. The average reader probably wants to note that for their specific binary rather than note Fedora still packages a downstream version (which may be completely different).


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