For my last two Exos drives (22TB each) I decided to try refurbs. I have them in my homelab's ceph cluster. I figured I'd try them due to cost. They were two thirds the cost of a new drive, so I figure I can do a 3 for the price of 2 sort of thing and have more redundancy that way. That said, ceph with replica count 3 (min_size 2), so my data is pretty protected. Important stuff is backed up anyway. So far the older one has been running for about 4 months and the newer about 2 months, no SMART errors yet.

There's OpenStack. It's a private IaaS. Had loadbalancers, ipv6 support, support for K8s hosting via the magnum component (and other container orchestrators), HA via Masakari component. The networking is very flexible. It does not currently have functions as a service, I believe that was in the Senlin component, but that's been abandoned, I believe a new incarnation of the idea is in the works though. With something like Kolla-ansible a containerized OpenStack infrastructure is pretty damn easy to manage, upgrades are just making sure you make any needded changes in the global config file (just a vimdiff with the new sample one included in the release) and then literally just a kolla-ansible upgrade -i inventory-file.yml.

I'm just a home labber and I've run OpenStack via kolla-ansible for like 7 years now, and Ceph since the jewel release I think almost 8 years ago for storage. Both are pretty easy to manage.

My FAANG working spouse thinks that AIs and Robocallers should be mandated to identify themselves. She thinks a audible "Beep-boop" at the end of a sentence for calls and video would be appropriate.

Barring that, every human could end sentences with a couple racial slurs to verify that they are not on AI

Microsoft is just waiting in the wings with Tay for just such an occurrence.

I support that idea. Along with properly implemented authentication so you can't just spoof your way to someone's phone, and painfully stiff fines for violators.

In Nova? Or just the in-kernel component?

Press release:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-t...

Yet to personally try it out, but this should eventually enable better integration with the library ecosystems. =3

AGI is just going to spend its cycles looking at cats pics and /r/unixporn.

But it might want to do that…

If you want a grim take on this looking into the quantum immortality thought experiment. I can't remember who wrote it, I think maybe Chalmers, but the idea is that while the experiencer is immortal, they will still accumulate injuries, old age, etc. It would not be a very pleasant immortality.

I didn't see mention of a vulnerability other than the use of a common default password with Ubiquity. So naughty, but users really should be now be in the habit of changing default passwords, and not leaving management interfaces open to the internet. For pfSense I think I recall a slew of XSS vulnerabilities in the past, but I think that has been it. I haven't looked at pfSense in a while since switching to Vyos though.

That was kinda their point. They weren't denying that one exists, just pointing out that the Cisco response that it was for support use was laughable.

Cisco never claimed it was for support use. It was more than some support techs knew about the back door, and were using it unofficially for their own convenience.

The official statement, if I remember correctly, was brief, vaguely worded, and amount to: "We can't say anything, every US vendor is in the same boat as us, stop asking".

You are a good person.

Consciousness may not be emergent, it could be like the panpsychists argue. Or other forms of consciousness dualism.