riskable

I think most people would wine and complain after falling into a ravine like that.

Couldn't even horse around?

When people say, "we should just house the homeless" this is not what they meant!

Having a unique password per device is best practices. IoT vendors should be doing that regardless of whether or not they're giving the end user root.

There's supposed to be a regulation demanding an IoT "nutrition label" that has that very thing in its list of items. I wonder what happened to that?

You see, that's the thing: In order for the US to get to that point, the people must first NOT be chomping at the bit, fantasizing about ripping unelected bureaucrats like Stephen Miller to shreds the moment they see him in person.

Usually—the way this happens—is that you have a strongman coming to power, promising to bring justice to people like Stephen Miller. Not supporting them.

I honestly don't think there's enough support behind Trump at this point to pull that off. In fact, a simple marketing campaign pointing out that it's not just Trump but the entire Republican party that is responsible for this mess we're in, would do wonders.

Republicans—the ones sitting at home watching this play out on Fox News—aren't getting the right kind of propaganda for Stephen Miller (or Trump's other underlings) to survive past Trump. Even if he doesn't get torn to shreds by some angry mob, he's committing crimes on the regular which will result in prosecution when a new administration comes around.

The next administration won't be as delusional about preserving tradition when it comes to prosecuting their predecessors. Trump made sure to throw that entire concept into the East Wing right before he had it torn down.

Ugh. You're right, of course. We're surrounded by lizard-brained, uncivilized cave people who still believe in fairy tales.

Tell them that their religion is a fantasy without evidence, though, and now you're somehow the unreasonable one.

So let me get this straight: Stephen Miller is so universally hated that if he doesn't house himself on a protected military base, he fears for his life and family. His response to this is to double down on his continuous campaign of human rights violations‽

Dude! You can only live "safe" like that for three more years. Not even that long if Trump dies of a stroke/heart attack (which seems increasingly likely). Vance isn't going to protect you like this!

Now's the time to start making friends in Nazi sympathizing countries.

It's much, much more complicated than mere rehabilitation VS punishment/salvation. When someone goes to prison for a minor drug offense—like this guy—what exactly are we "rehabilitating"? I seriously doubt he had a real addiction.

Then there's things like organized crime: By imprisoning gangsters we're simply removing them from society so they can't commit crimes against people who aren't also in prison. But this doesn't solve the problem of a gangster being able to commit crimes such as ordering a murderer from within prison (e.g. via their lawyer or a secret cell phone).

For such people, we have the death penalty (presumably).

Then there's white collar crime and fraud. Do those people belong in prison or should they instead be forced to live in "affordable housing" with one too many people sharing the same home, work a minimum wage job, having 100% of their wages given to their victims, and forced to regularly work overtime? Oh sorry, that's my "real justice for rich fraudsters" fantasy 😁

For health insurance executives, we should also make them wait on hold every day to get someone to push the button that unlocks the door to their room. Once a year, we'll make them go through a lengthy bureaucratic process in order to prove that they need access to running water. It should take at least a week.

For reference, every AI image model uses ImageNET (as far as I know) which is just a big database of publicly accessible URLs and metadata (classification info like, "bird" ).

The "big AI" companies like Meta, Google, and OpenAI/Microsoft have access to additional image data sets that are 100% proprietary. But what's interesting is that the image models that are constructed from just ImageNET (and other open sources) are better! They're superior in just about every way!

Compare what you get from say, ChatGPT (DALL-E 3) with a FLUX model you can download from civit.ai... you'll get such superior results it's like night and day! Not only that, but you have an enormous plethora of LoRAs to choose from to get exactly the type of image you want.

What we're missing is the same sort of open data sets for LLMs. Universities have access to some stuff but even that is licensed.

Listen, if someone gets physical access to a device in your home that's connected to your wifi all bets are off. Having a password to gain access via adb is irrelevant. The attack scenario you describe is absurd: If someone's in a celebrity's home they're not going to go after the robot vacuum when the thermostat, tablets, computers, TV, router, access point, etc are right there.

If they're physically in the home, they've already been compromised. The fact that the owner of a device can open it up and gain root is irrelevant.

Furthermore, since they have root they can add a password themselves! Something they can't do with a lot of other things in their home that they supposedly "own" but don't have that power (but I'm 100% certain have vulnerabilities).

stole all that licensed code.

Stealing is when the owner of a thing doesn't have it anymore; because it was stolen.

LLMs aren't "stealing" anything... yet! Soon we'll have them hooked up to robots then they'll be stealing¹ 👍

1. Because a user instructed it to do so.

I guess I get to merge my code and never work on this project again.

This is the way.