Exactly!

Anyone who has spent any time on social media could tell you that this is more of a ‘feelings’ topic than a ‘facts’ topic.

You could say the same about drug cartels and most governments spend billions of dollars fighting them while outlawing their products and sanctioning countries/governments which allow them.

I don’t expect the US Navy is going to be launching missiles at programmers in speedboats anytime soon, but it would be easy to sanction these companies and cut them off from the banking system.

Except the government is run by people in the pockets of the companies and countries who are doing this.

Why do we even allow these ‘businesses’ to exist?

It’s like someone started up a company where you could hire them to break into people’s houses for you. There are no ethical uses of the software that they create, they are entirely used for illegal activity and in support of oppressive governments.

They’re selling cyberweapons without any kind of regulations or restrictions.

I’m sure that case will be cited here.

In similar cases, the court has found the company liable for using the books without paying for them (so they had to pay for every individual book) but the process of training an AI model was ‘sufficiently transformative’ (see: Authors Guild v Google) so as to not be considered a copyright violation.

They may win damages equal to the costs of the books that were used, but they won’t get the models deleted or be able to claim damages for the models that were created.

I’m sure George Lucas is devastated at your disapproval.

Oh, stop. My feelings.

I do have a point and you’re making it for me.

This is about the criminal trial of the hacker, so Exxon can’t hide it with a settlement.

And also, the headline is clickbait because the article references a filing in the UK courts which provided information from the sealed indictment.

With Forlit potentially facing up to 45 years in prison, his lawyer referenced the then-sealed justice department indictment and named the alleged client for the first time, in a filing arguing against his extradition from the UK: “The hacking is alleged to have been commissioned by DCI Group, a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies.”

He’s in every AI thread with the same toxic behavior, bad faith arguments and personal attacks.

Read more than the headline and you’ll have less questions.

Literally the first paragraph in the article answers your question.

I’m sure this thread will be full of rational discussion.

Just block them and their community and move on, you’re not going to have a good faith conversation with them and their presence in comment threads is just rage baiting.

It’s a gimmick account of a troll, don’t feed them.

A brief glance at the entire history of humanity would indicate that what they are saying is true.

PXE booting is pretty neat, but it’s a lot to setup for home use.

I did a lab where we configured an immutable distro to boot using an encrypted RAM drive as storage (using TSME). The machine had no storage other than RAM (and NFS mounts). We were trying to harden a machine against coldboot/evil maid attacks. It was a neat project but a bit too clunky for daily driving and also, a RAM drive in this economy?

If I go to someone and offer them a shoe box full of gold for 100$, no I wont open the box, and they agree, then I don’t think that is a scam and more that said person is too stupid to be in public.

This is exactly the mindset of a scammer, ‘well, if they’re so stupid that they let me scam them then they deserve it’.

Social media where ‘if you don’t agree with me you’re a bad person and probably deserve to die’ is the standard position for the outrage junkies.

It just depends on the location.

Some areas have water shortages where resources are already strained and other areas have abundant water so that no amount of usage will make a dent.

It not that it isn’t a problem at all, it’s just it is only a problem in specific places and not an inherent issue with datacenters everywhere. Building datacenters in a desert would cause water issues, building them near the great lakes wouldn’t impact water availability in the slightest.

They do prefer drinking water, because it’s already treated and so the equipment/maintenance to use it is lower and they can just evaporate it away. In other areas, or if required by legislation, they could run coolant to the machines and then cool the coolant using dirtier sources (including seawater).

It’s a camera, like the millions of cameras that are around us every day.

If you’re a creep then it’s a camera for creeps. If you’re not, then there are plenty of legitimate uses providing that all video is kept locally and not uploaded to Meta/Amazon/Google’s servers.

They use the fact that they have multiple microphones and some audio processing to isolate the voice of the person from the background noise. Taking your earbuds out would make it harder to hear them, not easier.

In noisy areas (like a bar) it can be the difference between being able to understand the person you’re with and being deafened by the background noise.

It’s all done on your device so it makes zero sense that they would charge a subscription other than as a means of financial extortion to use the hardware that you paid for.

What I don’t understand is why super critical errors are hidden away in a log instead of being shoved in my face once they happen.

That’s a choice you make when you’re setting up your bootloader, you pass a kernel parameter that tells the kernel what to show on the screen.

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html

If you’re using grub, look in /etc/default/grub. There will be a line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“<kernel parameters>” you can set the log level to something (like loglevel=3) and it will write the errors to the console on boot. The higher the number the more information is written to the console.