It’s been Friday for 14 hours and 46 minutes where I am. Perhaps coming up with a catchy tag that isn’t affected by timezones or planetary alignments would be a better idea.

AI bots will hammer your endpoints into the ground if left unchecked. They’ll happily compromise your services while they’re at it.

Here’s some questions:

• What happens when you die?
• What happens if your house is burgled or catches fire?
• How do you protect against pe(s)ts making themselves at home in your server?
• What happens with a power or internet outage?
• What happens with hardware failure?
• What happens if you suffer dementia?
• How are you dealing with AI bots?
• How are you mitigating hacking attempts, security, authentication and exploits?
• How are you dealing with data corruption?
• How do you mitigate against ransomware having entered your systems?

Note that I’m not picking on you, nor is this list comprehensive or in priority order. I’m trying to determine if you’ve considered these common issues and concerns associated with hosting stuff that has great sentimental value, if not actual value.

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It’s okay, we know that you prefer to drag your knuckles against the wall 😁

Source: I come from a land down under.

If you’re logged into your bank account and the image contains embedded code and you’re vulnerable to the exploit, there’s a good chance that they’ll be attempting to transfer money out of your account.

If it sounds like a scam … and this does … it’s generally cheap insurance to treat it like a scam.

Moreover, if it’s unsolicited, as in, they came to you, the chances are significantly higher that it’s a scam.

And for clarity, some respondents never get to 4, even after replying. I suspect that it’s either a bug or a “privacy” setting.

That appears to be an earthed plug into an unearthed adaptor. They’re not supposed to fit.

Note, I’m not familiar with Italian plugs, but they look a lot like Dutch plugs which I grew up with.

Which Android permissions does it require, since that’s pretty much the single biggest determinant of me even contemplating the installation of any app.

Elections generally tilt one way or the other based on fractions of a percentage of the vote, in fact, a single vote can be the difference.

So, if two candidates are evenly matched, it’s possible that a whole state can go one way or the other based on just a few votes.

Note that this is not specific to the USA and I’m in Australia.

As far as “elections” go where there’s only one choice, that’s not an election but a dictatorship and from where I’m standing, the USA is heading in that direction at a breakneck speed.

Tax. The. Rich. Billionaires.

I figured that a good percentage of the delivery robots would simply “disappear” from the map and be rebirthed as battle bots in some arena with chainsaw accessories.

For the same reason that they’re targeting Australia, money. Apparently they feel that they’re not making enough of it, so now they’re withholding specific drugs and calling it “a commercial decision”.

In Australia certain drugs are available under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which is essentially the Government negotiating prices with suppliers and subsidising the sale to patients.

The pharmaceutical companies have been yelling about this for years trying to frame it as anti-competative.

In Australia with universal healthcare, that doesn’t fly.

Firefox Focus with AdGuard DNS

At the rate Microsoft is going, by the time we set up a community on Mars, everyone will have migrated to Linux 😁

Let me ask you this.

If the LLM instance doesn’t talk to anyone, you’re right, but there seems little point in building an instance that talks to nobody.

This leaves us with an instance that does talk to other instances, presumably responding to posts, making its own and subscribing to communities. This already costs money for each “touched” instance.

At that point the administrator of an instance that doesn’t want to federated with the LLM instance, has to defederate from it, updating their instance and then still getting access requests from the LLM instance when it attempts to do the reply, post, community thing as described before.

Even us discussing the phenomenon right now takes server resources across the fediverse.

In other words, as I said, there is always a cost to everyone.

I understand.

My point didn’t state that all instances would be affected equally, just that there’s an effect everywhere.

All of them.