Yep, the analogy isnt perfect, and it is amazing to me that in reality, its even fucking worse.

It would have to be more like a disintegrating or time delayed self destructing rail engine…

‘We bought 600 train engines and 8000 rail cars, because we will probably figure out how to build 800,000 miles of new rail lines, somewhere, at some point.’

‘Also the train engines and rail cars we bought are guaranteed to be horrendously inefficent within 2 years.’

‘Also also, the train engines are highly fuel intensive and no we are not planning to fund any new fuel production.’

‘We are very smart.’

‘Why yes, our future rail line traffic demand projections are based on the “thoughts and prayers” model, thanks for asking!’

I can run Bonsai, basically a distilled version of Qwen 3.5 (Qwen being the other major family of open weight Chinese developed LLMs) on my Steam Deck.

It ain’t fast, but its kind of nuts that it can run at all on hardware that is that underpowered, by typical LLM hardware standards.

You just run the thing in a sandbox of some kind, do not give it access to the outside internet or the rest of your computer, and the worst thing that is likely to happen is … you configure it slightly wrong, it uses too much RAM, and your system crashes. And your system can then reboot again, just fine, tone it down a bit to use less RAM.

For a large organization with networked security concerns and consistent uptime requirements, it is simply insane to just plug an LLM directly in to that, without architecting an entire system built around ‘assume the LLM will fuck up/go insane’; sanboxes within sandboxes with highly controlled connections to other sandboxes.

But that would be a significant feat of actual software engineering to construct that for/around an actually complex network, and would take time, so fuck that, we want line go up is what most companies decided to do instead, just fucking raw dog it.

But yeah the main ‘problem’ with LLMs in this sense is idiot CEOs just demanding the magic machine god be plugged right in to their very fragile, barely sensible networks and workflows, where the LLM is then going to break things in roughly the same way as would the nepo hire intern who was just directly promoted to sysadmin…

…not that an LLM has a secret activation phrase that will cause it to shut down or go berserk in a specific way.

Yeah, turns out the executive class, the would-be nobility, are incompetent idiots by their own standards, and are primarily driven by their own malignant sociopathic narcissism, not any of the stories they tell about themselves.

If you want competent executives, they’d need an actually effective selection pressure that punishes incompetence and rewards competence… but they already destroyed that.

So, either we, or somebody, builds some mechanism or system that does that… or they all preen themselves rigourously while steering the ship directly into an iceberg, with all of us onboard.

They will genuienly not understand why we hate them for killing us all.

happy little accidents

Bingo, they know what theyre doing, theyre enshittifying.

Gotta squeeze all the blood out of the stone.

They know theyre going down, theyre deciding to make as much money as possible while doing so.

Who cares if that causes mass spread of mis and disinformation? That ain’t illegal, and it is profitable.

Ah woops you beat me to it!

*Tim Apple

Given the genuienly astonishing capability of datacenter powered LLMs at reverse engineering and then recompiling games…

There’s basically no way that any closed source, client side, kernel level anti cheat is somehow immune to being ripped wide open.

So… that entire industry, that entire category of software… basically doesn’t make any sense anymore.

People have been defeating kernel AC for a long time, but this is ridiculous, it wins the war.

Like, the only actual option that kernel AC has at this point is to push for regulating access to such high powered LLMs, but, that basically can’t make any sense unless liability is shifted to or established /somewhere/, either the hosting datacenter or the LLM model publishers, or some middleman (LLM insurance?)…

It has to actually exist /somewhere/, though.

And so far, the seeming entire purpose of LLMs from the C Suite standpoint is: we want a situation where we can do things and /no one/ is liable if anything goes wrong.

My guess would be basically: chaos will reign.

Uh huh.

Yep.

They seem to be fine with that, just causing Kessler Syndrome.

Now the SR 72 is not retired, because satellite based anything becomes extremely difficult to achieve, at best, and you can put cameras and comms datalinks on them, and have them do what satellites can now not do.

Could also do ground attack on static / slow moving targets: Mach 4-6 from half a continent away, over to a target area, slow down, open bomb bay, drop a glide bomb (or a lot of em), close up, speed back up and fly away.

You now have comms intel and air superiority, at least in an offensive sense; you destroyed the previous paradigm with your new paradigm.

If you can get a reliable ‘bombtruck’ style airframe, human piloted or autonomous, working at around the Mach 5 range… who has anything that can shoot that down?

The SR 71 wasn’t really stealth, it just flew too high and too fast for anything to be able to touch it.

Oh and for the ‘glide bombs’, just do what the Iranians seem to be doing: outfit some of them with a secondary boost phase that triggers semi-randomly, based on the munition either sensing its near the target, or, sensing that something is trying to intercept it.

This also greatly relieves the entire problem of highly expensive single use long range missiles… just have a ferry for them, ease the cost and design specs of the actual munitions by doing 80% of their job.

My thought is that renewed interest in this and the not strictly confirmed but seemingly under active developement SR-72 is…

… Platform for high altitude launched, satellite killing missiles.

For a long time the US got to enjoy being basically the only power with a stupendous intelligence advantage from a network of spy and comms satellites vast enough to get total coverage, basically everywhere, at pretty low time lags.

Well now, others have comparable capabilities.

So, develop a way to remove that.

We’ve been able to shoot down satellites from aircraft launched missiles since the 80s.

We’ve specifically called for the end of tests of ground launched anti-satellite missiles, leaving aircraft launched anti-satellite missiles as a neat little carve out in our own rhetoric/intl. policy ‘suggestions’.

So, in a world where spy and comms sats are just viewed as valid targets in a large scale war/operation, a fleet of mach 3+ / potentially hypersonic aircraft that can deny intel to the opponent and likely also gather your own intel, that’re significantly harder to shoot down than a satellite… seems like a plausible doctrine to me.

Sit ye down and have a listen, lad, to the tale, of the mariner’s revenge.

If it don’t put some hurdy in your gurdy, I fear you’ve seen either far too little, or far too much, of these merciless and farsical cybernetic seas.

Corporate malware is corporate malware.

Water is wet.

Things tend to fall downward.

-yawn-

Thread? Zigbee?

No no no, you want either Parasol, GwimGwab, or Hamtato.

Haven’t you heard of them?

Alexa, what is an ‘attack surface’?

… hrm …

Alexa, widen scope of ‘threat actors’.

Oh.

Oh dear.

Yes, reddit is a cult, the hivemind aint called the hivemind for nothing.

Thought terminating cliches?

In group out group dynamics?

Its a cult, spend your time on other things.

Non zero chance theres a bot network set up to do precisely the behavior you are encountering, triggers upon mention of lemmy.

Reddit is well known to have been host to many, many other botnets doing the same kinds of shit and worse… there are entire guidebooks on how to drown discussions in bullshit and drama, how to divide communities into factions based around a popularity contest between the most well known members, who will then experience a manufactured kerfuffle, etc, how to manufacture a two sided conflict and ‘conclude’ it back along the lines of a ‘sensible’ compromise/middle ground, etc.

You might try asking jordanlund about it, seeing as he has a decade of experience being a corpo social media manager for Adobe, on reddit.

(That last part is a joke, i doubt he would respond well to that line of questioning lol)

Ah, TIL, thank you, I didn’t see that!

So how does this work if a convicted stalker just lives or works within a few km of where a victim lives or works?

I did not know that, but that entirely makes sense.

I’m American; if we had a ‘pirate party’ type party, it would be considered a terrorist organization by our pedophile president and his cult of closeted christian racist theocrat morons.

But uh yeah… world economy and society broadly is hugely run by tech and tech companies, you’d think a more nuanced and informed discussion about tech law and policy would accompany that… but nope!

You can’t.

Windows will rewrite your boot partition, when it feels like it.

It can be commanded to do this remotely, also. Its called a Windows Update. And Windows buries itself below Ring 0 via Pluton/TPMv2.

It does this because the NSA likes being able to keep tabs on everyone.

The precise/exact way this works is hardware/setup dependant, and changes every 6 months or so, ish, but yeah this bootloader fuckery nonsense has been going on for years now, in dual boot setups, and there really is not a plausible explanation for this continuing as a persistent ‘problem’, other than Windows makes NSA backdoors into your entire system, or breaks shit while trying to.

Dual booting is dumb if you value system security and stability.