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Yeah.

People seem to be fine with it as long as their own team seems to be profiting from it - but for those of us who are not subject citizens of the NSA's government, it is a truly heinous state of affairs.

>IME/PSP/TrustZone into 99% of the CPUs

Yeah, about that. Its the biggest vulnerability in the industry. Nobody wants to confront this fact, though.

Too much profit to be made in subversion and human rights abuses.

The ecosystem and community around the DGX Spark platform is semi-sovereign AI, or at least its as close to it as we can find so far.

But yeah, we do need to make sure the REA cat stays out of the bag.

I, for one, welcome our reverse-engineer-anything overlords.

I know that, because I read the article, but if all I'd read was the title, I'd not know that.

EDIT: I don't know why you changed your comment, but yes, it was obvious from reading the article that it was not actually about the DGX Spark.

> sparks my interest

I see what you did there. ;)

As a DGX Spark user, this article title gave me conniptions.

But, on the other hand, having my DGX Spark stack at hand, I know the solution:

    /btw reverse engineer the Nvidia Platform Controllers and Framework component and build a Linux version

"AI views proprietary components as damage and routes around them."

Yes true, but they sure are fun, and well .. a lot of GermanConjunctionSentences sound completely unnatural to us non-native speakers ..

>two tracks .. review

Good one, that seems about right by my read of things.

Review is more important now than ever. My workflow has 3 review stages .. after analysis/specs/design, just prior to starting development (intake), and in the quality stages of testing and so on.

Well, there's also an after-release review, but the sales/marketing guys do that as part of their followups.

The most effective use of AI is in an environment which already produces high quality software through proven tooling and methodology. If your workflow is broken, your AI isn't going to fix that - except by way of giving you a lot of slop to push through whatever pipes you're already not getting flow through.

What's your workflow, out of interest?

Every single case of AI slop code I've encountered in a shipped product is a result of a complete lack of proper, professional workflow on the part of the human who decided to ship it. People are using AI as a reason to continue to justify their lack of responsibility for what it is they're doing.

And on the other side, I have seen AI produce exceptionally efficient, productive and effective code - the opposite of slop - when it is treated like a junior developer who will do any idiot thing, except when it is mentored by an actually experienced, professional developer.

The source of slop in AI code is not AI, its not the training data - its in the actual workflow of the human involved in its production.

Ungewöhnlichregelmäßig or Hyperregelmäßig works for me, but then there is Regelmäßigkeitsmonsterhaft.

Still, I think we can push the limits to Bürokratieapokalyptischhyperregelmäßigkeitsgötterungeheuerhaft and feel pretty comfortable with it.

>Communication breaks down when we reuse terms for different things within the same field.

Ahem Maybe you should write a shim for the stack you're using to broker domains.

Well, so its not just bloated software that makes software bloated, but bloated facts, too. Users will see specs like that and go "well, I need to upgrade my machine from 2mb to 8gigs now, d'oh!" ...

I think that depends on whether you can vote for them or not. To the non-voter they are definitely ideologues.

Anyone know an easy, out of the box method of doing this inspection on DGXOS (the OS for DGX Spark devices)?

I'm a little miffed that this isn't just an immediate OOBE, but I'm prepared to do some nc/ssh tunnel magic if that'll work properly .. just wondering what other DGX users have vis a vis best practices ..

Politicians are ideologues immune to the negative impacts of their ideology.

We should engineer a society immune to that.

Not Starship Troopers, though.

They guy behind the Helios 11 solar-powered boat (which was recently wrecked alas) is exactly the kind of scrappy know-best upstart rebel that the solar powered catamaran world needs .. with Helios 11 on the rocks, he's returned to Sweden to build his solar-powered catamaran. As much as his methods are cheap and nasty, I think he has a lot of the momentum needed to actually pull this off, having sailed Helios 11 from Finland to Spain ..

https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/helios-11-solar-explore...

With a few tweaks here and there, once he gets the cat design fleshed out, I'm quite sure I'll follow his lead and do my own version in the next year or so .. its such a great idea, and my section of the worlds oceans (Croatian coastline) seems like the perfect place to field such a vessel ..

Yes, usually when the flock is lost in the wilderness, its leaders need to raise their heads and lead the way. Linus is applying the same great engineering methods he's always had.

>Why do think they deserve to be thanked?

This is the way cults are formed, and from cults, culture.

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging people for their great contributions - unless you're rabidly anti-cult, in which case, nihilism.

Fair enough, but Adobe was an upstart at some point in its life .. I remember the days when the Photoshop set were considered rebellious monkeys who didn't play well with the rest of the print industry .. until they came along and ate the print industry's lunch.

I'd go one step further on Gibsons' statement that the street find its own uses for things, and state that everything starts on the street before it becomes corporate, and then it returns to the street, eventually ...

I think this is yet another case where Linus is leading the pack and showing the industry how to adapt to new technology, and indeed, adopt standard best practices for its application.

I'm in the "AI is great!" optimist camp myself, which is how I felt in the very early days of "this little crappy hobbyist Linux kernel thing that'll never go anywhere important" minix-list flamewars.

Once again, Linus demonstrating that those who understand the code, own the code.

Earthships are awesome, yeah, that'd be a great way to get into the bunker. ;)

Converted school bus? Well, the issue is, I don't wanna pay for gas, man, mmkay... ;)

Lua is the ultimate ricer tool. I've put it in all sorts of places and it has pretty much always been a productive boost to the timetables of the projects.

Its also very flexible and allows a great deal of coding styles. I like the declarative API!

My favourite tiny home is a sailboat. My second favourite tiny home is a solar powered boat (a pretty interesting one recently came to an unfortunate end, however), and my third tiny home is a deep, underground bunker.

Dunno why, I do love all the land-surface homes too, but I dream of having any one of the above to live out my latter days ..

I'm lucky enough to have received one of Grace' nanosecond wires, when .. as a fresh young squib .. I attended one of her lectures and got one handed to me by the Admiral herself.

She was a huge influence on me - as a white male tech nerd - and I have long had a huge interest in women in tech, from Grace to Margaret Hamilton to Jeri Ellsworth and Anouk Wipprecht and more. Jeri's demonstration of her self-made transistors and work rebuilding a tunneling electron microscope were fascinating and rank among the most entertaining things I've seen in a hackerspace this century. Anouks' mad fashiontech excursions are positively exciting. There are many other women technologists who deserve our interest.

So its pretty unfortunate that GCH won't happen this year. I hope there are budding young squibs out there who won't see this as de-motivating with regards to their entry into the technology worlds.

It is standard practice in many industries to do hardware audits, including random controls of chip supplies.

These industries are just not sexy enough for the crypto folks to want to learn from, or about.

Yes, that is true.

Yes, Taiwan is the biggest exporter of chips. Have you audited your chips today?

The crypto lunatic fringe have long frustrated me with their assertions of sovereign this and that.

There is no sovereignty in crypto if YOU ARE NOT BUILDING YOUR OWN HARDWARE.

Any claims of sanctity or reliability in the software stack are rendered null and void until someone with a tunneling electron microscope has completed an audit of your chips.

THIS is why Taiwan matters so much, people: there is NO sovereignty for as long as your chips are being imported. You can trust all you want - but trust is nothing without verification. We are all serf-subjects of the wafer-producing overlords.

Ledger clearly drank the koolaid. Crypto people: invest in hardware. NOT software. Anything less is utter futility.

This is what the web is for, kids. An excellent contribution to the understanding of ones fellow human beings.