You’ve never used an LLM against an MCP server with a properly built API. The ad hoc shit you can do is amazing.

Imagine you are managing 1,500 endpoints. A mix of Windows (both clients and servers), Mac, and Linux. Now imagine that one day there’s a CVSS 10.0 in Eclipse Temurin 17 and you suddenly need to know everywhere it’s installed and which precise 17.x version.

You could spend all damn day fussing with SQL -or- you could fire up $LLM and tell it “Give me a report showing all installed instances of Temurin below version 17.3. Sorted by endpoint type and operating system”.

Suddenly want to know how many windows workstations haven’t rebooted in more than 14 days? You can do that and get an answer in not much more time than it takes you to type the question.

Suddenly need to change a setting in 15 different Microsoft Tenancies? Snap, it’s done.

LLMs are NOT magic bullets but they are useful for WAY more than what you listed. You just don’t know that because you don’t do that kind of work.

The idea of putting Cameras on City Vehicles and using AI to find problems, including Code Enforcement issues, is a good one IMO. The problem, as the article notes, is what that data is going to be used for in the future. We used to call this a Slippery Slope argument but the past 10 years have proven that if data is harvested that it will eventually be misused; it’s some kind of parallel to Godwin’s Law that I am going to coin as “Flock’s Law”.

In this specific instance Flock’s Law tells us that the authorities will inevitably start scanning the photos / videos for people in order to track movements, the Police will be in the database stalking people, and you’ll start getting tickets for over-filling your trash can.

Meanwhile all people really want, and what won’t happen, is someone to come by to get that absolutely jungle of a lawn mowed, fix a broken sidewalk, replace a missing street sign, or move the damn boat / camper / trailer / junk car that has been parked in the street for the last year.

The only way to stop or reverse this is to get conservative capitalists out of our government.

So basically everyone including the Democratic Socialist Mayor of Seattle.

…so the next actionable step is to vote for and support socialists…

On the east Coast the formerly fiery Mamdani has gone silent on this issue since becoming Mayor.

I can find examples of this kind of thing from all over the United States. I’m using Mayors Wilson and Mamdani because they directly refute the idea that “Socialists” will stop this. They clearly will not.

There’s a permanent home for you at lemmy.today if you want it. I’m sure we could give you enough controlto be comfortable.

Hot rivers cannot cool down a nuclear reactor.

The reactor(s) don’t care if the water is 20c or 30c so they don’t shut down the plant(s) because the river is too hot to cool them. They shut them down because the output water becomes so hot that it kills flora and fauna.

Probably cost. Way cheaper to simply intake and output water than too build and maintain a ground loop heat exchange.

I’d guess that either your supply can’t deliver the 15 Amps the radio needs or the radios internal voltage regulator has a problem.

My S26+ is decent and it was a nice upgrade over my S22+.

Foldable flip phones are an overly complicated solution to a nonexistent problem.

They solve the same problems as the original folding phones. They allow you to keep you phone in your slacks or skirt pocket without destroying the look of your outfit or the screen of your phone.

Slab phones are a disaster for pocket-ability. Yes you can shove it in your back pocket where it looks like ass, breaks your ass when you sit down, and breaks the screen or the phone itself if you sit down in the wrong way or on the wrong thing.

Folding phones solve those problems.

Sam Altmen made a comment on wanting to see basically compute sold as like a utility to people.

Meh, that idea is as old as Compute itself. In the early days, basically the 50’s into the 80’s, you had dumb terminals that only provided a connection to the actually powerful centralized hardware. Think mainframe although it went by different terms at different times.

Every decade or so someone like Altman regurgitates the concept and to date no one has been able to make it widely successful. For example Microsoft has been chasing it since the NT4 days when they licensed multi-session technology from Citrix and rebranded it as “Remote Desktop Services”. It’s still in use today by corporations but outside of particular industries with high demands for secure remote access you’ll almost never see it.

So the idea and actual implementations of it have been around for decades but it never catches on because it’s always more expensive, less performant, and less flexible than hoped for.

With that said if you cock your head and squint we kinda sorta reached it with all the browser and app based online services like e-mail, listening to music, etc. Kinda. It breaks down though in the exact place that it always has…when you want to create something more involved than a text document. Suddenly it’s back to it being more expensive, less performant, and less flexible than doing it on local hardware.

The Orange buffoon’s trade war and China’s anti-competitive internal practices aren’t much to do about.

How do you get that? The two biggest declining markets were the United States and China!

It’s been funny to see how quickly liberal democracies retreat from their professed love of the free market as soon as it threatens to challenge their market share.

It’s worker protection, something I thought most people here on Lemmy agreed with. No western nation can compete with China on price without completely gutting 7 decades of worker, social, and environmental protection laws.

It’s been funny to see how quickly liberal democracies retreat from their professed love of the free market as soon as it threatens to challenge their market share.

As opposed to illiberal democracies like China who do it by not allowing anyone free access to their market in the first place?

Nah, they already know that they don’t work.

The upper basin states aren’t fighting to keep water from the colorado river for data centers. At all.

Most mass shootings, school or otherwise, are done with firearms that were legally acquired by the shooter themselves. No amount of secure storage is going prevent the shootings because the shooter presumably has access their own gun safe.

Instead of insulting people why don’t you spend the time educating yourself so you can comment from a place of knowledge.

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/28/mass-shooting-nashville-guns-legally

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/03/us/how-mass-shooters-got-their-guns.html

https://www.concealedcarry.com/safety/background-checks-and-mass-shooters/

Those two issues collide so rarely that bringing them up together is a clear signal that the commenter is ignorant on the subject.

Same.

Same.

I live in Wyoming so I understand rural, however we are not the only folks with a “real” use for trucks. Plenty of reasons for a townie to own one.

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