Man that was an awful read (but well written). As someone who is starting to slowly work on my own consulting activities, I feel I am up against a world of "ripping-off". Thanks for sharing.

They have very limited capabilities compared to bigger more complex models, but for general stuff, they are fantastic. We need to set the expectations correctly of what they can do, I know lots of hype around Gemma 4, even though Qwen3.5 outperformed it. It's just a reliable overall small model, with great small model abilities.

But what was the likelihood of this bug to be exploited by malicious actors?

I don't understand the question.

Somehow we encoded our human thinking or it learned it from all this training on user data.

Honestly right now it's mainly stagnation in frontiere model capabilities. Most of the recent afvancemdnts are towards generation speed, compression and tool usage. The quality of the models are not improving at the same rate as before. I doubt this big gap will continue, given that open source and especially chinese labs keep pushing well documented frontiere papers.

Iran was known to have such capabilities, it's baffling the US wasn't more prepared in its gulf bases.

> it's baffling the US wasn't more prepared in its gulf bases.

Probably want to drop the assumptions about it having anything much to do with US interests. Better to start looking at who has had the alliance that contained them damaged and their oil sanctions lifted.

If only there was a 4 year long war where thousands of drones are flown every day both on offense and defense that we could have learned from ..

Problem is that there was too much propaganda in that war, that parsing propaganda is too difficult even for military watchers, let alone general public. Only when american weapons are being destroyed that, US MIC is willing to acknowledge that may be million+ usd missiles are not solution to cheap drones.

Problem is also that your “Secretary of War” has fired two dozen of your most experienced military leaders since coming into office.

When the history of the American demise as a global superpower gets written, this war and the government behind it, will merit a beefy chapter.

https://www.bostonpoliticalreview.org/post/pete-hegseth-fire...

These traitors will eventually be all prosecuted. They are all traitors with putin connections, every one of them.

There will be no prosecutions. Even if there's a situation where Dems regain power, they don't have the political capital or efficacy to prosecute.

Like how assiduously Obama went after Bush Jr. administration.

...and how decisively Trump was prosecuted for the 6/1/21 attempted ~coup~ tourism, and for how thoroughly the Epstein child abuse ring was dismantled, and...

Yes, the only chance the US has going forward is to primary all current incumbents and hold both party leadership accountable for complicity in treason.

Even that won't matter. The problem isn't the elected officials, the problem is that most of the county doesn't care either way.

nobody will prosecute them, unless there is regime change in the USA

Haha, by whom? There are zero higher-ups who are actually getting institutional backing and are in favor of this.

Look at how Mamdani didn't even get any backing. Quite the opposite, he was obstructed. And he's 100x more palatable to them than the idea of prosecuting the traitors.

This is a completely unrelated problem, the US MIC is heavily incentivized to invent new problems.

> I got to say people also seem to be missing really simple tricks with RAG that help. Using longer chunks and appending the file path to the chunk makes a big difference. > > Having said that, generally agree that keyword searching via rg and using the folder structure is easier and better.

It depends on the task no? Codebase RAG for example has arguably a different setup than text search. I wonder how much the FS "native" embedding would help.

A stupid question, what's the risk?

The risk is minimal if you control or trust both networks. A network boundary is a natural choke point for access control, so that's where it's usually implemented. For an ipv4 boundary router (as is the topic of the post) you almost certainly need to configure Network Address Translation because your internal network addresses are non-routable on the Internet (at uni my dorm had public IP addresses for each student computer, fun times).

As for the GP's example, running VM's or containers* on your own machine? I'd say the default ACCEPT policy is fine. However, silently changing such a setting on software installation is a problem because if the machine is multi-homed (i.e. has more than one network interface), you've now created a network route outside of the network admin's control.

* The default for docker and podman is to use a private network, not a bridge anyway.

It's can also commonly be a problem if for example you are connected to multiple LANs via wireguard or similar.

Basically you're introducing a hole. For example, if you have some devices in your network (like a dodgy TV box) that are not supposed to reach the internet or other parts of the network, the computer with net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 could be used as a pivot. Depending on the routing tables you probably would also need to enable IP masquerading (NAT) to allow bidirectional communication.

In almost all Linux based router setups: folks end up using 6to4 tunnels, packet marking, and interface routing priority.

Setting that up with safe/fair bandwidth-sharing requires intermediate IT skill level. Still a great hobby project =3

that you'll get it wrong, I suppose.

after all, most routers/WAP/gateways that you buy today will have linux on the inside, configured similarly.

What did Apple do?

Grabbed up as much ram as they could, nearly no questions asked, at above market rates in some cases, ramping up the perceived demand and decreasing supply significantly.

There is a possibility the IRGC are trolling, given it's April's Fool today.

Kill they Supreme leader and 40 other leaders, destroy their Navy and Airforce and give them 30 days of B1 and B2 night and day bombings, and they decide it still worth it to joke on Aprils Fools ? :-) I have to give to them...

I guess this is supposed to be funny but I wouldn’t take that chance.