i don't really get the point of this? Its a ITX motherboard with a moible chip. I could buy a itx board and a desktop chip for less. Or get a miniPC with the same chip for even less.
They are trying to disrupt building a PC, which was already modular and easy to upgrade, with a 1000+$ motherboard with soldered RAM?
A big part of this device seems to be trying to provide the memory bandwidth needed for high-performance local LLM inference, in a package that is more designed to be controlled by the user than the Apple Mac Mini/Studio that have so far been the best for such work.
realistically blocking low cost personal VPNs / proxies is pretty easy. Any new servers they stand up are gonna get picked up by commercial threat intel services with an hour and then just blocked. Especially if the CDNs are working with the government.
You could roll your own but wireguard/openvpn going to random hosting provider is gonna achieve the same thing if they are playing hardball.
They're not playing hardball, it's all on a "will this do" basis, like the US state-level bans. They're certainly not going to start blocking random IPs in hosting providers, that's reserved for email spammers.
ya it does seem that way. But, there is a pretty big cohort of people that are like this and they click on stuff to. So i'd guess it's more marketing to sad grind-set loners than deliberate propaganda.
i always think about e911 calling for enterprise VoIP software phones. In order to make sure the calls go the right 911 local call center it is required to have the user enter the address they are using the computer at. It's the law and the fines for routing to the 911 center of last resort aren't cheap. And thats just the tip of iceberg if required employer surveillance just to follow the damn law.
ya it does seem like a good opportunity for US and Asian companies to get public sector research without even having to pay taxes for it. Europe really needs to build out the theory > applied science > product development > actually adding some value pipeline to make this have some impact longer term.
This makes alot of business sense, most orgs know better than to homebrew their mail env on (lets be honest here) "basement hosting LLC". So that leaves the people that are spamming/phishing as the core SMTP customer here.
We lost the personal self hosting fight long ago. I used to do it, but now i pay protonmail to do it for me and even that is losing its luster since proton technology IP blocks are pretty radioactive at this point. Some day will have join the outlook or gmail gang which makes me sad; but setting here in my chair staring at my orgs email firewalls and seeing 80+% inbound volume being auto-blocked as spam, bulk or phishing it make me wonder if anything of value was lost.
go to the IRL hardware / grocery store? I still get out of my chair to go the Costco, Ace hardware, Microcenter and REI's of the world. But short of that target, walmart, home depot have really stepped up their (fast/free) shipping game in the past few years.
Yeah, I do nearly all of my grocery shopping IRL, and about 75% of hardware shopping (at Rollin' Oats and Ace Hardware, respectively, here in St. Pete).
Last few things I bought on Amazon, that I'm not sure where I'll get, at least with reasonably fast shipping:
* Case for a 32" monitor
* Pegboard-mounted magentic knife rack
* Outdoor folding table
* USB and HDMI cables (I guess Newegg?)
* Spice grinder (a particular one)
* Bulk organic coriander seeds (actually they might have these at Rollin' Oats - but what about other bulk dry goods that aren't at small grocers?)
* Shower head
etc etc
And yeah, I guess at this very moment, walmart is perhaps a more ethical option.
Its possible to restrict DIY building of pretty much anything if your end goal was to stop people from doing something outside of their basement with it. I can't build my own open source coal fired power plant and except to sell power without the EPA coming to kill me. Same would be if i used a open source AI that violated some new consumer protection / anti fraud law if i choose to use it over the public internet / build it into a product. Hell you could probably go after the devs for being accessory if you really wanted to.
The license really does nothing to protect your project from regulation its just that the government doesn't care about open source yet.
sounds about right, but I'd up #1 from "basic computer knowledge" to "sysadmin level enterprise system experience" if you want to truly be an expert. Success in cybersecurity on the blueteam side to me is more being a really good sysadmin that is paid to only think about security.
I've seen people that just jumped into the field with just their fancy cybersecurity degree and by god they can tell me exactly what part of MITRE this control handles (in painful detail) but when rubber meets the road they don't really know how domain controllers work. It sometimes doesn't inspire confidence and since we need main IT to listen to us as security "experts" that really can be a issue if they think we can do anything practical. (they don't let us touch their toys)
Im a computer janitor and i know it, just a fancy one with security written on my door.
They are trying to disrupt building a PC, which was already modular and easy to upgrade, with a 1000+$ motherboard with soldered RAM?
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