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The most straightforward way to make a fridge with monitoring over Ethernet is to slap on a Pi that reads off of the microcontroller managing the temperature onto an existing product. Most microcontrollers don't support raw memory access or reprogramming through regular interface, so faked values on the Web UI won't do much harm.

The most straightforward way to make a fridge with control over Ethernet is to slap on a 5-10 years old industrial temperature control product and wire up sensors and actuators onto it. In such cases, the industrial system that would be now 25 years by now would be running some cumulative 35 years old RTOS and Claude is going to find out it has bunch of basic buffer overflows that can make the fridge explode if exploited.


Making things illegal is easier than making the justice system interpret that written piece of code without crashing and burning.

just leave TxD open...

Apparently the freezers needed to coordinate defrosting. Evens out grid load or whatever. Making everything Internet controllable is one way to achieve that.

The reality is that The Western Civilization, or however you frame and name your own personal lifestyle, is not as huge and dominant as it might seem to you. Every countries have own sets of apps and webs. __1984 is a work of fiction__; there is no united Oceania, Eurasia or Eastasia in real life.

Like any HSMs, to put private keys in it and to let things be signed with it.

They would just run everything through machine translation and throw African labor at moderating it. There's no way they hire moderators locally. Or probably they just let LLM/Jev/Laya handle it nowadays.

And so, the standards of moderation will be increasingly more inconsistent and chaotic as cultural distances between the company HQ in US to the poster of a particular content increases - I see people complaining about food pics getting flagged as pornography in Japanese all the time.

I can't imagine how random the moderation infra will respond to: anti-Muslim propaganda briefs created by violent fundamentalist Buddhism terrorism groups circulated in the minority inhabited contested forested border areas of Myanmar. That description alone sounds Neuromancer enough to that the system might just fail open, before it digests the content and likewise fail open.


To be nitpicky, there's also 縦中横(tate-chu-yoko, "vertical mid horizontal")/横向文字(Héngxiàng wénzì "horizontal direction literal character") in which [0-9a-Z]{2,8} are placed horizontally in the middle of a line.

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...


This is an excellent point, which of course complicates things further :D I'm going to update my worst-case Unicode now.

Someone can probably drop $10m/unit money to a third world ish defense company to have a fully automated, radar slaved, generator backed autocannon in semi trailer or 40ft container form and have couples on the deck, and that is going to recoup in like few years rather than multiple decades, But then there will be risks of the offensive side escalating into coastal defense guns and SRBMs, which are going to be more challenging to shoot at, so peace would be cheaper if attainable, but if that is not an option...

Russian suicide drones are still like minimum $10k each. That's probably like ~1k rounds in 12.7mm/14.5mm or ~200 rounds in 20mm. Missiles are a lot more expensive, but the defense side cost can be substantially lower than the offense side if you could make it work with an auto turret rather than guided missiles.

Smart munitions for the early warning, signal intelligence, and radar, second wave is dumb, fast, cheap munitions for kinetic solving.

Modified cropduster AEW drones for detection and coordination, airburst howitzer rounds for initial sweeping, camera controlled Gatling guns for the ones escaped it, and conventional warhead SRBM for launch sites. Should be both budget and methods proportionate.

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