One can also monitor for it in nftables. This is from my raw table:
grep CVE /etc/nftables.nft
# Options CVE
iifname "eth0" ip daddr $ADDR4 meta l4proto tcp ip hdrlength gt 5 counter log prefix "CVE-2026-98432: " level debug
Once confident nothing legit would be blocked by dropping the packets one can change "log prefix "CVE-2026-98432: " level debug" to "drop" if on an unpatched kernel.
$ADDR4 in my case in my internet facing interface.
There have been a lot of write-ups about the future of AI. I see two distinct futures:
1. You get ID'd and biometrically scanned to be able to use powerful AI, and after you get de-platformed by an opaque censorship system, you are a digital bum. Same life as homeless now: they cannot even open a bank account because they don't have an address.
2. Local models win, perhaps with the assistance of Apple, and people run suffiently powerful models on the client computers.
3. LLMs are fully commoditized, your country funds training of SoTA models, your town runs them in the municipal data center; everything tax-funded. You can use them for a modest fee, as easily as taking a train. When interacting with those LLMs, your privacy is guaranteed by law.
How many municipalities offer the services of ISPs? I know it’s not zero, but decades of private ISPs leading the market leads me to believe municipal data centers won’t be made available to residents.
How often would municipal data centers need to upgrade/replace hardware? What impact would that have on local tax levy rates?
Would you choose to relocate your family to the next town over because they have more available RAM?
You might be surprised how many places have public broadband. I think they are usually the result of poor private offers.
Compared to sewers, drinking water, electricity and roads it seems a rather simple and cheap thing to build.
My commercial isp offers all kinds of packages clearly designed to extract as much money as possible. I cant even see the prices as everything is hidden behind x months discount. From what i remember 200 mbit is 42 and 2000 is 60 but a phone line and tv become available only if you take the faster package and required with the fastest speeds.
So its like one banana for $1 and 10 bananas for $1.50 If you buy just one you cant buy milk, if you buy 10 you also have to buy milk.
Its also been sold 6 times. Unsurprisingly, each time the service and quality noticably declines and the prices go up.
I see their adds everywhere and they sponsor all kinds of things. It suggests the product is overpriced and doesnt sell it self.
Yes, people did. Well at least I did. We knew we can use QCD to compute loops and to some degree masses in the lattice. But there were serious doubts the underlying mathematical theory was sound.
For many it didn't even matter. It would just mean that at those energies the theory is not even valid.
I am not certain on the extend of this proof but QED is probably not sound on it's own and we have been using that even longer. lambda phi^4 behind symmetry breaking and the higgs is strongly believed to be unsound on its own.
Yes, but it has also been known for 50+ years that QED has a Landau pole and might be UV trivial or inconsistent, whereas QCD has asymptotic freedom and is thus controlled at UV.
More to the point, QCD has been experimentally tested both at UV (deep inelastic scattering) and at IR, while the physical meaning of testing QED at UV Landau pole regime is unclear.
It's a good first step. They're not great but they kind of work for many tasks. I think the small models can be useful in context-specific tasks but the friction is high right now because the user is forced to determine whether Siri is good enough, or a better LLM is required per task. Ideally Siri would be smart enough to intelligently route. Apple claims that's how it works but even their cloud processing is far behind frontier models.
Worryingly, they're taking a walled garden approach, and they don't want to expose user data to competitors. After the monumental failure of Siri over more than a decade, I don't trust Apple to execute competently on AI.
Unless a calamity throws human survivors back to the stone age there can be no future Wright brothers, in the post Tevatron and LHC, James Webb telescope era there will be no new Woz, no new Jobs... 2-3 people in a garage or hanger soldering and welding
Any yet unseen discoveries will require teams of people composing something on the scale of...AI robots and Wolverine like regenerative medicine
And Google and such ...hired PhDs to do that work so they could own it and not have them release it without permission. They weren't hiring basement tinkers.
Look beyond the syntactic totems of power like brand names and logos and it's just soylent green. The contemporary legal and PR gibberish defining ownership and hyping yet another chat app are not real; it's just physics.
Only 17% of people who laid out LLM transformer foundations between 2017 and 2022 had relevant PhDs. Not that I expect it would sway your faith or stop the downvotes, but just quoting anyway:
Lmao "look their own AI says their effort and accomplishments were noble and altruistic; what more do you need?"
...it was their final, most essential command...
Will most def use local models to generate code and frontier to guide that local process but it's obviously a text generator that can be weighted to emit whatever Altman or Dario and the rest of big tech (and their inherent self selecting biological imperative) believe is best for them
Right, for the important stuff, not this LLM bullshit, people did have either PhDs or came from eminent universities and organizations:
"The EU's common-charger initiative can be traced to Solomon Passy and Gergana Passy, two Bulgarian politicians who proposed it in 2008. Interestingly, Solomon Passy had a PhD in mathematical logic and computer science."
AI coding is great but the distribution channels have been closed for a while. App stores are effectively closed for new apps and old internet is dead.
sudo tcpdump --immediate-mode -p -nn -i eth0 -vvv -c 1 'ip and (ip[0] & 0x0f > 5)'
to see if you even get them from upstream.
You can even ping it from outside with these packets in the meantime
ping -R -c 3 $IP
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