In my GPT session today the model was convinced Orange and Blue are not the proper fibers for OM4 LC-LC TX/RX, and it could not tell me the correct ones until I told it they actually were and it can check because there's actually a worldwide standard for it.
Gemini on the freaking free tier got it right at the first try.
And this is not the first time I experienced that GPT - on any version - completely got lost, even when the info for the correct answer is widely available on the Web.
I just had a really interesting yet (funny) conversation with ChatGPT (5). We came up with this idea to make a custom "light box" for two Govee COB light strips which would enable both wall washing (leds shining towards the wall, to the top) and lighting up the wall panels and the desk below the box (leds shining to the bottom) using two led profiles tucked away in this construction.
Text wise it seemed it more or less understood exactly what I wanted...
... but then I asked to draw a simple ASCII layout so my DIY savvy but not really that strong in English dad could understand better what the plan was.
But every single time it got the orientation of the led profiles wrong. I told it the orientation was wrong. It understood that the orientation was wrong (it kept saying sorry even) but even when warned multiple times the orientation was still wrong.
I really wonder if Astra will be smarter than this, and if not AGI still has a veeeeery long way to go...
Now do a analysis on everything else, including the smart fridge in the kitchen.
Or what I am trying to say: Everybody has devices which have the potential to spy on you.
Unless your first name is Richard, only travel with open source hardware and software, and you have to ask someone to lend you a phone if you want to call someone even when you are at home.
How does that make this right? And that a device has the potential to spy with an update doesn’t mean it does or will.
Of course, the AVR will be able to snoop and send what is available. Any smart fridges, ovens, appliances, whatever can. Doesn’t mean that they or should. Also doesn’t mean we should just lie down and give up.
I'm pretty sure it is just a matter of time before the first (open source?) extensions marketplace for Chromium fork extensions will hit the net.
A party like Helium or Brave might even already be working on it. Because while Google might not like it at all, a huge chunk of people love extensions like uBO and ease of use a little bit too much.
Chromium still has MV2 support in the extension loader as of the current state of the Chromium repository at https://chromium.googlesource.com/.
This means that both Microsoft and Google have elected to disable support at build time and alternative, good, Chromium based browser like Helium (https://helium.computer) still support it. As a matter of fact Helium still uses it to fetch and run uBlock Origin out of the box for mitigation against trackers, malware and ads.
/etc/ - all modified configuration files, including
/etc/portage/ - make.conf, package configuration (package.accept_keywords, package.use, and friends)
/var/lib/portage/ - world, and world sets. basically everything portage needs to rebuild the system
/var/db/repos/ - notably local and/or self-owned package repos
/home// - no explanation needed
/root/ - no explanation needed
This should contain enough to pretty much rebuild a Gentoo system from a clean downloadable Stage onwards without (too much) intervention.