Go away with your ads, Lemmy is not the place for them.

Holy shit I misread “outlined” as “outlived” and had a mini panic attack until I reread the sentence.

I am an IT guy at a financial company, I have been put in charge of rolling out Copilot pro licenses to anyone who wants them, I have yet to roll one out for myself.

I learn far more by doing the work myself than to just ask an AI.

The most I use an AI for is like an advanced search engine.

If I am coding something in a web project, then I might ask it something like.

“I want to make a loading bar similar to the humanity theme from Ubuntu 9.04, how can I set up a custom style in CSS?”

I then check the sources and work from there.

I may not be as productive as other people using AI to a larger extent, but I have a better understanding of the end product.

To be perfectly frank, I find AI responses to be quite annoying and mostly just dumb, though it does get good sources.

For me it was when I noticed that some of my photos had been affected by bitrot.

Instarted building my NAS last year, and got caught up in the increased HDD cost, I need two more 8TB drives to get my 32TB Zraid2 going.

I was going to use TrueNAS, but now that they have turned their back on opensource, I am not so sure anymore

It absolutely might, but you should still keep an eye on the battery’s physical condition.

In general, laptops are good about keeping the battery charged properly, but lithium batteries does not like to be charged to 100% constantly.

Sweet, one word of caution though…

Keep an eye on the battery, see if you can run the server without it installed, if it starts swelling, that means it has started to become unstable, and may become a fire hazard.

Yeah, it has always seemed creepy to me how positive it is about anything you ask it.

I hardly ever use it, and when I do I imagine I am talking to a beautiful saleswoman with a large name tag with the logo of the company.

The AI may be pretty, but it always represents someone else’s interests

Because investor confidence is all that matters.

Good, as it should for normal people as well

Absolutely, I was just thinking about how to do it cheap and simple.

There was an old Defcon talk about something similar, how to make a system to physically destroy hard drives using a mechanism inside a server that could be triggered automatically or remotely.

They tried a bunch of things from thermite to acids, but didn’t get anywhere really.

It made me think however…

What about injecting sand into the drives and actuating the read/write head?

I have seen photos of a hard drive crash, where the head grinded off all of the magnetic layer from the platters.

My idea was to inject sand as a grinding agent and use the read/write head as a grinder to do the same thing.

Then I realized that if you are a huge customer, you can probably have custom hard drives on order, these drives could have a dedicated physical grinding arm, designed so that once deployed it would quickly grind the magnetic layer off of the platters.

Now SSD have made these concepts mostly redundant, but still a fun thought experiment.

Ah, yeah, didn’t think of that, good point!

I have seen devices that can allow an American power plug to be transfered from one powered outlet to another, specifically to allow police to capture running servers so the RAM isn’t cleared.

I have also heard of RAM being frozen with liquid nitrogen while powered on to allow later analysis.

The first part is less of a problem in this case as the outlets are different here, but to completely defeat this sort of power manipulation servers can easily be designed with internal switches that releases as the server is pulled from the rack, cutting the power internally.

That also reduces the effectiveness of the second attack, which is easy to reduce further by simply making the case take longer to open.

Sigh, as the global tensions increase, so will the need for computing power for governments.

Cyberdefence is critical for survival, and the threats are just increasing.

Ah, I just had a quick look, and indeed, it is rather interesting, i just woke up in the middle of the night and will check it out further in the morning.

Ah interesting!

I need to check that out, I had no clue of where to start searching.

There was a thread recently which devolved slightly into a war between Lemmy and Piefed.

It made me think about why I am still on Lemmy, since Piefed is supposed to be better…

The issue for me is the UI, I like that lemmy.zip looks like old Reddit, piefed looks rather different and I have yet to find any way to make it look like old reddit.

Cool tech, but the issue with this in warfare is that you paint a shiny line through the air between your recharge point and your drone, giving away the position of both.

The issue I have with GUI and wrapper tools on Linux is that I don’t know how they have implemented the standards, I know several tools that only deals with the basic stuff and leave you high and dry for the advanced stuff.

Which I feel is missing the point, if you have a gui it should support advanced stuff as well as the basic stuff, else you will train your self wrong, and have to unlearn a lot of crap

To be fair, it is a threat to everyone