This isn’t uncommon. There’s a few things you can try:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/realtek-ethernet-persistent-connection-issue

The other thing that is unusual is that you said when you connected a known good device it connected at 1Gbps but in your dmesg output it is only connecting at 100Mbps. Is it being plugged directly into your router/could you power cycle that device to see if maybe it is responsible for the link drop (also the cable could have some insulation damage and is picking up intermittent EMI).

At 32K, the best model (GLM 4.5) fabricates 1.19% of answers

Not bad, I don’t know many people who are 98.81% accurate in their statements.

I’m sure this will make RAM cheaper

I still have my great grandfather’s torches and pitchforks in the family armory, so I’m ready for the next stage also.

They’re giving good advice but, in my opinion, they are using the reputation of Mullvad to ‘privacy-wash’ their public image by associating with a trusted brand.

WhatsApp is not a secure messaging service, your messages are not private. Being end to end encrypted doesn’t mean anything if both ends are compromised by having the app installed on them (or being vendor rooted).

As someone who has thought about it, could you provide the data that you used to come to the conclusion that the amount of water being extracted from the air has any appreciable effect on local life?

From my thinking…

Death Valley covers 7800km^2.. Atmospheric moisture is typically contained in the first 10km of air. So there is somewhere around 2.5 quadrillion cubic feet of air containing 114 billion gallons of water.

The average Atmospheric Water Vapour Residence Time is around 8 days The median is 5 days and Death Valley’s topography is a valley which would trap more moisture, but we’ll use the average instead.

This represents a moisture turnover rate of about 625,000 Liters/second (or 1.45x10^10 gallons/day).

So, one of these devices would consume .000185% of the moisture that enters Death Valley every day.

Stealing them is felony grand theft.

Vandalizing them is a misdemeanor (typically, check your local laws and also don’t do crimes).

If they were all stolen, it’s an easy PR ‘woe is us, think of the children’ win for Flock.

If there’s a bunch of social media posts that are showing chopped down flock cameras just laying on the side of the road then it has better optics from the point of view of ‘We don’t want country-wide surveillance networks’.

It’ll probably look like the electric kettle market. Where you can buy 11,000 different brands on Amazon for barely more than material costs.

There’s nothing rare about RAM other than the ability to do high resolution lithography, China is more than capable of mass producing this just like any other product.

US Tech companies have relied on their monopoly status to charge whatever prices they would like. There is a HUUUUGE amount of room between the material costs and the wholesale price and any Econ 101 student will tell you that this creates fertile ground for new competition.

Even selling RAM at half price, they’re still earning nearly 2x pre-AI RAM prices. That’s way more than enough to grown a company.

Finally, we can have sci-fi future that is just weird, rather than dystopian.

A Trump controlled VPN service, seems safe.

AI products are getting to ‘New Crytocurrency’ levels of scam.

There’s plenty of idiots who don’t understand the technology and have too much money, so this promises to be a lucrative line of scamming for a while. (I’m sure Trump is working on consumer protection regulations as we speak /s)

The only way we are going to see any meaningful regulations on social media companies is if EU countries impose them.

It won’t come from the US, they own the politicians and media so regulation would be instantly made unpopular via the propaganda channels that they control.

My idea would be a completely peer to peer system with the possibility of allowing your data to be cached to servers (so your phone isn’t serving a viral video to 10,000,000 viewers, for example) that you choose/own/rent.

Even instances are vulnerable, probably moreso in some areas. For example, if someone bribed the owner of this instance to allow for them to insert malware payloads into the site’s javascript it would be much harder to detect than if Facebook did the same (less eyes on the problem).

It does save us from The Algorithm and the resulting propaganda, so it’s a positive step imo… but you’re right that it needs improvement.

I think that it’s awesome and congrats to whatever group put that together.

This is an entirely predictable outcome, the only reason that AI robotics have taken so long to catch up to LLMs and image generators is because there isn’t an Internet full of thousands of TBs of text and images to train on.

It takes time to develop the training sets for robots and the easiest data to generate would be human generated so humanoid robots are the inevitable outcome of the data required to train these networks.

It seems to me that these are not real problem, other countries solved them dozens of years ago, it is just that you people (assuming you are from US) don’t want to solve them.

I’m aware of the problems and I donate a large portion of my time towards working to fix these issues which were put into place long before I was born. These systems exist as they do for a lot of reasons, many of which are bad. Fixing them will take time and political willpower which, prior to ID being weaponized as a means of cutting off voters, did not exist in the US.

It isn’t as simple as printing out a QR code or loading personal documents onto an ISO 14443-compliant smartcard. It will require infrastructure, staffing and public education. This isn’t something that can be done by election day (in November '26).

They would be a problem for the exact same reasons if they were proposed by Biden. But I still belive that a selection of who can vote done as you suggest is impraticable, you have no way of knowing who vote what before. A massive refusal to allow a certain population to vote would be noted in the end.

It’s bad idea no matter who is in charge. All of our voting systems are open to observers and there are multiple observers at all critical points of voting.

Circumventing all of those checks by having a single system who can simply deny a person the ability to vote with no recourse is a bad idea, it would have been a bad idea under Biden and it is a bad idea now.

A massive refusal to allow a certain population to vote would be noted in the end.

It doesn’t need to be massive to affect outcomes. A few thousand votes can swing close elections.

Even if someone notices something strange. Do you imagine that Donald Trump would allow for the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the Department of Homeland Security’s handling of claimed election interference? Would the newly elected Republican Congress vote to impeach him if he didn’t?

If someone notices vote interference, should they call Donald Trump’s FBI, Donald Trump’s DHS or Donald Trump’s CIA? How do you imagine that conversation would go once it made it to the attention of Pattel, Noem or Gabbard?

Oh yeah, the federated social media software isn’t perfect, I agree.

However, by leaving these giant advertising companies and data silos who side-hustle as a ad-ridden social media sites, we blunt that power which is being used to pour propaganda and misinformation into democratic systems around the world at the whim of a few individuals.

I’ll take some lost data, deleted instances and migration difficulties in exchange.

Digg may be ok…

No.

All of these services are okay at the beginning. That’s how it always starts, then in a few years there’s an optional subscription and then there are now tiers to the subscription and now you have to use their app and give it every permission on your phone, etcetc.

Stop going to these centralized services. The centralization of ownership is the problem, not any specific website or owner.

I agree with you in principal, verifying your identity before voting is important because elections are important. We should be having a conversation about creating a system that is both comprehensive and also doesn’t impose a burden on people without means. For example, a lot of people don’t have an ID to satisfy the proposed requirements and would have a difficult time getting these credentials before election day.

In addition, in order to get these documents a person would have to jump through a lot of bureaucratic loopholes and pay fees. Many of these people are poorer and are more affected by the dire economic situation. The systems are complicated and despite being involved in this sphere for a few years I couldn’t tell you the steps and fees required to get all of the documents. This isn’t a simple system where a person can just walk into a government office and walk out with a working ID.

If we’re going to have a system requiring Secure IDs (I’m not sure the EU analog, but you guys have a similar secure identity scheme being pushed) then we need to make getting Secure IDs dead simple because the average citizen needs to be able to vote and also shouldn’t be subjected to heavy administrative burden in order to participate in the democratic system.

In this case, this isn’t even about showing an ID. There is an electronic system being created by the DHS, at the whim of Donald Trump, which is implementing a project that is not authorized or funded by laws passed by Congress (so, its already an illegal expenditure of funds). This project is intended to be given to the States so that on election day a person’s information can be entered into the system and the system will say if they are a valid citizen or not. If the system says that they are not a citizen, then they cannot vote.

One of the, many, many, problems with this system is that we have no idea how it works internally. The proposal is to allow a black box system that is controlled entirely by Donald Trump be responsible for determining who is and isn’t allowed to vote. Any errors of this system that occur on election day and disqualify people from voting will result in people being unable to vote and also unable to meaningfully challenge their disqualification in court (because they have until midnight to vote and no courts work that fast).

Even if you trusted Donald Trump to fairly and impartially administer elections (and if you do then you are probably a crazy person in the thrall of the US alt-right propaganda campaign), the system has objectively failed on simple tests and has rejected actual US Citizens. We have no idea how this system works and why it is rejecting US Citizen.

On top of all of that. The entire premise that this system was created to solve was the idea that the outcome of US elections have been altered by non-citizens voting. There is no evidence that non-citizens are voting and the actual cases of voter fraud that are brought by State and Federal law enforcement are nowhere close to the scale required to actually change election outcomes (there may be 100-200 election fraud cases across the entire US in any given election year).

So, it’s a system which unilaterally gets to determine who can vote. It exists to solve a problem that isn’t happening, it is not authorized by law, and is controlled by a person who has shown both the intention and immorality to subvert democratic outcomes up to and including using mob violence, witness intimidation and political pressure against his enemies.

You’re right that having secure, fair and free elections are important. In my opinion, this system doesn’t solve any problems and exists completely to allow for Donald Trump to disqualify people at scale using external data which allows for them to determine which way a person is likely to vote. We don’t know how the system works and it could be as simple as If Democrat Voter -> Disqualify 30% of the time.

It’s illegal, created for criminal purposes and will likely be an exhibit in the Conspiracy Against Rights/Treason cases against Trump, his minions and his financial backers once they’re swept from power in the midterms and then impeached and removed from office.

This is a conspiracy I can get behind!

Oh yeah this part is 100% my personal inference:

That makes me think that they would use the SSN database and other intelligence sources in order to setup the system to fail at a much higher rate for everyone but likely MAGA voters.

It isn’t completely baseless, the DHS has created a tool called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE. The push on the right is to make it so that everyone has to prove their citizenship in order to vote. So a system like this SAVE system is what they would want to put in place to make it easy to ‘verify citizenship’ at polling places.

Having an electronic tool who’s underlying system is a complete black box and exclusively controlled by the executive branch which has been shown to incorrectly identify people’s citizenship status would allow a group acting in bad faith to surreptitiously introduce ‘errors’ that affect voters who have been identified (by the domestic spy network that is Google and Co.) as being likely opposition voters.

I’m not saying that this is what IS happening. I’m saying that this system is exactly the kind of system that you would design if you were trying to do what I’m suggesting.

Here’s a source about the system, because you shouldn’t just trust ‘people’ on the Internet:

https://www.propublica.org/article/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion

The Trump administration is building a computer system so that States can ‘verify’ a person’s citizenship prior to allowing them to vote.

This system has failed in many, many ways. That makes me think that they would use the SSN database and other intelligence sources in order to setup the system to fail at a much higher rate for everyone but likely MAGA voters.