Any CD or DVD can be ripped into a mountable/runnable .iso file. There's no reason to keep the CD/DVD ROM hardware connected.

Have you ever configured the kernel? As in make menuconfig.

There's a zillion options in there and best practices dictates that you only enable that which you need. For example, why would you enable support for sound cards that don't exist in your board? Beyond wasting space, it could enable some vulnerability discovered in the future.

Example: My PC doesn't have a MIPI DSI display connector (or support for one on the motherboard), so why would I enable support for that in my kernel? Sure, I could compile it as a module and let it sit there, taking up a few kilobytes of space on my hard drive but why?

It makes no sense to support CD ROMs on a VR headset so I completely understand why they didn't enable the driver. Even though it's a "real PC", the Steam Frame is still embedded hardware.

I want to know why this person wants CD ROM support! The Steam Frame has at least a 256GB SSD and a Micro SD card slot. Just put the ISO (or .bin/.cue files) on one of those and mount it like any other loopback filesystem or use FUSE cdemu (yes, Linux has support for that built-in; unlike Windows haha). It'll be a zillion times faster and a vastly superior experience!

Aside: Yes, I know Windows 11 can natively mount an ISO file but it only supports a limited subset of the filesystems that you can find on CD/DVD ROMs. So unless the image is ISO9660 with the Joilet extension or UDF, it's not going to work. Example: Trying to mount a PS1 CD ROM works in Linux but not Windows. Not without 3rd party stuff, anyway.

No, the vulnerabilities were always there, AI is just pointing them out publicly.

I used to work as a professional hacker. Let me tell you something that the news never, ever talks about: If a company doesn't have a bug bounty program, we kept those vulnerabilities to ourselves.

A government has vast resources to do just that: Keep the vulnerabilities to themselves until they feel like using them. They will not disclose them. They will keep them in their back pocket until the day comes when they need them for an op.

The only time they disclose vulnerabilities is when they think they're too easy to find and there's a public interest benefit to getting the problem fixed (e.g. the government is using those products).

What this means is that AI really is making FOSS vastly more secure than it ever was. This is probably pissing off government red teams to no end.

What we're not hearing about as much is AI finding vulnerabilities in closed source products. Not because it's not finding them, but because the disclosures are kept private (because companies treat it as bad PR and they're assholes about it).

You can bet your ass that AIs run by state actors are building up massive war chests of vulnerabilities in closed source products right now. We'll only hear about them after these products get exploited and maybe not even then because so, so many companies have no idea WTF they're doing in regards to infosec. Think about it: How many CEOs are right now demanding their teams reduce the amount of FOSS they use because of the recent news? These people are idiots and apparently never heard that old joke about a new employee making a $100,000 mistake... "We just spent $100,000 training them!"

It's probably because, logically, if you trust the government, communism makes the most sense. In theory, it's the perfect system.

I want to know how it recommended right-wing people should vote. Also, anarchists.

Good news: We're rapidly making FOSS the most secure software ever.

Bad news: We're doing it in the most painful way possible.

AI isn't inherently unethical. The very premise of saying such a thing is flawed.

Is it unethical to use AI to find new drugs and medical treatments? To use it for physics research? What about regular research? Writing code?

Where do you draw the line?

Also, AI was used to design the current crop of fusion reactors and the full potential of that is only just getting started. If it turns out that AI solves all the issues and generates a working fusion reactor design, it'll make every one of your arguments moot. Because that one achievement will be worth everything. It would "save the world" so to speak (from an energy/emissions standpoint).

Chatting with an LLM is less impact than driving a car. Think about that for a second before you say using it is unethical. It's literally more negative for the world for someone to drive a car every day to work than it is to ask an AI to find something on the Internet or write a program in Python.

Or perhaps your underlying complaint is more about capitalism than it is about AI?

Put it into perspective:

• Everyone doing their laundry uses more water than all data centers combined. Golf courses also use vastly more water.
• Data centers use about 1-2% of global electricity.

People driving cars pollutes more as does global shipping, regular old consumerism, etc. The environmental impact of data centers is negligible in the grand scheme of things.

Now that AI is making open source software the most secure software ever written (the hard way, hehe), not using it to scan your stuff is now considered worst practices and basically idiotic negligence. No company that uses software or anything with firmware can afford to ignore it anymore.

There's no way out of it. Accept the new AI reality and push for good regulations. Example: If we made it so that all AI data centers had to be powered via renewable energy on site that would allay most of the energy use/environmental concerns.

Before French Guiana?

Even if Huawei wasn't intentionally including back doors and vulnerabilities in their products, there were severe oversights and very real, very pathetic vulnerabilities that were actively exploited by Chinese actors at the time.

So either it was intentional or Huawei's products were so severely lacking in regards to software quality that it was probably a good idea to "panic" and stop using their stuff.

The anti-AI sentiment here is ridiculous. They were asking a legitimate question!

I just use ollama locally but I keep meaning to setup OpenRouter because I like to play with larger models that my hardware can't handle and I'd like to be able to pick the best deals 🤷‍♀️

That's kind of high for the middle of Louisiana. Just sayin.

Better, readable link: https://www.sci.news/biology/two-marsupials-new-guinea-14648.html