Isn’t France going through protests at the moment? Destroying the food supply adds pressure, I don’t know enough to guess who did what.

I work with these controllers. Remote access is a lifesaver, makes remote diagnosis much easier, and lets us tell the client to move product before it spoils. Similar refrigeration controllera have had remote capability since the dial-up era, this isn’t a new trend.

With that said, these things need to be behind a VPN. I don’t care if the manufacturer promises their controller is safe for direct access from the internet.

It’s kinda like a factory assembly line, once these things get installed and the system is stable, the client gets allergic to any changes. I come across old control systems that have been running for 30+ years, once it’s in it’s in.

Sometimes, its just the neighbor’s obnoxious beater engine turning over at 3:32am every morning

I needed something like this back when I lived out in the sticks. Could only get 2g - 3g on Verizon at home, had a DSL line for the desktop, high speed connections were prohibitively expensive. Back in the day you could just walk away and let sites buffer while doing other stuff, but as the rest of the world grew faster, low speed customers got left behind. Everything is set to timeout if it fails to load in a couple minutes.

Only solution I ever found was to disable JavaScript, force everything to HTML/CSS only where possible, and use a download manager with automatic retry/restart to download any videos I wanted to watch from YouTube or Facebook.

If you put parentheses around the odd words, you can throw whatever phrase you want in there and it’ll probably still make sense with the ADHD bit afterwords.

You see, I was trying to cast concentration, but I was also overstimming by skim-reading about 3 to 5 different materials at the same time (as god intended), so I grabbed concatenation by mistake.

Good luck dealing with the ManBearPig, something more important has my attention now.

Mind sharing, or is it too much personal info? I dabble in programming every few years, love seeing others’ projects.

All AI is machine learning. Taking many inputs, running them through a series of tests, and using the result to make a decision. Most everything digital you interact with does this in some form or another.

‘AI,’ the marketing fad at the moment, means LLM machine lerning models, which are the ones that can respond in a human-like fashion, but these have limits around the math of linguistics, and there’s other parts built around verifying accuracy of the model output. This type is built on a newish method of training called the transformer model.

None of these are inherently good or evil. Just another part of a toolset someone could use to solve a problem with a computer. There are social issues around how they are used, and who is making/using them. Tech companies are aggressively pushing their new toy out to market, and there aren’t any consumer protection agencies prepared for this. At enterprise scale, many data centers need to be built, and strain will be added to the electrical generation companies / power generation facilities to feed these data centers.

My personal gripe with the whole situation is how local governements are handling this. Taxes are being waived for new constructions, electric supply companies are raising residential rates, all the would-be checks and balances are being paid off so this can all be rammed through. Even my local union has sunk us into it, we’re onboarding apprentices faster than we can train them, we’ll have several hundred more members just to maintain these things. Everyone’s being promised “money.”

All of this is done without any guarantee, no one can say how money will flow from untaxed data centers into the city funds, and all of this demand could evaporate overnight. Companies are being sold a black box that they plug into the wall, and it generates revenue. Everyone’s running skeleton crews, because “AI will eliminate the human workforce,” but all the business reports show that AI isn’t doing much, just that fewer workers are being pushed harder.

I’m mostly pissed at my union, who will not share any info with us, but have admitted to just seeing short-term dollar signs while knowing that if this works out in favor of the tech companies, this is going fuck up the local economy, and put major pressure against the organized workforce across all trades and sectors.

I remember it starting back on reddit in response to the whole “alpha” thing. The point was to goad the alphabros to ask “what’s sigma” then hit them with “sigma nuts.” They would get so pissed off, there was a whole subreddit for barbaric sigma memes mocking them and posting screenshots of sigma nuts.

Then they started taking it seriously, and the joke shifted to asking what they thought sigma meant, and the subreddit started posting screenshots of the insane replies.

Then, people started taking it TOO seriously, and everything went downhill.

Sigma nuts, haHAA

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