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Cake day: August 12th, 2024

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  • LLMs are an incredible interface to other systems. Why learn a new system language to get information’s when you can use natural language to ask and the AI will translate into the system language and do the lookup for you and then translate the result into natural language again. The important part is, the AI never gives an answer to your question itself, it just translates between human language and system language.

    Use it as a language machine and never as a knowledge machine!










  • I don’t understand your last point so this applies generally to employees working abroad:

    Many companies use geofencing on their VPN to reduce brute force attacks. If a single employee works from country X they have to put that country on the allow list, increasing spam and attack surface.

    There is also the major concern of security of the laptop itself. Police/border control might force you to unlock the laptop. You are basically adding nation state industrial espionage to the threat model. It could also just get stolen. Or you connect to insecure network infrastructure …

    All this is a concern in your home country as well but most companies are aware of the risks in their own country and want to avoid adding the (unknown) risks of a second country.



  • That is the smallest scale of self hosting. The server and the client are the same device. It is also the most insecure way as you probably don’t have any backups and very limited storage space.

    Actually self hosting is the next step when you decide you want 5+ TB of data and have it automatically create backups. Digital storage media degrade pretty quickly and if you just have your movies on a hard drive in your computer, after 5-10 years you might start to lose quality or some files completely.





  • (I’m just being silly, I recognize that an old package list would probably cause issues with installing or upgrading packages.)

    No problems anywhere you can always install older versions from a repo.

    Upgrade -> update two days ago and then again today will leave me with exactly the same packages as it would if I ran it correctly the first time and then not at all today. Just the state of two days ago.