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"The point of buying the server wasn’t to save money, it was to build something cool." In the end, this is always the real answer - one that I'm sure we can all agree is the 'correct' one too.

So... paired with https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-included-o...

and one has a complete hardware solution?

Misleading title :-/ Gotta do better tbh. At least there's a link to the actual (public mind you) tweet, but still.

Huh? WTH happened?... Love to learn the inside story, this sounds insane.

Reality check. Car gets stolen. You tell the cops the exact location of car. They tell you to fill out paperwork. You pick up said paper work two weeks later. Insurance does ( or doesn't ) do it's thing.

I would have a totally different feeling - if I believed that the cops would 'do' anything. They have impressed me, and my five decades on this planet, at the lengths they will go to not do their job ( or flat out do the opposite if it fits their wants. )

Third'ly?... Nuitka is amazing. Simply as that.

Really?... Isn't the 'underlying' skill ( and it was hard for me to write that last word )... being able to communicate? Are we really going to call this anything but the ability to write one's thoughts intelligently?

I just hope it isn't another ( there's been more than one ) NASA level "announcement" on astrobiology that's going to rewrite the "book". These sorts of headline grabs do nothing to help in the end. This is feeling like another one of these, and I'm hoping to be proven wrong - as who wouldn't love a mr. fusion in their future.

Can confirm, at least at my college. I don't see how this is helping anyone / society at large - and worry how it will play out long term.

My 'fav' class as an undergrad was also the hardest. I was 'lucky' to have received a 'C'. There was one 'A', one 'B', my grade ... in a class of perhaps 30. When a grad student asked about the curve on the first exam - the prof calmly explained that he wasn't going to be that prof...

That prof being one that curved everyone up to make their life easier by keeping everyone happy. Rather, we needed to learn the material and figure it out asap.

I learned from that class, I didn't know how to learn - and was totally confused, as I was a great student with great grades, etc. But that talk hit me hard, I realized that he was correct - and I needed to change.

That wake up call, nearly three decades ago, has since allowed me to learn novel tools, technologies, etc - where others struggle. I have benefited personally incredibly from knowing how to learn - many won't understand what I'm saying nor will they realize why it is important. Too often, my peers - other prof's will make an easy class/test/etc to make everyone happy and pass that buck forward (after all, admin is happiest when the customers are happiest). Are we really helping these students though?

I've been lucky to work with teams from Brazil, India, China, etc - these folks have been pushed in ways that would seem inhumane by the standards I'm reading in the comments. These folks are the ones that industry (and the individual for that matter) wants and will want, as they know what they are doing and are able to learn novel technologies as they emerge.

I tell my students the importance of learning how to learn, that their competition isn't in the room with them - it's thousands of miles away...They just want an 'A' for that six figure job that they have been promised. Indeed, whenever I hear that "six figure paycheck" my heart aches and I'm saddened that someone in advising/online/etc keeps pumping this idea out. In my opinion, a bit of discomfort in a synthetic environment like academia - for the possibility of a lifetime of ease now being taboo is beyond saddening.

Reading through all the responses...My personal take on what I've been reading.

The amount of cheating that I ( and my fellow professors ) have seen during these past few years has absolutely exploded (in a way that is beyond belief, and I've been doing this for a while).

The techniques others have outlined/alluded to ( camera off, a big life event just happened, looking off camera, noise, etc ) are all things that I've been seeing. And whilst this is nothing to be lauded, after all how many vectors are there, I do think that perhaps a solution is looking towards academics. (just saying...)

How fun (not) is that....

There are many projects that have experimented with something like this - and personally, I think this is the way to go. Staked ID...

As I see it, the hurt is going to come from more hoops expected, as any burdens are always passed down to the individual. In in an ideal world, companies would actually read/think/analyze all the data/metadata they already have; however, we don't live in this world. And the individual's going to have to spell everything out in gross detail.

Totally confused why folks are not understanding/believing what you've stated. I can attest, this is happening and at 'top' tier places. I can't tell you how spot on you are regarding the camera off strategy.

Happened with my partner, and have heard of this from a lot of friends. This is a real issue. It hurts 'real' candidates and everyone that takes time to be apart of the hiring process.

HR dept's are simply unable/ill-equipped to handle this new reality. Honestly, at larger org's this is really an upper management issue first and foremost, as HR dept's are sort of benefiting from these frauds. ( Before you go off on that last sentence, I did say 'sort of' - and I personally believe in 'you get what you incentivize'...so)

From my understanding though, these 'prices' are outdated nearly as quickly as they are published. I.e. sure you have a set, but everything is dynamic and changing. Seems like it would require a ML approach to 'understand' such a dataset going forward.

This surprises...nobody? Except maybe bean counters/management types that need to show off perhaps.

With that said, I do have concerns. These issues center around a shift in benefits offered as a result of this new paradigm ( hate using that word but ) around the nature of work. I.e. the gig everything economy coming to your job...soon

Many folks in the US work a 9to5 not just for the pay, rather for healthcare and stability. However, it's only a matter of time that employees will become even more API'ified / made into independent contracts / etc. I know that many will welcome the flexibility - some though will not understand what this means.

I do wonder how the US will be able to handle this continued move away from 'trad' employment, given our rather odd situation of one's medical being tied at the hip to one's employer? Those that work in other jurisdictions need not fear the loss of a job as much as a US citizen. Literally, you could die ( just look at how many of those that were made unemployed during the pandemic lost access to medical. )

Just my musings...

I honestly see this as the 'things to come' - and sort of impressed that these technologies/ideas haven't been used sooner.

With that said, I too think that it would be a HUGE gain for all if ownership / control could be transferred. However, most people cannot properly control stuff they dearly care for, and could see this becoming a HUGE headache for the stores to manage after the sale.

Perhaps an after purchase website that you register your info and products ( maybe connecting said devices to your phone(s) or other BLE devices .) The big issue is, you're on the job - forgot your phone/etc...and can't drill a hole. Although, most people would be more likely to forget their shoes than their phone.

This really hits home, decades ago - I was working at this place that did daily tape backups. I remember thinking, this is unreal - there's literally a room filled with tapes.

One day, I asked if they ever had performed a recovery off of the tapes, as I questioned if the tapes were even being written to. (NOTE: Backups was not my job at all. )

Why had I brought this up? I would be in the server room and never saw the blinky lights on the tape...well.. blink. Everyone literally laughed at me, thought was a grade A moron.

A year later, servers died... Pop'ed in the tape... Blank. No worries, they had thousands more of these tapes. Sadly, they were all MT. They had to ship hard drives to a recovery shop, and it was rather expensive.

I left shortly after this.

Thanks so much for that read :-)

This sounds way too convenient - basically the modern day equivalent of the "dog did it".

So we're to believe that a rogue computer code screwed up?.. i.e.: nobody in charge mess'ed up?

Why again do those with the largest paychecks, given the largest slack?

FinTech Idea: Create a website whereby foreign capital can be sent to a local for the purchase of real estate. Maybe even allow said local to live inside of the dwelling provided they pay a small service fee of sorts.... /s

Perhaps though there is something here. If only there was a means of connecting these two groups, keeping in mind the additional parameters of those with the cash.

After all, nobody likes a haircut. I'm sure the 'big' boys are doing this - I'm really targeting the rich (not the RICH) supervisor that has enough to buy one to two properties. Might be after the fact - as others have pointed out, there are a number of additional controls in place.) Still...

Litter robot 3 owner here... take note, the company's tech support ain't at all as it should be. My partner got the device, I'm responsible for its running.

Had issues and tried to interface with their tech support. Unless you email with the person's email that bought it - nothing. Then when you email them with that person's email - nothing.

There are a number of systemic issues that I think can be fixed either in firmware (which I guess they don't believe in updating) and/or a hardware upgrade kit (which I'm willing to buy - if I felt that they understood the issues.)

In this day and age, not allowing easy community access to root out issues is just not excusable. They need to spend more on updating their site for honest feedback and less on the advertising that they have been up to of late.

Correct.

This is not what happened here.

Great first (if baby) step.

As others have already said here, more is needed.

I think another proper move would be to abolish police unions - nationally. This coming from a pro-union individual; however, these organizations have failed the public in my opinion.

And it's not really their fault. Unions are tasked with strictly defined goals around protection/advancement of wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions. To fail to advocate for these on the behalf of their paying members - opens them up to lawsuits themselves.

Ideally there would be an organization that would stand up for the protection of the individual in police organizations, the current structure(s) we have in place simply are not congruent with respect to protection of both the working individual in an organization and the public at large.

Agreed all around.

The sooner we can put this data/historical records atop decentralized solutions, the better.

Whilst a fun idea to explore... Bit of a reach :-) LOL

There's something about that old hardware still, probably a lot of us here fondly recall those days.

Would I seriously consider using this hardware for any mission critical project... nah (and I know, the Dharma Initiative had great success with one and all; still.)

I don't know... is it wise to piss off Skynet? (I wouldn't) ;-)