That you can’t plug into a traditional computer and that has not even pads for a video connector to be soldered to.

Folks just don’t realize how exotically different they have ultimately made the GPU packaging for datacenters. B200/B300 come in very specific packaging that is nowhere near a PCIe card.

Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure

Broadly speaking, the private keys can be protected.

For ssh, ssh-agent can retain the viable form for convenience while leaving the ssh key passphrase encrypted on disk. Beyond that your entire filesystem should be further encrypted for further offline protection.

Passkeys as used in webauthn are generally very specifically protected in accordance with the browser restrictions. For example, secured in a tpm protected storage, and authenticated by pin or biometric.

For ssh, ssh keys.

For https, webauthn is the way to do it, though services are relatively rare, particularly for self hosting, partly because browsers are very picky about using a domain name with valid cert, so browsers won’t allow them by ip or if you click through a self signed cert

Because if they can make for consumers, then there’s a shit ton of investor money waiting for some tech bro to turn it into ‘AI’.

The tech industry companies are playing with nigh unlimited house money, consumers can’t compete.

Though that supply will be a bit annoying.

Oh look, super expensive GPUs… In an HGX board that is useless for even connecting to a PC, let alone have graphics.

Memory modules, but they are HBM or otherwise soldered to a Grace board…

SSDs, but EDSFF… Guess at least a cage for this could be some for home usage.

HDDs, but SAS. Not too or of reach for home builds, but still not as likely to just plug into home gear as SATA.

From my talking with someone who grew up under a nation with a corrupt regime, self respect is a luxury that people under such a regime cannot afford when dealing with the government.

Small, petty, corrupt government personnel are a way of life and people just accept this sort of stuff as mundane fact of life.

So such folks are uniquely emotionally prepared for this sort of interaction.

Yeah, they bought a modest, niche product with a likely viable business case, and then bet they could make it an everyman’s device for all their socializing and experiencing events like sports and music…

The people that actually wanted the device got to take a back seat to them chasing non-existent markets for it… Their aspirations so impossibly high that a niche device could no longer justify itself against the money spent chasing that non-existant market… So something that should have been for some VR nerds to be happy and sustain the business while the rest of the world shrugs and say ‘I don’t get it’ becomes an ‘Obviously this is a failure of a concept and no one should bother doing this’.

So I heard an interview with one of her associates and they seemed pretty pragmatic about whatever sucking up they need to do to make Trump change things the way they think needs to be changed. And it didn’t sound like they were disappointed or shocked or anything, just that’s the way things go.

Reminds me of speaking with a colleague that was an immigrant from a country with a well known corrupt government. He just couldn’t get as shocked as the rest of us over Trump’s behavior. He recognized it as bad, but as far as he was concerned, that was just life and he was used to it. Disappointed for things to start feeling a bit too much like his home country to be sure, but overt corruption was just the way things were. I could imagine being in the thick of such a government and just being boringly normal about this level of petty corruption.

100 billion is a touch higher than I’ve read elsewhere, but evidently they actually spent $77 billion ‘real’ dollars:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-threw-77-billion-143014208.html

Of the things that would trigger a Civil War, I think Greenland is low on the list. Wildly unpopular but not the existential domestic threat that would trigger the people to go hot. ICE and domestic military deployment, particularly if he declares no elections, that has potential, but no foreign event is going to sway the domestic population that much, only domestic events have that strong an effect. That sort of thing can matter at the ballot box, but isn’t enough to make people go to the ammo box.

Maybe you get some European powers to conduct clandestine operations against key US leadership, maybe someone like Stephen Miller gets assassinated by a foreign power, I don’t know. More likely, they make moves that royally screw the US over economically. But I don’t think a civil war or direct military conflict with a foreign power is in the cards over Greenland.

Well, ‘NATO’ as defined today can’t exist if any NATO member attacked another one, just from how the organization is defined as it is, that wasn’t a possibility it was defined to be capable of handling.

A “just like NATO, but not specifically NATO” that excludes the US I could imagine forming soon enough for it to be essentially an equivalent thing.

But knowing politicians, they had better have drafts of what that specifically should be ready to go, because politicians might just take forever to settle details of what should be a straightforward arrangement. For example, reworking it so that removing a member is actually defined, and that accepting a new member does not require perfectly unanimous agreement.

Also kind of bad for VR that they bought Oculus and buried it under a ton of stuff no one asked for and will likely kill it entirely for failing to be the everyman’s gateway to socialization like they strangely imagined it to be.

The true target market for Oculus is relatively niche, but probably could have sustained a more modest oculus. Meta’s demands exceed what that market can give them.

Biggest hope for VR future right now is Steam Frame.

He used the general maga as a baseline and then said the approval for this is under 10%, not even popular among the people who are rude or die with Trump