I used to do malware at a web hosting company. While Russia definitely used to be a big source, it wasn't the only one. They used to be from all over the world, with the poorer countries featuring higher up.

I remember in one case I found it to be some dude from Atlanta, who was doing this for âoehookers, coke and boozeâ (paraphrased).

Back in 2016, I ordered a Netgear R7800 off eBay. It was a seller refurbished item and priced to sell.

When it arrived the router was behaving really weird and was loaded with a very old fw. Also the 2.4G network didn't work at all, apart from other oddities.

It has since worked great, once I reset the NVRAM, flashed to OpenWRT and then back.

At the time, I had assumed it was just buggy old fw, but I wonder if it wasn't just that

Yup, just like MAGA is owned by Russians and the Saudis

Yeah, pretty much. The need for proper training data will ensure that smaller players have to have FREE models for the public to play with. There will be no other option

And for most people these options will be good enough. Like most open source solutions

The 15% you save by doing all of this, can be achieved by simply not running Python on Docker on Windows.

Coz I ain't going to be upgrading

Ransomware, sure. But an infection, probably not. There is now quite some lag between exploitation and attack, as of late. Cyber criminals are getting smarter

Yeah, that is considering that you know there is an infection in the first place. If you have no idea of an infection, even physical air gapped drives will contain infected data.

A comprehensive 3-2-1 backup strategy, based on snapshot based captures which store the delta changes over time will be far more effective.

Thanks. But no thanks. Any decent server can do all that and more.

No no no. Something is rotten in the USA and it has now finally reached Cupertino.

Absolutely. The new Intel chips are really good. Fire the board and bring back Gelsinger. He should be allowed to finish the job.

Mozilla should stick to it's core business and focus on FireFox & Thunderbird. There is no reason to be wasting money on anything else.

Being a non-profit, their ONLY goal should be ensure the future survival of it's core products. Not trying to be another startup, chasing down fever dreams of AI

I am glad more and more countries are starting to do this

Mozilla should focus on making Firefox a good browser and that is it.

They should not be wasting money going after stupid ideas like open source AI or trying to find new sources of revenue.

Is the management getting kickbacks to explore these things or are they just trying to destroy the only competition to Chrome?

No money to hire IRS agents to do tax audits and go after tax dodgers, but tons of money to waste on the latest hype bullshit. Both Trump & Musk are probably getting insane kickbacks from Nvidia & others