This was the plot of a 1980s James Bond movie - A View to a Kill https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090264/

"Kehoe encouraged local agencies to voluntarily commit to those practices when possible under existing contracts and laws".

So in other words, nothing happened.

Everyone knows what OP meant.

I'm still confused. Do you just get the commands and have to run the launcher to shoot where some unseen player tells you?

"Missile Command, but you launch the attack" would be way clearer.

I'd report this to AWS instead since Tesla doesn't seem aware. It's AWS IPs as the source.

I might try Searchlight Cyber first (it's their service doing this, presumably without their knowledge), and then if that doesn't work go to AWS.

Yeah it looks like someone thinks they're "hacking" Tesla when really it's hitting volunteer IPs.

Why are you doing work for them for free - and at that level of annoyance no less?

legal in both Utah and Colorado - which have ample sunshine!

North Dakota and Alaska also have lots of space.

Alaska’s land is pretty rugged and hard to build on. It would be interesting to hear from someone who works in the industry why the Northern Interior states like Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota have fewer data center buildouts than Texas though.

Agree with this. Natural gas is effectively free there. Maybe it’s the fiber connectivity that prevents them from being built? I genuinely don’t know.

Alaska has a speed of light problem.

Doesn't seem especially relevant for LLMs. Especially not for training, but even for inference.

Sure, but it seems very reasonable to expect some co-hosting of latency sensitive tasks, especially with some low hanging thin client fruit, like cloud gaming and the like. I've been very happy not burning a thousand watts of $0.45/kWh power locally, for my AC to force out of the house, to run blender.

I bought one in July, I chose Kobo because it's hackable and you can ssh in. So far I've had as much fun with that as with reading.

They’re also just more user friendly in general. I have a nearly decade old Kobo that still serves its purpose well and I love how it shows up as a mass storage device when plugged into my computer. No clunky management software (Calibre may be functional, but its UI is godawful) or file conversions required, you just manage plain old epubs in your file browser. That functionality can’t randomly vanish one day, either (unlike e.g. Amazon’s email-to-Kindle service). It’s great.

As a side effect of its openness I’ve bought more books through the Kobo store than I would have otherwise. A perfect counter example is my Oculus Quest 2 which I go out of my way to not buy games from its associated marketplace on; as long as that device is hard-tethered to Facebook and its software, I’m better off as using it as a “dumb” headset with VR purchases going to PC marketplaces like Steam.

> plain old epubs

Kobo devices ship two different rendering engines: the obsolete, appallingly bad Adobe Reader Mobile SDK (RMSDK), and their own, bespoke, WebKit-based renderer. By default, files with an .epub extension are rendered with RMSDK. Consequently, you'll get all sorts of weird issues. Some of the ones I've encountered: I've had cover images not displaying in the library, misbehaving internal links (footnotes), inability to override typefaces/text size.

Easy fix: rename the file to .kepub.epub[0].

Slightly more involved fix: run the file through Kepubify[1] first. This tool makes further tweaks to the books to enable a few other features, like remaining read time estimation.

[0]: https://github.com/kobolabs/epub-spec#sideloading-for-testin...

[1]: https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

Interesting, I wasn't aware of this, but it's good to know. My needs haven't been demanding enough to notice a difference.

Calibre can also do that for you transparently when loading the files onto the Kobo.

I had no idea! I'd switched from Kindle to Boox because Boox runs Android, which is more hackable, but if Kobo supports SSH, I'll have to give it another look!

It’s a shame that Boox disregards GPL2 intentionally. Wish we had more hardware makers that weren’t hostile to free software.

[0]https://x.com/puffnfresh/status/1587064729977044994?s=46

It's busybox underneath so you can hack on it but you can't run full apps in the Android sense.

How do you like your Boox device?

I have a Poke since 2022 because amazon deleted my library from my Paperwhite. Same functions, better format and I can buy my books directly via browser from Kobo. No more perpetual airplane mode. Also, tons of formats, not limited to awz or epub.

I've had a Boox Page for about two years now as a Kindle Oasis replacement (current model is Boox Go 7 B&W). I get a bit more than a week of battery life typically which is good enough for me. And most valuable is using the same third party/self hosted apps for sync with my other devices. I've haven't used the Boox native store/reader even once.

I liked my boox palma a lot until its display broke randomly after 2 months in a soft pocket and now it's ewaste.

You can't SSH into kindles anymore? I know that used to be a thing.

If they're jailbroken.

There's a 0% chance that an engineer reviewed all code output from 4 agents twice a day.