Anything connected to network can become a national security threat. IoT devices, internet connected smart appliances and all. Computers that run some OS is least of the worry because of the various layers of protection that can be added to them. But it is not the case with the IoT devices or SMART(!) devices where, if the firmware or any app ecosystem gets hacked / cracked / modified or sideloaded without any user intervention, could turn into a large zombie C2C botnet that can cause havoc.
Proxying is least of the worries!
When manufacturers bring out the smart features that require constant data collection, monitoring (obviously in the name of service quality, troubleshooting, firmware / app updates and subscription of services (!!)), it is oblivious to the fact that security and privacy at a personal / state / national level is never considered (for various reasons such as the design, profit interests and overheads / compliance perspectives and what not!) to be part of the ecosystem. Bad actors with sufficient knowledge and tools could exploit and profit from it.
It has become more of a planned obsolescence / profit / greed based industrial / corporate culture in rolling out unwanted stuff / monitoring and controlling as a feature that gets exploited to the core.
Honesntly, I don't have an answer for that, but have some thoughts that I wanted to share.
I do not want a cleaning robot or a water purifier or a printer or a TV or a refrigerator or an oven or a smart light bulb or a smart lock or even my car to have undisclosed, unwarranted connectivity to internet for whatever reasons.
I do not care if it is the manufacture or the service provider or whomsoever it may be!
I want all of the network connectivity options to be explained with all the controlling options and boundaries and data collection that happens on any of the connected medium to be as much transparent with the option of preventing or restricting what one does not want to go out of the device.
Will anyone do that?
It ill never happen! Sadly!
This problem will balloon further without adequate controls and killing the networking at a ground level would only be the only solution!
But, in the case of a connected device having an inbuilt connectivity option (like the m2m based options) in a smart vehicle, even that is not possible!
Could not get any usable output from it for any real usecase.
Can't see any real value in using 1 bit llms except and apart for the sake of running it for demo or feel good factor of running a higher param model locally and in limited hardware!
Since use as it is very limited, could someone throw some light on any actual use case?
How to trust the heavily obfuscated source code? Did not want to waste tokens on doing the review, but if one cannot trust the code (when something gets published as OSS), it becomes a difficult choice to adoption / usage. I can't even run in on my device. Probably could try a containerized version, but short of time.
Solves a lot of issues with the other sites. Though I haven't used it much or need it, it could be useful to students who need it and one PDF of it solves the issue.
Just keep it running. Have you considered open sourcing it at some point?
Is there a way to export or import accounts into the setup? I'm looking for moving my linux / windows configured connections on to the mobile and currently running with Termius, but I need multi device syncs and keep switching devices which proving to be a costly running affair. Also, I've some devices running on postmarketOS on which I could setup things easily over SSH. But if there is a sync mechanism, it'll save some time.
Currently you have to paste your keys in, but I will add options to make adding your ssh keys easier, especially if you already have a config in tools like termux etc. This project is still quite early in development, but some people are already helping / will help out in the coming weeks. This week we added for example hardware key (like yubikey and other fido2/ctap compatible keys) support and agent forwarding. An interesting thing we will also be adding soon is e-ink device support. Can your existing ssh clients do that? I think not!
As an ardent follower of IOCCC since ages (where I learnt a trick or two during the initial C days around late 90s) this is seriously cool!
Many may not even appreciate the power of C! Becoz hardly it is getting taught and used nowadays. People who know knows it better. The laziness and wrappers have taken over the programming world and now AI is taking it to another level.
In near future, I guess people might even forget to code! Where to optimize and obfuscate then? Skilled ones would need to be preserved with awe!
Need to document them (not as a training material for AI for sure!), but somewhere else where it could be learnt by the one who needs it! Privately!
Having it on the internet is definitely prone to stealing / misusing it in the name of fair use policy.
Extremely sorry for this unrelated rant. Got triggered by the keyword "Modi".
Quoting Modi is a joke which one cannot even remotely relate w.r.t to AI and don't even feel sorry for saying that since that man blabbers on every stage about non-sensical / non-existent stuff! Watching his videos is the best timepass one can have!
Having said that, the infra and mindset is definitely not there in India to even remotely to innovate or compete in AI race!
Academia is a huge BS where every other person is a backstabber!
A lot of talent is there for sure, but all wants to work for some company or another since there is absolutely zero support for entrepreneurs . No real innovation.
All copy cats as they have proven with mobile and robotics. Just copying or masking Chinese products with the local brand names and reselling. That's all they are good at and that's the irony.
So far, nothing has come from that country which is a real innovation or ground breaking. The day it happens probably one can consider that they are good.
But otherwise, they are good at selling / reselling and scamming the world and nothing else! They cannot produce anything or whatever they produce is taken control by a handful of big corporates from the western region. That's a narcistic corporate monopoly!
Extremely bad tax structure, endless corruption and useless and unqualified ministers occupying worst portfolios, people are really struggling to survive!
Where will they innovate or compete in the global AI race?
Everyone at every level just want to scam and make money to surive that's all!
Exactly! Though it is sarcastic, it is the way in which everything is moving. No end to it and it'll get worse by day.
But the site has brilliantly captured the thoughts and the little nuances behind agentic coding. It is sure good for all the LLM providers, but on a slightly serious note, it just burns cash which could have been avoided all together.
All said, it's just too good and satirically correct with the prevailing attitude!
Nothing to complain or comment on about the thought process or content. Just don't get into an opinion forming on what is written, but just take a step back and retrospect, it is all on the wall!
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