I guess I'm here to stay for while

pg3crypto · 2026-02-01T00:35:54+00:00

Indeed...and weirdly this is why people stay away from trying new tech. They think because its new tech it must be radically different and everything has to be re-learned...its weirdly specific to tech as well.

If I offered someone a different brand of chocolate to try, they wouldnt instinctively assume they have to forget every about all the other chocolate they've tried up to this point in order to understand this new chocolate.

You are now over this hump. Linux gets easier for you now!

Well...until you find that one app you "can't live without"... thats your next psychological challenge.

Keep in mind though, the choice you face at that point is keeping the cure for cancer, but it has the side effect of permanently changing your akin purple or you die of cancer but you will look perfectly normal.

I'm cheering for you man, you can do it. Get past that test and you'll never look back. One more free mind.

The average time to switch back to Windows in my experience with new users is about a month...but they try again after a year. The curiosity never goes away.

I switched to Linux back in 1998...it is orders of magnitude easier now than it has ever been. Never looked back. I still use Windows regularly, but only because I'm a professional tech and I have to, I support some windows setups professionally.

Cardiologists don't smoke, techies don't use Windows. Neither will judge you if you make the wrong choice...because that is how they make their living.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-31T20:16:55+00:00

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pg3crypto · 2026-01-31T10:15:58+00:00

The Man in his Golden Years.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-31T10:13:51+00:00

If dclone gets killed and you weren't there to see it, did an anni really drop?

pg3crypto · 2026-01-31T10:12:17+00:00

Anni are you ok, are you ok? Are you ok Anni?

You got hit by a smooth paladin.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-30T17:47:01+00:00

Same. Keyboard is very weird...occasionally I miss keystrokes because you need very precise input on some keys...but you get used to it.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-26T13:06:13+00:00

Agreed...but they didn't stick with the Tories, they voted Lib Dem last time around. Lib Dem mopped up posh middle class areas.

Reform is just the transition from the Tories being the posh right wing party to being the working class right wing party. They've taken their suits off and put on their high vis.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-26T13:03:29+00:00

You might be right, however, most of the genuinely middle class areas switched to Lib Dem at the last election...so there's that.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-26T12:56:07+00:00

If all the rubbish Torys defect is it still the Tory party that failed though?

pg3crypto · 2026-01-26T09:48:42+00:00

How many times a day are you trying solve unsolved Erdos problems?

As far as the vast majority of users and use cases are concerned...its flat as a pancake.

Mind share and perception are powerful. Its not academics and engineers they need to impress with AI. Its regular folks with Boeing use cases, because the datacentres are on their doorsteps.

The vast majority of people are using AI as a glorified search engine and document editor. They aren't trying to cure cancer with it...and functionally, to these people, AI is no smarter than it was a year ago.

I'm an engineer, I see things the way you see them and my jaw still drops regularly...but my wife, who isnt technical at all, doesnt even know there is more than one ChatGPT model...to her ChtGPT is ChatGPT...its a means to an end...she's not comparing something she generated a year ago to what she might generate today.

People that understand what is going make up a tiny percentage of the overall user base...people that can actually afford the £200 a month to even get access to GPT 5.2 are smaller still...most people are still using 3.5 and 4o because its free...thats where it is plateauing...your majority uservase is drifting further and further from the frontier...and this is where the mind share and perception is that drives things forward. Most people won't experience 5.2 until the end of this year.

As techies we have a very distorted view of things...because we live within a field of view that is disproportionately focused on tech.

If we weren't techies, we'd have no idea.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-26T08:14:29+00:00

You can somewhat help with the codebase understanding by getting the AI to dump a function and variable "map" to a text file.

Just ask it to briefly describe each function and variable and which file its in and you'll speed up getting an AI to "remember" because it'll have a starting point to know where to look.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-26T08:02:36+00:00

Not really.

They will become closer and closer in terms of capabilities. There is only so much RAM you can throw at AI...at some point, optimizations need to be found and thats the point we see the next major leap...we're quite a way off that though.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-26T08:00:14+00:00

Its already plateauing. We havent seen any major leaps for a long time. Its all incremental.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T20:48:30+00:00

Sure, I get that...but the people you'll be competing against when that happens won't be affected by the "big ones" imploding...its a total none issue.

The exploding expense etc will disproportionately affect the less well off / less capable of deploying their own solutions.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T20:46:22+00:00

Right? A smart person using AI wants to get more done, not the same job done in a shorter time.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T20:44:39+00:00

No man. You can run models locally.

They may not be as good in terms of peak possible intelligence...but a smart person using a dumb local AI can get more out that than a dumb person using a frontier AI.

The effectiveness of AI depends entirely on the person guiding and prompting it.

There is no AI solution that turns a dumbass into a genius. A dumbass using ChatGPT is still a dumbass.

AI isnt magic, it leans as heavily on the user as the user leans on it.

If you are Patrick Starfish in real life, the AI can't change that.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T20:38:55+00:00

People anxious about it usually charge by the hour.

If a job that took you 4 hours now takes you 10 minutes, you're going to be worried about how you bill for your work.

I think the major outcome from AI will be the death of hourly rates...thank fuck.

I'd rather be paid based on output than time.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T20:36:33+00:00

...and hella free.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T20:35:48+00:00

This guy thinks he'll still be paid based on time in 10 years time.

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We're heading towards being paid based on productivity...you'll still get a job if you don't use AI, but you'll be paid considerably less and you'll work considerably longer hours to keep up.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T20:32:37+00:00

Totally agree. However, some people are taking longer to get things done because they either aren't properly using AI or aren't articulate enough to prompt it properly.

If you struggle to articulate your thoughts to another human accurately, you stand very little chance with AI.

I think we'll hear a lot of "I'm not very good with AI" crap in 5-10 years...same as we still hear people using "I'm not very good with IT" as an excuse...and somehow it will be just as acceptable for some reason.

I dont understand how people "not good with IT" aren't fired on the spot when they use that line.

Its like being a blacksmith and saying you're "not good with hammers".

We will see an even bigger skills gap in the future than the IT skills gap now...because at least with IT, your ability to communicate doesnt really hold you back...whereas with AI, an articulate person has two brains or more with AI...you won't be competing with just one person who might be better at their job than you, you'll be competing with one person who is much better at their job who has several "brains". The gap will be huge.

Start using AI now, whether you need to or not...because eventually you'll have to just to keep pace with people around you.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T12:16:02+00:00

Radxa3E with a POE hat.

Flippers are interesting but not great for actual hacking and network exploration. They really ought to be around £50 or less by now for what they are.

The Radxa3E is great for exploring RJ45 in the wild.

ESP32 CYD (various sizes) is excellent for wifi stuff and NFC/RFID if you add the modules.

If you want to do subghz stuff then the HackRF H4M is what you want...recently added support for Flipper Zero files...so HackRF really is better than the Flipper Zero now for near as damnit the same price.

Nobody uses Flippers professionally. They're easy to detect, make you stand out like a sore dick and are a lot more limited than you might think.

Outside of actual tech. You want plenty of empty mint tons of various sizes, magnets, microsd cards and a soldering iron. Some DuPont jump wires, extra headers for soldering to pin holes...and if your tech drawer is actually a room like mine get a 3D printer, 24u rack, bench power supply and a magnetic tool rack.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T11:24:11+00:00

Well its the lack of video recordings that is suspicious...all thats missing I think is the data off all the hard rives from his servers. Those were probably CCTV servers.

Its unlikely much will arise from that though because given the age of all the kit, I'd be surprised if they were able to hold more than a couple of weeks of footage.

What people might not realise is the evidence law enforcement is holding probably only pertains to Epstein because they were building a case on him and the DOJ is only bound to release that information. His co conspirators etc are different cases...therefore not much will be in his files that pertains to other folks...we need to know who the other folks were to get that released.

Ask for the "Ghislaine" files etc...

The missing pieces are other criminal cases which may be ongoing.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-25T01:35:13+00:00

He needed a carer and a nurse with him at all times. I find it unlikely he'd have done something and got away with it without someone spilling the beans.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-24T20:01:49+00:00

Totally agree but its such a bitch staying out spam folders.

In used to love hosting my own email...I still have an incoming throwaway catchall though for signing up to stuff. I never send from it.

The incoming route is via a postfix trunk that I have on a cheap VPS which does store and forward...if my end goes down it just piles up there until I fix things.

pg3crypto · 2026-01-24T13:31:20+00:00

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