Posts by Peter-Waterman1 177 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2019
It looks like it uses the vehicle's onboard power systems, presumably diesel. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/serkan-k-b4b841a8_laser-air-defense-activity-7221442716847509504-t7JM/
"Power and Thermal Management:
- Integrated Power Supply: The system is designed to draw power from the vehicle’s onboard power supply, with additional provisions for dedicated power sources to ensure sustained operation."
Right… but then this article is essentially about securing your data correctly. The way the world is going, this should be the #1 priority. Once you have good control over your data, you should be able to use other people’s software without constantly worrying about your data security.
I love the LLMs. They are going to revolutionise the way we interact with information forever. But can’t they build mini nuclear plants rather than using gas? Seems like building more fossil powered stations is going the wrong way. Maybe the tech is not ready for prime time yet but I remember reading about a few companies developing mini plants.
I think you are right—I hadn't really thought about that, but I guess that's why they created it in the first place; it makes total sense. Still, it seems like they (Dell/HP et al.) really failed to respond in any meaningful way. Their growth has stagnated. HP revenue was 29.14B in 2019, and the same five years later. Almost the same with Dell. Feels like they lack vision
I was working at Dell back in 2012, and remember thinking Cloud seems to be a thing, and why, given Dell manufacturers servers, aren’t they building their cloud to compete. The commentary within Dell was around Cloud was too expensive, customers trying it and “repatriating” workloads back on prem and generally putting fingers in ears and saying Cloud wouldn’t take off. HP did try to create Cloud, but it just didn’t really get anywhere and they killed it off.
Seems like they both missed the boat and couldn’t recognise the threat to their business models, or were too unwieldy to respond. It now seems they will suffer from a slow decline and eventual death or consultation, selling of parts of the business that can’t withstand the competition. Kind of reminds me of Blockbusters or BlackBerry. But what is perplexing to me, is the meteoric rise of Dells share price, which doesn’t seem to reflect revenue stagnation and now decline.
Windows market share (server) has been declining year on year for a while now, with the primary reason that companies have been slowly moving to containers, and serverless, both of which run on Linux. I mean, it is technically possible to run Windows containers, but I think it's well-established that Linux is the way to go.
From what I read and widely speculated, cause that's fun to do, it seems like Crowndstrike released a dodgy update, and Microsoft rolled it out to production without testing probably and borked Azure. If that's true, there are so many questions, like why Microsoft is deploying things globally, or if you deployed it locally and borked something, why does it have a global effect - ie, WW dependency on some service - AD cough cough. But it is all speculation, but that's what we are here for right....now where is my pitch fork
What utter rubbish. You can take a LLM run it offline, in your data Center behind your network firewall preventing any data getting out or back to the LLM provider.
And if you look at an LLM like claud or gpt, it’s been trained on publicly available data so unless you leave your company data exposed to the internet you should be safe.
Now, if you start sending data to an LLM owned by someone else, over the internet, privacy isn’t the issue it’s the user.
It's about time. The rabbit effect is terrible. Kids are getting content pushed to them without asking; of course, they will watch it, so the force-feeding is amplified. It's disgraceful, and frankly, I hope they get taken to the cleaners. He says as he goes back to Facebook to watch a bunch of car crashes, knockouts, and ladies in lycra.
Given all of Azure's security and reliability issues, they can't compete on a level playing field and need to bend the rules. Here are a few more items to throw on the fire:
No passive licencing is allowed on SQL Database as a service platform in the cloud, except Azure.
You are not allowed to bring Windows Server 2022 licences to the cloud, but you can use your licences to get a discount in Azure
You are not allowed to use Development licences, aka MSDN in the Cloud, except you can in Azure
Multi-session VDI (covered in this article)
Not allowed to use Office on Cloud VDI (until very recently in AWS, but still not in GCP)
Making rival clouds pay way more for their licences than the normal enterprise licence costs
The 2.5 major cloud providers need to play on a level playing field. It’s the consumers getting screwed to keep the tech companies share price high. That said, Microsoft takes it to a whole new level of screwing customers, and while it’s a complete pain in the arse to get off windows, long term why wouldn’t you have that strategy. Windows is basically a 40% tax on every VM you run, and as far as I can see Linux is a better OS anyway.
The licensing model for Microsoft is excellent business; they dominate the market and dictate how customers must run their infrastructure. What their poor, unfortunate customers don't realise is when they swap that perpetual licence for a heavily discounted subscription, they also give up the right to take said perpetual licence to any cloud other than Azure. So they better like Azure; otherwise, they are going to have to re-licence their entire Windows/SQL estate to go somewhere else.
“Our OCI business is improving profitability as it grows. The target gross margins for it are much higher than I think you expect because you're probably comparing it to some of the more pure-play cloud folks who somehow don't end up making as much money in all of this,” Catz said
AKA - we dont build our infrastructure to the same level of other providers so its more profitable for our shareholders
UK companies would love to run on a UK-only Cloud, but not at the expense of getting the best platform. If a UK (or EU) cloud is substandard regarding reliability, features, or depth, it will be a hard sell (well maybe not vs Azure). The challenge for any new localised cloud is that they will be trying to catch up on nearly 20 years of public cloud investment, and while you can throw money at the issue, it will not be easy to catch up.
It stands to reason that the continued growth of the cloud results from customers moving to the cloud and, therefore, no longer needing to buy servers from Dell/HP. I remember working for one of the big hardware providers and consistently hearing from customers that they were shutting multiple data centres and moving to the cloud, leaving maybe one colo. The writing was on the wall 6/7 years ago, and TBH, I am surprised the hardware vendors have fared as well as they have.
I am using VDI, and as someone who travels a lot, I see benefits to VDI. What I like is that I can use my (personal) gaming laptop everywhere and then connect to my workspace (VDI) when I need to access the corp network. A lot of apps sit behind a reverse proxy that is internet-facing; I can surf the company intranet and get to the tools I need from my gaming laptop that isn't under MDM without using VDI. For those few apps I cant get to, I fire up VDI and log in. I also have WhatsApp on my VDI machine, my gaming laptop, and my phone. I can share files instantly between them, and that works out pretty well.
What's crap is being on the train (anywhere without a 4G connection), needing to connect to the network and realising you are stuck...Still, for me, getting to travel with my gaming laptop makes that worthwhile.
I think options for VMs are limited and the world has moved on, and while there is a large base of folks caring for their static VMs on VMWare farms, from what I see, most new workloads take advantage of event-driven architecture, and they dont really make a lot of sense to run on a VMWare stack.
So, someone uploads their secret key and passcode to GitHub, and it takes 5 mins for the bad guys to get it. Seems like this is a user issue, not a GitHub/AWS/Azure/GCP issue. So many questions, like why are they not federating access, why are they not checking for secrets when they push to GitHub, why don’t they use MFA. Then on the detective side, some basic alerts to monitor unusual behaviour is not really difficult to implement. This is all 101 stuff really.
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