I don't use kicad. But, this project, as a web-first version of kicad, seems like it offers the best opportunities to create a shared learning community. Is that part of the long term goal?
I would love to experiment with kicad, but I learn best through watching others and asking questions. Can I do that with this? Is there a way I could "watch" other sessions as the build progresses? Or, chat about what I see there with other people interested in learning and teaching?
Up until now these crazy cases have been rejected by the courts. But this feels like a crack in the dam. A judge actually sentenced someone to 30 years for hiding zines, zines that had been published for years. This was under the pretense hiding those zines was hiding evidence of criminality. And the criminality was worth 75 years. For someone who was at a protest where a federal agent was shot, but was not the shooter.
Does anyone have a link to details on the case because there must have been more details, like these two were accused of planning a murder in advance, because otherwise this seems insane. It seems insane no matter what, but if this was a judge making a bunch of logical leaps while guided by DOJ lawyers, something is really broken
Hint: homicides and car theft. Burglary and larceny actually went down.
But, homicides surged prior to the start of the pandemic. If there is no correlation between the economic shutdown and homicides, then the crime surge was basically just car theft.
Car theft does not come from random homeless people. You don't steal a catalytic converter unless you know where you can sell it. You don't steal a car to make money, and then look around on where you can sell it. And, car theft, unless it is a car jacking, is free of violence. During COVID I think a lot of "noveau criminals" came out of the woodwork, people that were probably barely surviving with legitimate jobs that disappeared during the shutdown. I saw an article where police jailed someone that was just a father and son, caught stealing multiple cars. Those men had no prior record and that seemed very strange to me.
I'm saying all this because this attack could be by Lazarus, as another commenter pointed out. Or, could it be someone using an LLM to create a similar attack by prompting "Make me a post-install attack that looks like something the Lazarus group would do." Could LLM create a new class of local criminals? It is trivial now to setup a website that looks like a legitimate AI business (because AI businesses all have to sound ridiculous to be taken seriously). Creating the assets to make this attack work can be done with a $20/mo Claude account and a local LLM for the dirty bits. It would leave a trail for sure, but I imagine someone that has worked on tracing those trails could come up with an imaginative way to hide just the right things.
I've experienced the "best economy in the history of the US" for the last several years. To me, it looks like we have been in a recession for years, that was before the AI boom. When a massive group of people face drastic and sudden unemployment, which is what it looks like to an aging tech worker like me, I bet at least some of them would consider this. The tech sector has lost more jobs in the last 6 months than in 2025. And, that group has zero North Korean nationals. It might be someone living in a suburb in Phoenix, Arizona that can't pay their mortgage anymore.
Who knows if this attack was seasoned professionals. But, when we talk about AI creating or destroying jobs, couldn't AI create a bunch of "jobs" which are stealing banking credentials on behalf of 55 year olds, no longer able to find jobs in the tech industry?
If nothing else, this feels like it would make a good contemporary sci-fi story.
Would be very interested to see how this affects post-50 workers. That's a protected class and I would imagine an ambulance chasing lawyer would be excited for a class action lawsuit.
If you don't know, Pablo recently won a Pulitzer for his reporting on Steve Balmer's deal with Aspiration. If you listened only to mainstream media, you would think "Poor Steve, he was duped!" But, Pablo's reporting might change your opinion on that one.
The incredible volume of high quality, well researched shows are so refreshing as an antidote to Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn, who seem to come into every interview with just the right amount of ignorance to let every guest spew whatever propaganda they want. Pablo never lets that happen.
I did an inpainting project for a client a few years ago. They were trying to inpaint banner ads for concert promoters, and find a way to make it easy to produce a bunch of different sized ads for a variety of placements. I was tasked with inpainting Xmas themed ad for a few major singers.
The weirdest thing was when the inpainting tool added strange people to an image. This singer was all decked out in tinsel and red, and the inpainting model added a grumpy old man in a top hat. I don't recall clicking the "Add creepy old man" button.
At the time this was Stable Diffusion on the backend, run by a variety of model hosting services, Amazon being one. They all had different requirements for the input image and that made things really complex. For some the aspect ratio was impossible to meet, and it would fail if the banner was 200x60. For others, you had to resize it before input, which meant you were adding an image with poor resolution to start. Garbage in, garbage out.
All of this to say, there is a lot of preproduction that went into it, and the client never ended up using my attempts.
How are people running this locally? I just checked llama.cpp and it appears unsloth has a version but it hacks a bunch of things to make it work and isn't optimal.
Forgejo. A single tiny golang binary, I think about 200mb. It has 75% of the functionality of gitlab with 5% of the resource requirements. I migrated to it and have never missed gitlab.
What's to prevent terrorists from going through TSA, waiting in the scanning line when everyone is still going through, and then planting a bluetooth device into someone else's bag? I never open my carryon once I have packed it.
This reminds me of the SNL sketch where TSA employees had no answer for someone bringing two separate bottles of 3.9 ounces onto the plane.
I'm sure Sean Duffy, of Real World and now Sec of Transportation, will fix this.
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