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This week Noah and Steve get into a fireside chat about Ai. Where is it okay to turn it loose, and where do some guardrails need to be in place?

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Butterfly Effect movie

Open AI models and weights

Effect of trying to squeeze out open source

04:48 Cyclical computing - David

The new topology

Normal people vs home lab

Long way to go

Hardware costs

Restricting doesn't work

AI and responsibility

20:50 News Wire

Audacity 4.0 - audacityteam.org

Firefox 155 - firefox.com

Thunderbird 155 - thunderbird.net

Mir 2.29 - canonical.com

Curl 8.22 - daniel.haxx.se

Docker 29.8 - docs.docker.com

OpenVPN 2.7.7 - openvpn.net

Linux 7.1 EOL - endoflife.date

Tails 7.12 - torproject.org

Open Source Camera - petapixel.com

Vulcan Robotics - banyanhill.com

Automotive and Media Targeted - securityweek.com

Abu Dhabi AI - reuters.com

22:10 AI Fireside Chat

Securing the supply chain

Home Lab responsibilities

Transition to managed services

AI security tools

Passwords

Steve lets AI loose on his Home Assistant

AI mistakes

AI breakouts

Constraining AI

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