Show Notes
Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab.
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News/discussion
AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year
Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs
Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
Sorry all this is my fault
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