the real news is: "and teases an Nvidia-friendly roadmap"
The sole reason amazon is throwing any money at this is because they think they can do to AI what they did with logistics and shipping in an effort to slash costs leading into a recession (we cant fire anyone else.) The hubris is magnanimous to say the least.
but the total confidence is very low...so "Nvidia friendly" is face saving to ensure no bridges they currently cross for AWS profit get burned.
as a professional diesel mechanic for a small chain of midwest shops, this "telematics" feature is on long-haul trucks as well as tractors (john deer is notorious for using it to send mail marketing about services.)
generally its not hard to disable.
- identify the telematics module in your car
- pull the fuse (not always an option, sometimes this disables bluetooth)
- alternatively: identify the 1-2 SMC connectors on the telematics device. this is the LTE and low/alt channel for the cellular communications. disconnect these 1-2 connectors and connect the ports instead to a 50 ohm terminator. the vehicle will simply continue to collect data but never be able to send it anywhere. the system will assume it just cant find a tower.
I tried this with a wifi setup on a car charger. I connected a 50-ohm dummy load in place of the antenna using the mmcx connector.
It didn't work - there was an on-module antenna that it switched to. Might not have worked as well, but it did work and the wifi access point still showed up.
On the other hand, some cars have a self-contained telematics module like you said and you can just unpower the whole thing.
I remember looking at a ford owners manual for a 2019. The fusebox section had a fuse with description "Telematics control unit - modem." I assume you can just pull that fuse.
The Toyota community has been far down that road with the DCM module in the new gen cars and found that the car still managed to get updates out to Toyota even with 50 ohm terminating resistors in the antenna connectors: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/simpler-solution-for-dis... (see the posts by user "Disgruntled Scientist").
Unfortunately simply cutting power to the telematics module also disables the in-car microphone for handfree calling. Fully disabling telematics involves making a bypass harness that re-routes the microphone and speaker signals past the disabled DCM module.
Kubernetes is powerful, yes. it is also a feckless rats nest of bolt-ons and ride-alongs. its sharepoint levels of byzantine tuning so complex that, like sharepoint, it comes with its own bespoke administrators that often have little or no knowledge of basic networking or operating systems --only kubernetes--.
- Upgrading a kubernetes cluster may as well be an olympic sport. its so draconian most best practice documentation insists you build a second cluster for AB deployment.
- load balancers come in half a dozen flavours, with the default options bolted at the hip to the cloud cartel. MetalLB is an option, but your admin doesnt understand subnets let alone BGP.
- It is infested with the cult of immutability. pod not working? destroy it. network traffic acting up? destroy the node. container not working? time to destroy it. cluster down? rebuilt the entire thing. At no point does the "devops practitioner" stop to consider why or how a thing of kubernetes has betrayed them. it is assumed you have a football field of fresh bare metal to reinitialize everything onto at a moments notice, failure modes be damned.
what your company likely needs is some implementation of libvirtd or proxmox. run your workloads on rootless podman or (god forbid) deploy to a single VM.
I preface this with saying that my experience is all low/medium traffic and single cluster, and I've never had to develop for Kubernetes. But as a sysadmin, I don't mind it at all. I started a new job learned through being given logins to for AWS EKS mobile/web application backend and an on-prem OpenShift for an internal application. The the whole thing mostly works logically once you understand the underlying concepts, and the documentation is pretty good. The only issues I ever had that required external assistance were platform specific quirks (like EKS ALB annotations most recently). Even moved several of our single server workloads over.
> what your company likely needs is some implementation of libvirtd or proxmox. run your workloads on rootless podman or (god forbid) deploy to a single VM.
Even with a single VM, someone's company probably will also want a reverse proxy and certificate management (assuming web services), automated deployments, provide secrets to services, storage volumes, health checks with auto restarts, ability to wire logs and metrics to some type of monitoring system, etc. All of this is possible with scripts and config management tools but now complexity is being managed in different ways. Alternatively use K3s and Flux to end up with a solution that checks all of those boxes while also having the option to use k8s manifests in public clouds.
I dont have any of this experience. I only have to change the version number and the upgrades roll themselves out.
MetalLB is good yes, and admins should have IP knowledge. I ask this in interview questions.
Yes, sheep not pets is the term here. Self healing is wonderful. There's plenty to dig into if you run into the same problem repeatedly. Being able to yank a node out that's misbehaving is very nice from a maintenance pov.
Talos on bare metal to get kubernetes features is pretty good. That's what my homelab is. I hated managing VMs before that.
I'm not really clear on the complaint. Is it immutability or not? I'm not saying delete the cluster and start over, I'm saying i can yank a node or destroy a container without (much of) a consequence. Talos is immutable similarly to nix afaik
There's only small parts of the typically used parts of the kubernetes api that are immutable and those have good reasons. So I'm still not really sure what issue you're describing.
I actually do agree. I've setup MetalLB in my home lab and it was super simple. I've doing networking since the 90's though, both professionally and as a hobby where I operate my own AS for fun, so I can see how someone else could be intimidated.
of the 193 members of the UN, only 12 (6%) recognize Taiwan as a country.
the Kuomintang lost the war. its effectively the same as if the confederacy retreated to the Florida keys and China maintained a policy of deliberate ambiguity.
Why is UN recognition the metric here and not, like, idk the fact that Taiwan is a liberal democracy with the rule of law and freedom of speech and not a hypercapitalist dictatorship that disappears dissidents?
Neither are the real metric here. Taiwan is a US ally, China (mainland) is not, this is a US board. The reasoning goes backwards from that point.[1]
You have to be on the level of Israel’s aggression to lose the “liberal democracy” cover that most US allies get (or similar great titles).
[1] Enough to start a subthread with a very confident and polemic phrasing anyway. There are plenty who disagree with the OP here. I’m not saying that this place is an echo chamber on this point at all.
i wonder if we're not conflating xray with terahertz radiation perhaps? the former being used by a company called corrections one that produces a horrifying whole-body X-Ray of a prisoner to detect contraband (certainly not healthy.)
Terahertz radiation is used in airports with (arguable) safety and efficacy. the resolution is sufficient to read protest statements written under a passengers shirt in metallic ink. I wonder if it could read cards should they be specially crafted similarly.
I predict we will see a death of intel similar to the death of Chrysler in the next decade.
Too little too late has been done to save it. it ran rudderless for 30 years under the hand of marketers and grifters who used stock buybacks and deception to ensure it looked strong in the press. It pioneered things like gaming compiler results to achieve benchmark supremacy. it squandered its potential at the helm of a leadership that cared more about profit than innovation.
Perhaps it will sell to Texas Instruments or motorola but these arent the cherished powerhouses of industry our octogenarian congress reminisces they were. Motorola spends its days focused on niche telecom like apco p25 and IoT nannyware like the snitch puck https://infocondb.org/con/def-con/def-con-33/unmasking-the-s.... it develops very little of the SoC or chips it uses.
the government needs intel, but i suspect will in administrations to come grow increasingly weary and frustrated with its morass of managerial bloat, bureaucratic stagnation and inability to evolve the business model.
> I predict we will see a death of intel similar to the death of Chrysler in the next decade.
They have a ways to go.
Chrysler merged with Mercedes (Daimler). Then they were sold to Cereberus. Then filed for bankruptcy. Became 'new' Chrysler. Then bought by Fiat. Merge with Puegot.
I actually don’t know if it’s good or bad for Intel.
I could see an embargo or tariffs on TSMC chips… but is Intel better with competition or worse? Do other countries care as much as the US? They may buy TSMC anyways.
Do you plan on keeping it in your home? At that point I'd be worried about ISP networking or power guarantees unless you plan on upgrading to business rates for both. If you mean colo, well, if you're sure you'll be using it in X years, it's worth it, but the flexibility of month-to-month might be preferable.
And unless you live in the US and is willing to actually shot someone (with all the paperwork that entails, as well as physical and legal risks), the fact is that you can't actually stop a burglary.
seems like Microsoft can't keep this thing from crashing at least three times a month. At this rate it would probably be cheaper just to buy out Gitlab.
The bart is basically the crowning achievement of US public transit. As for the solutions coming from everyone's favourite bay Aryan Elon Musk, they are...somewhat lacking.
You're probably not going to believe this but the Hyperloop in Las Vegas:
- is now just "the loop."
- only has 8 stops
- doesnt go to the airport
- most stations are unprotected park benches in the desert sun
- vehicles arent driverless
- speeds are 26 miles per hour instead of 155
- it can take up to 20 minutes for a ride to show up
- it does not go to or from the airport.
- it only runs for 11 hours a day at some stations.
Is it even better than the LA subway anymore? (I haven’t been down since the improvements everyone says are so good)
Is it better than systems in New York, Boston, Chicago, or uh, even Philadelphia before recent septa cuts? Honest question, I haven’t been all those places, but BART seems… fine to me.
If you compare it to the commuter rail systems in those places, BART feels impressive (though less so with the service cuts). I was a regular rider on the Metro North New Haven line and had experience with SEPTA and NJT commuter rail and I was really impressed with BART when I moved out here. Peak frequency was pretty good (at least on the Red line I primarily used) and when things were on time they were very on-time ("on-time" Metro North trains were always at least a few minutes late in my experience).
If you compare it to the NYC subway, it's obviously not impressive at all (though the tech is less dated). As a rapid-transit system, BART isn't exactly a commuter rail or subway system exactly, but I think it's closer to the former than the latter.
The sole reason amazon is throwing any money at this is because they think they can do to AI what they did with logistics and shipping in an effort to slash costs leading into a recession (we cant fire anyone else.) The hubris is magnanimous to say the least.
but the total confidence is very low...so "Nvidia friendly" is face saving to ensure no bridges they currently cross for AWS profit get burned.
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