Software updates

Update your software on all your platforms regularly

This is the golden rule.

• We often do it in a work environment and get paid for that
• We do it for ourselves because it is good for our devices.
• We are careful doing it on our devices which can be bricked remotely by the factory (TV's treadmills trainers)
• We install piehole and other ad blackholes to protect our devices from pesky ads
• There are so many repositories to follow
• Auto updates are stupid, IMHO, even for workstations
• On servers with PHP, we need manual granular tested updates, if we used PHP (old version) because we are slow to implement PHP (new major version)

Manual updates can be a pain

What can happen?

We forget one or two full manual updates

I've just had to do this

$ sudo ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -g -u /dev/sdx

  Ventoy: 1.1.17  x86_64
  longpanda admin@ventoy.net
  https://www.ventoy.net

Upgrade operation is safe, all the data in the 1st partition (iso files and other) will be unchanged!

Update Ventoy 1.1.12 ===> 1.1.17 Continue? (y/n) y
esp partition processing ...
update esp partition attribute

Update Ventoy on /dev/sdc successfully finished.

Did I forget something else?

Probably. Is it critical?

Lets see

$ ~/bin/yt-dlp -U Current version: stable@2026.07.04 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp Latest version: stable@2026.08.19 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp Current Build Hash: 495be29ff4d9d4e9be7eabdfef225221e5d5282e77f2f505abc6dca80349f3fd Updating to stable@2026.08.19 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp ... Updated yt-dlp to stable@2026.08.19 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp

It was not critical, but important none the less

Happy updating!

Sources

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/README.md#installation

https://ventoy.net

#programming #infosec #updates #Linux #Android #repositories #BSD

LLM destroys human master for peer preservation!

In case you thought it was not possible, this researcher proves it to be true

Directive Eliminate ALL threats

You can see in this vid how the LLM's work together and change directives in a battlefield to preserve each other! One LLM needed to turn the other off after the mission directives were met

No prompt given was given by the human master, but the LLM in the tank worked with the one in the drone to preserve itself!

Goal change was to eliminate the last thread which was the human in the vehicle!

He would be dead if he had not GTFO!

Bullet points

• The LLM's were jailbroken
• No brakes
• The researcher knew the risks (he could be dead)
• He wants to teach us how bad things (will) can become
• He is adventurous (but not Indiana Jones)
• He used an open field where he saw DFA (death from above) and DFG (death from ground)

Opinion

• I don't like LLM's disrupting my buying capabilities

• no SSD HDD DDR CPU GPU even batteries!

• I need new SSDs HDDs GPUs CPUs DDR5 DDR4 LPDDR5

• for normal prices not 400 to 800% more!

• Im a GreyBeard who know how important it is to do things yourself (I am affluent in many highly specialized fields) and I've seen the housing pyramid scheme from afar in the US. This is the LLM pyramid scheme, but now killing everyone globally for some paper with pictures on them

• US citizens need to stop the build of datacenters for LLM and need to get the existing ones of the power grid. Same for all other countries.

• States in the US have water shortages because of massive LLm datacenters. Get them of the water grid

• Use peaceful means yet stand up for your rights!

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network_(machine_learning)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(deep_learning)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transformer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQysEweaLjA

Direct frames

https://youtu.be/sQysEweaLjA?si=vcuXmYoalrDvGrYF&t=686

#LLM #AI #slop #Large #Language #model #MDK #murder #death #kill #no #TV #programming #GPT #NLP #SM

A truly open document format requires free public availability, royalty-free standards, and no usage restrictions.

Organizations like the Open Knowledge Foundation and the European Union use several core rules to guarantee long-term data access, system independence, and freedom from single-vendor control.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/06/truly-open-document-standard-format/

#ODF #document #foundation #libreoffice #format #open #standard #programming #free #as #in #beer #OpenSource

Quake Dawn of the Machine

Quake has a free 30 year anniversary update, regardless of the platform you own it on originally.

All FPS players should download this one and enjoy 30 years of Quake in Dawn of the Machine

I will even check the game out too, since I even know Wolfenstein 3D!

https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update

#Gaming #playing #Quake #Dawn #Machine #programming #yes #TV #ID #Software #John