Everywhere near us is out of ice melt and other salts… but they have lots of duraflame logs! So hear me out…
#badideas
Axios: Musk’s xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems. Yikes. “Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has signed an agreement to allow the military to use its model, Grok, in classified systems, a Defense official confirmed to Axios.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/axios-musks-xai-and-pentagon-reach-deal-to-use-grok-in-classified-systems/
I just had a ‘shower thought’ which is absolutely in TERRIBLE taste, but also struck me as hilarious:
Deutsch Punk : PA Deutsch meets Cthulhu as a ttrpg!
“My character Jedediah swings his scythe at the creature because he don’ take no guff nah wunst!”
Worse idea time:
Could I plug a CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe into a external GPU enclosure, or just some thingy designed for a raspberry pi, and have a tiny inexpensive 2-port 25gb router? (likely only need 10g speed)
#Homelab #Mikrotik #BadIdeas
"You're gonna test this, right?"
AI slop comes to genetic coding.
I feel like this might be the right time to retreat to a cave in the woods and wait for the end to come for us all.
"New virus with genetic code written by AI ‘is first step towards lab-grown life’"
Most people are well aware that it is a bad idea to start cross stitching with white thread on white aida, however not enough people are warnings about the problems of starting with cream. Or mocha - ultra very light. Or using both shades before starting any other colours.
My latest project with 2 different shades, both of which are practically white on white. Even when knowing that there are 2 shades, it is difficult to see which is which.
Probably not useful ideas that I have bouncing around that I still want to work on as leaning exercises and something to tinker with. I shouldn't look at either of these.... I have much more important and useful things to do, like fixing backups and getting my resume ready....
1. SSH Certs via a local SSH CA.
* PKI is neat, SSH certs are different, and I could trust the CA so no trust on first use. Servers could trust the CA so no need for authorized keys files to distribute
* I'd still need a backup in case I had issues with cert management
* I have too few users and hosts for this to be actually worth the time/complexity
2. True Minimal Ceph cluster
* The docs and most users will give various minimal sized Ceph clusters. Cowards the lot of them.
* Single node cluster with 3 or 4 disks, OSD failure domain
* Or maybe a single OSD backed by a ZFS block device, replicas=1 lets goooooo!
* Backup the mon/mds directories to avoid data loss
* Gets me the ability to send data to it from another Ceph and use the object storage features without needing an entire cluster
#Homelab #BadIdeas #Ceph #PKI
"Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"
Ahh, The "revenue replacement" schemes have started to manifest themselves.
Since you're not getting new buyers, just extract more money from your captive customer base.
I'm sure that's going work out great. (Even though somebody probably got a big Christmas bonus for suggesting it.)
KSL: ‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells. “The annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions Thursday. Among those getting the notorious ‘anti-awards’ for invasive, wasteful or fragile products were an eye-tracking AI ‘soulmate’ companion for combating loneliness, a musical lollipop and new AI features for Amazon’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/10/ksl-worst-in-show-ces-products-include-ai-refrigerators-ai-companions-and-ai-doorbells/
@firefoxwebdevs I suppose we can rest easy in knowing AI will be off by default and we’ll never be bombarded by notifications to turn it on, that it won’t have control over our browser preferences and settings, that it won’t be tricked by injection attacks from the pages we visit, and it will have no visibility whatsoever to the password managers (especially web ones).
#Firefox #rant #Humor #AI #security #Browser #NowICantSleep #CVE #facepalm #badideas #AISprinkledOnEverything #curl #wget #lynx
Gizmodo: xAI Answers the Question, ‘What if Product Placement was Significantly Worse?’. “The AI company owned by Elon Musk recently hosted a hackathon that invited people to build new features and functionality with the company’s AI models. One group of upstart engineers created Halftime, described as a tool that ‘Dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into the scenes you’re watching, so […]
Bloom filters for search? 😂 Sure, if you enjoy building an index so efficient it doesn't scale! 🚀 A riveting tale from 2013, where you can learn how to handle a massive number of documents—just kidding, that's a terrible idea! 📚🔍
https://notpeerreviewed.com/blog/bloom-filters/ #BloomFilters #SearchIndexing #TechHumor #DocumentHandling #BadIdeas #HackerNews #ngated
NO NO NO Brain stop it!
We don't write a Pun inspired story where we stupidly rewrite H.G. Wells time machine into a piece where a time traveler sets Wells up to creating Steamrollers instead...
It because my German brain wants to write the Steam machine by H.G. Wallz.
In German Steamrollers are called Dampfwalze
(Dampf - steam Walze - roller)...
And no brain we don't take on the mantle of H.G. Wallz either and quadruple No we don't use H.R. Gigercounter ...
I hate my brain sometimes.
An anonymous Google forms document where I ask various questions about why someone has blocked me just to gauge an idea of the most popular reasoning
#fangyy #bad-ideas #you-know-because-it'd-be-funny
...and just as other cities across the country are ditching Flock & their "gunshot location technology", the press release comes out that a city local to us is adopting ShotSpotter. 😠
Instagram Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DP1bCDrD6Hw/
🚀 Another day, another self-important tech bro sermonizing about "saving the day" with the most cringeworthy hack imaginable. 🙄 Apparently, racking up technical debt is the new hero's journey. Spoiler: if it's labeled "best worst," maybe it's just... bad? 👏
https://jeffersonheard.ghost.io/the-best-worst-hack-that-saved-our-bacon/ #techbro #cringe #selfimportance #technicaldebt #badideas #herojourney #HackerNews #ngated
@PoliceStateUK : I commented on this effort before in https://todon.nl/@ErikvanStraten/115242968564739029.
In short:
1) The problem is lack of aid in parts of Gaza, not lack of aid waiting to enter the Strip.
2) Remote authentication is HARD: there are a lot of impersonators all over the world (looking for easy money).
3) Donating to individuals in Gaza increases inequality and local crime.
4) In addition: people may believe this to be a better initiative then donating to e.g. the Red Cross.
5) Israel may abuse this effort to claim that useful "aid" *does* reach Gazans.
It makes no sense to help a few Gazans while 2 million are starving (those without communication facilities having no chance at all).
If people REALLY want to do something useful: call upon your government to stop facilitating genocide by supporting Israel.
#BadIdeas #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #Gaza #Starvation #InEquality #DropInTheOcean
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