“We put our AI in a sandbox that doesn’t really sandbox, and asked it to hack some stuff. Who would have thought it would go and hack stuff? The AI totally went rogue doing exactly what we asked it to do.”

Whoops, did they pull the rug at the wrong time and the wrong investors lost out? Or is this just to save face?

Who is dumb enough to be investing in new crypto coins at this point?

Because free speech is still a thing. They would need to find evidence that he had/distributed csam content, or had actually molested someone.

Best we can hope for is that they started an investigation and will manage to link something to him, but an adult talking to other adults isn’t illegal so they aren’t going to arrest him on the spot in the airport.

If they are working on an investigation they won’t actually arrest him until they think they have enough concrete evidence to actually win a case, and that is usually weeks/months later.

This would be more of a use case for blockchain, any site(/user) wishing to mirror the social media would participate in the chain. A post on one site would get pushed into the chain and show up on every mirror.

Media would likely have to be links outside of the blockchain since it isn’t usually very good at storing large datasets (it would make it difficult to mirror over time as it grew), so if you wanted a full mirror you would probably have your site fetching media as soon as it is posted and mirroring it yourself.

Or media might be a good spot to integrate with your bittorrent idea. Blockchain handles the distributed state of the site (communities/post text+metadata), and any submitted media is added to the post as bittorrent hashes. I don’t know how scalable bittorrent clients are though it might take considerable overhead to seed millions of pictures/videos.

Them’s fighting words! ;) yyyy-mm-dd is superior in every way. Sorts properly and much less potential for confusion across cultures.

Best case scenario is that it uses an esp32 microcontroller. If so you can use esphome (https://esphome.io/) to easily make your own firmware that you can then control from web/API/homeassistant with no external cloud/app requirements.

There has been some work to include other microcontrollers (NRF/Raspberry Pi pico/etc), and some third party repos that add some support for some realtek chips.

If you are getting a portable air conditioner get one of them that has dual hoses. The single hose units are practically a scam.

The single hose units take cool air from inside, warms up that air, and then blows it outside. This does make cold air inside the house, but you are using your already cooled room air to do the heat transfer and blowing that outside. This also means you are creating a vacuum in your house which pulls in more hot air from outside.

The dual hose units pull in warm air from outside in the first hose, heats it up further, and then blows it back outside out the second hose. No negative pressure in the house, and you aren’t using air that you have been paying to cool all day to do the heat transfer.

UPS asking you to open a case with Valve is normal. You didn’t pay to ship it, Valve did. Even if it is a line item on your invoice it was a contract between Valve and UPS, so you can’t call up UPS demanding investigation/money because it is Valve that gets the money not you (who in turn refunds it to you).

If Valve gives you the money back they are likely taking a loss on it to keep you happy. As far as UPS is concerned they delivered it (presumably with photographic evidence), so why would they pay up on insurance. Unless Valve pays for the higher level of insurance UPS won’t cover for porch pirates.

It is unlikely that Valve paid to have that level of coverage, but that is because they know only a small number of packages will be stolen. It ends up being cheaper to just give a few refunds than it is to pay for the higher level coverage on thousands of packages.

Hopefully that is the case on how Valve handles this and you get a replacement or at least your money back. Good luck!

Deep packet inspection.

They are bypassing firewalls that use DPI to filter which sites you are allowed to access.

Did you check memory usage at the same time? Install would certainly be IO intensive but probably shouldn’t max out a decent nvme drive.

If you ran out of ram due to the games installer and you started swapping that could quickly max out IO and DEs tend to stall quickly when the system is short on ram which also matches your symptoms.