Just checked and could post the same as @Altoid.

You might try:

deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged ...

Possible relevance?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=901156

Had that happen when I first tried booting to a USB. Rebooted to the bios and found it last in the boot order. As @Camtaf posted, I saved it to first and it boots to a USB.

I'm on Ceres and had to install usrmerge a month or so ago. No problems. Thanks to @GlennW and @Altoid, finding any symlinks usrmerge missed can be corrected by hand.

# symlinks -csrv / | grep dangling

cloud = someone else's drive

Brings to mind the Kim Dotcom raid when so many legitimate users around the world lost their life's work. Don't know how many bought into that hype and currently use big tech's drives.

Wonder how many cloud users, and those update devs, see the relevancy of Franklin's quote on safety.

Like all browsers, Firefox is not 100% secure. Vulnerabilities are found and exploited. Clamav is also for Windows so it finds PUAs. PAUs require an NTFS/NTFS+ filesystem as well as the Win OS to run. They cannot run on Linux filesystems or work with a Linux OS. They're useless and take up HD space.

Suggestion: In Firefox > Settings > Privacy and Security > History, is 'Clear history when Firefox closes' checked? In History > Settings, are all of them checked? If the PUAs still get through, find where they're stored and write a script you can click on on the desktop to delete them.

Another way is an icon on the desktop to start Firefox, with a <script> to delete the PUAs executed when Firefox processes end.

#!/bin/bash
firefox && <script>

Good point. Much bigger market than components and no laptop/desktop maker would miss jumping on the hype wagon.

Might wanna leave Google search aside for a while. Their DeepMind AI cost them ~$100B in share value from screwed up search results back in Feb, and only recently acknowledged there was a problem.

Doesn't take an expert to understand Sabine Hossenfelder's point in the 'AI’s Dirty Little Secret' video @yeti linked.

I watched a documentary some months ago by Millie Weaver. The video's general focus as she states early on: "The personal computer, originally designed to raise the intellect of humanity has been transformed into smart devices designed to raise the intellect of artificial intelligence."

Big Data Is Watching - Full Length Documentary
December 15th, 2023
1:42:24
https://rumble.com/v2eya4q-big-data-is- … -2023.html

Assuming accuracy and if curious, it looks like congress didn't begin dealing with AI until last year. Soon after OpenAI's Sam Altman testified in congress about the dangers in May 2023, the house passed a resolution (H.R.3831) to require: "Disclaimer: this output has been generated by artificial intelligence." A month later, the senate passed their own version (S.2691) of a similar required disclosure.

Artificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker (scroll down for legislation)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ … on-tracker

According to wikipedia, the AI boom began in 2012 and "the race began in earnest in 2016 or 2017 following the founding of OpenAI." Searching 'ai dangers' for the year 2012 finds the same kind of danger articles as today, although fewer specifics.

Over a decade of AI warnings. Seems our lawmakers have to have it shoved in their face to get their minds off funding their next election, pay attention and do something reasonably intelligent about a problem. But that's wishful thinking.

Inescapably true.

Seems a good overview of AI, the growing worldwide concern and Miles' appeal for help.

An example of GPT4's advancement over GPT3 caught my attention. A real world test, 14:00 to ~17:00, demonstrated the AI's ethical elasticity to gain what it wanted by lying. Miles: "This is clearly a somewhat concerning capability."  Somewhat?

Another is at 37:34: "A small scale AI disaster like, say, a failed takeover attempt, is possible... but it seems to require an AI system smart enough to think of and implement a genuinely threatening takeover plan, but not smart enough to actually succeed and also not smart enough to realize that the plan won't work, and that it's better to bide your time."

And when "a small scale AI disaster" is tested to prove the AI incapable of a genuine takeover, will there also be a test to prove the failure isn't the AI lying to hide its real capability?

The cat's been out of the bag for years and despite gov't officials' silly lip service over safety, big tech will continue developing and AI will continue to grow in use and influence. Naturally, hardware companies can't promote "AI ready" CPUs and mobos fast enough.

Six weeks ago Gentoo and NetBSD banned AI generated code and as of last week, Debian is still on the fence.

Interesting speculation:
7 Ways AI Is Going to Change Everything
May 25, 2024
16:25
https://odysee.com/@TheCryptoLark:e/7-w … erything:8

A friend visited for a week. My connection wired, his wifi. The lost wired connection was from bandwidth. Possible explanation?

I run lynis and netstat once in a while and the results are not extensive as there's no wifi, print or other server running. I've used ss to see what's listening but haven't worked with nmap. Also run cli bleachbit with a script deleting dot dir files in mozilla, cache and local/share. And like many, run conky to spot odd usage.