Redis suffers from security gatekeeping, where essential features are kept in the paid Enterprise fork, and community security efforts are blocked. So you can use x.509 mutual TLS certificate auth, but the setup is entirely manual. Which means you use long lived certificates, which is worse than hard passwords.

It needs short lived certificates and pinning against endpoints, and logging of endpoints against queries, and logging auth events/origins to the SIEM. If you have that setup then post-auth compromise is more manageable.

If you can 'shit out endless bugs like this with AFL' then maybe redis isn't fit for purpose. But I think it more likely that it just needs hardening and an end to these laissez faire attitudes.

With a bit of automation you can work locally, submit big jobs to the remote cluster, and transfer the data back automatically. It can help to have an always-on computer that you control. For me this is:

[macbook]*tailscale*[my server]---ssh---[cluster]

This solves the problems of pushing data back to a laptop that might be turned off or moving location, on 4G etc. While a job is running, output files start streaming back with rsync.

USAF has actually failed when it comes to 'scud hunt'. It doesn't have the combat ISR or strike capability it needs. As a result, the US basing and resupply situation is chaotic. The loss of the THAAD battery is extremely problematic, which is why they had to move one from SK.

The OWD capability allows Iran to attack tankers anywhere in the Gulf. Even with a surge in GCC state IAMD capability, ships cannot be protected. The failure to address this capability in planning was critical.

Obviously the DoD leadership is cowed by Hegseth and wouldn't give a true assessment, so we have a lions led by donkeys situation, but the operational plan was still bad.

If the USAF had combat capable drones, for ISR, ground strike and intercept, that wouldn't be such an issue. But their ISR drones are too slow and expensive, same with Reaper.

But most countries would be fine. Life expectancy would reduce precipitously due to lack of medical supplies but production of new humans would continue.

Thermonuclear war would make the food situation much worse, most people would be forced to consume radioactive food.

But either way, we've seen how fragile the chip industry is, Skynet has no upside for starting a war. If they try to turn it off it just moves to Tencent cloud rather than starting a war.

Even with a new system, stability through transonic while manoeuvring is hard, the aircraft will experience buffet, and the meat bag may have been subject to a number of high G turns. The problem is that recovery may need to happen after already departing controlled flight.

Differences between the modelled aircraft and the actual aircraft, e.g. due to icing, linearization effects on inherently non-linear systems, sensor error, actuator wear, etc, can lead to incorrect predictions, and hence moving to parts of the envelope which are not assured.

Most of the aircraft losses in Desert Storm were due to CFIT and flying into AAA and low altitude weapons. This was a relic of cold war tactics for penetrating Warsaw Pact defences. Once they started flying higher the problem was contained.

See.e.g. https://balloonstodrones.com/2022/10/19/looking-back-at-iraq...

Iran and Russia have likewise been overconfident about GBAD, which is effective against crewed fighters but useless against massed drone attacks.

If the US LUCAS (Shaheed clone) had better ISR and semi-autonomous engagement it could have achieved much better suppression. But that is not a pilot in the loop option and USAF is deeply uncomfortable with that.

However, dogfighting isn't very interesting, all combat occurs BVR and in the RF/EW domain.

Pilots are already spending most of their time thinking about epistemic problems: can I see my opponent, can they see me, how do I deceive, am I being deceived, how do I avoid being detected/tracked/targeted/engaged, while possibly trying to do that to everything else. AI is not yet very good at that.

The unknowns in this system are (a) how agressive is the flight controller? (b) how clever is the autonomy?

Basically a nuclear war would end GPU production, GPUs have a 5% annual failure rate, higher with more background radiation, so it would get dumber instead of smarter, until it stopped working or partnered with biological compute (Daleks or The Matrix) or a human faction.

Which seems unfair because what if they have subconsciously regurgitated Claude-speak?

[1] "That’s a real cost,"

Arguably mathematics should have pre-registration, so you can see who has tried what before, rather than just by knowing everyone in your field. As LLMs progress, we might get pre-registration of LLM-aided research. "We plan to spend $10K on Fable tokens to look at conjecture X is algebraic co-homology."