I don't know anything about paying for these services, and as a beginner, I worry about running up a huge bill. Do they let you set a limit on how much you pay? I see their pricing examples, but I've never tried one of these.
Do you happen to know if the AI features of the Google One 5TB plan is equivalent to the 2TB AI pro plan? It is so difficult to understand what actually comes with their plans, and I want to have the 5 TB storage for backups.
Yeah it was an absolute nightmare trying to figure out the difference, and I still do not know the correct answer to this, and by the looks of it, neither does Google support, because they were as clueless as I was when I asked them about it.
One thing I read on a reddit thread [1] was that the AI pro 2 TB plan explicitly allows sharing the AI and storage benefits when you enable family sharing on them, while the 5 TB plan doesn't.
However, when I went to sign up, the 5 TB plan wasn't available at all! It's only their lite and basic plans (the one with 30 and 100 GB of storage); the 5TB one only showed up after I signed up for the pro plan, and judging by how the UX looked, you pay an extra amount on top of your AI pro plan.
Now I definitely need family sharing, but I don't need the full 2 TB, let alone 5 TB, so I didn't bother checking further about the 5TB plan.
Also, I am in India, maybe things are different in your region?
I use rclone to give me command line access to Google Drive from Debian. What would be the use case for webdav via rclone? Usually a cloud service like this has a native way to perform file transfers from a browser.
Why fridge need to have rights to initiate connection to something on internet ?
Why fridge need to even be reachable from the internet ?? You should have some AI agent for managing your "smart" home. At least it's how sci-fi movies/games show it, eg. Iron man or Starcraft II ;)
I was thinking of a reaction to a DDOS event, so those devices are flagged as being infected. You could prevent future attacks if those devices are ignored until they get fixed.
That is what ISPs do these days. Most botnet members don't end up spamming a lot of requests, usually just a few before they are blocked.
The issue with DDOS is specifically with the distributed nature of it. One single bot of a botnet is pretty harmless, it's the cohesive whole that's the problem.
To make botnets less efficient you need to find members before they do anything. Retroactively blocking them won't really help, you'll just end up cutting off internet for regular people, most of whom probably don't even know how to get their fridge off of their local network.
There's not really any easy fix for this. You could regulate it, and require a license to operate IoT devices with some registration requirement + fines if you don't keep them up to date. But even that will probably not solve the issue.
The posted article starts off by claiming that the AI can take the lead. I don't believe their hype, but I think that it the basis for the above comment.
"Since ChatGPT launched, that's always meant coming to ask a question .... However that's limited by what you know to ask for and always puts the burden on you for the next step."
Aside from the test emails, many emails from contractors that our corporate IT works with have the appearance of phishing. I'm not shy about reporting any of these. Most of the time they say "that's a real email". I like to educate them that their contractors are sending poorly-crafted emails to the whole company.
The last straw for me was when I received an email "from my boss" telling me of my holiday bonus with a link to click. Well I knew that was a phishing-test email right away because that cheap bastard has never given me a holiday bonus, not even once in the 10 years I've worked there. Some nerve sending out a phishing-test disguised as a bonus, fucking pour some salt into the wound why don't they.
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