Not quite the same thing, because back then, each wire had to be listened to by a human being in order to see if there was anything actionable passing along it, making surveillance a scarce resource that had to be deployed selectively. Now we have machines listening for keywords on all communications passing through a system, and the resource is no longer scarce: they can listen to everyone, and do.
Unfortunately, people's expectations are still stuck in the phone-tap era.
Only if the Marx they're talking about is Groucho.
Discourse is kind of a moving target at the best of times, and I wouldn't bet on any precanned command older than a couple of months working properly.
The server may have flagged your wget command as an unacceptable bot—as written, it's ID'ing itself as a bot, can pull a new page every half a second if you get unlucky with --random-wait, and isn't respecting robots.txt
The thing with the local index page pointing to the forum threads on the server matches what the wget man page says about --convert-links where the target file wasn't actually downloaded. Is it pulling any files at all other than the index? Do the files' names and extensions match what shows up in the index if you don't pass --convert-links?
Also, I'm pretty sure there's no way to get those images if they aren't hosted on the same server. (This is just common sense, or an offsite link could result in wget trying to mirror the entire Internet.)
A hobby, apparently, and one she isn't very serious about, since one local used book store is quite happy to put together 6-8 banker's boxes of books for my family a couple of times a year and then hold them for pickup. (Needless to say, we don't destroy them to feed to AI.) Even if you don't keep an electronic invertory, finding the books should be as simple as following the authors' names in alphabetical order along the appropriate genre shelf. Putting them in boxes isn't difficult.
"Looking at browser headers" usually means they're parsing the User-Agent string, which all kind of people (and bots) spoof for all kinds of reasons. There even used to (and might still) be a Firefox extension that would generate random ones.
No, actually, that's the one that's going to be fought with sticks and rocks (per Einstein)—either because technology has crashed and burned, or because those will be the only weapons anyone can own.
If it were to become popular enough, AI would learn.
I'd guess that the 1945 report was sound, although I haven't read it. Vannevar Bush was a bright guy who came within a hair of predicting the modern Web at around the same time. He almost certainly didn't mention AI in his report, since even expert systems and such were science fiction back then.
The press release and the modern report? Both total garbage, I'm sure, regardless of whether they were written by an LLM or an overworked intern.
I can offer some distro-agnostic observations . . .
Having swapped from one to the other some time ago on Gentoo, what I had to (re)install was the kernel (since I'd built it without those drivers), mesa, and some xorg-drivers stuff (which may not be relevant to you). Also, LLVM (ugh), because the AMD drivers compile stuff on the fly somehow and gcc doesn't have a usable AMDGPU backend. Or something like that. At that point, the system should boot well enough to bring up the GUI, and you can worry about vulkan and such after that. If you have an initrd, that may need to be rebuilt or replaced. Bootloader should be fine if it's the same kernel version.
Having the kernel drivers for AMD present in a system with an nvidia card shouldn't present any problems—without the hardware, the kernel won't even try to load them. In theory, you should even be able to have both cards in there at once (if your mobo has the slots) and blacklist the drivers for the card you don't want to use, but it isn't the safest thing to try.
Just an extra piece of software of no real benefit to me. I'm only interested in single-player offline games, and I prefer to organize what I have using a directory structure rather than someone else's GUI. I try to avoid installing anything I don't have any use for to avoid unnecessary disk bloat and just in case it drags along some daemon with a nasty security bug. If you actually want the features Galaxy offers, I'm not aware of anything evil about it.
No thanks . . . but I'm glad that those of you who want it will be able to have it.
You're pretty much only at risk on this one if you're doing Javascript development or running a server. The popular Javascript and Python library repos seem to get successfully attacked a couple of times a year each.
Linux main distro repos haven't been reporting any significant breaches. You should be okay to update your system (but if you're on Arch or one of its downstreams, maybe steer clear of AUR packages for now).