If you're thinking it may be malicious, I think it's innocuous.

Try cat'ing /etc/skel/.bashrc and see if the code in question in in there. My guess is it will be. When a new user's home directory is created, it copies all the files from /etc/skel into the newly-created home directory. So, that directory is basically a "new user home directory template."

The code you posted (is missing an fi at the end, but anyway) just looks like a utility for making it easier to organize your .bashrc into separate files rather than one big file. That's a common technique for various configuration files that a lot of distros commonly do. And I personally find that technique nice.

If you want to delete that code, it's not going to hurt anything to remove it (unless someday you add a ~/.bashrc.d/ directory and some file in there "doesn't work" and it confuses you why.)

Also, what distro are you on?

I don't think it would be lethal except in the rarest of circumstances.

I'm pretty sure I've heard of at least two deaths from exploding smartphone batteries. Here's a source for one of them. I'm fairly sure I remember hearing of another where the victim had the phone in their breast pocket, but I'm not finding sources for that one now.

And those were just from faulty devices, not from specifically sabotaged/rigged devices.

Not really saying otherwise. What I am saying is that for your electronic devices to have "explosives" in them would require that a supplychain attack of a similar sort.

It's almost definitely not the case that any electronics manufacturers are systematically putting explosives in every smartphone or whatever that they manufacture and supplychain attacks are much more likely to be a targeted thing rather than "all Samsung phones" or whatever. If they weren't targeted, it's pretty certain that the presence of explosives in devices would be noticed even just by regular end-users with a bit of a tinkering proclivity within weeks. So if your devices are more than a couple of months old have been in reasonably normal use for most of that time and you haven't been specifically targeted by any particular government or anyone who might have the ability to tamper with the supplychain, you're almost certainly safe specifically from explosive-laced consumer electronics devices.

Also, it seems unlikely that a state police agency (like the "sheriffs" you're talking about) could leverage enough power to compel an electronics company to allow such a thing without the FBI or DHS involved. I'd imagine state police folks would more likely resort to more low-tech approaches like the Tulsa race massacre air firebombing.

Again, I'm not saying it's impossible that your phone contains explosives. And as I said in another comment, it might be possible to remotely get a device to cause its battery to catch fire. Maybe.

Also, I am in the U.S., but what made you think that was the case?

You should understand that what happened in Lebanon involved the government of Isreal physically modifying the pagers (and walkies) in question by adding explosives to them, turning them into remote-triggerable bombs.

(The term "supplychain attack" has been used a lot to describe this attack. Isreal intercepted the order of pagers between when the order was placed and when the pagers were delivered. And either physically altered the pagers ordered or replaced them with altered/tampered-with pagers.)

I kindof hate the slogan "they go low, we go high" (from Hillary's campaign.)

But this is an example of the "good" side of that slogan. The political left(-of-what-passes-for-center-in-the-U.S.-now-a-days) isn't given to publicly calling for assassinations of the opposition party. It's not even given (and, yes, there are exceptions) to calling privately for assassinations of the opposition. And that's a good thing.

It means the left(-of-U.S.-center) hasn't turned into the fascist-dictatorship-trying-to-happen that the right has. It's not the left(-of-U.S.-center) calling for civil war and pandering to creeps who chant "blood and soil" while carrying tiki torches around the capital.

The day left(-of-U.S.-center) news sources delight in assassinations even of opposition as dangerously unhinged and power hungry as Trump because that sentiment started with snide remarks like yours is the day we have to worry that maybe the Democrats are sliding into their own brand of fascism.

Don't get me wrong. I'm for radical support of LGBT rights, womens' autonomy in matters of personal health, universal free healthcare, and most other "liberal" causes. (I also identify as well left and libertarian-ward of the Democratic party and would love to see "to each according to need" be our modus operandi. I'm also for direct action.) I don't fault the Democrats for being "too radical" by a long shot. (More likely, the Democrats will continue to be far too willing to let the Republicans control the narrative and cheat their way to political power. And that's the bad side of "they go low, we go high") And I don't believe it's very likely that the Democrats will slide into widespread advocacy for political violence like the Republicans have much more so already.

But taking delight in assassination attempts and wishing they'd been successful -- even those directed at Cheeto-flavored Hitler himself -- isn't helpful.

All that said, I get it. I'm pissed at the U.S.'s descent toward fascism, too. But wishing him assassinated isn't going to change anything for the better.

The README in the repo indicates it's based on the NEO-PI, which is kindof the gold standard in personality tests at least right now from what I understand.

Book recommendation for folks who might want to know more about the topic of personality psychology. Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being by Dr. Brian Little.

if you want to take OpenAI’s own research into account

No thank you.

OlympicArena validation set (text-only)

"Our extensive evaluations reveal that even advanced models like GPT-4o only achieve a 39.97% overall accuracy (28.67% for mathematics and 29.71% for physics)"

• The OlympicArena analysis that you cited.

Source?

Unlike this year when LLMs are more of a huge scam.

You can't really and make a profit. You pay more in electricity than you get in crypto.

...unless someone else is (unknowingly) paying for the electricity.

(Of course, when the price of crypto takes an upturn, sometimes it might get profitable again. And I'd imagine there are people mining it even when the price is low banking on the idea that it'll spike again and they can sell it.)

No joke. I'm ashamed to say I have had to endure Weblogic in the past. God was that time a massive clusterfuck.

The company I worked for decided to use two particular separate products (frameworks, specifically; ATG and Endeca, even more specifically) to use in tandem in a rewrite of the company's main e-commerce application. Between when we signed on the dotted line and when we actually started implementing things, Oracle acquired the companies behind both products in question.

The company should have cut their losses, run away screaming, and started evaluating other options. That's not what happened. Instead, they doubed-down and also adopted several other Oracle products (Weblogic and Oracle Linux on (shudder) Exalogic servers) because that's, of course, what Oracle recommended to use with the two products in question. The company also contracted with Oracle-licensed "service integration" companies that made everything somehow even worse.

And the e-commerce site rewrite absolutely crashed and burned in the most gloriously painful way possible. They ended up throwing away tens of millions of dollars and multiple years on it.

When the e-commerce site rewrite did happen, it was many years later and used basically only FOSS technologies. I guess at least they learned their lesson. Until the upper management turns over again.