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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

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Don’t Be Fooled: Much “AI” is Just Outsourcing, Redux (www.techpolicy.press)

The promise of AI, for corporations and investors, is that companies can increase profits and productivity by slashing their reliance upon a skilled human workforce. But as this story and many others show, AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced...

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I can confirm this.

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If anybody out there is looking for a new career, becoming a lobbyist might be the way to go.

Is xz 5.6.1-3+ still dangerous?

When the xz backdoor was discovered, I quickly uninstalled my Arch based setup with an infected version of the software and switched to a distro that shipped an older version (5.5 or 5.4 or something). I found an article which said that in 5.6.1-3 the backdoor was “fixed” by just not letting the malware part communicating...

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It’s already burned by being discovered.

And, never underestimate the utility of a large botnet.

Should You Pay For An Identity Theft Protection Service? (blog.thenewoil.org)

Identity theft is a common cause of anxiety in modern society, and it’s pretty justifiable. According to a recent survey from US News, almost three quarters of adults have experienced at least one case of identity theft, and 27% have experienced more than one. In 2022 there were more than 1.1 million reports of identity theft,...

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Data breaches are so common, and so many people have been caught in them, why bother paying for ID protection? It’s granted a year at a time (for whatever that might be worth) for nothing to everybody caught in it. At this point, we may as well try to leave all those years of ID theft monitoring to our grandkids.

The Miseducation of Kara Swisher (thebaffler.com)

Silicon Valley was supposed to be “different,” or so veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher wanted to believe. Facebook was going to bring people together, in the process strengthening our communities, our democracies, our world; Google was going to deliver the vast stores of human knowledge to our fingertips; Tesla was going...

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When somebody tells you things will be different, they’re usually lying.

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New flash: Fast twitch games go to players with the fastest twitch.

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As someone who sucks at fighting games, no, not really. :D

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Maybe it’s taken him this long to kick the tires and develop an opinion from daily use. There’s nothing wrong with that.

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That’s pretty much the entire Internet these days.

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I think it’s because people are taking their frustrations out on whatever seems to make people think something might be on the upswing. Even better, because you can’t necessarily see who upvoted nobody can call them on it.

It’s like the folks who go to see a movie and gush about how awesome it was when you’re sitting around shooting the shit, but the moment they get on the Net they trash it in as many ways as possible.

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We don’t know what Cory does all day. We know he has a family, I think he has a kid, that means that he has responsibilities that don’t involve blogging. For all we know, at the end of the day he curls up with a dead tree book and unplugs to relax. He might not be as online as his overall style might make him appear and we don’t know what all circles of people he runs with, so it’s entirely possible that he just heard about it.

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Parasocial relationships are weird.

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I use Alt+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab.

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If you actually talk to some of those people as people (person to person, just shooting the shit, not questioning or obviously gathering intel or anything) and the subject comes up, they’ll straight up tell you that.

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Ultimately, nothing, unless you built everything yourself from scratch, just about from the silicon up.

Everything is risk management.

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Yes, please. I’ve got plenty of popcorn for everybody.

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Oh, Internet - thank you for not disappointing me.

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“Conservatives seem more excited about change.”

No, conservatives seem excited about changing as much back to the way it was before. Progressives are sad because un-doing progress is significantly easier and faster than making progress.

U.S. government blasts Microsoft for lax security measures in report on Chinese hacks (www.dhs.gov)

In its report published this week, the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) says that the June 2023 online breach by Chinese threat actors who accessed U.S. government emails right before Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was to visit China, was “preventable”....

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Nope. The publication date aside (2 April), DHS is not known for its sense of humor in any context.

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Cool - thank you!

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Of course they are.

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It’s not like we can do anything about it. Customers can’t control what a business does with the money they pay. Writing and calling don’t work. The best any one person can do is cancel their service, but they’re in the minority.

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Exactly so.

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If it was that easy, I don’t think the US government would have mandated a whole project to figure it out. NASA would have done it by now and been using it internally for a while before anybody noticed.

That’s not sarcasm - that’s kinda how NASA solves weird (to baselines) problems like this. They just sort of do it, it’s done, and then somebody might get around to publishing a paper about it. At least in the years I worked there (GSFC, 2010-2013) it used to be a thing that engineers would chat about while waiting for the coffee maker to finish brewing a fresh pot, or maybe doodle on a bad while waiting for a run to finish.

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ISS operates under the assumption that it is in GMT.

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