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plaidtron3000

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"Fantastic orgy of destruction" is my middle name. It's hard to explain that to HR managers.

Shitpost machinegun.

Also huge nerd, but you'll have to wade through shitposts and #monsterdon toots to find anything of substance.

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jrconlin, to random
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Oh, cool.

Android introduced a way to make phone conversations more awkward.

plaidtron3000,
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@jrconlin oh god, the poop emoji. I can only imagine.

plaidtron3000, to random
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Spiders can get into every car, but somehow can't get into a log-home style lodge?

Oops, I stand corrected lololol

plaidtron3000, to random
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Little girl: "I"m not hungry! I filled up on spiders!"

jonny, to random
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Posting from one account to reply from another account to be on the #monsterdon feed without polluting the local feed. others who wish to do the same but don't have an alt can reply to this as well (but untag me)

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny english is so bad, I can't tell if you mean a spider riding a rat, or a rat riding a spider.

jonny, to DuckDuckGo
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Im as anti-"AI" as the next person, but I think its important to keep in mind the larger strategic picture of "AI" w.r.t. #search when it comes to #DuckDuckGo - both have the problem of inaccurate information, mining the commons, etc. But Google's use of LLMs in search is specifically a bid to cut the rest of the internet out of information retrieval and treat it merely as a source of training data - replacing traditional search with #LLM search. That includes a whole ecosystem of surveillance and enclosure of information systems including assistants, chrome, android, google drive/docs/et al, and other vectors.

DuckDuckGo simply doesnt have the same market position to do that, and their system is set up as just an allegedly privacy preserving proxy. So while I think more new search engines are good and healthy, and LLM search is bad and doesnt work, I think we should keep the bigger picture in mind to avoid being reactionary, and I dont think the mere presence of LLM search is a good reason to stop using it.

More here: https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#the-near-future-of-surveillance-capitalism-knowledge-graphs-get-chatbots

#SurveillanceGraphs

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny There's also the question of "but why tho" when we've got metasearch engines like SearXNG. Relevant to our earlier conversation about chaff/winnowing for privacy as well.

plaidtron3000, to random
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At least the boom mike guy did his job. I never saw a boom mike in any shots. Good job my boy!

jonny, to random
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Do any infosec people ever feel like they have their shit "secure," like I understand this system well enough that for all practical purposes this shit wont be pwned, or is the whole thing that you can only bracket off security as like "if these conditions are true, I wont be pwned in these ways"

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny Even when protocols or subsystems are provably secure, that doesn't hold for long.
A protocol gets extended, and the initial premise no longer holds.
A contract between subsystems is altered, and the premise no longer holds. (Pray I do not alter it any further)

Can complex, interconnected systems be secure beyond a single point in time? Unlikely.

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny I started out as a hacker, an ansoc pirate (although I didn't know the term then), and as I built a career I pivoted to using the skills I had to protect the systems I cared for.

The first thing I learned, although not the term for it, was defense in depth. No component will be provably secure, (for reasons beyond the scope of this toot) but I can make it probabilistically secure against the most likely threats.

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny That's a strategy that exists in principal, and even has use cases in high security cryptosystems. Chaff privacy has been discussed, and I'm sure some body out there is doing their best. I mean, holy shit, read about Rex Stout and his book "The Doorbell Rang" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doorbell_Rang

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny Some folks are willing to go the distance for provably open (if not provably secure) systems. Bunnie Huang has been striving for it for years.
https://www.bunniestudios.com/

His Precursor project is open at every level and available for examination
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

Before that, Novena
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/category/novena/

The problem with provably secure systems is who you have to prove it to, and what your standards of proof are.

"Ah, but whom can you trust, Sir Samuel?" - Vetinari

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny You know the operating system that you wrote. It doesn't have any malware in it. But is it secure against intrusion? Could someone with a fuzzer break it wide open?

And do you trust the hardware? Do you trust the closed-source and known-buggy stacks of firmware that operate it? Do you trust the networks that it communicates on? Do you trust your peripherals? Even the cables?

So you narrow your scope. What are the likely avenues of attack? Am I likely to be targeted by a nation-state?

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny Am I high profile, wealthy enough or do I have information valuable enough for targeted attacks?
If not, what kind of attacks of opportunity can I avert by reducing the opportunities? What am I willing to spend in terms of money, time, resources, and liberty to reduce the attack surface I create? Because many means of protecting yourself necessarily curtail your own freedom. Cast yourself into a small bunker, and you're provably secure against most physical attacks for a time being

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny and the most secure computer is one that's connected to no networks. And turned off. And on fire.

plaidtron3000, to random
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End user: “I am going to be in the hospital because I am deathly ill but I would still like to work”
Me: “Uhhhhhh”
Boss: “aww that’s sweet!”
Co-workers: “is it safe for him to work from the hospital? Can we trust their WiFi? And the software that the government requires to use their WiFi?”
Me: “Uhhhh?”
Other co-worker: “yeah he’s in Singapore, it’s a pretty authoritarian regime”
Me: “UHHHHHHHHH?”
Boss: “Can you look the software and see if we can trust it?”
Me: “Uhhhhh… I guess?”

plaidtron3000, to random
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Wait, she's not his wife?

foone, to random
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I know I really should prefer ARM given that it was designed by My People, but I just can't help it:
My favorite processor is 32bit x86

plaidtron3000,
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@foone @NanoRaptor I kinda loved it when they had bolts on them too.

PA-RISC 7100 and DEC Alpha 21064

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jonny, to random
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think i might fuck around and try and find a half teaching half research position at a liberal arts school

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny and hey… nuclear reactor!

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny just did the tour there last week. They wouldn’t let me climb in :(

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny I was all “but I dropped my glasses in the pool!” And they’re all “they’re on your head” and I was all “IM ABOUT TO” but then they looked sternly at me and I chickened out.

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny I only need until either I don’t need a night light anymore (im scared of the dark) or until I turn into the hulk. I guess it depends on finding the right depth in the pool. Gamma vs neutron activation maybe.

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny I’m assured there is absolutely NO EROTIC BATHING in the reactor pool! https://www.oglaf.com/rivulets/

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny I propose a new word: It's not erotic, so it's arotic.

plaidtron3000,
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@jonny Jorts represent!

plaidtron3000, to random
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I bet he's never even heard of Sicnarf Loopstock!

plaidtron3000, to random
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THE LAMPS AREN'T LIT WHY ARE THEY IGNITING ON CONTACT?

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