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Comment Re:1Password has one advantage over other PW manag (Score 1) 27

They compromised a session key of an insider, which could give them access to whatever internal tools they have, which could allow exfiltrating vaults. If they are secured with poor keys (which is likely for most people) they could be offline cracked.
This seems pretty bad, they don't appear to know what was actually accessed internally. The timeframe before they reset sessions was fairly short (a couple of days?)

Comment Re:If money is on the line, ChatGPT won't cut it. (Score 1) 99

I came out of retirement to work on AI.. at a name brand place.

The transition you describe is happening. Mid 2024 most of the tools start rolling out, by end of 2024 it will be clear things have dramatically changed. Not just code, but mangement.

What we call software development is going away by end of 2025, and it will be replaced by something else, but it isn't going to look like what it does now.

Comment Re:But BTC will be world reserve currency! (Score 1) 35

A decade ago, Bitcoin was $10.

It's $25,000 now.

There is only one ledger that matters, and that's Bitcoin, now backed by a 400 exahash network. It has one purpose, to tally and account for value. It is perfect, permissionless, money.

Keep being salty, I was salty after Gox - have to laugh about it - but I realized it wasn't going away.

Never know what might catch on. Maybe get some just in case. Or not.

What the US debt now?

Cheers.

Comment Depends how in demand you are.. (Score 1) 248

I was coaxed out of retirement with a offer I couldn't refuse to help build large scale AI fabric for name-brand corps.

Job is remote. You can't find people with 30 years experience in networking right now, so nobody gives a shit where I open my notebook.

There is an interesting stalemate now. Executives are talking a big game but frontline Directors don't care as long as deadlines are met and people make a token effort to show their face once a week.

Remote is vastly more efficient and opens up the talent pool. It doesn't work everywhere, but it certainly works some places.

Comment Re:That's nice, except... (Score 1) 158

He's been successful at getting the government to bootstrap his pet projects for free. It's not like Elon Musk invented cars and rockets, he has hundreds of very smart people who actually made all of that stuff work.

The whole Twitter debacle has exposed Musk as basically an autistic midwit, and demonstrates what happens when you give someone like that 100 billion dollars. Instead of curing cancer, he bought a thing so he could make millions of people read his thoughts on the Super Bowl.

Comment Re:Good luck (Score 1) 150

I have a bet going with some automotive engineers that AGI will solve level 5 self drive before existing approaches.

In 2016 I went to California to see NVidia announce their new GPUs. Their roadmap then clearly indicated human brain equivalent level computation being affordable by 2024-2026. What was not clear if the software models were going to be sufficient, and with the development and advances provided by Transformer-type networks it appears we have both parts of the equation.

Disruptive advance is not linear. Future is going to be weird.

Submission + - Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions (theverge.com) 3

waspleg writes: The rupture centers on a feature called Web Request, commonly used in ad blockers and crucial for any system that looks to block off a domain wholesale. Google has long had security concerns about Web Request and has worked to cut it out of the most recent extension standard, called Manifest V3, or MV3 for short. But, in a recent blog post, Mozilla made clear that Firefox will maintain support for Web Request, keeping the door open for the most sophisticated forms of ad blocking.

Google’s strategy has been roundly criticized by privacy advocates — the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been a vocal opponent — but the search company hasn’t been swayed. Though Firefox has a far smaller share of the desktop marketplace than Chrome, it could be a chance for Mozilla’s product to really define itself. For Google though, sticking with MV3 will have a huge impact on the overall role of ad blocking on the modern web.

Regardless, Google seems to be holding course. Despite the flurry of criticism from ad blocker developers, Google spokesperson Scott Westover told The Verge that the company did support blocking and only intended to limit the type of data certain extensions could collect.
Google has heard positive feedback about the changes from many content blocking extension developers, Westover said, pointing The Verge to praise from the makers of Adblock Plus.

It’s possible that Firefox’s stance on ad blocking will encourage more users to switch to the browser, which is currently estimated to make up less than 8 percent of the desktop browser market compared to Chrome’s 67 percent. Once Manifest V2 support ends in June 2023, changes in functionality will become more apparent to users of any Chromium-based browser. Until then, Mozilla will be patiently making the case for privacy, even if sometimes you’ll have to look for it deep in a specialist blog.

Comment So salty in here (Score 0) 85

Remember kids, itâ(TM)s still very early.

Bitcoin has two end points - a low nominal value or the global reserve currency. Every day the former does not happen, the latter is more likely.

Consider putting a small amount in to benefit from that asymmetric bet. Bitcoin value is not in the token, it is the network, in the same way tcpip packets are not valuable without a computer to send them.

Cheers!

Comment AR is stupid (Score 1, Interesting) 55

AR is never going to work. I paid $5k to get rid of glasses. There was a literal lineup out the door of people doing the same.

I am not going to pay anything to wear glasses around again. I am not wearing contact lenses.

This will work when we can interface neuralink style; maybe; but AR is dead on the vine. VR works because you're not in the same place anymore when you're using it, so you don't care what you look like or what you're wearing - you're literally not there anymore. Ironically, VR is one of the reasons I had my eyes lasered, so I could wear the headsets without interference.

AR is a solution looking for a problem. It just isn't there.

Comment Your ignorance is funny. (Score 1) 88

Couple comments.

I was early. Real early. Lost more coins than most could bare to think about. Got salty.

Came back. Bought coin. Realized Bitcoin for what it is - a protocol for storing energy, digital value.

It's still .. very early. Those coins will be distributed; you can see it happen in real time on chain.

I'm writing this for posterity, though - it's still early, realize what Bitcoin is, realize it's dominance is as obvious as that of tcp/ip on the internet, and get on board.

Watching folks spout FUD here makes me amused, as I remember the old Linux days. Linux won too - just look at Android.

It's early. Buy some sats. Get some for your kids. Biden just printed another 1500 Billion. Fiat money is dying.

Cheers!

Comment Re:Now is the best time... (Score 1) 80

Sorry you missed out.

It's still very early though. Bitcoin is going to be the global reserve asset; the only real question is when, not if that happens.

Biden just announced another 1500 Billion in printing to take the show to September. There will be another 1500 Billion then.

Bitcoin takes money out of the hands of politicians. This has positive and negative implications, but it's a force of nature now, and can't be stopped.

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