Comment Re:Depends on your goals, I guess. (Score 1) 81
In this case, the prime manager, the mayor, had just been replaced inthe election.
Comment Management was blamed. (Score 1) 81
Actually, management was blamed left and right, the audit helped force the contracting companies to eat far more of the cost, etc...
Trick i failed to mention, it was the NEW incoming mayor that ordered the audit, and less than 1% of project cost to date.
Comment Re:I dislike the pretense (Score 2) 30
Yeah, this sounds like some kind of jaded Transhumanist humiliation ritual.
If true as written, those 'monks' are without honor or reverence.
Comment Re: Wait for the rug-pull (Score 1) 19
That makes no sense at all. If the company is spending $2-3k, for something they charge only $200, then it is an introductory price. To get you hooked. They have to charge you $3-4k at some point of they want to make money. Their suppliers want to get paid, and their investors want to stop losing money eventually. By ask means take advantage while the deal is good, but donâ(TM)t be so naive as to expect the deal to be good forever.
Comment an idea (Score 1) 142
I got an Idea. How about locating and deleting data centers that host these things? Deleting them from existance.
Submission + - Is it a 4th Amendment violation when Dropbox shares your data with governments?
schwit1 writes: Is it a Fourth Amendment violation when Dropbox shared information about a user's child porn with a quasi-governmental entity? This breezy Seventh Circuit opinion entrenches a circuit split by holding that the fine print in all the online terms of service you never read means you've consented to gov't searches of your electronic files. Some folks (and not just your humble summarist) are skeptical.
Decided May 5.
Decided May 5.
Comment Re:Depends on your goals, I guess. (Score 3, Interesting) 81
I looked at a waterfall project where the mayor ended up spending $3M to have an audit done on the current state of a project that was way behind on time and way over budget, only for them to come back and say that it'd be cheaper to burn all the effort to date and start fresh.
Comment Auditing suggestions? (Score 1) 42
Are there any tools to watch my lsmod, walk
All of these exploits are in distro modules I'd never use.
Comment Re:what access is required? (Score 2) 42
Local access, unless you haven't patched apache this week, then it's remote access.
Comment Re:2TB SSD (Score 1) 66
> What are normal people supposed to do?
It looks like a omen to take up farming.
Maybe I should pull some of my 4TB nvme sticks and buy my kid a used car...
Submission + - UFO Files Released by White House (war.gov)
An anonymous reader writes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Wait for the rug-pull (Score 3, Interesting) 19
I wonder what they will do when the cost of AI increases?
We all know that AI companies are selling their services at a loss. Often on a cost-of-compute- basis, but even more so when you factor in model training costs incurred with investor cash. And that is even before we account for how the shortages of relevant hardware and server space for running all of this are driving up the costs of memory, chips, etc. Or the fact that the energy crisis is only getting started, and will impact literally every part of the value chain for addressing the current and future demand.
Most of the sunk costs to date, have been funded with investor cash, but those investors are going to start wanting to get paid back with a strong multiple of their investments to date. That means, as companies reorganize around the use of AI - at the current prices - they are creating a potential nightmare of cost forecasting and control when the AI vendors all decide it is time to start generating that pay-back by sticking the screws to their customers. This is CLASSIC ENSHITIFICATION.
We all know that AI companies are selling their services at a loss. Often on a cost-of-compute- basis, but even more so when you factor in model training costs incurred with investor cash. And that is even before we account for how the shortages of relevant hardware and server space for running all of this are driving up the costs of memory, chips, etc. Or the fact that the energy crisis is only getting started, and will impact literally every part of the value chain for addressing the current and future demand.
Most of the sunk costs to date, have been funded with investor cash, but those investors are going to start wanting to get paid back with a strong multiple of their investments to date. That means, as companies reorganize around the use of AI - at the current prices - they are creating a potential nightmare of cost forecasting and control when the AI vendors all decide it is time to start generating that pay-back by sticking the screws to their customers. This is CLASSIC ENSHITIFICATION.
Comment Re:MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday (Score 1) 105
It's not md5 collisions that are the problem here, it's poor passwords.
Which is something that we can't actually fix, and maybe have tried for the past 22 years.
As mentioned above, memory-hard algos are better than hashes now.
Comment Old News (Score 2) 46
My server got compromised last week by this, Slashdot is quite far behind.
There's two new exploits in the Copy Fail class that do privilege escalation everyone should be worried about on shared servers. Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo (https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo) and Dirty Frag (https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag)
I am rather disappointed that Ubuntu sat on these LPEs for a month without releasing a fix.
Submission + - The Long Goodbye to the Most Successful Rocket of All Time (pjmedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Elon Musk's SpaceX began making moves on the ground that could eventually lead to the retirement of the company's venerable Falcon 9 reusable launch vehicle, which changed the world. Pause before we even get started to ponder that roughly 145 launches this year could mark the beginning of a long goodbye.
As of this month, Falcon 9 has flown 624 orbital missions with about 621 full mission successes since 2015, for an industry-leading success rate and a launch cadence that entire nation-states can only dream of matching. And SpaceX did it while providing massively reduced costs to its customers — that includes you, American taxpayer — and pioneering operational reusability at scale.
Nevertheless, for the first time, Falcon 9 will fly fewer missions this year than the previous year, as the company retools its Cape Canaveral launch facilities for the massive Starship. “With 39A becoming a primarily Falcon Heavy and Starship pad, we don’t actually need two operational droneships on the East Coast to maintain our Falcon manifest,” SpaceX vice president of launch recently posted. And SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said earlier this year, "This year we’ll still launch a lot, but not as much... And then we’ll tail off our launches as Starship is coming online."
Getting Starship's cost-to-orbit down to where Musk wants it means flying in volume. Once Starship is in full production, every Falcon 9 launch takes away from that volume. It might seem absurd that a rocket capable of carrying five or six times more cargo to orbit could eventually cost one-third the price (or someday even less) to launch, but that's the goal. The sooner SpaceX transitions to Starship at scale, the sooner it reaches those economics.
And if there's not enough commercial demand to fill a particular Starship flight? SpaceX already does ride-sharing, and could fill the excess cargo capacity with Starlink or xAI satellites.
As of this month, Falcon 9 has flown 624 orbital missions with about 621 full mission successes since 2015, for an industry-leading success rate and a launch cadence that entire nation-states can only dream of matching. And SpaceX did it while providing massively reduced costs to its customers — that includes you, American taxpayer — and pioneering operational reusability at scale.
Nevertheless, for the first time, Falcon 9 will fly fewer missions this year than the previous year, as the company retools its Cape Canaveral launch facilities for the massive Starship. “With 39A becoming a primarily Falcon Heavy and Starship pad, we don’t actually need two operational droneships on the East Coast to maintain our Falcon manifest,” SpaceX vice president of launch recently posted. And SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said earlier this year, "This year we’ll still launch a lot, but not as much... And then we’ll tail off our launches as Starship is coming online."
Getting Starship's cost-to-orbit down to where Musk wants it means flying in volume. Once Starship is in full production, every Falcon 9 launch takes away from that volume. It might seem absurd that a rocket capable of carrying five or six times more cargo to orbit could eventually cost one-third the price (or someday even less) to launch, but that's the goal. The sooner SpaceX transitions to Starship at scale, the sooner it reaches those economics.
And if there's not enough commercial demand to fill a particular Starship flight? SpaceX already does ride-sharing, and could fill the excess cargo capacity with Starlink or xAI satellites.
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