The trick is the average person can't keep that basic computer secure either.

"Be your own bank" is good but banks have armored cars and vaults and insurance.

If you write down your seed you better keep it in a place where nobody can ever find it.

There's no great solution that will always work. Some people do a dedicated Graphene phone and bury their seed stamped into titanium using a OTP in a forest an hour from home but for others there's a reason hardware wallets have market appeal.

I wish I had these four billion dollar problems. If these devices support multisig you could at least have a few of them.

Well each Matter release is supporting more device classes so hopefully fewer devices will need apps over time.

Apple support of Thread will help it gain momentum. Ikea helped but people want to sell to Apple customers.

I run OTBR nodes alongside ZigBee devices and Thread is much less reliable even though it should be better in every way.

I've stopped buying Thread devices for now even though it will eventually own the market.

The one thing I won't buy is Thread over Wifi devices, i want home stuff on completely different networks.

Now ask why the FBI didn't arrest him on those Epstein charges. Or any other Epstein clients.

Where's Katie Johnson's 302?

Why is DoJ illegally withholding and redacting millions of files?

Don't mistake two enemies fighting for friends.

Oh, and they're actively framing an autistic black man for terrorism.

Unless they're secretly training on all your chats despite them saying they're not.

I'm about as far from an LLM booster as possible, and hate to be that guy, but "you're holding it wrong".

ChatGPT shouldn't be used for real software development. It's a toy chatbot. If you're doing development you should be running a harness like Claude Code or OpenCode or whatever locally on your development machine. That gives the model and tools full access to your source, including private repositories, libraries, databases, documentation, bug tracker, logs, etc. These tools are also much, much better at seeing the connections between code and concepts and will do a better job understanding and writing stuff "end to end".

We've reached a point where the quality of the LLM harness is probably equally as important to the LLM itself at writing software, so if you're still using web-based stuff like ChatGPT and pasting single blocks of code or files into it, you're about 2 years behind where most other people are and it's not surprising you don't see any value from it.

We are nowhere near eliminating humans from development, but the current set of harnesses and models actually do a pretty good job when used properly and in the hands of someone who already understands the codebase and domain. They can still fuck up royally, but, well, so can humans.

I really wanted to like the game but even a few hours of gameplay showed that it was repetitive and kind of bleak and depressing.

There's always been suspicion about why Mozilla was so reluctant to support JPEG-XL where code would come and go, it would be implemented and pulled, etc.

Speculation was that while Google was paying Mozilla $300M/yr they were also trying to make webp happen. The AV1 stuff was good but shoehorning it into a static image format wasn't the best.

Same idea as why IPv6 took 30 years to catch on - it didn't offer most people much more with extra work required to not get much benefit.

JPEG-XL did so much more but mysteriously languished.

That Mozilla jumped as soon as Google did is noticeable. They used to be an industry leader but maybe all those people have moved on or been pushed out.

Russian intelligence had agents in Kiev who had assured them that they could stage a coup and take over the country. But the agents mostly turned out to be grifters and double-agents so that plan failed and a lot of high-level Russian intelligence folks got sacked.

They then progressed to forcing Ukraine to the negotiating table, which took a few weeks. Ukraine would have had no choice but to capitulate until Boris Johnson told them NATO would use them as mercenaries against Russia and provide them with weapons and intel.

That then led to the war between NATO and Russia that's been going on for the last four years and is approaching its end. Either NATO sends in troops soon or Ukraine is done because Russia will continue destroying their infrastructure all winter long.

It's a war. Things get blown up.

As I understand it, the Russian military doesn't use civilian data centers. The Ukrainian military does. So Ukraine will just be hit harder in response.

Remember how Russia was defeated only a few weeks ago because Ukraine was blowing up the Russian version of Amazon? How'd that turn out?

I helped clean up a 2021 laptop yesterday that had 32 gigs of RAM with a half TB of storage.

It was a standard-issue company laptop at the time.

Can you imagine paying more for an 8 gig machine today?

It may be the new normal but people without an urgent need are waiting to see if the bubble pops.

There doesn't seem to be a free market road to profitability without a significant resource breakthrough so maybe they're right.

At least CPM isn't CP/M but I always have to think twice.

Good call adding punctuation to the initialism, though.

The general plan appears to be to tell the AI to rewrite it from scratch after a while.

We have an AI review all code changes for security holes because it's been programmed to be very good at finding ways to break security that make perfect sense but I would never have thought of. But it's purely advisory, I'd never let it have the final say on whether a change is safe.

That's why you have tests to ensure they don't.

Otherwise you pass it a hostname instead of an IP address, the low-level code happily accepts it in code paths that have never been tested and before you know it something explodes.

That is the way we're heading. So don't build your life around relying on software working because nothing is going to be reliable in future.

One of our problems is that we can't make major changes to the software because it invalidates over a decade of use in the field and massive amounts of testing required to ensure it doesn't kill people. Sooner or later that will be replaced with AI testing, so the code will be developed, tested and installed without a human ever checking whether the AI did it right or just hallucinated a lot of crap and then pretended the tests passed.