You're gonna start hearing a lot about this and soon.

Almost like using certificates with expirations when you have no automated solution to update them is a bad idea, and amounts to putting a time bomb in every product you ship.

Certificate expiration offers theoretical security improvements and real, practical pain at defined intervals across the entire tech industry.

It wasn't worth it.

What a subject line. How old are you buddy? Everybody on Slashdot is in their 40s and 50s surely. Time to grow up.

Things like this make the idea of intelligent alien life seem more and more remote. Even on Earth we needed random and unpredictable events like 100 million years of a snowball Earth to kickstart multicellular life. Then consider all the events that had to happen after that, though further billions of years, until you arrive at human beings. We got stuck in a rut with dinosaurs and needed a meteor to wipe them out in order to keep moving forward.

There are probably billions of worlds out there where life has never moved past single cellular life, and we are in all likelihood alone in our galaxy, if not our universe. This is both scary and exciting.

Certificate expiry and renewal failures are a few orders of magnitude, maybe a dozen, above proven in-the-wild compromised TLS key attacks. There is a point where the tradeoff between security and reliability becomes far too bad to be worth it, and this tradeoff was already pretty bad with annual renewals. Now we see this insanity playing out.

No. No more short lived certificates. Just stop.

Outsource to save money

CTO leaves, new CTO joins

Insource to save money

CTO leaves, new CTO joins

Move to cloud to save money

CTO leaves, new CTO joins

Move back on prem to save money ... and on it goes

Capturing ice from orbit, melting it, and looking at the water under a microscope seems like a pretty obvious experiment to run if you're looking for evidence of life. They do have a dust analyzer. But why no microscope?

Unless you're closing your main every time you're done using water, they can and do use the residual pressure in your system as a 'ballast' of sorts to balance pressure on your street.

Having played with LLMs now for awhile, a hypothesis has been growing in my mind. Our own language model surely isn't much different from the functionality of an LLM, we just have a bigger / faster context window really. The magic is in the coordination.

The magic of the human mind is probably to be found in how the thalamus coordinates all the inputs from around the cortex, along with the various senses, and then how it takes account of impulses from the reptilian brain for base survival, reproductive and emotional motivations. The net output is us.

I feel like we're very, very close to nailing AGI. We've got all the pieces of the car splayed out on the garage floor, we just need to put them together. A controlling model that coordinates between many "agent" LLMs in a continuous process, with a continuous motivator, is going to complete the circle. And imo it won't be very long coming.

If I dunk 20 people underwater for 5 minutes and they all drown, do I need to test another 1,000 to make a firm determination that being submerged in water causes drowning?

There seems to be a macho culture around C programming, and a lot of people feel very threatened anytime it's pointed out that memory unsafety is costing the world billions of dollars a year in breaks and security issues.

We don't need memory unsafe languages anymore, at least not outside niche domains like embedded computing. Their replacement with Rust can only be a good thing.

The Green Party in the UK has had some real clangers over the past few months. Like their candidate in the locals shouting Allahu Akbar:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

They're still a fringe joke, on the other side of the horseshoe from Reform.