When we're talking about engines on aircraft, it's important. 1,300HP is still relatively small, often what we're talking about in small turboprops. A 737, for example, will have north of ~30kHP, or 25+MW. A lot of readers are thinking 1MW is larger than it really is.

Yes, but calling it "megawatt class" makes it sound disproportionately impressive. Remember, 1MW is only ~1,300HP.

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

In theory Multi-VA [letsencrypt.org] should still prevent getting a TLS certificate

Yeah, that's why I only said plausibly, rather than possibly, as it'd take that 1:20 shot to make it happen. But plausibly may be overstating it a bit, still.

Any certificates from LE would also appear in the certificate transparency log that currently only has EnTrust and DigiCert certificates. A few hundred pages' worth of certificates.

Given everything we've learned here, do you think they're actually monitoring CT logs? Or hiring a brand reputation service to do it for them? I would bet a lot of money on the answer to that question being no. As you said, asleep at the switch :)

Hah - as soon as we can get people to understand that LLMs aren't actual intelligence, the better off we'll be. OpenAI has done some wonderful work and marketing with ChatGPT to make people believe otherwise, though. Once they understand what LLMs are (both their real value and their limitations), people can start actually leveraging them in their lives instead of thinking the models can answer all of the open questions of the universe.

I could be wrong, but a quick google search seems to imply that whitehouse.gov hasn't hosted mail services since the Obama administration. If you have anything that shows it has, I'd love to see it.

Note: I'm largely basing this on the fact that the comments@whitehouse.gov email address stopped being referenced after the W administration's website. I also found some old reports on dnsspy and such from years ago (including during the previous administration) that had no mx records at all.

The abstract for that RFC makes it clear it's optional:

organizations which support email exchanges with the Internet are encouraged to support AT LEAST each mailbox name for which the associated function exists within the organization.

Emphasis mine.

I have more faith we'll be on Mars in the near future than AI taking over human jobs. That said, I think some flavor of AI will be critical to the Mars mission - at least in a "here, bold-faced checklist items for you while we wait for signal delay to get us a message from Earth" kind of way. As it is today, these technologies are great enabler and force multipliers, but they're not human-replacements.

Reputational risk isn't the same everywhere. It's a much bigger deal for B2B, for example. But people absolutely care - Take a look at the flood of people that left LastPass after their large breach. It's harder for people to walk away from the big banks or retailers, so their impact is significantly reduced. But in any case, it's not just a myth. It just has to be taken in context.

DNSSEC and TLS would absolutely help mitigate this. Problem is, there's no DNSSEC for mastercard.com according to the records I just pulled. Now, without DNSSEC, you could plausibly get a Lets Encrypt certificate with a dns-01 challenge, so it's still vulnerable.

I don't see that particular experimental feature, and I'm a premium subscriber (and music user). I see plenty of others, though. Anybody else?

Of course he does. His income depends on it, so he's going to sell it as if it's the next sliced bread, here to solve all your problems. Is he entirely wrong? Probably not. Probably just (very) optimistic on scope, scale, timing, and value.