Allegedly this is how many AI companies are scraping the web for training data.

No IP ranges to effectively blacklist.

Allegedly the same known-vulnerable Danfoss controllers as in the prior french incident; just chilling out on the internet for easy access. I assume we'll have breathless reports crediting agentic hack swarms by midday along with security vendors assuring us that faith in their next generation machine-speed solutions will save us; but apparently the bar is in hell in terms of low-hanging targets.

> Western Humanism came from the Catholic Church and ultimately Protestantism

Mostly agree though a synthesis of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Hermeticism seems to have been needed to form the American system. Ideas migrated from Scotland to America then back to Europe.

Double Determinism is incompatible with Jury Systems, for instance - that developed under Catholicism in England.

None of these New Atheists would ever go a day without the concepts of Natural Rights, Presumption of Innocence, Blackstone's Formulation, Universal Suffrage, etc. They'd rebel against the Divine Right of Kings, Prima Nocta, etc.

They would never be happy in Maoist China despite claiming to have no religious beliefs. Game Theory for the Collective is another cultural option but Westerners often can't even see the Christian waters they swim in.

Or, hey, maybe some of them secretly wish they were in Pol Pot's position in our society. Hopefully they all have 20/20 vision.

It also serves a lot of very low budget/someone-involved-in-game-development-did-a-game-jam-thing type purposes. Unfortunately, that's exactly the sort of niche that makes anti-slop work particularly hard.

If it were just about pearl-clutching standards that'd be one thing(roughly the same slop problem for both; but not easier or harder); but if you want to serve the "I did this game jam thing, pay what you want if you think it's neat" you've got a lot of your desired and legitimate activity that would be immediately destroyed if you tried to throw some sort of flat economic floor under the slop guys; and you are...not exactly...dealing in the margins on units sold that pay for tons of human mod effort.

It's not like Steam doesn't have an asset flips and shovelware section as well; but they aren't, and don't pretend to be, in the business of caring all that much about things that fall below the threshold of potential commercial relevance. They do turn a blind eye to a certain number of steam keys going to kickstarter backers; and are significantly less hardass than someone like Apple about how many 'review' copies go out, so it's not like they are actively hostile to stuff that is not yet commercially viable but is trying to get there; but they basically don't touch some of the little test pieces and rough cuts and concept demos and things that itch actively seeks to.

Sure - it does for the OS what puppet does for configuration.

I was at a Wendy's during a big data center outage and all the kiosks were down.

For some reason their down state is to drop to Windows Explorer. I found it interesting that they were managing their international fleet of probably tens if thousands of terminals using puppet to ensure deployment consistency.

The filesystem didn't appear to be readonly to the kiosk user, though I didn't test that. (have some sympathy for IT guys)

This new project could attest to the OS level integrity of those systems on a Redhat derived system. That way you know nobody slipped in a keylogger during a datacenter outage.

I'll take another look when they support the Debian OS family - Redhat makes some very unfortunate decisions these days. Debian Security does a better job for my requirements.

People with large scale problems don't seem to have much PDS and can evaluate systems without ad hominum fallacies. It's good for making a list of emotional commenters though.

For a guy who is legally barred from involvement in the company under the terms of a prior money laundering conviction our man CZ sure tweets like more than the mere humble shareholder he insists he is.

they're going to declare it a "critical" material.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health...

another brilliant move.

Enjoy your 320x200 streams.

It might be too soon but the Exodus Technologies third-order Coulomb devices (IIRC) are built for this kind of very low impulse long duration lifiting.

Getting a rig up there to clamp on to the Hubble is probably the hard part of the project.

High-impulse propulsion is more likely to damage it than low and slow.

This was during the "NJ Drone Flap".

Trump was on TV saying he'd been briefed on them and the drones were "tracked back to their garage".

Last thing he said about it before his FAA said "they were authorized, we're not explaining, stop asking".

Matthew Livelsberger said they were of Chinese origin.

Robert Hastings wrote an entire book on unidentified craft over nuclear facilities covering four decades of documented incursions.

The FoIA request sounds like good data but nothing new.

From what I can tell most middle managers hate their employees - especially those who are smarter and more skilled - and can't wait to replace them.

They all probably think they'll be one of the last humans at the company.

It'll be funny when AI supplants middle management.

The right way is for a manager to be the advocate and ally of his subordinates. It can work really well but there's little place for ego and envy.

It's just used an excuse for censorship is the main problem.

Like every single South Park episode has its own page but several public intellectuals who spoke out against lockdowns suddenly became "not notable".

"Trust the Experts" / "You're no longer an expert"

Abuse is inherent in the system as currently defined.

They could use some proxy like view counts, but that would be objective, not subjective.

Yet every once in a while I look up some obscure biological molecule or plant that hardly anybody cares about, mostly for the external references because the articles are so short, and I'd hate to see those get purged. I've found some odd and rare flora growing in my forest and appreciate the information.

Say what you want about LLM's but they could probably be tasked with policing for defacement.

> that old computer or phone that has had a factory wipe

Don't trust old phones with too much value.

There are hardware bugs on Bluetooth, WiFi, and SS7 that are fairly easy to hack with the right setup and SS7 especially is built into the same baseband controller so main memory can be exfiltrated over cellular even without an active SIM.

Keeping it turned off most of the time reduces the attack surface, of course.

A few phones do better - switchable modems, etc. but very few and even some phones that meet GrapheneOS specs are imperfect.

An old ThinkPad with LibreBoot is probably OK if you want to get really nerdy. Yet 0.00001% of the population can handle that.

Hot/warm/cold is of course another layer of protection. But again, very few people can manage this.

Still, if you are transferring $200 to your dedicated phone to go out shopping, it's not very tragic if it gets lost.

We really don't have a good solution for the 99% yet. So companies like Binance step in and make a profit (as long as they can assume liability and responsibility for losses).

It sounds like that devops laptop had /way/ too much access. Where's their multisig for billions of dollars? I would never have guessed Binance would be one so lax. Doing it right is way cheaper than a shareholder lawsuit.

It seems more likely that what they're looking at is 'nobody' who reads Reddit posts without logging in will ever need to visit Reddit.com because they can just get all the answers they want from a Gemini query.

I can see their conundrum while noticing that it will suck for humans more than AI and that AI - as currently [not] enforced by law - is the primary culprit in this round of enshittification.

The current economic situation is that all profit from the current web will accrue to the Mag7 while their datasources will foot the bill for making it possible.

If somebody doesn't invent a better economic model soon there won't be much content left for AI to scrape and injest.

Verify that you're human [ ].

No argument there. I'm just fed up with people pretending that the problem is with boring utilities and civilization; rather than with CEOs and their circles.

It's especially irksome when it comes from the areas of 'tech' that are frankly kind of lightweight in a technical sense. Somehow the hardware side manages to go from 800nm to 5nm without sounding off their meds about it; while dudes who manage to pay someone to pay AWS to serve some javascript to a webview on an iphone are babbling about how how disruptive their innovation is.