Clearly they can work out how much to bill you, obviously they can list those items they've added together that feed into the total they ask you to pay. See, not so hard. Otherwise you should only be required to pay the advises price, not a cent more.

Honestly, what idiots to fall for the scam. I know my data is in there somewhere, but I have no doubt by paying the ransom, they've only perpetuated the business model further. There is no honour amongst thieves.

We're in the middle of emergency patching 6000 Linux hosts to address copy fail, now we have another set of CVEs to urgently patch? Oh boy

Picked and consumed in my late teens. Pretty nice feeling! Like overwhelming joy and giddiness that wants to overflow. Am quite pleased to read these studies, as it would be a bit of a worry if the affects were long term negative. ðYzðY--

I've been trying out Claude for a while. They've had it consolidating and storing key memories for a while now, but still find its a bit poor at deciding what is important. It even forgets stuff in the current chat and needs to be told about it again instead of being able to go back and review what was just a few pages up. This stuff I find chatgpt is much better at.

Claude tells me about 2.9N, a bit less than a can of coke. But with 60% efficiency, up to 90% less fuel than chemical rockets... It can pile that thrust on over months and really get moving.

Who needs enemies when you have the USA for an ally.

Not sure if it's just price gouging or actually supply shortage and increase in dram memory cost... But spinning platters are insane at the moment too

Probably TurboQuant, or another Pied Piper compression algo. ;j

Kind of underselling the type of hacker who has 10 Petabytes of storage on hand. It's not your average everyday hack. That is an organisation and likely state sponsored.

Whilst a lot of economic activity is business to business, a lot is also business to customer, and all workers are customers. No workers, no customers. So if you layoff all your workers you are also getting rid of your customers. That has to be protected.

Waze fully supports average speed zone camera systems, let's you know if your average is too high whilst in the zone with a moving bar one one side of map.

Given they'd be effectively offline for the duration, it's conceivable they have the January patch still installed (if they are running back rev software) and have been bitten by the PST files on OneDrive bug introduced in January windows update. "Classic Outlook profiles with POP accounts and PSTs hang after Windows updates on January 13, 2026" https://support.microsoft.com/...

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Yeah, people with morals are a supply chain risk when certain people are in power.