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Comment Re: Make it Shitty! (Score 2) 116

Are you kidding ? Killing products is rather shitty, and they have done tons of that.

For something they haven't killed, Maps seems to always give priority to paid placement. So, when i want to Home depot, the first choice is 40 miles away. I wish i was kidding. But this is a pattern.

Comment Re: pFsense and OPNsense (Score 1) 174

Netgate also sells pfSense+, which has some closed source enhancements. It was free for a short time, during which i grabbed a license. I have been running it for years.

License is unfortunately tied to the NIC and other hardware properties. I have been wanting to switch it to a VM. I would have to downgrade to pfSense minus. I might do so.

I tried Opnsense, but it had many of problems on my hardware, and I ended up giving up.

Comment Re:The llms lack understanding of code (Score 1) 159

They won't fix subtle bugs by themselves, for sure. But I have found the agentic AI to be a great assist during device reverse engineering sessions. It's fun to work on an open source project with many bits marked "unknown", and then have the AI figure out the meaning based on packet captures from known various device states. It does all the data analysis, finds the bit patterns, etc. And, yes, writes the code to use the findings. It still requires a very significant amount of human testing, and understanding of the code. But this is a task I just would not have undertaken by myself without the tool. I also don't need to know the exact intricacies of the project's language, like being forced to check for != 0 value in Go, which is not needed in C. It is readable, though, just not writable by me, because I didn't spend enough time writing Go by hand.

TLDR, the LLMs are greatly helpful tools.

Comment Re: It will flop (Score 1) 26

Nevertheless, it is a good poiint. The farther you are from a grocery store, the more useful the drone is. And usuay, the density of population is inversely correlated with proximity to businesses.

I happen to live in San Jose proper, near the county line. Nearest Costco is 5 miles which is 20 min drive one way, at off peak hours. Walmart is also 5 miles, but 25 mins. Those times can be a lot longer at peak hours. I also can't drive when it's dark anymore. So, I welcome our drone overlords.

Unfortunately, Wing shows that my address is excluded from the service area. Same as Waymo. The free market at work, once again.

Submission + - Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft's Cloud Was "a Pile of Shit." (propublica.org)

madbrain writes: Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They approved it anyway.

To move federal agencies to the cloud, the government created a program known as FedRAMP, whose job was to ensure the security of new technology.

FedRAMP first raised questions about Microsoft's Government Community Cloud High s security in 2020 and asked Microsoft to provide detailed diagrams explaining its encryption practices. But when the company produced what FedRAMP considered to be only partial information in fits and starts, program officials did not reject Microsoft’s application. Instead, they repeatedly pulled punches and allowed the review to drag out for the better part of five years. And because federal agencies were allowed to deploy the product during the review, GCC High spread across the government as well as the defense industry. By late 2024, FedRAMP reviewers concluded that they had little choice but to authorize the technology — not because their questions had been answered or their review was complete, but largely on the grounds that Microsoft’s product was already being used across Washington.

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