bigfatkitten

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by bigfatkitten 7d ago
Better known as the “we are negligent” bench.
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by bigfatkitten 7d ago
The South Korean privacy regulator is the most diligent that I’ve ever seen in terms of slapping companies with fines when they screw up.
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by bigfatkitten 8d ago
The price has gone up if you’re getting AI to do it. In terms of finding low hanging fruit, reasonably good code scanning tools have been around for a while. The thing that’s changed for attackers is speed. The things that got you hacked ye
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by bigfatkitten 8d ago
Can you point to a single vendor where this has actually occurred? Customers say these things in response to a breach, but in practice they don’t lift a finger to actually change anything. Entra ID is full of design-level bugs that allow fu
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by bigfatkitten 8d ago
If customers actually cared about this, Microsoft would’ve gone bust 20 years ago.
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by bigfatkitten 8d ago
Assuming an equal level of impact per token spent, the scales have tipped in favour of the attacker. White hats are constrained by needing to pay for their own tokens, only using (expensive) vendors who meet governance and risk requirements
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by bigfatkitten 8d ago
No, it absolutely is not. That timing requires a very tight time, frequency and phase reference. It’s derived from local high stability GNSS-disciplined time references.
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by bigfatkitten 10d ago
These are extremely uncommon events, and when they do occur, the driver’s consumption of alcohol and/or methamphetamine is often a contributing factor.
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by bigfatkitten 10d ago
YC does no meaningful vetting at all. You can steal another YC entrant’s product and still get funded. https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake-compliance-as-a...
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by bigfatkitten 11d ago
Until 1975, in fact.
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by bigfatkitten 11d ago
> Iran threatens that all the time "Death to America" so if they don't like someone saying it back to them maybe they should stop? Have you ever thought to pause and wonder why they say that? Suppose you discovered that a
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by bigfatkitten 13d ago
They were indeed. “Autonomous agents” were extremely trendy in CS 30 years ago. https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/267658
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by bigfatkitten 13d ago
And then hire a FinOps team to try and restrain the development team’s profligate spending.
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by bigfatkitten 15d ago
Most software developers now are absolutely ignorant of performance concerns. Just throw more compute at it until it works, and someone else will pay the AWS bill.
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by bigfatkitten 15d ago
A motor vehicle extrication is a very technical exercise — firefighters don’t just jump out of the truck and start hacking into a car. They followed a structured arrival and size-up process that (among many other things) involves identifyin
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by bigfatkitten 15d ago
Travel is one. Have a daily driver phone that you use at home, and another one with much less personal data that you take across borders.
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by bigfatkitten 17d ago
> Considering the amount of ads they handle that seems... reasonable? Every time they disseminate one of these ads, they commit a serious criminal offence. What threshold of criminality is reasonable to you?
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by bigfatkitten 17d ago
I’ve got a Facebook account that doesn’t feature my real name, has no friends and follows no pages. The algorithm decided that I would most like to see CSAM, flat earth theory and Sovereign Citizen nonsense.
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by bigfatkitten 21d ago
> The environment in the US is very diverse so why is it federally regulated to the degree it is? Because there’s relatively little need for diversity. Dumping toxic waste into river systems is as bad in Oregon as it is in Florida. Thing
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by bigfatkitten 21d ago
The United States must be one of the only nations on earth that names its own military bases after enemy commanders.
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by bigfatkitten 22d ago
Adolph Hitler is often credited (with varying accuracy) with the Autobahn, fixing Germany’s unemployment and launching Volkswagen to produce affordable motor vehicles. None of these make him a good person any more than Meta’s occasional pos
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by bigfatkitten 23d ago
Though of late, IBM has apparently decided it should be just another Indian outsourcer.
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by bigfatkitten 25d ago
> Cheap GPS jammers fit in a cigarette lighter and are used by truckers who don't want their boss snooping on them, but they don't quite threaten aviation. They absolutely do threaten air and maritime navigation, because those
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by bigfatkitten 26d ago
Payphones in Australia have free national calls. Telstra, the formerly state owned incumbent telco is obliged under their universal service obligation to provide a certain number of payphones, but it costs more to collect the coins than the
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by bigfatkitten 27d ago
It’s already easy to commence a claim against an employer in the FWC. The system is specifically designed for self represented litigants to be able to navigate the process and get a just outcome without being ruined by legal costs if they l
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by bigfatkitten 27d ago
> As we've already seen AI hack in/out of companies in the real world accidently. None of these cases were accidental. They were caused and enabled by human negligence.
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by bigfatkitten 28d ago
For all of LinkedIn’s problems, this sounds like a problem that can be easily solved with some self-discipline. I only add, and only accept requests from people I actually know.
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by bigfatkitten 29d ago
The old saying that “there is nothing more expensive than a cheap aircraft” also applies to boats.
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
Australia generally follows EU for vehicle safety regs, and red turn signals were banned for new vehicles in 1973.
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
This has been a solved problem in the land mobile radio world for a number of decades. You have a bunch base stations forming a logical channel with a single uplink frequency, and either a single downlink frequency on which every base stati

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