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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
An AIX box that processes $70bn (yes, 70 billion dollars) of payments every day.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
And because getting heavy plant up through a mountain range to dig trenches etc is a pain in the arse. It’s easier to do it along a main road.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
(5) is often a waste of time, but filing an application in NCAT (or your state/territory’s equivalent) will get their attention.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
> they absolutely will not have as much success in synthesizing that into effective plans and well-made weapons without having a helpful and patient AI agent to guide them, as they will with that assist. This is demonstrably false. ISIL’
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
This seems like a meaningless number. Any role I advertise at the little known company I work for will routinely get 600-1000 completely unsuitable applicants within a couple of weeks, mostly with +91 phone numbers.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
Chain of responsibility legislation that puts individuals in prison for their part would be an excellent start.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
That support is limited. Browsers refuse to support passkeys when you TOFU untrusted certs, and for good reason.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
Quit your job, stay home and claim unemployment benefits. That way you can avoid interacting with anyone who doesn’t agree with your worldview.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
Linux LPEs have never been in short supply, even before the AI age.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
I received absolutely nothing worth paying for. I hit the safety filters with almost every meaningful task I tried to test it against, and these all happened to be benign tasks that Opus 4.8 does reasonably well.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
> The obvious counterexample is NOBUS[0] vulnerabilities, and intentional backdoors like the Clipper Chip[1] or Dual_EC_DRBG[2]: if you genuinely believe you are the only one who could possibly exploit it, there's no reason to avoid
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
One thing you can do is have your adversary put their money where their mouth is and use the very same products, sourced independently, that they use to protect their own sensitive information. There are limits to this of course. You can’t
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
And they’re heading in that direction again.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
They’ve done that before.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
I’ve got an 8 year old, second hand server under my desk that cost me about $500 in total in 2023. I could sell the memory alone now for $2500.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
Accounting for inflation, the top of the line MacBook now is about the same as a top of the line Wallstreet PowerBook G3 in 1998.
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by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
Hilariously poor opsec is part of The Intercept’s brand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
I’m only counting the Australian FTE. The numbers are up if you count the outsourcing.
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
The big 4 Australian banks (Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, National Australia Bank and Westpac) all employ pretty much the same number of people now as they did 25 years ago, but their workforce composition has changed. More software developers, f
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
None of these things on macOS are difficult. You can mostly treat a Mac like an iPhone and have a pleasant time. A problem Windows admins often face is that there are lots of knobs to tweak, and because they can tweak a knob in GPO, they
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
The downside of it being so easy is that many talentless hacks got jobs maintaining Windows environments for a living, including in your IT department.
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
Most businesses of any sophistication need specialised software developed only for Windows. The local car dealership runs factory diagnostic software on Windows. The two-way radio shop tunes and programs radios using vendor software written
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
> I've had the good fortune to fly on the top deck of the 747. I highly recommend it. I used to fly frequently between SYD-LAX in business class on Qantas B744s. 11K (top deck, right hand side exit row window seat) was one of the be
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
> Boeing (from MD originally) This class of manager is the cause of most of Boeing’s woes.
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
Industrial boards and some workstations still come with PS/2 ports today.
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
There’s a trend of software people in particular thinking that their expertise applies outside of their domain, and then causing a mess. DOGE was probably the world’s most spectacular example of this in action.
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
I can’t wait to see how the post quantum authentication transition plays out. USG is heavily reliant on FIPS 201 smart cards for user authentication. They have millions of cards in the field, with most today exclusively using RSA. No PQ sm
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
Back then we were far less shy about printing things.
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
Legal matters often have decades long histories. Especially things like deceased estates.
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by bigfatkitten 4mo ago
It’s mostly about being seen to be onboard with the latest bullshit trend in order to appease investors; either your own investors, or your customer’s investors.

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