lrvick

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by lrvick 9mo ago
I basically never work away from my home desk unless I am staying multiple days away from home. In that case I bring a tiny QubesOS laptop that I attach to my leg with a leg bag (I hate carrying a backpack) and work anywhere with wifi, whic
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I started that way, though with AOSP I compiled myself. It was a nice nicotine patch but after a while my phone was so quiet and boring without proprietary social apps demanding my attention, I often found myself leaving it at home. Eventua
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I first had a conversation with my wife at a pizza place hanging out with mutual friends. We bonded through in person face to face conversation like cave people. She never used dating apps so there was no other way we were going to meet. Tu
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I have many times used public telephones when I really need to when traveling. The main difference today is they are free. Every airport lobby, every hotel, and most business can call a taxi or call 911 in a pinch. There are also free publi
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Traveling internationally or domestically, booking flights, hotels, going to concerts, theme parks, the movies, organizing hangouts with friends, exploring new locations... all of these things I do just fine by using a web browser on a desk
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by lrvick 9mo ago
All 2FA options that require a phone like TOTP can be done just as easily on a laptop with a yubikey or nitrokey. I have several business and personal bank accounts with two major banks. No Android or iOS needed. Sure they push you hard to
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Small companies that are 100% FOSS with no VC investment, where everyone has to pull their own weight. I do not have a personal assistant or anything like that and navigate the real world, travel, etc, very often alone.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I am a security engineer and I live and work in Silicon Valley with an active social life. None of these things require a phone.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I turned off all cell carrier tracking 5 years ago. 100% of it. By canceling my cell phone subscription. I know I know, I must be amish, I have heard it all. But I run two tech companies, travel, have a family, and do most of the things mos
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Well yes, all the big tech companies are just as corrupt as Palintir, but only Palintir is actively making tech purpose built to enable some of the most vile people on the planet to more easily physically kidnap and harm human beings for mo
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by lrvick 9mo ago
They almost exclusively hire fresh grads who need money more than ethics, and it shows in everything they do.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
It has become quite clear in recent months that the the rule of law will not be enforced on the federal government or their allies.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Considering OpenAI is deeply rooted in anti-freedom ethos and surveillance capitalism, I think it is quite a self aware and fitting name.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
So this "open" system still requires you to use Claude to actually use it?
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Actually open source, or yet another public model, which is the equivalent of a binary? URL is down so cannot tell.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Microsoft could have done key backups to secure enclaves that will only return them to a user able to produce valid signatures using a backup code or otherwise they hold. Hell they were the ones that normalized remote attestation. But Micro
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by lrvick 9mo ago
https://hashbang.sh / #!:matrix.org Been running for over 20 years and pick up new randos every day or two.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Oh, there are plenty of ways to attack offline systems. Side channel attacks, supply chain attacks, etc. Most of my job as a security engineer is making offline systems you can actually trust.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I would pay triple to not have to worry about how to print and box these all neatly as you did. Please take my money for this and all your other games.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Consider security engineering. It requires constantly thinking about unconventional ways to attack systems, and taking advantage of common coding mistakes LLMs produce as often is humans because it learned from humans. Security engineers wi
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by lrvick 9mo ago
By contrast, the moment I am no longer able to compete with AI users, is the moment I quit the industry. I have no interest in outsourcing my thinking. Thankfully LLMs are still very stupid. Especially when it comes to security engineering,
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by lrvick 9mo ago
If there are ad incentives, assume all content is fake by default. On the actual open decentralized internet, which still exists, mastodon, IRC, matrix... bots are rare.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I am one of those analog people, and have been long before it was (apparently?) cool. - I have not had a cell phone in 5+ years - I do not use LLMs at all outside of occasional experimentation to understand the current capabilities I am kno
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Everything I ever used jquery for 15 years ago, I found myself able to do with the CSS and the JS standard library maybe 10 years ago. I honestly am confused when I see jquery used today for anything. Is there still anything jquery does you
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Well, we do not really have any idea what Whatsapp uses, because it is proprietary.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
There are no fully open/auditable android phones. All of them have privileged binary blobs. An end to end chat service where there are no options permitting full accountability of the client software and operating system is largely sec
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Having Google and Apple apps is fine. Having that be the only option, and the recommended option for high risk use cases is unforgivable.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Matrix.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Full time matrix user and all my family and businesses use Matrix too. It works just fine, and with self hosting, I control the metadata on the servers I host for my orgs. It actually is the least bad option available, and decentralization
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by lrvick 9mo ago
What he did with messaging... So he will centralize all of it with known broken SGX metadata protections, weak supply chain integrity, and a mandate everyone supply their phone numbers and agree to Apple or Google terms of service to use it

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