Deprecated root of SSL
Twisting history of base level, increasingly required technology. “you end up building the same pieces of the system, one outage at a time”
A simple, smart RF primer for those in the TEMPEST, MAGIC, SCIF and EMF security worlds
This guy breezily takes apart an old IBM TEMPESTed PC and along the way describes thoroughly the reasons why and how the engineering and build was done, what problems it solved, etc. “It’s not paranoia if They are in fact ‘out to get you’ and They know how to do it.” 1:52:05 This brings me … Read more
MSDS in Practice
Per-product. Per-size. Per-color. Per-SKU. SDS/MSDS obligations in the US and EU generally attach to the chemical mixture/formulation and hazard classification, not every retail SKU, so different sizes usually do not require separate SDSs if the contents are identical; size mostly affects labeling/shipping/storage rules, not the SDS itself. Different colors only need separate SDSs if pigments/additives … Read more
SECOND EVE – Human prompted AI word salad
write a book for me, chapter at a time. its called SECONDEVE and it’s about a girl who was cloned 8 months prior to birth; evey and eve were ‘born’ one month apart, their senses are intermingled, their toughts interwoven. Each completes the other’s sentences, ideas, responses. It’s uncanny. This could seemingly wreck their lives … Read more
The BitCoinsters
According to data from blockchain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence, Bitcoin’s anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is the world’s largest Bitcoin holder with approximately 1,096,000 BTC. The current value of assets believed to belong to Satoshi is approximately $71.36 billion. This amount corresponds to about 5.47% of the total Bitcoin supply. Second on the list is Coinbase, … Read more
How LLMs Actually Generate Text
They are just gigantic probability calculators. Everyone who thinks LLMs are sentient should be forced to watch this.
Ondrej identifies Permanent Underclass as those denied Frontier Tech
A permanent thwartation. A permanent handicap, disadvantage, restraint. “This is the second warning from the Universe in the last two weeks that [humanity must] not rely on closed-source AI and that open-source AI is the answer. …most people do not realize this because they are not capable of long-term thinking.” Severe betrayals by Big Tech … Read more
Has godaddy.com always been this bad?
godaddy.com has become Ridiculous and Irrelevant …perhaps it Always Was? Today’s transcript of incompetence. Incredible Horrendous. You at 8:41, Jun 22: Customer reports Akamai Access Denied when accessing http://www.godaddy.com/ from static public IP REDACTED. Error page is https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.dcab3717 with reference IDs 18.dcab3717 and 18.dcab3717, and requests CDN/WAF review for a possible IP block or reputation … Read more
Color Printers Tracking You
That explains why you can’t print a black and white document when you are out of yellow ink. I actually won a case against the government that sent me papers dated of a certain due date and they blamed the long delay before I received it on the post being congested and slow. But I … Read more