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@jesterchen@social.tchncs.de you must be new here.
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@arclight@oldbytes.space that last sentence remains true if you leave off the last three words.
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@avuko@infosec.exchange the dent might not be that small, at least in the metropole. When the Great Depression started, we had pretty significant industrial capacity. Decades' worth of shipping that to "low cost regions" has left us with rusting hulks and few who even remember how to do industrial labor, the type that could possibly help us recover. Our position in world finance is incredibly precarious, based as it largely is on the petrodollar convention, which is also eroding.
Rock in power, Tim Curry.
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@bittner@hachyderm.io @feoh@oldbytes.space
You're on the right track.
If, as a presenter, you're reading your slides or so much as tempting your audience to do so, you are not doing your job correctly. The audience should not have to read anything at all while you're presenting unless you have the skill to guide them into and then back out of that process.
Given the utter contempt that too many techie presenters have for the existence of the craft of presentation, let alone its praxis, you may once in your whole life be present at a presentation where this actually works. More likely, you will not.
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@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org is this the kind of thing the public should know but would be inconvenient to people with power over you if it were revealed?
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@iwein Did you read literally any part of the thread? Some people will choose low reliability, high latency, and low availability so they can attempt decentralization. Some people will also become hermits. It's about the same proportion of people.
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@arclight@oldbytes.space @meena@cathode.church @badger@mastodon.social Matt indirectly made me money back when I had a shingle out that read something along the lines of Perl Monger, and he did it the way someone showing up at the potluck with botulism-infected food would have made money for a caterer.
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org not a Cloudflare fan, I take it?
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org good to know!
After I wrote the above, I remembered that I went to college with a guy, Keith McMillan, who wrote a TeX "virus," which attacked Emacs back in 1994, so I'm guessing modern versions, having a MUCH larger attack surface, could be part of the picture.
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@luke@mastodon.macneilmediagroup.com @arclight@oldbytes.space it's interesting that you should bring madness into the discussion. How do you know you're not subject to it just from interacting with the plagiarizing glazebox? How do you know the thing(s) to which you delegated the work--work you literally cannot understand or check the way you would have if you'd done it yourself--aren't doing things that would be madness if you did them?
@aud@fire.asta.lgbt for those of us unfamiliar with the Rust ecosystem and its villains, would you be so kind as to describe, or point to a description of, what you're referring to here?
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@arclight@oldbytes.space whether you're going by track record or, for whatever reason, given that track records are available, the written rules of engagement, this is very clearly the case.
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@aud@fire.asta.lgbt thanks for using the spoons and taking the time!
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@derekheld@infosec.exchange @alyssam_infosec@infosec.exchange no, it sounds more like they figured *saying* they'd done the barest minimum would suffice. Chances are pretty good they did not even do that much.
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org I take it they seek out customers whose existence is the basis of your job. Any near-term prospects of lawfare on that basis?
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@dalias@hachyderm.io There's a fun story about embedding Python https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpython.html . "meaning it does not offer any way of restricting what users can do in it" is load-bearing.
That it's categorically impossible to prevent Python from doing fopen(), or any other thing, is just wild, and was understood decades back. It's a design feature.
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org I was kinda hoping that their outreach to those actors, complete with the fact that they've designed products whose job it is to attract them, might constitute criminal conspiracy.
I don't know the details of what they've been up to, but I am confident you would not so much as hint at this if you weren't on very solid evidentiary ground.
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org I mean, we used to use this general technique to make ssh work back when people were too fixed on port-based access control, so...
@Wolf@social.incognoble.com @sidereal@kolektiva.social PTO (already an obscene concept) doesn't actually accrue for most jobs now, so you might as well just quit if you have your next gig lined up.
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org This only looks inconsistent with Christianity if you avert your attention from literally everything about Christianity over it's 1800-ish years of history.
@bitsavers@oldbytes.space was the fact that this video was AI slop supposed to be a test?
@bitsavers@oldbytes.space holding yourself to account is a good thing. Kudos!
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@rotopenguin@mastodon.social Federal taxes are destroyed upon receipt, so that can't be the issue unless you're thinking your state, county, or municipality is gonna do this bailing.
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@arclight@oldbytes.space now that Microsoft has jammed its LLMs into both ends of the alimentary canal of everything it puts out, can you now refuse categorically on grounds of access control where nondeterministic computation didn't work?
@arclight@oldbytes.space for whatever reason, I am thinking about the legal elements of conspiracy. If I understand correctly, these are:
- Two or more people agreeing to do something illegal, while intending to help make it happen.
- One overt act by at least one of them in furtherance of same.
@arclight@oldbytes.space how sure are you that enough people are in IT to actually do the things you want done? I guess what I'm getting at is that their shit attitude may have structural components of which it might be good to become aware.
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org What manner of malware would getting this code expose people to?
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@arclight@oldbytes.space re: inconsequential and disposable vs. safety- and mission-critical systems, I'm pretty sure that's been shown to be a distinction the people who drive the production of software are incapable of seeing in advance.
It's not merely that such people are wholly unaccountable, although that's a huge factor. It's because there is such a web of complexity in "modern" (past 35 years or so) software that it's now impossible to tell up front when hooking this piece to that one creates a kill web. That trivial hunk of Javascript that, say, left-pads text turns out to be wound into so many systems that it's not clear until far too late that it's brought down, say, a hospital IT system, or one that does traffic control in a city by its absence.
That's just the bug side. Hostile actors have access to attack surfaces so huge and so varied that they are quite literally indefensible, and those surfaces are only growing.
What to do about this? Well, I've been saying for decades that we're gonna learn the same lessons civil engineers did that led to PE stamps: high-body-count catastrophes. I'm now starting to wonder whether even that glum prediction covers the harms that are coming.
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org the stock market is astrology for the rich.
A very happy Mexicans at Puebla Handing French Invaders A Richly Earned Humiliating Defeat-iversary to all who celebrate!
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@feoh@oldbytes.space I have a way better idea. Put words (or anything else) on your slides exactly and only to complement your presentation.* They are not documents and should not be written or read as such. They're stage props. If your audience is reading your slides, you're Doing It Wrong.
*You can put more words in your presenter notes, but the audience shouldn't even notice that those exist, so there should only be things like stage directions and speaking prompts.