Michael Weiss

@benroyce@mastodon.social @Jazone@theforkiverse.com @mattblaze@federate.social Cryptocurrency as a concept has an application as a storage of value, just as pieces of paper with dead presidents do. But that's orthogonal to the "buy some because it'll only increase in value" hype. Storing value needs a reasonable degree of predictability. It needs to be relatively boring to do so.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @Jazone@theforkiverse.com @mattblaze@federate.social That's an easy (and, dare I say, cynical) view. But the starting point for Bitcoin was a need to reach critical mass, and mining was the way to get there. Align the economic incentives to achieve the critical mass necessary for it to become self-sustaining. The crazy hype wasn't really necessary, nor was that part of the initial structure. Many later iterations of cryptocurrency were different. Rug pulls work only if you don't have well distributed critical mass, and if you're able to blur the distinctions among the different cryptocurrencies. It's turned into such a complicated mess in the intervening years that none of them are reliable stores of value anymore, each for various reasons. None of them are boring.

@datarama@hachyderm.io @mattblaze@federate.social @gooba42@mastodon.social "But my computer did it" was in fact a common defense for many, many years before GenAI showed up. "Mistakes were made." People have been deflecting responsibility for millennia. And none of that means that people *shouldn't* be held accountable. Just that they often *aren't*.

@TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange @akareilly@hachyderm.io I knew someone would end up knit picking in the replies.

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange yes, it does seem to be an operation run by pro cons.

@johnchiment@ioc.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange You'll have to make a Liszt of all of them, won't you?

@jefftp@hachyderm.io @wendynather@infosec.exchange Oh, RHELAI?

@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social @utf_7@mastodon.social @violenteastcoastcity@mastodon.social and increasingly et AI. For better or worse.

@mattblaze@federate.social @mossyfoot@pdx.social @mike805@noc.social And it's the retail nature that acts as a deterrent. The cost of implementing the fraud is typically orders of magnitude higher than the value obtained in doing so.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social show #norway a thing or two there! #worldcup

@hrbrmstr@mastodon.social Aye, see?

@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social @mattblaze@federate.social Time flies, doesn't it?

@ljrk@todon.eu @buherator@infosec.place @drwhax@infosec.exchange Part of the source of this is the lawyers. In business, companies are typically shielded from liability if they follow "standard and customary business practices". So if "everyone else" is doing it that way, you can too without taking on the liability. Of course, that takes you only so far. If your business is unable to function for two months, legal liability may well be the least of your concerns. But the problem with that threat is that it's a gray rhino risk. Those are really really hard to get businesses to spend on mitigating. For better or worse, LLM-based attacks may remove most of the gray from those risks and reduce the resistance to mitigation.

@wendynather@infosec.exchange I have an active email account that's 31 years old. Very few seem to be able to beat that.

@jm_favreau@c.im @pommesdelune@mastodon.social Yes, I've done these things. It's been working great. You'll need to use the data it collects for a while to help you with tuning, because you'll be learning about how your home absorbs and releases heat in various forms (ambient vs direct sun, for example). But even at a first attempt it will make an immediate difference.

@akamran@indieweb.social @newsguyusa@flipboard.social some might suggest that the firearms industry is protected by its own as well.

@WenhamToo@mstdn.social @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Or saxophones when they

@wendynather@infosec.exchange it's the best time of year for them.

@hellomiakoda@pdx.social @pathfinder@beige.party a house surge suppressor makes a big difference in times like that.

@alyx_woodward@universeodon.com @mattblaze@federate.social maybe, just maybe, Matt sounds rehearsed because you're far from the first person to attempt this conversation with him, and so it's rehearsed in the sense that any conversation you've had hundreds of times is rehearsed? Just a thought.

@mattblaze@federate.social as you know, "Everything looks worse in black and white. Kodachrome gives us those nice bright colors."

@ryan2one3@mstdn.ca the original trophy was, in fact, a cup. A rather striking Art Deco design. Brazil got to keep it for being the first team to win three times. They then commissioned the current trophy as the replacement for the cup, but the tournament name stuck.

@wendynather@infosec.exchange Costco has it in appropriately large sizes.

@DavidBruchmann@mastodon.world @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social smart

@wendynather@infosec.exchange yeah that was my first thought, too. Sometimes there really is a wolf.

@brianhonan@mastodon.social a doctor at the Mayo Clinic?

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Þis is what happened to Þe letter Þ.

@saraislet@infosec.exchange @dangoodin@infosec.exchange @adamshostack@infosec.exchange I suppose it would depend on exactly what chocolate it was...

@wendynather@infosec.exchange @rmd1023@infosec.exchange better than Sioux City...

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange yeah they do that, too. That said, modern x detectors beep in a specific pattern of three, which has the advantage of being understandable in any language.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social you only do high quality low quality facts!

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange Someone needs to send it to an orientation seminar.

@mattblaze@federate.social this is exactly what got me off of the smartwatch bandwagon.

@eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca @chaospatterns@lemmy.world I got one that uses two CT clamps. It barely fit into the wall box with everything else in there, but I didn't shorten any of the wires to free up room. It's been a great addition to my overall monitoring infrastructure.

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange I did my own smart detector. Dumb wired interconnected detectors, plus a relay that senses the signal on the interconnection, plus a Zigbee inline switch that sends a signal to Home Assistant. Everything local. Not as feature rich, perhaps, but no privacy issues. And no enshittification concerns that the manufacturer will hold the devices for ransom when they feel the need for more revenue.

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange Benchmarxxing?

@20002ist@thepit.social @mattblaze@federate.social And that would have been over 20 years ago.

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange @mattblaze@federate.social Hey @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social are you gonna put up with this guy?

@johntimaeus@infosec.exchange @mattblaze@federate.social don't forget the circles and arrows

@mattblaze@federate.social think of how much more comfortable it will be if you hear the temperature in Celsius. 45° is positively brisk sounding!

@20002ist@thepit.social @mattblaze@federate.social Simpler times.

@tinheadned@dice.camp I settled on some gauges that show up on my wall tablets at all times (current production/consumption, and daily production/consumption) and only when something looks off do I examine anything else.

@geeksam@ruby.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io and why is it supposed to be "mothers-in-law", but you hang out with the "in-laws"?

@phpete@mastodon.coffee #owengoal is their star player #worldcup #vargentina

@hellomiakoda@pdx.social @homeassistant@fosstodon.org they say you can remove it. I haven't tried yet. But I doubt it'll listen on both ports simultaneously.

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange in some ways, I love this so much. Tell the 12 year old that they need to get as high a score as possible on the exam, and they hatch a plan to steal the answer key. And think about how stupid grown-ups are. It's hard NOT to anthropomorphize GenAI sometimes.

@mattblaze@federate.social though when he does, it contradicts the preceding line.

@brianhonan@mastodon.social sorry...I did actually look it up before tooting and was simply making a joke on the name collision.

@wendynather@infosec.exchange I just asked. Everything it said to me aligns with what I already know to be true. Except that it had rather high praise for you...

@syntaxseed@phpc.social @fuzzychef@m6n.io @evacide@hachyderm.io even when they do, sometimes that still results in a physical check being cut.