NetworkPerson

I'm not sure what to think here. Legitimate misuse, sure. But the article says at least one person only looked up their own license plate. I feel like that should be considered acceptable. It's not law enforcement usage specifically, but can't I grant myself the right to see information on my own vehicle?

Yes, devil's advocate could say if standard citizens can't, no one can. Just seems so minor it's not worth losing a job over. All other cases (including plates of family which you don't directly own), yes, investigate fully and apply appropriate actions.

Flock is in the news most for this it seems (probably for the government connection with law enforcement often using it), but it's worth mentioning that these features are becoming common place in security cameras. I think Verkada led the pack in really refining the "search by appearance" capability, but even the more basic systems like Ubiquiti have it at this point. If you're anywhere, assume a camera system is recording you and classifying every attribute it can.

Flock is probably the greatest note as well since it's national. The deployment of Ubiquiti I did for a city has that info live with the city rather than go to some central database. So there's that too.

Not as interesting as it seems when compared with the original data. The needle only moved a few percent over the last two years.

Data from the article for how fast the leaked passwords can be cracked. First percentage is 2024. Second is 2026.

Less than a minute 45% 48% Less than an hour 59% (+14%) 60% (+12%) Less than 24 hours 67% (+8%) 68% (+8%) Less than a month 73% (+6%) 74% (+6%) Less than a year 77% (+4%) 77% (+3%) More than a year 23% 23%

Not sure countries will ban the glasses. Can say I was very quick to have boards putting through policy stating staff are not allowed to wear these (or most others) on business grounds for specific sectors I work with. They didn't realize how bad it was until I started pulling articles out.

You can drink snake venom without being harmed (provided you have no ulcers or cuts in your mouth). Stomach acid will break down the proteins in the venom so they no longer have impact.

Don't know if that's the kind of fact you're going for, but now you know.

I found it far too expensive for Anthropic. Entire context of every conversation is sent each time you type anything. Switched to a local model running from Ollama. Not quite as smart as opus, but good enough for my needs.

Not a fair analogy. It’s all about the effort invested. If I hand AI “write me something funny about my dog” and get the song from that, slop. If I carefully detail my own lyrics and define line by line how I want it rendered, not slop. Unless my lyrics are terrible :)

It’s a tool. The question is how you use it.

I honestly wouldn’t call Suno “AI slop” at this point. Yes, there’s a ton of garbage coming out of it. But you can also create some really detailed and intricate songs if you do it right. I’ve made some really nice duets and trios for example. Cloned from a real voice, no… but I’m also not getting sued for stealing a real person’s voice.

And some of their upcoming features which aren’t generally known yet are going to be really useful to creators.

The free account and the entry paid account both say 100 credits a month… is that a typo? I’d be disappointed unlocking full AI abilities only to have the same limit as free.

Something to listen in on live calls seems kinda creepy to be honest and would be abused far past your use case.

I’ve used RoboKiller before for myself. It did a fantastic job at nuking most every spam call. Maybe that would work for you?

I’ve hit twice over the last year where it was needed. Though in one case, it’s because a server that was physically old enough to vote happened to be handling dhcp and dns. I set the other, only slightly less old, server to be primary on both but left the original functioning just in case with failed.

The main need I had was for a bank. Network functionality is obviously highly important there. Windows updates impacted the dhcp service on one server, which wasn’t an obvious thing till leases started running out the following morning. Multiple DC’s, so set up for HA to avoid issues in the future. It’s almost never needed but great to have when total uptime is key to operations.

If you shared the chat at any point, it can be discovered by others. ChatGPT has also had at least one bug in the past where users were able to see the chats of others. So yeah, even if paid or over API, it’s not a good idea to trust it with sensitive information.

Having years of direct interaction working in the vet field, some skepticism is warranted. Ignoring the lack of studies, I’ve had drug reps explain how the three year and one year rabies vaccines are actually the exact same shot made from the same batch. It just costs a good bit less to license some of it as one year. And they can technically charge a little more for it so buying it over three years is a greater gain than the single three-year shot.

Past that special bit of marketing, we’re also lacking in studies of dog/cat titers to have a good understanding of when/if booster shots are needed for animals. There’s a decent set of vets who believe it is a lot more like humans where it’s make it through the initial series and you’re good for life vs needing the yearly updates. Bordatella is likely the most abused booster with some boarding facilities requiring a booster every 6 months for animals while even the vets usually state yearly.

To be clear, vaccines are good and should be used. The unclear question is if they really need to be yearly for animals.

This actually looked helpful for my side hobby. But then the test it now for free option was straight to “log in with google.” I don’t have Google. 95% of the companies I take care of don’t have Google (though to be fair on that, the MSP I’m with optimizes towards 365). If there’s not a basic “create an account with your email and not some sso tie” it’s a hard stop for me.

I like comet. Haven’t tried Altas so can’t give the best comparison. But comet is pretty transparent on how it handles data and lets you hand it a list of domains you want it having 0 access to.

Having said that, I’m still not convinced using it the last two weeks that it’s better than Brave. It’s a little slower and tries to direct more of what I search than I’d like through perplexity (I’m sure I could change the default search engine but I guess I’m also lazy and never looked).

Universe Browser. Never heard of it.

Windows

As tightly as these companies watch for anything that could be a violation of their trademark, I highly doubt you’ll find a single tld where you manage to register something with nvidia in the name and not lose it.

No, don’t close them. Libraries have become surprisingly useful of late. Need to 3D print something? No problem, probably cost you less than $1 at my local library. Like DND? Cool, they host two games a week. Feel like checking out some video games or board games? Got them too. Shoot, my local library even has kitchen equipment you can check out for free. And we just found out it offers free ABC Mouse subscriptions for up to 2nd grade.

People need internet these days, but getting rid of libraries would get rid of a lot more than just physical books.

I’ve been a big fan of mailbox.org. Cheap, easy to use, just works. Been using it for years.

I don’t necessarily look for the people who have absolute knowledge or skill in areas when considering who would be best for the role. What matters more is that they are a good person, possess the qualities needed for success, and I have confidence they can grow to succeed.

You were picked for the role. You’ve got the qualities needed. Just work hard to learn the information now which specializes to that role and trust that you’ve got this.

Having actually worked with police and seen these cameras, I’m torn. If you’re searching for a suspect, these cameras really help to make sure the person is found. Quickly finding certain people can definitely save others from potential bad outcomes with them. Or the ability to quickly locate the car if someone who for example kidnapped a child.

But on the other hand, it allows mass surveillance of the innocent, which itself can cause big privacy violations. I suppose it really comes down to how it’s used. With about any technology, people will do great things using it and other people will find great ways to corrupt it to their own gains.

The first statement here is that researchers say the phishing tests don’t work. Not sure who those researchers are, but they are either doing the tests wrong or have bad data. I work with around 100 different companies and run these campaigns for the ones who opted to have them, there’s a clear difference in the awareness of users watching out for these scams. Done right, phishing tests work very well.

I struggled with empathizing with what others were going through. Emotions were always a bit foreign to me. Lost a child about 1.5 years back. I’ve grown a lot in the empathy field since. Never wish it on anyone, but you gain a unique understanding of feelings around it.

2024 Santa Fe Hybrid. Not the expensive calligraphy version.

Fits everything I want it to, has two full size pull up seats in the rear when I need the extra, and gets me 40Mpg for all the travel I do.

Honestly, I think less attackers go this route than a simple clone of the target website and logging of credentials people enter. Much easier phishing than trying to interact with the real website. Saw this for a bank recently and sent an abuse email to the phishing domain’s registrar. Maybe 4 hours later and the registrar had killed it.

Firefox extended service release

So every single student is then physically expected to go to a library to be able to complete their homework? You’d have to have computer labs in those libraries capable of handling over a thousand students for some areas. Not a very practical solution.

At this point, it’s more an acceptance that AI is here and students are going to use it. You can control for it during monitored tests, but there’s next to nothing you’ll do to stop its usage once the students go home.

My degree is in cybersecurity. But the education was so bad that I filed a defense against repayment claim and won. So not really sure how I feel about that one… lots of wasted time which I made up teaching myself. Degree looks good on applications at least.

Bottom line I suppose is that I’m a network engineer working with a variety of clients. I enjoy the work for the most part (could do with less after hours stuff) and have fun interacting with the end users to fix their problems. The education might have been bogus, but I put in the work to learn it myself and am happy with where I’m at.

Neat idea. But I’m also worried by setups where users have the ability to shut down a remote host but aren’t privileged enough to then hit the ipmi or cloud management console and turn it back on again. Suppose the thought is avoiding downtime altogether… though I start falling back again on who is privileged enough to shut hosts down.