montyboy_us

I've seen everyone in dev or security working more than 40 since Mythos. Every day is zero day out there.

Listen, I just had to go through numerous prompt cycles to 'prove' to 5.1 that we had a new Pope. ChatGPT was dead set that I was reading 'unreliable sources'. The data is _old_.

I love Cory’s writing, but this piece leans a bit too much on the metaphor lacking a bit in the mechanics. The walled gardens, DRM, and jailbreak bans long predate the last two administrations. They’re more business model problems and not new authoritarian inventions. Removing an app isn’t the same as adding a backdoor. I think we need to talk more about the real root issue - its a structural one as old as time - closed ecosystems have/will always create the potential for abuse regardless of who is in power.

Now, I'm not sure how we get 'open' ecosystems to a tipping point, but have observed the likes of Apple and Microsoft doing a pretty good job of slowly and steadily 'self-owning'... so maybe it's a waiting game?

In my adult life I’ve owned four cars, three of them Honda Accords. Each Accord had around 85-100k miles when I bought them, and I’ve driven each well past 200k miles with no major issues. These cars are built to last if you maintain them. 1996, 2004, 2014 (Current) with 188k miles. Best advice, by 3 year old Toyotas/Hondas off-lease and then don't think about a vehicle again for 8-10 years. I buy mine a bit older, but next time ...

It's the psychology. Every sat phone and laptop is being opened up right now...

“If you must mark and sort young people, gross, but OK. But why do it at 18 rather than 22?"

Because success, outside entertainment, is oft detectable through cultural mores; well ingrained and detectable by 18 years of age.

Shh. We don't talk about that "here".

The other elephant in the room is hardware acceleration in browsers. Fire up a Google Meet (or YouTube for that matter) on your distro of choice using Chrome/Chromium/Firefox and watch those cores shoot through the roof, the fans ramp up, and battery life nose dive. Now, try the same thing on Windows or macOS ... night and day.

Pg. 211 - Battelle Labs researching Credit Cards with built-in microchips. 1981. Guess sometimes adoption is ... slow

And has since the beginning of time. Adam Smith discussed such devaluations and the incentives in his seminal work back in the 1700’s.

"The worker will be free to move to the room or zone that fits the mood they’re looking for."

No need for my company, or any company, to build this. As it turns out I already have an environment where I can move from "zone to zone" as I see fit - my home.

SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity: ponzi schemes that have a little tech behind them and pull on our heartstrings.

Couldn't the government paint a pretty accurate picture using IRS data? Title and earnings via W-2 is at least a start.

Absolutely fabulous. Best part: "NSA hoard their knowledge of weaknesses in Microsoft Windows, a vitally important piece of their own nation's infrastructure, in case they'll come in handy againt some hypothetical future enemy. (I'm sorry, but this just won't wash; surely the good guys would prioritize protecting their own corporate infrastructure?"

Yep - way too implausible, even for hacker fiction.

Anyway, sounds like your book was Nostradamus-esque in depicting recent events. Maybe a bit too good :D

Diplomacy alone doesn't afford us the lifestyle we so enjoy. I believe we are lucky to even have the option to ignore the where and how our privileged position in global society is sustained. No one is really hiding this from us, it is that we choose not to look.

Politics, period, has further turned the platform in to a cesspool. Removing a single account is not going to correct that course. I guess this is just what happens when a social or media outlet becomes mainstream. To illustrate, I'm sure everyone has enjoyed a coffee shop, bar, or restaurant that later morphed due to loss of niche crowds or mainstream success. Rather than trying rollback time, best to try and accept it for what it is. If Twitter's reality does not suit your preferences, move on. We don't own it.

+1 on the X1 Carbon. I made the switch this year, too, post MacBook Pro announcement. Have been running Fedora flawlessly. Cheers.

I just recently broke down and picked up an X1 Carbon 4th gen in lieu of a new MBP w/ TouchBar. The 14" display is a sweet spot for size and resolution. I run Fedora, and everything 'just worked' besides the fingerprint scanner. I'm sure the new XPS will have good battery life, but the X1 is doing amazing with minimal powertop/tlp tweaking.

What I couldn't find when I was researching were thermal reviews on the X1 Carbon (important to me). Thankfully, I can say that it's always cool to the touch and the fan rarely spins up enough to be audible. Naturally, building from source and some video do cause the fans to engage, but they're not 'whiny'.