in 2018 the only reasonable answer when asked to "think of the children" is an extreme. So either the kids learn to cough up their personal data with Google, or they lean about the gay frog chemicals from the blog of Alex Jones.
if it comes packaged as a service and you access a website, portal, or online content to use it, then you dont own it. Read the terms of service, because you likely dont own the data these devices collect either. if thats the case, it can be leveraged by American law enforcement in routine investigation. That investigation can be triggered by something as simple as driving a nice car while black, or by downloading too many files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Save yourself the heartache of finding out just how deep in bed these companies get with US law enforcement, and use FLOSS home automation. https://www.openhab.org/
So when your company experiences a massive breach of security because your sales and marketing team openly discuss designs, your C levels openly discuss M&A, and your engineers openly share passwords over your chat program, you can look back and say "well at least we didnt have a bunch of meaningless features we didnt want to pay for" when you're busy packing your shit into a box and filing for unemployment.
For those of us who'd like to keep a job longer than it takes to teach little johnny how to encrypt, Use mattermost instead. https://www.mattermost.org/
Before I, a millenial, can ensure everything gen Z loves is made un-cool, more research must be done. Specifically:
- Scientific inquiry into the physics of fidget spinners
- a full computational simulation and kinematic treatise on the fortnight dance
- finite element analysis and thesis on the nature of the Tide pod.
- historic carbon dating of Post Malone to determine the potential for the existence of a Pre Malone, or a Present Malone (particle physics as needed)
This project comes from the same nation that once had a member of senate decry renewable wind energy as dangerous because wind was a "finite resource" and we would run out of wind if we built these farms.
now, im probably going to be modded down for making such a politicized observation, but had this been communist china, this wind farm would be an obvious solution to nonrenewable energy sources and most certainly come without debate. Of course as a member of the politburo you're free to opine the dangers of running out of wind, its just that such an objection would reward you with the next six years of your life to spend in appreciation of the rare majesty of the breeze as you split rocks amidst it in a labor camp.
When multinational communications industries with vested monopolies in local state and federal government come together to craft a shit sandwich at the highest levels of regulatory government using a smear campaign of disinformation and botnets posting false public opinion, you'd better take a bite when the order is served.
the federal government, and every single telecom company in the US, is fighting like hell to make sure this dies. Not because it really hurts them on a national level, but because it lays the groundwork to circumvent and resist their monopoly control without crossing the interstate commerce clause at the federal level.
cellphones across the country that run stock roms will receive this alert. anyone running lineageOS or other roms can disable the presidential alert.
And im sure ill get a shitstorm of people telling me this isnt wise, but let me clarify. after Amber alerts basically turned EAS into a carnival of CYA by local cops hoping to keep their budget another year, I decided to disable them on my EAS receiver, where I can also disable presidential alerts.
https://boingboing.net/2018/09...
this was done to short-circuit the high likelyhood of unionization at Amazon factories, which could then risk spreading to the corporation as a whole (unionized developers, SRE's, managers.)
Im sure ill get modded down for this, but im actually glad someone called this guy out and suspended him. Way too many conferences already have one guy, or girl, who decides to bring a pot of shit to stir instead of any actual contribution to the conference. When they leave, they immediately claim their talk to be a success because "controversy = i must be right."
Alessandro Strumia showed up to a CERN conference with an axe to grind. He didnt show up to the workgroup with a new model for detecting leptons, a new theory of strong force interaction, or anything else that would have been legitimately controversial. Alessandro Strumia showed up to shitpost about gender. CERN is not 4chan. Come back when you want to solve real problems.
Put on your waders because the website for Thelio is an absolute marketing shit-wreck of CSS and HTML5. the only thing youll find is a cartoon hosted at Vimeo prattling on about broken space robots?
At the presser, the ominous is stated
Please note: The article previously referred to Thelio as a laptop, but it is actually a desktop.
so what the hell are you making besides noise, system76? why is "open-source computer" in scarequotes??
who challenge that we cannot possibly rebuilt the connection of spine to spine, or even to brain, its worth remembering that the spine and brain are only 100 billion neurons, and a synaptic vesicle is only 50 nanometers.
to put this into perspective, Ryzen's 8 core architecture is 40 billion transistors. the fabrication feature size is only 14 nanometers. At some point in the future a very important question will arise, and that is, whether we care to continue using a broken spinal cord, or simply replace it altogether.
- doddering greybeard developer accidentally gets lost, forces conference relocation.
- "goddamn nvidia!" exclaims elderly hacker as he furiously storms through canadian airport.
- "we dont break userland!!" shouts furious old man as he hurtles coffee at blue-screened airport flight departures display.
This industry, the idea that credit is something that can be measured and a value of trust and worthiness ascribed to certain goods and services, is fragile.
Equifax is running out of keys and they just dont seem to care. They are running out of the very currency that funds their business model. If you can no longer trust SSN's because every hacker on the planet has them, and you can no longer trust personal information because its been stolen as well, then the value assigned to the majority of your assets (people) is effectively worthless.
and if all you can report in 20 years is the fact that everyone in your database is categorized as credit-unworthy, then you become worthless as a saleable service to your real customers: banks.
Google has nothing to lose by delaying disclosure of an exploit that isnt even in its ecosystem...
however...google has everything to lose if the idea of operating outside its walled garden catches on.
a new subscription offering that ties a console to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass for two years.
who honestly cares. when the technology "ties a console" to anything, its pretty much dead on arrival. these game passes work for users either too lazy or too stubborn to switch to PC gaming, but you arent doing anything to increase long term longevity of the console.
a new Xbox One S or Xbox One X
so, you just bought a subscription to the latest call of dootle doo.
access to more than 100 great games through Xbox Game Pass
Pack it up and get off the stage. Steam has more than fifteen thousand titles, and in the next 6-12 month, Nova will run the vast majority of them on Linux as well.
and online multiplayer with Xbox Live Gold
almost every game that can, offers online multiplayer with VAC protection through Steam without a subscription. this is just beating the corpse of Ayn Rand.
In other words, consoles are circling the drain so fast its starting to look like the nineties blockbuster rental gaming scene.
When you go to download "Fortnite" you don't actually download the whole game, you download the Fortnite Installer first.
so this is actually a common method for a lot of applications in the play store as well. its the lazy app developers "curl|sudo/bin/bash" approach to installation. The difference being many of these other apps paid their play store fe--er, i mean those applications are protected by Google.
1956 - 1957 pour concrete, build elevated road sections and ramps.
1957 - 2017 : local line painters union #131 to paint road line.
2018: Clovis the line painter finishes the last tape in his Bob Ross how to paint road lines Betamax collection and confirms the highway is nearly done.
Soda machine: hey...psssst...hey kid... innocent child: a...talking soda machine? Soda machine: yeah kid so what? hey listen....you wanna...pass a little Turing test? Child: I dunno, my mom says Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses. Soda machine: yeah sure but listen Common understanding has it that the purpose of the Turing test is not specifically to determine whether a computer is able to fool an interrogator into believing that it is a human, but rather whether a computer could imitate a human.calculator: yeah kid! come on! just one Turing test!
for those in Florida, this is the common name for a worldwide phenomenon known as an algal bloom when it is caused by species of dinoflagellates and other organisms.
it is not to be confused with The Red Bloom: a scourge which plagues Florida in the form of an overweight bald methamphetamine addict in a cape fashioned from a bath rug who steals urinal mints from hotel bathrooms and once consumed nearly ten kilos of frosting at a pastry factory in Tallahassee before being subdued by a combination of police dogs, tazer, and coronary artery disease.
but not even another cold war could inspire this government to be competitive enough to consider a reasonable national broadband standard with the chops to rival even the smallest european nation.
For a party that so champions American Exceptionalism, Ajit sold any idea of it down the crapper when he axed net neutrality in favor of corporate kickbacks. My only hope is that this grinning philistine finds his comeuppance in the history books as one of the feckless imbeciles that sped the nation from innovation.
disclosure: I left infosec for the relatively calmer career path of system administration.
infosec is under enormous pressure to deliver a product that cant be hacked, and take the blame for when products are hacked. Developers routinely leapfrog infosec for exceptions to upgrades or coding standards and when theyre caught with their pants around their ankles theres no accountability, only blame. 'IS director' is a revolving door of burnouts that are exhausted from the constant assault and bettery from sales insisting every credit card is a good credit card, and managers insisting you need to stand down from every product meeting or just not attend at all because it somehow negatively affects 'agility.'
I became so jaded eventually that my job morphed from protecting users from malicious actors, to just keeping a running CYA log of poor leadership decisions and whom to attribute them to when the shit hit the fan. no hardened binaries? no standardized two factor? no problem. Just dont expect me to sit quietly in the meeting.
Devops was not designed to bridge the collaboration gap between developer and operations. It was designed to bridge the hiring gap. Fully staffed ops teams are a rarity, as are fully staffed dev teams. If you can make either do both, you can report to your leadership that youre no longer overstaffed, and are surprisingly at or below budget for headcount.
secops are already a thing. The only thing silly-con valley needs to convince the industry now is that some sort of dev/sec/ops monster is not only a real position, but employable at a fraction of the rate of either 3 roles.
Slashdot Mirror
in 2018 the only reasonable answer when asked to "think of the children" is an extreme. So either the kids learn to cough up their personal data with Google, or they lean about the gay frog chemicals from the blog of Alex Jones.
if it comes packaged as a service and you access a website, portal, or online content to use it, then you dont own it. Read the terms of service, because you likely dont own the data these devices collect either.
if thats the case, it can be leveraged by American law enforcement in routine investigation. That investigation can be triggered by something as simple as driving a nice car while black, or by downloading too many files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Save yourself the heartache of finding out just how deep in bed these companies get with US law enforcement, and use FLOSS home automation. https://www.openhab.org/
So when your company experiences a massive breach of security because your sales and marketing team openly discuss designs, your C levels openly discuss M&A, and your engineers openly share passwords over your chat program, you can look back and say "well at least we didnt have a bunch of meaningless features we didnt want to pay for" when you're busy packing your shit into a box and filing for unemployment.
For those of us who'd like to keep a job longer than it takes to teach little johnny how to encrypt, Use mattermost instead. https://www.mattermost.org/
Before I, a millenial, can ensure everything gen Z loves is made un-cool, more research must be done. Specifically:
- Scientific inquiry into the physics of fidget spinners
- a full computational simulation and kinematic treatise on the fortnight dance
- finite element analysis and thesis on the nature of the Tide pod.
- historic carbon dating of Post Malone to determine the potential for the existence of a Pre Malone, or a Present Malone (particle physics as needed)
This project comes from the same nation that once had a member of senate decry renewable wind energy as dangerous because wind was a "finite resource" and we would run out of wind if we built these farms.
now, im probably going to be modded down for making such a politicized observation, but had this been communist china, this wind farm would be an obvious solution to nonrenewable energy sources and most certainly come without debate. Of course as a member of the politburo you're free to opine the dangers of running out of wind, its just that such an objection would reward you with the next six years of your life to spend in appreciation of the rare majesty of the breeze as you split rocks amidst it in a labor camp.
When multinational communications industries with vested monopolies in local state and federal government come together to craft a shit sandwich at the highest levels of regulatory government using a smear campaign of disinformation and botnets posting false public opinion, you'd better take a bite when the order is served.
the federal government, and every single telecom company in the US, is fighting like hell to make sure this dies. Not because it really hurts them on a national level, but because it lays the groundwork to circumvent and resist their monopoly control without crossing the interstate commerce clause at the federal level.
cellphones across the country that run stock roms will receive this alert. anyone running lineageOS or other roms can disable the presidential alert.
And im sure ill get a shitstorm of people telling me this isnt wise, but let me clarify. after Amber alerts basically turned EAS into a carnival of CYA by local cops hoping to keep their budget another year, I decided to disable them on my EAS receiver, where I can also disable presidential alerts.
https://boingboing.net/2018/09... this was done to short-circuit the high likelyhood of unionization at Amazon factories, which could then risk spreading to the corporation as a whole (unionized developers, SRE's, managers.)
Im sure ill get modded down for this, but im actually glad someone called this guy out and suspended him. Way too many conferences already have one guy, or girl, who decides to bring a pot of shit to stir instead of any actual contribution to the conference. When they leave, they immediately claim their talk to be a success because "controversy = i must be right."
Alessandro Strumia showed up to a CERN conference with an axe to grind. He didnt show up to the workgroup with a new model for detecting leptons, a new theory of strong force interaction, or anything else that would have been legitimately controversial. Alessandro Strumia showed up to shitpost about gender. CERN is not 4chan. Come back when you want to solve real problems.
Put on your waders because the website for Thelio is an absolute marketing shit-wreck of CSS and HTML5. the only thing youll find is a cartoon hosted at Vimeo prattling on about broken space robots?
At the presser, the ominous is stated
Please note: The article previously referred to Thelio as a laptop, but it is actually a desktop.
so what the hell are you making besides noise, system76? why is "open-source computer" in scarequotes??
customer: so i have to pay to check a bag?
delta: yes, its just too expensive you know, fuel costs and all that.
customer: and the fuel surcharge from 2006?
delta: im afraid it has to stay, fuel might go up you know...
customer: and what about this 9/11 processing fee?
Delta, dragging an enormous kiosk: Freedom isnt free you know.
customer: Does that thing ever make a mistake?
Delta: Not as many as our customers.
AT&T thug: Sir! the president says he wants Americans opinions on ah...privacy...
AT&T Boss: Remember the FCC comments?
AT&T thug: Sure thing boss. Yo! Mikey! fire up the shit-post-o-matic 9000! we've got some "opinions" that need voiced!
who challenge that we cannot possibly rebuilt the connection of spine to spine, or even to brain, its worth remembering that the spine and brain are only 100 billion neurons, and a synaptic vesicle is only 50 nanometers.
to put this into perspective, Ryzen's 8 core architecture is 40 billion transistors. the fabrication feature size is only 14 nanometers. At some point in the future a very important question will arise, and that is, whether we care to continue using a broken spinal cord, or simply replace it altogether.
- doddering greybeard developer accidentally gets lost, forces conference relocation.
- "goddamn nvidia!" exclaims elderly hacker as he furiously storms through canadian airport.
- "we dont break userland!!" shouts furious old man as he hurtles coffee at blue-screened airport flight departures display.
This industry, the idea that credit is something that can be measured and a value of trust and worthiness ascribed to certain goods and services, is fragile.
Equifax is running out of keys and they just dont seem to care. They are running out of the very currency that funds their business model. If you can no longer trust SSN's because every hacker on the planet has them, and you can no longer trust personal information because its been stolen as well, then the value assigned to the majority of your assets (people) is effectively worthless.
and if all you can report in 20 years is the fact that everyone in your database is categorized as credit-unworthy, then you become worthless as a saleable service to your real customers: banks.
Google has nothing to lose by delaying disclosure of an exploit that isnt even in its ecosystem...
however...google has everything to lose if the idea of operating outside its walled garden catches on.
a new subscription offering that ties a console to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass for two years.
who honestly cares. when the technology "ties a console" to anything, its pretty much dead on arrival. these game passes work for users either too lazy or too stubborn to switch to PC gaming, but you arent doing anything to increase long term longevity of the console.
a new Xbox One S or Xbox One X
so, you just bought a subscription to the latest call of dootle doo.
access to more than 100 great games through Xbox Game Pass
Pack it up and get off the stage. Steam has more than fifteen thousand titles, and in the next 6-12 month, Nova will run the vast majority of them on Linux as well.
and online multiplayer with Xbox Live Gold
almost every game that can, offers online multiplayer with VAC protection through Steam without a subscription. this is just beating the corpse of Ayn Rand.
In other words, consoles are circling the drain so fast its starting to look like the nineties blockbuster rental gaming scene.
When you go to download "Fortnite" you don't actually download the whole game, you download the Fortnite Installer first.
so this is actually a common method for a lot of applications in the play store as well. its the lazy app developers "curl|sudo /bin/bash" approach to installation. The difference being many of these other apps paid their play store fe--er, i mean those applications are protected by Google.
1956 - 1957 pour concrete, build elevated road sections and ramps.
1957 - 2017 : local line painters union #131 to paint road line.
2018: Clovis the line painter finishes the last tape in his Bob Ross how to paint road lines Betamax collection and confirms the highway is nearly done.
Soda machine: hey...psssst...hey kid...
innocent child: a...talking soda machine?
Soda machine: yeah kid so what? hey listen....you wanna...pass a little Turing test?
Child: I dunno, my mom says Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses.
Soda machine: yeah sure but listen Common understanding has it that the purpose of the Turing test is not specifically to determine whether a computer is able to fool an interrogator into believing that it is a human, but rather whether a computer could imitate a human. calculator: yeah kid! come on! just one Turing test!
for those in Florida, this is the common name for a worldwide phenomenon known as an algal bloom when it is caused by species of dinoflagellates and other organisms.
it is not to be confused with The Red Bloom: a scourge which plagues Florida in the form of an overweight bald methamphetamine addict in a cape fashioned from a bath rug who steals urinal mints from hotel bathrooms and once consumed nearly ten kilos of frosting at a pastry factory in Tallahassee before being subdued by a combination of police dogs, tazer, and coronary artery disease.
but not even another cold war could inspire this government to be competitive enough to consider a reasonable national broadband standard with the chops to rival even the smallest european nation.
For a party that so champions American Exceptionalism, Ajit sold any idea of it down the crapper when he axed net neutrality in favor of corporate kickbacks. My only hope is that this grinning philistine finds his comeuppance in the history books as one of the feckless imbeciles that sped the nation from innovation.
disclosure: I left infosec for the relatively calmer career path of system administration.
infosec is under enormous pressure to deliver a product that cant be hacked, and take the blame for when products are hacked. Developers routinely leapfrog infosec for exceptions to upgrades or coding standards and when theyre caught with their pants around their ankles theres no accountability, only blame. 'IS director' is a revolving door of burnouts that are exhausted from the constant assault and bettery from sales insisting every credit card is a good credit card, and managers insisting you need to stand down from every product meeting or just not attend at all because it somehow negatively affects 'agility.'
I became so jaded eventually that my job morphed from protecting users from malicious actors, to just keeping a running CYA log of poor leadership decisions and whom to attribute them to when the shit hit the fan. no hardened binaries? no standardized two factor? no problem. Just dont expect me to sit quietly in the meeting.
https://github.com/nimbius/Sou...
Devops was not designed to bridge the collaboration gap between developer and operations. It was designed to bridge the hiring gap. Fully staffed ops teams are a rarity, as are fully staffed dev teams. If you can make either do both, you can report to your leadership that youre no longer overstaffed, and are surprisingly at or below budget for headcount.
secops are already a thing. The only thing silly-con valley needs to convince the industry now is that some sort of dev/sec/ops monster is not only a real position, but employable at a fraction of the rate of either 3 roles.