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danielrm26on Sam Altman Is Full of Shit

The possibly good content in this article was ruined by the fact that the author hasn’t seen AI produce anything yet, and completely dismisses AI.

His rant extends to all the big players building AI in a way that just seems anti-AI, with Altman being used because he’s topical.

In other words I can’t trust the source—even if he might have some actual insights—because he’s outed himself as a hater.

Haters hating things isn’t signal.

danielrm26on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://danielmiessler.com

Been writing there since 99, and lots of technical posts on AI lately.

danielrm26on ChatGPT Plugins

This is insanely great. And it's bringing the future forward where everyone has custom models for their business. Right now it's langchain, but that's really difficult to implement right now.

This is a short-term bridge to the real thing that's coming: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/spqa-ai-architecture-replace...

danielrm26on Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?

Here's my take, from January 2017.

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/we-need-mediums-editor-not-m...

Basically, the incentives are misaligned, which will inevitably make it worse for writers as time goes on.

danielrm26on Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://danielmiessler.com/

Tutorials and ideas and analysis, started back in 1999!

danielrm26on Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity

I think you're confused a bit here.

The mechanism is known for a door lock. It's a lock with a key. What they don't have is the key.

If you leave your door key, or RSA key, lying around where it's easy to find, well...that's a separate problem.

danielrm26on Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity

If you look closely, you'll see that we're saying the exact same thing.

Read Bruce's quote again. It's about hiding the mechanism.

danielrm26on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

Maybe in the article, where it links to a discussion of the top RSS readers?

danielrm26on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

Feedly is an RSS reader. It’s not one or the other.

danielrm26on San Francisco Is a Microcosm of America's Future

If only.

The reality seems to be far more complicated. Which you know of course.

So frustrating.

danielrm26on What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?

I think the simplest explanation goes like this:

1. Hoarding is addictive behavior. 2. The Opposite of Addiction is Connection (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/love-and-sex-in-the-...) 3. Because we currently have less connection, we have more addiction—and hoarding is one instantiation.

danielrm26on It Appears China Is Building a Massive Espionage Database on America

You have to either make the benefit too low, or the cost too high of doing the attacks.

And I don't think we're close to doing either in the case of China.

danielrm26on Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track?

Because their entire business model is based on tracking you.

danielrm26on Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer

When current bio-related credentials are stolen, they're not stealing your hand or your iris or your face.

They're stealing destructive hashes of those things.

It'd be like having someone sketch a stick figure version of you, and then you claim your identity was stolen.

No, it wasn't. Stick figure drawings only work in stick figure readers.

danielrm26on Stop Trying to Violently Separate Privacy and Security

Agreed, but that just seems to me like a clearcut legal question around data ownership.

danielrm26on Steven Pinker’s case for optimism

The point is that it doesn't matter because the pain people are experiencing right now far outweighs any of the positive we've gained over the past.

We don't experience deltas to the past. We experience deltas from what we remember.

danielrm26on Steven Pinker’s case for optimism

Here's my rebuttal, comparing it to Andrew Yang's book: The War on Normal People

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-problem-with-pinkers-pos...

danielrm26on Ask HN: How to enumerate all subdomains of a main domain like foo.com?

These will find your droids.

sublist3r https://github.com/aboul3la/Sublist3r

amass https://github.com/caffix/amass

subfinder https://github.com/subfinder/subfinder

danielrm26on Ask HN: How to enumerate all subdomains of a main domain like foo.com?

You should use a combination of three tools:

- sublist3r - amass - subfinder

They're all on Github.

danielrm26on Getting close to 40, mid life crisis, depression, and finding release

Do what you need to to make yourself happy.

If you don't, you'll be dead soon, or dead inside. And either way that's not sending a good message to your children.

You should show them a happy life, and if you need to make changes at home or at work, than do that—no matter how hard it is.

danielrm26on Russia Is Literally Trying to Destroy America, and How to Do It

Yeah, and talking about medicine is "anti-disease".

There is such a thing as too cynical.

danielrm26on Russia Is Literally Trying to Destroy America, and How to Do It

Chipper.

danielrm26on Why You Should Treat C-Players Like A-Players

Treating them like an A player includes not babying them and telling them they're amazing when they mess up. So, no, you shouldn't have that problem.

danielrm26on Why You Should Treat C-Players Like A-Players

C is average, as per American school grades. D and F are below average.

danielrm26on Why You Should Treat C-Players Like A-Players

It's hard to define decent, good, and bad health too. But you know it when you see it. Managers are the same with employees.

danielrm26on How to Tell If You Should Hire an InfoSec Person with a Music Degree

The CSO of Equifax has music degrees, and many people in the infosec community are basically shaming the company, and her, over it.

And maybe she deserves shame. Not sure. But if so it wouldn't be for her degree.

danielrm26on The Bay Area Is Separating into Red and Green Zones

I mentioned I grew up in Newark, i.e., Fremont. That's my real hometown.

But I see your point.

danielrm26on The Bay Area Is Separating into Red and Green Zones

You're describing small pockets of wealth that are scattered all over, surrounded by poverty.

Look at the surface area and the percentages of the population. That's what the article is about.

It's pretty clear that it's hard to live on even 100K as a family in the Bay Area, and if you look at the median incomes for most of the cities around the Bay Area they're nowhere near that.

I don't see how you counter that by naming off a few more rich microclimates.

Also, I wrote the article, and I'm born and raised here. I didn't drive down a street and come up with this. I've been here for four decades, watching it change, and this is what I'm seeing. Sorry you didn't like it. :)

danielrm26on How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017

I'd love to know who you used.

danielrm26on We Need Medium's Editor, Not Medium

Wonder if it does Wordpress integration.