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e40on A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

The Usenet comms gave me a lot of laughs. It was so cleverly done. It’s been a very long time since I read it, but that is one of the memories I have.

e40on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

Yes, climate change debate went the same way.

e40on U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

Wrong zone.

e40on Lid-lifting Kiwi author forced to sit in silence at writers' festival

I did that. She’s a very good writer. While I haven’t finished it, I’ve enjoyed it so far.

e40on 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

It’s not even friendly inside the Apple ecosystem.

e40on What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

Proof? I don’t believe it did.

Edit: BBB? Is it in effect yet, though?

e40on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

> Attacking every open source maintainer who might use AI for the sin of having used AI because one hates AI is just abusive behavior, not "sane response".

That's not what happened, and I think you know it. The number of LOC introduced in the last 2 versions of rsync is off the charts. And there are bugs. I've been in a situation like the author of that issue. Upgrade a package and things fall apart and it would be very, very expensive to debug it to file the appropriate bug reports... so I roll back to a known good version.

Yes, the language the person used wasn't the greatest.

IMO, this is a litmus test for how you feel about AI. For the people that hate it, it's just a big pile on and "I told you so" ... we don't have enough info about the author to know if they are anti-AI. We know they are against using AI in a BAD WAY.

e40on Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain

Your libido sounds more than fine if you have multiple girlfriends.

e40on Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates

Unintended consequences are indeed a bitch.

e40on Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)

There is also Fitzcarraldo: The Original Story which is his diary from the years making the movie. Quite interesting and like a fever dream, at times.

e40on US mass layoffs tracker via WARN ACT notices

Very interesting to browse. Thanks to the author of the site.

e40on Tesla Self-Certifies Level 4 Autonomous Vehicles in Texas

That’s not even a complete sentence.

e40on Reddit blocks JSON API access, which leaves read-only apps like RDX unusable

Show source (link at bottom of comment) is gone?

e40on I'm Tired of Talking to AI

When I had Concast (with Sonic now) I remember hating having to call them. Their CSRs can be really terrible. I once said “are you fucking kidding me?” or similar and that was their legit way out of having to help and they hung up.

e40on Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife

I remember when biff was what we ran in a CSH to be informed of new email. I don’t remember if this was a local UCB tool or if it was part of BSD.

e40on FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home

Vetting has been put on hold in cases where there are labor shortages. Don’t remember where, but I read an account of a military guy applying to ICE and they did no vetting at all, and had he accepted the jobs with a sizablebonus (he did it to see what their process was) he would have been deployed without training. At the time the source and person seemed credible.

This is what happens when a new administration fires the incumbent experts and hires by loyalty tests.

e40on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

It wasn't much time at all. Honestly, the push back on this always baffles me.

And when I had an office, I closed (not locked) the door to signify I was in a focus mode. I don't get your point.

e40on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

The idea that software like Slack could be setup as "one size fits all" is just ludicrous to me. We have options because different people require different settings.

e40on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

I don't know what that means.

I have no audible sounds from notifications. They don't go to my phone, with few exceptions. I get no popups. Yet, I am responsive. It was trivial to set up.

e40on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

Either the factories are gone or China controls them and takes most of the output for themselves. They've already been excluded from a good amount of the output!

e40on Valve raises Steam Deck prices

Simple, they invade and TSMC blows up their factories. Or, the invasion is successful and they control the factories.

I didn't say it was likely, but one of these two outcomes is possible.

e40on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

Supply chains are not just components, but things like military planes. See referenced article.

e40on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

Agreed.

And let's not forget focus modes... I have them that narrow greatly my default set of notifications, so I have a 3 tiers of notifications.

It's like the complaint I used to hear all the time: "Slack ruins work for me! OMG I can't work with constant interruptions!!" That is bewildering, because if that's how you feel, you haven't tuned your setup. Slack never interrupts me, yet I am response enough to slack messages. No one has ever complained about my response time. And I'm probably the most-messaged person on our Slack.

e40on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

Over the last few months we've seen announcements of shifts from US-based supply chains to non-US-supply chains. As an American, I think this is prudent, based on what has happened in the last year and change. The US is no longer a reliable partner and this is what you do when that happens.

100 years from now, the last 15 months will be written about in no uncertain terms: this administration has loaded many footguns and pulled the trigger, over ideologies which are just plain stupid. "America First" indeed. Soft power is power. "Forever" wars are wars we shouldn't be in. Retribution by POTUS acting like a 5 year old is disgusting no matter what party that person came from.

It will take decades to recover from what has and will happen during this administration's run. Let's hope the power they have ends in November 2026 and not Nov 2028.

e40on Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

> whats being described is in no way unique to ai.

Exactly. For decades we've talked about "reality distortion fields" of various CEOs. I'm worked with CEOs that had them.

AI just supercharges the reality distortion field.

e40on Valve raises Steam Deck prices

Now imagine TSMC being controlled by China. While I think it's fairly low probability, the imagination does create some pretty dystopian scenarios.

e40on Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

And saying they’ll bring in jobs, while neglecting to mention that is during the construction phase.

And also they come with huge tax breaks.

e40on Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive

And a lot of people think he ruined at least some Apple products (too-thin laptops).

e40on Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

That's insane.

e40on Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

But they could allow other 2fa apps, but they force their shitty one.