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eastbound··on We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?
The risk of pedophile images is way to high to let anyone upload files to your website. It's one thing probably even the evilest country would agree to jail you for, without investigation.

Sorry mate, the era of forums is over.

eastbound··on US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028
Although you were generally right, you can't say that after the parties between Boeing and FAA agents, nor FAA using Boeing consultants to inspect Boeing, fail inspections, still pass them, crash 4 planes and be humiliated by having Boeing Max flight permissions only revoked by the European authority. And the Macdonnell history with FAA says it is not new.
eastbound··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Did you try to mark it as spam? Gmail might be able to filter internal emails too.
eastbound··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
That's a direct benefit from AI.

If all products ditch Electron, it satisfies the NSA requirements of having AI-generated backdoors on your computer, while allowing you to reduce your RAM consumption and letting this precious silicon for Sam Altman (He's quoted saying RAM is better spent in data centers than in personal computers - and in an era where everything is Cloud, one might wonder why the base Macbook Pro has 32GB).

eastbound··on Hackers hit French national blood bank
How do you deal with bankruptcy? Also most companies, even larger ones with seemingly a well-managed board, actually rely around the aura of the founder.

> call it End Of Life with flagrant issues still happening

It's precisely because there are unreasonable issues that they EOL them. Retiring products because of issues should be encouraged.

How? Well all products should be sold as a service - medical devices are, even if they appear as a purchase, they have strong post-market surveillance requirements. But that makes everything super expensive. It's only affordable for rich economies like Singapore.

eastbound··on Hackers hit French national blood bank
We're expert of the EU MDR, the "new" medical device regulation, and there are many Cloud services trying to seduce customers. But clearly no-one wants to have their software online: Medical industry is crossing the chasm when they can control when their Cloud software is upgraded, but the aerospace is a hard no and the ISO 26252 field (automotive) is even worse. With AI and Trump, it gives them reason.

The Cloud thing is completely driven by software companies, not by their customers. I'm really surprised that we did succeed at forcefully moving unwilling customers to the Cloud, it really doesn't answer their needs.

But downloadable software today is completely free to hack. Downloadable software is akin to open-sourcing your software.

eastbound··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
You forgot NPM. Whereby we download code from unknown authors on GitHub and run in with full access to our filesystem on our machines. No vulnerability, it's been designed like this, we even have designed scripts to autoupdate vulnerabilites, that's the proof that vulns are not common.
eastbound··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
At least in France, it means the father leaves and the kid doesn't have enough money to study — and we're transitioning to the workplace providing the funding for studies (apprenticeships where the company pays 10k€ per year, empoverishing the worker).

I'd rather see the name of the father be stuck to the kid so if he's a failure, everyone knows who failed him.

eastbound··on Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
It's a friend. Sorry it's not been judged or publicized by anyone verifiable. It's a lowclass female friend whose husband was accused, the underage accuser said it was false, but because the accuser is a child, we cannot take her retractation as legitimate. Funny how the accusation still stood.

On the front yard of the court, the lawyer asked the wife for 1000€ cash to pay the judge, she's not wealthy so she could't withdraw that amount on her bank account, and her friends didn't scramble in time.

The man was convicted to 10 years, spent 6 actual years in prison. In normal times I'd doubt the story, but the fact that his wife fought for him, divorcing him only after the prison time, and still tells the same story, the consistency through time makes me believe she's legit.

eastbound··on Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
I find this attempt legitimate. Judges should not overlook documents and pass them to AI.

"Back to the Future" was set in 2015, where Marty says "Arrested, judged and convicted in 2 hours???" and Doc answers "Justice is swift since we've removed lawyers". We don't be flying cars but we have this comedic performative justice without a single fair outcome (talking from France). Criminals are freed, prison is a big networking symposium for some jobs, good people whose accusers admitted to lying are thrown for 6 years, because they refused to give their lawyer a €1000 bribe for the judge... Things happen. And France is still seen as a civilized country.

eastbound··on Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
I'm implementing a 2-computers rule:

- 1 computer and Google identity for administrative stuff: Primary accounts for AWS, Google. I also do accounting and have the list of customers. I still don't have any other solution than opening PDFs for the invoices, but it's better than nothing.

- 1 computer for programming, with a non-asministrator account for everything. Claude runs in Docker, with the dev directory mounted, .git:ro (read-only) and .env mounted to /dev/null.

But Claude tries to escape it A LOT. Claude is designed like a virus, we tell him not to do things, and it 1. tried to download the git binary from the internet, 2. read the remotes in the git directory and tried to access them, only blocked because it didn't have the credentials.

DEFINITELY forcefully block out Claude from seeing your .env files, it WILL try to brute-force an access to your intranet!!

eastbound··on OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
It's frightening to me that single companies' valuations can vary by that much. The stock exchange is the Adam Smith way of directing the assignation of resources to the most efficient company, and it's supposed to be liquid enough to allow fine-grained decisions.
eastbound··on French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax
On the other hand, it may ensure game editors start optimizing their assets. I'm pretty sure you can optimize those 210GB into 21GB just by deleting unused files.
eastbound··on French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax
The joke of this law is that it further advantages pirates, who don't have to pay this tax.
eastbound··on What we know so far about Spain train crash
A really important strike that Spanish pilots should do, is striking by respecting the red lights and refusing oral overrides. Hours of delays the first day, trains at the wrong place in the evening, we'd see exactly which regions are affected, and either we agree to repair things or we just leave trains to rot at the red lights rather than risking 900 people's life again (x2 trains = 1800).
eastbound··on What we know so far about Spain train crash
I've deactivated my (EU equivalent of) Amber alerts the second they sent ONE irrelevant notification. It took me a few tries but fortunately they also tried their system a few times A WEEK during installation.

I prefer to risk my life every day at not knowing what the government thinks is really important for me to know.

eastbound··on What we know so far about Spain train crash
I'm sure someone somewhere will interpret it a 3 free demos of firefighters at home for their kid, with sirens and light, pretty entertaining (It's a reference to the Freakonomics study that, if you make parents pay by the minutes for being late getting their kid, they basically take the fine as a slightly expensive childcare facility).
eastbound··on Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"
The first app I will do is Spotlight. Its insistence on finding everything across the universe except applications is tiring.

We're getting free from our software!

eastbound··on Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents
Just upvoting to emphasize that Okta, SSO and MDM services in general are an extremely major single point of failure. From the point of view of a non-expert in security, it would seem like segmenting the authentication services of companies should be a security requirement.
eastbound··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
For your examples, you've chosen only one side.
eastbound··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
Bill Gates buys huge amounts of land precisely for ecology: Beef meat causes global warming in a disproportionate way compared to chicken or even disproportionate per euros or per gram of protein compared to lentils. All ecologists agree that beef/red meat should disappear from our plates if we want to overcrowd the Earth with more equal people, and along with erradicating a hugely deathly disease that is malaria during his lifetime, Bill Gates will also have accomplished that dream too.

I find a lot of consistency of his audience in hating him for the very reason that he implements his audience's wishes. To this audience, there is no redeeming oneself.

eastbound··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
But how can we tease people and instill them hate if we're being reasonable with arguments?
eastbound··on Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6
Apple has moved from a "Big day out" of marketing per year, where all product lineups would be announced, with novelty and conferences, to rolling releases along the year.

Do they get the same marketing impact?

eastbound··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
> following new rules or regulations

I'm ISO27001'ing my company and I wonder if some day, we'll find a better way than written policies, procedures, forms, evidence and audits. To me, it seems like our current world's biggest flaw: We're losing 2/3rd of our workforce to maintaining procedures, they make the work boring and unbearable, and they're not even efficient, even if they do provide upside in systematically organizing things. Standards (when pushed to procedures, forms and audite) are the regression-to-the-mean of collective organizations.

eastbound··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
That may be the game that others are playing. I always wonder how much of this is other countries paying agents to spoil the productivity of the West, as a retaliation for unmerited wars we do to them.
eastbound··on Somebody please stop the spam texts
Isn't Twilio complicit? and isn't it deserved that random Twilio customers, who are funding an illegal organization, get banned? If there is no consequence, Twilio will continue. I'd happily fund a campaign to drive Twilio to bankruptcy.
eastbound··on Somebody please stop the spam texts
In Australia I ONCE donated to a charity... and learnt that charities can spam "in case of emergency". Which is all the time, for charities. Only changed when I became a EU citizen again and could threaten them, which, surprisingly, worked.

Maybe tell them you're a Netherlands citizen.

eastbound··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Nonwithstanding the incompetence, maintaining the French Guyana so far away from France costs much than maintaining Cape Canaveral in the homeland. I wonder whether salaries aren't be cheaper on our aircraft carrier than in this remote land, where everything needs to be subsidized to maintain legitimacy for the rocket launchpad.
eastbound··on Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines
Submarines: 3000ppm. Here is a study with 5000ppm CO2 and no decision-making impediment was found: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29789085/
eastbound··on The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
Note: 5ms to 0.05ms of bounce effect, if alternative current at 50Hz does a complete cycle each 20ms, the paper gives a beautiful graph of what it looks like.
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