firefax

>I'm old enough to remember all the "Free Kevin" gifs scattered around the internet.

A generation of hackers (specifically, the vBulletin generation) stayed as far away from the CFAA as possible after that fiasco, which I suspect is exactly the chilling effect that the DOJ intended.

I have so many stories about his absolutely terrible behavior at conferences. He once refused to pay the entry fee to a charity event and had to be physically ejectedy.

Absolutely better at PR than any actual work, pay careful attention and none of his early stuff was particularly novel, from a technical perspective.

But for whatever reason, we venerate him just because he was victimized by the state. The world is not a dichotomy -- sometimes bad things happen to bad people.

Sadly the ones conservative on AI tend to also be conservative on things like WFH or honoring the hacker manifesto. (Judging based on religion, national origin etc)

And where do we go from here? Law? Medicine? The trades?! Every path seems longer and/or more precarious, but I feel like I've had the same uncertainty as my friends who were writers and artists despite losing many a night (and many a partner) because I worked longer hours but ended up in the same precarious place as my peers.

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I haven't been this confused by a headline since Keir Starmer declared himself a "gooner".

I think a big issue with a lot of AI enabled coding is that tokens are currently heavily subsidized, and that refusing to learn how to write psudocode and pound out bugs in shell scripts is a fundamental step a lot of programmers are skipping... a stance that I find ironic considering that when I was being told as a preteen to "read the fucking manual" by the 90s internet, I was led to believe if I'm not churning out zero days in C by senior year of high school I might as well abandon all hope of ever understanding anything about computers.

(Flash forward, and the immortal words of the rapper Jay-Z: "I ain't passed the bar, but know a little bit... enough you won't be illegally searching my shit.")

So... they fired him for doing a 20% time project? I'm glad I don't have any of their stock to sell, what terrible management.

Both, for different reasons.

I don't have a source yet for the second, but fingerprinting is powerful, and if you look like a cop criminals do all sorts of things...

What is your threat model exactly? The sites that will serve you up exotic malware are usually CSAM sites overtaken by feds.

You can browse without imagages, and no one has ever, once, in the history of the United States been prosecuted merely for an image in their cache, and there's plenty of sites that don't have that material to begin with.

Stop asking for permission, and challenge them to come find you if they have a problem.

(That's the problem they won't admit though: they can't.)

Non paywalled obituary: https://apnews.com/article/greenspan-federal-reserve-death-2...

japan actually seems averse to any kind of change in a way they aren't. do swiss atms close at a certain time of day? do many takeout places want you to fax orders? there's a lot of things that go beyond "conservative" in japan in the risk averse sense into just being stuck in the 80s.

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If you're in a flow state, why not just... write the code?

You keep using this word... I do not think it means what you think it means.

One of the little gems the Russians pulled off in the twenty aughts when they were flooding nonprofits in the USA with dirty money was hijacking the green movement to promote fracking. (Because surely ANYTHING is better than those dastardly electrons or whatever the fuck radiation is made of)

Switzerland, unlike the USA, seems capable of safely operating these plants, and with advances in breeder technology new plants doesn't nessecarily mean new mining operations, which often are quite harsh on the surrounding area.

>Things that definitely don't happen.

Citation please? There's been documented instances of exactly that, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

>acting as if you are from the upper crust is itself a criteria for success

Define "upper crust"? Because I'm reading this as "old money", and a lot of the "old money" people I've met aren't actually generating much of it right now... they're just tending to investments purchases when the family horse glue factory or whatever got sold in the 1890s.

I've had people phish for my email then hit that with some bullshitpowershellladendoucument.pdf.docx crap, but sending it directly in the IM?

Bold strategy cotton, let's see if it pays off.

>Downloading random unprotected scripts from internet, like it is 1995 is getting old pretty fast.

It's ok, the guy with glasses from the Daily Show said it's ok.

>It would be trivial to eradicate them almost completely

Absolutely true, but droning their data centers might have some policy repercussions.

Maybe that's because pleasure is down among schoolkids.

Every minute of the day dedicated to homework, or a structured activity that can be a bullet point on a college application.

thank you for the suggestion. i value open source over MacOS compatibility, I can spin up a VM if needed.

How do you define bias? I feel like many publications are "biased" towards Austrian economics despite little evidence for their benefit, and many examples of it's proponents driving their homelands into the ground.

Should I declare everyone who says positive things about libertarianism as "biased" and discount their points?

>Let me introduce you to the phrase "I don't see a mechanism."

I'm not familiar with this phrase, but I think I did a good job citing a comparable example in my original post.

>I think it's private schools in general.

I think CS is a little unusual in that places like Berkley are ranked highly. (Interestingly, Harvard has a rather low CS rank and Zuck was in the process of transferring to psych because he can't handle anything quant, but due to FERPA no one will call him out even as he repeatedly steps outside the law)

>Getting funding is a value add, but I agree calling it "skill" misses most of what makes someone "good" at it. We've built things to overwhelmingly rely on funding gated by other private school people though.

I think part of the issue is that a big chunk of startups are straight up grift. My complaints about gatekeeping aside, I think if I had a legitimately good idea I could either submit to yCombinator or talk to contacts who've cashed in stock and get investors.

That's mostly due to the fact I'm well known for valuing authenticity though and my personal brand is such that folks would take my proposal seriously.

I met a LOT of people who went to places like Stanford who basically... they always meet the metrics, at the expense of all else.

Anyways, I think in general we try to generate too many "startups" when we're really striving for small businesses.

But because the funding is the truly difficult part, we hyperfocus on that.

Meanwhile, I've seen plenty of startup ideas that while benefiting from the Ycombinator social network, have initial costs such that you could hit up a few rich friends who've known you a while with a solid business plan and get bootstrapped... but that would require domain knowledge and the respect of your peers, two things many founders lack ;-)

I'm not clear why this is in "Ask HN" but thanks for sharing your thoughts on the legislation.

What skills? I've met several.

Most of them got into a prestigious school on legacy, paid for by wealthy parents. Many were above average IQ, but by no means geniuses. They had access to computers earlier than others, due to said affluence. They seem unable or unwilling to comprehend they're overwhelmingly on average, "nepo babies" to steal a term from the world of entertainment.

this is a variation on a common theme in steganography, but still interesting and giving something a name can be a useful contribution in itself

I've had people straight up serve me malware when you attempt to OSINT them with Tor. Sometimes you need different kinds of anonymity, and I see a lot of one sized fits all proclamations on HN.

I suspect any "backdoor" would be inserted at the protocol level. See https://web.archive.org/web/20130918135152/http://www.thegua...

The real issue is that it's a perpetual problem -- there are NGOs that literally pull out the same one pager, an endless dance of having some 1L repeat the same points over and over and over.

(Why is it called a 1 pager you ask? Because your elected officials won't read more than that.)

I made a grand total of one hill visit.

I told them I'm tired of repeating the same things over and over, and if you make my interns come back here ever again, I'll see to it if you're lucky you only lose your seat, not face a mob outside your window, and when that happens lose my fucking number because I'll be sitting by the TV with popcorn.

Exactly that happened, a few years later.

Whether you're a public interest lobbyist or just another activist, we need to be more willing to TELL congress things. Not ask. Not lobby. TELL THEM.

We need to remind them that the Soviets raced to Berlin to seize brains like ours, that we will flourish whatever regime is in power, and that you can ignore us at your but we, the hackers, will no longer grovel before narcistic neurotypicals to stop misunderstanding on purpose.

Politics is like poker -- soft play is unethical.

Play to win.

Because the pushback works, for a spell.

has RBY been disassembled, out of curiosity?