netman21

We have two cats. My wife can call them each by name. They also recognize the words sardines and squirrel.

During the dotcom boom I called Vinod Kkosla to pitch my Michigan based startup. Left a voice message. Got a call back to my 313 number from his assistant. Call went like this:

Her: "Hi Mr. Khosla asked me to call to ask where you are located." Me: "Michigan" click

Integrating OpenAI with a data base of 3,377 cybersecurity vendors.

Most code is "mostly insecure."

Pretty amazing. I uploaded the National Cybersecurity Policy recently released by the White House/CISA. It has strong DRM that prevents cutting and pasting, and OCR. Yet, somehow they got past that.

Right. Google fixed this and punished anyone who embedded invisible text in their websites.

Why not look at the underlying cause? I was diagnosed with sleep apnea when I was 50. An oral surgeon wanted to carve out my tonsils and uvula.

I changed my diet and began exercising. Lost 50 pounds. My sleep apnea went away and I no longer even snore.

The downside of getting diagnosed is my life insurance company dropped me.

This is essentially how we are using ChatGPT to access our database of 3,335 cybersecurity vendors and provide responses.

Ad wall.

Only five vendors have dropped out. A last minute surge brought the number up to 401.

It's not death as much as much as moving to assisted living. Examples: Symantec, CA, and McAfee.

Security Yearbook 2022, the only history of the IT security industry. There are great books on encryption of course, and many books on attacks (SandWorm, Zero Day), but this book tracks the development of the companies that make the products.

It's almost trivial to create a chatbot based on a manuscript. Even a publisher could figure it out.

I not only self publish but I print and warehouse my latest book and only sell it from my website. Still can't sell more than 2,000, but I cover my costs.

I have written ten books, two trad published, the rest self published. Books sales are minimal usually 2,000 lifetime. My income was primarily speaking fees at industry events (cybersecurity). Having a book to sign is always great to get more speaking gigs. All of that evaporated on March 11, 2020. But I am still going to write books, because I enjoy writing books.

The first cool hack I ever saw was on the MTS system in Ann Arbor. Students would program a login screen and leave their VT100 or Tektronix terminal. The next student would think it was the real login and provide their password. Then the hackers would move their account balance to their own account.

Pretty cool to see how recognition from HN turned into such momentum. What are the other great examples of this HN effect?

I read this with interest. First because I am a fan of polar exploration stories, but second because I believe I suffered from scurvy myself. I had been on a keto/carnivore diet for years when I started to have painful gums and loose teeth, along with dramatically reduced white blood cell count.

I started taking 2,000 mg of vitamin C daily. WBC count bounced back and, after a tooth extraction, pain is gone.

I am looking for an AI that can say what a company does, even put it in a category. Sadly this solution incorporates the marketing jargon when I tested it: "Leading," etc.

Video of the balloon https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1621294430081761280

Did not get any logical results for "hard science fiction" "books like A Town Called Alice" and a search on "The Lightning Conductor" (sold 2 million copies in its first edition in the US) returned books on lightning and electricity.

When I launched my ISP in Michigan I once showed a VP of engineering at ITT Automotive my business card with with my email address. This was 1993. He said "I will never need an an email address." :-)

I was 33 when I left a successful automotive engineering career to start an ISP. It was a steep learning curve but in 12 months I learned a lot about networking. Then I went into network security. Have not looked back in the last 25 years.

I too have lived through many hype cycles. I jumped on one in 1992 and created one of the first ISPs in Michigan. That changed my career path from automotive to tech. It was an exciting time as thousands of ISPs were launched.

I completely ignored the hype around blockchain, NFTs, etc. I even block anyone who says they are a blockchain expert on Linkedin.

But I am all in on leveraging LLM for new business use cases. My mind is blown at what we can do with DaVinci 3.5 and looking forward to evaluating 4.0. ChatGPT is a demonstrator. DaVinci is ushering in the next wave of innovation.

From our own experience Stripe has excellent customer support. I use Stripe for SaaS subscriptions and Square for integrating with my Woocommerce site.

"Excellent acquisition. Twitter will definitely compete and take marketshare from Substack" did not age well.

Not sure why Square is never mentioned. I use them for my book sales. They work with Woocommerce and my fulfillment warehouse scrapes the orders three times a day. While my experience with Stripe for my SaaS product has been great I don't like that they hold on to funds for ten days. Square transfers the money the same or the next day.

Signs I look for of an impending recession:

Stagnation. Inflation is a sign of a booming economy. Unemployment. I see help wanted signs everywhere Huge building projects abandoned. Here in SE Michigan I am seeing active construction sites everywhere. The Economist runs headlines like "Are Recessions a Thing of the Past?

The first time I heard this prediction was in 1994 when the city of Atlanta told workers to stay at home and work remotely over the internet to relieve congestion during the Olympics. Still waiting.

Today in particular is a day I have looked forward to since last Christmas eve, which was a Friday. I sat down to play Terraforming Mars with two of my adult children. I marveled at how relaxed I felt. On this day of all days there were no looming deadlines. No clients sending emails that need to be answered. That is what I am doing today. Playing a four hour board game.