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I have T-mobile 5g. My IP shows up as a residential proxy. I can't control the T-Mobile 5g device. It's a black-box. And, I only have one Linux desktop on the home network (so no Windows/Mac malware).

Not sure why my IP is listed as a residential proxy.

Non-technical managers don't want to wait for the 'nerds' to 'do it right' because that takes a long time and the nerds don't agree on how best to solve the problem because most capable nerds (who sort of know what they are doing) are working on lower-level problems and making the big bucks (they are not running WordPress for the local News Paper).

So that leaves non-technical managers telling non-technical nerds to just install WordPress. Then, AI comes along and wipes them out. And everyone is like... how did this happen?

It's pretty obvious.

Back in my day, we didn't have artificial intelligence. We had actual ignorance. And we liked it that way.

TLDR: Any standard PC with two or more Ethernet interfaces and OpenBSD with PF.

I like the small Qotom Q305p 3205u computers for this, but any small device will do and if you don't care about the router being small and quiet, any form factor PC will work... just need two or more NICs to route packets from one network to the other.

I agree. AI lowers the bar. Anyone can be a cyber criminal now whether they understand what they are doing or not. I think that's the danger, and that's not just limited to cyber security. People can now get help to do things (good or bad) that they could not just a few years ago.

Most people are good, so I'm not really worried about all the hype of people using AI to do bad things.

Many problems with would healing are due to nutrient deficiencies. For example, people who are sulfur deficient will heal and recover much slower than those who are not.

That's why so many professional athletes take MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane). Their bodies would not be able to recover as quickly without the extra sulfur.

It always amuses me when I hear people complaining about the privacy issues with Flock cameras (on public roads) while wearing an Apple Watch or carrying an iPhone in their pocket everywhere they go.

The announcement only mentions DoH and not DoT... I guess both are going away?

They didn't pick the bad vendor, the herd did. They all go to the same conferences, attend the same vendor lunches and buy the same garbage. And today, most of the IT managers are not technical at all. They have art degrees and have never been technology practitioners.

Literally anyone off the street can be a "decision maker" in technology today. Just buy what everyone else is buying and collect a huge paycheck while working remote. People who understand tech and sort of know what they are doing, are not included.

That has been my experience.

Theo is probably autistic.

I work with a lot of great engineers with similar behavior. Their arguments are not personal, although they seem to be. They are just very passionate and care deeply about certain things (in this case operating systems security).

If you can get past the aggressive/offensive language they use and develop a relationship with them, they can be reasonable and helpful. That's been my experience.

Yes, I see your point. You could argue that humans, too, are trained to produce expected outputs (family, societal and peer pressure, etc.).

Because it is common sense.

This is software trained to produce outputs. It doesn't feel anything.

LLMs are trained to produce outputs that humans would find reasonable. That's it. They don't do anything else.

To say they have feelings and that they can think/reason is insane.

I read once that a CT scan is roughly equivalent to 1000 hours of flight WRT radiation exposure. I've had about 6 or 8 of those over the years.

Property damage is a crime.

I don't object to Flock cameras or any other public cameras. But if I did, I would write to my congress person rather than commit a crime and destroy someone's property.

I know it is not a popular opinion. But it is my opinion.

Do you seriously think that governments need Flock cameras when they have Apple, Microsoft and Google?

People cite Flock as an example of this. Yet the same people walk around with iPhones and Android devices that can record conversations (who talks to whom at what times and for how long), know our exact locations and log everything we do online.

If I had told you 30 years ago that we are going to build a surveillance network and make the people we are tracking pay for it all you would have laughed me out of the room. But that is what we have built. The modern Smart Phone.

Now we use our iPhones to complain about cameras on public roads as if they are watching us.

Go is good enough for many tasks. Google wrote that as a replacement for C++ too. I guess Carbon is intended to be more for systems programming? Go had that intent initially, but soon realized that's not a good fit.

Why is it OK for everyone to carry a surveillance device (smart phone) everywhere they go, but installing a camera on a public roadway is not OK?

I don't understand the hatred for Flock. And I don't think the complainers see the irony of tweeting complaints about Flock from their iPhones.

They all use Zyn now.

The Internet was built for adults. Then, we gave kids tablets and phones. Now, decades later, we have a problem. Kids see things meant for adults.

Maybe we need an adult only portion of the Internet and verify identity only on that (like bars do to keep out kids).

New TLD maybe? .adult

From a historical perspective... Debian and Redhat brought package management to Linux 30 years ago. That's why so many other distros were built on top of them.

And now today, we have a lot of new packages mangers on top of that, which has increased complexity a lot.

If I wanted to publish tools/programs, I would distribute the source code and let each distro decide how/if they want to package it. I would not try to do this myself. It's not a reasonable thing to do.

This is why I keep a ~/.ssh/config file. I store all the hosts and various connection parameters (uernames, alternate ports, keys, etc.) in that file.

Would that work for you?

It is illegal to lie to a police officer in the US. It's better to remain silent than to tell a lie. Giving a false PIN is a lie. And that by itself is a crime.

I'm not taking sides here, I just wanted to make that clear.

And you should understand that they can lie to you. That's OK and legal, but you cannot lie to them.

They appreciate technical correctness and they do not exaggerate. Most 'security researchers' are not technically correct and they exaggerate a lot (seeking fame and all).

Dismissing their claims is not being selective, it's just the right thing to do.

I'm not sure there are any regulations around opting to do that in the US. Do you have a phlebotomist friend? If so, they might do it for you, but it can be risky and they might not want to take the risk, get sued, etc.

It is an interesting question. Are there companies that draw and discard?

Yes... travel, tattoos, drug use and sexual behavior can and should disqualify a person from donating blood.

Doing whole blood donations seems to significantly reduce PFAS in the blood. Here's one paper:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Edit: This also helps others who are in accidents, car wrecks, have Cancer, etc. Yes, we pass on the PFAS to others, but the immediate need for blood is more urgent than the potential long term impacts of PFAS.

No backdoor is secure. Read the "Keys under Doormats" paper from 2015:

https://www.schneier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/paper-ke...

Wildcard certs were somewhat useful for hiding this. Not sure that's still true.