Tregetour

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Paywalls are a tacit admission that the business model is dreadful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If an Israeli can do her grocery shopping and carry an M16 on her back, Aisha from the Strip can play with Mittens and keep sentry.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What I've learned over the last few years:

  • Only academics, commentators and researchers truly care about collective security, where the whole world gains because certain technology and is commonly agreed to be off-the-table
  • Everyone else (that is, corporations including government and private enterprise) only cares about zero-sum security - your insecurity is my security gain - but they pretend in their messaging to care about collective security. It explains why nation states continue to demand purpose-built backdoors into hardware and encryption implementations, and why employers are content to treat your mobile phone like their own property, demanding apps, RATs, etc. be installed
  • Most cybersecurity is thinly-veiled compliance, and amounts to certified bureaucrats implementing products from that small bunch of vendors with the means to influence policymaking
  • The public messaging around security always uses the noun in the abstract, which to me is telling. Security for whom? Security against what? Security for what? See also social media and the term "safety".
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't worry, I remember this. Would love to see a torrent sometime

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Rare Google software W, regardless of the real impetus.

BHM, Pride Week, Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Heritage Day, International Week of the $thing, etc. is just corporate giving its marketers a reason to sign in each morning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Badda Bing Badda Bang is the best holodeck episode and a DS9 top-ten, and its central conceit has made it more relevant than ever, now there's a common recognition of the value and significance we derive from virtual worlds, and our habit of anthropomorphizing LLMs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

NASA has to interpret the boss's demands. Like every other US public org they're looking for anonymity by being center of the pack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

grug friends not understand complexity demon, grug thinks they not see demon, otherwise no more fur and mammoth tusks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

20 was the lead engineer 'mishearing' Zuck after he said 2.

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