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A couple of Pixie puppy pics popped up in my notifications today. We adopted her in early October five years ago so they're frequently there each morning. Ironically she and Mr Minx still sleep together.
Pixie's surgery is fast approaching November 9th, and I'm nervous but it's necessary. I scheduled vacation so I can be there when she wakes up. Luckily her medicine is keeping her comfortable.
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Have a wonderful day!
We got frost this morning. Pretty much right in line with the October 15th prediction. We're adjusting our garden and preparing our beehives for winter. Seems like there always something to do...
I'm trying to talk the family into a trip to St Charles for the spooky historic mainstreet. I even said Ellie could bring her little guy friend. 🙄 I'm not a fan but I'm told I must tolerate him. Apparently I'm terrifying so I enjoy that, the 1,000 yard stare helps.
Have a wonderful Saturday!
Does anyone remember the movie "Death Becomes Her"? For whatever reason when I see a picture of someone with the "Mar a Largo makeover" I'm reminded of that movie. What kind of upkeep is required once you take the plunge on that look?
Oreo has put a moratorium on laundry.
More On AI Advancing Math And Mathematicians As Colic Babies
True lovers of science and mathematics are grateful to AI. Science is knowledge, not something restricted to an elite: the ancient Greeks had secret cults, sometimes mixed with math, what they called mysteries. It did not end up well for Greece.
There is more math to do than ever. There is more thinking to do than ever. We are rising from mechanical thinking to transcendental thinking thanks to AI
Elites are the bane of civilization. Children of the elites are always years ahead of all their peers. By age nine Mr Tao was attending a university. By age ten he had met with at least three of the world’s greatest mathematicians. His parents travelled him around the world to meet the elite.This speaks first of greed. Now, true, if one gets all the higher teachings denied to the masses, one will be a genius. No pre-teen child can satisfy the requirements to attend a university except if somehow they got special derogations from privilege, not merit (Mr. Tao is not the only case; each time remarkably greedy parents provided the propellant.).
Some will say Tao’s merit was tremendous. Well, elites are always tremendously meritorious, or so we are told. Marcus Aurelius elevated his son to the rank of Caesar, at age 5, in 166 CE. Tremendous merit, no doubt..
Mr. Tao got his Fields Medal from King Juan Carlos on 22 August 2006. In 2008, King Carlos got around 200 million dollars in corruption from Saudi Arabia alone (the number of 100 million is often quoted; but people in the know have advanced 188 million). Some will say it has nothing to do with math. But apparently it does: Tao shook the King’s hands, augmenting the latter’s glory. An AI, consulted on the subject, opined that it was just a function of state. Not so: Mr. Tao gave the young top mathematician accolade to the old plutocratic crook, and thus got into the world elite. The elite is a network. Juan Carlos was never indicted. But a homeless guy stealing a sandwich would be. And Tao, whether he understands it or not, approves of that, is defined by that entire elitist hierarchy of privileges and to see it disappear in a puff of AI, goes from being to nothingness.
And therein the drama: suddenly machines do better than Tao and his ilk. It is the very notion that Tao and his colleagues deserve to belong to the elite because they are masters of the non-understandable, which is threatened. Surely, if a machine does it, it’s not witchcraft anymore.
Apparently, the sort of mathematics that Professor Tao and his friends and disciples are now beaten by machines. Imagine you train all your life to open doors, and you are the world’s best doorman and all young and coming doormans look up to you. You are paid 700,000 dollars, about ten times the average family income, to open doors. And, now a machine opens doors better than you. You are horrified. What happened to the human touch, to the careers of doormans in training? A profession has been devastated. Just as so many professions were devastated when we went from horse pulled vehicles to automobiles. ..
Tao according to the New York Times::
Terence Tao is typically described as one of the world’s greatest living mathematicians, but right now he is doing very little math.
“I’m on a war footing,” he said while grabbing coffee during a two-day math workshop at the University of California, Los Angeles, that was rife with talk about the existential crisis that artificial intelligence has created in his field.
Days earlier OpenAI had announced that it had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven “Millennium Prize problems” that had stymied the greatest minds in math for nearly a century.
“There are no rules any more,” Dr. Tao, 51, said in an interview before the workshop in his modest office on the U.C.L.A. campus, his home since 1996, when he arrived after completing his doctorate at Princeton at the age of 20. “I’m just numb to what would have been jaw-dropping events for me a year ago. At some point, maybe I’ll get hit by a whole wave of PTSD.”
“I am horrified by the many person-years” of research, particularly by young mathematicians, “being casually disrupted or destroyed,”
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This is all infantile.
Mr. Tao’s father, a paediatrician, persuaded school authorities to let him skip five primary-school grades. It shows. Now Mr. Tao has apparently to revisit what he missed. There are no short cuts or royal road to get a fully balanced brain. The case of Mr. Tao is actually very frequent in mathematicians, who often turned to be slightly autistic or autistically trained, to better reserve brain resources to do exactly what AI does now much better.
A whole sub-tribe of the world’s greatest mathematicians are revealed to be little babies crying because the candy has been taken away from them.
Time to grow up.
Elite no more. Science first. AI will help.
AI lowers the cost of access: a motivated person can now ask for explanations, generate examples, check computations, translate between fields, and experiment with formal proof assistants without first gaining admission to an elite department to engage with worthy interlocutors. In that very important sense, AI can make knowledge less gatekept.
And so it is all over science. I have realized, for example, that one can exhibit alarming characteristics of the man-made greenhouse effect’s acceleration, by considering a space of exponentials… Yes, a gradient of in a space of exponentials: the huge resources needed in gathering data and computing were readily available to me… from AI… .
Patrice Ayme
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Mathematics #Philosophy #writing
More things that will probably get me unfriended (so stop reading now, maybe).
Yes, nonwhite people can be racist against white people. Yes, women can be sexist against men, etc. I have seen, and I think I understand, the movement to narrow the meaning of terms like stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, etc. to "only punching down," and maybe that works for activism or arguing with that one person. It does not work for science.
You might as well define acceleration as change in velocity, but only if the trajectory of the object in question will advance social justice. It doesn't work. It's not that science doesn't have values (or maybe... IDK, that's another discussion). It's that science needs those ideas to be separate. If you want to spread the message that accelerating objects toward good people is not OK but it is OK toward bad people, then do that. Don't redefine acceleration.
A stereotype is like a mental prototype, an image of a group of people in which they all share certain characteristics instead of having a normal range of individual variability. If you believe all rich people are bigots, that's a stereotype. If you believe all poor people are noble and self-sacrificing, that's also a stereotype. Likewise if you believe all cis-het people are anti-gay, etc. Neither the target nor the characteristic changes the fact that it's a stereotype. Stereotypes are often problematic because we apply them when we should instead consider individuality. When we treat a Black person as a criminal without knowing anything about them, or treat a woman as a manipulative flibbertygibbet. Stereotypes are essentially always wrong because they assert sameness when variability is the reality. This applies in stereotyping minorities, women, tech bros, men, national leaders, etc. It's still stereotyping.
Prejudice is a negative evaluation of a person based on a stereotype. Same situation as the above: If you hate every tall person you meet because they're tall, or if you dislike gay people on sight, or if you are disgusted by an affluent man without knowing anything about him due to a belief that all affluent men are assholes; you are engaging in prejudice. Whether the prejudice serves some larger goal is a different issue.
Discrimination is differential behavior based on stereotypes and prejudice. Same situation as above. These are all enabled, fundamentally, by stereotypes.
I realize the shifted definitions of these terms are coming from a very different field from the scientific world, which needs clear and logically consistent definitions of constructs. I realize I can't stop the shifting of these definitions. At the same time, it seems completely unnecessary to mangle the meaning of a perfectly good word when you could achieve your goal in other ways.
Howdy. It’s been a while, and I’m sure y’all are wondering where the hell I’ve been, besides threatening to kick people’s shins in the comment section for terribly misbehaving. Between lateral moves at work with wildly varied results, the world going up in literal flames, and finding out the hard way that your heroes are well and truly (and in some cases, deservedly) disposable,1 2026 can eat my entire asshole and beg for seconds, thirds, and fourths. It’s been difficult trying to find time to just breathe, let alone listen to music and write about it. Thankfully, one of my favorite discoveries since writing here have a new album coming out, and Shores of Null once again supplied a fantastic collection of songs for us to talk about today.
Shores of Null aren’t afraid of tackling concepts for full-length albums, as 2020’s incredible one-song full-length Beyond the Shores – Of Death and Dying masterfully displayed. On this go-round, the Italians confront the meaning of the album title, whether it’s the yearning, heartache, and desperate need to cling to the memories of home (or the craving for something similar in vibe), or the need to avoid the toxicity, pain, and repercussions of an unhappy upbringing on the polar opposite side of homesickness. No matter which side of that word you fall on, pretty much everyone can relate to the loss of a favorite hangout, a home no longer in existence, or even a home that was never truly there. It’s a powerful, oftentimes cathartic exploration, and one that everyone confronts at one point in their lives.
And by and large, Shores of Null tackled the themes with grace and the proper level of care and attention. From the opening seconds of “Allies Before Defeat,” with its melancholy melodies and riffs and Davide Straccione’s dulcet croons and choruses, it’s immediately apparent that Shores of Null navigates the weight of lamenting a lost landmark or home with ease. “Bleed to Life” sees Straccione utilizing his growls a lot more than in the past, which is a welcome dichotomy that I’d love to see the band explore a bit more, as he possesses an incredible singing and growling voice that complements whatever’s happening musically.2 The rest of the band aren’t slouches, either, as between the Paradise Lost-like riffs and fantastic drumming from Emiliano Cantiano, they set a wonderful backdrop for Straccione to deliver impressive vocal lines.
Things do take a little bit of a dip from midpoint “Dreaming of a Scar”3 onward, but even then it’s only in comparison to how strong the album’s front half is. Other than some worrying vocal strain and pitchiness by Straccione during the choruses on penultimate track “Another Breath,” this is Shores of Null knowing their comfort zones, where their strengths are, and how to best deliver their message. I’m all for experimentation, don’t get me wrong, but there’s nothing wrong with going with what you know, especially when what you know has worked quite well for yourself this far. I’d rather have a collection of strong songs with powerful writing than a grab-bag of ideas that don’t mesh or gel well.
And Homesick is yet another worthwhile feather in Shores of Null’s cap. With Amorphis, Paradise Lost, and Insomnium rightfully planting themselves as forefathers of death/doom, it would be criminal to not include Shores of Null in the mix, as their output has been largely extraordinary since inception. Hopefully, with Homesick, we’ll see big things for these guys, as they’ve been killing it so far with their output. Either way, it’s most certainly a worthy addition to your collection, and one that might help you take your mind off of everything, even if it’s only for 45 minutes.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Dusktone
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: October 16th, 2026
I think the guy behind one of the most used js library just lost the ball, hated that people on pouet called his clauded stuff "slop" and used ai to post a new demo mocking an active group of the scene because of their stance on AI, accusing them to just write very expectable demo that work with the average pouet users.
https://infosec.exchange/@ConstellationUnion/117444892798653930
Some history?
That guy came out in the 80's claiming he, as a teen created the ultima series.
I Remember because Origin Systems was featured in Omni magazine right after Ultima 3 was announced. It was there they said the next three(3) titles in the series were finished.
Back to garriot.....
Well Origin, was being pressured in to making PC games which they resisted.
Garriot then surfaced claiming he was coding for Origin Systems since he was 12 years old! And that his father, who was never positively identified passed the libraries to him the he his father was coding for the last 25 or 30 years.
He also stated that he believed "in principle" that Origin should agree to develop PC titles and that his opinion "carried great weught"....
The father was never identified but as coincidence should have it Gary Gagax was also threatening to sue Origin along with TSR.
He claimed in the media to not actually own the ultima games but just like the entire D and D series he claimed to be the main developer.
So the Ultima creators according to this were Garriot, the father never identified and Gygax.
The TSR lawsuit concluded with Gygax never proving his claims but all the rights to certain future projects were transferred to a news company.
One of the inspirations for the settlement which they judges themselves help draft was the thansfering of all intellectual property including the Origin name to third parties.
About 8 years after that Garriot was one of the holders of Origin when he tried to force the other holders to transfer their rights to him Garriot.
Claiming, for fuck sake, to be historically the main developer of the Ultima series because his "secret father" as he called this individual was the real developer of the games and he was working for Origin since he was 12 YEARS OLD.....!!
The resulting lawsuit was bankrolled by gary gygax,....again.
the legal solution was to simply sell the rights. the company was sold for about 30 million and that had to be split several ways so Garriot got about 1/20th of the settlement then he himself was sued by several financial backers so he eventually declared bankruptcy.
By then it was time to release Ultima Online....
https://infosec.exchange/@ConstellationUnion/117444892798653930
Some history?
That guy came out in the 80's claiming he, as a teen created the ultima series.
I Remember because Origin Systems was featured in Omni magazine right after Ultima 3 was announced. It was there they said the next three(3) titles in the series were finished.
Back to garriot.....
Well Origin, was being pressured in to making PC games which they resisted.
Garriot then surfaced claiming he was coding for Origin Systems since he was 12 years old! And that his father, who was never positively identified passed the libraries to him the he his father was coding for the last 25 or 30 years.
He also stated that he believed "in principle" that Origin should agree to develop PC titles and that his opinion "carried great weught"....
The father was never identified but as coincidence should have it Gary Gagax was also threatening to sue Origin along with TSR.
He claimed in the media to not actually own the ultima games but just like the entire D and D series he claimed to be the main developer.
So the Ultima creators according to this were Garriot, the father never identified and Gygax.
The TSR lawsuit concluded with Gygax never proving his claims but all the rights to certain future projects were transferred to a news company.
One of the inspirations for the settlement which they judges themselves help draft was the thansfering of all intellectual property including the Origin name to third parties.
About 8 years after that Garriot was one of the holders of Origin when he tried to force the other holders to transfer their rights to him Garriot.
Claiming, for fuck sake, to be historically the main developer of the Ultima series because his "secret father" as he called this individual was the real developer of the games and he was working for Origin since he was 12 YEARS OLD.....!!
The resulting lawsuit was bankrolled by gary gygax,....again.
the legal solution was to simply sell the rights. the company was sold for about 30 million and that had to be split several ways so Garriot got about 1/20th of the settlement then he himself was sued by several financial backers so he eventually declared bankruptcy.
By then it was time to release Ultima Online....
Trump talking about MURDERING PEOPLE ON BOATS FOR NO REASON saying---
"They dont want to go fishing anymore and I cant blame them, actually. The bad thing about it..........NOBODY WANTS TO GO BOATING ANYMORE... Its killed the fishing industry. Nobody wants to get into a fish.... Let's go fishing darling, No thank you just in case. Just in case. Somebody. One of you guys has a happy trigger. Lets get a boat out there. It's going fishing."
So basically Trump bragging that all the murders he committed on the high seas killed the fishing industry.
One of the things that keeps the #NFL interesting is that at any given time, only about 20-25 guys can play the quarterback position effectively in the world and there's 32 teams.
#90DayCountdownToChristmasDay
- one issue of FREEZE64 per day…
DAY 20: FREEZE64 issue 20
We featured another of my all-time favourite games, BOUNDER, along with an interview with its developer Chris Shrigley. Love that guy 😊
freeze64.com/freeze64-issue-20
#Commodore64 #C64
Everyone associates the phrase "one more thing..." with Steve Jobs introducing an amazing product that's about to change the world. It's cool. It's edgy.
But let's be honest: the person most like to say those words is the office bore. It's that guy - and it's always a man - who ignores the fact that the meeting is overrunning by an hour and that everyone wants to get some lunch, and starts droning on about some boring, fucking shit.
The problem when the government decides to do one of it's "moral" laws is that they tend to not think through the detail, and end up getting it wrong. The government has just decided that, alongside porn that is illegal, you know, with children and stuff, porn involving choking (including consentual acts) and porn involving incest should be illegal. First off, almost nothing in porn is actually real. There's so many lazy videos online produced by some studio-out-of-a-basement which is labelled brother and sister do blah whatever, and people just roll their eyes. He's a porn actor. She's a porn actor. Whatever. But now, that's illegal - as in, if you see it, you could go to prison? Prison? Really? Or wait, maybe you can flip the script and give a big hearty laugh to the crown prosecution service and say, why don't you track them down and prove they really are related eh? Then you can charge me. It depends if, in the letter of this new law, they are criminalising incest porn or the depiction (however lazily) of it.
Choking is an interesting one. I can see the concern. A lot of young people watching it might want to try and they might, if you scale it up to a million people, have one or two accidents. Even .01% of a million is 100. But, illegal? I have dated at least one person in my past who enjoyed the act and asked for it, consensually. It's up to people what they do with their body. But you're saying now just having one video of that would be... illegal. Like, go to prison illegal. Does that really seem like something we need to be taking people out of their jobs, out of supporting their families, and putting them into prison for? I'm not so sure.
Also I noticed it also said foster relations will also be covered by this incest thing. OK so scenario, right, a guy and a girl are fostered into the same family. No relation to each other. They are in that family, three years or so. They become over 18. They shoot some porn for onlyfans. People who see that are now going to prison? That's the bar to getting into prison? Are we sure we've thought this new law all the way through? Or maybe nobody is thinking about this stuff and we're just sliding our way into making everything illegal, and if you object or have any concerns you're just some deranged pervert and shame on you. You never criticise the government - right? Right?
I WANNA BE THE GOOD GUYS AGAIN
Superman fought for truth, justice and the American Way.
He’d be really confused now.
Not the truth and justice part. But the American Way has skewed off the highway and into a swamp.
That’s the grin-and-bear-it way to look at a tragedy – the betrayal of Ukraine by Trump and his henchmen.
In his desperation to avoid a midterm election whomping, Trump reached a deal with the Devil – um, sorry, Vladimir Putin. He says the U.S. will lift its oil embargo against Russia, imposed since it invaded Ukraine four years ago. That comes with a deal to purchase enough diesel fuel to supply the United States for 12 hours.
Not months, weeks or even days. Hours.
Trump believes driving the price of diesel fuel lower will help mitigate the impact its surge has on inflation. Not that what he’s doing would actually help, but even if it did, the damage is done.
Most Americans don’t drive diesel-powered vehicles, so it’s not immediately obvious why diesel is such a big deal. Unfortunately, diesel powers those big honkin’ trucks cluttering your commute home and your leaf-peeping trip.
Imagine how big the tank is in one of those monsters. Now imagine paying $7 a gallon to fill it.
That money has got to come from somewhere. And if you’ve been to the supermarket in the last few weeks, you know where.
Four weeks ago, I bought cream cheese for my low-carb bagels. It was about $6.50 for a half-pound, which is about $1.50 more than I paid in 2024.
Two weeks ago, I bought some more. That half-pound cost me $9.
The same was true of my butter substitute and my fruit juice. $2 and $2 and $3 begin to add up – and although I’m not wealthy by any means, I’m in a slightly better position to pay that increase than a family of four struggling to get by.
So, yeah, Trump is desperate to get the price of diesel down. But he’s also desperate to bail out his old buddy, Vlad.
Trump bet on Russia. Doesn’t make a lot of sense, but neither does talking about the late, great Hannibal Lecter as if he’s a real human being. Or saying Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eat dogs and cats.
Russia is a failed state. It had a chance to become a center of European commerce, like Warsaw, or a center of Asian commerce, like Seoul and Shanghai.
But Russia’s gonna be Russia – paranoid, belligerent, parochial, hateful. Putin has pulled those strings for most of the 21st century.
So bailing Putin out of an oil embargo bought into by the rest of the free world – an embargo sparked by a wide awake Joe Biden – is what Trump needs to do to protect his investment and satisfy his patron.
And, of course, in this scenario, we don’t matter.
Not just the fact that Americans overwhelmingly support Ukraine, that we overwhelmingly support President Zelenskyy, that we don’t think Russia under Putin is a potential friend and partner.
But our own freedom and pride matter not at all to Trump. Because if Ukraine, four years into a courageous fight against a bigger foe, can’t make it, it bodes ill for the rest of Europe and the West. We become shameful bystanders to the end of order.
Not just in Ukraine. Trump’s ridiculous demands in Greenland and Canada were meant to weaken the greatest military alliance in history and ease Putin’s path to dominance. The stupid war against Iran is meant to tie up American resources in the Middle East, an area where Obama and Biden wisely thought it best to disengage. The nonsense with Cuba and Venezuela is meant to underline the “zones of influence” theory that totalitarians promote.
We have always thought of ourselves as the good guys. Being respected means being admired, not being feared. When we lose the world’s respect, we’re just a bunch of spoiled brats on this side of the Atlantic and this side of the Pacific.
Few of us can leap tall buildings or bend steel in our bare hands. But we aspire to be like Superman, standing for truth, justice and the American Way.
When the American Way is the right way. Right now, with Trump blubbering around the White House like a malevolent blimp, it’s not.
#DonaldTrump #russia #Superman #ukraine #VladimirPutin
So I'm reading this new book by a former military intelligence guy, Jay Stratton, who led various investigations into UAP (formerly UFOs) and related matters. He says he got interested in the subject when a colleague at the Defense Intelligence Agency showed him video of an unknown triangular craft manuevering above a nuclear weapons site. Stratton describes being stunned and then being told that it was not 'ours'...eg. not a US black program.
But of course WE never get to see that supposed video, or any like them. Instead, the videos being released now are mostly birds & balloons and dots. One good video of something otherwordly would end this debate and yet...all the good data (if it exists) is locked away. Open science can't do anything with data it never gets to see. So...all we get are stories.
Particularly odious since you gave him time to unmake his offence being the *one* mortal offence under Israeli law.
For if #Israel the legal entity must kill a single one of its Jewish citizens legally, it is surely Benyamin #Netanyahu.
The case was made before against Tobianski: that conspiring with an armed force out to kill Israeli Jews, and thereby causing this force to succeed in that endeavor, is THE one and only legit reason for the State of Israel to impose the #deathpenalty.
Which seems fair enough rly.
If a State can't protect the innocent of veritable armies of murderers, what is the State worth?
But they fucked it up and never tried it since:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Tobianski
So now they got a guy on their hands who gave #Hamas all they needed to make the worst #pogrom since #Hitler. Down to some guns who shot those civilians being bought with money provided on order of Netanyahu.
James Jones thinks the Steelers need to make a move for a WR: “I do think that they need to make a move. I would love to see a guy like Tyreek Hill. I would love to see a trade for a wide receiver, so then now Aaron Rodgers can get even more active. Even if Pittman does come back. Just a guy that can really win one-on-one matchups. I think a Jerry Jeudy in a trade would be good for the Steelers. A Jerry Jeudy would help. Jerry Jeudy could win his one-on-one matchups, and you’ve got a guy that can really spin it and throw the football in Aaron Rodgers.” #Steelers #NFL
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• Muscles soak up glucose without needing extra insulin
• Cuts the evening snack urge more than any pill
• Calories out barely matter — it's the hormone response that wins
The guys who stay lean past 50 don't out-gym their plate. They time the small moves. 🎯
Try it tonight: plate, eat, 10-minute walk. One tiny appointment with yourself.
What's your biggest meal — lunch or dinner? Drop it below. 👇
#BloodSugar #WeightLoss #NutritionCoaching #HealthyHabits #MenOver40 #HealthyAging
Roger Waters has gone TOO FAR.
While criticizing Metallica for their apolitical stance, he adds that James Hetfield "is no musician. I heard them playing acoustic instruments and they couldn't--it was appaling."
Glass houses, my guy. James Hetfield can play every riff you've ever written, while unconscious. I'm sorry but until Roger performs Blackened on the bass guitar, he actually doesn't get to talk about this. Not to mention the disparity in vocal talents: James Hetfield has one of the best sounding voices in rock, whereas Roger's is an atonal screech that can barely hold a tune and is the worst part of all of his albums.
Stick to triggering David Draiman, it's literally all you're good at.
When your security hardware is the source of the breech - you got a problem!
Sophisticated bad actors stole ~$90M of crypto by hiding password readers in USB-like crypto hardware wallet devices sold by French firm Ledger.
Over many months, the bad guys bought genuine Ledger devices, opened them, fitted custom-built hidden components designed to capture the recovery phrase during setup, and put them back into distribution through resellers in South East Asia.
They built their own logistics and technology infrastructure with seeds collector servers, draining and laundering infrastructures. They were patient, they spent millions, and they struck in one coordinated operation, draining wallets.
There was no flaw in Ledger’s chip, operating system or servers. Ledger indicated their systems were not compromised, and that this was an attack on "the distribution channel after the devices left our control." https://qz.com/ledger-reseller-controls-spy-chip-crypto-theft-101426 #Crypto #CryptoCrime #Ledger #CryptoHardware #CryptoWallet #Hack #Security #CyberAttack #CryptoTheft
Wow, I almost just explained fedi to my mom, you guys!
She's a collapsed glazed donut in a barcalounger now but she was fascinated.
Got herself banned from FB a bit back.
No idea what server to sell family members on.
They need to be on a larger one to get the bigger picture.
But not so large that it's becoming problematic. . .
Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences.
Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure."
Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found this compromise). Don't worry, it's only accessible from your IP and you land in a dedicated FreeBSD jail. From there, you can only access the 'exchange' directory on your server, where you can upload and download files without affecting the application."
(NB: I had suggested a VPN, but they declined because it was too complicated.)
Customer: "Yes, but maybe it's still insecure. Can't we close it?"
Me: "No, unless you want to lose access to that directory."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
One hour later:
Customer: "Hi, I think we've found a solution. We've just created an app (!!!) with AI that lets us access the files anyway, but more securely than SSH (!!!). Can we install that and close SSH? Oh, and not in the dedicated jail, but directly in the application's jail, because it needs access to the application's files."
Me: "Frankly, I trust SSH in a dedicated jail, restricted by the firewall, a lot more. I don't think this is a good idea."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
Half an hour later:
Customer: "Ok, now it's secure. I had another AI check it and it found some security issues, but it fixed them all. Can you install it and disable SSH?"
Me: "I strongly advise against it. I can see problems coming."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
One hour later, my phone rings.
Their internal IT guy (who has access to the machine, which, after all, belongs to them) had given the AI the login credentials to go ahead with the operation.
Except the AI had managed to lock itself out via the firewall, without even starting the app. And now they couldn't get back in.
Fortunately, I had my own access, via VPN, to a separate jail that the AI hadn't touched (or even considered).
Customer: "SORRYSORRYSORRYSORRYSORRY! From now on, we do things your way."
Well, at least it ended well.
PS: The customer knows I'm sharing this story and agreed to it.
Last night in #Glasgow What a band! What an atmosphere! Truly mould-breaking creativity. Completely sold out (worldwide), people begging for tickets at the door. If you like loud #rockmusic then you should go and see these guys. Too weird for #AI This will trash all the models that illegally scrape contemporary #music
https://anginedepoitrine.com/en/pages/concerts
I’m not one for hyperbole but this was one of the best gigs I’ve ever watched!
For the past several months, I've been watching academics become righteously angry because AI allegedly solved a bunch of difficult math problems all on its own, only for it to be revealed that it was based on stolen work from human mathematicians all along because it can't reason.
It's like the comic of the grim reaper going from door to door massacring the room's occupants, except the reaper breaks in, steals everyone's shit, cuts them down, then leaves. It's happening now with all the game decomps, years of stolen work from human teams all wrapped up in a slop-coated bow.
Journalism is failing us so hard right now. Journalistic integrity is a perpetual struggle, but in this moment of need, it's failing utterly. I've seen article after breathless article declaring this is a turning point for games, like scrappy underdogs are stealing treasure from corporate dragons.
It's just... going over everyone's heads that this is a kind of settler-colonial violence, individuals imbued with the power of the State or of Company to spread out and destroy anything in their path so it can be claimed. These corporations need not raise armies; the people volunteer themselves.
It's why I believe the defining feature of this tech, the capacity to do harm, is *the feature* that excites these people the most. I'm convinced that if AI somehow hurt no one, they would not use it. That it might produce passable work is secondary to that harm. Harm is the true product being sold.
And media is complicit. Human decomp teams were illuminated with a suspicious light at best, if they were even noticed by outlets at all.
AI decomps now dominate the discussion in a "tee-hee, what is the Big Evil Game Corp gonna do now?" framing, deliberately obscuring what's actually happening.
The laziness of a thousand wannabe journalistic influencers repeats the message over and over again, lone hackers or creatives bucking the system and taking power back for the Little Guys.
Nah, man. They're just assholes, and their mandate is to move into a space and force humanity out of it.
Life in the Trenches: A Game Day with Anthonie Knapp
Nobody buys a jersey with a guard’s number on it. Offensive linemen don’t get highlight reels, and the only time most fans learn their names is when a flag gets thrown.
So it’s a treat when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish YouTube channel hands the camera to one of the big guys. Their new video, “Day in the Life of Notre Dame Football Offensive Lineman Anthonie Knapp,” follows Knapp through Irish Wear Green Day last Saturday, when the third-ranked Irish rolled past Stanford 58-7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpFvQFxx54c
The guy who said “I don’t care”
Knapp spent two seasons protecting the quarterback’s blind side at left tackle, earning All-America honors there last year. This spring, offensive line coach Joe Rudolph moved him inside to left guard for his third year as a starter.
Plenty of veterans would bristle at a position change. Knapp’s reaction, as Irish Sports Daily reported in April, was basically a shrug: he’s a football player, and he’ll play wherever the team needs him. He even said the switch felt like being a freshman again.
Judging by the Stanford broadcast, it’s working. Right there in the video, the TV crew singles him out as the best guy the Irish have up front, the go-to man for creating movement and opening holes for the running backs.
Inside the game day
The video runs about eight minutes, broken into chapters, and it’s worth every one.
Before kickoff, Knapp talks about what a guard’s job really is: seeing the box, reading the alignments, and communicating with his tackle and his center so all five linemen are on the same page. His goal for the day was simple. Execute, play physical, play one snap at a time, and “be that line that this team needs.”
In the locker room, the message is about the brotherhood and narrowing the focus. You can feel the energy before the team ever runs out of the tunnel.
On the field, the offense piled up roughly 600 yards. Knapp gives the credit to the running backs, but you can hear the pride when he talks about how special it is for the line to be part of something like that as a unit.
After the game, the team kneels together in prayer, Knapp visits with family and young fans, and then he reveals the lineman’s number-one postgame priority: food. He explains that you’re so nervous about the game beforehand that you can barely eat, so afterward you’re starving. Every big guy who ever played the game is nodding right now.
Why this matters this week
Next up is a road trip to Provo to face No. 8 BYU, and the battle up front is going to matter. When the Irish run the ball well on Saturday, take a second to watch the guys in the 50s, 60s and 70s. That’s where games get won.
Who’s your all-time favorite Notre Dame offensive lineman? Tell us in the comments.
Watch the original: Day in the Life of Notre Dame Football Offensive Lineman Anthonie Knapp (Notre Dame Fighting Irish on YouTube)
Go Irish! ☘️
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Goal for today:
Finish drafting two separate action sequences in my current WIP.
I'm already almost done with the first one. I'm not wild about what I've drafted so far, but that's what rewrites and edits are for.
