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Captainant

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  1. Most firms approach cybersecurity like outrunning a bear: you don't need to be the A-1 best/fastest, you just need to not be the worst/slowest. And tbh, just doing baseline security patching with defense in depth will be "good enough". No matter how much security you put in place, you're always vulnerable to social engineering attacks which will always sidestep most controls put in place
  2. In my case, I HAVE to run my sprinklers 3x a week just to keep the soil under my foundation from moving too much. It's fucking wild how much the soil moves if it dries out, damn neighborhood built on what used to be a rice paddy
  3. Oh shit https://www.pablo.show/p/update-steve-ballmer-sued-by-11-aspiration Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has just been sued by 11 Aspiration investors who allege that Ballmer used the company — which is now called Catona — “to secretly funnel millions of dollars to star NBA player, Kawhi Leonard.” According to the complaint: “These funds would be channeled through [Aspiration] to Leonard so that Ballmer could induce Leonard to re-sign with the Clippers by covertly paying him more than allowed by the NBA’s salary cap rules.” The plaintiffs allege that “Ballmer was complicit in and aided and abetted [co-founder Joe] Sanberg’s fraud for his own self-serving purpose.” They continue: “Absent Ballmer’s support, [Aspiration] could not have sustained the frauds set forth herein.” “Plaintiffs,” the lawsuit says, “would not have invested and/or kept their investment in [Aspiration] if Ballmer and Sanberg had disclosed the true nature of Ballmer’s investment"
  4. Worse, he might have quoted Charlie Kirk
  5. Captainant

    3D Printing

    Buy a purpose built filament dryer, you can get a decent one for $35, or a nice multi roll one for like $100. It's made a huge difference in my baseline print quality and is just part of my print setup now. That's really awesome and interesting work with the suppressor - I'm curious to hear how it holds up to use through the hunting season
  6. Is this something where your looking for a partner to defray your rack costs, or making the opportunity known that there's well-positioned rack space available? I get that you could sell cloud storage capacity for X thousand dollars per month, but I'm just not familiar with the market economics of that space or how to find customers. It would be interesting to learn and have a peice of that action though
  7. They're the ones controlling Yotta, right? It's wild, that "savings account" is just a depository for a literal online casino now
  8. lulz wtf is an AI Browser? Who the hell would use one of these?? Really good example of prompt injection vulnerabilities that you would be making yourself exposed to. But yeah the "AI browsers" are just SUPER userdata vacuums. All hail surveilance capitalism
  9. Lee Atwater said it best nearly 40 years ago You start out in 1954 by saying, “N****r, n****r, n****r.” By 1968 you can’t say “n****r”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N****r, n****r.”
  10. bro do you want shareholder returns or not you goddamn commie pinko
  11. So like the broken brake (or was it gas?) pedal, they're re-glueing and riveting it on? Wow what craftsmanship for a 100k turd
  12. You're telling me that the senate can pass resolutions with a simple majority?? I'm in a state of incredulity!
  13. Hey man are you some kinda pinko commie? John Deere would be betraying their shareholders if they weren't extracting value out of every link of their valuechain by charging a fee to access their own data, and repackaging customer data into whitelabel products for the open data market. Farmers and farming doesn't matter. Putting the shareholder first matters.
  14. Yup, they borked a bunch of shit with a bad DNS update
  15. huh Azure had an outage today caused by a bad DNS update that hit most of their M365 services and a few businesses pretty good. I wonder if Oracle or GCP will do one too just to be trendy
  16. There's one off Westheimer, pretty dang good chicken
  17. his last comment - "but the power!" is extremely apropos. There's been some solid work and writing around energy usage per million tokens consumed, and agents can routinely burn thousands to tens of thousands per simple "hello/good morning" responses. Even the most efficient setups consume a couple of kWhrs to process a million tokens. There's a hideous amount of power being consumed to do really no actual work aside from running up NVDA's market cap note: "token" is a model-specific metric that refers to the size of each block of input given to a LLM, typically 4-6 characters including punctuation and spaces per token.
  18. If it wasn't the remains, it would be something else. This is HOW BULLIES AND FASCISTS OPERATE. Always find a new grievance to nurse that gives you surface-level justification for ratcheting things up another notch
  19. goddamn he doesn't even live in the US? Why tf was he getting sourced to so much doing the 2020 summer of love and election cycle then?
  20. See: Anthropic's work on model poisoning. https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
  21. That's because John Deere's bigger business is collecting farmers soil data and building data products to sell to futures market makers and other interested parties. It's literally because JD is collecting a data stream from farmers and collecting 100% of the revenue from selling their data. THAT is why they're so anti right-to-repair. It puts revenue directly at risk.
  22. It's wild because the valuation based on future sales that are not guaranteed. They'll sell a boatload of chips if a BUNCH things break their way. But market exhuberance gonna exhuber There's SO MUCH mark-to-market accounting going on here, so it's really more a question of if you think you can stay liquid longer than the market can remain irrational. Typically, that's a tough bet to time right
  23. lmao Ian Miles Cheong, noted milkshake survivor
  24. Doctorow talks quite a bit about this book in that Adam Conover interview I posted a few days ago - one of the biggest mechanisms that got us here is the DMCA. Under its provisions, it's a federal felony to break a "digital lock". So you're legally prohibited from cracking encryption to root your own device, or doing anything at all to interfere with their almighty Intellectual Property rights. Because there's an inherent "lock in" effect to EVERYTHING these days, it sets the stage for enshittification to happen. Because there's much higher opportunity costs for a consumer to change a behavior, it creates an economic environment where customer exploitation and extraction becomes a more viable and ideal business strategy
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