HenryBemis

vor 28 Tagendiscuss

I see the segregation of duties falling apart. "My company" would hire that politician, set him on a nice office, air condition, unfiltered internet, an assistant, 4 SBUX coffees and pizza every day. And once the 2 months are out, let the favors begin!

HenryBemis

vor 28 Tagendiscuss

Your comment brought the song lyrics from Murder - Sepultura:

  ...
  Same hand that builds, destroys
  Same hand that relieves, betrays
  Same hand that seeds, burns
  Same peace that exists, here lies
  ...
  Same religion that saves, damns you!

I got no comment on the essence of your comment, but (in your implied meaning), the very last of the song was matching what you wrote.

HenryBemis

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

If you have noticed, every independent candidate almost never gets elected. Vast majority of those who say they will "change the country to the better" either never get elected or are ousted early on. And those who stay change their tune.

I fear that only blackmail-able people with the potential to win elections, get the support, so that they are beholden to someone who ultimately gives them the job (e.g. funding their campaign) and has to return the favor x10 when elected, so promises go out the window and new reality sets in.

HenryBemis

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

That is a great point. Machine consumes energy of adding goblins in every response. The machine consumes energy on removing goblins from every response. That is a great attack vector. If (wild imagination ensues) an adversary can do that x100 (goblins, potatoes, dragons, Lightning McQueen, etc.) they can render the machine useless/uneconomical from the standpoint of energy consumption.

HenryBemis

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

hi, cool use-case! Question: do they have to type it, or one can upload an audio (old people such as me may talk for 5mins about a mini-story vs typing for 20mins, especially if they use a phone vs windows telegram application (typing on a keyboard vs the smartphone). in which case, do you got a STT 'module' that will pick up the audio, transcribe it, and then 'process' it?

HenryBemis

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

We can't. If someone tries, then they get arrested for doxing, harassing, "causing discomfort", etc. Have you tried to follow a politician around? Do you want to try and track their phone?

HenryBemis

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

I read the first 4-5. They either 'provide services' to govs/law enforcement, and/or are ran by govs.

So to answer to your question, Nothing. You can write 100 letters to your senator, MP, mayor, etc. The "system" will serve its purposes. Best case you will get a response that "national security, paedophiles, terrorists, bad actors", etc.

In some regions you can file a GDPR nightmare letter, which will be shut down because of EU DPR ("national security, paedophiles, terrorists, bad actors", etc.)(yes I copied and pasted from above.. there is a pattern here).

Historically (and Harari describes this far better in "Nexus") documentation and bureaucracy was created to exert control. Any information 'must' be captured, stored, processed, assessed, flagged. Before we only had letters and radio. Now we have more letters (bits and bytes/packets). The mechanism is the same. Collect, store, process.

Cross-referencing this with 1984, everything we do/say/send/etc. will never be forgotten, can and will be used against us. Politicians though can 'rewrite' history ('Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.').

HenryBemis

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

IMHO1: Notion is a Confluence+SharePoint+Jira with useless "AI" to quickly create templates.

Anyone who uses it for your made-up use-case is silly, and has no sense of 'segregation of duties' (access).

IMHO2: this is a process/procedure problem, not a technical problem (to quote GDPR's phrase) "..technical and organisational measures necessary to ensure.." this is an organisational problem that you are trying to solve as technical.

I have very recently tried to work with Notion staff in applying basic "compliance" controls, and their input/response was next-to-garbage, with a big "we didn't build it for/like this mate" attitude. E.g. complete lack of "canned reports showing inactive users", "canned reports showing failed login attempts", and so on. One will have to drill though the audit logs, extract the lot, and go excel magic. Other 'within-Notion' solutions are (politely) 'inaccurate'.

Overall it is a GRC/Privacy nightmare and I am happy to not be a user of this any more :)

HenryBemis

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Why oh why do you not have a "pricing" page up front and center?

Why oh why do we have to 'pay $1' to see the different (?) subscriptions?

Why oh why do you force me to type in some random characters on your email box to find out your pricing?

  basic $99/mo
  full $350/mo

HenryBemis

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I asked Gemini and it gave me 8 and then I asked again and it gave me 9.

HenryBemis

letztes Jahrdiscuss

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HenryBemis

letztes Jahrdiscuss

Wait till someone gets a serious disease (as it happens in many families) and lose their home, car, and their shirt because US healthcare is ....(crickets).

Also, imagine a woman having a baby and going back to work on Monday, and having to pay a full salary for care.. insane right?? Who needs babies.

But sure, salary difference..

HenryBemis

letztes Jahrdiscuss

Aaaahh they are trying to prevent a Little Bobby Tables story..

HenryBemis

letztes Jahrdiscuss

Every few years I re-read Homer - Odyssey. And maybe the threats/challenges aren't the same, but.. they are.

HenryBemis

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

How life plays things out...

I was told earlier today that my best friend in this world has died. We haven't talked for the past 4-5 days (we usually catch up on the weekends - but this past weekend he had a packed concert-going-schedule - we live in different countries so I couldn't join).

What sucks the most is that we use(d) Signal, and we have autodestruct every 2 days so apart from some really old emails, I got nothing left from him, and our frequent "correspondence".

I am using the "Henry Bemis" moniker because he was making fun of me and my reading and I was making fun of him and his frequent cinema-going (and we both loved THAT episode of the Twilight Zone - Time enough at last)(great episode btw!!)

And now I got into HN and I saw the black banner on top and I thought "WTF is going on today with the deaths!" and my stomach got a bit tighter.

It sucks when people we love die. It's what Keanu said to Colbert "those who love us will miss us".

My friend also "..would like to live five lives in the course of one life", but alas, he managed to live half of it.

Farewell to those who fade/reincarnate/cross the river Styx/go to hell/go to paradise.. we will miss them.

I don't maintain a blog, so I'll be keeping this bookmarked. Apologies for the 'spam', I wanted to get this out of my system.

Anyway, sorry to hear Lynn Conway has died, looked technology just lost a great contributor.

HenryBemis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> It's instead ideas and world building visions from the people who were directly involved in creating the world

Yes, but someone needs to impress their boss/shareholders this very Quarter, and then the next, and then the next. Planning for the long haul requires a vision and patience that is not on the table. Hasbro mentality is (probably) "release the game mid-December, let it sell tons for Xmas, rake it in, start planning for next Xmas release".

I don't know if 'slow burn' is in their scope. It would be interesting to hear from them on this.

HenryBemis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for..

I figured out a Workaround for this. I install the crapware Driver-o-Software they want me to. Then I run "Double Driver 4.10 Portable" (not affiliated), I take a backup of the driver(s). Then I uninstall (or roll-back). Then the driver is still missing but I user my Double Driver folder backup (I keep in external disk), and booya! the device works without the crapware. It adds a couple more hoops in the experience, but it has worked like a charm.

(I remember Steve Gibson mentioned DoubleDriver some years back on the SecurityNow podcast - I tried it, and I never looked back)

HenryBemis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Well, we kinda all care. It's not that I bought an ice-cream and it was sour and I threw it away. You have to consider the absolute numbers, not just the percentages (50% as you write 0.5:1). I have $100 on Binance. If I lose it, I don't really care. Someone who put their life's savings though has a much bigger problem.

Then there are a BUNCH of lessons to learn here. You kinda touch on a couple: "kid genius", "altruism guru", "bahamas" and so on. So how can we all learn from this? 1) there is no fast money?, 2) turtle wins the race?, 3) regulations are there for a good reason (in most cases)? 4) when you see athletes promote financial products run away?, and many many more..

HenryBemis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

How about you cast an orb of light?

HenryBemis

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Another reason is the use of add-ons such as: "Google search link fix - Prevents Google and Yandex search pages from modifying search result links when you click them."

I have stopped using Google a few years ago, but just in case I keep this (or similar) add-ons of my Firefox.

I have no idea of the popularity of such addons, but they would also impact the tracking that Google does.

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