While I agree with you, that disagreement with the author (and not in a my side vs. your side talking point kinda way) is one of the things I liked.
I don't think anyone other than geohot himself would agree with the full thing, but that's his point.
>I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT, and it’s amazing how few of the profiles still say anything about the person. There are no rough edges, it’s basically marketing copy. Reflected back and forth in their heads with this “society” mirror so many times that there’s no identity or coherence left, just a mush of diffuse monochrome light.
I rode the TAT through from Ripley, WV to Port Orford, OR last year over 10 weeks on a Kawasaki KLX 250
I can't speak enough to how awesome the experience was. A solid half the time I stopped for gas or to eat, I'd come out to my bike to someone sitting there waiting to chat about trips and adventures or just ask what I was doing. It was an eye opening experience to just how many awesome conversations I could have had, had I just stopped and waited when I saw some interesting car or bike at a gas station.
It was both incredibly physically demanding while being relatively safe. I know most probably do it on ADV bikes, but I felt my dual-sport was perfect.
Cheaper, sturdier, and more easily swappable than NVME while still being far faster than spinning discs.
I use them basically as independent cartridges, this one's work, that one's a couple TB of raw video files plus the associated editor project, that one has games and movies. I can confidently travel with 3-4 unprotected in my bag.
There's probably a similar cost usb-c solution these days, and I use a usb adapter if I'm not at my desktop, but in general I like the format.
Phishers are working completely blind, thus any amount of info going back to the phishers is a benefit to them.
Just getting server logs from an opened link lets them know their messages aren't being quarantined and their server is reachable through the target's firewall.
The user agent and how the links are accessed give info about who is opening them
(A few every couple minutes == all good, 10 links sent to 10 different employees all opened within seconds with a non-standard user agent == you're being investigated and should burn the domain)
It's been a few years since I've done phishing engagements so details may vary with how things are done today.
But the goal is to limit any information going to the bad guys. Let them think their messages are being blocked until they go elsewhere.
*edit: That being said, phishing at least one person at a large company is not particularly hard. There's too many companies using domains indistinguishable from shady links for one thing. Limiting engagement is good, but companies also need to be prepared for the eventuality that somebody will get fooled.
I'm on year 10 of learning my second language and passed through a variety of teaching/learning methods. Intensive FSI courses, immersion including output as early as possible, self guided based heavily on reading and vocabulary, etc. While I get by mostly fine and now live in my second language, my listening is definitely my weakest skill.
Anki is probably my most beneficial single tool. Though if I were to do it over again I'd follow more or less the poster's strategy. Maybe 80% comprehensible input for listening and 20% Anki for vocab building. At least until I could watch native TV without much effort. I've played around a bit with LLMs, but still haven't found a really great use case for my study.
On the otherhand I think consistent practice (with growing difficulty) trumps technique. Whatever process keeps you motivated to practice month after month is most important.
>I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT, and it’s amazing how few of the profiles still say anything about the person. There are no rough edges, it’s basically marketing copy. Reflected back and forth in their heads with this “society” mirror so many times that there’s no identity or coherence left, just a mush of diffuse monochrome light.