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elias_griffin , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

This gets a vote from me for "Best of the Internet 2024", brilliant pacing, super braced, and with precision bluntness. I'm going to pretend the Monero remark is not even there, that's how good it was.

elias_griffin , 7 days ago

I want to confirm this. Hacker News is nothing like it used to be and is approaching the cliff of "group think" narrator, the opposite of Entrepreneurship.

elias_griffin , 7 days ago

Masterful wordsmithing, I must find a place for this quote in my future writing. I'll save and credit.

elias_griffin OP , 13 days ago

Sounds like AI or an AI influencer post. The first paragaph is so far off-topic, might as well be talking about sailing. You completely mis-understood what I meant using TabNine. I wrote my own code and obfuscated my own code. Then tried to have AI complete another function using my code.

Nothing you said is relevant is any way, shape, or form.

[EDIT} https://www.tabnine.com/

elias_griffin OP , 13 days ago

Discussion Primer:
From my perspective and potential millions of others, the readme is part of the software, it is delivered with the software whether zip, tar, git. Itself, Markdown is a specifiction and can be consider the document as software.

In fact README is so integral to the software you cannot run the software without it.

Conclusion:
I think we all think of readme, especially ones with examples of your code in your readme, as code. I have evidence AI trains on your README even if you tell it specifally not to use readme, block readme, block markdowns, it still goes after it. Kinda scary?

I want everyone else to have the evidence I have, Science.

elias_griffin , 19 days ago

OH, it was been a long time coming seeing this type of headline again, it's....glorius!

Microsoft is most years a #1 and sometimes a #2 Funder of: Rust, Python, and Linux. Are those destined for an E^3 "rug pull" too? Will it ever stop this kind of behavior, consistently conforming our behavior to itself with the money and industry position it leverages?

Don't forget in calculating that industry position that OpenAI is now able to contract to the DoD for offensive capability.

elias_griffin , 1 month ago

When you find out you were only good because you drank the trillion dollar brand Kool-Aid.

Here is female founder's LinkedIn background image, web search result top 20, with that thing on.

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5616AQEGTRY3gObKdg/profile-displaybackgroundimage-shrink_200_800/0/1700176960650?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=GoILNFlkyeka_159L39sV2nlT57Phcz9ngiMCGm6eQ8

Demographic is..I mean was?

Here is an awkward photo of both Founders:
https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto/wp-cms/uploads/2020/09/i-Bethany-and-Imran.jpg

elias_griffin , 1 month ago

Quote from the subtitle of the article

and you can’t stop it.

Don't ever let life-deprived, perspective-bubble wearing, uncompassiontate, power hungry manipulators, "News" people, tell you what you can and cannot do. Doesn't even pass the smell test.

My advice, if a Media Outlet tries to Groom you to think that nothing you do matters, don't ever read it again.

elias_griffin , 1 month ago

I don't care what the implication was, I didn't read past the slight/insult to my character, morality and intelligence. Who is some MSM empty suit tank to play cognitive narrative shaping with me, absolutely zero.

elias_griffin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

So proud of you NetBSD, this is why I sponsor you, slam dunk for the future. I'm working on a NetBSD hardening script and Rice as we speak, great OS with some fantastically valuable niche applications and I think, a new broad approach I'm cooking up, a University Edition. I did hardening for all the other BSD, I saved the best for last!

[EDIT 5/16/2024 15:04 GMT -7] NetBSD got Odin lang support yesterday. That totally seals the NetBSD deal for me if I can come up with something cool for my workstation with Odin.

If you would like to vote on whether, or by what year, AI will be in the Linux Kernel on Infosec.space:

https://infosec.space/@wravoc/112441828127082611

elias_griffin OP , 1 month ago

Thank you for adding this, erm, maybe a bit "insider" info, as I always wondered how easy and reliable it was to map MAC to Manufacturer on mobile devices. Given what you say, the IETF tracking database could technically contain, or used as metadta, for another system to identify all device models.

Yeah, and what is that MAC generation scheme Apple/Android uses from a Security standpoint, what conditions make it regenerate and how often? How easy is it to map a "new" random MAC against a Model again when it re-enters the network and fingerprints itself again.

Lots to think about it.

elias_griffin OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I can appreciate your re-iterating of the fundamentals of extremely easy to understand tech, but instead of basic thinking, you just repeating the already presented text which anyone can read hopefully, I presented a case for how it could be used that meets all technical specifications and is therefore possible. Likely even, given big tech track record.

This pheneomena of using tech "not as in the manual" is common. In fact, the Apache web server team was not sure it would work and the Internet adopted a series of HTTP patches as a whole unlike they intended.

don’t have any network capability themselves

That is just wrong and I can't understand how you came to that conclusion. I also invite you to think of it as a network, because it is using Bluetooth in a network?

elias_griffin OP , 1 month ago

This network tracks items specifically built on this protocol

Wrong. It tracks all Bluetooth devices, but provides more functionality if the protocol is used by owned device + tracking device.

you’ll already know where the user is since you own the fucking network.

Strange comment, who owns what network that is valid here in this context? This network works across Apple and Android Bluetooth Low Energy, no one owns that network.

Because the “worldwide tracking network” that already works is called the cellular network

Wrong. Although you obviously get all sorts of data to use from LTE/CDMA/etc from a phone, you need to catch it in between a tower handoff which records the movement speed and it's not accurate. Really only accurate if you use three towers, high power, in close range of the device, but that is Nation State level phreaking. BLE will be able to use every device in the vicinity and would be trackable down to inches, just like the AirTag and what these devices are meant for.

I suggest

Comical

elias_griffin OP , 1 month ago

I've been doing everything in computers for 25+ years and have worked in SCI Government NOCs, including the network stack for every OS. Your text is so wierd, I think maybe you didn't watch the IETF video did you? The networking isn't between AirTags, where did you get that? So wierd The phones use Bluetooth Networking to connect to Bluetooth tracking devices.

So, when the phone senses a tracker and tries to get it's status, whom it's tracking, etc, via the new protocol, you are saying it doesn't use Bluetooth networking? And that if it does, it stays on the phone and does't proliferate to other devices using Network Protocols?

I'm sorry, but please watch the whole presentation.

So in this Verge article where it says Apple and Android have integrated it into the "Find My Devices" networks for both platforms, it is somehow not using a network?

If I were you, I would not start social media posts with your job experience if you didn't read or watch any instructional material before you post, just to value your own career.

I mean, that's why I posted it, to hack the technicals details, take nothing for granted, and not assume anything.

elias_griffin , 1 month ago

Best breadcrumb from article:

I wanted to understand: what kind of human spends their days exploiting our dumbest impulses for traffic and profit? Who the hell are these [SEO/Google] people making money off of everyone else’s misery?