CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@MisuseCase @carnage4life cf. the excellent HourlyBillingIsNuts.com

RE: https://kind.social/@PKYo/116630657211533786

Being kind costs nothing, and means everything. Be kind. ️

Reading “What Grows in Weary Lands”, and this thought came to me early on re: epidemic of burnout in society across contexts and demographics:

We were not designed for the level of constant stimulation we inflict upon ourselves.

@susankayequinn @joshsutphin @Daojoan I think there is profound wisdom to be had in questioning what “success” even means

@joshsutphin @susankayequinn this reminds me of something @Daojoan wrote a while back on creating things:

“This logic is tempting, and in certain contexts it's perfectly sound. If you've discovered a real solution to a widespread problem, it would be odd not to try to bring it to more people. But the framework becomes toxic when it's applied universally, when every small creation gets fed into the same evaluative grinder and comes out measured against the yardstick of potential scale.

Because most good things don't scale.

Most good things are stubbornly local.”

The Noble Path

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an indie hacker in possession of a widget must be in want of a business model... Every tool is a startup now. Every script is a SaaS product. Every neat little hack you cobbled together on a Sunday afternoon to solve your own

Westenberg. (www.joanwestenberg.com)

@raganwald meanwhile I’m just wondering which laptop you can buy that still comes with a SUPER modifier key

@mrotteveel @jessamyn @overholt Yahoo! was explicitly a directory (human-curated at that); Google’s PageRank really was completely different than what had come before. Didn’t take long for the advertising business model to tank it though. =\

@jessamyn @overholt back when the competition was AltaVista and Yahoo!, Google‘s PageRank and search results really felt like they came from another world. Unfortunately, they’ve been going downhill for about 20 years now.

@bytebro paraphrasing roughly is one of my hobbies

@intrepidhero I mean, I consider myself fairly technical but this is approaching word salad

@DrHyde yeah, that's kind of where I'm at: if you can't explain it to a non-technical person, you don't know it well enough or are hand waving away some gaps

speaker has managed to say "ontological construct for AI security" multiple times along with "epistemic drift" and asserting "100% prevention of threats that Mythos can find"

"cryptographic anchoring for AI trust"

like ... I think they actually have some good stuff in here at a low level but it's almost buried in a flood of references, acronyms, protocols, and philosophy.

also: coming in asserting that orgs like Amazon Cryptography are doing it all wrong is ... like, you need to back that up with more than just assertions and throwing shade

@UkeleleEric lack of independent analysis and third-party validation always makes my spidey-sense tingle

@adamshostack it's like Schneier said -- anybody can create a cryptosystem that they themselves cannot defeat

it's like the people who are all "filesystems are where all the security weaknesses are; use my new database approach instead and it solves all risks"

also a tell: non-stop verbal spew of acronyms and compliance frameworks and protocols combined with "our approach resolves all these other completely unrelated problems from totally distinct disciplines, plus also we address all security issues with AI"

Frustrating when I get on calls with a startup that makes incredibly extraordinary (nigh unbelievable) claims about their unique security implementation (esp. when it involves cryptography) and is tight-lipped about exactly how because "it's our trade secret"

"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and people don't seem to understand this.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/116606761447741247

Migrated my personal domain mail to Google probably 15-20 years ago after I got out of the web hosting business and the feature set was better than what I could roll myself, and I was tired of being my own sysadmin.

Time for a reset, I think.

@inkican “no trip required”: feature or bug

@catmisgivings @tribactam @2ruth @TheBreadmonkey bookmarks for me are “I know I am going to want to reference this later but finding stuff on here is hard”