CIRCLE WITH A DOT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr/116573103078221129

Someone has the chance to do the funniest thing right now...

@SteveBellovin @newsguyusa

It's really hard to do polling in countries living under authoritarian rule like Venezuela. I honestly don't know whether Venezuelans would tend to vote for a far-right party like the GOP as a rejection of their current socialist dictatorship, or tend to side with a center-left party as a desire for continued state intervention in the economy or rejection of the explicit racism of the modern GOP. My suspicion is that the Venezuelan diaspora would vote for the former, as the Cuban diaspora has, but I'm not sure about the folks that still live there.

Which, if anything, just shows how absolutely batshit insane the GOP is to reject Latinos, especially those that have extremely negative personal experiences living under socialism. It's hard to pick a potential voter demographic that's more likely to actively practice Christianity, embrace social and fiscal conservatism, be harder working, and be more entrepreneurial than Latinos. If it weren't for all the racism, I'm convinced Republicans would be cleaning up with a pro-immigrant/pro-Latino platform.

@Emily

Most of my experience has been both, simultaneously.

@Sempf at least cron jobs are deterministic.

@lcamtuf

Needs a content warning: hawt

@SecureOwl

No. No, I cannot.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@agreenberg/116533336872355044

It remains amazing to me that there's a breathless debate about the danger of GenAI in vulnerability discovery, yet crickets are chirping when it comes to dangerous common uses of GenAI in accelerating the creation of those vulnerabilities.

@davidgerard

When the bubble pops, everyone will be left too poor to drive any rehiring of subject matter experts. The job losses are already locked in.

@mttaggart

Anthropic is out there spending every dang day showing how little it means to be the most ethical big GenAI company.

@tychotithonus

Eh... This isn't a particularly new issue. Doesn't even require source code, either. Bindiff is a couple decades old at this point.

Just because coordinated disclosure is hard and messy and flawed doesn't mean we should give up on the idea of protecting downstream users like the jerks behind the copy.fail disclosure did.

@da_667

Maybe the AI bubble and Iran War together making hardware unaffordable and software unusable is for the best.

@da_667

Just as a caution, those Costco rotisserie chickens are great and cheap but ridiculously oversalted.

I just made stock with one myself a few days ago.

@hrbrmstr

They'll make their money back from all of the consumers buying GenAI tokens using Klarna.

@da_667

I managed to replace Comcast with Ting fiber shortly before Ting stopped rolling out new fiber.

About 25 years ago, I managed to sign up for DSL service through Speakeasy.net before they lost their soul and disappeared into a blood-stained abyss of corporate mergers.

In both situations, I feel like the only reason why my internet still works is because someone forgot to turn it off.

Am I the reason why all the good ISPs die?

@zackwhittaker

It's amazing how quickly Republicans flip-flopped on KYC laws when they learned they could abuse them to be super racist.

@Tarah

uBlock Origin Lite isn't terrible. It's less capable than the Firefox version, but still meets the core need.

@amiserabilist @maxleibman @alipunk

Ohio, every time you open the news...

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-nursing-home-patients-homeless-shelters-9c000eeddc9c9411f44fd605fafc6771

@amiserabilist @maxleibman @alipunk

Exactly.

@amiserabilist @maxleibman @alipunk

You said that inebriation and despair don't count, but I see you've got Wisconsin and Ohio listed right there, so which is it?

@Emily @hal_pomeranz

I'm very happy with Zenni as someone with astigmatism, although I haven't bought progressives. Regular distance glasses are fine. And they're cheap enough that you can buy a bunch and keep them where you need them (e.g., home, car, office, backpack).