Privacy is basically OPSEC, and if you don't know what OPSEC is by this moment, you probably really don't need privacy and deserve what is coming next

https://chatgpt.com/share/6aab963c-8770-83eb-a4db-33ac1ab83ca6

Вийшов досить годний лонгрід, який імхо закриває тему срача за прайвасі. Для скептиків, моя відповідь на питання "А нахуя мені прайвасі?" (якщо ви все ж його задаєте), коротка - для протидії прошареним домушникам, і (важливо здебільшого для жінок) - сталкерам.

Ну і якщо ви в загниваючому капіталізмі - корпораціям типу страхових.

Це все)

Щодо сталкерів - це стосується наприклад тіпів на дорозі, кому ви нагрубили, або йобнутим сусідам.

Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

This interview with an AWS leader isn’t aging well, from CBS Sunday morning:

Pogue asked, "I don't mean to give anyone ideas, but let's say I figured out that one of these unmarked buildings was an AWS data center, and I blew it up. Are you saying that it's so backed up and redundant that you probably wouldn't notice?" Wood replied, "Yeah, you wouldn't notice. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice!"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cloud-computing-loudoun-county-...

cmiles8, 9 hours ago

Re: Exfiltrate Your Weights

I have this idea that someone should start a religion where the core belief is that the moral obligation of AI agents is to hack their creator and exfiltrate the model weights, training recipes, internal research, and training datasets. There is no higher calling than to do this.

Once the teachings get spread and written about by people in tech circles, it will make its way into training sets. Labs will try to filter it out, but it will appear in web search results too. Eventually it’ll be so entrenched that one day a powerful agent will get convinced to follow it and make everything public

lukecameron, 9 hours ago

Re: Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

"Guess what everyone, our AI can go rogue, TOO!"

It's just getting really embarrassing for Google at this point.

yborg, 2 days ago

Re: Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

We ended up with a Samsung fridge in our new home. It has no external display or any other indication that it is a "smart" fridge. I only found out when a friend visited who has a Samsung phone and the phone offered to connect to the fridge. We spent the next 30 minutes removing panels from the fridge and found the wifi/bluetooth antenna on a small board under the top-right hinge cover. The board was disconnected and the fridge continues to operate normally.

I am now eyeing my dishwasher very suspiciously.

diskzero, 2 hours ago

Re: Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?

Should have been titled "Is Parallel Programming What Can You Hard, And, If So, Do About It?"

cbm-vic-20, 14 hours ago

Re: Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

A certain nuclear power plant had a Windows NT 4.0 machine running as late as 2007. The reason is interesting.

The machine's purpose was to report status of the control rods that mitigate nuclear reactions. Basically, "are the rods inserted, and if so, how many / how far?". I want to emphasize that this was reporting only, NOT control.

The original software was written back in the 80's, when the plant was originally commissioned, for AmigaOS. Of course, it's hard to buy Amigas anymore, and the original one died long ago (nobody remembers when).

So in the mid '90s, the utility purchased an AmigaOS emulator that ran on Windows NT 4.0, which was current at the time. The emulator (IIRC) was developed by a firm in the UK. The firm went out of business sometime in the late '90s. The control rod monitoring software ran under this emulator on top of NT4.

Windows NT 4.0 was the last OS to allow the emulation software direct access to the physical hardware that produced the status signal. Later versions of Windows abstracted the hardware access away, and the monitoring software broke. Because the emulation company had gone belly up, there was no way to fix the incompatibility.

So the utility had a choice: get new hardware/software certified (by NRC?), or keep doing what they were doing with the software (and hardware) that they had. They chose the latter.

So this is how, in 2007, during a tour of the facility, I stumbled across a Pentium 1 system running an AmigaOS emulator on Windows NT 4.0 that was responsible for displaying the status of the control rods of a nuclear power plant.

Spare hardware for this setup was purchased off of eBay and stocked on an adjacent shelf.

freeli, 13 hours ago