Arrakis_Surfer 

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Opinions are my own...or the AI's

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I am utterly offended by the term "neurospicy". It is reductive and doesn't benefit anyone except neurotypicals trying gaslight everyone for their bad behavior.
AI Is a False God | The Walrus

The real threat with super intelligence is falling prey to the hype

The Walrus
What are we feeling about Firefox, the privacy browser? https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/s/Ut3Y01yWk9

Http needs a status code for grudging acceptance. We have 202 Accepted. We need 222 Tolerated.

For when the client is doing it wrong, but you've decided to be the bigger person and deal with it anyway.

Wild, true story from the security awareness and training company KnowBe4 that details how they inadvertently hired a North Korean hacker who was posing as a Western tech worker.

Kudos to them for publishing this. If it can happen to a security awareness company, it can happen to anyone (full disclosure: they've been an advertiser on my site for ages).

https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us

How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us

How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us

I am so thankful that I get to be in my own head. Other people are sometimes exhausting.

Troubleshooting is a skill. I don't know how exactly it can be taught, but we should absolutely be teaching it.

I have never used a scissor lift in my life prior to this point but I know enough about machines now to realize something is wrong. And with an error code, the machine will tell you what's wrong.

It's up to you to connect these things together - and that's honestly a guiding light in my work.

Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as the saviour of SMEs and scourge of CEOs

Small businesses have seldom had the chance to understand how they work. A history of PC use makes it possible Column  A year and a half into the explosion of AI fueled by ChatGPT, the hype and fear of missing out has begun to thin just enough to make out the shape of two starkly different visions for A…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/06/12/microsoft_recall_sme_benefits/

Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as the savior of SMEs and scourge of CEOs

Small businesses have seldom had the chance to understand how they work. A history of PC use makes it possible

The Register
Ugh, fuck Blackwell
EU Council Presidency’s Last-Ditch Effort For Mass Scanning Must Be Rejected 

As the current leadership of the EU Council enters its final weeks, it is debating a dangerous proposal that could lead to scanning the private files of billions of people. EFF strongly opposes this proposal, put forward by the Belgian Presidency at the EU Council, which is part of the EU’s...

Electronic Frontier Foundation