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I may be the most certified person you’ve ever met. Years of IT experience in network management and security. Recently retired from the military. Interested in using creative channels, like games, to teach cyber risk to risk owners.

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I have what may be a very ignorant question: if model-generated code may not be copyrighted due to a requirement of human authorship (current US Copyright Office policy), does it therefore follow that model-generated code may not be licensed under any terms whatsoever? Meaning anything from MIT to GPLv3?

I recognize no answers here would constitute legal advice, but I would love to hear from legal experts on this.

My greatest professional accomplishment of the year: I got my exec & manager teammates saying "point positive," a term from whitewater rafting and kayaking.

Meaning: when facing hazards, point people toward where to go/what to do, rather than drawing attention to everything to avoid.

@poleguy @sophieschmieg I’m reminded of the thing that goes around occasionally about how Loch Ness is a great place to be a marine biologist because you can get money from people trying to find Nessie. And in the “search” you end up doing some really cool research most people can’t do because they don’t have that sort of funding.

extremely mad because my relative in American prison has let me know that from now on, instead of being charged once per book or per song and having the files added permanently to his account, he's going to ALSO be charged by the minute to read or listen to music on the tablets that are the only things they're allowed to use.

reminder that paying prisoners (vastly) less than minimum wage is legal in the US because they're defined as an exception to anti-slavery laws.

My work on the trans porter is doing great

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

FTC Finalizes Order Settling Allegations that GM and OnStar Collected and Sold Geolocation Data Without Consumers’ Informed Consent

The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order with General Motors and OnStar settling allegations that they collected, used, and sold consumers’ precise geolocation data and driving behavior data

Federal Trade Commission
if you have avoided updating an iOS device because of some combination of hating the new UI or age verification nonsense, please be aware that a critical security patch has been back-ported to iOS 18 so you can install just the patch without a full upgrade. SCROLL DOWN on the Updates tab to find it, if it’s available to you.
Query: is Bambu still the standard for “it just works” for 3d printers?
@julian this has been the footer of my website since I nuked WordPress.

@ferrix @artemis a large part of my job is dealing with questionnaire data.

And trying to interpret what the respondent *meant*, because that may be very different from what the question *asked*.

Also a nontrivial number of these questions are terribly worded and I absolutely would like to fix them.