Retired Linux hacker, gamer, retrocomputing, model trains
ESO: EtchedPixels & PenguinOfEvil (Wombles, Greymanes, Chill Mode)
| Business | http://www.etchedpixels.co.uk |
| Fuzix | https://www.fuzix.org |
| Codeberg | https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels |
| RC2014 Boards | https://hackaday.io/EtchedPixels |
More MAGA are beginning to realize that they have been lied to by Trump. It is because of tariffs and the "not a war" closing of Hormuz.
Not that they suddenly understand economics — aluminum got so expensive they can't afford foil hats now, and it turns out those only ever blocked the news that wasn't from Newsmax or Fox.
RE: https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/116669455830842672
in which the brand new opus 4.7 demonstrates that it's still unable to checks notes not delete files when told not to delete files.
Somehow I missed this story in my research concerning Nightwing, the Virginia government contractor where the CISA contractor worked.
May 2, 2025: Raytheon, Nightwing to Pay $8.4 Million in Settlement Over Cybersecurity Failures
"The US government on Thursday announced that it has reached a settlement with Raytheon, RTX Corporation, and Nightwing Group in a lawsuit over the companies’ alleged failures to meet cybersecurity requirements for defense contractors.
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation (previously Raytheon Technologies Corporation), and its then-subsidiary Raytheon Cyber Solutions, Inc. (RCSI), allegedly failed to comply with cybersecurity requirements in 29 contracts and subcontracts with the Department of Defense (DoD). Nightwing is a cybersecurity and intelligence company that spun out of RTX.
According to the settlement, between 2015 and 2021, Raytheon did not implement necessary cybersecurity controls on a system used to perform work on DoD contracts. In 2015, the company landed a DHS cybersecurity contract worth $1 billion.
Raytheon and RCSI allegedly not only failed to implement a security plan for the internal development system, but also failed to ensure that it complied with other Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements.
Per DFARS and FAR, contractors are required to apply basic safeguarding to systems that process or store federal contract data, and to provide adequate security for those systems, respectively."
Hot diggity dog.
The briefing concludes that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with [International Human Rights Law]. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems, including where such systems are identified as exacerbating existing inequalities or creating new forms of discrimination.
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten […]
Holy shit, i did it, lol. It looks terrible, but it works.
For people who haven't been keeping up with this project, I've been doing ceramics for a couple years now, and recently people kept tagging me in posts about a European feminist hacker collective that was making circuit boards out of court they dug out of the ground and fired in a campfire.
After having an epiphany about some experimental copper ceramics glazes i made last year, i thought i would see if i could solder to them, and i found that i could.
Sooo ... I made a stamp and stamped out some really basic boards for an astable multivibrator (two blinky lights) circuit. I filled the recessed traces with copper powder and had them fired in our pottery kiln.
Now i have ceramic circuit boards.
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