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I make classes to teach people how to defend themselves against hackers. In my spare time, I teach college students to compete in cybersecurity competitions, or try to take back my home automation from the cloud.
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One of my tasks in the mutual aid meal train I am involved in is setting up the delivery routes. I have desperately been looking for a quick and easy software that I can give a decently sized number of addresses (25-30), set up a start and endpoint, tell it how many vehicles are operating (3 for the most part), and this software giving me 3 routes optimised for similar amount of time driven.
The New York Times today if it was December 7, 1941.
"The US base at Pearl Harbor hosting navy ships reports several stopped floating Sunday morning."
@BendingUnit if you just want to have something easy to practice with, I'd recommend the jackknife. For $40 it's good quality, has 6 picks and a tension tool in a compact form. I use mine a lot.
Just remember the locksport motto "Don't make the bunny cry" e.g. be gentle, it's a finesse skill.
Deviant also wrote a really good book that'll take you from "I've heard of lockpicking" to "I can comfortably open quite a few locks" with some dedicated practice.
https://www.redteamtools.com/jack-knife-folding-lock-pick-set
"Dear America, you are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another another 1/3 while 1/3 watches".
It isn't just America though, the appeasement of the murderous Israeli state by many western governments is again an example of watching idly while people are being killed.
This instinct for freedom is often a reason someone feels compelled to make art.
When you hate the cruelty of the world around you, you will want to unmask it for others but also want to show how the world could be better. That is a powerful urge. And these works of art are powerful too. They connect us back to our humanity & to each other.
Art is not frivolous. Art is vital. It doesn't have to be esoteric & hard to understand: sometimes it's just a beautiful story beautifully told.
reading about https://iceblock.app hitting the top of the iOS download charts today and just discovered https://stopice.net, which is made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Austin
the US is descending into full on fascist hellscape faster then I can keep track of.
@Natasha_Jay The main AI application is sycophancy.
Since about 80% of jobs in North America involve countless hours of kissing up to the boss, it is clearly possible to achieve cost savings by locking up thin skinned neurotics in a room with a machine that strokes their egos non-stop.
Why else do you think they find "in person" work so essential?
8) Sandra, Bill, and Jane then all went and voted to remove the leeches on the system and create space for those with merit. Like themselves. Heil.
Yeah, sadly the conclusion is "business value" is an illusion in most knowledge work.
@Natasha_Jay AI IS NOT THE WAY!
Do👏not👏listen👏to👏techbros👏
AI adds negative Business value in such cases as persons who are paid to work do not produce, just create expensive useless rubbish. Good management would read the crap understand the uselessness and dismiss the non creators on the spot.
the age old problem of confusing activity with progress
"Jesus is coming. Look busy." -- a bumper sticker I saw once
I vaguely recall a joke along those lines.
Something about two guys who are ship wrecked on a remote island, with nothing but a hat. To pass the time, they trade the hat back and forth. When they are finally rescued, both are millionaires...
IIRC H. Beam Piper told a variation of that joke in his novel Space Viking.
Yes, that was my point. Using AI to write, read, and interpret business reports is the new becoming billionaires by trading rocks.
My thoughts exactly. David Graeber would point out they were doing the same before AI.
Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth? Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last week: “I think there will
One point is missing. The important one. No one will feel or be made responsible for whatever will happen based on this workflow.
The last couple sentences are doing a lot of heavy lifting in that post.
Let me run that past the AI to see if it checks out...
@Natasha_Jay 8) the colleague who knows what it is about reads it and there's at least one mistake
like here
IA et fausse information : comment je me suis bagarré avec Gemini - Next
https://next.ink/190383/comment-je-me-suis-bagarre-avec-gemini/
Je me suis battu récemment avec Gemini pour lui faire admettre une erreur. Utilisé en renfort de la rédaction d’une actualité, l’assistant de Google m’a assuré qu’une information existait, preuve à l’appui. Mais ni l’information ni la preuve n’étaient réelles. Le 20 juin, j’ai publié un article à l’occasion de l’entrée en application de deux […]
@Natasha_Jay This is why "AI" will replace middle-management…
@Natasha_Jay But did the report ever actually need to be written? 'Cause if it wasn't, then AI is the symptom, not the root, of the problem.
Because nobody was reading, understanding, evaluating, or acting on the report to begin with. They just had to try harder to pretend to.
Oh heck; that's not a new problem!
In the late 1980s, our team was pressured to implement some "vitally important functionality" report that some person was spending FULL TIME producing. We were being forced to, so we went to every person who received the report, to determine their real business needs.
NOT A SINGLE PERSON EVER USED THE REPORT!
Not at all. Not once. Not ever.
It was 100% filed, ignored, and then later discarded.
100% USELESS WASTE.
@Natasha_Jay @JeffGrigg Doesn't surprise me. A few years ago, I read a book titled Bullshit Jobs by an anthropologist who found, during a freak survey, that anywhere from thirty to forty percent of all people held jobs they honestly believed contributed nothing to society. A lot of these are professional-managerial positions that produce exactly those kinds of reports, and exist mostly to make upper management feel important.
I've had family members tell me they felt like they spent more time filling out paperwork about their work than actually working, that they felt useless when promoted to management because the team already knew what they were doing, and a friend of mine who went on to read the book claimed it explained so much of what went on at his tech workplace.
The book, "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory"
by David Graeber
https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber-ebook/dp/B075RWG7YM/
@Natasha_Jay @JeffGrigg That's the one!
Sounds like you might've read it already.
Sorry; I have not read the "Bullshit Jobs" book. Seems too depressing. 😢
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