I’m working on building a little demo with Saltcorn before bringing it up to my boss probably in a week or two as a strong contender for our EHS system replacement. We’ve got a mess of an EHS system with a ton of stuff that isn’t actually EHS-related bolted on that we’re replacing it with 3 systems, and one of those three will be for the non-EHS stuff which my boss is currently wanting to build in-house from scratch using AI. I’m hoping to help him dodge that thermonuclear warhead of a mistake by showing him an existing platform that will scale much further before costing us a ton in development costs to maintain

My big argument is going to be on cost+effort front with the added benefit of being open source so we can control it no matter what happens with the vendor

100k offense from negligence. I’ve not worked anywhere that would shrug that off. Of course, he could be family or otherwise protected.

I’ve seen negligence cause costs approaching 100k at my current job (and thankfully leadership has changed so that isn’t happening anywhere near as much) but the way I see it, if he’s a really good employee and Google writes off the charges he could possibly narrowly keep his job. But I don’t see him keeping his job if Google doesn’t write off the ad fees. (Barring of course being owner/family to owners)

Yeah GDID works the same in a VM as it does on hardware. It’s actually easier to see in action on a VM:

1. Create a Windows desktop VM
2. Copy the VM
3. Create a Window server VM and promote it to being an AD Domain in a new forest
4. Try to join both copied VMs to the AD Domain. You can’t join the second one because the GDID is the same, and you’ll literally have to do a reset to get a new GDID for your VM

This was the most annoying part of messing with AD in college was running through the windows setup repeatedly because that’s the only way to get more than one client VM for your virtual Windows network

I mean Epstein was actively talking about his crimes over plaintext Gmail

This article is super vague about this as well. How does Microsoft not only have the GDID->IP link, but they have Web history as well? Are they just exposing all this through advertising telemetry?

My interpretation was that they had an IP that they suspected was the perp’s home network, and subpoena’d some major platforms to confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt. Given the perp’s sloppiness in using the same machine for both personal and illicit computing activities, they could even have some network traffic in the capture to indicate which platforms they should subpoena

Or if we want to be more conspiracy-minded, maybe they installed a trojan on his computer and this is the parallel evidence trail that law enforcement created so they don’t have to admit to hacking the hackers

In any other context I’d agree with you, but hacking is the one context where you really do want to do things the hard way. Use ephemeral VMs with passwords only saved in your head, have a dedicated machine for your illegal activities to help isolate your real identity from your hacking.

Honestly even if you’re just doing HackTheBox and similar best practice is to spin up a Kali VM and only use that VM for the activity since you’re literally connecting to a network with a bunch of hackers, even though what you’re doing is entirely above the board

Alternate headline: Lord of a crumbling, gutted empire struggles to maintain relevancy

You’re very right! There’s a lot of reasons to believe I might be an AI, such as:

• overusing bulleted lists and other common basic formatting features to improve readability
• uncommon grammatical symbols primarily used by autistic people in writing appearing overly-frequently
• overly bubbly, wordy and pleasant writing style that continues to respond even to terminating phrases and instructions to my own detriment

The verdict? I may in fact be an AI

So the researcher has posted on their blog over the past few months some rants about Microsoft “destroying their life” and vowing to continue to post zero days in retaliation, and has been posting proof of concept code for these zero days to their GitHub.

From their rants (there’s a couple of fresh ones including indication that tomorrow will be “one of the hardest days of their life” and that they’ll post a big zero day on July 14th) it sounds like Microsoft deleted their account, revoked their access to the responsible disclosure portal and they’ve had some back and forth discussions in private that they’re now making more public

Normally what happens is researchers report vulnerabilities via Microsoft’s purpose-built bug bounty portal, and Microsoft can patch these vulnerabilities before they can be actively exploited, and researchers can pocket enough income to make a living entirely off of bug bounties. Obviously this all broke down in the case of this particular researcher so here we are

My thinking was they need to do a project like Wikimedia’s Wiki Loves Momuments, where you put some banners up for a month out of the year, see if you can get donors to put up some money to reward people who do a good job at cleaning up some of the texts they have, and just make it an event about it to try to draw in new contributors, and of course some might end up sticking around after the event and continue contributing

Oh crap I forgot humble bundle does ebooks! I’d dismissed it as soon as I saw it was a thing as I can’t stand reading ebooks on a phone or computer. So now that I have a kobo Humble Bundle is an option again!

I appreciate the heck out of the Gutenberg project but holy crap they need to invest some resources into putting 1/5 of the amount of effort Standard Ebooks puts into making every single one of their releases look and function so well in the real ebook reading scenarios of actual people

Honestly if the Gutenberg project had such a program for improving the formatting of their collection I would actually strongly consider volunteering some time towards it. Just like how I would not mind reading for Librivox

The Internet is and has always been a lie spreading machine. Both on and off social media.

Your analogy of peeing in the pool is entirely off base. If these were false scientific papers posted to real established scientific journals that would certainly be unacceptable behavior but that’s not what is being discussed here

It’s more a case of when you go to the piss spraying machine you can’t get mad if you get a little piss on you. Everyone seems to have forgotten that the internet is where people go to tell lies for fun

Oooh I didn’t even know about Voron but I’m very intrigued now by what I’ve read about them

So what would you recommend to someone who wants to get their hands a bit dirty and is reluctant to put anything on the network?

Also realistically the printer would live in my detached garage which I haven’t yet bothered to setup any sort of wifi in, so a connected printer would balloon the scope of such a project and cause it to intersect with and be blocked by other queued network projects, and sometimes I just don’t want to faff with networking after working how many hours faffing with networking professionally

Jumping off of this, as someone who’s been adjacent to 3D printing spaces for over a decade now, what is a good beginner 3D printer for someone who would rather spend less up front and spend more time calibrating and tinkering? Is it still the Ender 3 Pro?

From my understanding Bambu is playing “who has the bigger pile of money” while others are stepping up and playing “who has the legal right to fork AGPL code?”

Dang I must be misremembering the specifics then!

Edit: looks like fingerprints are in fact different for identical twins so it must’ve been that they got fingerprinted on every visit (which is much more realistic for a parole and probation office to collect and test on-site, whereas DNA would have to be sent for processing which would presumably take days or weeks)

I only heard the tale secondhand like a decade ago so not surprising that some specifics got mixed up

I had a relative who worked at a parole and probation office. There were a pair of twins who had a long history of covering for eachother (which the courts had become well aware of) and one got a sentence including probation. Since twins have the same fingerprints, they were required to provide a DNA sample at every court-mandated probation meeting to prove that the correct twin showed up to every required probation meeting