Less paywall.

Another article discussing this without mincing words:

“Equity investors are one thing, but bond guys are the grown-ups in the room,” Beauchamp told CNBC via email. “SpaceX might find it has its work cut out for it, but I suspect the market can absorb the issuance overall.”

I’m taking that to mean that SpaceX might have a bit of a valuation change as investors decide what they’ll pay to be a part of this grand adventure in creative accounting.

Google’s behavior in this debacle has been utterly shameful. They got caught with their dick in the pie and have spent 8 fucking years arguing that it was for the good of society.

I think an important corollary of this is that contemporary programs stand on the shoulders of MKULTRA, which did them the favor of testing a lot of hypotheses that didn’t pan out.

There’s a reason why low-quality high-bias infotainment, social media echo chambers, and controlled opposition platforming are so prevalent, and the only satisfactorily complete answer in my mind is that it’s something a quorum of the population will stomach that also gives them the degree of control they think they need.

I skimmed the paper and wouldn’t take too much stock in it. One glaring issue I see is that the “control” for their analysis is another cell network that is absolutely tiny by comparison and services a completely different population from AT&T, so they’re not really isolating other variables, they’re cherry-picking data and over-indexing on it.

The other thing that immediately jumped out at me is the format-- it sure looks an awful lot like an academic thesis, and the authors are a professor and a student who started this work during their undergrad. There’s surely no way a respectable journal would publish this document in its current iteration, so why is it in the news? Weird.

The webpage he hosted was a copy of his own blog post explaining the hack. It just about fit into the 20KB of available flash storage.

We can infer that on every request, the whole static page needs to be spooled out of flash onto RAM (in chunks no larger than 3k), then sent out over Ethernet.

That’s an awful lot of work for the chip. I’m not surprised at all that it errors out under heavy load. The request queue probably grows until it collides with the buffer that bucket brigades the web page to the network.

I’m afraid to look up what optimizations were necessary to get that level of performance. It’s damned impressive work.

Every place I’ve ever worked has tried to play cute with security researchers. I’ve never understood it. I’ve always called it out. But I keep fucking running into it!

Bro you can’t even run a publicly traded company. Don’t even say the word “utility”. Fuck outta here.

I see them as ways to find content that otherwise wouldn’t be on my radar. I generally don’t let them “talk me out” of seeing something that interests me.

Ok, how safe haven’t they been? How many were worse than deepwater horizon?

I’m guessing you’ve happily consumed what was given to you on a spoon and accepted that it was representative of the bigger picture.

I grew up an hour from a 1GW reactor that got shut down in part due to “concerned citizens” like yourself. The site it stood on is still periodically checked by the DOE but is now a recreational area. How often do old coal plants do that?

The thing is that waymo did this without decades of training data arriving per day. Tesla is worryingly far behind on the actual self-driving tech from an investor’s perspective.

Truly a “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” moment.

We live in an unprecedented time where American technological hegemony is being rejected globally, but especially in Europe. People want performant, durable, respectful software offerings, and are increasingly looking away from the Valley and the Street for answers.

So let’s jump on board with becoming part of the extended American surveillance state! Yee fucking haw.

Yeah, this pretty clearly isn’t intended to block bots lol

To date, the only countries that have made progress in blocking VPN traffic with some success are authoritarian regimes with ISP-level surveillance.

You know you’re on to something when the only playbook you can find was written by the Chinese government.

I’m not sure how you think they aim to achieve that business lock-in, but many of us suspect it’s by offering a product that replaces workers.

Yep, I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen that if you really want to drop juniors and give tools to seniors, then you have to pay the monthly cost (whatever it will be) and you have to be ready to foot the big bill in 5 years when your seniors (with no candidate replacements) say they’ll take a 50% raise or walk.

Causing annoyance is one of the more polite ways of expressing your dissatisfaction with the status quo.

Those of us who lived through the Microsoft vs Linux debacle know that you don’t need a large, popular distribution to manufacture a legal challenge. All you need is something that effectively undermines the opposition’s legal basis.

Space exploration is weight lifting for science.

Does it support unit dependencies? That’s pretty much the only reason I use systemd outside of work. Edit: ah yeah it sure does. I know what I’m playing with next weekend.

I wonder if there’s going to be a point in the future where we all look back at this massive over-investment and kick ourselves for making so much expensive electronics waste.