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While the AI revolution threatens to kill countless jobs, leaving potentially millions of Americans in the lurch, maybe all those future jobless Americans can turn to the booming data center theft industry. Maybe AI is a job creator?

Ah yes, my retirement plan from the tech sector…

Generalized anxiety disorder seems like such a cop out to me. Surely they can break that apart into a bunch of new disorders and syndromes to collect?

I find it mildly annoying that while the post is replete with hyperlinks, the 2 central terms “ietf-tls-mlkem” and “ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem” are simply quoted with no further elaboration.

I am no cryptographer, but after some searching around, my very first order understanding is that mlkem is a new algorithm that is meant to be resistant to attacks by a quantum computer. It is not time-tested at this point, however, while ecdhe is a current (albeit quantum-computer-weak) algorithm that has a solid track record.

Using both in combination is seen by some as a safer way to move forward, since mlkem may yet prove to have a fatal weakness and at least you have that fallback on the tried and true. Advocates also point out that ecdhe is cheap to compute compared to mlkem, and so the overhead of tossing it in there is not the end of the world?

Anyway, that’s all I’ve been able to glean so far.

I don’t think there is any single answer to this that works for everyone?

If you feel public protests or political activism are a good release for your frustrations, go for it. If you feel you need some escapism, try to avoid addiction/substance abuse but don’t beat yourself up if you wind up there. Find help.

For me, community engagement has helped. It doesn’t come naturally as I’m an introverted sort, but I find community-building activities therapeutic. And yes, I do encounter the occasional maga type or whatever. I try not to slam the door on them though. It’s usually some common interest that brought us together, and I try to work from there.

Most relevant paragraph for the tldr crowd:

Flavors of AI doomsaying vary dramatically, ranging from Skynet-style scenarios to mass unemployment. But more recently, as it’s become clear that one of AI’s most practical applications is generating code, experts have been sounding the alarm on AI’s potential to disrupt cybersecurity. Hackers could easily abuse AI agents and coding tools to orchestrate devastating cyberattacks, both increasing the scale of these attacks and lowering the skill needed to carry them out.

It goes on to talk about how claude has yet to release a particular model and China has closed-sourced some of its over cybersecurity concerns.

At Wendy’s you can add a shot of lime to your coke using that machine there. But there’s no rum button…

Researcher commenting on the patch:

he remarks that the software only checks the validity of the downloaded file using the ancient CRC32 hash that isn’t considered cryptographically secure anymore

I have to respect the researcher for his incredibly charitable wording here. CRC32 is not even remotely crypto. That’s never been its purpose, and using it for digital signing is patently insane!

I fear I would have had a much shorter temper after what he’s been through, and yet here he is keeping his cool and his criticism constructive. Good on him.

Oh right, I’m remembering that incorrectly. It wasn’t a confidence bill or something like that which would have toppled the government. It was the coalition. Anyway, it was a curious case of the GG finding herself in the middle of this and having to make a decision with political consequences.

Well technically, Canada’s head of state is King Charles III. As in the UK though, it’s a largely symbolic role. I don’t think loyalists in general advocate for replacing our parliamentary democracy with the monarchy or anything like that? I am not of UEL heritage myself though, so I can’t speak for them. Maybe some of the more die-hards do?

There was an incident in which an unpopular minority government chose to prorogue parliament rather than face a confidence motion that could have triggered an election. Why I mention this is that the Governor General (who was the then-Queen’s representative in Canada) had to sign off on the proroguing. It’s an interesting thought as to what would have happened had she refused? That would be a rare example of actual political power wielded by the monarchy. In the end though, she did not.

I guess some of it is straight up fandom, but there is a historical legacy to consider as well.

There are still some UEL enclaves around where I live, for example. United Empire Loyalists were people who sided with Britain during the American Revolution (there were more than you might think), and many wound up resettling in Canada. So you still see Union Jacks flying in people’s yards to this day and historical battle reenactments. That sort of thing.

They tend to be politically conservative, but have a distaste for American-style conservatism. And certainly nothing sets them off more than 51st state rhetoric coming out of Trump.

My band plays charity gigs at nursing homes, and they seem to love the Wii! They’ll have like Wii Sports nights and stuff.

I’m getting on in years a bit myself. I have no problem with strategy/sim type games, but those where you can’t afford to even blink are beginning to test my stamina. Though my wife recently got me into Diablo IV, and I seem to be doing better with that. Maybe because it doesn’t use a 1st person perspective?

I guess most religions caution against getting too self-absorbed or materialistic in life. It’s a common trap we fall into, and it’s an awful place to find yourself when you’re on your deathbed.

As I get older, I think more about the people who will be left behind once I’m gone. Will they be all right? Will my passing cause a lot of drama? If they still really need me, I will fight to stick around a little longer, even if it entails some personal suffering. It’ll be over soon enough.

I guess if I’m in the middle of some personal quest, I may also fight to see it through before kicking the can? I dunno.

Otoh if my living on creates a greater burden, I might want to go sooner rather than later?

And I try not to concern myself with what happens to me personally after I’m gone. Whether you’re religious or atheist, let’s face it. Your fate is out of your hands at that point.

I’m not going to sugar coat it. There were good things and bad things, just like in any era.

On the good side, the standard of living was higher, especially for younger people. Wages, though already stagnating, had not reached the unliveability stage yet, and unions were still common. Communities were stronger because people hadn’t holed up online yet and local media hadn’t collapsed. What existed in terms of an online world was more open and trusting. They didn’t even have encryption on the www before '95 if you can imagine? Politicians were as corrupt as ever, but the media in general were more accountable.

On the bad side, there were a lot more incurable diseases. The Cold War was fucked up. Just knowing everything you know and love could end in 20 minutes just because some idiot turns a key somewhere. The air was actually really dirty in a lot of places. I know there are a lot of parts of the world where that’s still true, but clean air acts did work where implemented. Also, bars were all smoky as fuck. I couldn’t go near one with my asthma.

I could go on, but I’ll end on a more positive note. I was thinking just the other day how astronomy has been going through a golden age of discovery all throughout my life. In my childhood, they were sending out probes to give us the first close up looks at planets in our solar system. Then in the 90s we got the Hubble Space Telescope, we discovered our first exoplanets (planets around other stars) and that there is a 2nd ring system in our own solar system: the Kuiper Belt. Then we found a moon of Saturn with active geysers, Pluto sent us a ❤️, and now we have the James Webb Space Telescope joining massive ground-based telescopes that are just bursting with discoveries across the board. I just can’t get enough of this stuff!

The attack creates a large OPFS file on the victim’s SSD, with both Chrome and Safari allowing a website to claim up to 60% of total disk space through OPFS, which on a 256GB drive is over 150GB.

Am I reading this right? 60% of all your disk space can be confiscated by some random web site? I gotta figure out how to get my browser cache onto some tiny partition.

https://www.puzzle-sudoku.com/

I’ve linked the sudoku page, but if you scroll down, there are dozens of other puzzles and they’re all well-implemented and free with plenty of customization options, difficulty levels, leader boards, etc. I patreoned the dev recently. He’s very responsive to any bugs, and considers, for example, a puzzle with multiple solutions to be a bug. He also adds new puzzles fairly regularly.