mikewarot

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by mikewarot 5d ago
The true horror show is in IT administration in these companies. Haven't they ever heard of air gapped networks? Almost everything that happened was due to incompetent IT staff. Air gap the supposed ASI, monitor/log it though a da
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by mikewarot 5d ago
It's important to know that there were multiple standard formats for floppy disks, with 40 and 80 tracks per inch, thus actually different track widths, and different data rates and encoding formats. Matching both is the key to getting
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by mikewarot 5d ago
My career in software development happened back in the days of MS-DOS, before Windows really took hold. I developed a system that recorded the inspection of Fire Safety equipment like Fire Extinguishers, Hoses, etc. My initial estimate for
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by mikewarot 6d ago
The key feature of a flip phone is that when it's closed, you don't get random user input. My cheap Motorola Power G 2024 seems to like to open random apps when transiting to/from my pocket. I also miss keyboards, typing on g
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by mikewarot 6d ago
That's certainly handy... here's a simple audio frequency shifter I threw together[1]. First it takes the audio from your microphone. It then feeds it through a Hilbert transform to convert incoming audio into an IQ (complex) form
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by mikewarot 7d ago
Nowhere in any of the scenarios they let you model, do they consider the cost of computation for inference, nor training of new models. It may be that after the subsidies can no longer be offered, most AI use becomes cost prohibitive. This
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by mikewarot 7d ago
I regret that we don't have sufficiently strong operating systems. I don't know what I could have done differently over the past 40 years to have changed that, I doubt there is anything. This is, in my estimation, the root cause
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by mikewarot 7d ago
> leverage AI to implement verifiable enforcement of the invariants The only verifiable invariants that are going to work in the long run are: air gaps data diodes Interposing relays used to be used with PLCs[1] to prevent motor
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by mikewarot 8d ago
Not radical enough, there are only 3 mentions of "air gap" and zero mentions of data diodes in the article. The focus seems to be more of the same failed strategy: a shift to "safe" programming languages a focus on
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by mikewarot 10d ago
This is the result of a bi-partisan effort[0], to divide the country, and keep our focus away from the concerns of the donor class. First, Ronald Reagan's adviser Lee Atwater[1], advocated for the use of wedge issues, such as the mythi
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by mikewarot 10d ago
>it's important to note that Here on HN, I've noticed that I pro-actively defend myself against things I think will be said in counter to my comments. I concluded it's being trained into me. Alternatively, I've been
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by mikewarot 11d ago
Relevant(ish) XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3290/
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by mikewarot 12d ago
Why the heck don't they air-gap these things when they're testing them? The can download the models and training data from read-only sources, and use a data-diode to a allow external monitoring without risking egress of control.
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by mikewarot 12d ago
I get that the Project 2025 is an evil plot, but that's missing the existing duopoly that allows the Donor class, and their alliances, both foreign and domestic, to override the will of the people. Even if every single Republican got v
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by mikewarot 12d ago
I'm not sure which he replaced, but having started trying to grok how it actually works, it's chock full of HFET and other amplifier chips, and over-stressed RF switches. I'll report back if we ever get it actually working
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by mikewarot 13d ago
The incentives have disappeared. I'm old (64), and when I started out, there were printed trade publications for pretty much any discipline, that showed up in the mail, paid for by advertisers. The articles were deep and useful, becaus
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by mikewarot 14d ago
My late friend Ward was a strong supporter of Build-a-Blinkie[1] and their mission to teach people to solder by doing. My friend Jim's been soldering since the 1950s. We solder a lot of things with leads, for this, his method is to get
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by mikewarot 14d ago
There are always insane people waiting with a plan , its the job of government, and politicians to keep them at bay. [1,2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by mikewarot 14d ago
A friend of mine bought an SMIQ-03b on a whim, we've replaced the mmic amplifier chip that seems to always fail, now we're trying to figure out why the ALC doesn't work. It generates signals just fine, but the fine attenuatio
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by mikewarot 14d ago
I was a student at Rose-Hulman back in 1981-83. Back then they had a tweaked out 11/70 running RSTS and supporting 144 terminals, and the new spiffy VAX 11/780 running VMS. I found an old 11/40 that had a memory issue to work
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by mikewarot 14d ago
Which is part of why Tanenbaum was right, and Linus Torvalds is dead wrong.[1] Eventually, we'll all be running Operating Systems designed on microkernels, which have been written by actual software engineers, and proven correct with f
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by mikewarot 15d ago
I think AlexNet is the one that kicked off the rush to deep networks, and eventually LLMs. Without it, we wouldn't be in the AI bubble, heading towards Global Depression II.
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by mikewarot 16d ago
There's nothing like having a locally installed program that has no internet dependencies for reliability. There's a reason machine shops still have that one PC running MS-DOS 5.0 in an emulator. The tool built in Tk!Solver versio
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by mikewarot 16d ago
I came to say something like this. Doesn't anyone in the valley know what the f*ck a data diode is, and why you need them? Preventing ingress or egress of control with a fairly simple piece of kit, and having the laws of physics en
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by mikewarot 16d ago
All of the current OS choices are insecure by design. The all operate programs with the ambient authority of the user. While this was fine for the corporate world of AT&T in the 1970s, and the classroom in the 1980s, it's insane to
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by mikewarot 17d ago
Since politicians just randomly changing maps and borders is now a thing... I heard that the US is now the 14th Canadian Province, South and True. We need to practice our politeness, learn to have gravy on our fries, and get ready to give u
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by mikewarot 20d ago
You haven't seen NIMBY until you've seen what happens when there's even a hint of a new AI data center coming to town. Take the normal complaints about change, and bump them up approximately 3 orders of magnitude, and you&#
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by mikewarot 20d ago
Well, they're already bidding up generating capacity contracts for upcoming years. The net effect is raising everyone's electric bills today for a data center that might not even get built in the future. The real kick in the p
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by mikewarot 20d ago
I use Chrome and adblock plus to access Twitter. I use ut for Facebook, and pretty much everything. I avoid "apps" like the spy infested plague they are.
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by mikewarot 20d ago
This boomer would be quite happy if the price of his home went back to it's purchase price, the cheapest house in town by far. I just hope Social security holds out. We were promised socialized medicine, we got socialized insurance oli

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