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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Yup, I recall Atari ST (68000) and BBC Micro (6502) having unbuffered and interrupt access to 6402 UART - which I used to C/ASM to fire MIDI bytes to and from.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> our world is getting more and more complex, I'll counter that. The argument that complexity somehow itself justifies anything is a retreat to the folly of philosopher kings that Plato wrote an entire work against (you all have hea
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
The world is filled with brilliant people. My experience is with sound designers. The nub of the art is to remain invisible, unobtrusive. A good sound designer is never noticed. Many created the synth patches for famous music keyboards like
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> Notation matters in how we explore ideas. Indeed, historically. But are we not moving into a society where thought is unwelcome? We build tools to hide underlying notation and structure, not because it affords abstraction but because i
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
You total chaos machine! Give a wrong time. Stop a traffic line! I've mentioned it too often and sound like a stuck record, but Jaroslav Hasek's Svejk has it perfected [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goo
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Funding is irrelevant and a distraction. Dismantling civil cybersecurity is a way to expose a population to influence and other harms that necessitate more "strong-man" solutions later [0,1]. Only after they've destroyed &quo
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
The line between serious and frivolous vanished. Edutainment, gamification of work... the lines blur. I won't get into why I think this is deliberate but for many people I ask, social media occupies the same space for novel gossip as b
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
I think we agree. But security is also very much about examining assumptions.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> What "people" want is already irrelevant This! Software is stuck in some illusory ideal from the dotcom days, a global market of meritous choice. It's long been political and about sovereignty, control and security. Some
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> seems to be no alternative That feeling (you invoke "seems" and thus the realm of appearances) is now common in all walks of life. It has rather little to do with the reality of change. Mostly it means when change comes it&
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> No. There is no vendor for this. You seem stuck on this model and not at all open to those commentators who are saying the single product vendor model itself is the problem? My observation is that, regardless the myriad solutions based
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Fluid mechanics has always seemed so complex that scientists joke about it. Supposedly [0] Werner Heisenberg and/or Horace Lamb quipped that when they died they'd ask God about relativity, quantum electrodynamics and turbulence...
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
As someone who loves to cook I think kitchen advances are somewhat overlooked, from pressure cookers to microwaves to air-fryers, IR ovens and all sorts of amazing combos, hand blenders and whatnot Time to make good home food got much short
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
In Britain young people say "Leave me in peace". Peace is the state of being left alone, not just an absence of violence. Only later, adults develop separate notion of "privacy", a diluted and weaker version of natural &
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Indeed intelligence is contextual - with difference being an intrinsic parameter within a precarious balance of co-existence. But this misses what critics of Rority (maybe Marcuse) mocked as something university professors could all politel
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Something worth knowing is that "attribution" is extremely difficult. Also "attribution engineering" is really quite easy and difficult to see through. Often the purpose of a hack is not to exfiltrate data or sabotage sy
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
This is a smoking gun. I'm a little shocked at how little MSM coverage this is getting and the moral gymnastics some commentators are performing to lend a veneer of innocence to this. It's an incident on par with 1950s Cambridge
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> Losing focus as a skill is something I see with every batch of new students. Gaining focus as a skill is something to work on with every batch of new students We're on the same page. I'm turning that around to say: let&#x27
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
We agree on human incompleteness. One limitation of recent tree-dwellers on utterly unremarkable small blue-green planets on the western spiral arm of the galaxy might be how we think about things like "consistent"? Or "knowa
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
This quote stood out: "It’s not so much that people are persecuted because of their beliefs, but there is a certain trend where careful reasoning, the search for truth, all the delicacies of having a balanced point of view, a
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
From TFA abstract: "For example, students often redirected questions from their peers to generative AI instead of providing assistance themselves, undermining peer interaction. Students also reported feeling increasingly isol
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Information not inflamation. Please.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
We are not "silent", we're just not being heard. Those are not the same things. You'll find plenty of critique and analysis, anticipating and commenting on the unfolding cybsersecurity calamity [0,1,2] ... [0] https:
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> laws of nature "must" be shorter Coming at this from philosophy of science rather than as a physicist, I feel those quotes around "must". I think you also recognise how that might be a sort of "fundamentally wr
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
A punchy article that centres on the concept of trust . Yesterday I wrote this one [0] with similar themes. The idea that the US administration is turning against the existing trust-based cybersecurity order is terrifying and almost unth
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Or maybe there's nothing wrong with the equations, they're just the wrong equations. Or based on a fundamentally wrong assumption.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
CAs are a horrendous weakness, but are still a "pillar" weakness and not even a "base" problem. In other words the threat exists not because of a base technological capability or necessity, but because we _choose_ to sti
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> piñatas Thanks for that word. I'm probably not smart enough to get your exact point, but I just had a nice dive into Mexican culture.
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Cybersecurity as Resistance(cybershow.uk)
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> Actual geniuses do not exist. A genius was one of the Roman house gods lucky dwellers might cohabit with. One is not a genius, rather one has a genius [0]. There were many specialised genii, ones for helping with childcare, one to

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