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elias_griffin , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

This gets a vote from me for “Best of the Internet 2024”, brilliant pacing, super braced, and with precision bluntness. I’m going to pretend the Monero remark is not even there, that’s how good it was.

elias_griffin , 3 days ago

I want to confirm this. Hacker News is nothing like it used to be and is approaching the cliff of “group think” narrator, the opposite of Entrepreneurship.

elias_griffin , 3 days ago

Masterful wordsmithing, I must find a place for this quote in my future writing. I’ll save and credit.

elias_griffin OP , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Sounds like AI or an AI influencer post. The first paragaph is so far off-topic, might as well be talking about sailing. You completely mis-understood what I meant using TabNine. I wrote my own code and obfuscated my own code. Then tried to have AI complete another function using my code.

Nothing you said is relevant is any way, shape, or form.

[EDIT} www.tabnine.com

elias_griffin OP , 9 days ago

Discussion Primer: From my perspective and potential millions of others, the readme is part of the software, it is delivered with the software whether zip, tar, git. Itself, Markdown is a specifiction and can be consider the document as software.

In fact README is so integral to the software you cannot run the software without it.

Conclusion: I think we all think of readme, especially ones with examples of your code in your readme, as code. I have evidence AI trains on your README even if you tell it specifally not to use readme, block readme, block markdowns, it still goes after it. Kinda scary?

I want everyone else to have the evidence I have, Science.

elias_griffin OP , 9 days ago

I write the smartest in the room, passionate, with wisdom and evidence. The way you defame someone like this makes me definitely sure you are not afraid to defame someone’s character with no evidence of anything but your own stupidity and un-awareness.

elias_griffin OP , 9 days ago

The comments so far aren’t real people posting how they really feel. An agenda or automata. Does that tell you I’m over the target or what?

Look my post is doing really well on the cyberescurity exchanges. So to all real developers and program managers out there:

Recommend the removal of any “primary logic” functional code examples out of your README.md, that’s it.

PSA, Here to help, Elias

elias_griffin OP , 9 days ago

It all started with this today:

Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent rknight.me/…/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-use…

elias_griffin OP , 9 days ago

I also just realized why I’m getting heat here, lawsuits.

I just gave legal cause that practice was not properly disclosed by Microsoft, abused by OpenAI, a legal grounds as a README.markdown containg code as being software, not speech, integral to licensed software, which is covered by said license.

If an entity does find out like me your technical writing or code is in AI from a README, they are perhaps liable?

elias_griffin OP , 9 days ago

Your rapacious backwards insult of caring is gross and obvious. You called me “my dude” like a teenger whose chill, and calm, and correct, but just …a child and wrong in the end. How old are you child? My Lemmy profile is my name with my Seal naturally born March 4th, 1974 as Elias Christopher Griffin. I’ve done more in my life than most people do in 10. My mental health is top 3% as is my intellect.

You are an un-named rando lemmy account named “catloaf” who averages 16 posts a day for the past 4 months with no original posts of your own because you aren’t original.

I make only original posts. You seem nothing like a real person. Want to tell us who you are? What makes you special, outside of the mandated counseling you recieve or data models you intake?

You know what, no one takes what you say seriously loaf of cat, I certainly didn’t, don’t, and won’t. Here is space for your next hairball

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elias_griffin OP , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Thanks for all the comments affirming my hard working planned 6 month AI honeypot endeavouring to be a threat to anything that even remotely has the possibility of becoming anti-human. It was in my capability and interest to do, so I did it. This phase may pass and we won’t have to worry, but we aren’t there yet, I believe.

I did some more digging in Perplexity on niche security but this is tangential and speculative un-like my previous evidenced analysis, but I do think I’m on to something and maybe others can help me crack it.

I wrote this nice article www.quadhelion.engineering/…/freebsd-synfin.html about FreeBSD syscontrols tunables, dropping SYN FIN and it’s performance impact on webhosting and security, so I searched for that. There are many conf files out there containing this directive and performance in aggregate but I couldn’t find any specific data on a controlled test of just that tunable, so I tested it months ago.

Searched for it Perplexity:

• It gave me a contradictorily worded and badly explained answer with the correct conclusion as from two different people
• None of the sources it claimed said anything* about it’s performance trade-off
• The answers change daily
• One answer one day gave an identical fork of a gist with the authors name in comments in the second line. I went on GitHub and notified the original author. gist.github.com/clemensg/8828061?permalink_commen… Then I went to go back and take a screenshot I would say, maybe 5-10 minutes later and I could not recreate that gist as a source anymore. I figured it would be consistent so I didn’t need to take a screenshot right then!

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The forked gist was:gist.github.com/…/ac748b77fa3c001ef3791478815f7b6…

[Contradiction over time] The impact was none, negligible, trivial, improve

[Errors] Corrected after yesterday, and in following with my comments on the web that it actually improves performance as in my months old article

1. It is not minimal -> trivial, it’s a huge decision that has definite and measurable impact on todays web stacks. This is an obvious duh moment once you realize you are changing the TCP stacks and that is hardly ever negligible, certainly never none.
2. drop_synfin is mainly mitigating fingerprinting, not DOS/DDoS, that’s a SYN flood it’s meaning, but I also tested this in my article!

Anyone feel like an experiment here in this thread and ask ChatGPT the same question for me/us? https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0c9fa84b-eab5-4f9b-9728-032a8d7686fd.pnghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d27ba955-ad03-4ab5-a88d-3e230ee124f8.png

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b400d0c8-3cda-4566-b200-e907176a4b1c.png

elias_griffin , 15 days ago

OH, it was been a long time coming seeing this type of headline again, it’s…glorius!

Microsoft is most years a #1 and sometimes a #2 Funder of: Rust, Python, and Linux. Are those destined for an E^3 “rug pull” too? Will it ever stop this kind of behavior, consistently conforming our behavior to itself with the money and industry position it leverages?

Don’t forget in calculating that industry position that OpenAI is now able to contract to the DoD for offensive capability.

elias_griffin , 26 days ago

Canva is on the traditional corp Extend, Embrace, Extinguish mission to snuff Digital Content Design that is local only and has no AI. Canva bought Affinity Design Suite, which was the reaction of the non-corp creative world to not have to Adobe Creative Cloud, may it burn.

I believe we are in the era of “the great rug pull” of consumer empowered technology, moving to corp empowered technology stack, with them in control at all levels.

elias_griffin , 22 days ago

12 upvotes, twelve, a 6:1 ratio, for “sticking up for Canva” from GHOSTai Media

@Ghostalmedia

I’m from space!

359 Posts 3.94K Comments

Absurd bot numbers. Please don’t anyone thinks the above is a real person with a real opinion, I certainly don’t. You (“They” when I’m talking to the aware reader of this post) are a paid influencer, bot, AI, group account, etc. The internet is dead because of insanely stupid posts and accounts like this one. Every real designer I know would not touch Canva with a 10ft pole and the Affinity buyout stinks.

Go back to space!

elias_griffin , 1 month ago

[REVERSAL OF FORTUNE]

• “Please enter your public confidence score”
• …
• “Score not accepted, sending code to last lawsuit device”
• …
• “Your corporate charter cannot be found. This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred. Please try making another Business.”

elias_griffin , 1 month ago

When you find out you were only good because you drank the trillion dollar brand Kool-Aid.

Here is female founder’s LinkedIn background image, web search result top 20, with that thing on.

media.licdn.com/dms/image/…/1700176960650?e=21474…

Demographic is…I mean was?

Here is an awkward photo of both Founders: images.fastcompany.net/…/i-Bethany-and-Imran.jpg

elias_griffin , 1 month ago

Quote from the subtitle of the article

and you can’t stop it.

Don’t ever let life-deprived, perspective-bubble wearing, uncompassiontate, power hungry manipulators, “News” people, tell you what you can and cannot do. Doesn’t even pass the smell test.

My advice, if a Media Outlet tries to Groom you to think that nothing you do matters, don’t ever read it again.

elias_griffin , 1 month ago

I don’t care what the implication was, I didn’t read past the slight/insult to my character, morality and intelligence. Who is some MSM empty suit tank to play cognitive narrative shaping with me, absolutely zero.

elias_griffin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

So proud of you NetBSD, this is why I sponsor you, slam dunk for the future. I’m working on a NetBSD hardening script and Rice as we speak, great OS with some fantastically valuable niche applications and I think, a new broad approach I’m cooking up, a University Edition. I did hardening for all the other BSD, I saved the best for last!

[EDIT 5/16/2024 15:04 GMT -7] NetBSD got Odin lang support yesterday. That totally seals the NetBSD deal for me if I can come up with something cool for my workstation with Odin.

If you would like to vote on whether, or by what year, AI will be in the Linux Kernel on Infosec.space:

infosec.space/

elias_griffin OP , 1 month ago

Thank you for adding this, erm, maybe a bit “insider” info, as I always wondered how easy and reliable it was to map MAC to Manufacturer on mobile devices. Given what you say, the IETF tracking database could technically contain, or used as metadta, for another system to identify all device models.

Yeah, and what is that MAC generation scheme Apple/Android uses from a Security standpoint, what conditions make it regenerate and how often? How easy is it to map a “new” random MAC against a Model again when it re-enters the network and fingerprints itself again.

Lots to think about it.

elias_griffin OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I can appreciate your re-iterating of the fundamentals of extremely easy to understand tech, but instead of basic thinking, you just repeating the already presented text which anyone can read hopefully, I presented a case for how it could be used that meets all technical specifications and is therefore possible. Likely even, given big tech track record.

This pheneomena of using tech “not as in the manual” is common. In fact, the Apache web server team was not sure it would work and the Internet adopted a series of HTTP patches as a whole unlike they intended.

don’t have any network capability themselves

That is just wrong and I can’t understand how you came to that conclusion. I also invite you to think of it as a network, because it is using Bluetooth in a network?

elias_griffin OP , 1 month ago

This network tracks items specifically built on this protocol

Wrong. It tracks all Bluetooth devices, but provides more functionality if the protocol is used by owned device + tracking device.

you’ll already know where the user is since you own the fucking network.

Strange comment, who owns what network that is valid here in this context? This network works across Apple and Android Bluetooth Low Energy, no one owns that network.

Because the “worldwide tracking network” that already works is called the cellular network

Wrong. Although you obviously get all sorts of data to use from LTE/CDMA/etc from a phone, you need to catch it in between a tower handoff which records the movement speed and it’s not accurate. Really only accurate if you use three towers, high power, in close range of the device, but that is Nation State level phreaking. BLE will be able to use every device in the vicinity and would be trackable down to inches, just like the AirTag and what these devices are meant for.

I suggest

Comical

elias_griffin OP , 1 month ago

I’ve been doing everything in computers for 25+ years and have worked in SCI Government NOCs, including the network stack for every OS. Your text is so wierd, I think maybe you didn’t watch the IETF video did you? The networking isn’t between AirTags, where did you get that? So wierd The phones use Bluetooth Networking to connect to Bluetooth tracking devices.

So, when the phone senses a tracker and tries to get it’s status, whom it’s tracking, etc, via the new protocol, you are saying it doesn’t use Bluetooth networking? And that if it does, it stays on the phone and does’t proliferate to other devices using Network Protocols?

I’m sorry, but please watch the whole presentation.

So in this Verge article where it says Apple and Android have integrated it into the “Find My Devices” networks for both platforms, it is somehow not using a network?

If I were you, I would not start social media posts with your job experience if you didn’t read or watch any instructional material before you post, just to value your own career.

I mean, that’s why I posted it, to hack the technicals details, take nothing for granted, and not assume anything.

elias_griffin , 1 month ago

Best breadcrumb from article:

I wanted to understand: what kind of human spends their days exploiting our dumbest impulses for traffic and profit? Who the hell are these [SEO/Google] people making money off of everyone else’s misery?

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Double Perspective: 1 is the truest darn thing I can conceive of. In fact, if we can’t count on 1 being true, we can count on anything.

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

I can appreciate this perspective, but what you’re referring to is the Scientific Method. Science is the field of the sum of all knowledge, Science as it is used, “settled”, meaned, thought, correctly, by most is, “what is”.

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

Let me also affirm in this way, maybe this will help. What does the Scientific Method produce? It’s produces evidence/conclusions and theories. Moreso, it produces what we know as Science.

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

Another perspective. If Science does not produce truth? What is it good for? What does then produce Truth we can participate in and acknowledge?

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

Yet another.

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

While being the very thing you accuse me of, pedantic and insufferable, the often used Phrase is demonstrably wrong and is used in a way so as to be coercive. Your mind wandering rant including teachers and authorities in Science is laughable and gives you away.

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

Since no mysticism was used, but logical proofs and pseudocode, then meandering to 0 (funny double meaning there), I’m gonna go with you misunderstanding it completely.

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

Burying my post in misinformed, spiteful, authoritative comments and votes. This is such a well-formed and intelligent unique thought-form and most importantly, not News. I was hoping for enlightened responses, even disagreeable ones. That way a productive discussion could be had!

China is using the world’s largest known online disinformation operation to harass Americans, a CNN review finds

Inside the British Army’s secret information warfare machineThey are soldiers, but the 77th Brigade edit videos, record podcasts and write viral posts. Welcome to the age of information warfare

etc, etc.

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

Oh look, trolling that conflates my post with conspiracy theory where none is present. Convienent in building a false narrative and reputation harm.

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

The terms belief and true seem to be self-evident and I’m trying to frame this to spur brainstorming about why they aren’t congrous. Belief usually goes along with Religion, as in, there is small/little proof, but one may chose to believe it or not. Where true I could say is impervious to belief. It exists whether you believe in it or not.

Stated another way, 1 + 1 = 2 is true. Is there anything there to believe or not believe? I’m breaking that down into just 1.

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago

I would say in programmer terms that would be a less strict evaluation of Science. Science strives for Truth through experimentation and peer proofing, but it’s purpose is the seeking of truth. So purpose and now state. I would also say if “the state of Science” is least wrong, then we would be no where as advanced as we are. The Scientific Method is about proving the most right.

Science has uncovered an incredible amount of truths and we use those truths everywhere around us, Chemistry is a good example. If the rules of chemistry weren’t true and correct, then the formulas would fail.

elias_griffin OP , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

The comments are full of drivel, but I’ll pick this one to respond to as you sound educated and able to re-formulate concepts but lack open-mindedness and novel application of concepts. Plus, your response is full of institutional verbiage, first level thinking, which sounds great to the uneducated and low IQ posters, but doesn’t even pass the first test so it easy to disassemble.

1 + 1 = 2 isn’t an axiom, it’s math, equality, and true. This is exactly what the perspective point I was trying to make! Truth itself cannot be axiomatic! This is so self-evident it is hard to comprehend how your education can lead you to one of the largest fundamental misunderstands in Science, but I guess that is not surprising. I mean, your post is a testament to misunderstanding reality, an reference to be studied in the future of post-Idiocracy. It in fact provides a broader understanding of post comments, Lemmy, and social media in general.

My definition as I understood it before looking it up is an axiom is a logical statement true on it’s face that serves as foundation for another step. Let us look at the some definitions for Axiom.

TutorsAn axiom is a basic statement assumed to be true and requiring no proof of its truthfulness. It is a fundamental underpinning for a set of logical statements. Not everything counts as an axiom. It must be simple, make a useful statement about an undefined term, evidently true with a minimum of thought, and contribute to an axiomatic system (not be a random construct).

MathigonOne interesting question is where to start from. How do you prove the first theorem, if you don’t know anything yet? Unfortunately you can’t prove something using nothing. You need at least a few building blocks to start with, and these are called Axioms.

WikipediaAn axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀξίωμα (axíōma), meaning ‘that which is thought worthy or fit’ or ‘that which commends itself as evident’.[1][2]

WolframAn axiom is a proposition regarded as self-evidently true without proof. The word “axiom” is a slightly archaic synonym for postulate. Compare conjecture or hypothesis, both of which connote apparently true but not self-evident statements.

You may use first level thinking about Propositions so to avoid more non-sense here is an another explainer.

University of Idaho

Harvard

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Let me hammer it home again, the principle of my argument, to give you repeated attempts to understand and forego your ego1 + 1 = 2 cannot be a proposition, an axiom, and proof, a logical statement that evaluates to true, it is already true and by definitions above it is:

• Defined
• Does not serve to prove a logical statement
• Does not serve as further reasoning.

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Saying 1 + 1 = 2 serves as foundation for further deductive reasoning is like saying my car accelerates because of motion or momentum which is generic, imprecise, not a proof, and worthless. Movement is already motion. Your car accelerates because of a gas engine. Again, please think deeply about this, no shallow thoughts. What I’m trying to do is go beyond and surpass common knowledge, to push the envelope further than before using the scientific method to challenge old constructs. I’m free to be shown wrong or corrected, but no one has even come close! What we are really talking about here is addition!

I would challenge any Mathematician anywhere and I meant to. 1 + 1 = 2 is what is, a truth, true, fundamental building block of all things and requires no reasoning. If a toddler picks up another stick, it knows it has two whether it can convey that thought-form in a way we understand it or not. Saying 1 + 1 = 2 is Axiomatic is like saying Oxygen is an axiom or axiomatic. To further build the periodic table. No, Oxygen just is, a fundamental piece of reality which is also true! Maybe someone will understand in the future.

My aim was to put this comment up for posterity as wasting more time here is fruitless so don’t take it personally really, I just used your most educated and almost right post as an example of how that if intellectual debate is to be sought, it certainly isn’t on Lemmy which is I would say mediocre at best, and in fact, one is surely to get misinformed, ugly responses.

I will use all the debate that went on in my head in trying to combat this circus into a proper Academia.edu Paper. Really, my whole point was the second part of my post where I thought it was quite clear the logical conclusion to which would be that programming lanaguages need to be re-engineered! No one even put that together that I saw!

I skipped all the mean comments.

elias_griffin , 6 months ago

Really odd some Lemmy choices, allowing News Aggregation Posts (Simple link and summary) from a particular user that is somehow not flagged a bot/influencer/paid. I duna know how you can post Tech News Links 10 times a day, every day, for 5 months and still be allowed to post as a “person”.

elias_griffin , 6 months ago

Is it ignorance, indemnity, or conspiracy that this News Media Corporation didn’t give the primary mitigation?

A white noise generator.

elias_griffin , 6 months ago

Also, it’s the language scam of the decade to have a [privacy] agreement or terms with a “third party” which is basically anonymous/anyone/indeterminate/changing/.

elias_griffin , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Microsoft and Apple pervasively install thier entire platform in their Operating Systems so you can’t just have what you need to have on one of their computers, you have the buy the whole platform.

The Linux Eco-system is valued at $100 Billion, has nearly 40 million LoC, and is now Global Mega-Corp Consortium Funded. Link to Linux Foundation Financial Report 2022, “Read The Report”, Page 13.

Top Sponsors:

• Microsoft
• Meta
• Intel
• Oracle
• Tencent
• Huawei
• Fujitsu
• Hitachi
• Ericsson
• Samsung
• NEC
• Qualcomm
• VMWare (Now Broadcom)

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Notable Second Tier Sponsors:

• Blackrock
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Notable Third Tier Sponsors:

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If we are headed for a global AI monolith or Bladerunner type future, it will surely run on Linux! It’s everywhere and Linux will never again be steered by the community.

Instead use and help make successful any Indie Operating System like Haiku, Aero, or Minix3 instead of literally working as the tinniest cog ever for a Global Mega-Corp Consortium.

You can also just use GhostBSD which is a superb Desktop BSD experience based off of stable FreeBSD that installs and works like Mint. Control your own kernel and everything about your BSD with NetBSD. Now is a great time to get into BSD with NetBSD 10 RC1. Learn it now and you’ll have an OS that when released does only what you want it to do.

Finally there is the fastest BSD, Dragonfly. I made a Dragonfly BSD setup script that will turn a $250 2019 Thinkpad T495 into a lightning fast programmer workstation that does only what you want it to, and hardened. It never even makes one call out to the internet unless you typed the command in or allowed it beforehand.

If you insist on using Linux, then use a distro with an independent kernel that let’s them know you would not like the Linux kernel which has been badly managed by the Dictator Linus, globally taken over.

1. Chimera
2. Void
3. Alpine (Works excellent as a Desktop)

elias_griffin , 6 months ago

It kinda already is a Microsoft project by Finance and each of them integrating the other’s systems more and more. Also, the highly paid world programmers are putting non-free blobs and highly complex code into Linux and at 40 million LoC, I propose it will soon be beyond the community to run a coherent fork without all the global code.

elias_griffin , 6 months ago

You have it backwards. The kernel is Linux. A distribution is added to the kernel. The kernel is what matters, the distribution is consequent and relies on the kernel which dictates all it’s functions. The distribution is flavor on top of foundation. 101.

All investment of time, money, resources, everything, should be ethical choices, ethical investing. Deciding to ignore who funds what makes you vulnerable to accept tainted diamonds, Cartel funded dispensaries, restaurants, and Policians, etc, etc. You should be wary of who you make rich, who you compensate, who you give your money to.

Ignorance of money and the resources it drives that determine the fate of people everywhere is simply ignorance and your viewpoint should not be rewarded.

elias_griffin , 6 months ago

A programming language cannot compromise your liberties.

As a decades experienced security professional myself I can tell you that people reading are not taking what you say seriously so I don’t have to respond and tediously break apart that swath of misinformation.

Minus points for parroting me.

elias_griffin , 6 months ago

Oh my, making me repost myself time.

Just so I’m clear in my communication, there is no case where nVidia can logically be a victim. Best case = co-conspirator.

I’m not sure how you could possibly mis-interpret that, but yet you still managed. I specifically worded it as “a victim”, meaning a victim in any sense, which nVidia cannot be seen as no matter what spin you give it.

If you were a real account or geniune person without an agenda you would just admit that you misread me instead of the other way around.