benmmurphy
5mo ago
it could also be massive case of ass covering. 4 years ago security was screwed up during the certification process and there have been multiple attempts on Trumps life. you don't want to be the person in charge if something goes wrong unless you have checked every box.
benmmurphy
8mo ago
the great filter is rocket men get thrown in jail before they can explore the stars
benmmurphy
10mo ago
won't this just be proof that Republican efforts are effective voter suppression which is what Democrats claim they are
benmmurphy
10mo ago
people are going to be honest when dealing with HP in the future
I don't even understand why something like clownstrike is necessary in 2024. It should be possible for the OS to be locked down to the point where it's not necessary to have an anti-virus running. And if you need some other security system because you are worried about zero day exploit from nation state threats then you should really consider your threat model because the clownstrike system is effectively a malware distribution platform. I guess its fine if you trust clownstrike and the US government but its a far from ideal situation. Clownstrike seems to have a very nice relationship with the US security state. For example they were brought in to do the hacking investigation by the DNC and provided attribution to Russia.
OS vendors should really expose some kind of interface that allows security vendors to perform these deep inspections 'safely'. I think linux has EBPF which I think some vendors have been using for providing file system monitoring and network monitoring.
Also, the SOC2/etc compliance mandates a lot of this stuff. We run most of our software on Fargate ECS where the compute is completely managed by AWS. I've been using this as an excuse as to why we can't run file monitoring and other garbage on our systems that use Fargate. I also suspect why these managed docker/managed kurbernetes systems are popular because potentially you can avoid some of the tickbox security work. We also run all of our containers with a read-only rootfilesystem so I don't even understand the threats that a file system monitoring system would be trying to remediate in our situation. Technically some kernel exploit could allow the root filesystem to be modified even if its read only or AWS employees could fuck with us but I suspect in these cases the file system monitoring could also be trivially bypassed.
benmmurphy
4d ago
Mass AI cheating would fix the achievement gap and make it so the students who have fallen behind don't look like they have fallen behind. Ubiquitous AI cheating is potentially a massive gift for schools and universities. I guess with universities there is a risk it might destroy the reputation of the university. but this is a problem someone else will have to deal with in 5 years time. The current administrators are free to set fire to the schools reputation and enjoy all the rewards that come with it.
benmmurphy
19d ago
Hanania dropping the sarcasm in the twitter thread:
I know right! Lmao, just like they told us to take the vax, fellow pureblood.
benmmurphy
1mo ago
presumably, you can just compare deaths across a covid and non-covid period to get a rough estimate of covid deaths. i doubt the policies put in place to fight covid led to a large number of extra deaths in the short term.
benmmurphy
1mo ago
The enforcement/investigation for KYC/AML looks like a 4th amendment violation or at least looks like its structured to do something that would be a 4th amendment violation if the government directly did the thing.
Sounds inspired from Warhammer 40k or Warhammer 40k was inspired by this mess. "Imperium" of man, 9 loyal legions and the Warp corresponding to the 'acausal realm'. Maybe the 1980s D&D moral panic was onto something.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
I wonder if @campfire would be interested in doing a breakdown of the destiny lawsuit drama similar to the Daniel Green - Naomi King scandal. Another youtuber pxie (https://substack.com/home/post/p-155256128) has brought a lawsuit (https://www.givesendgo.com/suedestiny) against youtuber Destiny (https://youtube.com/watch?v=c5Jwhx3ZggE) over sharing explicit videos to a third party without consent.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
Apparently, medicare/medicaid fraud is a big thing with hospitals. Apparently, there is a US Senator (R) who used to be a CEO of a hospital company that engaged in a large amount of fraud with the US government.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
some hindu extremists cooperating with basque separatists based in Canada could carry out a terror attack on the US. they could flee back to Quebec then Quebec could shield them from extradition providing a justification for US military to enter Canada.
benmmurphy
6mo ago
If you want to avoid a cult and want to do X then don't do X with a bunch of other people in an organized way.
benmmurphy
7mo ago
More evidence for the dead internet theory. I saw this tweet which has a picture of two users discussing bluesky (https://x.com/crystalandqueue/status/1857526125401878582).
Blondie6312: Are you on Bluesky yet?
Michell33650674: Nobody seems to be seeing my posts stating Bluesky PERMANENTLY BANNED ME for stating that the election was rigged
Based on the account names I would suspect those accounts are bots, but maybe boomers when picking account names try and pick what they want and then either the site auto-fills these number for them or they just mash the keyboard. But with the advent of LLMs presumably there are a lot of people just running bots even just for the lolz.
benmmurphy
8mo ago
Yarvin's theory is pollsters have to adjust for the better Democrat election tech or else they will get egg on their face when they underestimate the Democratic vote.
benmmurphy
8mo ago
isn't that only 0.3% of the US federal budget. it's just a rounding error :)
benmmurphy
9mo ago
Unfortunately, there are some people that cannot properly metabolize alcohol because their ancestors have not been degenerate drunks.
benmmurphy
9mo ago
the solution is to ban both 14 foot high bolsheviks and assault weapons. i'm sure anti-gun people would be willing to swallow the bullet of banning 14 foot high bolsheviks.
benmmurphy
9mo ago
Someone made a post here about how Trump lies vs how the establishment lies and this Guardian article typifies it. Technically true but extremely misleading and you can see in the twitter replies that some people seem to have been misled and now are calling for the president of the Teamsters to be removed because he is out of touch with the rank and file. A similar thing happened with the 51 intelligence agents claiming the Hunter Biden laptop had all the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation. Again probably technically true but extremely misleading. For example even if some of the intelligence agents knew 100% that it was not a Russian intelligence operation they could still claim it had the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation.
benmmurphy
9mo ago
/conspiracy theory
every time i post on 4chan i get a captcha that is almost impossible to solve
i wrote a pro-jewish post in a 4chan thread about hezbollah and didn't receive a captcha
is it possible 4chan has a LLM that rates posts according to some hidden criteria and requests a captcha based on this
it could also be a weird coincidence and maybe 4chan has completely disabled their captcha because the 4chan captcha is very use hostile
benmmurphy
11mo ago
OP suddenly finds he is being investigated for breaching labor laws, anti-money laundering for paying in cash, etc.
benmmurphy
11mo ago
an alternative multiple shooter theory is that the second shooter was not aware of Crooks and Crooks spoiled a different assassination plot. it would be funny if the combination of SS ineptitude and Crooks resulted in a more serious assassination attempt failing.
benmmurphy
2mo ago
People keep complaining that people are worried about AI causing human extinction are not carrying out terrorism. But maybe they already have. There is a conspiracy theory that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed because a government wanted to kill Freescale Semiconductor staff. But maybe the Butlerian Jihad wanted to kill Freescale Semiconductor staff.
Can't you just assign people to work in Alaska or somewhere they don't want to work instead of firing them.
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