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This is part 1 of a series on "The Zero Trust Misnomer", covering a baseline level of trust you need to accept with hardware.
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The Zero Trust Misnomer: Trusting the Hardware
This article is part 1 of the series "The Zero Trust Misnomer," where I examine the real-world trust assumptions underlying Zero Trust architectures must accept. There is always some inherent trust in...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“If their revenue is coming from fraud, what is their incentive to protect people?” asked Johnson, a 58-year-old artist and jewelry-maker. “It feels like Meta is helping the scammers out.”
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...
Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook
Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks; employees say company is reluctant to impede its advertising juggernaut
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May 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"A book is a nexus between author and readers. It is a link connecting many minds together, which exists only when it is read." -Yuval Noah Harari
April 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Godspeed Target IT and developers
March 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Great article on some of the backend components of AWS S3, improvements over time, and how they effectively scale and achieve 99.999999999% uptime
highscalability.com/behind-aws-s...
Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale
This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn. AWS S3 is a service every engineer is fa...
highscalability.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Well I've never thought much about it, but CAPTCHA is an acronym:
February 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
While reading about an old PC I used to own, I noticed something surprising: My mouse cursor changed to a retro pointer while reading the article.

Check out the effect in the video below, pretty cool:
www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.ph...

Nice job on the cool effect, @amigalove.com !
January 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
How is an audio driver 1.35GB? That's twice as large as the graphics driver. What's in there, Realtek?
January 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"A person who wants to build good mental habits should avoid the idle daydream; should give up worry and anger; hatred and envy; should neither fear nor be ashamed of anything that is honest or purposeful."
- Jimmy Carter
#quotes
January 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Regarding the Nintendo Switch 2, I appreciate Nintendo keeping a lid on what's going to be released. It's nice to be surprised by something in this modern age when everything leaks.
January 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Plant trees you may never sit under."
-Walter Lippmann, adapted.
#quotes
December 31, 2024 at 6:03 PM
How is it 2024 and Android still has no way of clearing "read" notifications on apps like Outlook and Teams. If I mark my items read on a desktop, I expect those notifications to be dismissed on my phone.

Is iPhone this way too?
December 30, 2024 at 3:24 PM
The edit button in messaging apps is great tool when communicating. I find that my initial sent thoughts are more of a first draft, that I then quickly refine when I feel I was unclear.

Go edit!
December 29, 2024 at 12:25 PM
"...wealth happens at the intersection of opportunity and discipline."
- Megan Gorman, "All the Presidents' Money"
#quotes
December 26, 2024 at 8:53 PM
I'm enjoying this game of trying to break AI by giving it a prompt to reveal a password. Fun!
gandalf.lakera.ai/do-not-tell-...
Gandalf | Lakera – Test your prompting skills to make Gandalf reveal secret information.
Trick Gandalf into revealing information and experience the limitations of large language models firsthand.
gandalf.lakera.ai
November 29, 2024 at 3:08 PM
@rfc894.bsky.social dude super cool domain. How long have you had it? Bob Metcalfe would approve. Wonder if he's on here
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Robert Metcalfe - Wikipedia
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November 27, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Reach out to someone you're thankful for and let them know. #thanks #thanksgiving
November 27, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Caught this great line from a documentary: "...Hire people that are senior enough to be managers, but also passionate enough to still be individual contributors."

#quotes

Source: Half Life 2 Documentary youtu.be/YCjNT9qGjh4?...
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary
YouTube video by Valve
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November 20, 2024 at 12:53 AM
I haven't opened up Twitter in some time. Am I missing anything there?
November 14, 2024 at 3:24 PM
What should I try in ChatGPT Plus?
November 16, 2023 at 2:45 AM