bigfatkitten

Depends on the visa.

A-1 and A-2 for example require almost nothing beyond a photograph, and a letter saying you’re travelling on behalf of your government.

People care about UNIX clones because they are lazy, UNIX has the source code available, and an existing ecosystem that they don't want to replicate, so it always ends up being yet another clone, thus throwing away all the possible innovations.

Which is a real shame, because people thinking outside the UNIX clone box have come up with some incredibly innovative operating systems like Plan 9 and OS/400.

I learned recently that it can also mean "the spacecraft exploded on the launchpad in an enormous fireball."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-29/blue-origin-rocket-ex...

And sometimes it’s just impossible to get a CVE number in a reasonable amount of time, or indeed at all.

It's an odd business that is huge and just trucks along without remarkable growth.

This isn’t odd at all. It’s a feature common to most businesses that have been around 100 years or more.

An AIX box that processes $70bn (yes, 70 billion dollars) of payments every day.

And because getting heavy plant up through a mountain range to dig trenches etc is a pain in the arse. It’s easier to do it along a main road.

(5) is often a waste of time, but filing an application in NCAT (or your state/territory’s equivalent) will get their attention.

they absolutely will not have as much success in synthesizing that into effective plans and well-made weapons without having a helpful and patient AI agent to guide them, as they will with that assist.

This is demonstrably false.

ISIL’s explosives training material in particular is produced with great professionalism and is of extremely high quality.

Al Qaeda’s was a bit more hit an miss, some of it was mostly ideological propaganda and some of it was outstanding but it was otherwise well structured with clear learning outcomes and assessment activities.

Most of this material was produced well before AI was a thing.

This seems like a meaningless number.

Any role I advertise at the little known company I work for will routinely get 600-1000 completely unsuitable applicants within a couple of weeks, mostly with +91 phone numbers.

Chain of responsibility legislation that puts individuals in prison for their part would be an excellent start.

That support is limited. Browsers refuse to support passkeys when you TOFU untrusted certs, and for good reason.

Quit your job, stay home and claim unemployment benefits. That way you can avoid interacting with anyone who doesn’t agree with your worldview.

Linux LPEs have never been in short supply, even before the AI age.

I received absolutely nothing worth paying for.

I hit the safety filters with almost every meaningful task I tried to test it against, and these all happened to be benign tasks that Opus 4.8 does reasonably well.

The obvious counterexample is NOBUS[0] vulnerabilities, and intentional backdoors like the Clipper Chip[1] or Dual_EC_DRBG[2]: if you genuinely believe you are the only one who could possibly exploit it, there's no reason to avoid using it.

The problem with these examples is that they weren't used in national security systems, which are the systems for which NSA has a legislated defensive responsibility.

Clipper was designed for use by the public; it was not intended to ever be used to protect classified (or even sensitive unclassified) information at all.

Likewise with Dual_EC_DRBG. The CSfC component requirements drew from the Common Criteria Protection Profiles, where Dual_EC_DRBG was never an option.

One thing you can do is have your adversary put their money where their mouth is and use the very same products, sourced independently, that they use to protect their own sensitive information.

There are limits to this of course. You can’t buy a TACLANE[1], but you can buy many of the other products[2] USG uses to protect its own classified information.

[1] https://gdmissionsystems.com/encryption/taclane-network-encr...

[2] https://www.nsa.gov/resources/Commercial-Solutions-for-Class...

And they’re heading in that direction again.

They’ve done that before.

I’ve got an 8 year old, second hand server under my desk that cost me about $500 in total in 2023. I could sell the memory alone now for $2500.

Accounting for inflation, the top of the line MacBook now is about the same as a top of the line Wallstreet PowerBook G3 in 1998.

Hilariously poor opsec is part of The Intercept’s brand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner

I’m only counting the Australian FTE. The numbers are up if you count the outsourcing.

The big 4 Australian banks (Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, National Australia Bank and Westpac) all employ pretty much the same number of people now as they did 25 years ago, but their workforce composition has changed. More software developers, fewer branch staff.

None of these things on macOS are difficult. You can mostly treat a Mac like an iPhone and have a pleasant time.

A problem Windows admins often face is that there are lots of knobs to tweak, and because they can tweak a knob in GPO, they (or their bosses) start believing that they automatically should.

The downside of it being so easy is that many talentless hacks got jobs maintaining Windows environments for a living, including in your IT department.

Most businesses of any sophistication need specialised software developed only for Windows.

The local car dealership runs factory diagnostic software on Windows.

The two-way radio shop tunes and programs radios using vendor software written for Windows.

Your dentist runs their practice management software runs on Windows, and they Windows software to control other expensive equipment like X-ray machines and 3D scanners.

I've had the good fortune to fly on the top deck of the 747. I highly recommend it.

I used to fly frequently between SYD-LAX in business class on Qantas B744s. 11K (top deck, right hand side exit row window seat) was one of the best seats in the house.

The only passengers who had it better were those downstairs in First, where the curvature of the nose pretty much let them see out the front of the aircraft through the “side” windows.

Boeing (from MD originally)

This class of manager is the cause of most of Boeing’s woes.

Industrial boards and some workstations still come with PS/2 ports today.