Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • declared that the White House would “smell like curry” if Vice President Kamala Harris were to win in November,

    I can’t be the only one who thinks that would be a welcome development. More Asian dishes in the White House would be fantastic. Why does the right hate Asian food? 🤔

    I say this a white American, “What’s wrong with curry‽”

    I’ll come out and say it: If you elect this white guy (me) as president I would make the White House smell like curry from time to time 🍛

    Wait: Do they expect me to eat like some British dude during WW2‽ I mean, that’s how the British are still eating (rose water? No thank you!) but still…

    Maybe those on the right need a DEI food program.




  • Just a point of clarification: Copyright is about the right of distribution. So yes, a company can just “download the Internet”, store it, and do whatever TF they want with it as long as they don’t distribute it.

    That the key: Distribution. That’s why no one gets sued for downloading. They only ever get sued for uploading. Furthermore, the damages (if found guilty) are based on the number of copies that get distributed. It’s because copyright law hasn’t been updated in decades and 99% of it predates computers (especially all the important case law).

    What these lawsuits against OpenAI are claiming is that OpenAI is making a derivative work of the authors/owners works. Which is kinda what’s going on but also not really. Let’s say that someone asks ChatGPT to write a few paragraphs of something in the style of Stephen King… His “style” isn’t even cooyrightable so as long as it didn’t copy his works word-for-word is it even a derivative? No one knows. It’s never been litigated before.

    My guess: No. It’s not going to count as a derivative work. Because it’s no different than a human reading all his books and performing the same, perfectly legal function.






  • Tom’s Hardware tested this software version of BitLocker last year and found it could slow drives by up to 45 percent.

    WTF‽ In Linux full disk encryption overhead is minimal:

    While in pure I/O benchmarks like FIO there is an obvious impact to full disk encryption and other synthetic workloads, across the real-world benchmarks the performance impact of running under full disk encryption tended to be minimal

    https://www.phoronix.com/review/hp-devone-encrypt/5

    There’s like five million ways you can use disk encryption on Linux though and not all of them are very performant. So keep that in mind if you see other benchmarks showing awful performance (use the settings Phoronox used).

    I suspect Microsoft made some poor decisions in regards to disk encryption (probably because of bullshit/insecure-by-design FIPS compliance) and now they’re stuck with them.



  • I’m going for a trifecta: $50 says that…

    • JD Vance is fired by the end of August
    • Trump suffers a heart attack or stroke from the stress of bad ratings polling and dies shortly afterwards
    • Republican party, totally clueless as to what to do tries to put forward a Mike Johnson/JD Vance ticket after loads of completely idiotic infighting that will have everyone scratching their heads, saying, “WTF?”

    Bonus: Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio will both be pissed beyond belief and still in complete denial that nobody really likes them.



  • I’m not sure what the right solution is in this situation. Clearly, the guy was violating the law by carrying guns (in two cases) yet was also the victim of gun violence. Is the article suggesting that we should let felons carry guns so they can defend themselves?

    Seems to me that general gun control would be a more effective measure 🤷

    Or at the very least make everyone register and insure all of their guns so they can be tracked down when gun crimes are committed. I’d even suggest that we should require all ammunition include special, unique chemical markers on the inside and make people register that whenever they purchase ammunition.