Jonathan Anderson
@trombonehero.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Computer Security. Sometimes grumpy (but I repeat myself).
Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks.
Art is humans expressing things and other humans connecting with that and learning from it. Put another way, if no one could be bothered making it, I can't be bothered looking at it.
Love the broad direction, but CDs and DVDs are famously NOT ANALOG www.cbc.ca/news/analog-...
Streaming platforms might be fuelling an appetite for analog, or "slow media" | CBC News
In a '90s-style mall in Hanmer, Ont., "Strickly Nostalgia" offers analog movies, music, and games to people yearning for the era before digital streaming. Researchers say the market for retro is drive...
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Radioactive kaiju? Sure, I can suspend disbelief for that. Tourists in Newfoundland (and Labrador) in October? Less so. @scalzi.com
Don’t mess with Canada: we have powers you cannot fathom
Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social · last mo.WHAT
The best part is how “Lake America” is inferior to Lake Superior.
Stephanie Carvin@stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 2mo agoEveryday I wonder how things can get stupider and everyday I am informed how, against my will.
'Even well-established processes can be vulnerable when they rely solely on consistent human performance, particularly during maintenance tasks which are often conducted in challenging environments and under operational pressures ...
Connecting OT to the Internet is only worth the risk if a) you have an excellent security team or b) the cost of compromise is close to 0. The latter is almost never true, especially in the case of critical infrastructure. value(business convenience) < cost(cyberattack)
David DiMolfetta@ddimolfetta.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Amid state water hacks, CISA is still finding water system controls exposed to the internet with no password or only default credentials, acting director Nick Andersen told me on sidelines of Black Hat conference today. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...
I spend a lot of time teaching students *not* to pass arbitrary, unvalidated strings into code that can cause effects
Amyville Hoyrror@amyhoy.bsky.social · 2mo agothe thing about llms is they can't *do* anything you "tell" an llm to execute a command line operation… it can't all it does it spit out tokens in json you have to build a harness to give an llm "hands" and if you have to intentionally build the hands, you can simply… not.
Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People?
Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People? - Betteridge’s Law
No.
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This was advertised by the IEEE with: “Explore how structured, agent-executable research formats help AI parse complex data, reproduce experiments, and accelerate scientific discovery to keep you ahead in tech innovation.” Sorry, who’s going to get ahead in this scenario?
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago“Once AI has ‘squeezed out’ all the expert data from humans, it won’t need any more input from humanity. That is the time AIs will start just self-evolving by themselves. Right now, the human is the bottleneck.”
A treatise on the first-past-the-post electoral system, part 1/n
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2mo agoYouGov's latest scoop: vanilla is Britain's favourite ice cream flavour Vanilla: 18% Mint choc chip: 14% Chocolate: 13% Strawberry: 5% Salted caramel: 5% Rum and raisin: 5% Pistachio: 4% Coffee: 3% Raspberry ripple: 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
The Singularity is here only in the sense that slop is overtaking real information production at an exponential rate, and soon everything will be slop
Comfortably Boo@numb.comfortab.ly · 2mo agoThe animals looked from pig to researcher, and from researcher to pig; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
When cheating is this much work, just solve the problem yourself!
ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 3mo agoli'l bro daydreamed a heist movie during the exam
(for real though I wish they’d given The Peripheral another season)
“to launch its Eärendil-1 satellite“ #Tolkien would not have liked that.
NASA just released a WASM runtime for spacecraft... written in Rust!🦀🎉 🛰️ SpaceWasm: A deterministic WebAssembly interpreter designed for onboard spacecraft software. github.com/nasa/spacewasm #rustlang #wasm #space #nasa #opensource
Someone suggested Skinamarink. I’d love that with the choreography.
🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Bonne Fête du Canada! 🇨🇦
Cute Beaver with Canada Flag Balloons
ALT: Cute Beaver with Canada Flag Balloons
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