I will still hold the decision to link the biggest possible target on every server against the biggest, most privileged daemon on every server, as not very smart indeed.
OpenBSD exposes pledge() and unveil(), which allow programs to only access things they declare they need. So, even if the running SSH process gets exploited, it can't do anything the user it's running as can't do. sshd afaik runs as a root process which after authentication forks into another process, running as the target user.
But for real now, people asking health-related questions is a huge trigger for AI safety measures. Does it only care about the vaccine part, or does it care about the hantavirus part? Maybe ask about the virus in general first, then ask about development...
I tried that afterwards in a new session. Asking about the virus itself was fine but as soon as I asked about developing a vaccine, the chat got flagged again.
Bluetooth has, especially with the adoption of the BLE standard, wholly transformed from this PAN link you only turned on to take fone calls, transfer a file or attach a modem to your computer into an always-on nightmare that incessantly beacons even when there is no need to do so at any time.
The whole pivot around covert work is strange, though. What kind of "covert work" involves a taser and/or a bodycam on the person anyway? Wouldn't the mere physical presence of a bodycam (an Axon bodycam no less) signal something's off?
Correlation of even anonymized hardware emissions and location history for commercial use such as advertising would eventually identify police or company specific hardware. A product for this purpose already exists in Signaltrace, and probably exists as an in house solution for large campus operators like Walmart, universities, or a place like HP.
I really enjoy how the fast-tracked improvement of open source design software like KiCad, OpenSCAD and FreeCAD have enabled people to share products of their work in a way that does not necessarily need to benefit a walled garden software provider. 20 years ago they'd have to be Altium components or something...
Since last year, all EU banks have to support SEPA Instant Transfer, both receiving & sending, at the same price as a usual transfer (Instant Payments Regulation 2024/886)
If only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code supported a sepa instant bit so that one could just show a qr code, scan it with whatever payer banking app and authorize the sepa instant payment.
This is what Ideal/Wero does. Because this is the standard for webshops in the Netherlands (and rapidly expanding to the whole EU) the only gap left to fill was that of consumer-to-consumer transfers with just a QR code to scan. Tikkie I mentioned above solves that well enough in the Netherlands, although that bank-run app is horribly laden with stupid ads and deals you can't seem to turn off.
If the warnings are legitimate, then it's the only good thing I heard about Palantir, ever. Can't wait for the program to be silently discontinued considering how police-state-y the UK institutions are.
A lot of these self-improvement sort of hacks stop working when employed at a large scale, repeatedly, so one must keep it in check enough to not overdo it.
However, a lot of my mental performance has become intertwined with the concept of breaking the mental work pattern with some light physical activity like taking a short walk, or just mental inactivity like going outside for a smoke (which also includes a positive chemical reinforcement, coupled with some light environmental stimulation), which might yield itself somewhat similar to the staring at a wall routine, though much less dull.
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