Anything over the web I think it’s anyone’s guess without more proof. But after the Moore County Power attack in 2022 I’m never going to fully rule out bad actors in the states.

Qwant off of Orion on iOS. Don’t bother with Kagi. There are better options if they switch to graphene.

When do worship services end, when the singing starts or whenever you’re done with the holier-than-thou, limited sympathy shtick for every man, woman, and child not taking the time out of their attention starved lives to read every 500 page thick prospectus? What about every Form 10-K? Let’s just grind the whole dang world to a halt so that everyone can be forced to read all the EULAs, terms of service, company handbooks, and warranty terms for every single thing that touches our lives. “You’re a citizen of this city in this state in this country? Ok recite every single ordinance and law of each from memory bro.” Most Christians haven’t even read the whole Bible, are they still Christians? Are they still called Christians? What about the Bhagavad Gita, did you make sure everyone who offers incense at a shrine has read the entire thing? Do you even speak English if you can’t recite the entirety of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales?” Let’s calm tf down. Professional investors don’t even read the prospectus. If you want to give ppl the limited-sympathy, r/iamverysmart treatment then mandatory voting would be a more productive place to start but even that has some serious issues too. Isn’t there enough suffering and injustice in the world that we don’t have to look for reasons to justify misfortune when it happens to others with petty “well if they can’t inform themselves I can’t be bothered to have sympathy for my fellow human beings” statements?

I kinda liked DA: Inquisition. Haven’t played DA2 yet.

Military intelligence, in my working experience, was full of whip-smart individuals with no discernment. General Officers (IME, 3+ star Generals) and some charismatic leaders (again, anecdotal) have both. Lawyers have neither. But the hyper conversations I would always overhear the enlisted MIntel folks spouting, dripping with ADHD and stimulants was always, always lacking in prudence. This is intelligence versus wisdom. This is ‘tomato is a fruit’ versus ‘putting tomato in a fruit salad.’ My takeaway from this article is that YCombinator commenters suffer from the same military-intelligence-syndrome. The same compensatory eagerness, the same ‘I skimmed the title of the article and came to a conclusion,’ the “concerned with whether they could but not with whether they should” confusion of ideas. Compute is amazing, whip-smart and wicked fast, and the bitter lesson is learned in an environment with perfect information, but that is not the case. Should is a very heavy word, it comes laden with baggage. Baggage of norms and expectations and unspoken utility. In this case, compute excels at answering with the parameters firmly set, and Guy is exactly right that the methods used to maximize utility in an environment with unknowns is not the same as compute determining a better, faster method in environments with hard parameters. Parameters will always have to be set by humans. The Should will always have to be determined by people because unknown variables are unknown and if they are unknown by people then they will never be known by the machines. And because people, if they are communicating what they want, their utility, fail to always do a perfect job of it. As we observe we learn, as we learn our experiences adjust our utility. If we are going to outsource the compute part of the brain to the machine, we better get pretty good at observing and experiencing–wisely.

Also, liked the mic drop at the end. “Both that essay and this one were written with Claude as a drafting partner. I directed the argument; the LLM helped with prose. I mention this not as confession but as demonstration: the human brought the utility function, the machine brought the compute. If that division of labour bothers you, I’d suggest the discomfort says more about the Bitter Lesson than about my writing process.”

Asus has some pretty jank DDNS and remote access defaults, and they like to push their suite of mobile apps for managing that crap. If SoHo users aren’t limiting device connections to trusted endpoints then maybe that’s how these routers are being compromised? It’s not manufacturer specific but Asus is the majority according to the article.