Notices by Scott Francis (darkuncle@infosec.exchange)

@flxtr @mWare @feliks @ryanc that is a *truly impressive* level of committing to a bit

#TIL that #AWS has decided to lock down access to support articles behind a paid premium support tier requirement. This is both 1) not cool, and 2) self-defeating. Somebody is asleep at the wheel over there.

https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/eks-api-server-unauthorized-error

@skinnylatte I bet @kf might have ideas

We were promised thunderous depressos, but only received drizzlers

“The fears of AI autonomously destroying humanity are worse than nonsense, because they distract us from the very real possibilities of how AI may be abused.”

Piling on with others about this excellent piece on technology as a force multiplier for our worst - and our best - impulses, from @bcantrill

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2023/11/26/what-punch-cards-teach-us-about-ai-risk/

@skinnylatte you’re visiting?! I mean, this isn’t the greatest weather moment (plus Malibu is kinda charred =\ ) but yay!

@skinnylatte typically I'm driving up from SoCal via Big Sur, but we usually stay up by Santa Cruz (in Felton), so SC spot recommendations also welcome

@skinnylatte omg you are killing me I have to visit

@skinnylatte what's your favorite thing on the menu so far?

Watching #XGames and my new favorite event is snowboard knuckle huck (look it up) - the level of style and creativity is just off the chain, especially when it’s not about crazy amplitude and spins

@hacks4pancakes hard to tell whether this is legit, or an attempt to sow fear - either way I guess it sows fear, and both are entirely believable :(

via a friend formerly in public sector tech: Info for federal technologists who may 'unexpectedly leave federal service'

https://community.publicgood.tech/c/resources/quick-resources-if-you-re-expecting-to-unexpectedly-leave-federal-service-10e0b548-c0a9-4bd5-802a-f6c118dc2920

#CivicTech #PublicInterestTech #Government #FederalGovernment

@tek @greyllama @jerry honestly, the most likely explanation here is that he will issue his own nearly identical order, then claim credit for it being a good idea. the thing he hates the most is anybody else but him getting credit for anything.

things I did not expect to see in a presidential memo (Biden's final one on cybersecurity): references to encrypted DNS and BGP route origin validation filtering. (sec. 4). Also a mandate for email to be end-to-end encrypted by default for federal agencies (!) - I wonder if this will mean PGP or S/MIME or something else … https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2025/01/16/executive-order-on-strengthening-and-promoting-innovation-in-the-nations-cybersecurity/

"growth is good”
"more is better”
"up and to the right equals success"
"if I get what I want, I will be satisfied and happy”

Question assumptions. Especially unspoken ones.

@douglasvb @ai6yr one of the things I really wish would embed in the public consciousness is that not all grid-scale storage has to be electrochemical; batteries are not the only option. Gravity energy storage is my personal favorite, but compressed air and hydro are great options too. The simpler, the better: fewer things that can go wrong, fewer disastrous failure modes.

“Work is service, not gain. The object of work is life, not income. The reward of production is plenty, not private fortune. We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.”

^^ @codinghorror is spot on here
https://mastodon.social/@gknauss/113788344499883906

@lzg RIGHT?!!!

It truly beggars imagination how much time in my household is wasted looking for things that would never be lost if their owners would just - for the love of God and I am begging you - put them where they go.

I have spent probably a majority of my kids' waking hours, since they could walk, repeating the words "put things away where they belong”, to exactly zero effect.

@r343l @skinnylatte this is super relevant to what @pluralistic is speaking on this evening at ISSA-LA