jandrese

All of the agents struggle with knowing when to stop. They can drive themselves insane inventing problems to solve after they arrive at a satisfactory answer for the current problem.

Keep this in mind when you see articles about how "an AI agent uncovered a thousand issues in our codebase overnight". A great many of those "issues" end up being that some process was not bureaucratic enough.

Or with his battle pug in Dune.

Not to mention Walter Koenig.

I guess you might be able to get around this problem if the vehicle can take off and land on a land based airstrip and then stay at 10m over the water. Otherwise that is a crippling limitation since you not only need the ocean to be relatively calm when taking off, but also when landing.

Do you take a Ku dish backpacking?!?

Doesn't Starlink have a direct to phone very low data thing? Like you can do SMS over it?

I am surprised that Starlink didn't eat their lunch. I think the only thing keeping them alive is inertia and the fact that Starlink still has regional lockouts and doesn't work in the most remote parts of the world.

Au Contraire, that bandwidth is definitely a joke.

My impression is that "home value" is often a dodge that sounds better on paper than "I don't like change". You generally can't sue over hurt feelings, but if you can attach some kind of monetary value to it then the courts may take your case.

As you note home value is an extremely nebulous concept as it is tied to whatever people who currently do not live in the community might pay to buy a house. No matter what someone sells for they can always say "it would have sold for more if every single house was painted exactly the same shade of beige, you miscreants with your off white, ecru, and oatmeal houses have cost me tens of thousands of dollars!"

This is one of the rare use cases where the users should be identifying the servers they are connecting to. If your work is that spooky then a piece of paper with the expected key signature seems like a reasonable precaution.

There used to be that "key art" that was posted to make it more visibly distinct, but I think that feature got discontinued.

Administering your hidden service?

The attack on SSH seems rather poorly conceived. Not only was it detected immediately thanks to SSH printing that huge banner on MITM attacks, but it allowed the admins to easily trace every infected node and respond quickly to shut the whole operation down. Had they stuck to email they would still be running today.

Normally I think LetsEncrypt made self hosting a lot easier, at least if you wanted to support HTTPS.

LetsEncrypt is what finally solved the problem with the previous systems were perfect was the enemy of the good. There used to be a lot of focus on trying to verify that the person getting the cert was who they said they are, but LetsEncrypt came and sad "that part isn't important, protecting the data is what really matters" and basically solved the real problem wholesale. Very few people inspect the certificates on every website they visit, so those protections were mostly useless and created a roadblock to widespread adoption of HTTPS, scoping the problem down to just making sure nobody can inspect or modify the data in transit made automation not only possible but easy.

Yes, give him a Nobel prize but have him share it with Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran.

I found a "BBS on a CD" as a kid in the 90s. It was intended for people setting up a new BBS but it came with a good chunk of content to seed the system with.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of BBSes a lot of the stuff wasn't terribly useful for just one person. Emailing yourself isn't terribly useful. Door games were usually multiplayer, although LoRD was playable solo, and was in retrospect a precursor to games like Farmville.

The part where the BBS admin would call your number to verify your identity was real as well. It was always fun to explain to mom why some totally random guy was calling and asking for me.