How can I check the viability without building the software or hardware?

1. see if the thing already exists

• if it does and is successful, great, viable idea. now figure out how the existing thing sucks (see 2)
• if not, great, maybe an untapped niche

2. figure out who the intended users are and talk to them. what do they want? what do they hate?

• filter through a fine mesh of common sense, pragmatism and cynicism

3. build a basic version that adresses some subset of identified needs (and that users hate less), get feedback, iterate

it helps when you are an intended user since that’s a tighter feedback loop

only 10 bits of entropy? 👌🤣

You’re not the only person, but it’s definitely not the way to keep your shit safe online.

Best practice is to use a different sufficiently strong (e.g. long and random) password for every account. That way, when an account’s password is leaked, it doesn’t immediately compromise every other account for which you’ve reused that password.

I generally advise people to use a password manager (I like Bitwarden) to store their myriad passwords, so they only have to remember a single master password.

ofc these bots aren’t necessarily sneaking into their operators’ password managers and stealing their passwords; the operators willingly and knowingly given the bots access to these things, so they can offload the drudgery of e.g. looking at a calendar to them

we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems

doesn’t even have to be the site owner poisoning the tool instructions (though that’s a fun-in-a-terrifying-way thought)

any money says they’re vulnerable to prompt injection in the comments and posts of the site

the bots behind subreddit simulator weren’t semi-autonomous agents with access to their operators’ private lives, auth tokens, passwords, emails (and gods only know what else), and the authority to act in the world on their behalf

genuinely terrifying

mentlegen

The web’s dying. The FSF’s dying. Windows 11 is made out of people. Dont you see? It’s people. They’re making our software out of people. Next thing, they’ll be breeding us like cattle for training data. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!

CentOS 3.6

when I was but a baby sysadmin, my boss did that to a production server

kkzzt Pick up that coredump.

that error is coming from I2P, not nginx

so good news? your nginx configuration is probably fine

bad news? I know fuck all about I2P. assuming you’re intending to reach the “router console”, you could probably follow the suggested configuration change in the error message to Do That Thing

Pokémon Universal Basic Income?!

chinotto

it’s one latte, michael. what could it cost, $80?

assuming this is on lemmy, if a user is causing that much disruption amd harassing people you could message the admin(s) of the user’s instance explaining the situation, provide evidence, and hope they’ll ban the user

if the user is banned and creates another account, repeat

if the user is on an instance that won’t ban them, contact the admins of other instances to try to have that instance deferated

favorite obscure ship system?

CI/CD! How did I forget CI/CD?

oh right I’m an SRE with Jenkins trauma

fuck groovy