This really stuck with me. “Rewrote” implies feature parity. What they really did was replace the taskbar.

Synthient wasn’t hacked, as a security company, they aggregated tons of stealer logs dumped to social media, Telegram, etc.

They found 8% of the data collected was not in the HIBP database, confirmed with some of the legitimate owners that the data was real.

They then took that research and shared it with HIBP which is the correct thing to do.

I was also thrown off by the title they gave it when I first saw it, a security company being hacked would be a terrible look. but they explain it in the article. Should probably have named it “list aggregation” or something.

Great, now there’s MSMaaS??

“let your motto be ‘eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty.’”

Freedom dies in the silence of the many at the hands of the few. We must always be adamant with opposition, because it’s hard to undo what has been done. The easiest way to put the genie back in the bottle is never letting it out in the first place.

Yes, correct. You can always locally host it as there are other benefits like unifying user credentials for all your hosted services. But its primary design is to be hosted externally.

currently I host everything locally, but I don’t like the fact that anyone visiting my domain can easily find my address.

I’m in the process of determining on if I set up Pangolin myself or not. Another huge benefit is higher availability. (ex. If my internet goes down at home, I won’t know until I try to connect, but if I have an external service and it’s monitoring that connection, it can inform me when it loses connection)

Price is certainly something to consider when weighing its value for your setup

The connection between your Pangolin service (hosted outside your network) and your LAN is through a VPN. Essentially you’re creating a proxy that you can point your domain address at which isn’t your house’s IP address. Plus then everything inside your network is still secure behind your VPN.

So you connect to Pangolin, and Pangolin routes the traffic to your network.

Here’s a 404media article discussing it:

https://www.404media.co/the-cia-secretly-ran-a-star-wars-fan-site/

As per the DMCA listed in the reference:

MNAO analyzed some of the code and determined that the code provides functionality same as what is currently in Apple App Store and Google Play App Store.

Here’s a fork that’s still up and explains how the DMCA request was made based off of functionality and not proprietary code.

https://github.com/runDMCA/home-assistant-mazda

The ThinkPads are great. I have an X220 that I have running Mint that I use in my garage. Its use cases are music streaming, displaying PDF Service Manuals/Technical Diagrams, and web queries for random questions/video instructions. I’m working on trying to see if I can get Wine to let me run some diagnostic software on it too.

It can certainly do more than that as I used it through school a number of years ago for note taking and small programming projects. But it’s retired to being the tank that it is and it’s amazing for that.

Buses that could run self powered on side streets, yet charge using overhead power lines installed over main roads.

Would pretty much combine the energy savings of electric rail with last-mile service via bus routes.

Responsibility. We’ve yet to decide as a society how we want to handle who is held responsible when the AI messes up and people get hurt.

You’ll start to see AI being used as a defense of plausible deniability as people continue to shirk their responsibilities. Instead of dealing with the tough questions, we’ll lean more and more on these systems to make it feel like it’s outside our control so there’s less guilt. And under the current system, it’ll most certainly be weaponized by some groups to indirectly hurt others.

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”