While I agree partially (there is so much shit IT out there and healthcare seems to particularly abundant with it, Oracle got publically famous in Sweden recently for an expensive failed rollout, luckily clinicians were able to halt the full rollout since it was worse than the system it replaced).
The root cause that is also mentioned fleetingly in the article, is the "effectivization" of at least some western societies, in previously "socialist" Sweden were many things like the post and schools have been sold out to the market there's been an immense amount of enshittification in societal functions, some people still say that "private companies are more efficient" but most people over 40 also remember that stuff actually used to work and has only gotten worse over the years (even if many can't peg it on the actual reasons and listen to anti-immigrant rethorics).
But even publicly owned services have been affected (a few years back there was articles about NPM in medicine, yet not much seems to be changing and it's just getting more entrenched).
Politicians might try to rally people over public waste, but in reality "waste" (too many employees, people having free time at work,etc) is a cushion so that when shit does hit the fan the society has extra capacity to handle things.
Doctors, nurses, rail workers, postal workers,etc shouldn't need to be heroes for keeping up with increasing demands of efficiency that eventually causes chaos when taken too far, they should be able to have "boring" jobs where shit doesn't hit the fan unless an airliner crashes or a war happens.
I've had multiple that do it. they're quite visible in the right light. you can also see it when your yellow cartridge runs out, despite printing exclusively black and white, while the other color ones are full.
"most" might not, I can't claim anything there and EFF claims most don't, when they were checking on it in 2015-2017. I'm pretty darn sure that some do though.
As far as I know, the most common form of tracking in inkjet printers is in the ink itself. Companies add chemical markers to their inks which can show when the ink was made, and which company made it. The FBI collects that data in the International Ink Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Ink_Library
There are also databases cataloging the specific printing characteristics of various models of printers and research has demonstrated that it's possible to trace documents back to individual printers based on slight variations in how they print.
Ugh, I've avoided connecting my TV to Wifi to avoid all "smart" crap but it does support some "wireless" display from Windows that seems to be local based and I do get periodic requests to connect to other devices (My conundrum now becomes, is the TV safer with or without remote connection/updates).
Nobody will throw rocks, I think most people are curious/suspicious about the big players and wants more hands-on since we suspect that this all will come down in cost soon enough.
The laws aren't 100% settled, the latest reveals of MS execs in the New York Times lawsuit (or was it the New Yorker?) that came up here the other day was quite damning.
Right now, only that lawsuit seriously challanges big-AI, but _if_ they succeed then everyone who's had something ingested has a precedent to lean on for a lawsuit against the big-AI corps (and potentially by extension their users).
So more worryingly for free software is that snippets that has found their way via LLM models into openly licensed projects, this could be commercial "shared source" projects that have gotten ingested or even internal tools since the AI corporations trains their models on your prompts, projects and even git histories.
Reminded me of SNES Shadowrun, don't remember if my English skills were weak or what the cause of me misunderstanding it was but when you encountered the Jester in the game, you're supposed to shoot him until you get a chance for a conversation and saying his name completes that bossfight.
However, I missed that this part was the key and after a bunch of deaths I went on to level up my character past what the developers had probably intended at that stage of the game and subsequently managed to kill the Jester (he was strong enough that it was hard even when fully powered up).
Killing him probably lacked proper codepaths so the game crashed/blacked out and wiped the savegame forcing me to start over (quite an unusual thing to see in a SNES game).
Back of the envelope.. 1024 bit keys with recordings of not too old data can probably be found (MS only deprecated them in 2024 even if they planned on it in 2013)
How long would it take for NSA to crack them if they had say the equivalent of a million GPU's? (either GPU's or crypto tuned ASICs)
A sufficiently motivated person with a good thermal camera and a cessna 172, entirely within the bounds of the law, could probably make an estimate of the waste heat from this, and then calculate backwards for how much compute power it is.
Except that's the "Massive Data Repository" which is mostly just about hoarding mass surveillance data. (Unless of course that's what THEY want us to think!)
A better approximation can probably be had by comparing against the performance of the top ones at https://top500.org/
Hard to judge. The bottleneck is the phase of the algorithm where a really big linear system needs to be solved. That takes a lot of communication between nodes. The breakthrough in using GPUs is that there is good communication between nodes[1]. At the scale of 1024 bit RSA the communication might become a bottleneck again.
> How long would it take for NSA to crack them if they had say the equivalent of a million GPU's? (either GPU's or crypto tuned ASICs)
Something I've often wondered is where the curve between "shit encryption / nation state cracking" crosses.
How much CPU would you need to be Annoyingly Difficult to crack?
I reckon with elliptic curves you could be quite annoying within about a minute on a 1980s-level CPU, to the extent that you could send a fairly ephemeral message quite quickly that would take disproportionately long to crack. Certainly long enough for the thing you have communicated to be no longer worth the effort to know.
You could probably do 256-bit Curve25519 key generation in under ten minutes on an Apple II or Commodore 64, because the 6502's maths is terribly limited, but something like the Tandy Color or Dragon 32 with its 6809 processor (or hey why not the Ensoniq Mirage sampler?) could do that in probably a minute or so because it has a MUL opcode that's quite fast.
I reckon that would keep even a fairly interested nation state chewing away long after your message had been read, understood, and acted upon.
> 1024 bit keys with recordings of not too old data can probably be found
I think GitHub might turn into a scary vector of supply chain attacks in the foreseeable future. There is a five digit number of users still running around with 1024 bit RSA keys.
I'm reading your year old Reddit post and Typesafe's description, and while they probabably say that they can do what you do the main point is that it's different things really as far as I can tell?
Laya seems to be focused on sales/conversations?
Reading quickly about TypeSafe, it seems to be about creating _type-safe_ outputs from AI tools for downstream systems to consume, we actually have a system in production that's probably a glove-fit for that, it's for scanning receipts to be ingested into a system and we also have other systems in a sales-pipe that isn't too far off Laya but still sounds more pertient to TypeSafe.
You did a special case well, but just because they cover (perhaps badly) that case doesn't mean that it's the same thing.
The root cause that is also mentioned fleetingly in the article, is the "effectivization" of at least some western societies, in previously "socialist" Sweden were many things like the post and schools have been sold out to the market there's been an immense amount of enshittification in societal functions, some people still say that "private companies are more efficient" but most people over 40 also remember that stuff actually used to work and has only gotten worse over the years (even if many can't peg it on the actual reasons and listen to anti-immigrant rethorics).
But even publicly owned services have been affected (a few years back there was articles about NPM in medicine, yet not much seems to be changing and it's just getting more entrenched).
Politicians might try to rally people over public waste, but in reality "waste" (too many employees, people having free time at work,etc) is a cushion so that when shit does hit the fan the society has extra capacity to handle things.
Doctors, nurses, rail workers, postal workers,etc shouldn't need to be heroes for keeping up with increasing demands of efficiency that eventually causes chaos when taken too far, they should be able to have "boring" jobs where shit doesn't hit the fan unless an airliner crashes or a war happens.
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