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Gay Talese starts "The Kidnapping of Joe Bonanno" (Esquire, August 1971) with this: Knowing that it is possible to see too much, most doormen in New York have developed an extraord…

Paul Strassmann wrote a book in 1990 called "Business Value of Computers" that showed that it matters where money on computers is spent. Only firms that spent it on their core busi…

For vector generation I started using Meta-LLama-3-8B in april 2024 with Python and Transformers for each text chunk on an RTX-A6000. Wow that thing was fast but noisy and also bur…

Tom Uren and grugq did a podcast on this recently in Risky Business News [0] I think the main point was that these attacks are physical, don't scale very well, and are untargeted b…

From the pinned YT comment: Artist Ostap Gordon just released a Russian yard in the winter in Unreal Engine 5.1 with high-quality assets created with Megascans and Blender, fully d…

I ordered directly on Abbott's FreeStyle website.

I was primarily struck by the awesomeness of this whole autonomous glucose regulation thing. My last meal is usually around 18:30 in the evening and during the night glucose would …

Yep the FreeStyle Libre 2 is great. I bought one a few weeks ago to satisfy my curiosity. I'm a non-diabetic. It was around EUR 70 including shipping and lasted exactly 2 weeks. Se…

1968 interview: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/books/truman-capote-playboy-in... Playboy: How do you react to those critics who deride the form of documentary crime writing employed…

Are there any perfectionists around here that have experience with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)? It sounds like perfectionism-induced procrastination: it's better to giv…

Near the end of “Understanding Michael Porter”, there is a Q&A with him that touches on this subject: Q: “How do you do a five forces analysis if you’re an entrepreneur starting a …

The archive of Virus Bulletin is also a fantastic resource on cybersecurity prehistory. The first issue in july 1989 starts with this editorial https://www.virusbulletin.com/upload…

You can look at: - A collection of public threat intel reports [0]. Lots of reading though. I did some Splunking on it last year and at least 50% uses phishing for initial access. …

> They responded by asserting the contract couldn't be exploitative b/c top lawyers in the industry wrote it and b/c other devs have signed it. The fact that they still easily sign…

Link to the interesting “60 secs or she dies” roleplay: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NWElrHgbGo

The most surprising thing I discovered was that it took me 3 months to lose a jittery “I.SHOULD.DO.SOMETHING.NOW” feeling. Only after 3 months did I feel truly relaxed to pursue wh…

Covid lockdowns and WFH had a surprisingly large influence on self-service threat modeling facilitation I did for a client. Pre-covid we would facilitate workshops interactively ar…

There was also an interesting virtual round table discussion about this subject in january. Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOFcJ0-nG10

We all know what "have a show in Chelsea" looks like today. The distribution model changed radically, but the personal drivers didn't. Surprisingly, the rise of new platforms only …

Who’s sending these questionnaires, when and why? I’m asking because I work in infosec and have never seen one.

As mr. Money Mustache would say: work gets better when you don’t need the money.

Most of the compliance paperwork I’ve seen does leave room for custom risk assessments, threat modeling or other wordings that invite a business team to do more. However in their r…

I’ve been using a “First Principles (tm)” branded keyboard for years. It has 3 USB plugs to satisfy its power req’s and delivers shocks when found out visiting Stackoverflow.

Are we witnessing a veiled announcement of Apple Search where it would be a key driver for Apple One adoption?