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There are lots of small insurers at least. Multiple resources on the internet put the startup costs at $500K or less. That's not much more than fast food or other high touch retail…

You need a capital base in proportion to the policies you sell in order to pay them out without going bust, to a certain confidence level. The time sequence of premium payments vs …

that's nearly a requirement for anti-bot things. turnstile etc.

LLMs, including open ones, are really good at this it turns out. It stands to reason, there is tons of training material out there no doubt they have consumed and are ready to regu…

It happens in the private sector too. I was involved in procurement at a megacorp for several years. At one point one of my colleagues asked for assistance in getting an order of 5…

CNC milling is typically included in the bans being considered in various states. While poetically consistent, it enlarges the crater around these bad laws if they are passed and e…

I don't think I've met an llm that is adversary resistant, and here are counterparties that are actively playing the field, to put it mildly. The bug bounty service providers did a…

As a sometimes peripheral and sometimes primary program manager for vulnerability disclosure, for companies you nearly can't avoid, $0.02 follows. It's a signal vs noise thing. Mos…

It doesn't help that a lot of security software is pretty niche. It's unreasonable to expect most candidates to know it or have experience. In one case I was one of exactly two peo…

From having worked at and consulted with security software producing companies as well as security software consuming ones, I would say the security companies are worse than averag…

It seems hard to donate a trademark application to someone. Trademarks seem like a sore spot for successful OSS but probably useful for solving this problem. Or perhaps a license c…

Getting your cloud 'wiz wit' in Philadelphia would mean having melted cheese on it.

there are a lot of "do what I mean" type papercuts in openscad. BOSL2 is a library that, for me at least, takes away enough of them to make a rewarding experience. still find mysel…

i like the way prusaslicer has a conspicuous setting to enable intermediate and advanced settings so that users can start with a less intimidating setup and opt in to the bells and…

Real world CSRF attacks into hxxp://192.168.0.1 home routers and polluting DNS and DHCP settings you could argue is caused or at least facilitated by NAT, or NAT misconceptions esp…

NAT causes security issues too. Reflection attacks are much harder to stop if the endpoint and its network address are decoupled. You can provoke loops and tangles of many sorts, s…

As an outsider to this industry, is there any real moat against what an enthusiast or several could pull off with a few iterations? Feels like a well placed post to a model sharing…

If your schedule allows, try to time your visit around any of the science fairs that they sponsor and/or host. Top notch all around.

My espresso machine is semi-automated and lots of folks seem to go for fully automatic coffee experiences. Mr Coffee all the way to K-cups etc. There are some crazy things [1] goin…

I rather disagree on the difficulty of pulling it off. The problem space is well-defined and there aren't that many degrees of freedom in functional design. I'll concede there is s…

Among the reasons to leave my last job was a CISO and his minion who insisted spending $50k+ on Okta for their b2b customer and employee authentication was a bulletproof move. When…

Those all seem like easy problems to solve. Draw straws and one person dials in from their desk or a phone closet. Take advantage of multiple locations, which are frequently if not…

Something I am not quite able to compute is why they are so rigid. I paid for a house with enough rooms that I turned one into a generous office. My peers tell me my hobby producti…

I tried this -- I am undiagnosed, but my kids are diagnosed. On one hand I thought parts over-dramatized, on the other hand I thought parts were watered down. Misophonia for me doe…

I think you're on to something, though it's optimistic to count on app devs to specify a novel platform-specific flag. "Don't break user-space" seems like it's in contest here. May…