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Does not seem like a lot. US Chamber of Commerce spends 600M/year, Meta 160M, Bayer 73M, Toyota 64M. https://www.openlobby.us/clients

This matches with what Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic said a the [un]prompted conference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg . Very worth watching.

Fictional, but how far away from the truth? I enjoyed this interview with the CIO of the IRS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4odAXoqRT8 who describes his troubles with replacing t…

The workers do not work for HomeDepot. They come to the Home Deport parking lot ready to offer their services. People unrelated to HomeDepot will come to the parking lot and offer …

Related: https://www.deconstructconf.com/2019/dan-luu-files mostly about how the challenges in filesystems in writing data to disk and a bit about disks as well.

I don't know what happened to Borland. In 1982ish in Germany I was programming my Apple II in Applesoft Basic and UCSD Pascal. UCSD was 3 floppies, I had a 2 floppy system so for c…

If you like Wat, you should like this talk by James Mickens on computer security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF24WHumvIc

More details on how it is implemented here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...

I enjoyed this book by Niklaus Wirth - father of Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon. https://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Construction-International-C...

I do not believe the FBI can legally report the vulnerability. They did not find it, they do not "own" it. They have used a service to get to the phone's data. Even if they reverse…