Jade A.

Jade is a systems development enthusiast who is haunted by what she has done and what she has left undone.

post-faang principle eng (InfraSec) now @ BigAI

[Jade A. @jda]

It's wild watching local politicians captured by the anti-datacenter meme pivot to new fears as each is addressed.
At this rate we're about a month away from someone unironically trying to get Orgone Blasters in the plan before zoning approval...

[citizensJournal @newDemocracy7]

we hear about the New deal all day from leftist but the only ones trying to really get the party back to it's new deal traditions are Normie Libs and Abundance Libs not leftist

[Jade A. @jda]

@VioletFlame23 He has consistent principles that tend to align more with classic Dems. It’s refreshing.
I suppose people who are used to progressive or oppositional approaches see his positions as sliding back and forth past theirs as they change and confuse who’s moving past whom.

[Chris Sperandio @sperand_io]

token capex > token opex

[chrisrohlf @chrisrohlf]

Connecting commercial refrigerators and other industrial equipment to a network seems uncontroversial to me. No one can manage the scale of modern industrial equipment across hundreds of geographic locations any other way.

The issue is that manufacturers build these interfaces with almost no investment in product security, no plan for updates, and then abandon it while it’s still running in their customer environments. Most of this firmware doesn’t take a sophisticated attacker to compromise, so it should not surprise us when nation state attackers show up.

Customers are told to isolate the equipment from the internet which of course is good advice, but it’s a cost they pay for the manufacturer’s negligence, and it often isn’t fully in their control. A lot of this equipment connects back to the manufacturer on its own which can require weakening egress controls.

So why does this keep happening? Nearly all cybersecurity law and regulation is about protecting personal data records. When a company loses customer data records they face consequences in the market and with regulators. But a company that sells an insecure product doesn’t. As a result companies spend on protecting themselves and your average enterprise security team structure reflects this. Only in some big tech companies have I seen security teams expanded to secure products. Until this change happens in every industry, customers will be left holding the risk.

[erin_irl 🐀 @eggrins]

@LuzLavoid ebay is a magical place where you can turn money into fucked up hardware

[Jade A. @jda]

@cljack @TheLastNeocon it almost feels like some kind of perverse incentive racket.
pass a bill & get a stack of bills from everytown or moms demand so they can in turn claim success and collect more donations?

[Jade A. @jda]

@amirsadjady to be fair, i did get a little exasperated with them and dropped something like "c'mon bro. what's with these super long test cycles? can't you take snapshots or something so you aren't always starting over from scratch?" but didn't tell them how because i didn't know about this.

[Jade A. @jda]

You can do absolutely wild things with qemu's record/replay/reverse debug features.
Poke at a service until crash, rewind, try again to see if it crashes differently, see if useful side-effects happen instead of crashes, etc.
Caught my agents using it for vuln verification.

[Jade A. @jda]

@_builtin_katie At least on West-coast US you have the challenge of filtering out everyone fried by CN & SU propaganda 😔

[Jade A. @jda]

@Joshua_WD It really does!

[Jade A. @jda]

@amirsadjady AFAICT on their own. Standard coding agent.

[Jade A. @jda]

it is absolute magic: https://t.co/wZqA1qxy4b

[Sam Altman @sama]

@jestermolecule @HarshithLucky3 but only because...i actually do want the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers, and it is fucking annoying that this was taken out of context.

i have been arguing for the world to ramp up memory production for a long time.

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

I think in general it's better to be a strict conservative in theory and a soft hearted lib in practice than the other way around

[Jade A. @jda]

2. Same token: replies with the akshully memetic.

[Jade A. @jda]

Convinced the secret to useful if not harmonious social media is to block any accounts that are low-effort contradiction/disagreement.

[Jade A. @jda]

1. Reply guys that go “that didn’t happen”

Very playground nuh-uh energy.

[Jade A. @jda]

Trying to use an iPad wifi+cell model with keyboard as a laptop replacement (my other computer is a datacenter) and the UX is so close to macOS except in little frustrating ways.
I cmd+shift+4 hoping to get a rectangle select->screenshot and instead screenshots the whole page. I try to drag a photo from the Photos app to Signal and if Photos doesn’t have focus it just scrolls instead.
So close and yet… not.