The Gavitron

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

someone built a $96 3D-PRINTED MANPADS rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor and piano wire its called Project Canard it integrates with distributed camera nodes to triangulate airborne targets and update flight paths in real-time it proves the barrier to advanced hardware has completely collapsed, moving precision weapons from defense labs to consumer garages the entire launcher and interceptor frame is 3D printed in PLA and runs off a standard off-the-shelf ESP32 microcontroller it even spins up a local Wi-Fi network so you can monitor live telemetry and arm the system directly from your laptop

Fun fact: Computer security has a famous 2014 paper on how dramatically different assumptions and practices must be when dealing with the most motivated attacker in the world, who is after -YOU-. This is, -literally-, known "Mossad vs not-Mossad." Note the phone replacement.

@beaniemaxi @MarcNixon24 29.9m tax-filers, but only 18.4m tax-PAYERS, so it's closer to $1331 ea.

@MarcNixon24 That’s $1000 per tax filer.

BREAKING: Mark Carney just announced ANOTHER $2.5 BILLION to Ukraine. Total Canadian aid now: $24.5 BILLION. That puts Canada THE HIGHEST PER CAPITA CONTRIBUTORS IN THE WORLD.

@MarcNixon24 That's almost $1337 per taxpayer.

This is incredibly powerful

My CISO called me at 3 AM last Tuesday. "We caught someone." I asked, "Caught them doing what?" He said, "Typing." Let me explain. We have an employee in IT. Great worker. Always online. Never complained. Perfect Slack etiquette. One problem. His keystrokes were arriving 110 milliseconds late. One hundred and ten milliseconds. That's 0.11 seconds. The average American remote worker has 20-40ms of latency. This guy? 110ms. Every. Single. Keystroke. My security team ran the numbers. That latency doesn't come from a bad router in Ohio. That latency comes from Pyongyang. Our "Senior DevOps Engineer" was a North Korean operative. Running his work laptop through a laptop farm. In America. While he worked from a government building. In North Korea. He passed the interview. He passed the background check. He passed the vibe check. He did not pass the speed of light. Here's what people don't understand about physics: Light travels 186,000 miles per second. But it still has to go through China. And China adds latency. Since April, Amazon has caught 1,800 of these attempts. Eighteen hundred. I called an emergency meeting with my board. I said, "We need to implement Keystroke Velocity Auditing across all remote employees." They said, "That sounds invasive." I said, "You know what else is invasive? The Democratic People's Republic of Korea in your Jira tickets." They approved the budget. We now monitor keystroke timing to the microsecond. If your latency exceeds 60ms, you get a call from HR. If it exceeds 100ms, you get a call from the FBI. We've already flagged 47 employees. Turns out 44 of them just have bad Wi-Fi. 3 of them are "still under investigation." The lesson? You can fake a resume. You can fake a background check. You can fake an American accent on Zoom. But you cannot fake the speed of light. Physics is the ultimate background check. Hire accordingly.

We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group.

@MattWalshBlog This was literally the plot of a black mirror episode

This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life

Unrelated to #Helldivers2 but this song is frying me. ANOTHER 100 BILLION TO AI BUY BUY BUY

you're not schizo enough if you don't know what these are

I'm about to do something I think I've never done before, which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source. After ten years of drama and idiocy, lots of people other than me are now willing to say in public that "Codes of Conduct" have been a disaster - a kind of infectious social insanity producing lots of drama and politics and backbiting, and negative useful work. Here is my advice about codes of conduct: 1. Refuse to have one. If your project has one, delete it. The only actual function they have is as a tool in the hands of shit-stirrers. 2. If you're stuck with having one for bureaucratic reasons, replace it with the following sentence or some close equivalent: "If you are more annoying to work with than your contributions justify, you'll be ejected." 3. Attempts to be more specific and elaborate don't work. They only provide control surfaces for shit-stirrers to manipulate. Yes, we should try to be kind to each other. But we should be ruthless and merciless towards people who try to turn "Be kind!" into a weapon. Indulging them never ends well.

there’s this guy on tiktok who video calls chatgpt, shows it objects, asks “how much gram,” then weighs them, and if chatgpt is wrong he puts his phone in the fridge where chatgpt is forced to chat with the condiments. roko’s basilisk is definitely making a note of this man.

@grrberr Like the rest of your replies, they USED TO BE bulletproof workhorses. I've got a t41, purchased new in 2002, still runs like a swiss watch, despite being used and abused for 20+years. Unfortunately the quality dropped a while after Lenovo took over, but the reputation held on.

@mikesmith187 For a house, I don't think anything else comes close to a well-plumbed 15A built-in with self-retracting hoses, an inlet in the garage, and a large wet-dry canister vac for things that shouldn't go through the builtin's pipes.

My hot take is that Dyson vacuums are not for serious vacuumers. Battery is garbage, filter is garbage. Canister too small. Absolute joke of a cleaning tool.

Ladies and Gents - I present to you a 1973 Chrysler New Yorker's exquisite crash safety features😎

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later, I opened the door. Neuromancer is in production.

@iamthebrock @GayBearRes Yep heard crown immediately too

@GayBearRes This seems a lot like Crown… I may or may not have had an engagement there some years back

@DelusionPosting Natalie needs to rewatch Firefly.

@ChrisJBakke It's all good until the local municipal government comes around and asks to see his business license, his food-safe certifications, the carbon credits for the citrus products used, proof that the lemons are ethically sourced from fair trade farms, gmo and pesticide free organic

It's spring break and my son started a lemonade stand. I asked him how much lemonade he sold in the last hour. "$3" he said. I told him, "Here's $20 for one glass of lemonade. In one hour I'm going to come back and buy a lemonade for $1,000. You're going to take that $1,000/hr revenue - multiply it by 24 hours - then multiply it by 365 days, and tell VCs, 'I have $8.76M in run rate revenue with 99.9% net margins, and 100% of our latest cohort of customers have expanded revenue with us. You're also changing the name of your lemonade stand to 'lemon(AI)de' and incorporating it as a C Corp" My son was holding back tears. I said, "Doesn't it feel good to be a millionaire, bud?" He said, "Dad I'm 4 and I don't know what any of these words are." I said, "Welcome to life as a tech CEO - neither do I" and drove away.

@ElonMuskAOC I'll post here for the chance to win any tesla, let alone a custom colour!

I just ordered 10 rose gold Teslas. I will be giving all of these away to followers tonight at 8pm PST! Like and comment to be entered into the raffle!