Val Smith

I believe that most of the jobs that require MS Office are going to go away. MS Office is the main reason Microsoft exists. I think MSFT will convert to a pure AI / cloud company in the next several years and the idea of windows / office will no longer be a thing. Everyone will have AI interfaces with linux backends.

@farzyness I keep saying that the future of cars are automated couch boxes.

There's an UNBELIEVABLE use case for regional trips in the US that will decimate air travel and buses. Fully autonomous Tesla Robovans outfitted as long-haul first-class "buses". These would run routes similar to Amtrak or Greyhounds, but with First-Class-like comfort, amenities, and space. The price per seat of these can be the same as a bus, but FAR more comfortable and FAR more luxurious. Can obviously optimize the interior for the best configuration but MAN. This would absolutely KILL.

@infosec_fox Xenix

Name the best tool made by microsoft I'll go first:

@Robert_of_Maine @SawyerMerritt Whichever one of the EV companies decides to make a classic 70s look with modern tech / materials wins.

@mvalsmith @SawyerMerritt Ferrari could just reproduce one of their classic designs, but no...

Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce. • Starting price: $640,000 • Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive • Range: 280 miles (expected EPA) • Peak charging speed: 350kW • 122 kWh battery • 1,050 horsepower • 0-60mph: 2.4s • 800v • Four-door four-seater • Four electric motors • OLED screens • Weight: 4,982 lbs • Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm • Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car. • Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels • The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered • 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:

@Dave_Maynor ive tried that but it doesnt really work for me. I feel like I get lost in the noise and even more adhd. Instead, my wife and I sit down at a white board and she helps me figure it out by asking me a bunch of questions which forces me to narrow, focus, and clarify my thoughts.

@mvalsmith I told an agent I wanted to build a todo list for next 48 hours and it produced everything i have in a work queue and prioritized them when I meant i was going to give it a list of tasks we build the list from.

Over the years I’ve realized one of the hardest parts of being both highly technical and heavily neurodivergent is that your brain does not experience projects the same way most people do. ADHD + autism + deep systems thinking is a very strange combination. You don’t just “have ideas.” You see: architectures, ecosystems, workflows, operational models, edge cases, scaling paths, second-order effects, adjacent systems, and entirely new projects… …often almost instantly. The upside is obvious: You can connect domains and build mental models extremely quickly. The downside is brutal: Your cognition outruns operational throughput. So your “todo list” starts looking less like a normal backlog and more like the planning board of a small research lab. At the moment I’m actively juggling work across: AI-driven regression automation and orchestration systems Executive Council (EC), a structured multi-agent coordination framework Jenny2, an autonomous agent ecosystem with memory, delegation, and operational workflows Apple Neo / A18 security research and endpoint telemetry analysis APEX, a hands-on advanced cyber operations training methodology heavily focused on structured analytical techniques and measurable execution CrisisSim, an AI-driven tabletop and incident simulation platform GhostFile, a clean-room security knowledge and evidence management system WraithPulse, an xIoT telemetry and monitoring platform RF/CEMA research involving SDRs, telemetry collection, and attack-surface analysis Ghostlink DRFM and advanced electronic warfare concepts JavaScript analysis and behavioral tooling like JsFOMO Multi-LLM orchestration and agent communication systems AI-enhanced security tooling and observability research Mobile-first AI workbench concepts like SpecterLink Research into unmanaged endpoint visibility and lightweight security telemetry Long-term exploit training and benchmarking systems Media/content projects like HacksInMovies Writing projects, talks, documentation, and long-form research analysis Ongoing operational security research and architectural experimentation And that’s the trimmed version. The dangerous part is that for people wired like this, all of those projects can feel simultaneously active in your head. Not metaphorically. Operationally. You partially instantiate systems mentally before they exist physically. That creates a weird cognitive trap: The architecture feels real because you already understand it deeply. But understanding a system is not the same thing as shipping it. One of the biggest lessons I’m learning is this: Not every valid idea deserves active execution bandwidth. Some ideas should stay: notes, diagrams, design docs, or frozen projects waiting for the right forcing function. Because otherwise you end up building systems to manage systems that manage systems. And if you’re not careful, architecture itself becomes the procrastination layer. I think a lot of highly technical neurodivergent people quietly struggle with this exact pattern: Infinite possibility space colliding with finite operational throughput. So lately I’ve been trying to optimize less for: “How many incredible things could this become?” …and more for: “What can actually be completed, maintained, and operationalized without collapsing under its own complexity?” That distinction has become incredibly important for me.

@Fat_Electrician Its being funded, likely by foreign governments in part, and not organic. Although there are a lot of regular unwitting people who fall for it and join in.

I’ve looked into this very minimally, so I’m genuinely asking. Why are people opposing data centers so hard? My gut feeling is it’s hippies opposing nuclear power 2.0, but I’m willing to be convinced otherwise.

@Robert_of_Maine ah you mean like the old actual keys? I havent stayed in a hotel that has those in forever.

@mvalsmith card-key, yes, otherwise, no.

I haven't checked out of a hotel in like 15 years. There have been no consequences. Can you really just leave?

We are in the time of -0 days. Where attackers have already found and are actively using the bug you are slowly walking through the disclosure process with and are 3-6 months out from patching.

@IceSolst @fr4vian If you're not finding 100k 0day each day what are you even doing?

@fr4vian Average bug bounty report

- I found 10k vulnerabilities - No way ... - You are absolutely right to push back, I am bullshiting you again

@0day_ninja Never. And if you spend your time around top tier hackers you always feel like you don't know what your doing.

At what point does it actually click that you are a competent hacker? I ask because the learning process does not really come with checkpoints. You go from not understanding anything to understanding some things to occasionally understanding things faster than you expected and there is no clear line in between. I'm curious.

@hashjenni Middle management

I need a job where I can make six figures but I have no skills and I’m not very bright. What field is this?