Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

If you study the history of the Cold War (or watched the movie Wargames), you know we've had many "close calls" that almost led to nuclear holocaust, only stopped by someone's ethics overriding their orders and training. AI won't be programmed with that "limitation".

AI-controlled weapons are coming. For a preview of their "ethics" take all the recent stories of bias in AI, only instead of not hiring a minority candidate or granting them bail, the computer shoots them. #doomed https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/02/17/pentagon-funds-killer-robots-but-ethics-are-under-debate/

Dropbox decided to take a one-time $400 million hit to cancel leases and follow other tech companies in the exodus from SF toward remote work: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/18/dropbox-takes-400-million-charge-on-real-estate-as-it-goes-virtual.html

Oh, gonna log it on, hackin' you, baby
I wanna log it on
You don't have a password that's too long
If the guesses miss you
Let me phish you good
Let your password out
Oh, log me on, come on

They are all insecure passwords with so much to guess
People think they're secure
Since they have to be, complex, I love it
There's nothing hard with me hacking you, baby no no
And guessin' passwords, to me, can never go wrong
Unless the factor's two.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful auth can be,
I'm asking your website to log it on with me,
I ain't gonna worry, I ain't gonna fuzz, I won't fuzz you baby
So come on, log on, log on, log on, log on, baby
Stop beating round the bush, hey

Happy Valentine's Day to my red team and pentesting friends! Here's a little something to put you in the mood:

I've been really trying, baby
Trying to go hack this login for so long
And if you feel, like I steal baby
Come on, oh log on, ooh

Let's log it on, ow baby
Let's log it on, guess "love" baby
Let's log it on, "secret"
Let's log it on, woo

I attached a USB-C hub to my laptop dock using a flattened IKEA bracket and some 3M tape. Now I can easily use it and see both screens from my lap. A bit hacky but it works.

I was *this* close to writing up a parody of Britney Spears's "Toxic" covering today's news story about heavy metals discovered in baby food. I restrained myself this time as it seemed like it might be in bad taste.

Chromium accounted for 60 *billion* DNS queries per day and a code change resulted in a 41% drop in global root DNS server traffic: https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/chromium_cleanup_drops_dns_traffic/

I started using my Librem 5 with a laptop dock yesterday and wow this is game changing. I'm going to use this setup instead of my personal laptop for a month. I could *almost* replace my work laptop too.

They're gettin' jacked, I'm breakin' myself
I can't believe they takin' hedge funds' wealth
They took their rings, they took their Rolex
I looked at the Reddit, said $AG's next

Sixteen shorted stocks in portfolio
Reddit is about to make some hedge funds turn cold
Now they beggin' Janet Yellen it's a tad bit late
Hedge funds and SEC couldn't regulate

It was a clear black night, a clear white moon
Hedge funds was on Wall Street tryin' to consume
Some bets for the eve all made within my phone
Scrolling Robinhood, chillin all alone

Just hit the bad side of the SEC
On a mission tryin' to buy some $GME
Seen my app full of stocks, ain't no need to freak
All those suits know what's up with AMC

Chinese govt. probes backdoor infection: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/anal-swab-china-coronavirus/2021/01/27/cc284f56-6054-11eb-a177-7765f29a9524_story.html