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I’ve been enjoying tinkering with dialup over POTS and VoIP for a few years now. I don’t miss messing around with serial ports, dodgy…

An AI discussion about Online Forums (bulletin boards), history, use and management.

https://www.adamcasson.com/posts/transformer-flops Counting the number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) in Transformers is a useful way to estimate compute requirements and measure efficiency. As training runs…

Key vulnerabilities to watch  1. Signal jamming & spoofing: Jamming floods a satellite’s receivers with gobbledygook, cutting off legitimate users. Spoofing mimics real signals to…

Produced using NotebookLM, this podcast episodes from our friendly AI overlord talks about the evolution of information networks and how people communicate, and the…

“A plurality of experts think sweeping societal change will make life worse for most people as greater inequality, rising authoritarianism and rampant misinformation take…

I happened upon a need for an SMTP ETRN client, specifically to make a proxmox pve mail filtering system notify a backup postfix mail…

Early in the creation of his second start-up, Musk had conviction about its name: X.com. This was, Musk believed, simply “the coolest URL on the internet.”

I was looking around for a dialup ISP tonight and thought, “oh hey, what about Juno”. They (and Netzero) offer 10 hours of free…

This past week, Kevin Mitnick passed away (peacefully) after a battle with with Pancreatic Cancer. Kevin Mitnick was a renowned computer security expert and…