Technically, this is CGI.
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) October 18, 2019
Computers are very, very different now. https://t.co/nYd3ieuTXz
My sense is that changing liability dynamics due to climate change breaks the business model of PG&E. There’s some apparent jank, in terms of safety spend vs. dividends paid to investors, but I don’t see how this infrastructure requirement still works as a private concern.
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) October 10, 2019
New crypt currencies expose what I call,Satoshi’s Gap.
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) June 20, 2019
Currencies mean you either do a globally agreed known hard thing (mine metal) or a locally agreed unknown hard thing (work for the metal miner).
New currencies are new metal.
Hard to find new metal.
Easy to find new math. https://t.co/cCOY8tMJQi
Me: “Why the hell isn’t this working?” *deletes entire working set, rebuilds* “Why is this still not working??? Wait a second…” pic.twitter.com/YZaj5EbTi7
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) June 18, 2019
Huh. Been a while since I’ve seen monotonically increasing compressed file size tell a story. Last time was when it became clear the easiest way to see which of a group of photos was in focus, was to find the biggest JPEG. Focus blur is quite compressible! pic.twitter.com/7WRRcQmUmu
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) June 8, 2019
OH:
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) May 18, 2019
The Keanu Reeves Four-fold Path:
Bill & Ted: Be excellent to one another.
Speed: do not engage bad faith actors on their terms.
The Matrix: Step out of your worldview and listen to those doing the work toward revolution.
John Wick: Destroy those who delight in cruelty.
tl,dr: Deepfakes on surveillance video will emerge organically if we don’t recognize them as an obvious failure mode. Moon mode is just the harmless expression of semantically meaningful noise, a risk underlying this entire space.
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) April 26, 2019
Data lies and wants you to be wrong.
https://t.co/MLm1HyUs5v
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) December 28, 2018
“I’ve been trying to figure out why the removal of the headphone port bugs me more than other ports…and I think it’s because the headphone port almost always only made me happy.”
It feels a lot different now, working in technology. This is what changed
It’s oddly reminding me of robotics, which is getting *much* richer control loops. “Well, we assumed X…we got Y…can we solve for this?”
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) August 29, 2018
A lot of code has been trying, very very hard, to know all the ways the world isn’t what we expected it to be. That magic is crazy.
One of my friends just pointed me at two amazing quotes, the latter from Benny Hill:
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) July 22, 2018
“Never pet a burning dog”
“Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect”
overlapping simple systems creating emergent complex structure at wildly different and *nonlinear* scales in both time and space
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) July 14, 2018
rule everything around me https://t.co/Xdwm9Rb1st