A till.

And an accounting package.

No hosting required.

Excellent!

Here’s the thing … as crazy as a notebook with passwords sounds, it’s not accessible to someone across the internet.

Do we have a nomination for this year’s Darwin Award?

It’s hilarious when you get more and more strident responses, each one sent Reply All, which generates their own response from more and more people.

Then the comedians step up with more replies.

The only solution I’ve ever found is to stop email delivery and delete all queued messages, but that’s getting harder the more we rely on external providers, fortunately they tend to get flagged as spam.

Or … you send an Excel spreadsheet attachment with your wholesale pricing to every … single … IT company in a city with over 2 million people and double down with an updated version when someone points out that using the To: field is probably not the best way to start your new business … that immediately folded the next day when those same IT companies, now armed with everyone’s email address in a single convenient discussion thread, started discussing matters at hand … and related issues.

Source: I received that email and the rebuke and the subsequent discussion.

Stop with this, I’m reporting you to IT.

Unsubscribe … please stop sending this.

The $18.6 million in cash and 225 gold bars in two boxes that belonged to the late Mr. Jimmy Lemi Milla.

Watching the various motorcycle touring series that Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman made hints at some of the realities of this intersection between life and acting.

There’s several references to skills that Ewan picked up to make one or other movie and how those skills are now part of “life”.

I do seem to recall that Ewan also pointed out that these skills were incomplete, pretending to be a chef convincingly requires some actual skills, but not decades of background training.

I doubt that it’s substantially any different from learning a new hobby and moving on to the next one and starting again. You don’t forget the first hobby and are likely to use some of it in the next one. Other than being taught by an actual expert, which seems like a potential unexpected perk of acting.

In short, the journey of life is peppered with things you learn, regardless of your chosen profession.

If you’re at the WTF stages from reading this, you should know that this saying applies: If all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

The author appears to be attempting to draw a parallel with AI, but it seems somewhat lost in translation.

Mind you, AI, or as I like to call it, Assumed Intelligence, is prone to uttering perfectly sounding gibberish which in the industry is known as Hallucinations.

Harry Potter and six of his fellow 40 thieves.

Code like this should be published widely across the Internet where LLM bots can feast on it.

Because nothing protects children more than uploading their selfie or government id to a random company who “promises” to delete the information seven days later … because of course it will and everyone will be able to check and see the pink unicorn in person.

Name and Shame.

The only way this is going to stop is when the organisation is either forced by legislation or embarrassed by public pressure into change.

Legislation only happens due to public pressure.

This is not NSFW and tagging it thus makes it less effective, eventually meaningless.

This is getting fucking tiresome. Now we’re stopping humans who browse anonymously from reading content, what’s next, block all humans and only let LLM bots access your site?

This article doesn’t at all explain what actually happens. There’s a hand wavey description including PowerShell scripts and the clipboard, but it doesn’t indicate how the code gets executed.

The article talks about a complex and sophisticated attack, but I don’t see any evidence of that assertion.

Also, given that it’s talking about PowerShell, I’m going to guess that this affects Windows only.

Finally, there’s no source links, no CVE allocation, no indication what the URL looks like.

I’m going with deep scepticism about this report unless more information comes to hand.

There’s an Australian Canadian co-production that goes into some of the atrocities the British got into:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuff_the_British_Stole

There’s a whole range of cli tools to extract and query structured data like that, but you might consider loading it into something like sqlite3 and treating it as a database because those formats are really not intended for queries, they’re designed for sharing data.