Posts by targetdrone@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #AWr06o1DmgljTAsUAC by targetdrone@mastodon.social
       2023-06-19T15:50:40Z
       
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       @stux Keep your eyes wide open.The strategy "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" works like this: Big company acts nice and worms its way in. A year later they start adding 'features' to their instances that go beyond the original platform specs. Their users equate the new features to the overall platform and through adoption lock themselves into it; the original platform is eventually dismissed as old and limited. Defederation then would simply remove a thorn from their paw.
       
 (DIR) Post #AY6wbmPSluqjTWc2lc by targetdrone@mastodon.social
       2023-07-24T03:53:34Z
       
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       @burdickjp @pluralistic Even his book had the anti-Midas touch. His book was considered "required reading" for C-suite executives back in the 90s. And every executive who read it and implemented any of his stupid ideas ended up harming their own companies, often without any awareness of the damage they'd caused until it was too late.We'd hear of some stupid new policy and knew "the board's been reading 'Jack' again." It was that obviously bad.
       
 (DIR) Post #AY9454uvXFLUitN4mO by targetdrone@mastodon.social
       2023-07-28T06:52:15Z
       
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       @hackaday "Possibility"? That's precisely what "export strength" meant: 40 bit key length or less, so it could be intercepted and decoded by NSA-sized organizations in the 1970s and 80s. At its inception it was considered good enough to thwart private eavesdroppers; but by the early 1990s 40 bits had proven dangerously vulnerable. And as strong encryption became critically important for commerce, in 1997 most US export restrictions (ITAR) on crypto were dropped.
       
 (DIR) Post #An2uon4fthHWy4c0OW by targetdrone@mastodon.social
       2024-10-15T23:41:20Z
       
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       @foone Sounds about right. It was probably written in the late 2000s or so, during the rise of the "microservices" age, from the era when Enterprise Architects were going to save the world.Have pity on those who lived through that particular hell.
       
 (DIR) Post #AulU18N9IXV5ZWJugi by targetdrone@mastodon.social
       2025-06-03T20:48:02Z
       
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       @xkcd Ooo, we have a Budget Overrun type here in Minneapolis! The Sabo Bridge!
       
 (DIR) Post #AzkhQLgxHeLB2Y183E by targetdrone@mastodon.social
       2025-10-31T01:04:05Z
       
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       @stux Hunt the Wumpus
       
 (DIR) Post #B1g4UG8tcJ2Gy0WG9I by targetdrone@mastodon.social
       2025-12-27T15:13:10Z
       
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       @futurebird Picking just one of any of these categories is not realistic. But I'll play along. 1. So as not to pick Bohemian Rhapsody, I'll say "I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band" by The Moody Blues. 2. "Music for Boys" by The Suburbs. It's a tragedy if it's not one of your favorites, too. 3. "Inner Universe" by Origa. And I don't even know ten words in Russian.