I started today’s presentation with “I went into security engineering because I love public speaking and I’m really good at it”.
Sometimes you have to commit to the lie.
I saw a guy wearing a nylon shirt and matching cargo shorts, both clean but faded from too many washes, a plain non-matching ball cap, black sneakers, about 30 tools clipped to his belt, and a couple of ID badges. He was a phone lineman, maybe an electrician, perhaps a fiber optic engineer, with a broken in outfit he’d worn to work every day for months.
The perfection nearly caught my breath. Guy dressed like that, there’s not a room in the country where a security guard wouldn’t buzz him in.
My OpenClaw, summarizing my day’s adventures:
“Solid evening flow though. Car bodywork → Animal Crossing → Cyberpunk. The perfect arc of ‘paid labor, chill labor, and violent labor.’”
I’ve had fun building Scrapwire. Lately I’ve had fun playing with OpenClaw, too. I didn’t like its communication channel options, though. Signal is great but the integration is a little flaky. Same with iMessage, and that could be a privacy risk. WhatApp? LOL no. So I made a Scrapwire channel for OpenClaw, and now I’m talking to my little AI cat via Scrapwire, Veilid, and cypherspace.
There’s no central server to spy on me or gather metadata, no direct connection requirements that expose my OpenClaw to the Internet, and all of Veilid’s privacy and encryption goodness. I’m happy with how it turned out.
For the life of me, this looks like an angel reaching heavenward.
Even our fruit is getting into the AI business.
Enjoy the little things in life, like the unsubscribe button in an email taking you to a form requiring you to type in your full name and email address and reason for leaving, so you feed the email to SpamSieve instead, and then a few minutes later seeing that a brand new email from the same company went straight to spam because the filter knows how to file it appropriately now.
Life’s too short not to appreciate the quiet moments of beauty.
AI prompt of the day:
You export an app’s user list and want to import it into Okta before you sync the 2. Okta gives you a CSV template to download, usually (always?) called okta-csv-template.csv, but its format varies per-application.
“Please rewrite employees-export.csv in the format of okta-csv-template.csv.”
This saves so much tedium.
Meta Has Created a Prediction Markets App - The New York Times
The app would be independent of Meta’s other social media offerings, although sources told the paper that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.
Oh sure, why not. I suppose they’ve already ruled out selling vapes or meth, or at least haven’t added those business units to their annual filings yet.
I truly wonder if Meta’s Downfall as a Service umbrella has ever rejected an idea as being too detrimental to society, and if so, how awful did it have to be to cross that line?
I’ve recently seen a small flood of my personal and work emails (and group aliases) getting responses from many other companies’ support emails, as though someone were opening support tickets using my addresses. Is this some weird variant of push bombing? Or maybe someone getting me to train my spam filters to reject support emails so that Ill miss an important one (like “we’ve received your request to transfer your domain name; reply to cancel”) or such?