ikmckenz (u/ikmckenz)

ikmckenz commented on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

profsummergig · 22 days ago

ref: "the new tobacco"

this last year i'm seeing very concerning behavior in students in the 14-20 range. complete addiction to their phones. very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed. similar to how when i started noticing anime girlfriends/waifus in 2016.

about 40% are deep in discord communities where i literally cannot figure out a single sentence of what they're talking about.

if society doesn't do something, and soon, say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations.

ikmckenz · 22 days ago

> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed ... say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations

I would think very deep interests in niche or obscure topics is correlated with increased cognitive ability, not a decrease.

ikmckenz commented on Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon bitwarden.com/blog/how-cr... · Posted by u/LopRabbit

Ethan312 · a month ago

Fascinating how blockchain’s transparency has flipped the script on crypto anonymity. Law enforcement now uses forensic tracing to dismantle criminal networks, from dark web markets to ransomware rings. The real challenge remains jurisdictional reach, not technical capability.

ikmckenz · a month ago

Is this comment AI written?

ikmckenz commented on Look, Another AI Browser manuelmoreale.com/thought... · Posted by u/v3am

microtonal · 2 months ago

Another possible aspect of it is that probably more and more sites are blocking AI crawlers through e.g. Cloudflare's support for blocking AI crawler and AI agents. This will give them a backdoor to that content through a user's connection.

I am not sure if this is happening, but as blocking becomes more prevalent, having a widely-used browser will help.

ikmckenz · 2 months ago

Why won't these sites simply block this browser?

ikmckenz commented on ADS-B Exposed adsb.exposed/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

toomuchtodo · 2 months ago

https://airplanes.live/get-started/

(other sites are corporate or have sold out [adsbexchange], happy to contribute reasonable costs to get a feed, no affiliation, I just like sensor feeds, thank you for the offer and consideration)

ikmckenz · 2 months ago

What's the story behind adsbexchange selling out?

ikmckenz commented on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody tftc.io/treasury-iexpandi... · Posted by u/bilsbie

dataflow · 3 months ago

I think the crucial bit you're missing is that the fundamental disagreement boils down to whether a properly-signed-and-executed warrant ought to be sufficient for the government to get its hands on evidence or otherwise do what it needs to do to deliver justice.

To you, he seems to believe Yes, and to him, I think you seem to believe No. Historically, the answer has been Yes, and crypto has fundamentally changed that. I think crystallizing exactly why you believe the right answer is No is essential, otherwise you're just not going to convince people on that side -- in their mind, I think, you're demanding more rights than you historically had, and at the cost of protecting the rest of the population.

ikmckenz · 3 months ago

No, historically the vast majority of communication was not recorded, and so a warrant could not be used to access the communication. The fact of the modern world is that for the first time in history almost everything we do is recorded, and so subject to those warrants.

ikmckenz commented on The great AI delusion is falling apart mikemcbrideonline.com/202... · Posted by u/speckx

Mars008 · 5 months ago

> “The results surprised us,” research lab METR reported. “Developers thought they were 20pc faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19pc slower when they had access to AI than when they didn’t.”

They forgot about training and practice. Try it with airplanes. "The results surprised us. Given Boeing 777 they thought they will get from London to New York in 7 hours, but they actually couldn't even get off the ground. In fact they couldn't even start the engines."

ikmckenz · 5 months ago

> They forgot about training and practice. Try it with airplanes. "The results surprised us. Given Boeing 777 they thought they will get from London to New York in 7 hours, but they actually couldn't even get off the ground. In fact they couldn't even start the engines."

If your "AI Assistant" is as hard to operate as a trans-Atlantic flight on a Boeing 777, perhaps it's not a very good assistant?

ikmckenz commented on Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase cnbc.com/2025/07/02/adp-j... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

bilsbie · 6 months ago

It sounds silly but we should take it one step further and look at life satisfaction. Who cares about jobs if people are unhappy?

Stay at home parents could be way more valuable than more Wall Street jobs.

ikmckenz · 6 months ago

I would expect that data to be mostly noise though, after all, there is pretty strong evidence towards some soft form of "set point" level of happiness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

ikmckenz commented on XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne xbow.com/blog/top-1-how-x... · Posted by u/summarity

moyix · 6 months ago

The main difference is that all of the vulnerabilities reported here are real, many quite critical (XXE, RCE, SQLi, etc.). To be fair there were definitely a lot of XSS, but the main reason for that is that it's a really common vulnerability.

ikmckenz · 6 months ago

All of them are real? You have a 100% rate of reports closed as valid?

ikmckenz commented on XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne xbow.com/blog/top-1-how-x... · Posted by u/summarity

ikmckenz · 6 months ago