Readit Newsnocsi commented on Why 1Password hasn't released an MCP server blog.1password.com/where-... · Posted by u/flxfxp
The 'problems' 1password faces... Apple has solved. I quit using 1password around 3 years ago, but at the time they were going all in on SaaS and quietly memory-holing the local-first vault approach that people were using them for. You know, letting people reference a sqlite db on icloud, google drive or whatever and that can be synced. 1Password cites credential leakage and security as a reason for for not implementing MCP, but they're giving the impression that MCP is the issue. Mind you, 1password has a very similar model to lastpass, that had 16bln creds leaked.
But seriously, Apple is actually in a better position to let mcp into their services if they wanted. The user credentials are all bound to your physical devices, which in turn cooperate to give a measure of identity to you. You don't need to let MCP have full access to everything, the secure enclave can generate short-lived certs. I'd be surprised if passkeys weren't able to do that already.
nocsi commented on Tsunami warning was issued in Alaska after 7.3 magnitude earthquake [updated] tsunami.gov/... · Posted by u/notmysql_
Glad I had the inkling to hoard gallons of fresh water and canned anchovies just this past week. I'm in Seattle btw, I remember this year we had a power outage the neighborhood people spent the entire week huddling around a fire in the culdesac.
And if the earthquake doesn't scare them, the volcano that triggers will. And if they're still not prepared, there's also the tsunami.
So technically the OS is supposed to be handling this, or at the least whatever app you're in is supposed to signal the MIME to the pasteboard. They even updated the APIs for it this year. I'm not complaining, just giving away loose headsup that they might rugpull you. Apple is particularly not a fan of oblique data transformations, especially since malware keeps going after the user's pasteboards.
Something worth implementing is multiple layers to the pasteboard content, so you're at least maintaining the original raw bytes. That and I always wanted a pasteboard that let you append contents to it. Just some ideas to consider
Now we see the true business value of AI to a CEO: when you justify a layoff because of AI it makes you seem smarter.
These same CEOs still don't realize that AI is very suited to replacing executive roles and outperforms your average CEO in every aspect without the human downsides. Shareholders would be way more interested in having a static board of AIs running public companies than replacing lowly workers that frankly will always be relatively cheap.
On the same coin, a lot of government can probably be performed by AI as well. Reminds me The Matrix where humanity delegates all governance to AI/machines
nocsi commented on AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx
> High-core-count servers are the cutting edge in datacenters, and they're so insane, most software doesn't even know how to handle it.
Why not? We hit the single thread wall more than a decade ago. Why isn’t more software parallelized by now?
There's overhead with parallelization. Security issues, race conditions and resource contention. I think the big one is its ass to debug.
nocsi commented on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago neowin.net/news/crowdstri... · Posted by u/taubek
I used to work in this space, and I always had the nagging question of "is any of this stuff actually useful?"
It seems a hard question to answer, but are there any third party studies of the effectiveness of Crowdstrike et al. or are we all making our lives worse for some security theater?
It’s like trying to study the effectiveness of antivirus. But you already said it. As long as it produces consumable metrics a c-level can ingest, then it’s worth it. Because really, how does it make sense to add something so invasive? Anyways in the 90s, antivirus makers also wrote viruses. They’d go on to flood networks with their creations, but magically block infection for their subscribers.
nocsi commented on A new company is shipping Arctic ice from Greenland to Dubai cnn.com/2024/03/01/climat... · Posted by u/jonifico
And Saudi Arabia maintains several pieces of land w/ water rights to import & extract water as alfaalfa. You’d think they’d leverage their oil and build out desalination plants
nocsi commented on You Want to Fix Boeing? Prosecute Its Executives thefp.com/p/fix-boeing-pr... · Posted by u/fortran77
It’s important to note that Boeing has indeed received substantial subsidies and tax breaks over the years, comparable to or even exceeding those provided to Airbus by the EU. For instance, Washington state alone has granted Boeing tax breaks worth about $9 billion. Additionally, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that both the EU’s support for Airbus and the US’s benefits to Boeing violated trade rules, leading to tariffs on both sides.
So, while the EU has certainly supported Airbus, the US government has also heavily subsidized Boeing, creating a complex and competitive landscape in the aerospace industry. This context is crucial when discussing the challenges and decisions faced by both companies.
The Washington state tax package was to coerce Boeing to stay. To which to ate it and proceeded to move its HQ to Chicago and migrate manufacturing to North Carolina. WA state != US gov. Contrast Microsoft to Boeing. Taxpayers dob’t have to feed Microsoft to get them to work on public works. They are self-motivated to improve their environment, which in turns improves the quality of life for their workers and the residents.
Microsoft actually has a design for mini datacenters that stay cool in the ocean and collect tidal energy. But it's way more fun to have states trying to court you into building datacenters cause it'll bring some jobs.