2026 saw the adoption of agent harnesses by some of the more risk averse groups in the industry. By any other measure, deploying year-old technology would not be considered particularly risk-averse. However, in the AI er…
read →Hey! You don't have to do this anymore. There's a handy dandy flow available in the in-app settings. If successful, you will immediately give up control of your current *.bsky.social handle, which may then be available f…
read →Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you belie…
read →This is a look into Stacks, as a potential smart contract platform which uses the Bitcoin blockchain as a foundation. Stacks is the brainchild of [[Muneeb Ali]]. The earliest research I have found is in Dr. Ali's thesis:…
read →Many things drove the success of the internet. From a socio-techno perspective, perhaps the largest driver was the Internet Protocol as a "thin waist" for the TCP/IP stack as a whole. By centralising around a single mid-…
read →Gather System Information systeminfo systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"OS NAME" /C:"OS Version" - check OS version netstat -ano - check active network connections netsh firewall show state - firewall settings netsh firewall s…
read →First step when attempting to elevate permissions is gathering information. You should endevour to discover: Distro type, Kernel version, etc cat /etc/issue cat /proc/version hostname uname -a Running applications and se…
read →Login attempts should be limited to a rate which is reasonable for a normal human to achieve. Any more attempts than (for example) one attempt per second should raise suspicion. Many systems implement automatic account l…
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