CCC always has been explicit far left/green, looking at its history, as other people in here have mentioned.
I think it would be fair to say that the club as a whole has become more open about that, I think that's more owed to a lot of folks driving initiatives feeling like the walls are closing in on them though and I can't exactly fault them for that :)
In the morning I finished figuring out how Vivotek cameras store private keys for AWS KVS streaming. They are encrypted on disk. Disassembling some executables I managed to reverse engineer the encryption keys. Apparently Vivotek things obscurity is security…
With the encryption keys we can switch to a custom made solution, while reusing the same certificates as before.
You're upset that an encrypted stream needs encryption keys? And that you need physical access, the binaries themselves, and reverse engineering tools to get them?
I think you'll be surprised to learn you can do the same thing to any program which encrypts data
No, I’m not upset.
Private keys are necessary, that’s fine. Vivotek encrypts them additionaly, but stores the encryption keys right next to the encypted data.
One could use TPM chip to store the keys, rather than such useless obscure encryption, which looks secure, but it’s not.
Nearly-static content is where you want even fewer keyframes than usual. In a situation like this you need them when the connection is interrupted and you reset things, and not much of anywhere else.
You wouldn’t use 1fps in conjunction with GOP 60. The original article wanted exactly one key frame every 60 frames and the server drops all frames other than keyframes. I was pointing out that this is a roundabout way of achieving 1 fps.
As with many other similar sites, it’s time to get off YouTube as well. The times when one could watch good content not made for money, are over. It’s about watching as much content as you can, the more addictive the better.
Not really, by most indications AI seems to be an amplifier more than anything else. If you have strong discipline and quality control processes it amplifies your throughput, but if you don't, it amplifies your problems. (E.g. see the DORA 2025 report.)
So basically things will still go where they were always going to go, just a lot faster. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
I meant it more as an observation than an optimistic prediction, really :-)
The article is sound, but it's focus on large public failures disregards the vast, vast, vast majority of the universe of software projects that nobody really thinks about, because they mostly just work -- websites and mobile apps and games and internal LoB CRUD apps and cloud services and the huge ecosystem of open source projects and enterprise and hobby software.
Without some consideration of that, we cannot really generalize this article to reflect the "success rate" of our industry.
That said, I think the acceleration introduced by AI is overall a "Good Thing (tm)" simply because, all else being equal, it's generally better to fail faster rather than later.
"If you do everything right that you weren't doing before, but with 80% fewer people and the Lie Generator that doesn't work, then you will be successful."
Edited to add: To clarify, I meant that if an organization was going to deliver a billion-dollar boondoggle of a project, AI will not change that outcome, but it WILL help deliver that faster. Which is why I meant it's not necessarily a bad thing, because as in software, it's generally better to fail faster.
"Worse" won't even start to describe the economical crisis we will be in once the bubble bursts.
And although that, in itself, should be scary enough, it is nothing compared to the political tsunami and unrest it will bring in its wake.
Most of the Western world is already on shaky political ground, flirting with the extreme-right. The US is even worse, with a pathologically incompetent administration of sociopaths, fully incapable of coming up with the measures necessary to slow down the train of doom careening out of control towards the proverbial cliff of societal collapse.
If the societal tensions are already close to breaking point now, in a period of relative economical prosperity, I cannot start to imagine what they will be like once the next financial crash hits. Especially one in the multi trillion of dollars.
They say that humanity progresses through episodes of turmoil and crisis. Now that we literally have all the knowledge of the world at our fingertips, maybe it is time to progress past this inadequate primeval advancement mechanism, and to truly enter an enlightened age where progress is made from understanding, instead of crises.
Unfortunately, it looks like it's going to take monumental changes to stop the parasites and the sociopaths from making at quick buck at the expense of humanity.
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