Paragone

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[–] Paragone@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Back in the last century, iirc, or the very early 2000's, I logged-out of my desktop ( linux ) one time & discovered there was a new user on my machine..

the new username was "you are dead".

1st time I knew I'd been cracked.

Not a nice feeling.

Educational, however, & motivating..

did me good.

I'm glad the person was more interested in communicating my trusting foolishness to me, than in doing real harm..

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[–] Paragone@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Many years ago, it was discovered that Wine could run Windows viruses/worms/malware just fine, thank you very much..

"Sandboxing", it isn't.

It runs with all the privileges of the user running the app, iirc.

[–] Paragone@sh.itjust.works -4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I used to think like that, sorta.

Read Kegan & Lahey's "Immunity to Change" book, on people's unconscious-mind's mechanism for fighting-off growing-up.

Then let it percolate in your mind for a few decades, while you watch humankind's process.

I'd now make a law requiring that the top people be Kegan5 unconscious-mind-development ( he calls 3, 4, & 5 something like "socially-based sentience", rooted in needing to feel liked, "self-authoring" mind, which I call Bulling-BOSS mode, it's an obnoxious mode male-culture values because it's so "alpha".

Youtube's Wranglerstar & Veritasium are both poster-people for it, 1 in working-class Kegan4 the other in middle/upper-middle-class Kegan4, & both displaying Kegan4's obnoxiousness.

I spent most of my adult life in it, and wish I could just retroactively slice most of my life from Universe.

"systems-of-systems" mode is Kegan5. )

it's consistent that if you field a Kegan3 person to be your negotiation-representative, and the other side fields a Kegan4, you're run-over.

If you field a Kegan5 & they field a Kegan4, you're run-over.

IF they field a Kegan4, THEN you need equal/opposite bullying, in order that the zero-sum-game not beat your side to shit.

However, IF they have the uprightness to field a Kegan5 & you can too, THEN Win-Win becomes possible.

Young-adults, Kegan3's ( the Kegan3 stage can continue for the entire rest of a person's life, from post-adolescence to 100yo or more, but it is mentally/psychically a young-adult stage ), cannot accept that evil is real, the way someone mentally-older can.


Kegan3's are in the absorbing experience into their unconscious-mind, stage.

Kegan4's are in the pushing meaning out of their unconscious, "authoring" themselves through that unconscious-pushing-out process stage.

Kegan5's are in the this is true for them, that is true for these other people, the-other is true for me, and this is how it all fits together stage.

I'd not permit any naive Kegan3's to rule any major operation, nor permit any zero-sum-game-"validity" Kegan4's to rule anything important.

That book gives people the means of converting fighting-off-growing-up to actually-successfully-growing-up, and so it is worth many life-years or life-decades, to many.


Nobody in the whole world has any reason to accept that my values have any validity in them, though, that is true.

All who hold that there is no understanding which should be prerequisite to authority, well they all outnumber me, don't they?

shrug

This I've found tests to be true, however.


( bonus point:

it has been published that the DreamTeam formation is a team-of-7, with 2 who match the Kegan5 mental-development, 2 who match the Kegan4 mental-development, & 3 who match the Kegan3 mental-development.

The Kegan4's bursting with ideas, but not understanding all the systems-of-systems gotchas, means the team is more likely to be able to innovate,

the Kegan5's, if they can do it without demolishing the Kegan4's morale, can ask questions to corner the Kegan4's into considering all sorts of things they hadn't, so they prevent lots of stupid mistakes,

& the Kegan3's are the "glue" which holds the team coherent & harmonious.

I'm mixing multiple sources together, but they really were identifying the same thing, only each was doing-so without some of the other pieces.

New Scientist had an article on The Dream Team, years ago, Chris McGoff's book "The Primes" is part of it, the Kegan & Lahey book is part of it, some HBR stuff as well, perhaps some stuff from the managers-of-programmers books, what's her name, Roth? can't remember...

fit it together, though, and it fits properly: there is a balance which produces working momentum, instead of institutional-mentality, and that working momentum is based on the substance of the minds of the people in the team, and ignoring the unconscious-mind-development stage .. is ignoring the BIG part of each person's iceberg.

: )

[–] Paragone@sh.itjust.works -1 points 7 months ago

And pushing that ideology/religion as established/tested/validated science should be a criminal-offense.

Falsely representing oneself as something is criminal-fraud, in some jurisdictions..

Being the US, of course, there's little hope for integrity to win any case..

[–] Paragone@sh.itjust.works -1 points 7 months ago

Which makes the break-even point for such wingsails, which cost one hell of alot more than a few tonnes of fuel did .. rather far-away/long-term, doesn't it?


There was also a system using huge parachute-kite things, on carbon-nanotube-ropes, fired up into the sky with rocket-assist, and the things could apparently pull the ship, quite effectively...

.. the service-subscription the ship was supposed to pay-for gave them the optimal route for fuel-savings vs time-to-get-there..

here, it was sorta like this, but the kite-sail looked different, and I'm pretty-sure they were saying something about nanotube cable for the kite, and it wasn't just a concept, it was actually-working...

https://marinersgalaxy.com/giant-kite-pulls-ship-across-atlantic/


I seem to remember that at the beginning of covid, some shipping companies just shortened the bulbs on their hulls, to optimize for a slower cruising-speed, and saved money that way..

again, where's the break-even on it

[–] Paragone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

The ONLY way that peace could have been earned, in the West Bank, is...

  • an independent ( UN ) government, that wouldn't tolerate EITHER side's abuse, and systematically silenced bullying from the place
  • ALL necessary & sufficient infrastructure, healthcare, etc, in-place, AND NEUTRAL ( no Hamas, no Israel, NO politics in it: ONLY neutral facilitation-of-healthy-civil-process )
  • keep this silencing-of-any-bullying for 2-4 generations, until the enmity-addicted people were all out-from-power
  • THEN form a sane local-of-the-people government, gradually ceding from 1 to the other, celebrating the victory-against-prejudice ( on both sides ).

Neither side would tolerate/allow that.

TTBOMK, Israel has maintained about 100 dead Palestinians for every dead Israeli Jew, for many years, there is some sites on the 'web that have numbers for that, btw.

There is ZERO hope for any peace there, thanks to enmity being the addiction of sooo many, on both sides, who have authority, and therefore who use their authority to multiply enmity's reach throughout the cultures.

A "church of hatred & evil" that situation has become.

Heartbreaking waste of God-given LivingPotential & LivingOpportunity, from both populations..

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[–] Paragone@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

If you have the ability to take a look at either SANS website, and see their articles, or have your system show you all the automatic attacks hitting your machine, then maybe you will understand...

Botnets are coded to hammer-away at all possible internet-addresses, trying to break-in & highjack more machines, to include in the established criminal-machine that the botnet is...

SANS said, a decade or 2 ago, that it took, on average, something like 6 or 4 minutes for a new MS-Windows machine to be owned by some attack from the internet.

I've had linux machines cracked/owned, and wiped 'em to get 'em clean.

Having no immune-system is BAD.

Linux botnets, apple operating-system botnets, they exist.

I don't think there is any operating-system that is connected to the internet that doesn't have attacks coded to crack it.

I just looked at SANS.org, and they have totally changed, so they are now .. more a moneymaking-machine wanting B2B biz?

Here, though, are some cheat-sheets they made:

https://www.sans.org/posters/?msc=main-nav

They used to tell us the top-20 most effective protections for particular threats, identifying how prevalent the threats were, etc...

No idea who does that nowadays...