Playoff baseball is a mood
The Browns despair this year feels a like 2009 under the abysmal Eric Mangini regime. That was the year that broke me as a Browns fan. They went 1-11 to start the year and their only win in that stretch was 6-3 baseball score.
Not sure if ChatGPT is the best LLM out there, but it’s consistently the one with which I can iterate the fastest. I tried using Gemini for some image-generation tasks. DALLE is so good for making small edits to colors, aspect ratio, etc. With Gemini, I couldn’t get it to stop making square images.
Just tried using Gemini for image generation and I can’t seem to get it to output any other aspect ratios than square. I’m trying to get it to make a 16:9 YouTube background based on a podcast logo and it keeps giving me square images and getting the color palette wrong.
Did you know you can catch the live video version of It’s a Thing with Molly Wood and Tom Merritt on YouTube? Streaming today at 6 pm ET www.youtube.com/live/MJx4…
Excited for this week’s Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review with Jason Shockey. Talking about Salt Typhoon taking advantage of wiretap access, privacy destroying smart glasses, and insurers funding ransomware payments. Goes live at 3:30pm ET. www.youtube.com/watch
I hadn’t updated my Micro Blog sources in a while and didn’t realize I can crosspost to Threads now, super useful!
Thoughts on Microsoft, Arm, and Macs
A few thoughts on Microsoft’s recent AI-PC and Surface announcements: It’s weird to describe the new Surfac...Intel’s chip making business lost $222 a second in 2023.
I enjoy that the Verge’s AI content policy is to only include it sarcastically on Brother laser printer posts.
“Instagram founders' news app acquired by Yahoo” is the most ignoble form of death.
I continue to be impressed by 404 Media. Full text RSS is definitely a feature I’d pay for.
I was very tempted to get this two-year lease deal on an Hyundai Ioniq 6. I’ve been wanting to get an EV and this would be the perfect secondary car to test the waters for a limited time. Problem is there are currently only 6 listed for sale within 300 miles of my house (which has a bunch of fairly large markets, like Chicago, Indy, Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh), and all of these seem to have already left dealer lots. Looks like my EV dreams will have to wait.
Also the entire process of contacting any dealer is a hellscape.
Extremely good vibes on the CISO Series Week in Review with Gerald Auger. He brought the Simply Cyber crew in the chat, super fun time. Also I may have solved IOT security in the episode. www.youtube.com/live/mJvm…
I can buy Topo Chico hard seltzer and mixers in Cleveland, but not regular Topo Chico
The launch of Threads is proof that Meta can keep shipping good usable products. But I often don’t like engaging with it on a very personal level. It suffers from the “birthday” problem, where friends and family find one of your interests and then that’s all you ever get for gifts for the rest of time. I know if I mention something I enjoy, Threads default feed will soon serve it back to me, with a heaping of engagement bait influencers on top. So I keep it pretty chill and use its algorithmic feed for internet zeitgeist stuff.
Considering how easy it is to compost coffee and paper filters, I’m glad to see Keurig finally removing K-cup landfill waste with their new Alta system. But let’s not delude ourselves into seeing this as just another way to make a proprietary coffee pod, the environmental optics are gravy.
It’s amazing how little space in my head is left for this social network. Saw that X is doing articles and was amused how little it mattered to me.
Making Sense of Nikon Buying RED
With Nikon buying the cinema camera maker RED, I was trying to research what this deal would mean. Certainly it gives Ni...Camera manuals are never not great
The lunatics at Lomography made a new 110 camera
Lomography often gets chided by some in the film photography community. The rub is usually something like they make chea...Linux Desktop Marketshare Hits 4%
Saw this report of Linux desktop marketshare hitting 4%, up 1% in less than a year. Curiously it doesn’t mention t...Made this as part of a game to choose which Disney princess or villain would make the best CISO. Running a live stream of the CISO Series cybersecurity game show at 1pm ET, here’s the link if you want to join. Chatroom determines the winners for most games, should be a fun time!
So it turns out buying white label IoT devices from anonymous Chinese firms isn’t the best idea for your privacy. Not that being an established brand means you’ll do much better in terms of security architecture. Remember what Wyze, Eufy, and Ring did?
But this example seems like another level of ineptitude. Not only are the vulnerabilities trivial (you can war dial URLs to get access to camera images), but the vulnerability comes from across anonymous cheap brands sold at various outlets. This will make messaging difficult because it’ll be a bulk list of brands you don’t know.
This is the memorial that TinyLetter deserved. I never used the service as a writer. Arguably I joined it just off-peak in 2017 to do a newsletter of family photos. But I deeply appreciated it’s dead simple interface, purpose, and lack of any kind of upselling. It’s incredibly rare to find a fully functional online platform that doesn’t try to sell you something. TinyLetter didn’t just deemphasize any commerce considerations, it lacked them completely. There was no mechanism to buy a service through it. Of course, this it certain to be on Intuit’s chopping block eventually.