This was my first thought as well. Monorepos are one of the worst antipatterns in development. The article feels like an addict or member of an unhealthy relationship spinning yet another way to avoid addressing the root cause.
"The traditional approach to marriage didn't work for us. But then we realized that co-habitating (or even living near each other), sharing resources, and even communicating with each other are goals that don't apply to everyone. That's how we invented the 'live 500 km apart and never communicate with each other again' style of marriage, and it saved our relationship."
Agreed. I was lucky and found both a CZ-1 and a VZ-10m at low cost in the late 90s/early 2000s. I'm happy to see people exploring their synthesis mechanism in a form with a better UI.
The rings remind me of shock diamonds. Is the similar appearance a coincidence, or is it a similar physical process too (but with gravity pulling the column downward instead of a jet engine pushing exhaust outward)?
> Restricting access to certain networks is supposed to be hard in 2026?
Part of the power of LLM agents is that they can discover information on the internet as part of responding to a prompt. What kind of Allowlist or realistic denylist would permit that while also preventing them from accessing an obscure public wiki or Huggingface?
When testing, you restrict to a LAN which simulates the real internet. This would not be hard for a company which already copied the entire space-time of the internet. The LAN should be physically disconnected from the real internet. This is the first thing off the top of my head, and I have zero credentials in this space. C'mon.
If it makes you feel any better, I've also never had any luck finding hidden rock art, petroglyphs, or similar using multispectal bandpass filters or decorellation stretching.
I was super excited about DCS based on some of the recovered petroglyph photos online, and integrated it into some software I wrote years ago.[1] Still hoping I find something as interesting with it as the fellow mentioned in the article. It works, but I haven't had a "gosh, I never would have seen that without DCS!" moment.
VMware Workstation has historically been the most "it just works" option if one needed solid USB passthrough support. I've bought my own license for about 15 years because of that. Obviously I won't be doing that anymore because I refuse to subscribe instead of buying a permanent license.
I've been out of the infrastructure engineering space for a long time, but when that was still my career, vSphere was extremely reliable and easy to manage. When I've poked my head back in during pen tests since then, it's seemed like that was still the case.
Feels like Broadcom wants to use the Microsoft/Oracle/Cisco business model. They'll probably get away with it (at least for awhile) in the enterprise space, but they seem to have reached the same conclusion as me - Workstation and Fusion don't have enough exclusive aspects to be make the consumer market worth pursuing.
> Does the existence of lock picks or bolt cutters render padlocks pointless today
A padlock shouldn't be the only component of the bigger physical security picture.
A random person carrying/using bolt cutters or trying to pick a lock looks suspicious, and should be noticed by on-site staff or whoever is monitoring the security cameras.
If the padlock is decent, there will also be an inherent delay involved in bypassing it using those tools, which should increase the likelihood of the person being noticed.
If the padlock is used in an unattended/unmonitored location (i.e. a remote vacation house with no neighbours and no security cameras), then the padlock is probably only good for keeping honest people honest.
A lot of physical security => information security analogies are misleading for the same reason. In information security, it's very possible for an adversary to have effectively unlimited time to perform their attack (or to develop the means to perform the attack quickly).
Imagine a scenario where any determined person could e.g. spend a month in their home workshop and develop a pair of gloves containing transducers that would vibrate any padlock open in seconds. They could mimic the action of using the key or entering the combination to avoid looking suspicious. Also, the gloves have a button that instantly creates another pair of the same gloves at no cost. How much value would a padlock have in that scenario? That's the kind of asymmetric playing field one has to consider in information security contexts.
Some screens are like that, but it's not an inherent property of all visual displays.
For example, you'll see a sort of barber-pole effect when pointing a video camera at a raster-scan digital display whose refresh rate isn't synced to the camera's frame rate. To avoid that, sync them, or maybe use a colour e-ink display.
Alternatively, print a high-resolution version with a decent photograph printer and take a picture of the print with the C2PA camera.
I don't know how common it is, but Control (PS4 era) has an extensive cheat system accessible from the options menu, and Saros (PS5 era) has a wide variety of settings to make the game more or less difficult.
Yeah, I think overall it is trending better again, with the strictest terms being the Xbox 360/PS3 era. (Especially under the banner of Accessibility.)
"The traditional approach to marriage didn't work for us. But then we realized that co-habitating (or even living near each other), sharing resources, and even communicating with each other are goals that don't apply to everyone. That's how we invented the 'live 500 km apart and never communicate with each other again' style of marriage, and it saved our relationship."
I'm exaggerating, of course. Slightly.
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