Getting to a trustless decentralized name authority has shown to be elusive.

"trustless decentralized" is the last thing I want from my name authority.

When I enter some-entity.com, I want to know I'll end up at some-entity's website, even if said entity made some mistakes in the past, like forgetting to renew it [0]. I also want paypa1.com and friends to be down permanently, not to serve fishing pages.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/2003/11/06/microsoft-forgets-to-ren...

How does such tape compare to 2" and 1/2" analogue reel to reel tape, in terms of production costs?

A new reel of Ampex 2" tape is $375.00 currently: https://vintageking.com/atr-magnetics-studio-master-tape-blu...

I don’t know but over the counter direct purchase single unit LTO 9 tapes are about £70-80 each in the UK for 18TB, in large volumes they are much cheaper, I’ve seen quotes in the £30 per tape and that wasn’t at a cloud provider or even massive enterprise scale or anywhere close to that.

An embodied robot can have a model of self vs. the immediate environment in which it's interacting. Such a robot is arguably sentient.

The "hard problem", to which you may be alluding, may never matter. It's already feasible for an 'AI/AGI with LLM component' to be "self-aware".

An internal model of self does not extrapolate to sentience. By your definition, a windows desktop computer is self-aware because it has a device manager. This is literally an internal model of its "self".

We use the term self-awareness as an all encompassing reference of our cognizant nature. It's much more than just having an internal model of self.

self-awareness is only one aspect of sentience.

A 6am raid from the feds is better than getting arrested. It is.

Actually, it's not. As someone who has been both raided by the feds and been arrested. Being raided is way more traumatic and gave me PTSD. Being arrested is easy as fuck. Being raided involves fully armed people busting into your home and tearing it apart and seizing all of your electronics.

Makes sense.

Would you be willing to share more about any of those situations?

I’ll add to the other comment: bursting in and searching your house will tramautize your whole family.

Compare that to an arrest warrant where you willfully turn yourself in.

DITE and CSPM are indeed important problems upon which to reflect security-wise.

But, reflecting on XSS: What a shame that we can't evolve our standards, protocols, software, and hardware to fix such issues fundamentally.

Mermaid is great, but is quirky.

LLM's are well-trained on Mermaid. Gemini specifically is fantastic as a 'diagram assistant'. I was able to create this diagram and a ton of other such diagrams quite easily with Gemini and Mermaid's live editor: https://nshkr.com/SecureSphere-Overview-20241102.png

VS Code recently added some AI-related features for Mermaid

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_95#_mermaid-diagram...

I frequently turn notes about infrastructure, pipelines or databases into diagrams with an LLM to ground my team's understanding.

The VSCode Mermaid plugin and the GH integration make this very simple to do.

Sometimes I feel they are even too much trained on Mermaid. I prefer graphviz but claude very often output a mermaid diagram even if I gave a valid graphviz example in my prompt.

I've been using the same, but with Chatgpt. Multiple iterations are needed to get what I want though. Cool trick is that you could import Mermaid using drawio.