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Kyle Rankin

kyle@social.librem.one

<p>Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security &amp; infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.</p>

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    Did Turing realize his standards for computer intelligence made incentives to develop AI that are judged first on how well they deceive? Whether it&amp;apos;s lying about being human, lying about the quality/correctness of your work, or creating false images/audio/video presented as real, many (most?) current applications for &amp;quot;AI&amp;quot; and their metrics for success, seem to be founded on intentional deception. It seems risky &amp;amp; unethical to create intelligence where lying i...

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    Wrote for Linux Journal and it was a gas Every month, published Hack and / Wrote for a decade only to find LJ went bust, posts gone behind Wrote for Linux Journal and it was divine I wrote down everything on my mind A lot of great tips that now you can&amp;apos;t find LJ went bust, posts gone behind In between, I put the best columns in a book of mine It is now self-published with hardcover spine Paperback and ebook too, they all are good I sell them on Lulu https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/kyl...

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    Someone in the mobile Linux community modified my Librem Key USB smart card LUKS unlock script to also work for mobile. I tweaked it so now it can also use the built-in Librem 5 smart card reader. Now I have 2FA disk unlock on my Librem 5!

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    @cavaughan I have a pinwheel calculator just like that! But not a Russian model, it is a Brunswiga.

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    @cavaughan Once you know addition and subtraction, then multiplication is just repeated addition, with shifts to the left for each digit in the multiplier. Division is similar, but starts at the left of the dividend, and you subtract repeatedly until it underflows (the machine will ring a bell!) and then you add one back and shift right. Repeat until you have enough digits of precision to suit you.

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    (Apologies to Rick Astley) We&amp;apos;re no strangers to hacks You know the column, and so do I A full published book&amp;apos;s what I&amp;apos;m thinking of You wouldn&amp;apos;t get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you what I&amp;apos;ve written Gotta make you understand It&amp;apos;s the Best of Hack and / It&amp;apos;s a Linux admin class You can order and real fast send to you Hardback&amp;apos;s awesome I won&amp;apos;t lie Paperback is a close tie With the ebook you can buy o...

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    @hehemrin @katherined Thank you!

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    Today is my last day at Purism after being there for over five years. I&amp;apos;m marking the event on my Tempus Nectit knitting machine clock with a white stripe. #knitting

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    I host my own email, DNS, website, and many other services, so I figure I should probably host my own mastodon instance as well. Plus as @aral always says, it&amp;apos;s good for the Fediverse to have more smaller instances. So I&amp;apos;m going to attempt the Mastodon server migration now, which means if you follow me, it *should* automatically move you. If not, you can follow me @kyle.