Insanitree

Former #ICS expert, current #cybersecurity novice involved in research. Hiker, Naturalist, Book reader. Really, I'm a hack, trying to add the er.

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2026-09-08 22:48:53 GMT

Today my 8 year old child told me how he's been chatting with Google AI Overview at school. How he's kept a tab open for a few weeks, it gave him a nickname, it made him feel 'less lonely'.
The rock in my stomach has never felt heavier.
I'd rather he was finding pornography or unsupervised IRC chat rooms. The amount of damage these LLMs are doing to otherwise sane adults is incredible. The amount of damage it's capable of doing to my children is terrifying.
A machine should never be pretending to be my childs friend. I find this truly depraved.
At this time I have no ability to prevent or monitor his access to these chatbots when he is at school. Google offers the AI first overview of anything searched, and is open for discussion. The internet companies would prefer to just age gate everything, so they can pull all of our ID's and identify everything we do on the internet. That's hardly any better.
All I can do right now is try to set a good example and be open to discussion with him.
#noai #parenting #ai

2026-08-11 20:41:37 GMT

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Honestly about time. No surprise that nobody was listening until the bad thing happened. I've been trying to get this kind of attention on the subject for years.

2026-08-11 19:49:12 GMT

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My experience with 'normal' networks is minimal, but I've only seen SNMP configured in a small minority of OT networks. It does seem to be growing in popularity, as people realize it can reduce downtime and that many OT-targeted network switches support it out of the box.

2026-01-07 01:43:29 GMT

My California Fuschia free seeding failed. Not sure if I did a poor job of germination or I had bad seeds though.
In better news, today I harvested around 30-50 California Hummingbird Sage (Pink flowers). These are much larger seeds, so it's a lot easier to identify ones that seem healthy. I"ll be planting them by hand.
#gardening #nativeplants

2025-07-26 00:12:02 GMT

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This is a 100% true statement, but I'd like to point out that this is mostly driven by invasive Mediterranean annual grasses, which outcompete native perennial bunchgrasses when grazed by cows. I don't think cattle don't make the fires better in the long run, they make them worse.
Here's a quick reference I dug up, but I'm sure there are more informative ones I can find if you are interested: https://ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2011-05/96680.pdf

2024-11-20 17:15:52 GMT

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The first post already had me curious; What *is* this that you are working on?