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Comment My country did this, it went poorly (Score 2) 337

As you can imagine doing this does not improve anything, it gets worst year by year, now in some provinces of my country childs ends the school without reading well or doing math or whatever, nobody can lose a year so they go through without learning because there's no reason to study, just pass and pass and pass. It's the worst education nightmare, the way to convert a country in a poor third world one like mine. But, hey! the numbers are fantastic! nobody is left behind if you lower your standards!

Comment Just common sense (Score 2, Interesting) 81

Prompt engineering it's just learn to express things by yourself, it means you need to write exactly what you want and any LLM will understand you. The catch? Many juniors can't write what they want, they doesn't care about reading or writing, so... in the short term oldies will keep their jobs. If you had a good education and are not an alienated introvert, you'll be an "expert" with AI, just because you understand a problem and can ask, full of details, what you really want.

Comment Stop wasting money (Score 1) 141

Mozilla is wasting money in programs that aren't about web browsing at all, they have the size of a company without the income needed for that, they should reduce the size and only dedicate their effort to the browser development, but they grow and grow just to spend Google's money in their own personal benefit. That's the real reason Mozilla it's going to collapse, not the deal with Google, the waste of money they did not have.

Comment It's never going to work because Google (Score 1) 33

C'mon, if Chrome where an independient open and free source browser, then we'll never need something like this, but it doesn't, it's the product of the main culprit of the privacy lost on the internet, Google decides everything and they want to share our data and our private data to everyone else. Firefox is following this because the mismanagement at Mozilla, so soon we'll have no option and nobody will do a damn thing about it.

Comment Re:Law is not code (Score 2, Informative) 133

Nothing you say is real No need of paid tools, there's a ton of tools, you can add cache without cost, add Redis connection with just a click and so on. Only the Anti Spam, Akismet, is semi-paid (provided by Wordpress unless you have ads on your site), and you can put whaterver you want on it, you are not forced to use anything extra. It's relatively easy to mantain (if you know a little) and the refactoring thing doesn't happen often. Its versatile, you can use it or develop from zero your own CMS, but clients need a speedy option and they pay for it, so the huge ecosystem it has is really good for bussiness, and the openess it's a plus, you can develop whatever you want over it and keep it working, it's just PHP and MySQL, pretty easy.

Comment Re:Medium has a better business model than Substac (Score 1) 16

or... you can have your own blog for A LOT LESS, publish free to everyone and stop thinking magically you are gonna get paid for writing stuff (only), i'm on my 22 year doing it and it's still fantastic (and i even use my own CMS since 2002), just saying, with these models, Medium, Substack, Ghost, you always depends on a third party to have your own content online, I still prefer to have absolut control, a VPS is cheaper, installing it with Wordpress is trivial.
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Government Watchdog Hacked US Federal Agency To Stress-Test Its Cloud Security (techcrunch.com) 21

In a series of tests using fake data, a U.S. government watchdog was able to steal more than 1GB of seemingly sensitive personal data from the cloud systems of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The experiment is detailed in a new report by the Department of the Interior's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), published last week. TechCrunch reports: The goal of the report was to test the security of the Department of the Interior's cloud infrastructure, as well as its "data loss prevention solution," software that is supposed to protect the department's most sensitive data from malicious hackers. The tests were conducted between March 2022 and June 2023, the OIG wrote in the report. The Department of the Interior manages the country's federal land, national parks and a budget of billions of dollars, and hosts a significant amount of data in the cloud. According to the report, in order to test whether the Department of the Interior's cloud infrastructure was secure, the OIG used an online tool called Mockaroo to create fake personal data that "would appear valid to the Department's security tools."

The OIG team then used a virtual machine inside the Department's cloud environment to imitate "a sophisticated threat actor" inside of its network, and subsequently used "well-known and widely documented techniques to exfiltrate data." "We used the virtual machine as-is and did not install any tools, software, or malware that would make it easier to exfiltrate data from the subject system," the report read. The OIG said it conducted more than 100 tests in a week, monitoring the government department's "computer logs and incident tracking systems in real time," and none of its tests were detected nor prevented by the department's cybersecurity defenses.

"Our tests succeeded because the Department failed to implement security measures capable of either preventing or detecting well-known and widely used techniques employed by malicious actors to steal sensitive data," said the OIG's report. "In the years that the system has been hosted in a cloud, the Department has never conducted regular required tests of the system's controls for protecting sensitive data from unauthorized access." That's the bad news: The weaknesses in the Department's systems and practices "put sensitive [personal information] for tens of thousands of Federal employees at risk of unauthorized access," read the report. The OIG also admitted that it may be impossible to stop "a well-resourced adversary" from breaking in, but with some improvements, it may be possible to stop that adversary from exfiltrating the sensitive data.

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