Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in the US which demanded network unbundling, splitting up the fiber/connections versus the internet service, demanding wholesale rate access to infrastructure. It was good.
Verizon also sued, and said, sure, there's laws for unbundling. But, we really don't like them. We aren't going to deploy fiber if we have to share. And the court once again said, oh, yeah, well, that's fine, we'll grant that: we'll strike down congress's law because "innovation" sounds better.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/1...
It's just so so so much corruption, so much meddling from the court to undo everything good congress worked so hard to make happen, that was such an essential baseline to allow competition. I remain very very angry about this all. This was such a sad decade of losing so much goodness, such competition. These damn cartels! The courts that keep giving them everything they want! Bah!!
I stumbled across this on Bruce Schneier's blog. It's a very interesting analysis, but what I think is missing are references to current research in sociology and psychology. It seems to be primarily a sociological model from the perspective of a cybersecurity expert, without any real connection to those disciplines.
That doesn't mean it's any less relevant. Conversely, there are countless analyses from psychology and sociology that examine the implications of software on our world without a technical background. Even though we've become quite adept at identifying individual symptoms arising from (social media) services, the fields of computer science and psychology still appear largely isolated from one another.
Given the current global situation, which has clearly been damaged by the internet and the exploits described in the analysis, closer interdisciplinary collaboration is urgently needed.
I think this conclusion in itself is more introspection than reading the news. After all most news events are external and whether you read about them or not doesn't make any difference. Its really more the opposite of introspection.
Roughly 20y DeepBlue to AlphaZero. I don't think that is comparable though. Use of deep neural networks was what made the machines starting with AlphaZero dominant again. I.e. we're already in the new paradigm.
> In comparision, Nakamura had the assistance of an older version of Rybka (about 200 points less than Stockfish's 3200+ rating), and it ran on a 2008 MacBook. Of course, he also had his 20-plus years of chess knowledge in play.
I think it will be less of a local versus cloud situation, but rather one where both complement each other. The next step will undoubtedly be for local LLMs to be fast and intelligent enough to allow for vocal conversation. A low-latency model will then run locally, enabling smoother conversations, while batch jobs in the cloud handle the more complex tasks.
Google, at least, is likely interested in such a scenario, given their broad smartphone market. And if their local Gemma/Gemini-nano LLMs perform better with Gemini in the cloud, that would naturally be a significant advantage.
There exist restricted Shells. But honestly, I don't feel capable of assessing all attack vectors and security measures in sufficient detail. For example, do the rbash restrictions also apply when Python is called with it? Or can the agent somehow bypass rbash to call Python?
Its a bit annoying that there are so many solutions to run agents and sandbox them but no established best practice. It would be nice to have some high level orchestration tools like docker / podman where you can configure how e.g. claude code, opencode, codex, openclaw run in open Shell, OCI container, jai etc.
Especially because everybody can ask chatgpt/claude how to run some agents without any further knowledge I feel we should handle it more like we are handling encryption where the advice is to use established libraries and don't implement those algorithms by yourself.
you may be in a restricted environment with no boot option selections, like on some VPS and dedi server providers.
i've seen similar techniques used to shove windows on "linux" VPS/dedis boxes by booting into rescue mode and then applying a raw Windows boot image that's preconfigured and rebooting back to the Windows install and hoping you stood the image up right.
good ol' days of getting Windows up on Kimsufi boxen.
think of it like a kitchen
MCP is the equipment — the knives, the stove, the fridge. Connects Claude to the tools it needs to actually do things.
Skills are the recipes and technique — how you hold the knife, when to deglaze, why you never crowd the pan.
You can have a fully equipped kitchen and still cook terrible food. Skills are what make it a restaurant worth eating at.
