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Re: eMudhra and the number 4 …. I still have a t-shirt in good condition that just reads

goto fail;

there is truly nothing new under the sun.

EDIT: found it :)

Dr. Li now talking about how critical teachers, especially K-12 teachers, are to our society and how overlooked and underpaid they are. Cannot overstate how much I agree with everything she’s saying here.

RE: https://mastodon.hams.social/@wb2ifs/117475805096288728

Good thread

“Nothing should take away human agency. I want to recenter the conversation about AI on human agency and flourishing.” — Dr. Li

just watched Bill Gross from IdeaLab in Pasadena get on stage and talk about giving away 1.2 million business ideas for free; his vision is 1 million new businesses and 100 million new jobs. https://idealab.ai/ and see Fortune’s Eye on AI https://view.mail.fortune.com/?qs=ACN7ImQiOjUwMzUsInQiOjc4NzUsInAiOiJWVyIsInMiOjEzfQANAAAAAAFylk3znohdAgzTMLaZpFIXzmNp0mKFPdHgvSqj3ouhqPHIgNIN78VJH1yuYJsuQanAvPEAtxH1Zl7XIl6ewcddRyPlGP0UK0-4_fhZU5D8jfUE&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NL_eye-on-ai_2026-10-20_171599&utm_term=eye-on-ai&sfmc_id=15837388

Have debated publishing this; it sat as a draft today and I’ve been chewing on it. Here goes:

I am pondering AI as a democratizing force (dare I say, a driver of accessibility) — enabling users to define the outcomes that matter for their work, without the barrier to entry of needing to be bilingual first. Knowing how to code has been a gatekeeping situation that prevents people from using computers to achieve the outcomes they care about for a long time. Every advancement that enabled more access to more users (from low level languages, to compilers, to the GUI, to auto-completing code editors and collaboration tools) has faced pushback. AI is unique from that list in its ancillary costs (which are very significant), but I think shares some of the general trend of the history of abstractions making computing more accessible to more people (and seeing pushback from the existing crowd of users who “did it the hard way”).

22 minutes from CVE publication to first detected exploit. Oof.

PDP-11s! Acoustic couplers! Bang paths! Jon Postel asserting “it is extremely unlikely that any new TLDs will be created”! Zork! Sun Microsystems! Berkeley Unix! Lots of good history in here folks

If you want to hear somebody freestyling about OpenBSD internals and IceWeasel, I’ve got you https://music.apple.com/us/album/cipher-punks-feat-remington-forbes/1329877690?i=1329878089

#OpenSSH 10.6 (from a couple weeks ago) is out and now includes support for post-quantum authentication keys https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6

It’s more than iRules though, because not only can I do any arbitrary thing I want to the HTTP request/response, I can also call out to any other service I want *in realtime* because I’m using Cloudflare Workers and then get the response back and make a security decision based on all of that

Interesting development from Cloudflare — a fully programmable secure web gateway (embed your own program logic inline at the point of a security decision, instead of needing to call out to some other separate piece of infrastructure). There are a lot of times in the past 20 years I could have used something like this (and back in the day, iRules on F5 did exactly this!) https://blog.cloudflare.com/programmable-gateway-dlp/