Mythos system card is 250 pages.
Well worth reading if you have read all the other frontier system cards so have a good baseline.
Things are going to get even spicier in coming months I suspect. Those with Opus and the right skills could massively magnify their impact already.
And, least anyone throw more aspersions check the minutes - we put both last years successful board candidates on the .nz committee.
They’re in the room where it happens, where the sausage gets made. We build a future together with good process.
Look who seconded: internetnz.nz/assets/Archi...
Literally nationally critical infrastructure according to recent government consultation. The people on this board will soon literally have legal requirements to maintain the .nz namespace safely for the stability of the nation.
This is not a board to weaken.
www.dpmc.govt.nz/our-programm...
That will depend who stands, and who declares what, which is a few months out. (Gotta join before the AGM waiting period closes off).
Honestly the main thing about setting internet domain space policy is it is SO MUCH READING and careful scenario planning and careful reading like a lawyer.
It’s also such an impactful thing, it’s a market of hundreds of thousands and critical infrastructure of a nation you owe a duty of care.
My friends and I are still covering sign ups for people who can't afford it! DM me if that's you ^_^
Further, even if someone did for some reason “censor” someone in the DNS/registry then that’s a very ineffective and high collateral damage way to do it.
Internet routes around censorship, - security people like me see people (good & bad) avoiding filters and blocks every single hour of every day!
What I wish people would say is what exactly it is that they’re worried someone will use as an excuse to take them offline.
It never seems to be specific.
What exactly are people worried that someone will ban them from saying?
As a key person LITERALLY DRIVING .NZ policy for ~10yrs: Many of the fear scenarios are impossible/impractical.
1. even if .nz made terrible restrictions, there are thousands of other options!
2. We MUST follow an open multi consultative process for rules.
3. It’s a market that must follow rules!
Sounds like there’s ANOTHER coordinated membership campaign by the same folks as last time. Throwing inaccurate shade with vague fears about internet “censorship”.
Every vote matters, don’t let the loud voices dominate. Bring your voice & values: Join/rejoin InternetNZ today: members.internetnz.nz
Ive seen some incorrect dates floating around. So just an FYI, members due to renew have till the 30 June and should now have an email with instructions. New members need to sign up by 24 April to vote at the AGM. #InternetNZ
My term on InternetNZ board is ending soon after nine long years.
In my seat please prioritise those with a broad lived experience & real technical knowledge. We have values driven people, we need DNS/Domain name knowledge. I had real-world expertise with internet scams, phishing, abuse etc.
Everyone will make their own tradeoffs but when I depart I fear it will go down in technical expertise, rainbow rep, and number of women, — and go up in age, outside agenda, and unwillingness to compromise.
If you bring what’s needed but aren’t sure if you’ll stand at least make sure to join now!
FWIW I am unreasonably proud of the alliteration in that P-filled prose. Or maybe it’s past bedtime and I’m pondering too much.
* yes I realise that people love politicising the pipes, whether it’s potable, precipitation, poo, or packets.
But, the consequences are real so please considers the importance of your membership and vote. It’s far from inconsequential.
Everyone will make their own tradeoffs but when I depart I fear it will go down in technical expertise, rainbow rep, and number of women, — and go up in age, outside agenda, and unwillingness to compromise.
If you bring what’s needed but aren’t sure if you’ll stand at least make sure to join now!
I know InternetNZ has another battle of ideas going on - but a board should bring external skills and perspective. Critical infrastructure shouldn’t be a political football*. My knowledge helped chart the .nz policy through impossible tradeoffs - the board steers & owns that strategy.
My term on InternetNZ board is ending soon after nine long years.
In my seat please prioritise those with a broad lived experience & real technical knowledge. We have values driven people, we need DNS/Domain name knowledge. I had real-world expertise with internet scams, phishing, abuse etc.
Hahaaa oh no fill me in.
Guessing it’s the ironic fact (vs above) that they’re being badly pumped out at scale using these tools and that’s not exactly seen as a good thing?
Claude code and codex and such are enabling romance novels of the software world!
I’m not saying that as a bad/good thing, I’m saying it as an economics/democracy lesson.
Sure LLM coding enables “trashy” code that wasn’t previously economical, but mostly it just makes it cheap to produce and opens it to a new wide audience.
You didn’t have cheap mass paperbacks when books were written/copied by hand over weeks by trained experts.
I’ve worked out how I conceptualise LLM/agentic programming: a printing press moment.
It’s taken something that was previously very specialist and expensive and made it cheap.
I know I regularly joke about it being DNS.
But it sure wasn’t DMARC.
Important note about cyber security and media interaction during active incidents:
When those who know the details can’t talk, those who can talk won’t know the details.
*taps sign*
Oh damn. I thought it was obviously planned! 🙃
Tips on improving my combat-roll technique?
The extra interesting thing about this article is whatever someone’s first reaction is when they read it: spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
I’m floating around kawaiicon. If you’re looking for me sometimes I’m the bright yellow person.
You’ll see what I mean in the sea of hackerblack.
(Do make sure to introduce yourself as I’m peopled out from this last week and might have facial recognition failure)