AI Promises??
Bernard Lambert – August 2, 2025
IT has been overtaken by the many promises of what AI can do.
It has been in use for decades in analysis tools used to digest the mountains of data systems produce. The new twist is to feed language and images into the systems to relate the data points in a meaningful way. The discovery that the systems make can be quick and in depth. AI’s answers lack meaningfulness or factual truthfulness. Human need will filter this down to something beneficial.
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The finding is that because the social media linking of these activities follows the clicking through these sites to generate ad income, the more activity (read clicking through) the more the message gets out…however false and misleading.
There was a very interesting show today with the guest Dan Patterson. He works with Major and CBS doing Fact Checking in a big way. He came by it as a technical guy given the job of hunting where all the misinformation and disinformation is coming from…you guessed it; the Internet! Here’s the link to the show:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/dan-patterson-on-the-takeout-12312021/
On Twitter he is @MajorCBS. See also: @TakeoutPodcast @TheDebriefCBS
The radio/podcast/streaming show comes on at 5PM Eastern Fridays and is repeated any time from CBS or CBSNEWS streams.
Dan Patterson is a CBS News Technologies reporter. On Twitter he is @DanPatterson. He also has written for many many technical, financial, and industry publications.
Today’s show on Disinformation was special as the guys got to drill down into finding from where these outright lies emanate. Dan has gone down all these rabbit holes to follow the “do your own research” links planted in these abundant social media websites.
The finding is that because the social media linking of these activities follows the clicking through these sites to generate ad income, the more activity (read clicking through) the more the message gets out…however false and misleading.
Concurrently there is a disincentive for the website selling the ad click-throughs; more clicks make more money. More controversy or “facts-that-fit-your-mindset” make more clicks. The participants in the media site are followed and recruited by the media peddler while the back end income from clicks is really what the site is peddling.
Pick a topic such as voting fraud and run it into the ground while raising money for yourself and your personal agendas. That’s been done to the point of Insurrection at the Capitol.
Technologists must realize as enablers of the modern tech that they also may bear some social responsibility as well. Good moral judgment must go into all vocation and professional pursuit.
Tech responsibly! Bernard Lambert – January 9, 2022 – @systemwrights
https://systemwrights.org/wordpress/?p=444 Troubleshooting Remote Syslog and Forwarding
Sequence of checkouts that help troubleshoot log forwarding…..
Know the network addresses of the source and destinations. Ping them or traceroute them.
On Each System Do The Following:
Run netstat -tulpn | grep 514 <- insert the port you expect to see here
Run ps ax | grep syslog
or
Run ps ax | grep rsyslog
In either case you should see your syslog is running. Either listening or sending.
IF NOT:
On each system check /etc/rsyslog.conf and any includes found in the /etc/rsyslog.d/ subdirectory. They must include any mod load information so the ports are opened up UDP/TCP or socket. Try this command
rsyslog -d
to get a debug from the syslog daemon. It will show what worked and what did not. The port number and addresses of the source and destination systems should be double checked in these respective system’s configs. TCP port, UDP port, UNIX Socket, config numbers have to match up at both ends.
After Any Reconfiguration:
Hopefully one-at-a-time type changes are made and tests run to see the success of that try. Remember that services need restarted after any change so that it can be picked up and included in the application.
MY FAVORITE GOTCHA TODAY:
In the forward statement
*.*:@[ip|host] sends UDP
and
*.*:@@[ip|host] sends TCP.
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