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"No matter how bad it got, at least I never idolized a billionaire"

Poster spotted in Melbourne

Book contract signed with Princeton University Press. It's official!

Now I just have to finish writing a whole book from all my rants about satellite pollution in the next few months! No big deal...

I know exactly one coelacanth song and one axolotl song.

This is not enough. Share your coelacanth and axolotl songs.

With these self driving vehicles, it's only a matter of time before there's a country song about how even your truck left you.

I stand corrected. IPv6 is actually useful for something.

My father's barn.
Sweden, Uppland.
#NaturePhotography #photography #sverige #flower #flowerphotography #blomma #naturelovers #nature #bokeh

Kudos to whoever this photographer was* for capturing one of the most stark juxtapositions I’ve seen in a good long while.

(*Edit: the photographer is Maximilien Lamy, otherwise known as shadowsandthecity on Instagram)

"Is this repo manually coded? If it's manually coded you're being left behind."

Ma'am, that is a twenty five thousand LoC slab of C++ code. It targets a console designed twenty two years ago and discontinued twelve years ago. It is an amalgamation of the work of several developers, forked, patched, reformatted, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy Make ruleset. Market economics had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this project exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of code is more than a story point. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for entropy. It is hubris manifest.

We also have an SDL3 port if you would prefer that.

🙏 New Blog Post

The Pope's official prayer app has an IDOR that lets anyone pull user data for all 719,517 accounts. One GET request per user. No auth check.

What's exposed:

Email addresses
Names
Country
Date of birth (they call it "borned_date" lol)
Account role (it's "PRAYER" for everyone, obviously)

Also found:

Signup endpoint returns the email verification token in the response body, so you can verify accounts without accessing the inbox
Their verification emails fail their own domain's authentication requirements

Reported January 3rd. Emailed 9 people. A journalist also contacted them. Zero responses. Still live six months later. Vow of silence I guess.

Full writeup: https://bobdahacker.com/blog/click-to-pray

#InfoSec #BugBounty #ResponsibleDisclosure #IDOR #Security #CyberSecurity #Privacy #DataExposure #ClickToPray #Vatican #APISecurity

Since a few people asked, here's the setlist for my closing DJ set on Sunday at #EMFCamp #Nullsector.

I had an absolute blast doing this one. In the months running up to EMF I put a shortlist of tunes I wanted to play together, but as soon as I got up there I was like "screw it, I'm just gonna run with whatever feels good" and didn't even look at the list.

Thanks to everyone who came and listened - y'all had so much energy and I can't stop grinning when I think back to it. Amazing experience.

#sillyScribbles

awkward (adj): situated or directed towards the AWK programming language

It's funny, I can't really think of a specific moment that radicalized me against LLMs. More of a progressive and iterative process of learning about one harm after another, and of seeing more and more from the labor perspective.

Someone asked me if I'm still writing my own scripts, now that "AI can do all of that".

Yes, I am still writing my scripts.

I enjoy writing. No machine can stop that. No machine can take away the joy in creating something that didn't exist before.

I won't cede that to robots; I couldn't if I tried.

The cannibal is screaming "Get me away from this rapist!"

548) Toohotbot. Lets you know that it's TOO HOT. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Encouraging Destructiveness

I got to spend the weekend at #emfcamp meeting old friends and making new ones

I love that it is the most accepting place in the country where anyone can express themselves without judgement meet likeminded nerds and come together for the talks, workshops and at the end of the night on the floor in null sector

See you all again in 2028 (or hopefully some in CCC next year)

The best days of the year emf is such a core part of my soul

Sad trombone for the world's richest shithead. From the WSJ:

"Tesla shares fell 15% on Thursday—erasing $215 billion of market value—after the electric-vehicle maker missed earnings targets and had negative cash flow for the first time in two years. It was part of a wider stock selloff amid fears that big tech companies are overspending on artificial intelligence.
On an earnings call, Musk walked back earlier guidance on the rollout of Tesla’s Robotaxi ride-hailing service, Optimus humanoid robots and an electric semi truck that has been in development for years."

"Shares of SpaceX, which went public at $135 and traded above $225 in the days after its debut, are down nearly 50% from those highs. The stock broke below its initial-public-offering price within weeks and has lost more than $1 trillion in value from its peak."

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/reality-bites-elon-musk-and-his-tesla-spacex-believers-1b639591 (paywall)

https://archive.ph/GmKt1