evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

"If the California Wealth Tax passes, billionaires will leave California!"

Hey, man... I'm already voting yes. No need to sweeten the pot.

I'm extremely fucking aware of cybersecurity this month.

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green
As always fascist aren't the brightest - taking a plot-device from a narrative that the creators are on record as saying is about transitioning, as as symbol of redemption for toxic masculinity.

Yesterday, as I sat here, using a laptop running on Free software written and maintained by volunteers, to connect, by means of a secure tunnel formed by Free software written and maintained by volunteers, to multiple servers, all running Free software written and maintained by volunteers, to apply patches prepared urgently by volunteers to resolve security vulnerabilities, I felt *incredibly* grateful for every single one of those volunteers, who makes the fact that I could do *any* of this possible.

Thank you, genuinely.

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

why do people call LLM training on public website data “AI Copyright Infringement” when “six finger discount” is right there

Unless you live under a stone, everybody will have heard about PHP today.

Now, please realize that the vast majority of Open Source Software, like PHP, and including PHP, is largely maintained by **unpaid volunteers**.

If you agree that this is inconceivably irresponsible: let this be your call to action and FUND THE OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS YOUR ORGANIZATION RELIES ON.

Saying "Thanks" once in a while is not enough and does not make open source sustainable.

keep this post in your back pocket for the next time some AI booster tells you that you don’t understand the technology

this is facebook’s “cutting edge agentic AI” muse, and if you check the context on the linked post you’ll see that they’ve tied up a ton of their company’s valuation in its success

because muse is fully fucked architecturally and is a fractal of unfixable security issues, it leaks much more information about its internal state than chatgpt or claude do. the latter two give the user a falsified version of the model’s internal “thinking” string; muse stores and leaks it as part of a recursive self-improvement system that doesn’t work at all

the linked post is a bunch of leaked internal state showing how a “cutting-edge agentic LLM” bypasses automated Turing tests: pure brute force and failures disguised as success. there’s nothing impressive here. this is how LLMs appear to solve problems, illustrated. https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117483555597964151

Reverse Imposter Syndrom:

Am I even incompetent enough to work in IT security?

OpenAI: "For organizations using PHP, the priority now is applying the fixes. We’re sharing a PHP version checker as a Codex skill⁠ [...]"

What it actually does:
"The checker only evaluates versions exposed in HTTP response headers or by php -v. It reads X-Powered-By and Server [...]"

Why would anyone need a skill for that instead of just a one liner with curl? (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

https://openai.com/index/coordinated-disclosure-of-critical-vulnerabilities/

#php2shell #openai

bash.org #85967

<Dave2|Laptop> http://b3ta.com/man-milk-or-moo-milk/
<Dave2|Laptop>  <-- That is disgusting.
<GroovyPigThang> !addquote <Dave2|Laptop>  <-- That is disgusting.

They’re talking about PHP on the main BBC news, wonder which one of the devs has the cursed monkey’s paw

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+ #photography #janacore #architecture

"Autopilot"? I prefer the term "device driver".

https://xkcd.com/221/

finally, a private key that current quantum computers can factorize

I love Sesame Street, I really do. But maybe it's not the place to learn crypto.