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Joined March 2009
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being really good with computers is an absolutely incredible skill because it lets you make your own life unnecessarily complicated in ways normal people could never imagine
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead. "From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."
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Because the Internet holds up #ChildishGambino
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I’ve seen a lot of dumb ass takes about Tailscale following the tailworm slop disclosure. It’s a great tool. I have confidence they will fix the issues that were disclosed. For my use case, the findings were basically a nothing burger.
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Also, what a low-effort, dogshit write-up. Just slop straight from the clankerhole.
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Probably late to the party on this, but GPT-5.6 Luna is surprisingly capable for churning out Terraform slop. The cost to output ratio is wild.
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Saw a guy call it cuck coding instead of vibe coding because you just sit in a chair and watch😭
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continuing the engineering team argument about org-to-org auth management in my head over the weekend because I'm a masochist
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developers who do not consider the second and third order effects of supporting their implementations outside of a dev environment suck the "it works on my machine, operations can get rekt lol" attitude is ridiculous
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Is GitHub shitting the bed again?
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The best advice I can give to newcomers/early career folks in IT is to avoid chasing whatever the hot new trends are and focus on the fundamentals. Understanding networking, data stores, etc. will take you far, even in a post-AI world.
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You can't properly prompt (or audit!) the clanker if you don't know the basics. You might get something that looks good, but it will likely be bullshit.
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#My9Games technically 10 since Sega GT 2002/Jet Set Radio Future are two separate games, but both slapped back in the day
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My boss had us book rooms at a millennial quirk chungus hotel for a work conference (the venue’s within walking distance & the rates were reasonable). In room coffee is pour over only (kettle on a hot plate). The bed is on an elevated platform. There’s a yoga mat in the room.
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It feels like a mix of European silliness and “we do things differently here 🤪.”
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529 days can change a man He doesn’t even wear hats indoors anymore
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how it feels to have locked in a 30 year mortgage rate just before rates started skyrocketing again
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