X devs don’t know about VPNs
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What men blaming women’s suffrage for the rise of socialism miss is that women were the first able-bodied adult targets of welfare policies. Laws created by men.
Feeding someone heroin gets them addicted to heroin. Pushing welfare on people gets them used to the welfare state.
In state capitalist China you don’t disclose vulnerability, police show your own vulnerability to you.
"Cryptocurrencies will get hacked through AI and quantum mumbo jumbo, your money is already gone"
In reality: The cryptography of major CCs is battle-tested with billions of dollars of bug bounty over many years. Meanwhile in legacy tech…
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.
Normal South American plumbing. The apartments look fancy and seem like great deals, the real learning only starts a couple of months into your expat journey.
Be weary of advice by agencies and passport bros on social media. There’s always a reason why things are cheap.
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War is peace, freedom is slavery, free speech is unfree.
Emmanuel Macron says American free speech is "the opposite of free speech." In his view, freedom only exists inside a "common framework" set by the state.
He compared posting an insult online to hitting someone in the street. Those are different things, because one is speech and the other is violence.
He wants people punished for posting "nonsense," with state-backed fact-checkers deciding what qualifies. He wants a verified identity behind every social media account. He has written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding the DSA be enforced "much faster, much more forcefully."
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This popular comparison is misguided. The AI boom has more in common with the Industrial Revolution. It will make some elites even more rich and powerful and enlarge the digital lumpenproletariat.
Printing was a middle-class/grassroots revolution. Gutenberg died in poverty.
Nitter and xcancel have been taken down, due to a cease and desist letter sent to them by X Corp.
Musk & co are not building the open site they claimed to, they want to own our data and even control who we share it with. This is the last straw for me.
The EU even has fake asylum seekers from the US, which has among the strongest civil rights and protections in the world. They can go home any time they choose.
Attracting drama queens, scammers and violent criminals from all over is a truly fascinating immigration policy.
French liberal: "It’s 45°C in my rooftop apartment but I must not give in to the temptation of using the evil doomsday device"
Chinese farmers:
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I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US.
Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured.
These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax!
We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions.
These are two possible routes I see:
1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair.
2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.
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NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.
Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.
Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.
When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.
We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.
In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.
H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…
Imagine being an ethnic minority in the capital of your own country. Bizarre.
New. England school data. 2025-26 year.
White British children are a minority in primary schools in every local authority area of London.
But now this is also true in:
Bedford (46.4%)
Birmingham 24.1%
Blackburn 38.6%
Bolton 46.2%
Bradford 37.4%
Coventry 37.2%
Derby 45.4%
Leicester 19.4%
Luton 12.7%
Manchester 29.5%
Milton Keynes 40%
Nottingham 33.9%
Oldham 44.7%
Peterborough 38.4%
Reading 30.2%
Sandwell 32.9%
Slough 9.7%
Thurrock 44.6%
Walsall 48.4%
Wolverhampton 34.4%
This may be a fake Arabic term invented by the author himself, who was a Nazi Party member and publicly argued the Nazis should ally with the Arabs.
So what did he mean by that?
Imagine feeling superior to third worlders while being from a culture that
1) transferred all its advanced technology to China for short term profit
2) ignores the long term risks of unlimited immigration
3) is rapidly dying due to low birth rates combined with point 2
Not just archaeologists.
So, are archaeologists just, like, retarded, or what? I’m never going to understand this thing where educated people would rather look stupid than say something that violates their politics. It’s such a black pill. You really have to imagine of people like this that there’s nothing they wouldn’t do, no evil they wouldn’t countenance. They’ll literally just say anything. They can be made to believe anything.
A great example of convergent devolution:
Based on a brief glance I’d have sworn it’s some European city, like Berlin. It’s fascinating how these places are now looking extremely similar, despite being on different continents.
