The php exploit might not have been a big deal.

“I don’t think this PHP vulnerability is that exploitable. I think that 5 years ago people would’ve understood this, but now people are being deluded by their LLMs telling them they have an exploit when they don’t.”

I expect that we will see this a lot, as it turns out most of the exploits generated are not working, not new, or not a big deal. I also expect this to cause more burnout among cybersecurity people, and that people will autogen ‘fixes’ which will be lower quality than the bugs, and massively increase attack surface. (Heard one php fix was 12k lines of code).

My suggestion is to have offline backups and move a lot of your important stuff out of the cloud (or get backups of those). But you should do both anyway.

E: I saw the EFF fear mongering with ‘25% of all exploits found ever were found this October, secure yourself’ and looking at how stuff is still up everywhere, compared to 25 years ago, and I them I realized this is all critihype again.

E2: not a lone voice https://blog.luitjes.it/posts/i-want-my-wednesday-back/

(Cloudflare did say they saw exploits however. Not sure if those were real or ‘attempts at’ or just marketing).

E3: don’t let your takeway from this that we shouldn’t do emergency patching and stuff like everybody did last week btw.

Damn that AI is verbose and boring, a high ‘this AI takeover could have been a skeet’.

(Also doubt a lot of people would notice as in my exp where a computer has an unexpected popup the first thing people do is try to close that thing with as little reading as possible. (Yes, parents, the message you kept ignoring for 2 weeks, which you didn’t tell me about was the operating system telling you the computer was having trouble, I can’t help you fix the problem after it totally stops working)).

Don’t worry, the human pet guy is also on bsky.

Also iirc Ultron isnt what you would call sane because the whole magical stones corrupted him a bit. Iirc he has various moments where he just goes into bouts of rage

It shows up yes but not everyone suffers from it, im sure the rate of people thinking this differs greatly from time to time.

This means nationalizing the AI companies and stopping them from running slaves in the computer right?

Not just code sharing is unattractive, but writing guides etc as well. Saw that some people who have been offering courses that teach you how to code certain things are now closing down due to less and less (or none at all) people buying.

People burn out, and no new teaching material is created.

Virologists etc have again and again tried to explain why engineering a killer virus hard, like the whole problem of if it is too deadly it will not spread, it needs to not incubate to short and too long etc, engineering a vaccine must be hard etc. So the chance of something being created which is deadlier than covid are quite small. Not that this will stop the science fiction

Rockets on a city is prob the better idea.

Sentient but still owned by Anthropic.

This is just slavery with extra steps!

how we could change the constitution so Claude can run for president

Did he forget Claude is owned by people? But yeah sure let corporations be president.

I thought something like that as well, but someone suggested this move is to make sure he gets his bonus package. Not to save the company

Edit: https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3myfeyx35ec2e

I saw a story they broke embargo so they could offer protection services to people. Which I really hope isnt true.

Seems like there also was one company who released their patch early before the agreed time giving hackers time reverse engineer the bug before patches were widly available.

“At 2 gigawatts, DSX can save 54 million litres of water a day,”

So the datacenters do use a massive amount of water.

Yeah, but they have not generated the science fiction futures, that is what I meant. They are just normal techs

Imagine if you do that as a baker. ‘Hey flour/sugar/yeast supplier, I can’t pay your for your products, but I will pay you in stocks to our bakery, I’m planning to sell our bakery soon, and as we don’t have to pay you for the supplies, we can sell our product at below the going rate making sure we look good for the sale of the company’.

Thanks for explaining, im not a lobsterite so I dont know how the community there works.

So is the steering wheel attached to the entire device so he steers by rotating the half circle or is the half cricle just to attach it to Bob and there is a deeper mechanism?

It is amazing in a way, there are computer scientists who work at the highest level of their field, so they understand computers better than most, but they have more trouble than you or me installing linux.

Understanding something doesnt mean you can build it.

(I know this will be met with ‘well then you dont understand it deep enough’ and that just reminds me that there always will be place for god in the gaps of science).

Excellent usage of the chart comic

(Edited in a link to Haus of Declines ‘Bloodless Quant’ comic (not sure if that is the real title, I couldn’t find the comic on her bsky, small warning she is not a safe for work creator (if your workplace is very squeamish)).