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designatedhacker

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  • I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user...

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  • Are you talking a VPN running on the same box as the service? UDP VPN would help as another mentioned, but doesn't really add isolation.

    If your vpn box is standalone, then getting root is bad but just step one. They have to own the VPN to be able to even do more recon then try SSH.

    Defense in depth. They didn't immediately get server root and application access in one step. Now they have to connect to a patched, cert only, etc SSH server. Just looking for it could trip into some honeypot. They had to find the VPN host as well which wasn't the same as the box they were targeting. That would shut down 99% of the automated/script kiddie shit finding the main service then scanning that IP.

    You can't argue that one step to own the system is more secure than two separate pieces of updated software on separate boxes.

  • I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user...

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  • Wow, ok.

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  • Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this?

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  • "way before the toilet paper shortage even starts." LMAO.

  • OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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  • You gotta set up a dead man's switch (not literal give the evidence to a lawyer or do a deposition or whatever). Do that before you blow the whistle and announce that at the same time.

  • The GPT Era Is Already Ending

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  • If you first have to write comprehensive unit/integration tests, then have a model spray code at them until it passes, that isn't useful. If you spend that much time writing perfect tests, you've already written probably twice the code of just the solution and reasonable tests.

    Also you have an unmaintainable codebase that could be a hairball of different code snippets slapped together with dubious copyright.

    Until they hit real AGI this is just fancy auto complete. With the hype they may dissuade a whole generation of software engineers picking a career today. If they don't actually make it to AGI it will take a long time to recover and humans who actually know how to fix AI slop will make bank.

  • After Trump's win, Black women are rethinking their role as America's reliable political organizers

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  • Many people that voted for Trump did so because Fox news said to, or Newsmax, or their family, or Joe Rogan, or Elon Musk, etc. The right has a vast disinformation network that hand waves or disputes all of those facts. It's all bullshit of course and anyone who digs into it at all would realize that. Nobody has managed to put a dent in that disinformation silo. People who were super into conspiracy theories ignored all of the actual shenanigans and chose to believe stupid shit that fit their bias.

    At this point their entire identity is built around a pack of lies. The cognitive dissonance is layered on so thick they have a sound bite dead end for any question. If they chose to believe the truth it would mean that they're the worst kind of idiot and have actively been a puppet and a piece of shit for at least 8 years. They can't admit that kind of failure. The moral injury is too great.

    So what would have to happen is some sort of scandal that exposed all of their media silos and revealed something unbearable by their dear leader. That would give them the escape hatch to admit being fooled, but fooled by a masterful conspiracy that nobody could have seen through. That sort of event is such a high bar I don't know what would do it.

    A lot of his supporters won't survive him breaking both social security, Medicare, and most other federal institutions. They'll have a maga flag at the funeral too.

    Maybe his inevitable demise will happen sooner than later. You'd think they planned for that, but they've been pants on head stupid at everything else and blundered into success for so long I doubt it.

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  • Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’

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  • The approach of LLMs without some sort of symbolic reasoning layer aren't actually able to hold a model of what their context is and their relationships. They predict the next token, but fall apart when you change the numbers in a problem or add some negation to the prompt.

    Awesome for protein research, summarization, speech recognition, speech generation, deep fakes, spam creation, RAG document summary, brainstorming, content classification, etc. I don't even think we've found all the patterns they'd be great at predicting.

    There are tons of great uses, but just throwing more data, memory, compute, and power at transformers is likely to hit a wall without new models. All the AGI hype is a bit overblown. That's not from me that's Noam Chomsky https://youtu.be/axuGfh4UR9Q?t=9271.

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  • "Freedom of choice Is what you got Freedom from choice Is what you want" -Devo

  • JD Vance has the clap, pass it on.

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  • It drives couches into a frenzy.

  • Ex-CIA officer who spied for China gets 10 years in prison — and a lifetime of polygraph tests

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  • Maybe they mean a real one with fMRI. Or maybe just signaling to China that their assets get interviewed for life.

  • Apple told to pay Ireland €13bn in tax by EU

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  • $13B is 7% of Apple's annual profit in 2022. Not a rounding error. Somebody has to settle for golden yachts instead of platinum next year.

  • You dare challenge me?!

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  • John Wayne toilet paper. Rough, tough, and doesn't take shit off of anyone.

  • TIL about de la Chapelle syndrome where people with XX chromosomes are born with traditionally masculine organs & presentation. Usually those with the trait are unaware they have XX chromosomes at all

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  • You saying they might have an unexpected dangling pointer?

  • Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch

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  • They're also adding a lot more incompatible text formatting and shit to keep Android incomplete with their real chat protocol. Gotta keep those teens bullying Android users. Also E2E encryption would be nice, but the EU didn't force them to do that.

    Still great because MMS is garbage and ruins photo and video quality.

  • SEC Poised to Seek Enforcement Action Barring Elon Musk From Holding Executive Positions

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  • Experts believe the SEC faces significant challenges if it proceeds with fraud charges. “Courts typically prefer fraud cases that involve clear false statements,” said Fagel. “Transforming a regulatory violation into fraud, especially one involving delayed disclosure, can be an uphill battle.”

    James Park, a securities law expert at UCLA, added, “Regulators could potentially frame this as a case of market deception, which complicates matters compared to straightforward falsehoods. It’s a nuanced issue but significant enough to warrant serious consideration.”

    The biggest thing in their favor is a firefighters pension that sold at a lower than expected price if he had made the disclosure. They're not wrong, but it's a lie of omission type thing. We'll see if it flies over the next 5 years of appeals and shenanigans. Meanwhile he wrote himself a check on Tesla stockholders dime to cover the Twitter fuck up. I'm betting he fucks them over as Tesla spirals into a crater.

  • no really how do we fix this?

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  • ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

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  • The fingerprinting I'm talking about gets encoded in the screen recording too. Subtle pixel changes here or there over the entire length of the video. It'll be lossy when it's transcoded, but over the whole video it's there enough times it won't matter. Even scaling to lower quality won't fix it and then it'll also be lower quality.

    It'll be like DRM, there will be people trying to remove it like anything else. They'll break one thing and another will come along. There would still be a black market, but most people can get an unrestricted copy in exchange for money so there's one less reason to pirate.

    Unless you're actually pointing a camera at the screen, then OK, you do you.