discovering that fewer cybertrucks have been sold than Sinclair C5s has amused me greatly. and honestly, if you want to drive a weird vehicle, the C5 is far more fun.

@Wen @JackTheCat I used to have and apparently called TV Begone. It would send out the codes for all makes of TV or I could select the particular make. Most wonderful app!

I always wanted to use it in a pub when England were about to score in a football game, but being a state registered coward prevented me. That and a probable early death! 😐

@clacke @shelldozer these days any old FPGA and an adapter board would do. Look what their doing with Amiga's...

Since we have house spiders, presumably we also have trance spiders, electro spiders, and acid spiders.

Wow:

Around a quarter of 5-7 year-olds
(24%) now own a smartphone

and

a third (32%) [of parents of 5-7 year-olds] report that their child uses social media independently.

I am amazed by this!

Grumpy aside: How many press releases today will ignore the fact that parents are buying their children smartphones and then letting them use them online unsupervised and in breach of most platforms' rules, and push for more platform regulation rather than tackling parental responsibilities?

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In today's "LLM is the future" rebuttal, this exchange from

"
Q: Is 23 less then twenty five ?
A: No, 23 is not less than 25.
"

and (nous hermes 2 mistral DPO) which is somehow even worse

"
Q: Is 23 less then twenty five ?
A: No, 23 is not less than 25. In fact, it is greater by 2 units (25 - 23 = 2).
"

@neil (I missed your offer of posting a screenshot. Thanks! But is OK. I’ve spoken to a nice lady in support who is clearly having a Very Bad Day and apparently every engineer in the place is either manning the phones or working the problem. They’re good, they’ll sort it.)

@hedders user, but no issues. You've checked their extensive status pages?

Let's do something Putin will hate. Let's rejoin the #EU. And if that means we have to have cheaper food and fuel; the right to live, work, and retire in 31 other countries; higher environmental standards; and peace secured in NI, then that's a price I'm willing to pay...

I’ve been looking at the Palo-Alto situation some more.

The directory traversal vulnerability is not unique to Palo-Alto. It’s in an open source project called sessions, part of Gorilla, a Go module.

Palo-Alto don’t list Gorilla or Sessions in their license documentation or SBOM - it looks like it has been missed.

No CVE allocated but fix is submitted. The vuln was introduced 12 years ago. The submitter disappeared a decade ago.

Incredible research at BlackHat Asia today by Tong Liu and team from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (在iie.ac.cn 的电子邮件经过验证)

A dozen+ RCEs on popular LLM framework libraries like LangChain and LlamaIndex - used in lots of chat-assisted apps including GitHub. These guys got a reverse shell in two prompts, and even managed to exploit SetUID for full root on the underlying VM!

@CultureDesk there are way more than 15 Doctors :-)

Also important, esp. in the US right now, where I think you are, to get as much representation as possible

Randomly stumbled upon Sean Moss-Pultz's short post about Openmoko, featuring some photos of a working prototype of GTA03/3D7K, the cancelled successor to the Neo Freerunner that was being worked on around 2009. So far I have only heard verbal descriptions of how it looked like (usually described as "a soap dish" 😂) and seen photos of some casing mock-ups and bare PCBs, but never a complete device.

einstein-rosen.com/work/openmo

#openmoko #linuxsmartphones #linuxmobile #mobilelinux #linuxarcheology

FYI to all you clever Palo people who disabled telemetry to mitigate CVE-2024-3400:

In earlier versions of this advisory, disabling device telemetry was listed as a secondary mitigation action. Disabling device telemetry is no longer an effective mitigation. Device telemetry does not need to be enabled for PAN-OS firewalls to be exposed to attacks related to this vulnerability.

security.paloaltonetworks.com/

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