pies @pies@qoto.org

Reading all these articles about the high traffic from AI bots, here is my experience from a small German hoster: It's a huge problem, and it is getting worse very fast. There are bots like claudebot from Antrophic which are so aggressive that they block whole systems, outranking actual attacks for example against WordPress. And they change their AWS cloud IPs so often that blocking doesn't help for long and they also ignore robots.txt. Our on-call is regularly alerted for such issues.

it either kangaroo court or trial by wombat

best friend and worst enemy get a lot of airtime but best enemy and worst friend are where the real shitshow at

going to get REAL weird during flat inspection day so at least I can live rent free in my landlord's head

Have you tried turning it off and never turning it back on again?

My son was reading about Marine Le Pen and remarked, “the funny thing about holocaust deniers is that they never seem happy that it didn’t happen”

I spent 10+ years doing security at Google. I did a bunch of clever things while there - AFL, The Tangled Web, and a lot more.

But to be honest, my most valuable contribution to the business was a JavaScript web form that I put together. It saved untold person-years of back-and-forth with product teams, reduced launch latency, and greatly improved the consistency of product security reviews. It earned me some promos, too.

We like to celebrate big ideas, but boring work often matters more. It's also why your corporate job is not a durable legacy: I'm sure the form has been since refactored or deprecated, and soon, all memory of it will be gone.

The code we use to launch the crash reporter is incompatible with Android 11+. This means we might have missed some major stability issues because nobody could submit the reports.

The reason why we didn't notice is that some device vendors - like Samsung, Sony and OnePlus - have likely disabled some backwards incompatible changes in the system to accommodate for their apps being incompatible with newer versions of Android... and those changes made our code appear to work on those devices.

My drink came with a maraschino and I don't like those, so I asked a random guy if he wanted my cherry.

It was an accident!
...the first time

This video is an amazing look at what draws everyone into flat earth and QAnon conspiracy theories. https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44?si=6J3Z7mApasD1aoyp

Frankly, I'm appalled by the prospect of LLMs taking offensive security research jobs from honest, hard-working fuzzers

"But what if they don't deserve that money?" is somehow only a question raised about poor people.

Lol Neil Gaiman says

"ChatGPT doesn't give you information. It gives you information-shaped sentences."

This is one of the better ones I have seen.

Kiedy badacze badają polityczne manipulacje, niezadowoleni politycy pozywają uniwersytet, uniwersytet ma dosyć i zamyka zespół światowej klasy badaczy.

https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/