Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Static website, but it’s just white noise

So today some of the worst people on earth using the most environmentally destructive tools on earth brought down a huge part of the internet by exploiting a potential problem found many years ago in PHP which was previously not practical for anyone to exploit.

It only became "practical" to exploit this problem because "AI" came along to automate the boring and repetitive work required to do so. Absurd amounts of computing power were applied specifically to break into other peoples' websites.

Now the same people who are behind this are trying to pretend that they're heroes for finding an exploit.

"AI uncovers critical vulnerabilities", their headline reads. But the vulnerability was only made to be critical by the very same people as hide behind that headline.

Many thousands of websites are offline, many people are losing money, many thousands of people are working hard to try to patch or work around the problem, many small guys are finding it almost impossible to patch, and we're all supposed to be thankful to OpenAI and others involved ? Nah. Fuck off.

Everything about "AI" involves a lot of externalized costs, but I've still yet to see even a single positive thing that has been achieved by "AI". That has definitely not changed today.
#php2shell #php #fuckai #openai

mitmproxy now has an --emudhra option 😆

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b

There is a dog in the park. I am jealous, for the dog knows nothing of php

@drahardja I am an extremely stupid man, certainly less calibre than the IA could hire, and I fixed this shit without asking *any* LLMs. Not even my local ones. Come on guys.

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle/117481215431503956

Why the hell did they need to use Claude wtf is this brainrot

Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, Zuck

VOTE YES ON PROP 40

VOTE NO ON PROP 41 and 42 (poison pills on 40).

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-mark-zuckerberg-weighed-leaving-california-over-billionaire-tax-2026-10

“Mark Zuckerberg considered leaving California over the billionaire tax”

#threateningMeWithAGoodTime #FuckZuck #California #YesOnProp40 #NoOnProp41 #NoOnProp42

Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1015958/data-center-pollution-rising-report

eMudhra's press release tries to insinuate that AI is somehow partly to blame for their CA fuckup:

« Last weekend, an independent researcher found that the weak keys could be reverse-engineered possibly with AI-assisted techniques. »

In fact, the researcher just ran all the CA certs through an existing key linter: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto (not actually expecting to find anything!)

https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-statement-distrust-global-tls-intermediate-root-ca

"The video shows a plainclothes agent wearing a red flannel shirt pursuing the man with a handgun, followed by two masked agents in tactical gear. I’m a U.S. citizen the man tells the agents as they surround him. When asked why he was running, he responds, “Because I don’t know who you guys are.” https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ice-gun-sf-citizen-22486051.php

Print this on an index card, stick it in your pocket, and take it to the polls with you when you vote.

18 US Code §592: Troops at Polls, prohibited by law.

[You can copy the text in the Alt-txt box directly.]

I am reminded again how in 1935, the US Congress passed a tax law that created a new top tax bracket of nearly 80%.

That tax bracket contained exactly one person, John D. Rockefeller, and was designed to stop him from causing so much trouble.

In case anyone needs the precedent.

Elderly protestor beaten up the police outside #Elbit Systems in Germany

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DewF1yTAIFJ/?psln=MWlndmhobHoweXM1Zg==

@ketan Morally this is somewhere in the ballpark of the car company promising to set "nature lovers free" when they buy the big-ass SUV and have a blast running it roughshod all over the woodland and prairie. At some point the driver stops, gets out and pets a small plant, then gets back in the SUV and floors it. This was from ~20ya.

@ketan I think it overstates the quality of AI, it's not going to rise above the level of the mediocre white guy, merely equal what's expected of someone of his ability. His co-worker presumably will have done an incredible amount of work just to get what he got given racial underestimations and all and without AI or stealing someone else's glory out of pure envy and inferiority.

@ketan It’s so revealing that every office-work AI ad seems to endorse the worst asshole behavior in people. Utter neglect, then taking credit for someone else’s work, then bullshitting your way through, all while not caring about the work product, all for the grand goal of making an extra dollar or winning corporate praise…just the worst aspects of humanity.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot

A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/microsoft-copilot-competitive

internet taken offline by huge pulse of smugness from static site operators

Seems like a good day to remind people that blaming tools that have been maintained by volunteers with little to no support for decades, or blaming those volunteers, without assigning any responsibility or culpability at all to the companies that have made millions or billions or hundreds of billions of dollars from that volunteer work is picking a side.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/117480397353297571

Nothing like working in an attrition-layoff environment. Oh, we're not letting you go, nononono. We're just changing your terms of employment every few months and if some of you fall through the cracks, too bad so sad