Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I just got a letter from my bank saying "do not allow AI agents to have your payment information for any of your accounts."

Full stop. Just don't use any agents. It's dangerous.

I didn't contain additional language saying they won't protect you if they do, but I wonder if that could be next.

I wonder if other banks are doing the same.

Maybe they will ban them.

It seems reasonable that, if an agent makes a financial transaction, it ought to be identified as such, no?

People who love using AI to code are absolutely losing their minds when AI-generated code is labelled so consumers can make a choice. What's hilarious is how they label this as "politics" because it doesn't align with their desires. If AI generated code is so great, why would anyone be afraid of it being labelled?

This tweet by writer #FrancesCoppola is an excellent summary of why #ZionismIsRacism, and of the case for #AntiZionism.

screenshot from https://x.com/Frances_Coppola/status/2114264461175312865

#Israel #Palestine #Zionism

Me in The Independent today.

Link to article —> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-angela-rayner-andy-burnham-rejoin-eu-budget-b3072929.html

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If anybody reads this OpenAI post and thinks AI found a zero day - no. This one was patched months ago, not found by OpenAI, and reported by an old-school fuzzer.

It's not your imagination; RAM really *has* quadrupled in price over the past couple of years and it *is* as expensive as a decade ago (log scale):

https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html

RE: https://toot.cafe/@nolan/117499318164745407

As you all know, I'm a big fan of a good "AI sucks" argument but—no shade on Nolan intended here, I see where he’s coming from—I don't think this is it. At least, not for Hollywood

"AI" has hit a bunch of sectors pretty hard, but movie and sound currently have more problems than just new tech

The collapse of US media is more down to financial looting (e.g. scrapping movies for tax purposes), studio self-immolation, and shitty streamer economics than "AI"

Also…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117495217579716237

outrageous

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/117494960319068530

we also need #ofcom to grow a spine

RE: https://mas.to/@osma/117496377539073119

indeed, this is the solution, as some of us have been saying for years...

I mean I'll tell you what happened - you had a great slate of exciting primary candidates who promised to do socialism and put nazis in jail, and then as soon as that happened the DNC/Third Way/Erza Klein shit all over it and started screaming about the DSA till those candidates started walking BACK their positions because the RAPIDLY VANISHING center demanded it. Now voter enthusiasim which was high, has tanked and that's why all your polls show the GOP gaining ground.

You suck at this.

The magical thing about the current moment is people can write 3,000 word essays on how AI is changing software development and just plop “I’ve never written any code btw” in the middle of it and carry on regardless without any shame or self-doubt.

Like, I don’t rock up to an oncology conference and start telling them about helping patients through chemo, but maybe I would if I had the unearned self-confidence of a digital transformation consultant with a $20/mo ChatGPT account.

Unbelievable.

“It’s especially bizarre in this case, where AI is inserting a vulnerability on the server... to prove that the server is vulnerable to your ‘exploit any PHP instance’ attack!”
https://toot.matereal.eu/@schmittlauch/117498200389582450

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hyc/117497613299710498

This argument is just about true for any “but LLMs are useful” scenario that have been presented to me. Equivalent or better results with more sustainable side effects can be had for way less capital and compute invest.

This is *exactly* the trust burning I'm talking about. This is memory corruption. It would have been exploitable 30 years ago. This would have been a wild bug to find when I was in high school.

Today, this is being overhyped in a way that burns trust. You don't drop shit like this on a Friday, after PHP2shell (which was actually critical, but still may have been overhyped) and lead people to believe that if they don't patch immediately all their shit is getting owned. That is absolutely irresponsible.

There are a lot of things in the node patch set from Friday that needed to be rolled out. The eMudhra fixes were bundled in the update. We *do* need to upgrade everything. We absolutely need to patch a bunch of other stuff also. This shouldn't be ignored.

But this is a normal security patch. It's not log4shell. It's not Heartbleed. It's just normal memory corruption that's (partially) mitigated by decades old protections.

This hype is toxic. I want the ghouls out of our industry.

But it's not "node2shell". It's a normal memory corruption that's blocked by ASLR. It's not easy to exploit. You should fix it, yes. But using the "blah2shell" terminology is misleading.

It's misleading because it tells people that it can be trivially exploited. It cannot, unless you disable ASLR and compile without PIE.

OpenAI and the other ghouls want you to think LLMs finding all kinds of critical bugs that are trivial to exploit. They want you to think there's no other way to find them.

That's just not true.

I looked at the code, and you know the first thing I noticed? A fuzzer. Google fuzzes their code. OpenAI wrote their press release very cleverly so that it could be misinterpreted as them finding the initial bug, as others have reported, but this could have been (and probably was) found by the existing fuzzer.

“No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector | The Daily Spark”

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

> Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.

“Slouching towards Bethlehem | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/slouching-to-bethlehem

> What's happening to tech, and to the wider world in our current tech-infested era, is a collapse of our model of the world.

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117500530771409166

Message endorsed, reminding me that I should probably put out a similar note with respect to BLAG, which is likewise human-made and centred.