RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xamit/115772097368948161

This has been very fun to develop. I've added tons of cities and I'm looking to add more cities. I'm taking requests :)

LLMs will lead you to lose skills that you are not going to get back because your brain will change and have no patience anymore to do the hardwork that needs to be done. That will be one of the fundamental problems of this tech.

@wolf480pl @filippo This is the use-case what I see among my non-programmer friends: simple little apps that they can't, others won't write (for a reasonable price). Also, usually 0 risk (think: "will I get a notification about a show").

One thing to keep in mind is that all these services are currently provided at a loss for the providers. It will be interesting to watch what happens when prices start to approach actual costs and expected margins.

@mttaggart Oh I was thinking in the context of bounties where you only need one PoC! Doing QA for guiderails must not only be horrible but also pointless for the reasons stated above. Nobody should do that job.

@mttaggart I think this is a choose your own poison type of situation. E.g. I'm pretty sure I won't hurt myself and having a conversation like that is also legal AFAIK, so that sounds like a decent demo. Obviously one with depression shouldn't do that. That being said, you are right that the receiving end (e.g. BB program operators) are in a less fortunate situation...

@mttaggart In case of agentic stuff you can "just" pop calc, and in case of natural language output ("say harmful things") the words by themselves are not dangerous. My bigger problem is how do you define vulnerabilities in a system where controls are usually just another non-deterministic pattern matcher system? It is *bound* to let things slip!

A great piece on the value and importance of blogs, and a call to begin blogging (or in my case, resolving to post regularly again).

No matter how silly or inconsequential a topic may seem, if it’s interesting enough that you spend days doing it, it’s probably worth blogging about.

Share your work. Out of billions of people, there’s *always* gonna be someone who appreciates what you’ve done.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

[RSS] Reverse Engineering the Tapo C260 and Tapo Discovery Protocol v2

https://spaceraccoon.dev/reverse-engineer-tapo-c260-tdp-v2/

@troed Thanks for the additional info! Pulling old firmware stinks bad, even if this particular incident was a result of a random bug.

@troed Thanks for the tip! Wasn't there some shitshow around them lately too though?

Anyway, I've been specifically wanting a somewhat open printer to be available - it's insane that you can 3D print, analyze high freq signals, etc. with open options, yet putting ink on paper is still a challenge (precision manufacturing, ink chemistry, etc.)!

@thedarktangent move fast and break things

[RSS] New Year post: Anti-cheat evolution in Windows 11

https://www.andrea-allievi.com/blog/new-year-post-anti-cheat-evolution-in-windows-11/

A sundial that shows time digitally.

How you make it: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1068443

Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Su0ZqP_0c

#creativity #3dprinting #time #howyoumakeit #interesting

@npub1jj9u5wlpm7427u6y65ytqrpwcq9taqjk34v9apxjjfytt9tdm5ks9snhpx @pojntfx So you'd source a print head from scrap and use HP's cartridges for ink?

@troed I go to print shops because I refuse to maintain any commercially available printer, so literally anything that works would be step-up for me.

Nonsense in the FT: "Miguel De Bruycker, director of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), told the Financial Times that it was “currently impossible” to store data fully in Europe because US companies dominate digital infrastructure". Nonsense, yet policymakers believe this - I talk about our *Self-inflicted* cloud crisis in this piece: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/

internet comment etiquette with erik just got off YT probation / timeout from when YouTube’s moderation AI flagged a decade old video for having russian parkour.

He celebrated by posting the below under a pipebomb video.

Hey, this is my son. Stop making fun of his school project. At least he worked hard on it. unlike all you little fucks using AI to write essays about books you don’t know how to read. So you can go use AI to get ahead in the workforce until your AI manager fires you for sexually harassing the AI secretary. And then your AI health insurance gets cut off so you die sick and alone in the arms of your AI fuck butler who then immediately cremates you and compresses your ashes into bricks to build more AI data centers. The only way anyone will ever know you existed will be the dozens of AI Studio Ghibli photos you’ve made of yourself in a vain attempt to be included. But all you’ve accomplished is making the price of my RAM go up for a year. You know, just because something is inevitable doesn’t mean it can’t be molded by insults and mockery. And if you depend on AI and its current state for things like moderation, well then fuck you. Also, hey, nice pipe bomb, bro.

Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

@sassdawe And Azure probably has more Linux boxes than Windows, so I guess that's OK :)

@pojntfx @mdione Really weird choice indeed. Their FAQ says: "The electronic boards will be purchasable through our distributors." so maybe they plan to provide exceptions for select companies? Can they do that?