@asicc I have no clue how this should/could be resolved unfortunately.

People getting more familiar with the infrastructure around them would probably help, but technology goes in a direction that hides these details, hence its popularity.

@asicc My point is exactly that the contents of an URL doesn't seem to matter _at all_ because many people have no idea what trustworthy domains are (or how they would like like as part of an URL).

In other words you don't have to register n<very weird e-like character>tflix[.]com for your scam because people will just trust PayForYourTV[.]so.

@tara @bitzero TIL about elinks, it looks awesome!

The current chaos in WordPress caused by Matt seems like a good time to remind folks that the Mastodon “community” websites and trademarks are 100% owned by one man, despite pleas from current and former project members to make Mastodon a foundation with a board.

gm fedi

sometimes the answer is not "have you tried turning it off and on again" but "have you tried using the physical power switch while sacrificing a goat"

Now that I look at it, Empire of Ghidra has strong Mordor vibes...

I decided to document this weekend's debugging adventure

#rpg #therapy

@bfjvii @mjd The moment that word appears you know you are being scammed.

[RSS] Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably

https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/every-rc-exe-bug-quirk-probably/

[RSS] Finding a Heap Buffer Overflow in the ASAM MDF Library Used in ADAS Systems with AFL++

https://g0ku704.github.io/2024/08/13/mdf4_parser_vuln_CVE-2024-41445.html

CVE-2024-41445 #fuzzing

I’m glad we wrote that paper. However LLMs “still lack basic reasoning skills” makes me cringe.

Information theory tells me that because an LLM is a finite set that is not able to grow itself, once it is trained has a finite capability. And that capability is driven by statistics and numbers.

intuitively (to me at least) if you present an LLM with a prompt that’s weird enough it will “hallucinate” answers because it has no critical thinking, it’s just a big probability machine that tries to find the most likely answer to your question. As a result, present an LLM with a chess problem brain teaser unique setup, chances is the LLM will make up rules because what it trained against isn’t chess rules but “in general chess problems end with a checkmate” and it will interpolate the movements from where you are to a checkmate.
https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/113295305642702643

@fortyseven @realhackhistory Exactly, this is how Art looks like.

@tmr232 Sun and Oracle are also HW companies, but it's probably just Tinfoil Hat Me talking...

@tmr232 The JetBrains Experience Of The Day for me was to find out that I have to configure a "Facet". Every time I encounter this term things turn to shit, and today was no exception.

@tmr232 Would it be unreasonable to think that this is actually the point?

@tmr232 It obviously polluted parts of your system you'd never think of

@realhackhistory I'm sure they'll connect to the modern stream consumers with that syntactically incorrect DOS shell prompt!

Oh yes we have our new “you wouldn’t download a car”

Apparently if you want to get your data out of an Apple thingy the preferred way to go is to transfer all the data halfway around the world then back to your other device that is literally 10cm apart from your Apple thingy.

The other option is to download 160 3.5" floppy disks worth of software (about 2x the size of the recommended disk space of Windows 95) because somehow getting data out of the Apple thingy over conductive wires requires this much software magic.

#Apple