Stay classy Meta.

#MetaBlockingPixelfed

It is good when computers make a sound when they are thinking hard. Computers used to click all the time when they accessed their hard drives and it was good cuz you could tell if it was working or frozen. Just now I started a long Rust build. The fans went on high. I was like, oh cool, I can half close the lid and when the fan eases off I'll know the build is done. 25 seconds later the fan stopped. Oh no, I thought. That's too soon. There must have been an error. I opened the lid. I was correct

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

Project: mpengine-x64-pdb 1.1.24090.11
File: mpengine.dll
Address: 75a5f5dbc

ParseRegistryList

SVG:
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My parents to me: Watch less TV, it'll rot your brain.

Me to my kid: Watch more TV, it'll rot / hijack your brain less than the competing alternatives.

An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter:

"By abandoning X/Twitter, leaders can reduce its credibility, promote fairer alternatives, and take a stand against the spread of disinformation, ensuring democratic principles are upheld."

H/T to @everton137 for organizing this - already close to 1,000 signatures:

https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/an-open-letter-to-all-european-politicians-and-leaders-to-abandon-x-twitter

#Europe #EU

Using a 1-line change of the BishopFox PoC for CVE-2025-0282, we can easily see the vulnerable Ivanti web server crash.
https://github.com/BishopFox/CVE-2025-0282-check

Given that there's no stack canary, and there's only 9 bits of ASLR entropy, we can probably successfully brute force a successful exploit if we want to.

Fearsome File Formats by @Ange is a follow-up to Funky File Formats. He explores file fuzzing, hashquines and ways in which files can contain unexpected things (for example different files altogether!)

The Talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-fearsome-file-formats

The Previous Talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_5930_-_en_-_saal_6_-_201412291400_-_funky_file_formats_-_ange_albertini

#38C3review

In the aerospace world, a "flat sat" (https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Opened-out_FlatSat_for_CubeSat_testing) is a development mockup of satellite splayed out on a bench with all the boards easily accessible for testing.

Is there a similar term of art for a spread-out functional prototype that's not a spacecraft? I feel like it should have a name but I'm not aware of one.

In my latest stream, I walked through the binaries of PoCorGTFO.
Not just pure hex analysis, I also covered a few challenging or fun facts along the way.
https://www.youtube.com/live/POg2Qpxbplk?si=oDBmmd1v9pMiRjMY

It's 2025 and the techbros are still out there with their AGI fantasies.

So Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 will also still be here taking it all apart with ridicule as praxis.

@alex & I will kick off the new year by aiming that praxis at ARC, o3 and all things OpenAI:

Monday, Jan 13, noon Pacific
https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Microsoft will force install the new Outlook email client on Windows 10 systems starting with next month's security update.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-install-new-outlook-on-windows-10-pcs-in-february/