"breed your horses to run faster and faster and faster until one of them gives birth to a locomotive" — @pluralistic on #LLMs on random wet liberal podcast

Oh God, What Now?: Why Tech Sucks – Cory Doctorow on Enshittification and how to fix it
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Episode webpage: twitter.com/OhGodWhatNowPod

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I was fortunate enough to have seen one of Reds performances, on stage before he retired. He was One of a Kind! He was a True Humanitarian!

Simple Tricks To Make Your Python Code Faster


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So what? They're admitting the truth after DECADES of lying to parents and contaminating people with their TOXIC MESS!

The CDC is a vaccine company, that's how they get all their money. If you want to 'give them grace' and forgive and forget - you do you BAE.

I don't, though. I'd like to see some lasting consequences. You know - much like the parents of vaccine injured children have to deal with for a LIFETIME!

OAN - The CDC can shove all its guidance.

:boosts_ok: boosts help me survive :hug_love:

Come listen to another cozy Elder Scrolls reading~ :shiba_excited:
This time, we have a series of interviews with the head of the Emperor's guards, recounting experiences from her storied life.

Succubard Gently Reads [[Words and Philosphy]](youtube.com/watch?v=pXljjO9NH7…)

This is another book that feels like it has much more story than lore, though for those of you with a keen ear and mind, you will probably be able to spot some key lines that have in them more lore than it may first appear. It's odd to think that, out of the relatively few stories in which a Bosmer features as a main character, I've done two back to back :cat_giggle:

Speaking of Bosmer, I envisaged Lady Allena Benoch as a mature, experienced woman and tried to express that in her voice. Hopefully, you like how she came out :hug_love:

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I also do live readings a few times a week over on Twitch (alongside Youtube) if that's more your thing :shiba_excited:
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for those wanting a quick peek at what they sound like, here's the first two minutes:
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So I have a funny story related to this. Well, not so much funny, as the future refused to change moment.

When I was younger and I was actually trying to make a difference, I worked with some talented individuals. Back when google's advanced searching still worked, wasn't ass, and was actually reasonable about captcha-gating people, I learned how to query google for indexed FTP servers with anonymous access enabled.

in reply to da_667

that's even with screenshots of their ass hanging out on google, and back then, when both firefox, and chrome had embedded FTP clients, pictures of the anonymous FTP login, and file listings.

There were two crowning achievements from that time. One was cyberark and Symantec Endpoint Protection installation details being served up over anonymous FTP for an alcohol distributor in the midwest. Just fuckin' sittin' there.

We reached out to them on three occasions, weeks apart trying to get them to fix their misconfiguration. Mysteriously, 8 weeks later, the FTP server was gone.

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the other achievement was a random FTP server on a hosting provider based out of california (..aren't they all). We found randon ASP code, and bits of encrypted data stored in no particular organization or format.

the ASP code consisted of super basic webshells, and other malicious shit. So of course, we hit their abuse contact data, aaand crickets. No response.

I downloaded a random zip file and decompressed. Turned out, not all of the contents were encrypted.

In this zip file was sensitive network information about the Kuwaiti National Oil Company (several references to KNOC). There was a powerpoint slide deck defining details of a Microsoft Defender deployment, There was a complete active directory map, the works.

This was bad. Now, mind you, this was not an FTP server in the KNOC IP address space, this was a random hosting/colo server.

So naturally upon finding this information, I seeked to be rid of it and any involvement with it as soon as I possibly could.

in reply to da_667

so I reached to to friends, and friends of friends to find contacts in the intelligence community, a CERT of some sort, something, anything.

I had a friend with FBI contacts. They relayed the information. I heard nothing else about it. Except the FTP server was taken down, and that was it.

Some time later, Cylance published a report on operation Cleaver, some clown shoe ass operation that had been attributed to somewhere in the middle east. When I say clown shoes, I mean fucking clownshoes. Their toolsets and tradecraft were abysmal, but still, they managed to get shells, so were they really that abysmal? Yes. Absolutely.

Anyway, some of the IOCs for the report included IP addresses in the address space of said hosting provider involved in this clusterfuck-tastrophy. I helpfully mentioned "Hey, you missed this IP in your IOCs. DONT WORRY. HAVE A NICE DAY."

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Not too long after that, I had a very brief Tenure at Cisco in the TALOS threat research group.

I thought I'd be writing rules, but they had me doing the most random shit. Most of the time we were kinda left on our own to do whatever, so long as it was a benefit to Cisco. so naturally, I glued together some bash, xargs, and a super fast FTP client and just began scanning the web for FTP servers.

Nobody batted an eye. I discovered something interesting. Many ISPs have their own internet speed test infrastructure for showing users how they aren't being fucked by the lack of ISP competition with arbitrary territorial boundaries and fiefdoms.

Turns out, for a number of these tests, the files downloaded as a part of these tests are plain ol anonymous FTP.

Only some of them had anonymous write access as well.

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something many people don't realize about security sensitive work is that in many cases the corporate response is non-existent... and when there is a response it's usually so awful you actually kind of wish they didn't say anything sometimes, all the while people are left at risk in any number of ways

people expect some serious straight laced response to security issues by a company, but the reality is that half the time nobody even responds, and the other half the time the company is incompetent and clueless while you desperately explain to 50 departments repeatedly that they need to fix serious problems

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Un transfert punitif au QLCO de Condé-sur-Sarthe pour un livre de cuisine ! Soutien à Moben
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"Communiqué en soutien à Moben, auteur de Mange ta peine,
recettes du prisonnier à l'isolement."

Hunger stalks Gaza as UN demands Israel let in more aid
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I am an adult. I’m short, yes, but this is ridiculous. The hood on this truck is higher than my shoulder. It forms in 90° angle with the ground. hideous! There’s no way they could see me in the crosswalk.

They were double parked. Even with the engine off it felt unsafe to walk in front of this thing. I would be so embarrassed to drive a car like this if I were not … plowing snow?

in reply to myrmepropagandist

never see these plowing snow - too fancy, and too long, and terrible visibility.

Large commercial driveway clearing companies use smallish agricultural tractors with a snowblower attachment.

Small independent operations use an old, short box regular cab truck from the 90's or earlier. Easy to maneuver, and cheap to repair.

After 1 season, everything plastic on the outside of that will be broken. Clients aren't happy if you plow the rosebushes into the garage door.

I love Boxing. Es geht um den nationalen und internationalen Amateur- und Profiboxsport #sportreporter24 amzn.to/3M0IEQ0

Heading to Albertsons AND Smith's this morning to go grocery shopping around 6am.

Stupid me forgot to go grocery shopping over the weekend and I have a feeling today and tomorrow are going to be insane with all the Thanksgiving shopping.

I just need staples and supplies.

So going to head out here in about 15 minutes to hopefully beat the crowds.

Also... I've been up since 2am.

Real Madrid’s new ownership plan divides fans at world’s richest club
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Ενάντια στην έμφυλη βία. Και σήμερα και κάθε μέρα! youtu.be/UPD1XvT2Too

Yesterday was the last day that Americans could comment on reform to the H-1B visa program. I hope enough Americans said, pull the plug!!

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#VDM
Hier, j'ai mis pour 51 euros d'huile dans la ouature parce qu'elle faisait 1 bruit de ferraille et que le niveau était trop bas.
Ce matin je fais à peine 70 km : re-bruit de ferraille et dans 1 rond-point, le témoin d'huile qui s'allume brièvement avec 1 bip et le moteur qui fait "TACATACATAC-GREUUUU".
Là chuis garé près du lieu de ma réunion du jour.
A 70 km de chez moi, donc.
Alors sondage !

  • Vas-y et ce soir tu mets de l'huile et tu rentres (14%, 5 votes)
  • MALHEUREUX surtout pas : appelle l'assistance ! (77%, 27 votes)
  • Achète 1 tente : survivaliste or nothing (2%, 1 vote)
  • La réponse D ! (5%, 2 votes)
35 voters. Poll end: in 46 minutes

CVSS 10, you say. 🧐😩

Azure Bastion (CVE-2025-49752)
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#InfoSec #CyberSec #Sysadmin #cloud #Azure #Microsoft

As Cory Doctorow's #Enshittification book tour approaches its conclusion, there are a couple more online channels where it would be great to see Cory present the book tailored to the channel audience. Particularly, #GamersNexus (despite its name and origins) has developed into a serious investigative journalist organization, taking on the likes of Nvidia and Bloomberg and winning. See, for example, their excellent documentary on "The Nvidia AI GPU Black Market" [1], their follow-on video about Bloomberg's vexatious DMCA takedown [2], and their second follow-on about that takedown backfiring [3].

GN (with whom I have no affiliation) currently has 2.53 million subscribers, and their videos have exceptionally high ratios of views per subscriber and likes per view. Their new spin-off channel, GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy, has a more model (and presumably largely overlapping) 182K subscribers, and covers mostly the topics political leaders, regulators, and enforcement bodies have been contacting GN about since the GPU smuggling documentary. (See, for example, their video [4] about the stock and finance sloshing around in the companies forming the AI bubble.)

If you can get Steve and the team at GN to host you, Cory, @pluralistic, you'd reach a large audience of likely buyers who are also likely to act meaningfully to further to political objectives advocated in the book.

1/2

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[2] youtube.com/watch?v=tUnRWh4xOC…
[3] youtube.com/watch?v=9y_KF235r7…
[4] youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh…

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Le Libertaire du mois

"On vit une époque formidable.
Jordan Bardella serait la personnalité politique préférée des Français, Rachida Dati vide les poubelles à Paris, Sarkozy publie un livre sur son incarcération, le président des Amis de Jules Durand au Havre est un militant trotskyste, le plan Trump sur l’Ukraine a été dicté par …
L’article Le Libertaire du mois est apparu en premier sur Le Libertaire."

German court opens trial against left-wing ‘hammer gang’
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Trump ‘wants us to capitulate’ to Russia: Ukrainians aghast at peace plan
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