๐คขOh geez. Sorry for TMI, but Meiselas is reporting this:
Meiselas: What Iโm hearing from credible sources is that Donald #Trump is actually farting in the courtroomโฆ Iโm hearing it from actual credible people that as heโs kind of falling asleep, heโs actually passing gas and that his lawyers are really struggling with the smell. #TrumpTrial
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Incredible research at BlackHat Asia today by Tong Liu and team from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ๅจiie.ac.cn ็็ตๅญ้ฎไปถ็ป่ฟ้ช่ฏ)
A dozen+ RCEs on popular LLM framework libraries like LangChain and LlamaIndex - used in lots of chat-assisted apps including GitHub. These guys got a reverse shell in two prompts, and even managed to exploit SetUID for full root on the underlying VM!
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This is a good thing.
Perhaps some folks can rm -rf / with abandon and nip this BS in the bud.
*sigh* Alas, I doubt anyone is that forward thinking anymore.
@kennwhite
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* mutters and grumbles about old server *
Anybody know what happened to witches.live?
Anyway, here now, hoping to refind everybody
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I can still call up witches.live and see accounts, so it seems like it should be possible to do a normal account transfer.
Do you know anything about witches.live @tchambers ?
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We've released #PuTTY version 0.81. This is a SECURITY UPDATE, fixing a #vulnerability in ECDSA signing for #SSH.
If you've used a 521-bit ECDSA key (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) with any previous version of PuTTY, consider it compromised! Generate a new key pair, and remove the old public key from authorized_keys files.
Other key types are not affected, even other sizes of ECDSA. In particular, Ed25519 is fine.
This vulnerability has id CVE-2024-31497. Full information is at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html
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Given that that's 3 additional clicks in the PuTTYgen UI (ECDSA, Dropdown, nistp521) I can almost assure we won't have any in our enterprise.
Surprised to see that the default in PuTTYgen 0.81 is still RSA, and only 2048 bits. Ed25519 even works with RHEL 7 (EoL 2024-06-30).
@brnrd I must admit I've always been nervous about switching the recommendation over to any form of DSA. _Mostly_ because of exactly this fragile k business, but not only that. Though Ed25519 is IMO an improvement on integer DSA and NIST ECDSA โ it's easier to see its security argument.
Plus I half expect any day now the post-quantum Next Big Thing will be standardised for SSH and then we'll all have to switch again.
Bumping the default RSA size, though, fair enough โ patch welcome!
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@Neil Brown
@andy
Ah!
I was just making a joke about searching for
a lockable cabinet to store important papers / jewellery
And the notion of "safe search"!
WHERE THE WEB IS GOING: The convergence of LLMs and web advertising will lead to "ads" consisting of several hundred gigabytes of javascript containing a (weighted) neural network designed to generate unique per-user video advertisementsโgenerated on your computer at your expense to ensure the imagery is unique and evades AI-based ad-blockers.
"AI spam" is an entire AI, squatting on your CPU and making it glow dull red as it works out how to capture your attention.
Welcome to the spamularity.
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<starts shopping the idea down Sand Hill Road>
<instantly receives a billion dollars funding>
- Google's new chat service Semaphore is replacing Google Pigeon (formerly Google Chat (for business (old version))). it will launch without encryption
- Gemini can now physically stare at you while you sleep
- Pixel Camera will automatically edit out people it doesn't like and replace them with your favorite Fortnite skins
- Settings is now a progressive web app
- Material4 is launching. the corners are now so round they bend the opposite direction
- the current Maps API has been deprecated and replaced with an unfinished newer version
- all the non-ads on the Play Store were ruining the experience so they removed them
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it was like poco or xiaomi or huawei, one of those
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Famous American murderer from the telly, O J Simpson, has been in the news recently for dying. Here are some lesser known facts about him:
O J was known by his fans as "The Juice". This is because his full name was Orangejuice Jorangejuice Simpson.
King Edward VIII of England was forced to resign because he wanted to marry him.
In addition to being good at rugby and murder, O J was also the first man on mars.
He was acquitted after his lawyer, who was one of the Cardasians from Star Trek, convinced the jury that there were five lights.
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He wasn't even called Simpson, I saw a documentary once and he was an accident-prone cop called Nordberg in real life
And he wasn't in the Simpsons
Answer me that
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"all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." should cover it all. In that use "men" is was meant to mean humanity. It should be updated.
So women should have a bloody right to live, not be livestock.
Also instructor: โIโll be five minutesโ
"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"
I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.
Why? I'll tell you why
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People seem to think that hormones fundamentally donโt really feel like anything, that they just change your body and nothing else. Nothing is further from the truth.
Getting on HRT when youโre trans feels like youโve been wearing shoes two sizes too small for your entire life and youโve just got a pair that fits. Getting on HRT when youโre not has the opposite effect: instead youโre taking a drug that will cause crushing depression. Itโs even on the side effects list!
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I kind of forgot while saying this that in their mythology weโre embarked upon a sinister project to propel cis kids through transition.
Obviously fucking not, dickheads. We recoil at the idea of someone being pushed to transition as hard as we recoil at the idea of them being pushed not to. Itโs always self-led. How dare you accuse us of the same monstrosity that you are so determinedly perpetrating yourselves.
Wouldn't it be easier to just refer to HRT as 'meds'? Like if you take epilepsy meds, you will have a bad time.
It seems easier to explain 'trans men do not produce the right hormones for men, so they need these meds'.
Dear UK residents. Iโm sorry to be tedious, but Iโm going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.
The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.
This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who canโt escape from abusive parents, especially young women.
If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.
We all know that isnโt going to happen to any significant extent though.
As you were.
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@crocket2001
I think it's easy to underestimate how far most people have moved on this already. (Not that *most* makes it safe). There seem to be two groups pushing this:
1. boring folk who moan about the metric system, car parks, youth of today, ULEZ, "they're all as bad as each other", immigrants, etc.
2. Westminster-y policy type people, both left and right, professional dinner-party attenders, columnists, writers, wonks, essayists, student union types.
The (dangerous) difference now is that these groups -- our society's loudest, most boring, dull, dim, and reactionary, who only differ in social class -- are united on one subject.
The public don''t need to "come round".
People think Guardianista idealists lay out liberation's groundwork -- surveyors going ahead. But they're just apologists hanging on the coat-tails of emperors, minting excuses for comfortable lives at court. The powerful, their "clients", are moving right, so they're representing them, coining theories and writing reports.
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After about the first night or so itโs amazing how you get used to sleeping on a boat. The rocking motion and creaking sounds of the lines just become the comforting background rather than the thing that keeps waking you up.
Reminds me of a holiday where the B&B was right above the platforms of Lancaster station. The noise of trains quickly became the background. So much so that when there was engineering works in the last night it was eerily quiet and hard to sleep.
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I just made a command-line typo: 'locat' in place of 'locate'.
Ubuntu's command-not-found package offered me 'lolcat' as a higher-ranked preference than what I actually intended.
The Internet has won.
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I donโt have an ubuntu machine at the moment, but Iโm guessing itโs this ?
https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
Probably not useful ever, but itโs good to see people having fun from time to time XD
GitHub - busyloop/lolcat: Rainbows and unicorns!
Rainbows and unicorns! Contribute to busyloop/lolcat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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A few years ago I was on Scarlet (the yacht of @Sarah Brown and @Zoรซ O'Connell ) and noticed mid morning that I didn't have the bloating sensation I was used to having some time after breakfast. The reason for this, of course, is that Scarlet runs on lactose-free milk. Evidently I was slightly lactose intolerant, started buying lactose-free milk at home, and everything was better.
It shouldn't have been only today that I extrapolated this experience to cover a large takeaway banana milkshake.
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Yuval Abraham, author of the 972 mag reporting on the #IDFโs use of the #Lavender and โWhereโs Daddyโ targeting systems in #Gaza, walked through the whole story in an extended segment on #DemocracyNow
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/israel_ai
#Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #AI #genocide #NotInMyName #NotInOurName
Lavender & Whereโs Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes
The Israeli publications +972 and Local Call have exposed how the Israeli military used an artificial intelligence program known as Lavender to develop a โkill listโ in Gaza that includes as many as 37,000 Palestinians who were targeted for assassinaโฆDemocracy Now!
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Observant viewers will note the presence of hydrofoils. Each one of those is an INTERPLANETARY SEAPLANE!
Also, not a single expendable launch in this game.
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I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If youโre an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply โbig Jia Tan energy thereโ and then block them forever.
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A new post on misleading Covid charts & why Covid really is low right now, and why we should be glad of it.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/hospitals-...
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A different kind of breaking news!
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Trump is taking gaslighting to the next level inside the NY court.
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