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got my copy right before Christmas. cheers to the real ones, to the unwavering phrack staff, and to the community still breaking things and building weird machines. happy hunting 🍻

@megamaz2 @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R you just unlocked a 35 years old memory. hadn’t thought about the caps lock light in so long

@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R This is actually really useful Consider your screen is completely frozen, you can't move your mouse, nothing is working. If you press caps lock and the light toggles, then your OS is just frozen. If the light doesn't change, then the kernel died.

helloItsMeTheKeyboard

Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out

honestamente… viva la patria

pobre gringo que tuvo la desgracia de subir un vídeo tocando en una sinfónica y se le cruzaron los argentinos

Cubans giving the Lego video a shot

@igorprudkin @rmiltonn @MahomesEnjoyer

@rmiltonn @MahomesEnjoyer I see it in spanish. How was it translated to english?

X translating antizionist to antisemite is kinda crazy

“This is the most important election in our lifetime…”

@benclarkson on top of your books (too late, already bought them) I would buy the shit out of the movie / series. just a thought ;)

The world's first perfect city...

@W00_am_1 @brian_armstrong *us-east-1a somehow they are doing non-replicated sharding in only one AZ, which is wild.

@brian_armstrong wild that "we experienced an outage" from the coinbase ceo is followed by "room overheating in aws". the decentralized future runs on one data center in virginia lol

We experienced an outage at Coinbase last night, which is never acceptable. The root cause was a room overheating in an AWS datacenter when multiple chillers failed. We design our services to be redundant to downtime in any one AWS Availability Zone (AZ), and most of our systems worked this way last night, but not all. Our centralized exchange did not. Exchanges have unique architectures that optimize for latency and co-location of clients. It is possible to make exchanges resistant to AZ failures, but this can introduce latency delays that are not desirable along with breaking customer co-location. Given this incident, we'll revisit these tradeoffs to ensure we're giving you the best possible venue to trade. At a minimum, the duration of an outage should be able to be reduced considerably when an AZ move is needed. Thank you to the AWS and Coinbase teams for working through the night to mitigate the issue. We’ll share the detailed technical summary once it's ready.

@manzottipablo @doctorfrusna “and it was very sad… because it was the wrong one” que ídolo por dios

Que momento extraordinario. Un Monty Python moment. Y con el capo de Conan O'Brien. Todo es perfecto. Gracias muchachos Via @doctorfrusna

are we in linux 0day week or month? this is the most fun i’ve had in a while lol

@encrypted_past @spendergrsec @dinodaizovi dude he is trying to be funny in a brad way. you did good stuff and it is appreciated

@spendergrsec @dinodaizovi I don't even know what to say. I thought you were cool. I see now this is going to be an attrition of insult game, and I refuse to play. I appreciate you though, just wish you knew a little bit about me before you called names, and threw shade like a 12 year old.

Here we go again? "A patch for this vulnerability does not exist upstream" #patch-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/V4bel/dirtyfra… Reminder: your adversaries probably already had some non-zero number of Linux kernel privilege escalations like this.

“Sorda Stéreo” Lloro con los comentarios 😂🤣

@easybod @gf_256 i ended up moving everything to uv but that is a bit of a maximalist position. i should be able to just type “python” on my terminal and it should do something reasonable, which I got out of uv too of course

@uid0sec @gf_256 One does not simply have a system wide python environment. All projects get their own python (poetry/venv/nix) environment. Anything else leads to madness.

homebrew is a supply chain disaster waiting to happen

@lauriewired @halvarflake I love computers and computer science, I also happen to program and design as my job, but I’d still love computers and deep weird computer thingies way after I stop working. your videos are about that, loving weird computer thingies and it’s really appreciated

There’s a famous Usenet story about a programmer (Mel) who refused higher level abstractions. It was the late 1950s, and even in that era, Mel was…well today we’d call him a boomer. Mel only wrote in raw hexadecimal. He didn’t approve of compilers, and refused to use optimizing assemblers. "You never know where it's going to put things”, he said. Everyone else in the company was moving on to FORTRAN, and they didn’t understand why Mel was so stubborn about using new tools. He *loved* self-modifying code. “If a program can’t rewrite its own code”, he asked, “what good is it?” Mel eventually left the company, and other engineers were tasked with understanding what was left. Mel’s hand-optimized routines always beat the assemblers; but some of it looked absolutely bizarre. One engineer took ~2 weeks to understand why there were loops with no exit condition…yet the program worked fine. I won’t spoil all the details, you should really read it, it’s short. But it’s a fantastic piece on “what defines a real programmer?”…which is becoming increasingly relevant in this vibe-coded era. I strive to understand computers as deeply as Mel! If we aren’t careful, we’re going to lose the “Mels” of this world to time. That’s part of why I go so deep in my youtube videos. I hope that younger viewers are genuinely fascinated by the inner workings of our machines, instead of handing everything off to higher abstractions.

I'll be watching you

@lcamtuf @IceSolst we’ve been talking about reproductive builds for like 10 years at this point (still not fully there). LLMs are by design stochastic, non reproducible, I can’t treat it the same way a compiler because I can’t verify the process that got me the output.

@IceSolst It looks like an LLM-generated essay, so not sure it's worth engaging on. But more to the point, it strikes me as a weird argument. Compilers can't go to Reddit, get prompt injected, and backdoor your code. Human review is not the answer, but neither is "we'll just do QA".

Interesting article on treating agent output like compiler output (and why) skiplabs.io/blog/codegen_a…

@benclarkson @GSLChar LFG!

@uid0sec @GSLChar

My trailer for the podcast Blowback's season on the secret war in Cambodia. I keep getting jobs animating Richard Nixon. I'm very pleased with this one.

After a completely manufactured display of 'remorse' over the desecration of a cross in the southern Lebanese village of Debel, Israeli forces are demolishing parts of the border town, bulldozing solar panels that supply electricity and power its water station.