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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchSecurity researcher and freelance. libssh founder, ICON ONG co-founder, member of Solar Wine CTF team, amateur astronomer, photographer and dopamine addict.
You may see here: hardware hacking, software dev, astronomy
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Motivation speechs be like
I've seen a job description in the spacial/cybersecurity field for which I'm theoretically a perfect fit and this makes me 10x more enthusiastic than I've been in the last 6 months.
No idea if it will land (it's an employee position and I'd rather have freelance) but at least it means that I'm recovering.
Look, I'm not extremely fond of what AI's doing to our society or our planet, but calling it "glorified matrix multiplication" is a very strong indicator that you have no idea what's going on since 2022.
No one is helping the societal debate by denying that 2026 LLM-based AI is extremely capable and dangerous when left autonomously taking decisions that impact the physical world.
My problem is that I never finish any project. When doing something, I get distracted by something else that needs attention, then something else. That's how 2 days ago, when cleaning my driveway, I started removing the broken car ramp that goes to the garage, then uncloged the pile of years of goo and mud that accumulated next to the garage. When powercleaning, I started cleaning the wall, noticed it was collapsing, so I took the old concrete I had to redo the joint. Then went to the shop because I was out of concrete. Then this morning noticed the first concrete was too old and I had to redo everything, then when I started from the bottom, saw that the back of the wall was bad and that I wouldn't have enough concrete. But I didn't want to go shopping because the sun is very bright and I'm charging my EV. So since I had the power washer in hand, I cleaned my car, then a bit of the garbage bin at the entrance, then the driveway that goes to the door and that's full of mud between the cracks. Then realize just this part is a full-week project.
Not 5 days ago I was complaining to my doctor that I couldn't rest despite not having worked for 3 months, guess what, rest mode does not exist when you have ADHD.
As I started watching "The Good Place", it swift slowly from a pop-comedy with light notions of philosophy into something that really explores the question of what it is to be a good person.
yipie, I finally understood how 3D->2D projection works and built my first spinning cube. It even has Z-mapping
I don't have only good stories from working at Sony, but one day I was reviewing a chat app for TV, reported a medium-priority finding that the linking-to-particular-social-media feature had privacy concerns, and they killed the feature the next day without any arguing.
The Sony TV never had built in microphones or cameras and aren't bundled with spyware other than the standard Google TV ones.
This is the polar opposite of LG's behavior.
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@icing@chaos.social at libssh we're considering the policy of filing all bugs under a certain CVSS threshold (5 or 6) as regular bug reports in bug tracking and fix them without any embargo to avoid clogging up the security pipeline
@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange as long as you don't make more than 10 predictions, it's safe enough.
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@k3ym0 The concept is very old, I was using dns2tcp to have free wifi on plane trips in 2010 and even before during pentests. Long TXT replies trigger red alerts on most intrusion detection systems nowadays.
My telescope imaging system takes shape. It's very close to have 100% of all the features I expect from such a tool. First 90% are done, 90% remaining.
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@le_proviseur @tomtom @ezeo voiture thermique vs voiture elec. L'essence est chère ? C'est de la faute aux politiques. J'arrive pas à trouver une station de charge ? La VE c'est de la merde, faut arrêter de nous l'imposer VIVE LE PETROLE
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@ryanc@infosec.exchange and despite all that information, 90% of the Belgian websites still serve the wrong language by default to French-speaking visitors.
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@kwyxz D'autant plus que la raison de la fusion de xAI avec SpaceX est de protéger xAI de l'éclatement de la bulle IA par SpaceX, "too big to fail" que le gouvernement US renflouera quoi qu'il arrive parce que c'est une société stratégique pour la défense.
A question I ask myself often when seeing one of these projects, is "why do you hate your users that much that you're using sourceforge to host them?" SF is trash and there are at least 3 better alternatives that aren't github.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @ryanc@infosec.exchange Agree one thousands time for the flag thing. I really dislike having to pick up 🇫🇷 for what is fr_BE. But ISO language codes aren't visual, so there's definitively a need to find a non-geocentric graphical way of referring to languages.
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@stevel@hachyderm.io @icing@chaos.social There's more than RCE, e.g. heartbleed had a 8.6 cvss w/o RCE, but had aggravating factors that aren't evaluated by the CVSS scale, like how widespread the vulnerable configuration is.
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
In comparison, we have a 4-bytes uninitialized stack value leak in application logs bug to be reported soon. CVSS 3.1 Low
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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@Black_Flag@beige.party @wesdym@mastodon.social @rozeboosje@masto.ai That "WesDym" replied more than 50 times in this thread. I think he's the "better and smarter than everyone in this thread" guy. Block him and go on, nothing of value lost.
"Math proves AI cannot evolve independently"
Very interesting research that proves that an LLM alone converges to a fixed point when looping on it own output, something that most people knew without a formal proof years ago.
But the commentary article below totally misses the point, in a very similar way to how evolution deniers say "it's impossible to obtain a clock by mixing particles of glass and iron and letting them form a clock by chance".
Both are totally right in the premises, but they're criticizing an incomplete model of what's happening back stage. Evolution has a selection step, and LLMs have access to computing power (i.e. writing and writing programs) that may select the statistically rare but useful LLM enhancements.
https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-behind-proves-it/
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@vees Trash people think everyone is trash people, they're just waiting for you to do the same kind of bad behavior to rat you out.
It's just unthinkable that you may be a normal person, minding your business without disturbing your neighbors
welp, the project worked so well with simulated devices, why is it breaking now that I test it in the wild?
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@simontatham@hachyderm.io debunking and verifying bullshit is much harder than writing it in the first place
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz @maruno@bark.lgbt Thanks, I really appreciate the effort!
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@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt That confused the hell out of me as a kid because no one explained it to me and my kid was confused to. I told him that interro-negative questions can only be answered by "non" or "si", so he doesn't wander the rest of his life wondering why "oui" is an ambiguous answer while never getting it explained in French class.
I don't know if it's cheating or not, my reference frame is completely broken. But I found that Claude is extremely good at setting up fuzzing campaigns, analyzing fuzzing results and making effective changes/identifying blind spots.
It has found defects in almost everything I threw at it so far without even trying hard.
I just had the weirdest client call from Orange (supposedly). The guy knew a lot about my subscriptions (Internet and phone from two companies merging) but didn't know how much I paid for each, made very weird comments about the new modem I'm supposed to receive, like that it switchs to "satellite connection" when there's a problem on the cable and such.
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My Greek cousin who regularly posts masculinist AI slop "history" content about ancient Greece has strong opinions on a movie where a sorceress who transforms soldiers in pigs, the movie wouldn't be realistic enough.
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@rozeboosje@masto.ai @2something@transfem.social @Black_Flag@beige.party I don't condone what Dawkin has written but I found that LLMs are way past passing turing tests. What you describe applied to gpt3 when it got released. It doesn't mean that AIs can't be discovered, but usually because they're hard wired to be helpful and answer questions on an extremely large number of topics, something a normal person can't do.
IMO this Turing test is a really wrong angle to view advances in LLMs because they aren't meant to realistically imitate humans at all.
Watching the Moon with Astrolol!
Hi, I'm youtube, recommending you the worst extreme right content we have again. You'll probably like that one about how we should kill all the trans people.
My software now takes pictures pretty well even if many important features are still missing.
Pas pour critiquer, mais on finance toutes ces choses en achetant très légalement sur Amazon, en roulant en Tesla ou en utilisant un Sodastream. L'argument éthique est très très faible.
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@Wednesday@defcon.social IMO they're using noindex because they mean "noarchive" or "nocache" and I'm not sure that even exists.
Having a "our services are impacted right now" page show up in search engine caches is probably what they don't want.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@binaryninja/117014721507603674
Tough decision but I decided to order a commercial license at a discount today. Good opportunity to start learning something different after using IDA for 20+ years.
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@addison@nothing-ever.works @Zardus@defcon.social +1 Everything you said. I wouldn't be against this practice if the goal was to build a long-lasting, reputable project and get kickstarted with a Rust port, but this is definitively a build-and-abandon approach. They're also building a huge security liability, because for all we know it's full of security bugs that no one knows about and no one will care.
As a dev of a popular C library, I wouldn't want my project to be ported that way.
On the other hand I'm in the middle of a deep ai-built project (99% of the code I'd say) but I looked over every major design decision and made manual changes or debugging just to ensure I wouldn't be stranger to the beast I was building. I don't believe doing anything less would be a responsible thing to do, because I understand that publishing something online is much more than just writing code, it's maintaining it.
Sometimes I read about astronomy professionals implementing network RPC protocols and I just cringe...
https://ascom-standards.org/AlpacaDeveloper/Async.htm
It's en vogue to use an asynchronous operation by "spinning off a thread" in which you call the method, then repeatedly poll the completion property until it becomes "complete". Meanwhile in your main logic flow you do other things that don't require the operation to have completed. Finally you come back and look when you need to know if it has completed before you can move on. Well all that time your spun-off thread is mindlessly polling for completion before you even care! It's bad form to create traffic for the device and the net with useless polling for async completion. Would it make more sense to kick off the operation with the method call, then go on about your other business, then when you need it to be done, check to see if it has completed right there? If not, now you're stuck and can't press on anyway, so loop right there waiting for it to complete. You may end up never waiting at all.
Their version of "asynchronous" is a cheap version of synchronous start and end of operations + polling + guilt-tripping devs using polling as a strategy because they designed an "asynchronous" protocol that doesn't even have callbacks.
JSON over websocket would do better
Now it has dual-camera support! No synchronized dithering yet tho.
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange research on the production of scientific ignorance is an actual science. They study how scientists study the wrong things (e.g. tobacco industry studying radon as a distraction to cigarettes), abandon interesting concepts for the wrong reasons (history of the blue LEDs) and/or the de-funding of promising but politically inconvenient research (e.g. everything LGBT since the 1930s, psychotropes like LSD and MDMA, and unfortunately more recently climate change and vaccination)
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@vees best we can do is conspiracy theories over his botched assassination attempt
"No ChatGPT, 'Digital Playground' would be a terrible name for an educational electronic kit. The name is already taken, research it."
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@simontatham@hachyderm.io and commands for which the "recursive" flag is either -r or -R, picked randomly
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@simontatham@hachyderm.io think of it like a problem "here is one truth, 99 lies" and you have to figure out which one is the truth. You now have avg 50 problems to solve. Iirc there's a PQC algorithm based on this idea
the joy of AI-based security research
The neat part with satellite constellations nowadays is that you don't need star maps anymore, they draw the equatorial lines in the sky