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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️

@pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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disabled queer computer geek

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Joined September 15, 2023
Wobsite:
https://pikhq.com/
Github:
https://github.com/pikhq
Old account:
https://tech.lgbt/@pikhq
Signal:
pikhq.69
Very old account:
https://twitter.com/pikhq
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 1mo ago
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
i grew up in the 90s, as a computer geek. this meant i soaked in the techno-optimism of the age. it has been really disorienting seeing that techno-optimism lead to this current era of techno-authoritarianism, lead by the proponents of that techno-optimism. the bright and shining future i was promised was a boot stomping on the face of humanity forever.
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
You know something? The reason so many developers have gotten taken completely in by LLMs is actually the same reason so many CEOs have: LLMs flatter the ever-loving shit out of you, and a lot of software engineers have egos the size of a planet. That's it. The robotic yes man is a highly addictive drug to people who are wanting to be told they're smart and clever and right about everything.
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2w ago
if the ai shit likes markdown maybe we should abandon markdown it's always been a "i mean i guess it's fine"-ass format, but i'd rather not be associated with that use case, and there _are_ other things in the world
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2w ago
ok i said i was going to rate limit the takes, but i saw someone observing that they were doing LLM agent stuff on a personal project, and it got so much done but it was extremely unenjoyable. and i just have to say... please, for your personal projects, if you don't enjoy doing it, please don't. really. i don't care what it feels like everyone's doing, there's no point in making yourself feel bad with your hobbies.
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 1w ago
anyways the thing that worries me about LLM shit is more a) it enriches today's robber barons b) y'all we are baiting tacoma narrows bridge disasters here c) who up for a ~~1929~~ 2029 wall street crash
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 4mo ago
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
one thing the rsync thing is revealing is that the whole “rely on the sense of responsibility of some clever guys from decades ago” model of open source software maintenance is crumbling under load, and some people are seeing LLMs as an out
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago

it seems like the overarching mission plan in tech ATM is:

  1. use AI to burn out the domain experts
  2. ???
  3. profit
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 1w ago
Replying to
@munin@infosec.exchange somehow basic infosec rules have completely fallen by the wayside. it's going to be utter _hell_ for a while. for a "fun" time check out what the various MCP things do (those being plugins for a wide variety of things to... let you API drive $thing, but with specifically structured JSON because for some fucking reason we need distinct API wrappers for LLMs because these people are insane)
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 1mo ago
Boosted by @neatnik@social.lol
oh for fucks sake, 1password's funding dhh's thing i guess i have a Task soon
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago

RE: @zzt@mas.to

"fuck you, make me" is always the correct answer to fascists. this is a simple truth that apparently is hard as hell to teach

mas.to
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 3w ago
it's gotten to be really, really difficult to avoid slopcode. i'm not sure it's actually possible atm. but i can tell you this: i'm going to be trying very hard to use things that don't, and i won't recommend or encourage the use of even a single piece of software that i know uses slop.
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago

i think as a species we should ban two-stroke lawncare engines. and destroy them all, in a single great spectacle. a moment of unity, to celebrate the end of the dread beasts.

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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
how god damned fascist-pilled does an organization's management have to be to switch _to_ twitter in july 2026 #mozilla #firefox
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
Replying to
the venture capital oriented tech ecosystem is completely detached from anything that matters. i know this is nothing new, but holy shit. millions of fucking dollars for "we made a popular curl wrapper script, let us turn it into postman"
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
Replying to
transphobia, uspol
buddy. if you think you're liberal and you have the same stance on an issue as donald. fucking. trump. you should probably sit with that and think _very_ hard about it, instead of running your fucking mouth.
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange and it's very worth remembering that while the design of rust _does_ prevent many bugs, it's not a get-out-of-bugs-free card. there are many ways to write code wrong, not just memory safety issues!
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
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they got millions of dollars of venture capital for a gods damned wrapper script around curl. not even actually writing the damned protocol shit. i think they're trying to turn it into postman?
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems as someone who remembers the bad old days, it feels miraculous. they, uh, solved the problem.
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@hacks4pancakes what's ended up being the case is that conspiracies are real but they're right in the open and talked about in email chains with subjects like "do the evil thing?" and then it's "hey, did you kill those orphans? i need some orphan corpses for my orphan skeleton outfit i'm wearing to the academy awards next month"
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
you know. we should develop software slowly. we should actually take our god damned time to make it good. ai is slotting into a world that has software changing constantly, and promises to help us do this even more, but it's literally promising the wrong fucking thing. we don't need to get faster at making changes, we need to get better at not making pointless changes. good software hardly needs to change at all.
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago

Watching a cult take over your industry is very distressing.

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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
have i ever said how it sucks that literally saudi arabia has been buying up interests in or outright control of things all over the video game industry? because it does
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
Replying to
re: transphobia
"i support trans rights but" but fuck off
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@0xabad1dea you can tell he ain't got a lawyer given that he hasn't realized that's not "helping" that's "adding a destruction of evidence charge on top"
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
(seriously though, sometimes an app feature screams "the person responsible for this has never used this service, or indeed any service that talks to many people at once, including somehow work email")
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago

having seen what MCP _is_ i'm shocked it took this long

commentary limited because migraine but tldr: MCP is a generic API for machine use of all the things (okay...) oriented around LLMs (um...) that has a fundamental assumption that you're giving the LLM the precise set of perms you do (... excuse me?).
this is not a thing designed by someone who knows about the word "security" and so surprise there's huge CVEs in something using it!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-nginx-ui-auth-bypass-flaw-now-actively-exploited-in-the-wild/

Critical Nginx UI auth bypass flaw now actively exploited in the wild
BleepingComputer

Critical Nginx UI auth bypass flaw now actively exploited in the wild

A critical vulnerability in Nginx UI with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now being exploited in the wild for full server takeover without authentication.

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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago

today i found out that one place i lived in growing up actually is in a photo on wikipedia

but then it's just a photo with literally the entire town in it

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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@mcc@mastodon.social what a fucking _strange_ set of announcements from a guy who is clearly burnt the ever-loving-fuck out
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems it's a shame things can be both better than what came before and still have problems
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago

well. AP-NORC has him at 33% approval. on the one hand that's still too high, but on the other hand, in the context of american politics jesus christ, he's heading for bush and nixon numbers, and perhaps more importantly... the floor broke. his _loyal supporters_ are leaving.

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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@lina it's not like you have to know a thing about OSes to write about OSes in the rumor press :|
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@munin i wish that open source people, who should know better, realized it was more of the same. but i guess you can't teach someone something their paycheck relies on them not knowing.
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 3mo ago
Replying to
@munin@infosec.exchange come now, surely the articles confederation and perpetual union, written in 1777, count for something
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@rho @QuietMisdreavus it really is inexplicable how they purchased dark sky only to set it on fire
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@0xabad1dea the lovely context was, in this case, someone on a server i admin getting their account popped and that was how i found out that it wasn't locked down like i thought 🙃
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@stevecooley@mastodon.social but i like house music
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@tempest yup. you can tell that if any infosec people were consulted they were vigorously ignored
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 4mo ago
Replying to
@Athena@chaosfem.tw unless someone is literally stalking sam altman -- and we _all_ know they're not -- they're taking out their anger on the wrong target, even if that target is the biggest LLM advocate that ever walked the earth
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 4mo ago
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@clarfonthey@toot.cat @Athena@chaosfem.tw if that comment got the thread closed, then no discussion was possible in the first place
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
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@0xabad1dea yeah, that's my best guess really.
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@AmyZenunim my theory is it attracts the sort of people who think that tvtropes is the height of literary analysis
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago

things i am learning:
yes, oral estradiol is in fact bad for my migraine situation
huh, it may also be bad for plenty of other shit
joy

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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@atax1a@infosec.exchange and id think even if you like slop it'd be weird here. like. this is a historical artifact? if you really must do slop have you considered a separate branch or repo?
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@foone somehow it's high effort in the very worst way
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@azonenberg yeah; i was on patches happily except my insurance is being a pain in the butt about my dose. (i need a high dose because carbamazepine @ high dose)
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 2mo ago
im starting to think wonko the sane is onto something
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Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
· 3mo ago
Replying to
@atax1a@infosec.exchange imagine, just imagine, if they used these things called “parsers”, or even string matching, to implement actual checks sudo and ssh had stronger “guardrails” in the god damned 90s
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