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Bálint Szilakszi

@szbalint@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06
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Systems architecture / SRE / infosec

Living in Vienna, Austria

Be kind.

#infosec #sre

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Joined April 03, 2017
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
It's interesting that some people say "oh but you shouldn't use AC, it makes the outside even warmer" but they never say "you should never use shutters, if you don't let in the heat it makes the outside even warmer!" Modern heat-pumps typically move at least 8x as much existing heat than they generate by performing the work of moving that existing heat,, so that's only around 10% in addition. The two cases are roughly 90% the same.
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@jerry would you say that the release is…blocked?
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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Yeah, real decentralized.
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

SLEEP IS FOR THE WE

LL BALANCED MENTAL HEALTH

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

Btw the counterfactual for the “AI is really good at finding vulnerabilities” is if all the attention related to “AI exploit finding” simply increased the attention to finding vulnerabilities, without AI significantly aiding in the process.

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

We need more cashew and fewer kaijus

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@babe day 3 of Viktor Orban-free Hungary and I’m still feeling joy every morning when I wake up from that
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

I would like to welcome the newcomers to the infosec profession, who discovered that a tool called "fuzzing" exists and are now using them widely.

(To be explicit: fuzzing-by-AI is an iterative, incremental improvement not a revolutionary change.)

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

There is an interesting microfiction opportunity.

A lot of material revolves around The Purge in the US, but what it does not hilight is that on this day everyone has a day off.

What if Labour Day originally evolved from The Purge in the US?

We killed the capitalist class comrades and now we celebrate this day symbolically by giving everyone the day off!

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

What’s IRC? Wrong answers only

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@ascherbaum Deutsche Bank? in 80% of the cases it has to do something with money laundering.
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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On the other hand a massive ddos attack doesn’t care if your site is vibecoded or not, so that was a bit of an unfair criticism
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

Critical reading: when someone writes “up to 97%” you really got to trust the integrity of that person.

Because a person with integrity will only use this formulation for 96.x% figures when it makes sense to round up.

A less principled person uses it with noisy data, eg success rates of 50% on one day, 70% on another and 97% on another day.

So the longer-term average might be a coinflip but an outlier of a day can have 97%.

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

I wanted to tell the story of how I ended up cancelling my Der Standard subscription.

Several years ago when I subscribed I've done so for a few different reasons: supporting quality journalism, getting more up-to-date on austrian public discourse, and to help with extending my german knowledge.

For a longer time this was okay, but recently I've had the feeling that the journalistic aspect isn't so pronounced as it was even a few years ago.

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

@renchap@oisaur.com I quite often get 503s on mastodon.social these days (in the last few weeks?) when posting/replying to people

compared to my relatively light usage it''s happening relatively frequently (eg twice today already, once in the morning, once just now).

Is this a known issue?

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

I like the italian roasted nero espresso.

Nice burnt flavour

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

The problem with the argumentation that letting Israel take part in Eurovision is just about artistic freedom, is that the format is explicitly about representing countries.

Israeli artists and musicians are free to take part in events when it’s about them.

For example I quite like Infected Mushroom and if they have a gig nearby I gladly take part.

Eurovision is something else and Israel shouldn’t be allowed to take part.

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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io In this case it’s a struggling business announcing cost-cutting, marketed as pivot-to-ai. GitLab has been struggling for years, losing market share and relevancy. They have a famously disfunctional product.
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@dangoodin@infosec.exchange What is the CVSS distribution of the 271 bugs that they’ve found with Mythos help? (Or some cruder severity/exposure metric if they don’t have CVSS)
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
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@pettter@social.accum.se which part do you need help with?
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
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@pettter@social.accum.se absolutely! I just made the point that passive cooling like shutters, or painting the roofs white etc are 90% the same as active heat pumps like AC. Some people have this irrational fear that AC “heats up the city” but not that “closing the shutters” heats up the city.
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Bálint Szilakszi @szbalint@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
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@pettter@social.accum.se that’s what I just showed you that no, AC is in fact 90% the same when it comes to “heating up the city” as passive methods. Conservation of energy also applies to passive methods, every single W of energy not entering a building heats up the streets and other buildings in the area. And if you really want to focus on the last 10% additional energy it takes to run heat pumps…then we really have to talk about all other main electricity and fuel uses in a city as well.
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