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abofh··on What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on
Another is that technology ends up advancing so fast that the odds of a species blowing themselves up before they get beyond the stars approaches one.
abofh··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
That is not what was written; what was described was anthropic losing control over their cursor account - perhaps a key compromise, developer laptop compromise, or a fault in cursor, but of the three, the language suggests the first two.
abofh··on Bunny CDN Security Incident
Which reads like the CA key got compromised - the customer's keys are fine
abofh··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
When they confuse the CA issue and the PHP issue in the opening paragraph, I have a hard time trusting their analysis
abofh··on Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025
Stolen suggests they got no value from the society they harmed, like a marketplace.

Nobody is stealing from billionaires.

abofh··on Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
Me too, just add my root and you'll never be warned again!

You have access to unlimited free certificates based on DNS delegation through this method, but need more.

It might be useful to explain why this adds value that another CA can't

abofh··on Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis hash slots?
Because you inherited it from someone who built it before that was a thing, and discovered it when you went serverless.

How'd I guess on the article itself?

abofh··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
> The Huggingface Attack revealed that making blanket statements like this is difficult and requires quite a bit of manual labor

It requires humans to verify what agents have done.

Weird

abofh··on Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
I mean basically that. If you hit a corporate IP, unless they have flow level logging or you have very extensive timestamps, then the game ends, company says they've enacted new training or controls, but they can't identify a specific person and it's not their fault.

Essentially - this is not a suggestion.

Residential ip's map to a specific person, and it's a lot harder for them to deflect and say I'm not responsible for my own Internet connection

abofh··on .name Termination
Because it's not worth it financially. After icann is the tld registrar, and after that above. So, if anyone is destroying it, it's not the registrar, it's the tld.
abofh··on The Twelve-Factor App (2025)
Dev/shm is used to materialize them, and then you have the ability to isolate the downstream code you might use from accessing it by dropping permissions or sandboxing it away from a file. You cannot really hide your environment from anything in process, since it's such a low level construct.

Thus it's easier to leak environment unintentionally, leaking file contents takes effort.

abofh··on I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
Yes, gcp has volumes of available accurate documentation, but it's almost entirely incomprehensible and bizarrely undiscoverable by search
abofh··on Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
Do they have SSL updates yet? Signing is great, but using https means not fighting firewalls to start a job
abofh··on "That's not SOC 2 compliant"
Youre required to have a policy. That policy may be throwing bananas at the wall, but if it's documented and you follow it, you're compliant with policy.
abofh··on I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)
You run ssh?
abofh··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
Largely the line was if you could write code. In the old days it was assumed, but for much of the late 90s/early aughts, it wasn't an obligation to admin, but was for devops
abofh··on What Happened to HackerOne?
It got the executives it paid for
abofh··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
You've joined an accelerator, not gone public, of course you're not ready to rug pull
abofh··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
They couldn't handle sending webhooks for eight hours. That seems more than reasonable to expect.
abofh··on Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test
If you just want a smaller vocabulary, use French? If your goal is to communicate to an LLM, maybe saving tokens isn't the all in win, unless you like reading assert gronkHitThing(true)
abofh··on Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
I would love to pay a penny an article read by me my AI or whatever to a host of services provided they could prove the value first. These days I'm told which thousand companies my clicks will be sold to any time I visit an article, and that's before I've gotten value.

The industry got it wrong when it digitized

abofh··on Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat
Anonymous packets are a national security threat!
abofh··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Indeed, but should he say his real code was one digit swap off, could you prove intent? Color matters, but you can't paint with only one
abofh··on Claude Opus 5
It's a binary rule at our firm. We trust bedrock but not mantle for similar reasons
abofh··on Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
I hope it's profitable, because this feels like engineering for engineering sake and not actually improving the product in a way that draws customers.
abofh··on GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
To an extent that's fair, but you do understand that "ive not heard of a vulnerability older than me" begs credulity? Especially with the fifteen years experience comment? I'm all for not being snarky (I'm not), but this was bait
abofh··on GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
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abofh··on 98% isn't much
I remember years ago when websites would have buttons "best viewed in Internet explorer 4.0". We're past those days, but only because it's implied "use chrome, maybe webkit, we didn't test on Firefox"
abofh··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Somebody figured out how to make the trial profitable!

I don't really feel bad about anyone here, they were subsidizing to get people hooked, someone turned the subsidies into profit when they got selective pricing mode enabled, it was always going to be arbitrage.

But the winner is the guy in the middle in a jurisdiction that will likely be judgement proof, because everything they capture, both input and out, and if available, thinking tokens -- are gonna be for sale as soon as you cut off their other revenue.

Zero knowledge was a commitment Anthropic took seriously, until it got inconvenient.

So, people reselling their leftover plan crumbs? Probably a bad idea for a lot of reasons, but it's civil, and I wish Anthropics lawyers actually closing Streisand's LLM

abofh··on In praise of memcached
So many it's not X it's Y. It might have been polished, but it was claude
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