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ferngodfather··on OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability
No, no don't let all of that distract you. We gotta hype this. This is the new SSH2SHELL dude. Have we registered the domain yet? I'm scheduled on Fox News tomorrow.
ferngodfather··on Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution
I get it to a point because it can be a chicken and egg situation sometimes, but there has got to be a better way.
ferngodfather··on Can the Cloudflare employee that just blocked Route53 Health Checks undo it
Done, thanks!
ferngodfather··on If you love a website, back it up
I am usually against shameless self promotion but this is actually pretty cool
ferngodfather··on Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers
This is great to say with the benefit of hindsight but nobody is changing the underlying language of their well established product for literally no reason.

And that is even with the assumption that other languages don't have issues - they do.

ferngodfather··on Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
You just need to implement an SSH CA. You can roll your own. Vault has an enterprise one. StepCA is suitable for smaller orgs.

All the benefit of the core SSH protocol as it's just key signing. It's honestly underrated.

ferngodfather··on Archive.today links going forward
Wikipedia has blocked it for years. Glad everyone else is finally getting around to it.
ferngodfather··on Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure
> This of course means that these attempts would succeed for anyone that was whitelisting Cloudflare IPs but blocking others.

No, the ranges Cloudflare tells you to whitelist are only their proxy ranges. Workers and all the other junk comes from other ranges that won't be whitelisted.

Of course it's a different matter if you're just whitelisting their AS.

ferngodfather··on Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
Yeah, fuck them all and Calif in particular
ferngodfather··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
"it's not claude"
ferngodfather··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
CVSS scores are a bad measure anyway
ferngodfather··on PHP 8.2.35
And yet it seems all their forewarning did was lead to the proof of concept being leaked many 'valuable' hours before.
ferngodfather··on PHP 8.2.35
I've said elsewhere I am sick to death of reading AI written "security disclosures". Even for genuine issues, it just saps my motivation to fix them.

That said, PHP team handled this poorly. How does letting everyone know so they can "prepare" help anyone at all. It just creates panic.

ferngodfather··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
I could never get either working sadly.

flaresolverr even had an open issue or similar that acknowledges it's basically dead last I checked?

ferngodfather··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
Because 1337 is behind Cloudflare meaning the Sonarr stack can't use it properly
ferngodfather··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
I'm glad someone actually took the time. I've been running into this for weeks and it as thinking to myself isn't this a rather silly and old trick to be bringing back.

Mainly with new Mobland episodes.

ferngodfather··on Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks
I reported a fake software update advert on YouTube. The report was declined. I appealed, and that was also rejected.

They couldn't see anything wrong with a maliciously fake software update advert.

ferngodfather··on WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
Yeah give me a vuln and I can make it anything between a 2 and 8 quite easily. I routinely see 10s that are "Critical 10.0 CVE (but only if you're using X language with X setting changed from default, and the attacker can MiTM your traffic)"
ferngodfather··on How to Write with an LLM
People on my FOSS project couldn't see the issue with their AI slopped documentation contributions.

On one hand I'm like, yeah fair enough it needed writing and something is better than nothing.

On the other I know nobody wants to read it now because it's just word vomit rather than how a human would write something they'd like another human to read.

I hate it so much.

ferngodfather··on How to Write with an LLM
You say this but fact and opinion are very similar and not at all easy to distinguish.

For instance, if I said the grass is green vs if I said the grass looks nice vs if I said the grass is doing well and looks how it should vs if I said in my opinion the grass is healthier than its ever been.

ferngodfather··on Astra for Law
> To submit a claim you do not need a lawyer, but the process is (intentionally?) vague and very complicated, so it takes a lot of effort to figure it out yourself.

I'm not sure there's quite accurate. The form is really not that difficult to complete.

It's basically: Party details, type of claim, particulars, damages

Obviously knowing these details requires some legal knowledge but I actually think ET claims are easy enough to bring if you've got the time to do a little research and build your case. Almost all ET judgments are public so there isn't the usual difficulty with research as you get with law reports being restricted either.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65bcbd214a666...

ferngodfather··on Astra for Law
Doing similar-ish things with Claude, it's helpful to have something to ground it.

For instance, if you can say:

"Refer to the database schema in x.sql as your source of truth for the database structure we want to import into*. Do not invent data, tables or columns that do not exist. Carefully match all output against this database schema and do not create output that doesn't exist if it does not match the schema, simply skip it."

You will end up with a far better result in my experience.

Gotta treat it like a child.

ferngodfather··on If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one
The POS are still XP last I checked haha
ferngodfather··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
No fire suppression and wooden ceilings?
ferngodfather··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
1 "data center" built from a shipping container is one too many.

And, did you look at the photos you linked lol.

ferngodfather··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
You should see the pricing of Azure web apps lol
ferngodfather··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
My issue with OVH is the support is God awful and half French. Someone made a complaint about my server and their default stance was to nuke me from orbit and ask questions later.

Oh and their "data centers" are just shipping containers that are prone to the occasional fire.

Much happier with Hetzner, even though it's more expensive.

ferngodfather··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
I mean, bridge tolls are absolutely a thing.
ferngodfather··on I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
If only they had a parent company that specialised in search
ferngodfather··on The August 17 outage
But they can't process the commit until I push it?
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