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pamcake··on Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
False dichotomy. There are plenty of other possible approaches outside of "having agent swarms randomly breaking in to environments and then marketing their services in the disclosure" and "do nothing".
pamcake··on TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
Admin interfaces should never have been exposed publicly in the first place (and aren't by default). Remote admin over wireguard or sth if you must.
pamcake··on Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Matthew 19:24

pamcake··on Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist
It's Supercedes Ictus now
pamcake··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Everyone knows that MediaWiki is exploitable. The story running around is exactly that this is generally exploitable even for simple apps serving static content like this.
pamcake··on PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says
Heck, I imagine that 1% would still be a total game-changer.
pamcake··on I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
I think a common mistake when approaching MWI is reading too much into it. These Other Worlds "exist" in similar sense to the number i. MWI does _not_ claim anything about there being infinite alternative equivalent planes of existence where these physically manifest or anything like that.
pamcake··on Yab, yet Another Browser
"Brings in everything from: Arc, Dia, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave"

I'm skeptic.

Where is the source code (with licenses and attributions)?

pamcake··on Shitter – A Nitter Fork
> what you're saying, if I understand correctly, is that self-hosting this is trivial then

Yes. It comes encouraged.

> so does that mean I could run my own local instance and never get it taken down since traffic would be negligible?

Yes, unless the other end forbids it and really cares about controlling clients. If they do and manage to detect that you are using alternative client they could block based on that. In times where that happens and there are client devs who care, it becomes a cat-and-mouse.

pamcake··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
Been for a while now.

https://linmob.net/my-setup-with-danctnix-archlinuxarm/ (2021)

pamcake··on A Robust Decentralized Infrastructure for Trust-Aware Open Knowledge Sharing
much better!
pamcake··on A Robust Decentralized Infrastructure for Trust-Aware Open Knowledge Sharing
nit: Page is barely readable with dark color scheme because CSS applies dark-light-aware color to text but not to background, resulting in light-gray on white.
pamcake··on Keycloak: Unauthenticated account takeover via reset-credentials flow bypass
> A flaw was found in the reset-credentials flow of the keycloak-services component, which is the core engine for identity and access management in Red Hat Build of Keycloak. The issue allows an unauthenticated attacker to force the password reset process for any user without needing to click the required email verification link. This can result in the attacker gaining full control over target user accounts by directly setting new credentials.

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Replaced post title ("CVE-2026-18963") with the more descriptive one of GitHub Security advisory.

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4gv3-mc9p-5wqc

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18963

https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/51833

https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/pull/51844

pamcake··on Security Disclosure
> Our thought process was that we didn't want to recommend that people roll keys when we couldn't possibly confirm that we confidently plugged the breach and rolled the mitigation(s). I am comfortable to publicly say that this was a highly motivated attacker. Meanwhile, our threat team mitigates DDoSes, CVEs, while been patching everything immediately as dealt with exploits.

> As for this breach in particular, we tried to balance a duty to warn, which we take very seriously... However, it took a significant amount of time on the order of hours to verify, reviewing, and keep up with the attacker as they attempted to move laterally around, and briefly, within the system. We didn't want message anything beyond a shadow of a doubt that there were no further exploit paths.

Once you realize there is compromise, you message accordingly, as soon as you are able. If you can't immediately determine exactly what subset of customers were affected, this means you have to tell everyone. Then you provide follow-up updates to fill in gaps as you develop your understanding of scope+impact and work on remediation.

What you should never do is hold off on reaching out to possibly affected stakeholders that they may be affected by a compromise because you still have uncertainties about current status.

A situation like this does not in any way a constitute a dilemma or tough balance regarding when or to whom to do initial disclosure - you do it as soon as you can, to everyone except those you know are not impacted.

pamcake··on Plex laid off the whole player team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
pamcake··on PHP 8.2.35
More proactive outreach and better coordination with key downstreams.
pamcake··on Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages
You mean like this, from last week? Featuring Qwen, GLM, Gemma.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061603)

That's still making the rounds in mainstream news media.

pamcake··on Zelenskyy: Starlink speed restrictions hindered interception of drones
Previously:

- Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122371)

- Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113477)

- Zelensky says Musk-owned satellite system still restricted in Ukraine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136378)

pamcake··on Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not
> It works fine on Firefox.

For now... This warning is logged in browser console and devtools for your page:

> XSLT will be removed from this web browser soon. See https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1287

pamcake··on Proton Computer
No relation to Proton AG of ProtonMail.

> © 2026 Collaborators Inc.

pamcake··on OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
> All of those where proven harmless for LLM inference.

Could you share link(s) to those proof(s)?

pamcake··on cp: -r or -R?
As it should.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rsync.1.html#USAGE

pamcake··on The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?
What is the "era of ostriches"? Is that a reference to some meme? Would someone explain the meaning?
pamcake··on When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
Compensated by the cost for companies selling those things increasing, pushing them to move markets or close down as they struggle to stay afloat.

And the ripples don't stop there.

pamcake··on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
Think more platonic hanging out. Hiking, game night, grabbing a drink.
pamcake··on Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
> It also sounds like "many of" these devices will be supported but not by updating ChromeOS, instead by sidegrading to Googlebook OS.

FTFY

pamcake··on Coding is not solved
This was already the case, at least for the last few decades.
pamcake··on Coding is not solved
> Proficiency in counting Rs and proficiency in writing code that counts Rs are different and you can fail one and excel at the other it turns out.

That is not the argument. Emphasis added:

> > They matter when implementing the business logic of the application, when writing tests for a character counting function, etc.

pamcake··on I switched to Brave
Those are all active.

Also: Tor Browser, Konform Browser, Mullvad Browser

pamcake··on Domyn's CEO says OpenAI, Anthropic are lying about safety
Respect for saying it as it is.
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