Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

good coffee at the macro cafe

Here's my summary of why websites are offline right now, and why nerds are laughing at the number 4.

I've attempted to explain the jargon in use, so those interested but not working in tech have a chance at understanding what's going on.

https://natgray.co.uk/blog/why-websites-are-offline-and-nerds-are-laughing-at-the-number-4/

New commission!

"Is this a Dragon? Is this a Kobold?! Who cares, she's cute, look at her!! 💜"

Made by the lovely Niccy!! ✨

#dragon #kobold #commission

the main thing that's good about the web as a medium, imo, is that you can just chuck something into a directory and then it will appear in web browsers around the world. you can edit the file and hit save and refresh. the magic that you feel is the core of the entire thing. and as far as i've seen, Web Development, as a discipline, has focused for the last few decades on systematically destroying that magic

Seems like a good day to remind people that blaming tools that have been maintained by underpaid devs or volunteers or with little to no support for decades - or worse, blaming those underpaid devs or volunteers - without assigning any responsibility or culpability whatsoever to the negligence of companies that have made millions or billions or hundreds of billions of dollars off the backs of those underpaid devs or volunteers' work is picking a side.

Today is the most "Captain, it's Wednesday" it has been for me in a long time.

Facebook achieving absurd new heights of enshittification by now charging a subscription of at least $50/mo to... post more than two links a month to your own Facebook page. Covers comments too. Subscription not even available in UK yet. Don't know why we bother with them.

Their documentation about this: https://www.facebook.com/help/1929252614431792

So today some of the worst people on earth using the most environmentally destructive tools on earth brought down a huge part of the internet by exploiting a potential problem found many years ago in PHP which was previously not practical for anyone to exploit.

It only became "practical" to exploit this problem because "AI" came along to automate the boring and repetitive work required to do so. Absurd amounts of computing power were applied specifically to break into other peoples' websites.

Now the same people who are behind this are trying to pretend that they're heroes for finding an exploit.

"AI uncovers critical vulnerabilities", their headline reads. But the vulnerability was only made to be critical by the very same people as hide behind that headline.

Many thousands of websites are offline, many people are losing money, many thousands of people are working hard to try to patch or work around the problem, many small guys are finding it almost impossible to patch, and we're all supposed to be thankful to OpenAI and others involved ? Nah. Fuck off.

Everything about "AI" involves a lot of externalized costs, but I've still yet to see even a single positive thing that has been achieved by "AI". That has definitely not changed today.
#php2shell #php #fuckai #openai

I wish modern designers discovered at least one more shape besides a rounded rectangle. I am so tired of these pills everywhere

This press release is gold:

https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-statement-distrust-global-tls-intermediate-root-ca

"Last weekend, an independent researcher found that the weak keys could be reverse-engineered possibly with AI-assisted techniques."

Your private key was the number 4. Your fucking private key, which is supposed to be a 115 digit number, was the fucking number 4. As in, the fourth key a very naive first analysis would try. But sure scary scary AI did it.

I independently recovered the private key, without any AI assistance, on Monday evening. Not because I was involved in the incident, just because I was curious and had a little bit of free time on my hand.

Considering offering HSM services to CAs.

god, Matt Mullenweg is such a fucking scumbag. https://www.therepository.email/matt-mullenweg-orders-accessibility-revert-tells-core-committer-to-contribute-your-talents-to-another-project

AI
is not
our future. https://procreate.com/ai #NoAI

This hurts, because, it's true: "Silicon Valley will spend millions developing a glove that translates sign language into speech (badly), but they won't spend ten minutes adding Alt-Text to their images. They will build a headset that describes the room to me (poorly), but they won't use semantic HTML headings so I can actually navigate a webpage."

Stop trying to upgrade disabled people's body when the problem is your design!
@WeirdWriter argues that the tech industry needs to stop trying to sell useless expensive gadgets no disabled person wants, or can afford, and start fixing actual accessibility barriers, like bad code, and poorly designed infrastructures.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/disability-dongle/

#Accessibility #DisabilityDongle #FixYourHTML

chat we are CLEAN on opsec

I positioned myself carefully to get this horny elk pic, and waited until he lifted his head to smell the female's butt. It's like Pinocchio but for horny.