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

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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: facebook.com/help/192925261443

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:

emudhra.com/en/press-release/e

"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.

@maddy I remember this one, all the fun ways it was shared, and most of the reporting. The "This Week In Tech" podcast named an episode for this key, but they were the only ones too scared to name it with the key verbatim, changing 5B to 58 instead.

In 1972, Mr. Pibb wrote a book and went on tour giving presentations with proof that Dr. Pepper forged his doctorate degree. In 1980, he reformulated the alleged proof and watered down the sensationalism of his accusations, then faded from the public spotlight while Dr. Pepper continued to enjoy fame.

Last year, Mr. Pibb came back with new accusations, and although they do cast more doubt today on Dr. Pepper's degree than before, Mr. Pibb seems an overly caffeinated version of his former self.

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."

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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.
sightlessscribbles.com/posts/d

#Accessibility #DisabilityDongle #FixYourHTML

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.

In physics, curved spacetime is the mathematical model in which, with Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity naturally arises, as opposed to being described as a fundamental force in Newton's static Euclidean reference frame. Objects move along geodesics—curved paths determined by the local geometry of spacetime—rather than being influenced directly by distant bodies.

@davidgerard @nina_kali_nina minute of silence for the divas who formatted their entire hard drives and switched the OS of their actual workstations on a whim :ablobcatcry:

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