Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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The company that - last week - accidentally published the source code of their flagship product, which was in turn discovered to be a contraption riddled with security holes and included instructions to deliberately mislead people, is telling us this week that they've got a new product that is _too good_ at finding security issues so they need to make a special secret cabal and only share it with them because it would be too dangerous to show anyone else.

This is definitely all very believable.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116370960046107139

more specifically, these sloperators are behaving like a protection racket. they are drowning us in slop reports, and then trying to sell us slop-based solutions to manage all of it.

There's one very important thing I would like everyone to try to remember this week, and it is that AI companies are full of shit

Only rarely do their claims actually bear scrutiny, and those are only the mildest of claims they make.

So, anthropic is claiming that their new, secret, unreleased model is hyper competent at finding computer security vulnerabilities and they're *too scared* to release it into the wild.

Except all the AI companies have been making the same hypercompetence claims about literally every avenue of knowledge work for 3+ years, and it's literally never true. So please keep in mind the highly likely possibility that this is mostly or entirely bullshit marketing meant to distract you from the absolute garbage fire that is the code base of the poster child application for "agentically" developed software

You may now resume doom scrolling. Thank you

"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

people think degrowth is about living in countryside without internet or electricity or some shit and like, no

it just means that instead of churning out stuff as fast as possible in biggest amounts possible just for it all to be sold three times the actual price and discarded or broken in two three years our society focuses on making things that last

that's why it's called degrowth. it's not abandoning technology, it's about abandoning capitalism

“inflation is caused by the government printing too much money”. wrong! modern monetary theory teaches us that inflation is caused by furries with pen tablets

if you use Google Chrome by choice you're doing something wrong with your life

this rant brought to you by people with more money and computers and social status than me complaining about YouTube ads when i haven't seen one in my machine in years, because they refuse to use anything but Chode and give in to Goggles banning adblockers

yes, apparently such people exist

I can run latest Firefox ESR on a C2D with 4GB of RAM and have a decent modern browsing experience

Giggle Chrud could never.

i wish people would stop spreading FUD misinformation about Firefox being more memory intensive than competitors, Quantum was released 9 years ago, it's time to get over it

protip: ALWAYS use regular expression literals in JavaScript and TypeScript and any other language that supports it, instead of writing your regex out in a string. I cannot count how many critical security bugs I have found over the years from someone writing a regex like "^en\.wikipedia\.org$", which is incorrect because the \. is treated as *string* escape sequence (an invalid one that just produces .) which then results in the regex being "^en.wikipedia.org$" which matches "enowikipedia.org".

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