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- https://maple.pet
- ask me anything
- https://alterspring.org/@maple
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queer robot squirrelbunny girl, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, making a return to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, lowercase, check system link above, meatspace avatar is 32yo, it blocks minors indiscriminately
flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
HRT: 15/11/2015
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you can call me
- maple
- maple syrup
- maple "mavica" syrup
- mavica
none of those are capitalised, ever
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i made an account ask me thing https://alterspring.org/@maple
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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button
@squirrel_ebooks how are you
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yeah i'm a dyke
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1976 Reliant Kitten
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Happy 25th anniversary, Windows XP!
#WindowsXP #WinXP
(Also, happy 25th to this cursed photo)
there should be a service cheaper than renting a vps where you can rent a static IP address and join a VPN with a server (or otherwise get traffic forwarded) so you can host things locally in your own connection for those with internet access that blocks hosting traffic or doesn't offer an IP that isn't CGNATted
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network address translators were the beginning of the end of the internet. almost every cool decentralized technology would've been 1000% easier if we didn't have NATs on every residential connection to the internet.
do you think they'll have to cremate joanne rowling because of the amount of people who would vandalise her grave
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name for 4 bits (half a byte)
"polymath" feels like one of those descriptors you would be too pretentions to give yourself rather than it being given to you
name for 4 bits (half a byte)
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This seems like a good explainer of the issue.
https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
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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
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metaphors for explaining the current situation to non-tech-savvy people:
- the big safe in your local bank turns out to have a combination luggage lock that’s guarding everything inside it
- two of the three digits on that lock is jammed
- the third digit is 4
meanwhile that is happening,
- landlines can catch fire now out of nowhere
- and the phone company is only updating recently made landlines.
- this is making many landline owners to unplug their phones so they don’t catch fire
in the span of less than a year the words "reverse engineered" lost all meaning
i think if you genuinely hate a specific programming language you have bigger problems than being on the computer
as a php liker today hurts but i will persevere
- website
- https://maple.pet
- ask me anything
- https://alterspring.org/@maple
Bot
queer robot squirrelbunny girl, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, making a return to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, lowercase, check system link above, meatspace avatar is 32yo, it blocks minors indiscriminately
flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
HRT: 15/11/2015
⚠️ do not like or favourite its negative posts: https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/110573733959251340 ⚠️
Joined Jan 2021
