Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I don't mean to throw shade at openbsd here, it's a scrappy project running on the smell of an oily rag and I have a lot of respect for that kind of scrappy resourcefulness, but it's key to understanding why the most salient factor here is big tech deciding to throw lots of money at it. That this is the best they got for $20k really speaks to why nobody bothered previously.

so it cost anthropic $20k to find this openbsd crash bug which amounts to putting a negative integer in a tcp field where a negative integer was not expected by the c code which does some cavalier int cast bullshit, ie. a vuln which is totally fuzzable, and quite certainly would have been found by the fuzzers of the 2010s had anyone cared to burn that much compute on fuzzing openbsd.

The difference today is not that anybody suddenly cares about investing that much in openbsd (is the build server still a donated machine running in Theo's basement?), but that openbsd's reputation for security makes it really good marketing if you can find a bug, any bug, it doesn't matter; and that marketing value is what makes it worth spending $20k on fuzzing.

I find it impossible to care about the whiz-bang "zomg teh ai found 0-days!!!1!1!!1eleventy" horseshit when people are installing openclaw in prod.

Forgot that I had a pay what you want ttrpg called BABY? so this email caught me off guard

One thing I love about transmascs is their ability to take masculine things that used to signal awful and icky dude and make them fun, cool, and even attractive. This includes: neckbeards, mustaches, mullets, rat tails, sitting around shirtless in public, always being down to roughhouse, trucker caps, fanny packs, and cargo shorts.

Like, guys, that’s kind of amazing. I thought mullets were murdered for good in the 80s and neckbeards would never recover from the 00s, yet somehow you’re doing it! 🤩

New #artemis II moon pic just came in

Your password must contain at least one character flaw that you have long recognized within yourself, but that you would never admit to anyone--not your therapist, your spouse, nor your most trusted friend. It is the dark secret shame that you must bear alone.

now that right there is a fuckin steam review lol

on discussing LLMs, whenever i find myself saying "but claude is probably the best one" i IMMEDIATELY restate it in the same voice the cloud shaper guy does like "make me a web app cleurde" so i remind myself all of these stupid stochastic wannabe parrots are bullshit

"Leave me alone! You're not my real can!!"

currently playing "where the fuck's the beef" with claude mythos amongst all the proclamations of THIS IS IT. the openbsd "zero day" does not AIUI in fact appear to be one, for example - just a non-exploitable bug. what about this much hyped claim checks out?

By Christian H. Klosz @_Kun3_0

Serj Tankian @serjtankian of System of a Down still masking in 2026 (pic taken 3 days ago)

Source: https://x.com/_Kun3_0/status/2041748651228152182

It's so refreshing to use the Fediverse where there are no fucking ads distracting you from the friends you're here to catch up with

Every year, this network becomes more and more important IMHO. Glad y'all are here with us.