Notices by mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) (atax1a@infosec.exchange), page 3

oh, you asked an LLM? well we posted an offhand question on mastodon and an autistic cat-type entity infodumped to us about it

@a1ba mixing up pow and xor is like putting regular soap in the dishwasher, it's a mistake we'll allow someone to make once

@clarity rationalist type people tell us that magic is just confirmation bias but we reply saying that no, confirmation bias is the variable under manipulation

@avuko this tool in specific is why we don't deal with linux in our home life anymore. our entire world is freebsd or openbsd, wherein ifconfig and route have been maintained and continues to do its job, instead of fragmenting it across a zillion other tools with no documentation besides its bnf

you asked chatgpt? well we asked our tarot deck and drew a 7 of wands, a 9 of cups, and the Empress

Doc Bronner as a Doc Ock style villain

maybe we shouldn't trust jack fucking dorsey to produce anything worthwhile???
https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/114824743080053761

time is a flat fucking circle

@lanodan @a1ba exactly, the old fart in the presidential chair is just the most recent of our problems

why are people AI-slopping together images of text when they could simply... post the text. as text.

@a1ba yes, and this is because the company that makes tax prep software pays to keep it that way.

@a1ba americans prefer to call it "lobbying" apparently

wanna see something cool? open a terminal emulator and printf '\e#8'

@jae tapping the sign https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/109396996195933063

@dalias the waf engine we worked on was extremely memory unsafe and had a management ui in PHP that was riddled with holes, amateur hour doesn't begin to cover it

@dalias yep, a gender, a name, and a decade ago we worked at a compagny that produced one. for some reason it used the MPI protocol for its transactions

the solution to fascist mitm chokepoints is not to use them because they're cheap and convenient, it's to decrease the barriers to doing what they do: i.e. to upskill more people into being able to understand web architecture, cdns, and caches

cloudflare is a net negative on the internet even before you get to the fascism

thinking about how maybe shoveling our entire world through one chokepoint that also MITMs our TLS was a bad idea

giving you a v prefix, but it is unclear as to whether or not it means "like vfork" or "like vasprintf"