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Hi I'm Ibrahim

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Comment · 1 day ago
With the new wave of ads on mobile, the ones with the "next" button, I gave up. Instead I use the app to find videos and copy them to pipepipe.

Maybe the curated list can be exported to load on other apps.

Comment · 5 days ago
This thread reminds me of the time I was trying to learn meteorjs and people ask me if it has html5 shims. I google it, then I get asked how does it handle state, and if it supports functional, i google... Does it hydrate the dom? What about shadow dom? Let me goo... Does it have hooks?

Anyway, I just learned what abliterated means and it might be obsolete by tomorrow.

Edit:

> An abliterated large language model (LLM) is an open-weight model modified to remove or dampen its built-in safety refusals without requiring full retraining or prompt jailbreaks.

Comment · 6 days ago
Comment · 8 days ago
With php2shell going mainstream, to the point that random friends who happen to know I'm a programmer, consult me to understand the extent of it, I think they succeeded with their doomerism message.

When we find a bug, we patch it. When we find more bugs, we patch them as well. That's what happened here. Sam is telling us, "we found bugs, it's over" and the general public swallowed the frog.

I mean, there is the bbc interview where they invited a cyber security expert who said he didn't know php existed before the the news broke out. The general public doesn't see that gaff.

Comment · 10 days ago
When we reach that fabled intelligence, the AIs will simply answer "No" to these kind of questions.
Comment · 14 days ago
That's already happening. And we call it AI slop.
Comment · 19 days ago
Not telling you this time, Mr. Bot
Comment · 19 days ago
It's the content of the page, the raw html, that is replaced with a zipbomb. Example: https://example.com checks if you are a malicious bot, depending on the result, it will send you gzip html or gzipped bomb. So that can't be swapped or redirected to a CDN. The bots would simply ignore the redirect.
Comment · 19 days ago
It worked fine... on a small scale But it's one thing to swat flies versus fighting swarm of yellow jackets. Serving a 1MB file a million times a day on a small digitalocean droplet is not feasible. Let's just say it didn't scale. And AI bots usually come with beefier machines, and recover faster after a bomb.
Comment · 19 days ago
Comment · 21 days ago
Yes, we use zscaler. It even included the list of AI prompts I've written and in-app activities.
Comment · 21 days ago
Once I had an issue where I had to request access to a 3rd party vendor URL from my work machine. IT was telling me that I already had access, and that I had accessed the URL several times. Weird, because I was getting a dns resolve error. To prove that he wasn't making it up, the IT guy shared his screen with me.

Ever since I saw his screen and the level of details in my activity log on the work machine, I don't even access example.com on their device anymore.

I'm sure this workers already has invasive tracking software on her work machines. Now the company was just trying to fire her without it counting as a layoff.

Comment · 22 days ago
That was a perfect execution. I almost saw a Kojima Game by Hideo Kojima title. The only thing missing was the dialogue at the end of the credits, where Xero says that "Afghanistan is where the answer lives."
Comment · 26 days ago

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