majorchord

Is there a PoC that exploits this without MPTCP?

Both. But these "arbitrary provisions" are extremely common in business contracts, and not inherently illegal unless it's asking you to break a law... but a judge can still enforce the terms if one side is not cooperating.

Thankfully the vast majority of servers are not creating MPTCP listeners by default (that I'm aware of).

Not sure why the article doesn't mention it, but you can specifically check for MPTCP listeners using `ss -M`.

> What rules?

The terms of the legal contract they both would have signed.

Companies generally don't get to do business with the US Government without following their strict rules.

> Once this done, where will the general knowledge to train AI come from?

I think this assumes that all professionals will eventually disappear and be replaced entirely with AI, and I don't agree with that.

The existence of AI does not dictate that developers can or will no longer exist (and not everyone will even use AI). I think we will still have enough data to train from... and if not, then the AI simply won't be used for that and people will learn again the old fashioned way.

Is there a reason you seem to believe this "jank" in the AI software world will stay the same forever? The policies, testing and general knowledge of the professionals are part of what's training the AI models... accurately passing all necessary software standards/certifications/policies are just a few (near future) prompts away.

Not only that, but you constantly feel like Idiocracy is playing out in real time, and that everyone else around you is closer to monkeys than a rational empathetic human... it's exhausting, lonely and debilitating. Then you realize there are people much smarter than you, and you wonder how they must feel.

Reminds me of that House MD episode where the delivery driver was a secret genius who was abusing DXM to dumb himself down just to feel happy.

"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."

Indeed, I think skills are like muscles... you need to keep using them well to stay strong. If you farm out all your thinking to an AI, your own skills and knowledge will diminish and your ability to design/debug/reason about your own (or any) code can fade.

> whose authority to make that "official" only extends to a single branch of a single level of government.

Yes, and Google has huge contracts with the government, meaning they must adhere to their rules if they want to keep those contracts.

> If you do your petitioning and then get shot by a government agent, then the piece of paper giving you the right is worthless and you don't really have the right.

Hard disagree, there is no evidence that the agent acted in that exact way at the instruction of the government, I do not believe that it makes people's rights worth any less.

To me this is like saying rights are somehow fundamentally useless just because murderers exist in the world. Or accidents. Makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.

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There is no edit button for me :/

HN Note: It removed the word "Totally" in front of "Sick" in the title, which I think changes the implied meaning in a negative way.