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There's no need to use ablated models right now for cyber work. Several open weight models don't refuse cyber requests (DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K3, etc). And as you said, OpenRouter has many 3rd party ZDR inference providers and several of those serve these models.

The Grugq has done several interesting interviews/articles on the industry.

There's also a couple of Darknet Diaries episodes with similar interviews.

It's been a long time, but I've always cherished our late night conversations at the Alexis Park. Truly a great hacker. RIP my friend

Years back i was enamored with this concept and sought out various staple-less stapler solutions. Most were realistically only good for binding 3-5 sheets. My use cases required more, so i moved on. But I still admire them as lovely bits of engineering.

Other zines have filled the void left by 2600, one of my favorites being PoC||GTFO. (pocorgtfo.hacke.rs)

I think the author isn't considering that people's bubbles have gotten smaller and more opaque. There's still plenty of weird hackers innovating, they just do it with their chosen peers, not in mass-culture.

As predicted "The revolutions are not being televised."

Same here, and with good results, but a note of warning, according to my doctor 10,000 - 20,000 are considered in the protocol a normal daily supplement for adults with vitamin D issues. Dosages above that require medical supervision (in the form of regular blood and urine analysis). Also at those high doses there are potential negative side effects that must be mitigated (osteoporosis being among them). So please don't just YOLO massive doses of vitamin D.

Same here, small panic attack ensued ;P

Glad I wasn't the only one! ;)

Back when I was shooting on film, various "Toy Cameras" came in and out of vogue. I enjoyed the subtleties of the Lomos and Dianas, so when digital cameras became mainstream, I kept a lookout for similarly quirky DCs. My favorite was the JamCam (640x480) which was fun for awhile. But soon realized, the same quirkiness could easily be achieved with digital filters applied to photos from cameras that were more enjoyable to work with. That's about when my interest in toy digital cameras died. But I have to admit, do miss the 9v consumer battery of the JamCam :P

90 days since last view, or 1 year if you can afford to be generous. For "slow burn" projects with other people checklists easily go longer than a week without being looked at.

I used to operate as you're describing and appreciate the skill required to do so, but I eventually found it impacted my ability to transition a fixed scope engagement into an open-scope engagement. I've since found it more enjoyable, profitable, and beneficial to the client, to bill daily rates and let the client stretch the scope as much as they like (which they often do once they see the value my company brings).

Don't feel weird. I'd even itemize the task being being requested on their invoice (e.g. "reporting requirement fulfillment"). My perspective changed on this after doing a gig for Boeing, where they charged us for invoicing them. When we complained about this, they instructed us to bill them for their invoice fee, which they explained was how their internal cost structures worked so that the accounting department could calculate their profitability. After that revelation, I stopped asking questions and just put in the contract that all reporting requirements are considered billable work (duh).

Their tag in ASCII Art via console.log() would earn equivalent cred, and not annoy fellow users of a useful service, IMHO