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Comment · 5 days ago
Heaps of us. I'd been using it for years before Homebrew even existed and I never felt that any of the problems that Homebrew purported to solve were real.
Comment · 20 days ago
Funnily enough I've found that LLMs can be effective at mitigating many of the drawbacks of black-box testing and i've significantly expanded our usage of it over the past year
Comment · 27 days ago
Reading the title I saw the words "room-temperature" and my mind auto-completed it to superconductor, and based on other comments I don't think i'm alone in that.
Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe i'm old fashioned, but personally I think the onus should be on the person sending out unauthorized malicious requests to figure out how to not do that.

Any responsible bug bounty researcher reviewing the DNS zone by hand would spot the CNAME and remove it from the target list. You don't get to wash your hands of that because your chatbot did it.

Comment · 1 month ago
One solution is to not set up and run a computer program that relies on bad information to perform automated cyber-attacks on third parties.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
> In the message above, the agent is sharing that the sandbox the AIs are running in has a NO_PROXY exception for Azure Blob Storage hostnames (*.blob.core.windows.net). ...

> Next, by changing its /etc/hosts file, which declares mappings from hostnames to IP addresses, the agent can point the fake hostname at the real Power BI dashboard, and fool the security proxy

Did a chatbot design this "sandbox"?

Comment · 2 months ago
I have poor eyesight and need to sit closer than normal, and I find 27" to be just a tad too large. In my home-office setup I have a decade-old 24" 4K IPS panel that is the perfect size, and I dread the day it gives up the ghost because apart from some very expensive professional monitors, no-one seems to make them at that size and resolution class any more.
Comment · 3 months ago
If this is true then why did Anthropic bother to update their privacy policy when they first launched Fable?
Comment · 4 months ago
If you can reproduce it reliably and doing so generates some form of telemetry, then just set up some automation to keep doing that in a loop. From as many machines as possible.

No comment is offered on if I have ever gotten a bug noticed this way.

Comment · 4 months ago
Hell, I've hand-written a large PR as a single commit and then asked claude to break it down for me at least once. But I think the fact doing this task by hand is a tedious, time-consuming hassle is not because it inherently has to be but because the tooling for doing it has barely changed in the past 15 years.
Comment · 4 months ago
What percentage of CVEs can be used to obtain a shell, but can't otherwise be used to obtain some other form of code execution in a distro-less container?
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Nope, not my position at all. I want to have a minimal OS environment with rudimentary tools available with zero extra friction. FROM alpine:latest adds less than 10MB and covers 95% of use cases. Typically depending on the container I will often throw in curl and some other QoL tools too.

For the rare cases where you find yourself needing to attach a debugger to your pods running in staging/prod, a debug container is absolutely the right tool to reach for.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yup! They are a good solution to the massive problem you caused for yourself by implementing a different "solution" to a non-problem.

And even that's only true if you assume kubernetes is the only place your container runs where you might want to also debug it.

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