Malware analysis and deobfuscation videos. Sometimes I just like to look at code but have someone else do all the thinking for me. Malware is also often obfuscated using a lot of esoteric features of different scripting languages, things you either know exist but likely have never had a reason to use in legitimate software development, or you’ll learn about an interesting feature that you can use in your own code. The way seemingly complete nonsense slowly comes together into a readable script is really satisfying. It’s also something I would never personally do because I don’t want to accidentally infect myself or someone else with it, so it’s cool to watch an actual cybersecurity expert do it.

Shoutout to John Hammond on YouTube.

Don’t blame fentanyl for cop psychopathy.

And that’s not a defense of fentanyl.

Giving the ICE a platform to cry about how they’re “threatened” by the public for things the public has every right to be enraged over is peak manufacturing consent. Who gives a shit what they think or how they feel after they kidnap and murder people?

Imagine if a German newspaper published an article like this about the SS during the holocaust, just letting the fucking extermination camp commanders vent about how everyone hates them now. Oh wait, that probably happened.

Jesus Christ this fucking article. Just rename yourself The Daily Bootlicker for god sake.

ICE agents are living in fear as the public turns against them in record numbers after one of their colleagues shot a mom dead in the street.

So they have no problems with the murder itself, but the public backlash in response to the murder. Got it.

Agents fear the public revulsion toward the heavy-handed approach of ICE under President Donald Trump, and the administration’s efforts to cover its own tracks as it did in the wake of Good’s shooting, is already causing problems securing criminal convictions. One former agent told the Daily Beast that he and his colleagues fear it has become more common for juries not to believe evidence they are presenting to the court.

Yeah, just ignore the blatant and documented perjury and contempt of court ICE commits every day. THIS is what gets juries to not believe you, not that.

Separately, according to a report published Monday, Border Patrol—the agency working with ICE on the ground—is struggling to find agents willing to join the administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis, which was promised by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in response to last Wednesday’s deadly incident.

Oh no the American SS is having trouble finding new Nazis! How terrible!

Now, two agents who decided to leave ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in the past six months due to the changing nature of their job under Trump have told the Beast that they are terrified of the impact this is having on the force and their former colleagues.

So you didn’t leave after seeing the crimes against humanity your organization commits, but now that you’re potentially in danger it’s time to go.

“Talking to colleagues in Minneapolis, they say it is not uncommon for people to drive past them and make gun signs with their fingers,”

Freedom of speech. Stop being a triggered snowflake.

this could eventually translate into real violence like the fatal shooting of an ICE agent in Dallas in September.

And there it is. They’re afraid of someone doing to them what they do to others.

Another said: “We used to be respected and liked by the public, who understood the role we played in a functioning society and appreciated that we investigated and deported criminal illegals. That’s gone now.

You’re making it seem like it was taken away and not squandered hundreds of times over.

“If this situation continues, many of us fear that when the Dems get back in, they will dissolve ICE altogether,”

Don’t worry, they won’t. When have the Dems ever done the right thing?

“For those of us who care about the good work ICE has done in the past three decades, that’s a very sad state of affairs.”

You’re a very sad state of humanity.

As one senior Homeland Security official told Klippenstein: “There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy-handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around.”

Damn, said the quiet part out loud, actually admitted ICE intends to threaten lives. At least one brownie point for the honesty.

But you’re mentioning “ICE’s heavy-handedness” like it’s out of your control and you’re not in charge of the ICE so I’m going to have to take away those brownie points.

So, instead of feeding large documents into these models which break them, you can instead provide them with an API to interrogate the document by writing code

Kind of off topic, but this reminded me about something I really don’t like about the current paradigm of “intelligence” and “knowledge” being parts of a single monolithic model.

Why aren’t we training models on how to search any generic dataset for information, find patterns, draw conclusions, etc, rather than baking the knowledge itself into the model? 8 or so GB of pure abstract reasoning strategies would probably be way more intelligent and efficient than even a much larger model we have now. Imagine if you can just give it an arbitrarily sized database whose content you control, which you can then fill with the highest quality, ethically obtained, human expert moderated data complete with attributions to original creators, and have it base all its decisions from that. It would even be able to cite what it used with identifiers in the database, which can then be manually verified. You get a concrete foundation of where it’s getting its information from, and you only need to load what it currently needs into memory, whereas right now you have to load all the AI’s “knowledge,” relevant or not, into your precious and limited RAM. You would also be able to update the individual data separately from the model itself, and have it produce updated results from the new data. That would actually be what I consider an artificial “intelligence” and not a fancy statistical prediction mechanism.

You heard it folks, invalidate all US patents and copyright because written treaties are irrelevant!

Small models have gotten remarkably good. 1 to 8 billion parameters, tuned for specific tasks — and they run on hardware that organizations already own

Hard disagree as someone who does host their own AI. Go on Ollama and run some models, you’ll immediately realize that the smaller ones are basically useless. IMO 70B models are barely at the level of being usable for the simplest tasks, and with the current RAM landscape those are no longer accessible to most people unless you already bought the RAM before the Altman deal.

I suspect this is why he made that deal despite not having an immediate need for that much RAM. To artificially limit the public’s ability to self host their own AI and therefore mitigate the threat open source models present to his business.

Prolatariat say relentless exploitation by CEOs is hurting society and has “done a lot of damage.”

Slop CEO says what?

🙂‍↔️🫸 “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)”

😊👉 “American Schutzstaffel (ASS)”

The Developer ID certificate is the digital signature macOS uses to verify legitimate software. The certificate that Logitech allowed to lapse was being used to secure inter-process communications, which resulted in the software not being able to start successfully, in some cases leading to an endless boot loop.

This is 100% on Apple users for letting a company decide what their computer can and can’t run. And then brag about its security like it has some super special zero trust architecture and is not just a walled garden with a single point of failure dependent on opaque decision making criteria for what code should be “allowed” to run on the system.

Key and signature based security model does not prove if it’s safe, it proves if it’s approved. They’re not the same.

Macs don’t get malware. Unless it’s malware Apple approves, those are called apps.

Department of Indoctrination

Or The Trump Youth

Rationalize why “elections are overrated, actually.”

it was called CROSS PLATFORM APPS

Absolutely not unless it’s as sandboxed as the web (which even the web isn’t sandboxed that well).

Working with software has only made me not trust software (that’s not open source.)

Why we’re giving any random software full OS level access in 2026 is beyond me.

brings the dream of endless energy even closer

Yeah that’s not “close” until we figure out how to do fusion with regular hydrogen, you know, like the sun. When your fusion requires unstable and/or extremely rare isotopes it’s not even going to be viable compared to fission, let alone solving our energy problem.

So hot everything’s red.

This is a physics question. But the current laws of physics do not allow for going backwards in time, certainly no way for anything to interact with a past version of itself, so even if, IF it was possible under some future model that will replace the current one, there’s no way to predict what would happen with the current model because the current model says it doesn’t happen.

It’s like asking pre-Copernicus physics to calculate the movement of different star systems around a galaxy.

AKA the final stage of evolution

The Chinese student thing gets a solid “shut the fuck up with your tired hypocritical stereotypes” from me (not directed towards you, Lemmy poster).

Reposting the screenshots here too:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260102072013/https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/