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FreakLegion

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About FreakLegion

threat research ∪ data science ∪ engineering

A man should not enter into discussion with everybody or practice dialectics with the first comer as reasoning always becomes embittered where some people are concerned. Indeed, when an adversary tries by every possible means to to wriggle out of a corner, it is legitimate to strive, by every possible means, to reach the conclusion; but this procedure lacks elegance. -- Topics 8.14.164b

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    Comment #49104878

    There's no spoofing involved. DKIM would do quite literally nothing.

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    Comment #49073622

    *> That's not what I said. So close to spotting the mistake you made in your response to skippyfish, yet so far!

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    Comment #49065342

    The onus is always on the writer. No one is owed an audience.

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    Comment #49063012

    skippyfish: > the cost of reading [an infinite supply of arguments ...] remains high you: > The cost of reading this story is not high Do you see where you went wrong?

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    Comment #48863386

    That isn't what the data shows, but we don't need to discuss it further. My reply was to the person interested in learning from other Postgres OLAP designs. This stuff is all prett…

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    Comment #48863165

    I'm aware he edited it, but the original version isn't wrong, either. Just like Jarred's > We fuzz Bun's runtime APIs 24/7 using Fuzzilli, the JavaScript engine fuzzer used by V8 &…

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    Comment #48854881

    pg_mooncake (now effectively abandoned due to being acquired by Databricks, but still up at https://github.com/Mooncake-Labs/pg_mooncake ) pulled the DuckDB engine into Postgres wh…

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    Comment #48854786

    The Fuzzilli PR was merged on Nov 20. The acquisition was announced on Dec 3. A big holiday was in the middle. The teams no longer interacted after the acquisition, and in prior in…

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    Comment #48853671

    Is there a Yoda skill? -> A Yoda skill, is there? There is a Yoda skill. -> A Yoda skill, there is.

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    Comment #48781882

    I'm generally skeptical of causal narratives like this, but Naroditsky talked openly and at length about the ongoing physical and mental health effects of Kramnik's nonsense. So in…

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    Comment #48728389

    > “we really do not want any distraction now, if you feel that strongly you can always send an unsolicited term sheet to the board to consider” Nope, don't do that. If you receive …

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    Comment #48715259

    Are you under the impression Socrates wrote anything in the first place?

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    Comment #48703100

    Experienced business travelers want to use their personal credit cards so they get the points, and scaled businesses overwhelmingly disallow this, because they want that value for …

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    Comment #47959466

    And now we're much less reliant on oil, and more countries produce it and have reserves. The flip side is the economy and financial system already felt creaky anyway (tariffs, infl…

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    Comment #47760854

    Steve Blank the startup whisperer and Steven Blank the economist are two very different people.

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    Comment #47637404

    Because Delve defrauded them.

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    Comment #47637146

    SPY is up at least as much as your Claude bot since the Nov 25 2024 start date, but you show it down 3%. If AI is both doing the trading and reporting the results, you...may have a…

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    Comment #47637021

    Investors aren't on the hook for the bad behavior of companies they invest in. Quite the opposite: Defrauding investors (and acquirers, and creditors) is commonly the thing that la…

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    Comment #47450975

    Reread the comment I replied to: > I would stare longingly into the void, wondering if I can ever work another python project after having experienced uv, ruff, and ty. You think y…

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    Comment #47445364

    Ruff is performant but finds about half the issues Pylint does (see https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/970 ). Ty is quantitatively the worst of the well-known type checkers (…

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    Comment #47420735

    Probably the handful of dashes (not even em dashes!) and the sentences "It was never just about the candy. It was about being together." Superficially these look like the AI marker…

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    Comment #47356047

    The board of a Fortune 1000 financial services company just fired the CISO and Deputy CISO because they did too good a job cataloging all of the risk in their infrastructure. Now t…

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    Comment #47346691

    This was more likely an Intune admin getting phished. Intune has a built-in wipe action: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/remo... .

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    Comment #47345057

    This is well known in cybersecurity circles. I mentioned here[1] a couple years back that I know CISOs who've had to clean up big messes because their predecessor was on the Cybers…

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    Comment #47230512

    People point to the basic structure of "It's not X, it's Y" as the hallmark of AI, but I find it's more the incongruity between X and Y, especially when figures of speech (invariab…