Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

beige.party

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

271–280 of 307 posts

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#271

Post by apefulsin »

alightsoul wrote: post #140
sspiff wrote: post #81

This resonates with me. The past few months, frontier AI labs were rushing to announce "no, our AI bot broke out of its sandbox and committed crime first and harder than yours". I said to so friends back then: if I posted about how I ran GLM 5.2 or whatever I was running then in some shoddily built sandbox and it escaped and accidentally hacked some US company, I'd probably already have been extradited to the US and…

Rookie mistake, you should have created a company and gotten people to do it. Put everything under the company. And then the one in trouble is the company not you.

It's not that simple. You will still be charged if the company isn't worth a trillion dollars.

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#272

Post by apefulsin »

cyberax wrote: post #201
pfisch wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To write something off means you need revenue to offset. Revenue that would be taxed...

Revenue is rarely taxed, usually only profit is. And it's easy to avoid it.

Yes, that's how the trick works. Profit is revenue minus expenses. By increasing expenses, you decrease profit, and therefore tax. But it only works if you had a profit before, because the government doesn't pay you back tax when you lose money.

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#273

Post by apefulsin »

giov4 wrote: post #240
tapoxi wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe Aaron Swartz would still be alive if he was incorporated

just read about it, what a sad story, thanks for the reference. looks like he did great stuff. for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz "As a programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons, an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses; and the Python website framework web.py. Swartz helped define the syntax of the lightweight marku…

I've heard he was more like the Elon Musk of the open source world. He didn't co-found Reddit, he was placed there by Y Combinator staff to the protests of its actual founders. Maybe some of the other projects he's credited for also were like that.

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#274

Post by throawayonthe »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #130
peri-cl wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mastodons will also respond to a plain "application/json" HTTP request, no cruft, curl 'https://beige.party/api/v1/statuses/117057396732763183' | jq '.content'

If only we had a tool that could directly let us browse through this as human readable text.

what, like an app?

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#275

Post by AuthAuth »

padjo wrote: post #96
weberer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. Its insane how "Twitter, but for tech nerds" has a hard requirement to either enable Javascript or download some app.

I really don't think that describes my Mastodon experience. Twitter for people with a conscience would be more accurate.

There are a lot of people on Mastodon who are genuinely as insane as X users. I recently opened up my account and saw people engaging with al quds brigade accounts.

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#276

Post by jasonm23 »

peri-cl wrote: post #52
weberer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. Its insane how "Twitter, but for tech nerds" has a hard requirement to either enable Javascript or download some app.

Mastodons will also respond to a plain "application/json" HTTP request, no cruft, curl 'https://beige.party/api/v1/statuses/117057396732763183' | jq '.content'

    curl -s 'https://beige.party/api/v1/statuses/117057396732763183' | jq '.content' | glow
for those terminauts who have incurable presentation ocd

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#278

Post by abustamam »

cyanydeez wrote: post #255
pllbnk wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can you do murder? Only if it kills many people over the long time.

In the 90s a bunch of charities installed wells in Africa but didn't get them tested for water quality and poisoned whole villages. Intent is such an interesting moral stance as opposed to actual outcomes.

I think the "intent" ( pun not intended) for "intent" to be a moral stance was to not discourage people from trying to do good things for fear they may do something bad and get in trouble or whatever.

In an ideal world this would be good but then of course it's ripe for manipulation because it's hard to prove one's intent

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#279

Post by mirekrusin »

rcxdude wrote: post #145
mirekrusin wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just say you wanted to make world better for humanity, you should be fine.

Funnily enough the legal system has dealt with people lying about their intentions before.

OpenAI is in trouble then, no?

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#280

Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

weberer wrote: post #14
mraniki wrote: post #2

I'll copy the whole announcement here for those who don't want to click: > I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this…

Thanks. Its insane how "Twitter, but for tech nerds" has a hard requirement to either enable Javascript or download some app.

Alternative URL, no Javascript, no app:

https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183.json

   view-source:http://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183.json
The toot also appears in "
   view-source:https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183 

   curl https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183.json \
   |grep -o "
.*
" > 1.htm

   firefox ./1.htm
Post reply on HN