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I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by pqs »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #16

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

These comments don't help much. AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by BobDaHacker »

srmarm wrote: post #14

Clearly a big f-up by FIFA on what looks like quite a tidy platform otherwise. One question though, how do you know your feed would kick off the 'real' feed if you pushed to RTMP, does it just take the most recent connection as live? Does the protocol have a mechanism for dealing with multiple people pushing to the same endpoint? There maybe more checking on that endpoint and if course I'm sure most live broadcasters…

Good question! So RTMP doesn't really have a clean way to handle two publishers on the same stream key. What would actually happen is the two streams fighting for the ingest endpoint, so the output would glitch between the two sources. Like if I pushed Subway Surfers gameplay it'd be flickering between the actual match and Subway Surfers with the audio cutting back and forth. You're right that a live director would catch it pretty fast but even a few seconds of that on air during a World Cup match is not great.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by llbbdd »

pqs wrote: post #21
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #16

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

These comments don't help much. AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.

The problem is that people who are bad writers have trouble understanding that AI writes worse than they do

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by BobDaHacker »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #16

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

Yeah I used Claude as a writing assistant for the initial draft. I'm autistic and long-form writing isn't my strong suit, getting a 4000 word blog post to flow well is genuinely hard for me. But I do edit it pretty heavily after, the voice and the jokes and the structure are mine, the AI just helps me get a baseline down so I'm not staring at a blank page. The research, the screenshots, the disclosure, that's all me. I've been doing this stuff for years.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by rectang »

> Client says "access denied"

> Server says "here's everything"

hahahaha

> Hire me (just kidding... unless?)

FIFA is a legendarily awful organization. In my weaker moments reading your piece I thought to myself how nice it would have been if someone more ruthless than you had been made an example of them.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by willdr »

jdw64 wrote: post #23

I don't understand why people obsess over LLM(AI)format. The content is interesting, but they dismiss it just because the format is an issue. All of this content is worth reading and is good. And it's about security.

The content is rendered unreadable by the LLMs sentence construction. Secondly, it's insulting. If you didn't care enough to write it, why should I care enough to read it?

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by SXX »

pqs wrote: post #21
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #16

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

These comments don't help much. AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.

I'd wish we come to a day where people would just post the prompt. Then I can decide what story to generate from it.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by patates »

You hit the jackpot on security research, but you cannot take like an hour or two to at least get rid of the AI smell? Please do use AI, nothing against that, all I'm saying is please, please don't deliver this weirdness:

> I did not touch any of these controls. But they were there. Functional.

I really needed to push myself to read because it was very interesting and thank you, for doing the work and sharing.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by gspr »

pqs wrote: post #21
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #16

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

These comments don't help much. AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.

> AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.

I don't know about you, but I'd love to read a fascinating story written by a relatively poor writer. But if they can't be bothered to write, I assume the story can't be that good.

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