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This is perfectly safe as long as you keep your username a secret.
I try to use stars as my username, but a lot of places won't allow it
Anyone remember the XZ and Jia Tan situation awhile back? https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240320183846.19475-1-lasse.co... I can't quite put my finger on why but the entire time I was reading this I kept thinking back to that. It's entirely possible the actual targets were the volunteers and everything else was superfluous or tertiary. It's also an exception that proves the rule with regard to Hanlon's Razor. They eve…
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They didn't. Sounds like they gave the robot an AWS key from an account that was already linked to a credit card. The robot decided to spin up an expensive setup prior to getting access, so the setup was sitting there costing money whilst it did nothing. If it had designed the setup but not spun it up until it had authorisation to join the network then it would have been much less costly an exercise.
AWS and Azure stress on spending limits you can set for each card... in their documentation ! Some gen AI and ML folks seem to see a way out to make things without reading any doc or scientific literature. Gen AI is a pretty clever bit of computing, but not witchcraft yet
IMHO the overly-verbose default style of LLMs is the most annoying part of interacting with them, and I wish their masters would just tell them to be terse by default. Also, whatever happened to the word "its"?
It's by default so you use all those tasty tokens. Kinda wish there was a deterministic, mostly terse, language to interact with computers
Everything about this story, from the way it’s written to the self destructive outcome, reminds me of the “I hacked 127.0.0.1” episode from some twenty years ago. [1] a mirror since I couldn’t find the original: https://gist.github.com/Androkai/0a2602719fa72ce454d436bfe28...
That’s up there with the password story, hunter2.
What's up YouTube, it's NextGenHacker101 and today I'll be teaching you guys how to see other people's IP addresses.
You can see what their connection speed is and what site they're on.
Type in Tracer T.
H T T P semicolon. Well, not semicolon, the little dot dot. Dot dot slash slash.
Ten people are currently using Google.
DallasTexas13, obviously his username.
Anyone remember the XZ and Jia Tan situation awhile back? https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240320183846.19475-1-lasse.co... I can't quite put my finger on why but the entire time I was reading this I kept thinking back to that. It's entirely possible the actual targets were the volunteers and everything else was superfluous or tertiary. It's also an exception that proves the rule with regard to Hanlon's Razor. They eve…
I am not sure giving everyone amusement qualifies as a psychological attack. Lol Literally, just another day on the internet.
Anyone remember the XZ and Jia Tan situation awhile back? https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240320183846.19475-1-lasse.co... I can't quite put my finger on why but the entire time I was reading this I kept thinking back to that. It's entirely possible the actual targets were the volunteers and everything else was superfluous or tertiary. It's also an exception that proves the rule with regard to Hanlon's Razor. They eve…
This certainly did strike me as a big scam. A few minutes in I was thinking "the LLM actor is going to ask for donations at some point here" and low and behold. There's the claim of debt, the call for pity, and the crypto address. SSDD
I really wanted to dislike the anonymous operator for the careless project (and the hilarious pomposity of the IRC subagent it spawned). Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible, getting excited by a much bigger world at reach — and remembered my own expensive mistakes with long-distance BBSes & the like. I sorta hope for tha…