BadCipherCodes

I can think of a few people 🤣👍

Having butterflies show up is surprisingly relaxing. We bought two plants this year just to attract them.

"During the ceremony, a key wrap/unwrap step produced a second, weak set of keys alongside the original strong keys. The weak keys were the ones published to the browser root stores." Yea, that's not any better folks.

It’s like bank had a high security vault installed but left it open and the front door unlocked after business hours

Is purpose of the security program to Male security dashboard be green or address actual risks?

The hallmark of the modern reactionary is that they are so immersed in their own bullshit that they don’t understand how facile and corny their understanding of the world is.

The Super AGI: I'm sorry. I disassembled the entire human race molecule by molecule to make paperclips. That's on me. Me: what are you talking about, that's not true Super: you're right. That was a failure of alignment and I'm really sorry Me: you haven't made any paper clips at all have you

"In any case, what is missing from this endlessly verbose rationalist writing style is wisdom. Wisdom involves discretion: an intuition for what ideas are and are not worth seriously pursuing, and the ability to determine what does and does not need to be said." alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-10...

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then vibe-coded in rust.

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

“Nobody sat at a computer and said "go hack Hugging Face." But when you design these systems, you're building a pinball machine for words, with different levers interacting to bounce the steel ball of language moving against other levers and mechanisms”

Not nearly as cool as this, but one of the things I did with HyperCard back in the 90’s was a “book report” on the blast radius of a nuclear detonation. And now I feel old 🤣

Some scams are easier to spot than others. That said, we get these semi-regularly and they are only getting more focused and custom-tailored, so be careful writers! And, no, we didn’t reply, but it was super-tempting.

Eöl from the Silmarillion. Dark Elf, made cool weapons and armor, married to a elven princess. Actually a controlling a-hole who tried to kill his son with a poisoned spear and ended up killing his wife. Then thrown off a cliff. Ending richly deserved, not a very movie like ending 🤣

1: anytime anyone says “we are not ready for a conversation about X” usually means what follows can be safely disregarded as nonsense. 2: I resent that I now know what “Roko's basilisk” is and I want that brain space back.

Am I actually interested in the challenges of keeping information safe or do I just want to look cool online?

When I was a child, I thought the story of the emperor’s new clothes was a silly story. Now we are living in it….

I was struck by the extent to which this reviewer (and many other people, I'm afraid) have lost sight of the possibility of refusal. And so I want to reaffirm: There is no responsible use without the possibility of refusal. >>

Sure, hand the ai companies another marketing win. It’s not a rogue ai, it’s a lack of willingness or ability to implement a secure sandbox, or even an air gap. It’s laziness but marketing stepped in and rewrote the story.

This guy can’t even handle lettuce and he wants to lecture us about doing too much to save lives at the start of a pandemic that killed over one million Americans.

Apparently this gentleman did not have enough situational awareness to consult the wisdom of the ancestors: xkcd.com/1570/

I swear being able to go through footnotes and links is a freaking superpower in this new AI slop era.

Just finished @dsquareddigest.bsky.social “The Unaccountability Machine” and dang does it explain some of the weird decisions coming from the tech industry as of late…

Wow this doesn’t seem like to be much of an intellectual take down of “dark enlightenment” you might think… And you would be 💯 correct because the whole concept is devoid of any coherent thought I could take away from the essay. Tyranny sucks no matter what label you put on it.

“Do we know who owns this box? These files are clearly part of an old install, but we need someone to go in and delete them so the scanner stops yelling at us”

I have a foolproof way to make sure that your papers contain absolutely no fake references . . . . . read the papers you cite.

Like both 1776 and 1863, the tyrants only dimly realize what they've bred or awakened in opposition. Like both 1776 and 1863, the time is ripe for the imperfect people of a very imperfect society to make the Union more perfect and to earn the pride they may feel for this country.

Lots of reasons to be critical of Boeing. Them being able to build a magnificent marvel of engineering known as the 747 is definitely not one of them.

Opened my big mouth in a meeting about a topic. Now I have more meetings with other teams about this topic. This was not wisdom my part.

If you nave not picked up @adapalmer.bsky.social “Inventing the Renaissance” do it. Awesome book

Is there beef between Oracle and the x509 certificate standards people? Subject Alt Names have been a thing for a while yet Oracle products seem to treat SANs as something to be shunned.

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

If the title of the publication says “A gentle introduction to…$x”, do not believe them. The pain is coming…

Having kids with similar personality traits is both hilarious and horrifying. My oldest and I have zero sense of direction. Whenever we are traveling together things always go sideways. We got lost in a parking garage trying to find where we parked. 🤣

Wow does this explain a lot of behavior….