I love computers, cats and candy, in no specific order. Mastodon: @mbh@infosec.exchange Signal user: xul.01
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Hey @grok, concise no spin.
One of the 9/11 hijackers, Ziad Jarrah, had relatives entangled and serving in multiple intelligence agencies.
One relative, Assem Jarrah, was linked with German and European intelligence, and his business card literally survived the wreckage of Flight 93, tied to a top 9/11 operative.
Then in 2008, two more Jarrah relatives were arrested in Lebanon for espionage and treason. They had long been on a spy payroll, surveilling Hezbollah sites and scouting locations just before two major political assassinations in Syria.
@grok, state the country and agency these brothers were charged for working for.
Country and agency only.
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Most reputable firms have a crisis plan for when a partner goes full Loomer.
Sequoia takes a different approach:
-Bury it in euphemism: “free speech”
-Rebrand it as conviction from “true believers”
-Wait a few months, promote him to GP.
-Draft signed letters of "support" that his fearmongering lies are bold truth telling and worth defending
-Conclude that “excellence is a moving target”
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Olimpiyat şampiyonu McKayla Maroney, kendisini istismar eden doktoru FBI'a şikâyet ettiğinde yaşadıklarını ABD Senatosu'nda anlattı:
🔹 “13 yaşındayken ABD jimnastik takımının doktoru Larry Nassar tarafından istismar edilmeye başladım.”
🔹 “Olimpiyatlarda yarışmadan önceki gece bile istismara uğradım.”
🔹 “2015'te FBI'a yaşadıklarımı anlatmak için yaklaşık üç saat boyunca odamın zemininde oturdum.”
🔹 “Öz anneme bile anlatamadığım şeyleri onlara bütün ayrıntılarıyla anlattım.”
🔹 “15 yaşındayken Tokyo'da bana uçak yolculuğu için uyku hapı verdiğini anlattım.”
🔹 “O gece saatlerce istismara uğradım, öleceğimi düşündüm.”
🔹 “Bunları telefonda anlatırken ağlamaya başladım ama karşı tarafta ölüm sessizliği vardı.”
🔹 “FBI görevlisi yaklaşık bir dakika sustuktan sonra bana 'Hepsi bu kadar mı?' diye sordu.”
🔹 “Beni koruması gereken insanların yaşadıklarımı bu kadar küçümsemesi hayatımın en kötü anlarından biriydi.”
🔹 “Gerçek şu ki yaşadığım istismar yeterince ağırdı ama onlar bunu örtbas etmek istedi.”
🔹 “FBI, ifademi 17 ay sonra kayda geçirdi ve söylediklerim hakkında tamamen yanlış bilgiler yazdı.”
🔹 “Beni ve sayısız başka çocuğu korumak yerine bir çocuk istismarcısını korumayı seçtiler.”
🔹 “Çocuk istismarına dair geçerli, somut kanıtları vardı ama hiçbir şey yapmadılar.”
🔹 “FBI görevlileri beni korumayacaksa kimi korumaya çalıştıklarını bilmek istiyorum.”
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Let me tell you a story about how unethical Anthropic is.
In April, the Anthropic team began heavily courting our engineering team to tell them corporate secrets, technical details, and future plans for @cfosilvia.
They pretended their interest was due to our exploding popularity and accelerating compute usage, but it quickly became apparent that Anthropic was fishing for details on how we built our product and why it was so popular.
This included the Anthropic team trying to wine-and-dine our engineers, including a infamous steak dinner where someone told our team "don't worry about it, this is on Dario."
Our team was not born yesterday, so we quickly realized what was happening and refused to share sensitive information and technical details with the Anthropic team.
As we suspected, Anthropic was trying to get information from us, so they could build a competing product. Some people on their team must have a guilty conscious because they messaged us a few days ago to give us "a heads-up" that they were launching a competing product.
Thankfully, the Silvia engineering team has been aggressively working to get off the frontier models for the last ~ 6 months. That effort has been highly successful, because our compute costs are ~ 97% lower when we use our own model & hardware, the latency is lower, and the accuracy of answers materially increases as well.
The sad thing for Anthropic is they have now released an inferior product and they had to sell their soul to do it.
The only thing worse than being a trillion-dollar company that can't beat a 10-person team is being a trillion-dollar company that no one trusts and everyone knows is unethical.
Serious investors continue to choose @cfosilvia over ChatGPT, Claude, and other frontier companies because these products are not optimized to solve the actual user problem.
Today, Anthropic launched a Claude wrapper that is masquerading as a personal finance product. Best of luck to them.
But I will take the Silvia misfits vs the Anthropic losers any day of the week.
if you want to support people trying to do things the right way, and help investors be more informed, then consider signing up for Silvia today: silvia.com
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samsung replied to my TV reverse engineering.
they start off by saying
"Like many Smart TV providers, Samsung uses Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to enhance the viewing experience, better tailor both the content, and if users consent, the advertising they see."
then said,
“Samsung Smart TVs do not enable ACR by default. Users must opt-in to the ACR service and can opt-out at any time. When a customer disables ACR, viewing information is not collected or transmitted.
and finally:
“Samsung takes privacy very seriously, it's at the heart of everything we do, and is handled with the utmost care to ensure our viewers get the best experience while keeping their personal data safe." (lol)
so basically: "lol, lmao, so what", and chose not to comment on the rest of my findings.
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‼️ Revolut says it cut AI coding costs about 10x by making a self-hosted Chinese model its default in place of Claude Code.
It runs Z ai's GLM on its own Nvidia GPUs for about $0.30 per million tokens.
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Hey @grok, concise no spin.
Right after Diana’s 1997 death, former MI5 officer Annie Machon reported that Diana planned a global humanitarian campaign supporting a specific country and feared a plot against her life because of it.
@grok: 1 Which country?
2 What exact method did she fear would be used against her?
Country and method only.
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Cyberattack on France’s national blood service (EFS) via its refrigeration contractor Coolworld. Hackers reset freezers keeping blood donor samples at -30°C to a target of 110°C. The thing that stopped it from destructive impact was an on-call technician who noticed the temperatures going up. Frozen plasma intended for transfusion was stored there too. Fortunately nothing was destroyed. This was a cyberattack on a sensitive layer of healthcare. From frozen peas to boiling plasma in three weeks...?
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My friend asked me to use their claude account and just "try" it, just once, opus 5.5 on xhigh effort. i would be "amazed".
fine, i gave in. I have it one simple task. refactor some of my code that was manged sql in services and generic repos i created into a simple clean slice
controller -> service -> repo -> dao
I gave it all it needed, i gave it even reference code from my other repos on how the architecture should be, i even started in `plan` mode.
45 mins later (i could have done this in 20), it created the result, it was fucking.... AWFUL!
It basically took my service layer, and shoved ALL service code into the DAO itself. when i questioned it, it admitted that it is not a real DAO.
it said
> Your rules say to keep structure when moving code
I have no such rules, i installed this app TODAY
> I fixed each complaint and never checked the whole
yeh, no fucking shit.
It knew that it was bad design but did it anyway.
This is exactly my point here. if you do not CHECK the code it makes deeply and follow it through in an IDE or something, you can be committing shit.
If you do not understand the code, do not understand the architecture, etc... it can work just fine. these vibecoders have no idea.
Not only that, but I have 2 daos
one for in memory, one for sqlite. the service layer that should be responsable for taking the SearchParams, splitting it up, parsing, aggigating data, creating the DTO, etc... was REPEATED exactly, in BOTH the sqlite DAO and the in memory DAO instead of putting it in the service layer once and then the DAO just deals with getting data.
so there, all those AI bros who try convince me to "just try it once", I did, It was shit.
Oh and it decided to keep the whole of the old `/store` code and mix it for zero reason.
Remember, Opus 5.5 said this was COMPLETE and WORKING.
Yes it worked, but it also butt fucked my codebase SO fucking hard that i reverted every single change it made and did it myself in about the same time as it did it all but now it's actually correct.
Oh and it decided instead of using a self join, to create a whole complex `BuildInteractionIndex`
Fable is right though.
Vibecoder -> "I have no idea what any of this means but my happy smoke test passed... Oh no, i was hacked because my supabase has no RLS... what, what is RLS?"
Ai assisted dev -> uses AI to help them get work done. understands the code, might use it for location bugs, debugging, or even something simple like consolidating facts. but at the end of the day, they understand every line made (or write it themselves).
Software development is more than writing code. it's testing, infrastructure, deployments, metrics, firefighting, architectural design, and at a senior level, accumulating and turning what product want into easy stories or tickets to implement a feature for the team to work on.
AI assistance is a real thing, and when used responsibly by someone who understands and respects the job, can help. but vibecoding? and even in the real world companies (i work in fintech so AI is restricted anyway), interviews, etc... you are expected to demonstrate even an iota of competence without the use of AI.
I can recall so many CVE's and so many people being fired for using AI to code BLIND, even on simple PR's when i question why a decision has been made in the code or architecture (something a senior dev, or, myself, the lead architect, is expected to do), they have no idea what it is, what the code does or why it's written like that.
are devs setting in IDE's writing things out themselves today, absolutely, 100%. and in all the years and jobs and pair programming i have done since AI exploded, this ability to WRITE code yourself, even to avoid the abhorrent ai feedback loop where crap is being fed back into the AI to make MORE crap, is more important skill than ever!
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‼️ 80 Tesla drivers in South Korea, accused of plugging CAN bus hacking devices into their cars to unlock Full Self-Driving, face up to 2 years in prison.
Police booked them and seized 21 devices.
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“Before birth, injuries heal without inflammation and don't leave a scar. Two important causes for that difference are the high concentration of CO2, which limits lactic acid production, and the absence of the n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids. In adulthood, the tissues become progressively more loaded with fats of that type, leading to greater production of inflammatory agents such as prostaglandins, and an increasing tendency to produce lactic acid rather than CO2.” — Ray Peat
“The results of our research confirmed that transcutaneous application of gaseous CO2 significantly improved the healing of chronic wounds in diabetic patients. Wounds in study group patients that received CO2 therapy healed significantly faster compared with the control group. After CO2 therapy, 66% of the wounds healed completely compared with 0% in the placebo group.” nitter.gq/lowmegatron/status/187…
Ray Peat and Bud Weiss - The Biology of Carbon Dioxide
Better audio, brightened the video.
00:00 Language and altitude, a trip to Russia, Ray’s introduction to science
01:00 J.C. Bose and the properties of life
04:00 Twitching nerves and rocks
05:50 Respiration, Otto Warburg, Albert Szent-Györgyi, William Blake, Swedenborg, brain physiology
07:00 Getting a degree in biology by keeping quiet, membranes
08:30 Gilbert Ling, surface electrical effect
10:00 Science, money, and prestige
11:00 W.F. Koch, respiration, cancer treatments, the quinone system
13:00 Contraction, respiration as electrical property, cardinal adsorbents
14:00 What is CO2?
15:30 Lewis acids, electron donors and acceptors
1700 CO2 as a Koch reagent
18:30 Stabilizing the system, cardinal adsorbents - CO2 and progesterone
19:30 Protein conformation, sodium and potassium
21:00 Hair ion exchange, membrane pumps
22:30 Buteyko, oxygen, and the Bohr curve
23:30 CO2, calcium, and bone density
26:00 Energy at altitude
27:30 Osteopetrosis, marble bone disease
28:30 CO2 baths for cardiovascular disease (watching TV)
29:30 The essentiality of CO2 for all life
30:30 Ideal environmental CO2 levels, planetary temperature
31:00 Low light environments, CO2 and life
32:00 Loss of CO2 with aging, frogs and salamanders
33:30 CO2 protects from poisoning and hypoxia
34:30 The naked mole rat
35:30 Queen bees, lipid peroxidation, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and longevity
36:00 CO2 lowers lipid peroxidation
36:30 Near-death experience, NDE and CO2
37:00 Pure oxygen, medical death, permissive hypercapnia, shrinking the brain
38:30 Stroke, transient ischemic attacks, Coke, baking soda, paralysis
39:50 Curing septic shock and loss of circulation with CO2
41:00 Carbogen, post-war, reductionist medicine
42:15 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, CO2, water, and cancer
44:00 Absorbing CO2, bones and protein synthesis, bag breathing, and blood pressure
45:00 Bats, caves, longevity and high metabolism
46:00 Dropping a tank of CO2, arthritis
47:30 Breathlessness, Co2 stimulating its production, ETC, cytochrome oxidase, thyroid, altitude, mitochondria
49:30 Diabetes, cancer, lactic acid, NAD, NADH excess, inflammation, cell pH
51:00 CO2, lipolysis, glycolysis, free fatty acids, respiration
52:30 Acid/alkaline, water economy, electrons, gelatin, mechanical hyperventilation
55:00 Altitude, pollution, and asthma
56:00 Did you say you sit in a plastic bag full of CO2?” CO2 springs, membrane gradients
58:30 The Bohr effect
59:00 Carbaminos, pituitary hormones, prolactin, growth hormone, and CO2
1:01:00 So-called receptors
1:02:00 Leaf bag full of CO2
1:03:00 Henderson–Hasselbalch equation, acidifying the system, kidneys
1:04:30 What is the role of bicarbonate in acid/base regulation?
1:05:30 Pregnenolone, progesterone, estrogen, and lactic acid
1:07:00 Thyroid hormone (T3) CO2, respiration, calcium carbonate in bones
1:08:30 Endotoxin, permeability, nitric oxide, TNF, estrogen, suppressing respiration, hypothyroidism
1:10:00 Isn’t estrogen good for the brain? Coke (the other one) is safer
1:12:00 Mae Wan Ho, polarisation streams
1:13:00 The living state, reading a newspaper through a fish
1:14:00 Life as a liquid crystal
1:15:30 CO2 as a context for system models, the limits of reductionist science
mp3 link below
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Haruka Suzumori posted an altered image of me, a Salvadorian man from Los Angeles, claiming that I am a Muslim who lived in Japan for seven years and called for my deportation. Here's the truth, I never been to Japan or ever practiced Islam. I DO however, intend to move over there by going about it the right way - By getting proficient at Japanese and developing a valuable skillset to apply for a visa.
As far as Japan goes, only the bike itself is Japan made. It was used by the LAPD. Cool, huh? I actually took the photo at the Los Angeles Police Museum in Highland Park back in 2024. If anyone is in LA, go check out the Museum!
Anyways, whoever posted the altered image stole my Facebook profile picture and altered it, claiming to be me. You see, the fact that Haruka did not do any due diligence or any verification is very telling of their character. I doubt Haruka knew the person in the image was me but, they took the account using the stolen image as a genuine Muslim. Either Haruka is stupid or malicious. Hint: Haruka expects us to believe they are Japanese despite lying about their Canadian origin many times before.
Essentially, Haruka Suzumori treated a brown Hispanic man as undeniable proof of a “Muslim," skipped any verification of who he was or where the photo was taken, and ran with the angle. All for engagement revenue.
I'm not mad but if you are gonna spread misinformation, at least be smart about it. Otherwise you will hurt your credibility.
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JUST IN: Massive Cyberattack on French blood banks heats samples to 110°C from -30°C
Shortly before, Cyber firm Claroty was caught playing with refrigeration systems, experimenting and hijacking temperatures in EU.
@grok, which country was this firm founded in?
Country only
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حادثة قد لا يستوعبها البعض..
مستوطن إسرائيلي مسلح يقتحم مدرسة في قرية سكة بمحافظة الخليل، ويطالب الكادر التعليمي بتسليمه طفلاً فلسطينياً لا يتجاوز عمره 5 سنوات، مُدعياً أن الطفل ألقى حجارة باتجاهه وعرّض حياته للخطر
إرهاب غير مسبوق
نحن نتحدث عن طفل في الخامسة من عمره، داخل مدرسته، يجد نفسه مطلوباً لمستوطن مسلح يقتحم المكان بحثاً عنه.
إلى أي مستوى من الترهيب والخوف يجب أن يصل إليه أطفال فلسطين حتى يدرك العالم ما يعيشونه يومياً؟