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New comment by magnoliakobus in "Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena"

magnoliakobus — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:50:00 +0000

Cloudflare is very happy to lend their megaphone and DDoS protection to people hosting nonconsensual pornography boards on the other hand. Along with a multitude of other sites that exist solely to traffic in human misery and exploitation. Even when you follow their processes to the letter to report them nothing comes of it.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "How America's universities became debt factories"

magnoliakobus — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:38:56 +0000

I think most people would agree with me in saying the European model sounds pretty swell compared to forcing people into declaring bankruptcy because of economic/personal factors potentially out of their control, while also inserting an incredible amount of volatility into the entire university system that would make long term institutional planning much less possible.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?"

magnoliakobus — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:59:33 +0000

Bad bot!

New comment by magnoliakobus in "GPT-4 can exploit vulnerabilities by reading CVEs"

magnoliakobus — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:17:44 +0000

They tested it on websites, containers, and python packages. So three things with source available and a total sample size of 15. This isn't anything new really, if you give it a piece of insecure python code or a terribly misconfigured Dockerfile and ask "is there a problem with this?" GPT-4 will obviously spot the vulnerability much of the time. LLM agents won't be spinning up Ghidra and locating a use after free vuln or something any time in the foreseeable future, let alone one it doesn't already have a blueprint for.

Edit: An LLM agent could also presumably navigate to the links within the CVE that contain the exact commit which patches a given vulnerability, some also contain links to PoC exploit code themselves, I forget if this is touched upon in the paper.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue"

magnoliakobus — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:30:18 +0000

Absolutely there are. Many (or most) of the people who catch fish, pour coke onto the mortal wound they just created for their own leisure and toss them back into the water to die would confidently tell you fish are incapable of experiencing pain.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "DNS over Wikipedia"

magnoliakobus — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:30:15 +0000

Its Wikipedia article actually exists due to to both gamergate and CSAM as evidenced by the first actual commits. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8chan&diff=634741...

New comment by magnoliakobus in "H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts"

magnoliakobus — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:20:42 +0000

The idea that private schools could serve anywhere near the amount of kids that public schools do and that would somehow result in higher wages for teachers is rather unserious on its face.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts"

magnoliakobus — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:15:58 +0000

I went to a rural high school where 20% of the “senior” class every year was Chinese exchange students, a large portion of them continued to study in the US for their post-secondary education, exactly 1 of all the people I spoke to has a parent who is even an active member within the party and he is a mid level bureaucrat in a no-name city. It’s not nearly as common as you seem to believe. Many people go into debt to study in America, with their family’s homes used as collateral (which was the case for multiple students I met in college from India).

New comment by magnoliakobus in "DNS over Wikipedia"

magnoliakobus — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:00:45 +0000

CSAM is literally what got it delisted from Google search results in summer 2015

New comment by magnoliakobus in "Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP"

magnoliakobus — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 19:16:51 +0000

Both the protocol tunneling activity and the binary would likely be flagged by most enterprise security software.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "ZenHammer: Rowhammer attacks on AMD Zen-based platforms"

magnoliakobus — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:47:10 +0000

If 99.9% of people can be exposed to the same malicious code and not even be aware that it was running in the background, it's all the more reason for a malicious actor to expose the largest amount of people to it with relatively minimal risk.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons"

magnoliakobus — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:26:27 +0000

That tenet is unfortunately lost on many people in America who are often the most vocal about their faith.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

magnoliakobus — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:05:35 +0000

"very, shall we say, 'passionate'" meaning a relatively small amount of tweets include pretty mild admissions of reality and satirical criticism of a person who is objectively prejudiced.

Examples: 1. Saying he hasn't experienced systemic racism as a white man and that it exists within the country. 2. Saying that discussion about systemic racism during Bidens inauguration was good. 3. Suggesting that some level of white privilege is real and that acting "guilty" over it rather than trying to ameliorate it is "asshole" behavior. 4. Joking that Jesus only cared about white kids and that Jeff Sessions would confirm that's what the bible says. (in 2018 when it was relevant to talk about Jeff Sessions)

These are spread out over the course of like 6 years and you make it sound as if he's some sort of silly DEI ideologue. I got these examples directly from Charles Murray's tweet, under which you can find actually "passionate" people drawing attention to his Jewish ancestry, and suggesting he should be in prison. Which isn't to indict the intellectual anti-DEI crowd that is so popular in this thread, but they are making quite strange bedfellows.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

magnoliakobus — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:46:04 +0000

Are you aware that we don't live under a Maoist dictatorship or any system of government even slightly reminiscent of what the cultural revolution developed within?

New comment by magnoliakobus in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

magnoliakobus — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:40:38 +0000

I've truly never worked a job in my life where I would not be fired for sending a message to all my coworkers about how a particular group of employees are less likely to be as proficient at their work as I am due to some immutable biological trait(s) they possess, whether it be construction/pipefitting or software engineering. It's bad for business, productivity, and incredibly socially maladaptive behavior, let alone how clearly it calls into question his ability to fairly assess the performance of female employees working under him.

New comment by magnoliakobus in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

magnoliakobus — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:28:16 +0000

Are you aware that millions of people were murdered during the actual cultural revolution? Honestly, are you aware of literally anything about the cultural revolution besides that it happened?

The Wall Street Journal, Washington Enquirer, Fox News, etc. are all just as allowed to freely publish whatever they wish as they ever were, there is not mass brutalization or violence being done against you, most people I live and work around are openly conservative/libertarian and suffer no consequences because of it, there are no struggle sessions. There is no 'Cleansing of the Class Ranks.' There are no show trials, forced suicides, etc. etc. etc.

Engaging in dishonest and ahistorical histrionics is unhelpful for everyone.