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New comment by shdjhdfh in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

shdjhdfh — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 04:22:37 +0000

This was killed in the recent budget bill: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/congress-thc-hemp-ban.html

New comment by shdjhdfh in "Steam Machine"

shdjhdfh — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:08:14 +0000

The highest bitrate UHD Blu-ray supports is 144mbit/s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_HD_Blu-ray. A one gigabit NIC is not even close to the biggest compromise on this system.

New comment by shdjhdfh in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

shdjhdfh — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:48:27 +0000

You should assume it will not work unless you test it regularly. That's a big part of why having active/active multi-region is attractive, even though it's much more complex.

New comment by shdjhdfh in "AWS merges malicious PR into Amazon Q"

shdjhdfh — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:32:34 +0000

My guess is that skywhopper is correct. We're only able to see the tail end of the attack, but the repo was likely compromised in some way.

New comment by shdjhdfh in "AWS merges malicious PR into Amazon Q"

shdjhdfh — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:16:25 +0000

Another thing to note, the AI angle on this is nonsensical. The commit could have just as easily done many other negative things to the system without AI as a layer of indirection.

New comment by shdjhdfh in "AWS merges malicious PR into Amazon Q"

shdjhdfh — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:03:00 +0000

Your article breathlessly blames AWS for being reckless while having no real facts about the compromise. The whole thing reads like click bait.

New comment by shdjhdfh in "AWS merges malicious PR into Amazon Q"

shdjhdfh — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:56:57 +0000

Ah, I think it might have been this, which was reverted and seems to have been pushed directly to master: https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/commit/678851bbe97...

New comment by shdjhdfh in "AWS merges malicious PR into Amazon Q"

shdjhdfh — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:51:34 +0000

The prompt 404 quotes in the article doesn't appear to exist anywhere in the git history for the repo they point to. It seems unlikely that Amazon would rewrite git history to hide this. Maybe the change was in a repo pulled in as a dependency.

New comment by shdjhdfh in "We updated our RSA SSH host key"

shdjhdfh — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 21:10:11 +0000

It is encrypted at rest: https://github.blog/changelog/2019-05-23-git-data-encryption...