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Thursday October 22nd, 2026

PHP sanity Dan Lyke / comment 0

Elias Taylor: There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability.

I mean, I've upgraded, and I've heard stories of exploits, but... at this point I don't know what to think. This just seems like the most sober take I've read.

OpenAI is delusional Dan Lyke / comment 0

OpenAI Alignment Research Blog — Suppressing misalignment monitoring alerts and disabling misalignment monitoring

Via Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen_hufkens@mastodon.social

The misalignment will continue until a bailout is achieved.

How can this company still be afloat after continuously admitting their products are not trustworthy? Imagine designing a bicycle which does not breaks 30% of the time, mostly in sharp corners on a downhill next to some ravine. What is wrong with people.

But I'll go further: The self-delusion required to attribute the lack of logging to "an earlier instruction not to send messages during a Slack history search" is really something.

Not unless you replayed the same sequence with temperature set to zero and fixed seeds, with and without that request, and even then that's attributing volition to the model that it may or may not have.

Passkey discussion sure does sound a Dan Lyke / comment 0

The Passkey discussion sure does sound a lot like "but Google's corporate slogan is 'Don't be evil', why shouldn't I incorporate their systems into my processes?"

https://lobste.rs/s/cdnepk/passkeys_attestation_trap

six finger discount Dan Lyke / comment 0

Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy

why do people call LLM training on public website data “AI Copyright Infringement” when “six finger discount” is right there

James Bond meets reality Dan Lyke / comment 0

Unnamed TNG skant beefcake @researchfairy@scholar.social

James Bond does set some unrealistic expectations though

They want us to imagine a fantasy world where an agent of state violence is fighting *against* the eugenics enthusiast space billionaire

Nathan Spindel has a Petaluma voter Dan Lyke / comment 0

Nathan Spindel has a Petaluma voter guide. I disagree with him on a couple of points, but it's a worthwhile read. https://raisingpetaluma.com

Because I'm listening through Dan Lyke / comment 0

Because I'm listening through "vocalese" tracks to find things to practice with, and because it's so appropriate to today: "Four", music by Miles Davis, lyrics by Jon Hendricks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk1c4YFUywc

Wednesday October 21st, 2026

is 110 onbrand Microsoft ad in which Dan Lyke / comment 0

This is 110% on-brand: Microsoft ad in which white guy sees his Black successful coworker getting all the kudos, so uses CoPilot to steal his work: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/microsoft-copilot-competitive

Still that confirms it's a deliberate rip-off: https://bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co/post/3myfvjkc6vs2e

Was feeling all cocky about Flutterby Dan Lyke / comment 0

Was feeling all cocky about Flutterby being written in Perl, then realized that I've exposed .php endpoints to serve gzip bombs if people try to access them.

I don't *think* I was vulnerable, but the OOM handling thing makes me wonder...

Well Dan Lyke / comment 0

Well... The CVS test says negative for Covid and flu A/B, but whatever I've got still sucks.


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