if you want to be profitable in this industry you are left with very few options at this point
the magic of 2021 will likely never be replicated
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Partial stateful node is here!
Happy to announce chibi: a node that syncs in minutes and lets you transact through your own local RPC. Trust no one because every value is proven.
It runs on practically any hardware. Need to send a transaction? Don't need to rely on RPC providers, just spin up chibi and send it right away. Live on Sepolia today and Hoodi next.
👇 demo below
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Replying to @NEETzscheIDDQD
This is cope. Anything hand-drawn is automatically better than AI-generated slop. Anything hand-written, be it stories or code or what have you, is automatically better than AI-generated slop.
AI only generates slop. Always has, always will.
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doing all that stuff myself is trivial to me because I'm smarter than you. I don't trust that a bot that's good enough for your purposes would be good enough for mine because, again, I'm smarter than you.
I find these takes really confusing.
you have a 150 IQ+ tireless genius living in your computer. it can use your browser and read your email and access any file you want. it won't complain if you give it the most tedious administrative tasks. it is willing to work 24/7 for less than minimum wage. it can work unsupervised for hours at a time.
and you can't think of any way to put it to use?
are you completely lacking in imagination or do you enjoy mundane administrative tasks? you enjoy paying parking tickets and triaging emails and manually unsubscribing from spam and vetting credit card payments and canceling subscriptions and renegotiating insurance? you like doing that?
1/ How I infiltrated a Chinese organized crime syndicate that has laundered $1B+ across multiple exploits for Lazarus Group.
Posing as a client, I gathered intel that helped action freezes for the Feb 2025 Bybit exploit and attribute illicit activity onchain.
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Opus 5.5 reasons like a f*cking human man, there's some good models out there but this model is just sooo different. Unf*ckingBelievable
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Womp womp, OpenAI cut my usage in half. Dude just buy Claude and use Opus until Anthropic inevitably decides to fuck us over too, then go back to GPT. Rinse and repeat. It really is okay to switch providers without having a full blown identity crisis.
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Opus 5.5 is the cleanest model I've ever used.
I dunno what they did to this model, but everything just works.
Everything.
There is no output degradation over time.
It writes like an extremely smart friend. No more Claudeslop.
Genuinely incredible.
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zk.money is back.
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Today it relaunches on the fully decentralized Aztec Network.
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zk.money is back.
A self-custodial wallet that lets you send and receive crypto privately.
Your money, private by default.
Reserve your unique tag to get started.
launch.zk.money
Unfortunately, software engineering is dying. Lets check what is happening on many "developers" or "engineers":
- no architectural design or analysis
- no technical curiosity or understanding
- no respect to the quality
And the standard bar has been lowered from "excellent design, good and coherent implementation, comprehensive tests" into "I don't know shit about the design, I don't give a fuck about the codes, I don't care about tests, and Codex is taking care of all".
That means the definitive degradation of quality, and predictable decreasing of user experience.
When we don't care about the users, essentially, we are killing our industry.
This is the red alert, and this matters to us as software developers, critically.
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Initially it’s slop. That’s fine. It’s no reflection on you. The machine did it. It could be better. Yes, if you just tweaked this and that. So you do. Then suddenly it’s not just slop. It’s your slop. You begin to see yourself in it. That’s not ok. It’s hideous. So you keep changing bits and pieces. But it’s getting worse. The parts you improve only show how bad the rest of it is. You change more. You rework it all. From top to bottom. It’s yours now. All yours. What a waste of time.




























