Wrong thread?

Dumbest take of 2025, I’m calling it early.

At least you learned the lesson.

Oh it’s you, the account that consistently posts beginner-level coding projects as if they are serious tools. The last time I reviewed your code there were security issues that would be obvious to anyone.

Please stop.

Classic Embrace-Extend-Extinguish move.

IRC

This is the SelfHosted community.

It will be the worst movie you’ve ever seen and you can watch it on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/vroombodtoom

A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer.

While the threat actor states that the exploited Fortinet vulnerability has since been patched, they claim that many VPN credentials are still valid.

This leak is a serious incident as the VPN credentials could allow threat actors to access a network to perform data exfiltration, install malware, and perform ransomware attacks.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-passwords-for-500-000-fortinet-vpn-accounts/

People in power not knowing shit about technology. What’s new?

The author only mentions homomorphic encryption in a footnote:

Notes:

(A quick note: some will suggest that Apple should use fully-homomorphic encryption [FHE] for this calculation, so the private data can remain encrypted. This is theoretically possible, but unlikely to be practical. The best FHE schemes we have today really only work for evaluating very tiny ML models, of the sort that would be practical to run on a weak client device. While schemes will get better and hardware will too, I suspect this barrier will exist for a long time to come.)

And yet Apple claims to be using homomorphic encryption to provide their “private server” AI compute:

Combining Machine Learning and Homomorphic Encryption in the Apple Ecosystem

Presumably the author doubts Apple’s implementation but for some reason has written a whole blog post about AI and encryption and hasn’t mentioned why Apple’s homomorphic encryption system doesn’t work.

I’d be quite interested to know what exactly is the weakness in their implementation. I imagine Apple and everyone who uses their services would be interested to know too. So why not mention it at all?

50 years after BASIC and nothing is written in BASIC.

To replicate its success from the 80s we would need a language that is simple enough for everyone to learn but actually performant and powerful enough to write an entire operating system and application stack in. Then perhaps non-programmers would feel more inclined to look under the hood, see how things work, and change their program’s behavior.

The problem though, is that for any reasonably complex system or application, you need to use structured programming. This is what enabled the levels of abstraction that we use to break down programs into layers that can be understood in pieces, and it is what makes large complex software possible without ending up with a mess of spaghetti.

However it is these abstractions that turn a software’s code into a Domain Specific Language, and endless APIs that need to be learnt and understood by the programmer.

For programmers it is normal to us that when we want to work on a new codebase we have to learn the idiosyncrasies of the codebase, and learn its DSL and the APIs that it uses, or exposes. But for a non-programmer, this would essentially feel like learning everything about programming from scratch. They would have to become a programmer and develop maintainer skills just to understand what they want to change. (This is why programmer is still a job).

Perhaps the real value of BASIC was that without structured programming, every program was just a pile of spaghetti that even a child could pull apart with a fork.

Forget about Gen-Whatever the fuck, just join in with communities and post and comment about things you’re interested in.

This whole concept of named “generations” is just to divide us so we forget who is really causing the problems in society.

Future historians will not be referring to this period as the “intelligent age.”

We then show that receiving the herpes zoster vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis over a follow-up period of seven years by 3.5 percentage points (95% CI: 0.6 – 7.1, p=0.019), corresponding to a 19.9% relative reduction in the occurrence of dementia.

I watched it just before making this post and I can say, without a word of exaggeration, it’s probably the worst film I’ve ever seen.

It’s faster to list the things that systemd isn’t re-implementing.

No, it means that Linux systems also need to blacklist the keys in their UEFI firmware. I don’t know if distros push updates for those blacklists or if you have to do it manually.

Any hung chads around here?

Instead of making a unilateral decision on behalf of all of the members of this community without any kind of consultation, why don’t you move to L.W and allow people who do want to be here, who do want to be subject to the moderation rules of this instance, to step in and take the reins?

I say unlock the community and appoint a new mod team. Who said you could just close the whole community, just because you’ve volunteered to take out the trash?