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Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel(qubes-os.org)
247 points by vntok 17d ago|95 comments
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by vntok 22d ago
> NVidia has enormous operating margins, so a competitive solution doesn't have to match or beat NVidia's scale efficiencies; it just has to beat delivered cost. But then that means you have no actual moat against the behemot,
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by vntok 22d ago
> But you may lose a first date with a girl for sending a message with green bubbles instead of blue bubbles, so people buy iPhones. What.the.actual.fuck. Can you expand on this? I have so many questions.
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by vntok 1mo ago
Crash of the monitoring/C&C process of a 48xxl AWS hosted spot priced EC2 instance, locked in an infinite loop?
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by vntok 1mo ago
Well you were the one talking about "If I get a card number, type it into my POS system, collect money". A PCI DSS violation is indistinguisable from fraud. If you collect random credit card numbers and then transact on them, you&
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by vntok 1mo ago
Wait, am I getting it right you're talking about collecting a prospective customer's card number and CVC over the phone, and then typing it yourself in a third party system? Then it's trivial to settle: that's the big ba
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by vntok 1mo ago
Also repeat the entire exercise every year so the company can iterate and circle back on the issues regularly.
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by vntok 1mo ago
You're absolutely right.
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by vntok 1mo ago
> At minimum, a half-way decent support person would ask a few people internally or search Slack before answering. Of course not. The extremely vast majority of support staff aren't connected to "internal people" and certa
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by vntok 2mo ago
You did not know who wrote each text sample you assessed, did you?
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by vntok 2mo ago
Hackers rejoice!
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by vntok 2mo ago
How so? If it's not local, it's not yours, a third party owns it. Why would you expect that third party specifically trained their model to be more aligned to you and your needs than to them and their (business) needs?
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by vntok 2mo ago
Nah we don't do this "communicate" thing in here.
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The Message from Deep Space(store.steampowered.com)
2 points by vntok 2mo ago|1 comments
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by vntok 3mo ago
From the same guidelines: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinat
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by vntok 3mo ago
Dishwasher? I hardly know her!
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by vntok 3mo ago
This issue does not come from the coding assistant. In fact, humans will occasionally do the exact same thing as long as their tools have enough permissions to deploy to both local and prod from the same environment. Fix it by separating th
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by vntok 3mo ago
I'm running QubesOS, my various qubes reboot about a dozen times a day.
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by vntok 3mo ago
Indeed, the more accurate way to say it is that people in the US don't care enough about mass school shootings to do something about it besides thought and prayers.
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by vntok 3mo ago
That's even more expensive.
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by vntok 3mo ago
You must have very unrepresentative customers. What will they use?
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by vntok 3mo ago
Thank you for your service.
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by vntok 3mo ago
The cooling towers are right there.
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by vntok 3mo ago
Wait till you learn the bank routinely uses CSV as a non-ironic exchange format! That definitely is stochastic.
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by vntok 3mo ago
Look up "prepared statements", it's pretty well documented.
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by vntok 4mo ago
Spreading malware to your website's visitors is wild and illegal in most jurisdictions. I certainly wouldn't confess about it online.
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by vntok 4mo ago
Well in addition to what you wrote, the marketing manager ALSO wasn't tracking any ad-related marketing performance indicator (CTR, CR, etc.) in any measurable way for very long periods of time... or they would have caught it almos
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by vntok 4mo ago
His restraint alone is commandable.
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by vntok 4mo ago
His team is basically him and two other humans, powering an ambitious well-known project so successful an industry titan ended up acquihiring him/them. That's pretty lean, no?
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by vntok 4mo ago
Well, for starters the program you wrote is wrong (very unreliable) 100% of the time (very predictable)... so you just got your answer I guess. In any case, most -if not nearly all- of the top-100 LLM will answer your prompt with some code

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