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I like to solve problems and build things. Product, AI, and Tech • https://teapaw.org/t.co/cwxsjqbst0

Brooklyn
Joined September 2006
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I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry: - People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient - People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
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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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SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS LORD TORVALDS
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First they came for the software engineers, I said nothing for I was not a software engineer. Then they came for the mathematicians, I said nothing for I was not a mathematician. Then they came for the product managers and I said "make sure you get all the product managers"
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"Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5" is giving me far too much credit.
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jev + astra releases have been a breath of fresh air because so many people remembered you can create weird, obscure, totally-impractical things just because. the internet needs more weird and whimsy again.
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Ask Sol to review something and it'll find 3-6 things wrong. Doesn't matter how big the thing was. Doesn't matter how many times you already asked Sol to review and fixed all its findings to its liking. It can always find 3-6 new problems. Conclusion: Bugs are fractally infinite.
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BOOM!! APPROVED! There it is. The SEC just approved spot #Ethereum ETFs. What a turn of events. It's really happening. h/t @PhoenixTrades_
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JUST IN: SEC informs exchanges it is leaning towards approving spot #Ethereum ETFs, Barrons reports.
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There’s a very unfortunate paradox with happiness: “Being happy” seems to often reduce to living in the moment. As long as you are fully engaged in the present moment, you are usually happy. Many things we think of as bringing us happiness actually just pull us into the present moment. That’s where the hedonic treadmill comes from. Unhappiness comes from the things that pull you out of the moment (fear of future, regret of past, worry, stress, etc etc). But often the things that provide consistent, sustained happiness are not peak experiences. They’re simple stuff. They’re long dinners with friends, playing with your kids, going for a run, reading a book. And here’s the unfortunate paradox: non-peak experiences can be hard to remember. So if you look back on a very happy year, it might feel like you didn’t do anything. Like it flew by. But it still was very happy! Is the happiest life one you barely remember? I’m not sure how to get out of this problem. On the one hand it seems worthwhile to take trips and create other peak experiences to bookmark parts of your year and life. But are the days within those peak experiences actually that much happier? Or just more memorable? I don’t know, but, it does seem that prioritizing happiness and memorability are often at odds. There is great joy in a simple life.
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Saadiq retweeted
Please report @punk9058 if you can. The account has created a fake FriendTech account. New form of scam. RT if you can too. Getting the Twitter shut down will help.
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Saadiq retweeted
1/ On TAP Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. ✅ Three (T) ✅ Address (A) ✅ Protocol (P) The way to *never* have your grail NFTs phished is to religiously TAP. It is super-easy to do, you should all do it. There is NO excuse not to do it! NONE!
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Introducing our upcoming Curated release: Torrent by @heyjeres, launching Sept. 6th at 1 PM EST. Delve into the echoes of chaos through Torrent - a piece inspired by nature's relentless forces and the enduring impressions they imprint. Relish the fusion of time, erosion, and the poignant allure of fleeting moments. Discover more and preview samples: artblocks.io/project/466 🎨🔗
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Fantastic graphic by @glitchmarfa. Do you know your squiggles?
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Let's talk about @beeple The legend, the myth! Everyone here knows Beeple, but how many of you knew him before the era of NFTs? Personally, I've been closely following his art career for over a decade, and I'd like to share my perspective on how I've viewed him as an artist. 🧵
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Saadiq retweeted
Some thoughts on the Yuga announcement and royalties. A lot more on today’s countdown.
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It's been awhile since I've had the opportunity to open-source something, but I'm proud to announce that we've released the tool I built to generate the @moonbirds Mythics collection! Those of you familiar with Mythics may recognize its name 😉 It handles both attribute generation and image rendering, with plenty of config and scripts to help you analyze, tweak, and create a generative collection. It's written in TypeScript, and can render the full Mythics collection of 37,611 images in around 1 hour. github.com/proofxyz/fateweav…
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