Oh hey, this rant of mine is making the rounds.
After I wrote this, one of the Matrix leads commented on it, which prompted me to look at their code. I have since found, uh, 4 3 different cryptographic issues in Matrix's Olm and Megolm code.
Expect a blog post on Dhole Moments at some point in August.
One of them is extremely bad, and will put a lot of burden on Matrix users to mitigate effectively. False alarm: I was mistaken about this one. I'll include it in the write-up, though.
I don't know if this is an original theory or if someone else has already suggested it before, but I thought it was an interesting one to share. I tried to search for it before, but didn't find anything close. Apologies if you've heard it before and my google kung-fu is just weak today.
The One Piece is the unification of all Pieces of Eight, and is capable of a supernatural ability (e.g., granting a wish, as in Dragon Ball Z, which like One Piece is inspired by Journey to the West, but maybe not as reality-altering as that).
It has to be something powerful, though. Otherwise, why would anyone covet it? Why would Whitebeard make it a point to announce that the One Piece is real if it wasn't an artifact of legendary power?
Note: All dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format (as per ISO 8601 and other standards).
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2023-07-06 | Emailed lava at lavaflame2 dot com with these details and a recommended fix. |
| 2023-08-06 | A month later, I follow up just asking if Lava has received my messages. |
| 2023-11-15 | Additional follow-up email |
| 2023-11-15 | Mentioned knowing an exploit in Discord, passed details onto moderator (Hotair) |
In response to this tweet, concerning this article.
A veterans group has called on the Pentagon to ban some Fox News personalities from being broadcast in U.S. military facilities.
Quoth Matthew van Eerde:
Blocking a news channel (or "news" channel, if you prefer) on military bases, because of anti-government content (even if false,) would absolutely be government censorship
Let's break this down a bit.
| <?php | |
| function canonicalize(string ...$pieces) { | |
| $output []= pack('J', count($pieces)); | |
| foreach ($pieces as $piece) { | |
| $output []= pack('J', mb_strlen($piece, '8bit')); | |
| $output []= $piece; | |
| } | |
| return implode($output); | |
| } |
After witnessing FurAffinity get flooded with CSAM last night, and subsequently losing sleep because of it, I thought I'd enumerate the mechanisms that FurAffinity could implement to make this problem tractible.
I'll explain each of these four in detail.
Twitter disagreements are a daily occurrence, and even when they result in blocking, they're usually not worthy of any follow-up.
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." - Mark Twain
However, Phillip Hallam-Baker is a noteworthy exception for multiple reasons:
This is the full email message I received in this screenshot: https://twitter.com/SoatokDhole/status/1486708637422735361
Read more:
| <?php | |
| /** | |
| * Usage: Run this from the command line to generate a secure passphrase in the format | |
| * of stereotypical bottom keymashing. | |
| * | |
| * php bottom-responder.php | xclip | |
| * | |
| * Why? Because furries ruin everything, including bottom jokes. | |
| */ | |
| function random_str(int $length, string $charset): string { |
This code snippet will allow anyone to independently verify the claims of this blog post.
Proctorio is violating Google's Policies about code obfuscation.