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hhh commented on GPT-5.2-Codex openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

freedomben · 2 days ago

The cybersecurity angle is interesting, because in my experience OpenAI stuff has gotten terrible at cybersecurity because it simply refuses to do anything that can be remotely offensive (as in the opposite of "defensive"). I really thought we as an industry had learned our lesson that blocking "good guys" (aka white-hats) from offensive tools/capabilities only empowers the gray-hat/black-hats and puts us at a disadvantage. A good defense requires some offense. I sure hope they change that.

hhh · 2 days ago

I use openai models every day for offensive work. haven’t had a problem in a long time

hhh commented on 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/1659447091

hhh · 3 days ago

what kind of redpill schizophrenia is this? no business is going to care about unpaid peoples time, and if they have to list a job publicly even if they have internal hires it only makes it worse.

hhh commented on A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote 404media.co/hack-reveals-... · Posted by u/grahamlee

Noaidi · 3 days ago

Nothing makes this inevitable. People like you who want to do nothing about it makes it inevitable.

hhh · 3 days ago

Why? Generic computation existing always means this will be possible. The cats out of the bag. You can’t regulate computation globally. You can only enforce it on the platform level.

I want to do plenty about it, I want to make the barrier to allow this shit online identity theft to make it too expensive to do.

hhh commented on RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD freebsd.org/security/advi... · Posted by u/weeha

TekMol · 3 days ago

    vulnerable to remote code execution from
    systems on the same network segment

Isn't almost every laptop these days autoconnecting to known network names like "Starbucks" etc, because the user used it once in the past?

That would mean that every FreeBSD laptop in proximity of an attacker is vulnerable, right? Since the attacker could just create a hotspot with the SSID "Starbucks" on their laptop and the victim's laptop will connect to it automatically.

hhh · 3 days ago

dozens of people will be affected

hhh commented on A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote 404media.co/hack-reveals-... · Posted by u/grahamlee

Noaidi · 3 days ago

My god, horrific. Does not everyone know everything online is a psyop now? I will tel you, they don't. No one studies things, no one takes the time. AI, social media, it all has to be protested, boycotted.

Now it seems war is coming from the US it could not be more true that at this moment.

hhh · 3 days ago

No, we should not stop something that is inevitable. We should work with it to find ways that it fits into a productive society, such as anonymously verifying that you are a citizen so the cost of abuse is at least a felony.

hhh commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3

iLoveOncall · 4 days ago

Unfortunately Firefox is basically already dead, it has an incredibly small market share and it will never grow again because their leadership is affected by the corporate mind virus.

I know most HN users are on Firefox, but they should get used to an alternative now, not when its inevitable death happens.

hhh · 4 days ago

do you have a source for hn users being mostly firefox users?

hhh commented on The fuck off contact page nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off... · Posted by u/OuterVale

dotancohen · 13 days ago

You're going to laugh, but this is why I stick with AWS. They've twice helped me with billing issues on my personal account - as in an actual human helping me. They have no idea I manage large (not huge) AWS deployments at my day job. They just demonstrate great customer service to me as a small client.

So they have me as a loyal customer. And advocate, it seems.

hhh · 13 days ago

AWS support is extremely good. I have had the same experience in personal projects and in turn have quadrupled down on our leverage of their support at my work.

hhh commented on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bpierre

andy99 · 15 days ago

No it doesn’t. I’m not trying to make a point about vaccines, just that the study is a population study and so shows benefits on average to a population.

If the vaccine killed 1/100 people (again I don’t believe this but it’s the internet) but made the other 99 immune to dying over the 4 years, it would look really good on average even if it was directly responsible for the deaths of 1%.

hhh · 15 days ago

1% mortality would be setting off sirens during this kind of trial

hhh commented on Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s uncloud.run/... · Posted by u/rgun

1dom · 16 days ago

> For whatever reason, kubernetes just irritates me. I find it unpleasant to use. And I don't think I'm unique in that regard.

I feel the same. I feel like it's a me problem. I was able to build and run massive systems at scale and never used kubernetes. Then, all of a sudden, around 2020, any time I wanted to build or run or do anything at scale, everywhere said I should just use kubernetes. And then when I wanted to do anything with docker in production, not even at scale, everywhere said I should just use kubernetes.

Then there was a brief period around 2021 where everyone - even kubernetes fans - realised it was being used everywhere, even when it didn't need to be. "You don't need k8s" became a meme.

And now, here we are, again, lots of people saying "just use k8s for everything".

I've learned it enough to know how to use it and what I can do with it. I still prefer to use literally anything else apart from k8s when building, and the only time I've ever felt k8s has been really needed to solve a problem is when the business has said "we're using k8s, deal with it".

It's like the Javascript or WordPress of the infrastructure engineering world - it became the lazy answer, IMO. Or the me problem angle: I'm just an aged engineer moaning at having to learn new solutions to old problems.

hhh · 16 days ago

It’s a nice portable target, with very well defined interfaces. It’s easy to start with and pretty easy to manage if you don’t try to abuse it.

hhh commented on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] huggingface.co/deepseek-a... · Posted by u/pretext

tokioyoyo · 19 days ago

If the Chinese model becomes better than competitors, these worries will suddenly disappear. Also, there are plenty startups and enterprises that are running fine-tuned versions of different OS models.

hhh · 19 days ago

No… Nobody I work for will touch these models. The fear is real that they have been poisoned or have some underlying bomb. Plus y’know, they’re produced by China, so they would never make it past a review board in most mega enterprises IME.