BCOVertigo
@BCOVertigo@lemmy.world
- Comment on If the butthole had evolved in a place you could see, hemorrhoids wouldn't exist 23 hours ago:
Maybe OP is describing a prolasped rectum, where some intestine is pushed out, rather than a hemorrhoid like you describe.
- Comment on Secret Service agents dismantle network that could shut down New York cellphone system 2 weeks ago:
Text wall incoming, no offense taken for walking away:
People always talk about distributed denial of service attacks but this is not distributed. It’s concentrated in that one farm, and that informs the types of denial of service attacks it’s suited to carry out without help and influence the govt agencies which might give a shit. A simbox is a machine that can initiate one simultaneous call for each provisioned sim card in it, or whatever other cellular network operations the towers in range support. Look downstream of that for a second though, how many 911 operators are there for that area? Denying service can be more than knocking machines offline! Do I have enough sims to drown them in prerecorded panicked AI calls so they send all their firefighters to the wrong locations? Maybe I want to knife a guy and watch everyone on that block fail to reach 911 while he bleeds out. But they said ‘disable towers’ so let’s focus on denying telephony rather than the service telephony gets you to.
Bullshit scenario to illustrate a point:
Healthy customers operating a phone normally may call a variety of internal services once each until their session is established with the appropriate permissions, and then they’re allowed to make calls or touch websites. What if I pick one of those important steps and just hammer the dick off of it so nobody else can make new connections to the network for a period? If their security teams had the idea before me maybe they built some defenses, but maybe not, or maybe the simbox has sims from many carriers so they can get help. Does MobileX even agree that they carry the obligation to respond to this? Do they even know how since they don’t own all the network devices involved? Did they willfully put their thumb up their ass and ignore so they could continue to get money from the bad actor without caring about the consequences? No of course not companies always act morally!
Imagine my phone attaches to one of three towers in an area. Imagine there’s a back end process that lets a device tell a tower “I’m bcovertigo, so start me a session and look up my plan permissions, then report back with what I’m allowed to access” with a unique identity for the provisioned sim card. What happens when a phone starts that process but just ignores the response and never goes to the next step? What if I repeatedly chain together those half opened requests, and then 100 or so of those processes are just waiting on a response, still consuming resources. Do that for each of 32 sim cards in those pictured simboxes. Now give me a 300 strong swarm of those screaming hydras. 100/minute32sims300simboxes. Can your iphone ever get online if that critical step never completes to tell you your session is allowed to make calls and visit websites? We’re not even considering disruption of IoT security systems. Maybe they found some other flaw that lets them break existing network connections or exhaust something that’s needed for very specific functions to work. Through the magic of computing, anything can go wrong!
But enough about the attack itself. What are you going to do to stop all this?
Ban the identifiers of the sim bank? Fuck you they randomize it. Deprovision the sims as you see them used? Fuck you they have 100k of them as reserve ammo. No you have to physically find it and go there in person, which means plying some investigative govt agency for help.
- Comment on Where, indeed? 2 weeks ago:
It’s like canopic jars, if you preserve everything he gets to use it in the afterlife.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 3 weeks ago:
Archive link to an FAQ for the Slate electric trucklette that claims no sim cards and minimum digital bits. No clue if it will be a good vehicle so don’t take this as an endorsement. archive.ph/PMKpC
Anyone know other options?
- Comment on THE LEFT JUST DESTROYED THIS BEAUTIFUL FAMILY 4 weeks ago:
I think that you should have the freedom to live and raise your children how you see fit, but I don’t see how you can expect that for your family without giving others the same autonomy. I can’t understand the grounds on which you deserve society’s benefits, as a piece of a larger societal system, while wanting to restrict how others can live and express themselves I guess.
I want to believe you have a world view that makes sense though so I’d like to understand. Does every homosexual person have to avoid you so they aren’t in your life? Do you have to avoid anyone else in the same way or is this a one sided rule? What’s the underlying reasoning?
- Comment on RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on They were weak 4 weeks ago:
Verified in an independent fediverse lab.
- Comment on Super Weaner 1 month ago:
Wean-supream
- Comment on Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech 2 months ago:
You’re doing a great job and you shouldn’t feel bad for being ignorant when you’re literally getting results and learning new questions to ask. Of course it’s not working perfectly! Of course you’re looking for help as you discover more options! You have the desire to learn something new to you, and you’ve made so many steps beyond the first already.
Here’s some emojis to copy and paste until you smash through that problem too. emojis.wiki/all-emojis/
- Comment on Do those turkish ice-cream sellers play with their cats same way? 2 months ago:
youtube.com/watch?v=XzrifG1QWcc
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Genuine question, how confident are we that an LLM can actually be patched like a deterministic system through prompt and weight manipulation? Has the 95% adversarial success rate that was reported actually moved in the past year? I don’t feel like any meaningful progress has been made but I’m admittedly biased so I know I’m not looking in the places that would report success if there was any.
- Comment on Jump Ship Demo is Live! 3 months ago:
Can you compare it to voidcrew if you’ve played that? I want to like a game like this but voidcrew never hooked me and I’m curious how you feel a few days in.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 4 months ago:
Conveniently, this could be a path to competence for those juniors in the long term.
- Comment on His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗 4 months ago:
Hmm, I’m beginning to think this internet bullshit might not be the best way to get a crab.
- Comment on His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗 4 months ago:
✂️😡✂️
- Comment on His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗 4 months ago:
You gain Crabshell x1. You’re still a little Hungry. You have become Lonely. You have saved $.65 on this order with your doordash subscription.
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- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 4 months ago:
What about it specifically do you dislike? This type of setting definitely invites questioning by the audience and can break immersion, but I’m curious about your take on it.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 4 months ago:
In dungeons and dragons there is a type of hybrid character you can play called an Artificer who treats magic more like technology, anf there are a ton of examples in popular media that others have mentioned. I do think you have to determine how and if you’ll keep them distinct if that’s important to your plot, but if they developed alongside eachother maybe the technology of that world relies on magic to work.
Or maybe your magoc relies on elder gods that don’t like the mortal hubris of critiquing the gods works so attempts to unravel magic gets you cursed or worse.
I think they can go together and the way you fit them can even become a plot point!
- Comment on Prompt engineer : The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete 5 months ago:
“New York Life all said they’ve never hired prompt engineers, but instead found that—to the extent better prompting skills are needed—it was an expertise that all existing employees could be trained on.”
Are you telling me that the jobs invented to support a bullshit technology that lies are themselves ALSO bullshit lies?
How could this happen??
- Comment on Is it a red flag if a potential employer rushes you? 7 months ago:
It sounds like they found themselves in a situation they are not prepared to handle, and they are attempting to rush you through a major decision to compensate. It may not be malicious or a scam, and it may be a fluke that is not indicative of the normal pace and handling of their business, but it does not signal a healthy well run organization. If you do choose to proceed, do so with some level of caution and awareness of that fact. Do not give them any money, and if they give you any information that alarms or frightens you, slow the process down to give your self more time to evaluate.
- Comment on If you dont have a macking cmheese, are you even based? 7 months ago:
Finishing this post and then seeing other lemmy clients show the text correctly was an unexpected treat.
I’d like to thank the jerboa devs as well as the US education system for making me the clown I am today.
- Comment on If you dont have a macking cmheese, are you even based? 7 months ago:
Saigot dismissed the alarm and pressed POST. His illuminating text, rightly identifying the shit nature of the meme, was abstracted into a billion electrons, photons, and radio waves racing across the planet. The message was out now; the hard part was done. He leaned back against the soft padding of the chair from which he surveyed the confusion. How much damage had been done? What on earth possessed this lunatic to create something to utterly unhelpful?
–the camera zooms out of Saigot’s window to a cloudless night, panning up to a stark, ominously full moon. The moon dominates the frame and stares back at the viewer… or through them… for a second too long. The pan continues down to another building, another window, entering another room in a much rougher part of town–
Countrypunk would realize the irony of what had happened in a few hours, but for the moment nothing existed or mattered beyond the line of potash and the sharp card edge that neatly shaped it. When it finally met his standards he reached into the drawer but hesitated at the only thing his hand found. Slowly, he drew out the crazy straw. The last thing his father had given him before disappearing that night so many years ago. “Fuck you too.” He dismissed the old memory and it joined the nagging background noise with all the other things that would be a million miles away in a few seconds. At any other time he’d struggle to keep a steady hand but that promised ochre bliss gave him a terrifying focus. He raised the many-looped tube to his face and closed his eyes. The self loathing, the regret, even the tiny notification noise saying his post had gotten a reply all disappeared. He inhaled sharply and the potassium raced through him until there was nothing. Nothing but the dull roar of orange lightning.
- Comment on It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it? 11 months ago:
I saw Nick Cutter and wanted to ask this as well. The Troop was such a fantastic book with vile description and really left an inpression on me. Fuck you Shelley.
- Comment on Rock and Stone 11 months ago:
Can someone explain the fourth panel? What’s the significance of the big red X and why is the background a pair of idiot knife ears making out in that wooden hellscape? I know it’s nauseating to look at their weird bald faces for too long but I’d appreciate the help. Probably some human nonsense.
