Monday's Drink and Draw was Halloween -themed, so I drew some black cats
So today some of the worst people on earth using the most environmentally destructive tools on earth brought down a huge part of the internet by exploiting a potential problem found many years ago in PHP which was previously not practical for anyone to exploit.
It only became "practical" to exploit this problem because "AI" came along to automate the boring and repetitive work required to do so. Absurd amounts of computing power were applied specifically to break into other peoples' websites.
Now the same people who are behind this are trying to pretend that they're heroes for finding an exploit.
"AI uncovers critical vulnerabilities", their headline reads. But the vulnerability was only made to be critical by the very same people as hide behind that headline.
Many thousands of websites are offline, many people are losing money, many thousands of people are working hard to try to patch or work around the problem, many small guys are finding it almost impossible to patch, and we're all supposed to be thankful to OpenAI and others involved ? Nah. Fuck off.
Everything about "AI" involves a lot of externalized costs, but I've still yet to see even a single positive thing that has been achieved by "AI". That has definitely not changed today.
#php2shell #php #fuckai #openai
qBittorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client, has released version 5.3 and it is a big one, defaulting to supporting both v1 and v2 torrents. Previously you had to D/L a separate v2 client, and almost no one did that.
v2 torrents support individual file torrenting. If a file you want to D/L from a torrent is also included in 10 different torrents you now have 11 sources, not just the one from your initial torrent file. This should really help with abandoned torrents and disappearing files.
https://www.qbittorrent.org/news
https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/
tried to capture the feeling of zooming through neighborhoods on a crisp fall day, with lots of joy and laughter. man i love bikes