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i had a fun defcon and loved meeting a bunch of people. proud to be a part of @phrack.org magazine! :)

it's wild how you can spend years and years hacking and being a part of your scene and just because you aren't a dude (or "famous" enough to get like a Non-Dude Pass) you'll incessantly receive disrespect and invalidation from your so-called peers :o)

hey I designed this coin

pro tip: the people in the world around you are actually individual human beings, and not just springs of social capital to draw from for self enrichment

my friends are so cool

STOP DOING AI

YEARS OF MARKETING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND

Want to chat with a PDF? We had a tool for that: It was called "EMAILING THE AUTHORS"

"Let’s shove this feature at users. Let’s do this EVERYWHERE" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

They have played us for absolute fools

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

If you could ask a panel of hackers anything about Phrack, zines, and hacking (past/present/future), what would you ask?

things are getting really cool online

attn anyone hiring: my multi-talented friend is available now for roles in security, infrastructure, sysadmin, project management. he has a super interesting array of experience (ask him!)

above all, @bane.bsky.social is just a genuinely awesome and uplifting person who you'll love having around

DIY > AI

A Fraktur style pixel font. Main band is about 6x6 pixels, capital letters are 11x12.

For some unknown reason, I spent the evening creating a pixel Fraktur for mice. I don't why my brain picked up the command, but it was kinda meditative.

something will change ♡

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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nintendo switch 2 connected to an oscilloscope by 4 coax cables

trade ya

The book Building a Debugger, featuring a robot designing a complex debugging machine on a drafting board

The book placed in front of a tortie cat

Building a Debugger is now officially released!

It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.

Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.

me too it makes me so sad

I feel so utterly just, crushed when someone who I admired and thought was cool ends up using/endorsing LLMs and the genAI garbage.

Like, ugh, such an awful feeling,

The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE

Things are escalating in downtown Los Angeles

Apple Research just published a whitepaper about how genAI doesn't "reason" at all but just pattern-matches, completely falling apart with any somewhat complex logical task.

Not that that's news to anyone here, but if for whatever reason you've needed a whitepaper to cite...

If you want to stay up to date on what’s happening with ICE raids and community resistance in Los Angeles, follow these folks: go.bsky.app/UZjNrrD

Persona 4 Revival has been revealed

Coming to PS5, Xbox, and PC (Steam/Xbox PC)

man...
rest in peace to a truly kind soul.

PHRACK coin has landed!🪙

Exclusive to authors and major donors. Given personally by the staff to each individual. Never for sale. ❤️

👉Hacker's Manifesto engraved on the rim. Music by the scene's own ytcracker!🎤

Phrack's CFP closes a week from today!

you hear a lot of self-doubt when encouraging folks to submit.

have you never published research before? or are you nervous about your work making the cut? the only way to find out is to try, and I REALLY want u to try! imagine how stoked you'd be to get in!

Thought experiment: if you were going to set up a watering hole attack for indirect prompt injections against unknown agents, where would you do it and what sort of injections would you try?

I'm not sure about where/how, but a markdown image fetch to a server I control feels like the right payload.