Sinthesis

/dev/null sez nothing is also a file

There’s other good posts here about path traversal recently but I don’t think anyone has touched on…this (paths matter) has been happening for decades.

Story time. In the early aughts (year 2000 👴 ) Microsoft IIS had a bug due to backwards compatibility with MSDOS 💾 . The effect was you could find an, ummm, open FTP server, create a LPT1 or COM1 directory, then a subdirectory and this path would be invisible to the system admin. If you knew the path, you could ummm store things in it such as the latest movie, game, etc. Arrgh 🏴‍☠️

/edit Ooops, forgot this is a Linux community. Some terms:

IIS - Microsoft’s server. It had a bunch of things in one package; web server, file server, email server, etc.

MSDOS - Oldass Microsoft operating system. I forget if its the first one. Only supports 8.3 filenames (8 characters plus 3 for file extension).

FTP - File transfer protocol. We were sending bits over the wire without encryption, YOLO

LPT1/COM1 - special devices in MSDOS, printer port and serial port

you forgot to add:

agentic laser focus

To think that a comedy show that aired for 5 hours per year (22 minutes (without ads) per episode, 13 times a season) ruined a generation is daft as fuck.

Fred Durst did more damage to Gen X. \,,/(^_^)\,,/

5 decade club reporting 🫡 and I’m tired too.

“If it bleeds, it leads.” Drama leads to clicks, clicks lead to advertising, advertising = money. Same ol’ story, its just super easy now with the internet.

So I sarcastically said we should name our new kitty Tupac. Then I made some AI slop that made the whole family laugh, then the name stuck.

Profit some times makes terrible decisions. In other cases, where cost has a relation to efficiency, profit does great. See also: capitalism.

They need a modern day tar 'n feathering. Water balloons/super soakers of some sticky substance (rubber cement? elmers glue? latex paint?) followed by air cannons of tinsel?

Good list.

‘Community’ very few comedy shows age this well.

OP doesn;'t mention how long they haven’t been watching but I would add Arrested Development to the comedy show list.

“Report Created”

From what I’ve seen, the AI companies don’t even know what to charge. For example, claude.ai finally made an API for user costs and we get this fun fact:

Values for a given date may be revised for up to 30 days as late events arrive and reconciliation runs. For invoicing-grade totals, query dates at least 30 days in the past.

I don’t think you understood my sentence, we (the company) already offer plenty of choices. In fact we offer OpenAI (Codex, ChatGPT) as well as Gemini. I just admin Cursor, Copilot and Claude (and at one time we offered Windsurf, but that didn’t have enough users to rectify the costs/time spent administrating it). What I am trying to tell you is that the fairly new companies, OpenAI, Cursor, Anthropic/Claude absolutely suck at making their product usable by the enterprise while Gemini and Copilot completely understand enterprise needs/requirements.

We already have Linux laptops (with enterprise controls). /edit Apple machines are primarily used though. We even offer Windoze if you really need it! (Some folks do.)

ctrl + f + goodhart

There it is 👍

From the enterprise admin of Copilot, Cursor & Claude…enterprise controls. Microsoft GitHub understands what companies need to run their products securely and successfully (at scale™).

/edit to add. Our Copilot bill went down due to change in billing type, mostly due to organization pooling of credits.

I was on the Github Copilot Technical Preview (invite in my mailbox says July 16th 2021) and it was GPT-3 (not to be confused with ChatGPT which was introduced with GPT-4)

I think that middle management has more to worry about.

You probably use it everyday and didn’t know it https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/building-github-with-ruby-and-rails/

Snoop Dogg Calvin Broadus, fixed it for you.

Got a source on that? The co-founder just stepped down from the CEO role recently, due to cancer. If his replacement is shady, I’d like to know.

adjust nerd glasses technically speaking…the greek word gyro is pronounced “eeer-o” so its not that far off from “here-o”