Anti-virus, malware and infosec expert, crypto amateur, privacy advocate and general annoyance.
PGP keyID: 0x365697c632dd98d9
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Anti-virus, malware and infosec expert, crypto amateur, privacy advocate and general annoyance.
PGP keyID: 0x365697c632dd98d9
[bridged from https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
There are how many types of people?
And another bullshit article:
"Sam Altman: Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI millions—Should users stop?":
Dude, I, the user, buy […]
You might have heard the claim that each user costs Anthropic $5000 in compute. That's complete and utter bullshit:
"No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user":
https://martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-doesnt-cost-anthropic-5k-per-claude-code-user/
Technology was supposed to remove unnecessary work...
New resume.
The charging port design needs a rethink.
Fix not found.
Keep off the grass.
Privacy expectations then and now.
"Bad AI Consciousness Takes Bingo":
https://www.polytropolis.com/p/bad-ai-consciousness-takes-bingo
Apocalypse early warning system:
Programming is like magic.
The OnlyFans web site has opened a physical shop.
When the code is a mess but it is working anyway.
Another one from the What Could Possibly Go Wrong?! Department.
"A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for ‘hateful’ speech":
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-children-village-ai-speech-schools-7a41b3986524877b3e7ade7985853c53
We live in the stupidest timeline...
"Man named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru":
Sanctions? What sanctions? It's the economy, stupid!
"Europe spends record €7.3bn on Russian Arctic gas in just eight months, surpassing 2025 total":
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/europe-spends-record-7-3bn-112143000.html
Apparently, AI isn't very good at geography...
"A teen tried to navigate Canadian mountains with Claude. His trek ended in an emergency rescue":
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/08/teen-hike-claude-ai-directions-rescue-canada-mountain
Good news: it was marked as spam and nobody read it.
Threat modelling.