what in the fuck

and I presume the answers default to yes

Betteridge’s reigns supreme

a nsfw to start wednesday, what if the billionaires all suddenly exploded

this is the same company that has attempted other ways of addicting their employees, for “productivity”

ijlth: quantum

I follow a couple (like, 2~3) of fiber arts people and that was about the impression I got too, it’s blown up with that much spill

furthering my previous guessing that there’s likely only appetite for 2, maybe 3, of these ridiculous IPOs, a number of analyst notes have started kicking around and they’re getting progressively more realistic in their outlook. saw this one this morning

Red Flag #3: The IPO is Exit Liquidity, Not Growth Capital

To justify a $2 trillion valuation, our model shows that Anthropic would have to:
 • immediately improve NOPAT margin to 10% and sustain it for the next 10 years (compared to -175% reported operating margin in 2025),
 • grow revenue by 1000% in 2026 and 100% in 2027, and
 • grow revenue 56% compounded annually from 2028-2035.

sounds ambitious. sure hope they don’t have any material risks and systematic exposures that make that harder!

In this scenario, Anthropic’s
1. revenue would reach $3.6 trillion (compared to $4.6 billion in 2025), which is 1.4x the combined TTM
revenue of Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta (META), and Oracle (ORCL).
2. NOPAT would reach $358 billion in 2035, compared to the company’s -$8 billion reported operating loss in 2025. For reference, $358 billion is 2.0x NVIDIA’s $184 billion and 2.6x Apple’s $136 billion in TTM NOPAT.

good thing the cost of inference is going down! sure, qwen3.8-27b is already stale and everyone needs to throw another couple hundred million at another training update, but the cost of inference! /s

personally I feel like all this shit is a continuation/outgrowth from the crypto “whitepaper” phenomenon: ~zero substantive engagement with the actual discipline in question, and “work product” (quotes intentional) equal to some claims with a “proof” thrown out as its defense

(it also continues to be part of a cultural and knowledge DDoS, which others have written better on)

cool fun new totally fine AI use: extortion

seen here

but, who the hell gave them $100k for this?

the third name is a vc-type, and I bet it won’t take much scratching to find that linked to our good friends and the ongoing public image adjustment campaign that’s seeing funding from a few corners

I remember this showing up here a while back

I don’t get the second one

“muskin’ the truth” ≈ “kirkin’ the kobayashi maru”

a great sneer found in the wild:

the one titled “interesting” (archive) also smells

idly, I do wonder how well an ocr-only clodjeepeetea would work. every time I look in on all these “agent session” tools they appear to be a very mech turk thing of a phenomenal bit of hidden state, and a tiny little bit of visible distraction. feels like ocr-only might break a bunch of the usual tricks that are used to build on for the shiny demo

the networking part is fine (I do a looooot of networking), but the software quality and choices (esp with containers) is just extremely meh

re the gapping, eh, there are ways. just off the top of my head: rig up the serial console, screen+camera and usb keyboard signalling (which you can data diode on transmission later via usbnet). and that’s before you go for esoteric side channels and utter silliness

but “I turned off spectre and friends mitigation” is just some extremely funny shit

I’d seen that link and didn’t even go looking, but wow this is way worse that I would’ve expected

it’s been a while since I last looked (I usually just deploy whatever network I need) but iirc even the typical desktop config distributions of qemu-kvm are a macvtap or link+nat setup

It then detected I run my host kernel with mitigations=off

I wonder if this person even thought to run a nessus/openvas/whatever scan against the same machine

also, quite seriously, what fucking clowning is this to have this be some “I slapped together a test on my desktop” rather than having a lab bench? is it too hard and costly for trail of bits employees to afford a 1u they can pxeboot for experiments? wild

The standard approach for QEMU is to either wire up a TUN/TAP interface or to use passt.

(e: adding)

The standard approach for QEMU is to either wire up a TUN/TAP interface or to use passt.

other typical modes are bridged (e.g. having various vlans available as bridges and then managing vm exposure to vlan by interface attachment), direct interface assignment (hw offload to the guest)

passt is also commonly used for podman, and it’s moooostly userspace[0] IP and no real good l2 options

1. I had an absolute rager[2] of a time figuring out how to make n-many podman containers[3] spin up into an assortment of vlans for realtime multi-vlan testing
2. of the graaaargh kind
3. don’t do containers, kids. they’re bad for your health

(I’m only half joking. it’s stunning how badly container-management software and tooling all suck)

just wanna re-up one from last week’s stub

@o7___o7 said:

We need a word for “my condolences for that cool person you liked becoming a milkshake duck”

my proposal: “autorowling”

I propose: “autorowling”