[GIF of Walter White saying "I won"]

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2 messages from eris "I knew you did it", and "You win 😅"

Crazy how it takes 11 whole x’s and they’re still not as good as one Wayland

they are really fucking scared by that 2

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2 nervous neocats looking away from a number 2.

holy shit activitypub VKontakte

There's a lot of discourse on Twitter about people using LLMs to solve CTF challenges. I used to write CTF challenges in a past life, so I threw a couple of my hardest ones at it.

We're screwed.

At least with text-file style challenges ("source code provided" etc), Claude Opus solves them quickly. For the "simpler" of the two, it just very quickly ran through the steps to solve it. For the more "ridiculous" challenge, it took a long while, and in fact as I type this it's still burning tokens "verifying" the flag even though it very obviously found the flag and it knows it (it's leetspeak and it identified that and that it's plausible). LLMs are, indeed, still completely unintelligent, because no human would waste time verifying a flag and second-guessing itself when it very obviously is correct. (Also you could just run it...)

But that doesn't matter, because it found it.

The thing is, CTF challenges aren't about inventing the next great invention or having a rare spark of genius. CTF challenges are about learning things by doing. You're supposed to enjoy the process. The whole point of a well-designed CTF challenge is that anyone, given enough time and effort and self-improvement and learning, can solve it. The goal isn't actually to get the flag, otherwise you'd just ask another team for the flag (which is against the rules of course). The goal is to get the flag by yourself. If you ask an LLM to get the flag for you, you aren't doing that.

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boost this cat when they least expect it

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A CAT YOU DIDN'T EXPECT

opening up a job position for text editors , requirements:

• not gnu
• terminal based
• easily extensible . i like lua , but ill take whatever
• vi binds . not kakoune binds . vi binds .
• will be mantained in one year

nvi is an option , but im looking for others too

please boost 🔁, and send your applications

fighting this with nohup $executable > $logfile

RE: https://gts.q66.moe/@q66/statuses/01KK9MPA2J7WFMYDQAH666D4D0

THIS FUCKER'S INSTANCE CAN'T DO “RE: URL”!

#curl was download 10,467 times last year according to the Linux Foundation

😂

https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/curl/repository/curl-curl/popularity?timeRange=past365days&start=2025-03-09&end=2026-03-09&widget=package-downloads

the idea of a trans commune sounds terrible i dont want to live with you people

This instance is running #snac2 under #NetBSD on a Nintendo Wii. My DMs are open, let me know if you'd like an account here.

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Screenshot from fastfetch showing OS version and hardware platform: NetBSD 11.0-RC2, evbppc, CPU PPC750

#花隈千冬 #夏色花梨

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Two girls of similar height and tone, Hanakuma Chifuyu and Natsuki Karin, sit upon a snowy, rocky shore, facing toward the perspective. Chifuyu, of green eyes and pitch-black hair through double-exposure, sits upright looking direct with an expression of not an undue kindness. Karin rests her head upon Chifuyu's bag placed next to her, with hair in carmine tone of vast depths, eyes shining in the hues of a sunrise, expresses every emotion that Chifuyu doesn't. Karin is ill-equipped for the weather comparatively, yet both still have their most recognizable clothing within margin, with iconography and one-of-a-kind everyday attire.

It feels like Proton are being intentionally misleading in their statements. They know that most of their customers aren't familiar with how legal process actually works, so are happy to spread half-truths.

Under US law, a US law enforcement agency (LEA) typically has to apply for a subpoena or search warrant with a US court. The court is then responsible for deciding if the legal bar for search a request has been met, then either grants or denies it.

The problem is, if a company has no real US footprint (no US corporate entity, offices, servers, etc.), then a US court typically doesn't have the jurisdiction to compel the company to hand over customer data (except in some rare circumstances). Even if the court approved the warrant anyway, it wouldn't really be legally binding.

Which is why the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) exists. MLAT enables law enforcement agencies in one company to send requests for information to law enforcement agencies in another. Switzerland has such a treaty with the US. This means that the FBI can request that Swiss authorities hand over a Swiss company's data on their behalf.

Any country requesting information held by a company in a foreign jurisdiction would typically do so via MLAT. Which means from Proton's perspective, the legal request would appear to originate from their local law enforcement, not the FBI. Which they clearly understand based on their Reddit post.

Saying "we don't respond to legal requests from anywhere other than Swiss authorities" seems very intentionally worded to give the impression that the company does not cooperate with foreign law enforcement. But since it'd be the Swiss authorities handling any such requests, they'd have to comply, since as they admitted, they have to comply with local laws.

There is, however, some useful (but more nuanced) information here:

Firstly, MLAT requests are handled by local law enforcement according to local law. So if there is a difference between the law of the sending and recipient country, that might mean the MLAT request is denied. That probably doesn't mean much, because if you're on the FBI's radar, the chances are you did something that is also massively illegal in Switzerland too.

Secondly, they are 100% correct in saying that no other service provider is going to do any better. They're all beholden to local laws, and the ones that think they're not tend to get their doors blown off by SWAT like CyberBunker did. The only exception is if the company resides in a country which does not cooperate with US law enforcement (which Proton does not).

But the part that's extremely disingenuous is that the "we only respond to requests from the Swiss authorities". That statement is likely intended to imply they don't cooperate with law enforcement in any other countries, which is simply not true. Switzerland has MLAT agreements with over 30 counties.

People really need to understand that no company is going to shield you from the FBI (or any reputable law enforcement agency). They'll use misleading statements to make it sounds like they don't cooperate with law enforcement, but they do. They have to.

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Afer some more complications I'm back for good

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