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Treehouse of horror 28: “The worst thing Homer’s ever done”

Edit: Make sure you check season 29 for this since they lag by one

From the IEEE article

If the worst happens and the dome is punctured, 2,000 tonnes of CO2 will enter the atmosphere. That’s equivalent to the emissions of about 15 round-trip flights between New York and London on a Boeing 777. “It’s negligible compared to the emissions of a coal plant,” Spadacini says. People will also need to stay back 70 meters or more until the air clears, he says.

I weep for the poor bastards trying to secure these things.

LMAO it worked 8/10 times against the same model. owl owl owl wolf owl owl fox owl owl owl. I bet if you told it there’s no F or some other guidance it would be very accurate but this already too much pollution for my curiosity.

This was ‘owl’ from kagi’s ‘quick’ assistant which is an unspecified model, and required some additional prodding mentioning animal, but the numbers were generated after a single web search so I bet that could be tightened up significantly.

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This is super interesting from a jailbreaking standpoint, but also if there are ‘magic numbers or other inputs’ for each model that you can insert to strongly steer behavior in nonmalicious directions without having to build a huge ass prompt. Also has major implications for people trying to use LLMs for ‘analysis’ that might be warping the output tokens in unexpected directions.

Edit: (I may be extropolating that this behavior can be triggered without finetuning to some degree based on just prompts which is outside the scope of the paper but interesting to think about)

Also, this comment was pretty good.

I might make another attempt to read this later but I stopped at that exact spot with an irrepressible urge to call bullshit.

Here’s the Cloudflare link they’re pulling from in case people want to go straight to the source https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025

I agree with you in principle but that doesn’t really help us much when poorly wrought digital devices get compromised en masse. I can say “Mirai” and way too much of the population knows that it’s an IoT botnet.

Those default passwords and superfluous software packages are cut corners, and directly translate to risk in your own home. Maybe you don’t feel that 2025 has been enough years of neglect to start calling it malfeasance , but if they’re tired of shit breaking and getting hacked and losing support I can definitely see the point of keeping more analog devices to minimize those risks.

Opportunity makes the thief, right?

Yeah you 100% have the right of this. Not a secret at all and very clearly documented on their github.

https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM

https://github.com/sipeed/sipeed_wiki/blob/main/docs/hardware/en/lichee/RV_Nano/1_intro.md

Would you stop?

This is good text wall I’m saving it. <3

Corporate consolidation is the end goal and all of the others are part of the toolkit for accomplishing that. (You can use those tools for other things, but a hammer with blood on it is a murder weapon no matter how many nails are in it’s past or future)

I think that we need more hybrid online/irl communities. Half of these issues at least can be avoided by treating digital spaces as the temporary fever dreams they are.

Krisp processing happens on device using your cpu if it’s enabled per their FAQ: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040843952-Krisp-FAQ

I appreciate that you wanted to help people even if it didn’t land how you intended. :)

If you’re seeing this follow all this idiot’s posts and mass report.

If you’re seeing this follow all this idiot’s posts and mass report.

“Perplexity shits pants and resorts to fediverse ad spamming as profitability and company future in question.”

We have Lemminati at home.

Text wall incoming, no offense taken for walking away:

People always talk about distributed denial of service attacks but this is not distributed. It’s concentrated in that one farm, and that informs the types of denial of service attacks it’s suited to carry out without help and influence the govt agencies which might give a shit. A simbox is a machine that can initiate one simultaneous call for each provisioned sim card in it, or whatever other cellular network operations the towers in range support. Look downstream of that for a second though, how many 911 operators are there for that area? Denying service can be more than knocking machines offline! Do I have enough sims to drown them in prerecorded panicked AI calls so they send all their firefighters to the wrong locations? Maybe I want to knife a guy and watch everyone on that block fail to reach 911 while he bleeds out. But they said ‘disable towers’ so let’s focus on denying telephony rather than the service telephony gets you to.

Bullshit scenario to illustrate a point:

Healthy customers operating a phone normally may call a variety of internal services once each until their session is established with the appropriate permissions, and then they’re allowed to make calls or touch websites. What if I pick one of those important steps and just hammer the dick off of it so nobody else can make new connections to the network for a period? If their security teams had the idea before me maybe they built some defenses, but maybe not, or maybe the simbox has sims from many carriers so they can get help. Does MobileX even agree that they carry the obligation to respond to this? Do they even know how since they don’t own all the network devices involved? Did they willfully put their thumb up their ass and ignore so they could continue to get money from the bad actor without caring about the consequences? No of course not companies always act morally!

Imagine my phone attaches to one of three towers in an area. Imagine there’s a back end process that lets a device tell a tower “I’m bcovertigo, so start me a session and look up my plan permissions, then report back with what I’m allowed to access” with a unique identity for the provisioned sim card. What happens when a phone starts that process but just ignores the response and never goes to the next step? What if I repeatedly chain together those half opened requests, and then 100 or so of those processes are just waiting on a response, still consuming resources. Do that for each of 32 sim cards in those pictured simboxes. Now give me a 300 strong swarm of those screaming hydras. 100/minute32sims300simboxes. Can your iphone ever get online if that critical step never completes to tell you your session is allowed to make calls and visit websites? We’re not even considering disruption of IoT security systems. Maybe they found some other flaw that lets them break existing network connections or exhaust something that’s needed for very specific functions to work. Through the magic of computing, anything can go wrong!

But enough about the attack itself. What are you going to do to stop all this?

Ban the identifiers of the sim bank? Fuck you they randomize it. Deprovision the sims as you see them used? Fuck you they have 100k of them as reserve ammo. No you have to physically find it and go there in person, which means plying some investigative govt agency for help.

Archive link to an FAQ for the Slate electric trucklette that claims no sim cards and minimum digital bits. No clue if it will be a good vehicle so don’t take this as an endorsement. https://archive.ph/PMKpC

Anyone know other options?