aaronsdevera

some light research into blocking openai crawlers https://blog.aaronsdevera.com/posts/20230823-detecting-and-b...

Surprised this did not get as much coverage. The Australian government produced this report last week which studied CCP ties to TikTok, the executive summary alone is pretty fascinating:

https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=a7e2a076-1112-4...

I would love to try it, but I’ll wait until the registration pop up is gone and the HN attention stops DOSing the backend. But from the sound of the website description this is a next and welcome step in the semi intelligentification of anything

heck, auto-generated English captions on YouTube still struggle to keep up most the time...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/youtube-automatic-caption-fai...

"Stage2.exe is a downloader for a malicious file corrupter malware. Upon execution, stage2.exe downloads the next-stage malware hosted on a Discord channel, with the download link hardcoded in the downloader."

Interesting technique.

Love algo. hard to imagine another project comes close to the ease of setting up an algo server...

or, you know, you could just paste this into the javascript console.

JSON.parse(window.localStorage.getItem("gameState")).solution

One thing I am incredibly cognizant of is the balkanization of the web. Different territories and privacy regimes will dictate various compliance steps... navigating this will be difficult. As a site operator I plan on collecting analytics accordingly, with a polymorphic payload that knows whats allowed to be collected where possible...

Reminds me of the residential proxy services known for fraud and hacking...

Google cache of TrendMicro report https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RUzFCa...

Looks like Tor Project is operating with a similar model, using Snowflake proxy users as a sort of broker onto the network.

Clever, but will be interesting to watch how this gets used. My testing so far of the Snowflake broker seems to have attracted less than benign hosts https://twitter.com/aaronsdevera/status/1473354766965035013

bad cert?