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Old school hacker.
@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange Thousands of years of hard work trying to get away from reality as far as possible, and who can blame them. And then, when discrete mathematics suddenly became relevant to practical problems, they fought back so hard that "abstract nonsense" is now a technical term.
"Age verification" laws are "we want to have all adults and their complete online profile in a database" laws, and that Persona, the company behind LinkedIn, Roblox, Discord ID and age verification is owned by Peter Thiel should be all you need to know.
HAR 2009, Geraffel tent, in which @deviantollam@defcon.social filmed an explanation of the Beernary machine, with a cameo of FX (🕯️) as an active user of said machine.
I've had a chance to use Opus 4.6 a bit, not just for coding tasks, but for other typical corporate management activities too, like reading and writing policies, understanding bookkeeping, etc.
And I have some scary news. Sure it makes mistakes, but for a person treating it as an extended information processing tool instead of outsourcing thinking to it, not more so than your average junior developer, outsourcing partner, big four consultant below partner level. It just delivers results much, much faster.
It's not hard to imagine a world in which racking up a €1000 AI bill per day per person driving it isn't just considered normal, but cost effective.
We'll see exponential hunger for AI compute, in a world in which chip production scales linearly at best. And the implications for energy consumption are shocking.
We'll also see the market for junior developers dry up. And no one has an idea where new senior developers who actually can meaningfully manage AI dev work will come from.
We live in interesting times, and not in the best sense of this phrase.
So Vincenzo Iozzo denied he knew of Epstein's horrors. He didn't deny hacking phone for him. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/hacker-linked-to-epstein-removed-from-black-hat-cyber-conference-website/