Post B0NpCR6BHBZ4XpgT1E by Frantasaur@mastodon.ie
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(DIR) Post #B0NaTMROLgGXi1DY0G by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
2025-11-18T18:21:29Z
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I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt engineering.Algorithms are not useless theory, you unbalanced red-red tree. They’re the entire fucking point of the degree, you empty hash bucket. Go gamble daddy’s money on a startup your buddies thought up last night, you quadratic insert operation
(DIR) Post #B0NaTSRy0SI6LXX5jU by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
2025-11-18T18:50:02Z
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You circular reference. You denormalized database. You sparse-ass matrix. You fragmented fucking disk. You absolute BUBBLE sort. I can keep going because, you see, I actually have a real computer science degree
(DIR) Post #B0Nkdmpc5BrFzn9nFo by Johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu
2025-11-18T21:03:19.361Z
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange just because your post reminded me of talking to someone with an econ degree at work, how do you explain to them why a database should be normalized... all i could come up with at the time was "thats a best practice"?
(DIR) Post #B0Nke6NHQF4sbi3Rrs by ilja@ilja.space
2025-11-18T21:13:05.139998Z
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@Johann150 "you can throw your money on a pile without much thought and see it go bad by inflation as the economy grows, or you can invest some time to figure out what to do with it so that the effects of perpetual growth don't affect it as much. same with database resources and the application growing."@0xabad1dea
(DIR) Post #B0NpCR6BHBZ4XpgT1E by Frantasaur@mastodon.ie
2025-11-18T19:05:36Z
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@0xabad1dea or with the cloudflare outage today, you need to understand that software ultimately runs on hardware and will crash if it runs out of physical resources to load a config file that has become too big. Probably some engineer did warn of the risks, only a Harvard business grad ignored them.
(DIR) Post #B0NpSBIJntCCA6rwRM by m0xEE@breloma.m0xee.net
2025-11-18T22:07:51.887690Z
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@0xabad1dea Why do you even need stience for prompt engineering? :marseyhmmm:
(DIR) Post #B0Nun9YRy0iycOEZTU by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
2025-11-18T19:06:40Z
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@Frantasaur oh my gods is that literally today's postmortem
(DIR) Post #B0NunArd6Bf0gADP0a by tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2025-11-18T19:51:48Z
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@0xabad1dea @Frantasaur yup. config file grow too big. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/cloudflare-traces-hours-long-outage-to-one-single-file/ar-AA1QGnnLI bet `TEST-CFG.FILE-018 - handle outsize / malformed config files` got dropped on the schedule room floor because of a suit. "How big can these get how fast? surely some alarm will go off. skip it."
(DIR) Post #B0NunCBAD2scl2MW5w by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-11-18T23:07:41Z
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@tezoatlipoca"Surely some alarm will go off, skip enabling the alarm that would go off"Peak businessman logic.@0xabad1dea @Frantasaur
(DIR) Post #B0NunGQuORqpx1l9Bw by tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2025-11-18T19:55:18Z
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@0xabad1dea @Frantasaur I am not a network or cloudfare expert but I can see this so clearly. The Cloudfare CDN is (amongst other things) a very complex distributed firewall. They say the cfg file is " is automatically generated to manage threat traffic" - so a bit like the low level iptables rules that gets loaded into your firewall that tells the network kernel to ignore that, pass that, route that. The memory space for these rules is finite; too many rules == error or bork.
(DIR) Post #B0O1kZnAexh2noq0yO by lovelydumpling@miruku.cafe
2025-11-18T22:40:08.818Z
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange There's something I love about reading this coming from a Teto plushie
(DIR) Post #B0OVmoenMPi86pu892 by meeper@udongein.xyz
2025-11-19T06:02:09.633929Z
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@0xabad1dea Why do we allow mbas to have an opinion on science and technology, go play your mba roblox or something the world will thank uou
(DIR) Post #B0OW3ppaFUCefo48vo by munin@infosec.exchange
2025-11-18T19:44:58Z
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@0xabad1dea .......if we collectively publish a shitload of bubble sort libraries and label them as "incredibly efficient next-gen" and other SEO keywords, do you reckon we can pollute the LLM corpus enough to utterly trash vibe coders?
(DIR) Post #B0OW3rBbD7PKsNNEsy by meeper@udongein.xyz
2025-11-19T06:05:12.297372Z
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@munin @0xabad1dea Thats what I thought, Since llm crawlers are crawling websites en mass, create severe poisoning risks, I mean like a chance giving a spoofed website with garbage poisoned data when there is a suspicion of a crawler.Force them to trust nothing basically
(DIR) Post #B1dX8bN0KLRPd2GPGy by jan_mutable@mas.to
2025-12-26T03:49:00Z
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@meeper @0xabad1dea @munin oh, like nepenthes!links:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/