Nice. This is a great start. The next steps are backups and regular security updates. The former is probably pretty easy with Claude and a provider like Backblaze, for updates I wonder if "check for security issues with my software and update anything in need" will work well (and most importantly, how consistently). Alternatively, getting the AI to threat model and perform any docker hardening measures.
Then someday we self-host the AI itself, and it all comes together.
My security update system is straightforward but it took quite a lot of thought to get here.
My self hosted things all run as docker containers inside Alpine VMs running on top of Proxmox. Services are defined with Docker Compose. One of those things is a Forgejo git server along with a runner in a separate VM. I have a single command that will deploy everything along with a Forgejo action that invokes that command on a push to main.
I then have Renovate running periodically set to auto-merge patch-level updates and tag updates.
Thus, Renovate keeps me up to date and git keeps everyone honest.
In most red team contexts, the implants don't talk directly to the actual C2 - the implants talk to listening posts (often behind redirectors/transient reverse proxies) and then the listening posts request commands from the C2 server.
We’re supposedly mere years away from superintelligence, but it’s still literally impossible to just send a file between two clients without configuring intermediate network hardware or performing some hack to get around NAT (which can still fail and then require an intermediate server) if both clients are behind CGNAT.
It’s genuinely disheartening to see so many people here not even begin to try to understand how much we’re missing by not having effortless end-to-end connectivity, in favor of expensive cloud services. This literally used to be what the “Internet” is - we’re definitionally not on one without this.
Considering that practically the only metric of economic success in the US oligarchy is the price of the flat-screen TV you'd imagine they'd at least work by now. At at least one price range.
I've got a "smart" TV that I didn't want, but that's the only thing they offer in my price range anymore. Maybe 5 years old. Stopped connecting to Wi-Fi, an actual hardware problem. Bricked. Opened the TV, cleaned the contacts and uncreased some wire strip. Has been working ever since. Most people would have thrown it out and bought another. But I'm the bad guy for using incandescent light bulbs.
It's funny too because the show doesn't even need most of the screen real estate. The most impactful scenes are kept to the middle third of the screen so that they can be cropped in vertical video for edits on TikTok and Instagram. That's on top of the repetitive dialogue crutch, designed so that you don't even have to stop scrolling on your phone to follow the plot on your TV. It's all slop now.
It's a symptom of complete failure of this industry that maintainers are even remotely thinking about, much less implementing changes in their work to stave off harassment over false security impact from bots.
The frequently repeated keystone lie that Europeans have equivalent or greater rights, freedoms, and protection from authoritarianism than Americans, which is and has always been objectively and completely false.
Citation? Every democracy index I've ever heard of rates most of Europe as more democratic than the US. (Eastern Europe will typically be rated lower, all of the former USSR states seem to be struggling with various degrees of corruption or similar problems)
Well according to press freedom indices many European countries and the US are quite similarly ranked. Some countries better some countries worse.
Some countries have stronger institutions against dictatorships than others but unfortunately we have seen that even the US isn't immune and that slides auch as in Poland and Hungary are possible.
There is always hope that things can turn around (as in Poland even though the road is hard and there are setbacks)
As an european living and feeding of mostly US sources online, I completely agree. In the US people do really have freedom of speech. This doesn't exist in the EU. Just try to say 1/10th of what you can say in the US and you'll be thrown behind bars in the EU.
The biggest one being that most newspapers in the EU are state-controlled, Pravda-style, propagandist outlet pushing pro-EU narratives. Once you live across several EU countries and speak several languages, you can see how all the topics are synched and pushing the exact same narrative.
Basically: the EU is very good at producing people repeating that the EU is great.
To me the biggest problem is that the EU Commission is way too busy turning the EU into a totalitarian nightmare instead of trying to compete economically with the US and China. As a result in 17 years China's GDP went from $4 trillion to $20 trillion, surpassing the GDP of the eurozone (which only grew 25%: 25% vs 400%).
That's an abysmal failure and the EU is sinking and it shows anywhere you go to in the EU: cities are becoming shitholes at an alarming speed. And everything is done to try to damage control and prevent people from talking about what is ongoing.
The EU is heading straight into a wall (actually it already hit it).
Well, when fascists are in power, paper won't help anyone. But at this point, as a European I enjoy enumerated human and civil rights from multiple constitutions and several international treaties, which are directly enforceable by courts at the state, national, and European level.
The human and civil rights guaranteed by the US constitution are a complete joke in comparison, and most of them are not guaranteed directly constitution, but by Supreme Court interpretation of vague 18th century law that can change at any time.
You seem to have missed the Bill of Rights. Which is odd, because whenever we tell you during online arguments that our rights are guaranteed, you all say that absolute rights are dumb and it's actually more sophisticated and European to not have them.
Not that courts, legislators, and administrations haven't tried and succeeded in abridging them somewhat in any number of different ways for shorter or longer periods, but the text remains, and can always be referred to in the end. They have to abuse the language in order to abridge the Bill of Rights, and eventually that passes the point of absurdity.
No such challenge in Europe. Every "right" is the right to do something unless it is not allowed.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/china-cyberat...
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