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So, there’s a kind of security investigation called “dorking”, where you use handy public search tools to find particularly careless software misconfigurations that get indexed by eg. google. One too, for that sort of searching it github code search.

Turns out that a) claude chat logs get automatically saved to a file under .claude/logs and b) quite a lot of people don’t actually check what they’re adding to source control, and you can actually search github for that sort of thing with a path: code search query (though you probably need to be signed in to github first, it isn’t completely open).

I didn’t find anything even remotely interesting (and watching people’s private project manager fantasy roleplay isn’t something I enjoy), but viss says they’ve found credentials, which is fun.

https://mastodon.social/@Viss/115923109466960526

taps mic

attention, attention please

the phrase "chud achievement gallery completitionism" has now been coined

that is all, thank you for your attention

Bitcoin jesus (jesus christ what a name, almost makes me wish there was a hell) escapes punishment due to trump.

Next-Level Quantum Computers Will Almost Be Useful | IEEE Spectrum

“If someone says quantum computers are commercially useful today, I say I want to have what they’re having,” said Yuval Boger, chief commercial officer of the quantum-computing startup QuEra, on stage at the Q+AI conference in New York City in October.

Techbro leaves suspicious package unattended at davos, gets carted off by the police, swiss security folk mock his technical ignorance.

In the morning, Heyneman was asked to explain his device to a Swiss government technical expert named Chris (he didn’t catch the last name).

“I give him the same pitch that I gave all the business people in Davos,” Heyneman said. When Chris drilled him on his code, Heyneman admitted that he had used Cursor and Claude Code to vibe code the entire thing. Chris then took it upon himself to explain the code to Heyneman, line by line.

https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/tech-dude-davos-bomb-lookalike-device/

Found a small repository of mini-sneers aimed at mocking vibe-coding cock-ups: https://vibegraveyard.ai/

CEO of onlyfans competitor manyvids possibly lost to AI psychosis

It's a gizmodo summary of a 404 article but the latter is login-walled so

TPOT seems to be having a civil war as Eigenrobot is defending the shooting. Somebody also dropped a possible dox on eigenrobot.

I assume that awful.systems can't be taken down due to linking to doxes in the same way that r/sneerclub could have.

https://digg.com/politics/qxL3rOG/white-house-posts-digitally-altered-image

The White House responded to inquiries about the image alteration by posting a message on X about the enforcement of the law and the continuation of memes.

relaunching with AI podcasts about AI and AI summaries of news about AI deepfakes

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As "AI" grift corporations race to extract all the shareholder value they can before the con is off, I expect we're going to see a race to the bottom of polluting and destroying the environment more and more brazenly to squeeze those few more profits—an approach tolerated, when not outright endorsed, by the current political landscape. Ahead of the race and already a veteran at the bottom, Elon Musk: https://xcancel.com/aakashgupta/status/2012588893884019092

anyone remember how Assange and his Russian handlers tried to file a criminal complaint against the Nobel Foundation for their lack of prescience regarding Trump's attacks on Venezuala?

The complaint was dismissed 2 days later.

Writeup in Swedish here by yours truly:

https://gerikson.com/m/2026/01/index.html#d21p01_wed

Update I went through the trouble of reading the will itself (short and sweet), and the statutes of the foundation

Para 10:

https://www.nobelprize.org/about/statutes-of-the-nobel-foundation/#par10

No appeals may be made against the decision of a prize-awarding body with regard to the award of a prize.

Also short and sweet. There's simply no legal way to hold the foundation itself responsible for the decisions of the prize-awarning committees.

Ran across a thread about tech culture's vulnerabilty to slop machines recently. Dovetails nicely with Iris Meredith's recent article about the same issue, I feel.

One of my ongoing sidequests is creating a K-pop playlist of songs that describe the lifecycle of a bubble economy. I only discover songs through accident right now, so progress on this playlist is slow, but that means that I can store the whole list in my head. Here's the current playlist:

1. "Golden" by Huntrix from KPOP Demon Hunters. "We're going up! up! up!"
2. "Bubble Pop!" by HyunA. Self explanatory

And finally, I can announce a new addition to this collection:

Antifragile by LE SSERAFIM. Specifically, this is included as a reference to NNT's book and concept Antifragile. I think this is a good song to have at the end of the playlist to represent the economic analysis before and after a bubble.

OFC I am open to suggestions! They have to be K-pop though.

The classic ancestor to Mario Party, So Long Sucker, has been vibecoded with Openrouter. Can you outsmart some of the most capable chatbots at this complex game of alliances and betrayals? You can play for free here.

Internet Comment Etiquette Erik does another grok video

Ok I laughed at the Tim Sweeney bit.