CTFs don't have to die. They just have to become like chess. Have more events in person, easier to enforce no LLMs. Have heuristics for online play, honor system, etc. Any online competitive format is subject to cheating, yet plenty of competitive arenas still exist.

http desync attack on discord !!

PATCH YO’ UNIFI (CVSS 10.0) community.ui.com/releases/Se…

People on the orange site are laughing at this, assuming it's just an ad and that there's nothing to it. Vulnerability researchers I talk to do not think this is a joke. As an erstwhile vuln researcher myself: do not bet against LLMs on this. axios.com/2026/02/05/anthrop…

Glitches in games, especially used for speedrunning, are one of the most fun aspects of hacking to watch! As an example, check out this video "How Speedrunners BEAT Hollow Knight Silksong In 10 Minutes!" by @Abyssoft youtube.com/watch?v=M6Jnj-y0…

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency? Grok explanation is ~close: “Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path. People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next. It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

Why on earth would you promote a performance fix as a toggle option? Why would this ever need to be off? Why is the word “hopefully” being used? 🤡

Google could literally give 50ms of dark pattern money to ffmpeg (like incognito mode) without even feeling it and have the project funded for the next 200 years and probably should given, well, Youtube.

had some decent homies affected by the amzn layoffs any seceng sde or tpm roles you need to fill and want people that don’t suck reply to thread i’ll feed you souls

nothing has cured me of so many anxiounesses of life like marriage kids. I get to truly feel alive because life is no longer about what i want, but about the very real needs of people who depend on me that i love with a love i did not believe i was capable of

Bucharest drivers see you putting on your seat belt and take it as a personal insult

This one resonated hard

I also feel that engineering tools with a scripting ability (like Python in IDA) is much more powerful if you just create a CLI tool to pipe the interpreter directly to the model rather than attempt to abstract (and constrain) every action into an MCP tool

Actually an project interesting idea would be an MCP to Cli tool converter for all programatic API use cases (not just LLM)

I don't understand mcp. Is there anything mcp can do that a cli tool can't do better?

📢 Time for an update on my workflow. This one's a 23 min read, so buckle up. 100% organic and hand-written, like an animal. steipete.me/posts/just-talk-…

I’m kind of sick of ChatGPT 5 complimenting my questions, do we really need to waste the output tokens for the sake of flattery?