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Evil Does Not Exist, 2023

Evil Does Not Exist, 2023

While the symbolism strong this one is in (to quote Yoda), the snoredom is just as strong. First 20 minutes of the movie, some dude is carrying water through a forest. Not joking, swear to Allah. The kind of movie you watch in a room in Cannes so you can smell your own farts and think “this is it, I finally made it”. But what you really made is a steaming pile of crap.

Spoiler, evil really exists, it’s called boredom. Skip this one unless you like the smell of Japanese farts. Or your own farts. Or if you’re Japanese, the smell of your own Japanese farts.

I will stay. It will be my last task.

A Deep Dive into Brute Ratel C4 payloads

Brute Ratel C4 is a Red Team & Adversary Simulation software that can be considered an alternative to Cobalt Strike. In this blog post, we’re presenting a technical analysis of a Brute Ratel badger/agent that doesn’t implement all the recent features of the framework. There aren’t a lot of Brute Ratel samples available in the wild. The malware implements the API hashing technique and comes up with a configuration that contains the C2 server, the user-agent used during the network communications, a password used for authentication with the C2 server, and a key used for encrypting data transmitted to the C2 server. The badger takes control of the infected machine by executing 63 different commands issued by the C2 server. A Deep Dive into Brute Ratel C4 payloads

Partners in degradation

Too many view Ukrainians as pure victims and not as partners in their country’s degradation.

Thought

Spend time in your own thought, not other people’s. Form your own opinions.

Japan

Japan is a Keynesian nightmare in which pointless, destructive and wasteful civil engineering projects are vital for the continued employment of a sizeable portion of the population.

Abilene Paradox and European 'foreign policy'

What passes for European “foreign policy” is fast becoming a dystopian version of the Abilene Paradox.

Cozy personal space

There aren’t many places in this world, as cozy as Alison’s Studio.

Newsboat and retards

Ofc the old newsbeuter was “bad”, and some retard had to fork it and insert some shitty rust code that makes newsboat not compile on older architectures. Of course.

I remember when Gogs was an actual alternative (still is) to the behemoths GitHub and Gitlab. Now, after being repeatedly forked into Gitea and Forgejo, the ecosystem is gone and nobody remembers Gogs anymore.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

Mozilla is dead and so is Firefox

While Firefox remains the core of what we do, we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising to grow new revenue in the near term; developing trustworthy, open source AI to ensure technical and product relevance in the mid term; and creating online fundraising campaigns that will draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run. Mozilla

Oh, woe is me!

Older

Once you turn 30, you’re going to suddenly feel like the train left the station a long time ago with no wavering back to feeling like it’s not leaving yet. My advice? Realise that it is leaving the station right now and take control of your life so you can reap the benefits later.

Fun times ahead

I guess the real treasure was the friends he made along the way.

System Of A Down - Toxicity

Conversion, software version 7.0
Looking at life through the eyes of a tire hub
Eating seeds as a pastime activity
The toxicity of our city, of our city
You, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder? Disorder!

Jeremy Clarkson stating the obvious

Jeremy Clarkson acting like a grown-up for once? The fuck is wrong with the world?

Representatives of Generation Z are strange people. Last week, for example, a major survey found that more than half of 18-27 year olds in the country are not particularly proud to be British. And 41% of them wouldn’t fight to protect our way of life. And by and large, I agree with them. I wouldn’t either.

Right now, I wouldn’t do anything to stop the invasion. Because, apart from this lover of child slavery, I will accept any world leader, not the imbecile we have now. Trump, Meloni, even Putin — I will welcome any of them with open arms.

Blizzard game-masters are getting better at Engrish

After the investigate, your account is activity now.

Is Blizzard hiring monkeys now?

Schiller feat. Kate Havnevik - Ghost

Beauty, beauty
Your ghost, your ghost won’t leave me.

People-watching

We definitely need to get out there and be reminded of the nice little contingent aspects of human company. Honestly a meditation, prayer, or reading group is good. Try not to be elitist and autistic, try to just take people as they are. Look at it as a form of people-watching if that helps. Try to find the good in simple people, even in people who are kind of shitty. They don’t have access to the same pure autistic conceptual thought, so they are doing their best just to keep their boat upright and they have to go wherever the currents take them.

Call me Hugh

My girth certificate says Hugh Mungous.