Eh, fair enough – doesn’t really change the underlying concept though.

With AI enabled bug hunting, you’re likely to see a blitz of vulnerabilities, followed by a significant reduction in vulnerabilities.

Yes, malicious folks are usin em – heck, Kali’s had AI integrations for a while on a bunch of its tools even, for pen testing. But devs writing code get em too, and those are the people we need to see using these sorts of workflows as it lets them clip a bunch of zero days.

I think Mozilla, as an example, had a recent patch that cleaned up something like 271 zero days? Anthropic taking their Mythos stuff to banks/govt was largely just a publicity thing to try and shut people up who were mocking claudes code, but also potentially because it’d found govt-placed backdoors that they wanted the gov to know were about to be exposed / patched. The USA’s alleged ability to “shut off” tech assets during raids in Venezuela and Iran, gets trickier if AI is exposing their back doors. Likely also why the US Administration is now saying they want to review AIs before they get released. Mythos definitely isn’t the only game in town for this sort of stuff – but the general idea that the dev teams will be shifting to using these tools for QA / writing more secure apps in the near future, is fairly valid. So I wouldn’t go too tinfoil hat-y on that front… though it is a period where we’ll see a need to patch aggressively, and to double check security configs etc.

Honestly, in some ways the right-wing theorist types’ framing of birth control / birth rates is kind of interesting – even if the way they tend to go about implementing legislation to address the issue is largely misguided.

One of their core arguments is that politicians should be benefiting locals / existing members of the country, rather than relying on an endless stream of immigrants to supply workers – doing the latter, you’re exposed to more risk and more cultural divergence amongst the population, as well as a general cheapening of labour due to an endless supply of people. A “strong nation” should have a people who are thriving, and one sign of people thriving is locals having kids / a self-sustaining population base. It’s hard to argue your nation is ‘strong’, if it’d effectively die off without constantly pumping additional people in from other nations.

Almost every western nation fails on this front. Programs that are designed to help locals have kids are generally less materially supported by left leaning parties, as left leaning parties try to garner favour amongst recent immigrant demographics – the focus is on “people who have nothing / just moved here” vs “people who inherited a bit of money from previous local generations, and have grown up here”. Wealth tax arguments, for example, are viewed as taxing people who’ve been in the country for a generation or more, and transferring their generational wealth to newer immigrants, by having taxes support programs that disproportionately benefit people without that historic/local nestegg: eg. affordable childcare is most useful for families with two working parents, no ties to other parents/social groups for afterschool care, and no grandparent support locally. Even then, those programs are often half-assed when it comes to implementation, as left leaning parties are more intent on bringing in more immigrants, rather than supporting the immigrants who’ve already arrived with young kids. Like in Canada, population growth is 100% determined by immigration – every locally born demographic, aside from First Nations, is shrinking based on local birth rates. So if you’re a business, or a political party, that wants to ‘grow’ with the economy/population, your primary growth demo is to target new immigrants (or FN, but FN has additional legal hurdles in many cases) – generally to the detriment of local interests.

Like there are right leaning theorists pushin stuff like – if having birth control / women’s rights results in a nation that cannot sustain its local population / would die off without external infusions of people, then having birth control / women’s rights is detrimental / counter-productive to the overall health and sustainability of a nation. Women on aggregate can’t be given these rights/benefits, because if they get them, they basically kill the nation through local attrition on a generational scale. If giving them those rights had resulted in increased birth rates / prosperity within the country’s local population, that’d be a different story – but it’s not how it plays out in reality, and we can see that in most western countries.

I dunno, I find it a kinda interesting argument to think about, though the conclusions and implementation of it in practice are pretty stupid. Especially in an individualistic nation/system.

Thanks, appreciated.

Silly question perhaps, but I haven’t tripped across it on the site for Revolt – is there a relatively straight forward server version for self-hosting, or is it just that the source is on github and you can compile it in theory if you feel like goin through that process… ?