vince

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[vince @0x_exitnode]

after over a year, the stitches from my appendectomy suddenly hurt. because i laughed too hard at a meme.

i guess that’s just how life is.

[vince @0x_exitnode]

@czamaru dm!

[vince @0x_exitnode]

"barefaced general mystification" 🤣😂

[Andrew M. Bailey @resistancemoney]

But if you want to poop on Hegel, no one did it better than Schopenhauer.

[vince @0x_exitnode]

@resistancemoney lmao

[vince @0x_exitnode]

oh yeah tell me about it

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Gas stations in the Philippines have begun improvising, since the price of gas has exceeded the number of digits that can be dynamically displayed.

[vince @0x_exitnode]

@0xDankiii 🫡

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

There is a project on GitHub called Axios.

Axios is extremely popular. It is used by millions upon millions of applications.

Axios is a programming library that helps your JavaScript code make HTTP/S requests (communicate with websites).

In simple terms, if you're a programmer doing something with JavaScript, and want to do stuff that communicates with a website in literally any capacity, people heavily recommend using Axios due to its simplicity. Using Axios you don't have to reinvent the wheel and do a bunch of work. All you need to do is import Axios into your code and you're off to the races.

Someone (currently unknown) compromised Axios (currently unknown how) to deliver malware to people. When someone updates or installs Axios, Axios itself contains malware.

What the malware does is (currently) unknown, but it is being reversed engineered by probably every malware analyst on the planet at this moment. In a few hours more details will emerge. Information is being exchanged in real time on social media and private communication platforms as I write this.

Due to the size and popularity of Axios, it is unknown how many are impacted, it could be millions, it could be thousands, or if we're lucky, only hundreds of people or organizations will be impacted.

If this is absolute worst case scenario, millions of organizations across the planet have been infected with malware which (currently) we do not understand. However, the likelihood of this is low. It appears Axios being compromised was detected quickly, potentially within minutes (or hours) of it being compromised to deliver malware. Additionally, the likelihood of every single Axios user updating Axios as soon as it was compromised to deliver malware is astronomically low. It is basically zero.

The impact from Axios being compromised is devastating, the fallout from this will be a massive headache. This is unironically a malware nuclear missile and will likely be studied in the future.

[vince @0x_exitnode]

"Historically, Lifesteal was calculated before some damage reductions or amplifications were applied. As a result, you could gain health from attacks that dealt no damage (like attacks against a hero affected by Aeon Disk's Combo Breaker). This will not happen anymore."

> bear market things

[vince @0x_exitnode]

what kind of sick math is this icefrog

[vince @0x_exitnode]

wish i had an AI subscription to read all this shit in 15 minutes

https://t.co/cH2t58sV5X

[vince @0x_exitnode]

All innate abilities that used to scale with other abilities now either provide unchangeable bonuses or improve on 'per level' basis

Abilities that improve with hero level have base value and increment value. Some also have amount of levels required for increment

> dafuq did i just read

[Matt Liston @no__________end]

I co-founded Augur, the first decentralized prediction market, and was founding CSO of Gnosis, the second. Polymarket still runs on Gnosis contracts. I'm glad prediction markets finally broke through. But I'm not going to pretend that what's being scaled right now is what we built these systems to do.

[vince @0x_exitnode]

aspirational

[vince @0x_exitnode]

@resistancemoney markdown saved me from my personal hell aka microsoft word’s interface

[Decrypt @DecryptMedia]

White House Calls for Retraction of ABC Report Over Iran Drone Threat
https://t.co/Xcrj6a8FFw

[vince @0x_exitnode]

@resistancemoney based

[vince @0x_exitnode]

rest in power, ser

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[vince @0x_exitnode]

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[vx-underground @vxunderground]

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

JEFFREY EPSTEIN KEPT A FULL COPY OF THE 2005 BASH REFERENCE MANUAL

https://t.co/GiP1elWeNA

[Sander Lutz @sander_lutz]

Jeffrey Epstein was an early investor in Coinbase.

Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam appears to have been personally aware and supportive of the convicted sex offender’s multi-million dollar investment in the company, in 2014. Details are in the latest batch of Epstein files from the DOJ.

Story here:
https://t.co/L6fRKb0ztX