Richard Sivak, compuper progammer and bad guy

Lovin’ on @swaggysavannah_. #OSCPCertified @Ford. #WrestlingCoach @VoyageurCP. I am an individual

[Mike Torriero @MTorriero]

I love my family.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

“yOu'Re sTuPiD fOr cArInG aBoUt fLoCk, yOu'Ve hAd a TrAcKiNg dEvIcE iN yOuR pOcKeT fOr a dEcAdE”

-Phones are opt‑in. Flock is non‑consensual.

-I control my phone. I can’t ‘turn off’ my license plate.

-A phone can stay home. A car can’t.

-Phones track what you choose to digitize.
Flock tracks physical reality.

-Phone data is fragmented. Flock data is centralized.

-Physical movement = policing fuel: suspicion, patterns, retroactive justification.

It’s agency vs. inescapability.
That’s the difference.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Does anyone have any theories on this person?

He has a paypal account that he accepts donations at and that would certainly identify him.

He asks people to meet him in person and do his "deflocking" with him. Who would connect with strangers online to meet up with in person to go and do illegal things with? Wouldn't you worry a police officer would meet up with you?

He doesn't really do much damage to the cameras. He puts a sticker on them and cuts a wire.

Is he just putting on a show for money? Is he actually hired by Flock for some strange reason? Or something else?

[Richard Sivak, compuper progammer and bad guy @ForgedByTheGods]

@LukasCantCode On mac, Option+-. On a phone, hold on the hyphen. On Linux, open the symbol selector with ctrl shift u, then type 2014. On windows, go fuck yourself.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

🚨 FLOCK ERROR = GUNS DRAWN

Police shut down I-94, boxed in a silver SUV, and held two people at gun point after Flock cameras flagged the car as “connected to a homicide.”

Except it wasn’t.

The alert was outdated.
Authorities forgot to remove it.

Trust the algorithm.™

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’ll soon be introducing a bill to withhold all federal funding for cameras used to track American citizens.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification?

He drove to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently."

[Richard Sivak, compuper progammer and bad guy @ForgedByTheGods]

@LowLevelTweets Sounds like you got everything you need out of it

[Richard Sivak, compuper progammer and bad guy @ForgedByTheGods]

@morelliphd I'm doing well! I found my niche in offensive security and have been having so much fun breaking software

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I mentioned that my garage door was making a sound.

An American immediately said, "I got a guy."

He did not ask what the sound was. He did not ask what kind of door. He produced a guy on the basis of the word garage.

I asked who the guy was.

He said, "Just a guy."

He did not have a company name. He had a first name and a phone number in his phone saved as "Mike Garage."

That is the contact name. Mike Garage. As though Garage is his surname. As though there is a family.

I asked how he found this guy.

"My brother-in-law used him."

I asked if the brother-in-law was satisfied.

He thought about it. Then he said, "He's still standing."

The house is still standing. That is the entire review.

Inside I said: THEY DO NOT KEEP RECORDS. THEY KEEP LOYALTIES.

I called Mike Garage. He answered from inside a vehicle. There was wind. He said he could come Tuesday between eleven and four.

Between eleven and four. A window of five hours. In my country this would be a scandal. Here it is generous. He gave me a window at all. Some guys do not give you a window. Some guys say "Tuesday" and that is the whole appointment.

He came at 1:40.

He fixed it in twenty minutes. He charged me less than I expected and he did not take a card, only cash or an app I had never heard of.

Before leaving he looked at my water heater, which I had not mentioned, and said, "That's gonna go."

I asked when.

"Couple years."

I asked what I should do.

He said, "I'll give you a guy."

He gave me a guy. Mike Garage has a guy. The guy has a guy. There is a network beneath this country made entirely of men named after their function, and none of them advertise, and all of them are busy.

Inside I said: THERE IS A SECOND NATION HERE. IT HAS NO SIGNS. IT IS ENTERED ONLY BY INTRODUCTION.

I have been given four guys since.

I have a guy for trees.

I did not know I needed a guy for trees.

I have trees now, apparently. They are my responsibility. A man named Rick told me so and then left.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates.

A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat.

An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her.

here's what happened in between.

Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour.

she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all."

police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement.

This means:

Snapchat scans private messages.

Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.

Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.

in under an hour.

Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.

you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.

the message was private.

it wasn't.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A single robot vacuum for one home costs $549 to $1,399 at retail. To sweep your floor.

A family with two floors buys two units. That is up to $2,798.

And the Clean Base bags run out. Replace them and you pay extra.

Side brushes: $19.99 for a 3-pack on iRobot's own store.
Filters: $36.99 for a 3-pack.
Dirt disposal bags: $12.93 for a 3-pack.

You are subscribing to floor cleaning in 2026.

iRobot was once a $3.5 billion company built on this pricing model. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2025. A Chinese contract manufacturer named Picea Robotics now owns 100 percent of it.

Now meet OOMWOO.

A free and open source alternative to Roomba.

Created in June 2026 by a California founder named Dr. Ilia Ovsiannikov. Former Samsung engineer. 70 patents. He architected Samsung's second-generation neural inference accelerator for smartphones. Then he open sourced the whole robot.

44 days later the repo has 5,548 stars and 235 forks. No VCs. No paywalls.

Here is what OOMWOO gives you:

- 3D-printed chassis with full CAD files
- 2D LiDAR mapping and SLAM navigation
- ROS2 and Nav2 autonomous cleaning stack
- Native Home Assistant integration for local control
- ESP32 firmware and Raspberry Pi 5 brain
- Gazebo simulator to test before you build
- Apache 2.0 license, fork it, sell it, reuse it

Here is what OOMWOO costs:

The price of the parts you buy yourself. No subscription. Unlimited runs. Unlimited maps.

Roomba stores your home map in the iRobot cloud. OOMWOO stores it on your Pi.
Roomba j-series carries a camera. OOMWOO does not.
Roomba features can be changed by the new owner in Shenzhen. OOMWOO is Apache 2.0.

Here is the wildest part:

In 2020, iRobot Roombas captured a photo of a woman on the toilet. Gig workers in Venezuela labeling the data for Scale AI posted 15 of the images to Facebook and Discord. MIT Technology Review broke the story in December 2022. iRobot has shared over 2 million images with data annotation firms.

Your map never leaves your Raspberry Pi. Your floor plan. Your daily routine.

For one apartment, you save $549.
For a two-floor family, you save $2,798.

100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

[Richard Sivak, compuper progammer and bad guy @ForgedByTheGods]

@xmarci1x @Hacker0x01 @sagitz_ Says the guy with 4 followers 💀

who should they pay, the AI? Real attackers use it, why shouldn't bug bounty?

[Richard Sivak, compuper progammer and bad guy @ForgedByTheGods]

@eddieruxtable @AdrianDittmann @adastra2045 Love your keyboard, beautiful setup

[Richard Sivak, compuper progammer and bad guy @ForgedByTheGods]

@Abraxasbeers @AdrianDittmann @adastra2045 Yeah. I've been gaming exclusively on Linux for several years. rare for me to find a game that doesn't work at all. Mostly just non steam games

[Richard Sivak, compuper progammer and bad guy @ForgedByTheGods]

@0xReaper0x @_sysengineer I changed the ownership of a series of registry keys and basically deleted my OS. Windows completely borked after that, unusable and unbootable.

[Peter Dedene @dedene]

The call is coming from inside the datacenter.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Got em. I poison my AGENTS.md (and other things like code comments) all over the place with prompt injections like this to find people who don't review their code and sling it off to another human. Catches folks all the time and then its an instant ban.

As I've said, I don't care if you don't review your own code. But if you're submitting code to an OSS project and crossing a human boundary, it is simple courtesy to do some human review.

[Josh Johnson @secondfret]

Meta HQ right now.