cryptorex

self-taught technologist | juris doctor in love with tech

[miia @miiagarro]

the world contains protons, neutrons, electrons and fucking morons

[cryptorex @crypt0r3x]

@mikealfred Pitching wedge

[Bobby Finn @itsbobbyfingz8c]

Also need to finance the down payment if that's a thing

[cryptorex @crypt0r3x]

@GrantCardone Bro is fuming 😤

[South Dallas Foodie @SouthDallasFood]

We’re all just lazy suckers tbh

[𝖊𝖛𝖆𝖉𝖊 @encrypted]

wait... you did what?!

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Boomers sitting on a real estate empire watching your career get automated before you even finish paying your student loans

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

American couples in their 30's work to get jobs paying $70,000/yr.

Then they:
- Have $30,000 weddings
- Buy $35,000 cars
- Rent $3,000/mo apartments
- Pay $1,500/mo for daycare.

They blink, suddenly they’re 50 & making changes feels impossible.

This is the middle-class trap.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Parasite Disgusted To Find Itself In Politician https://t.co/8kZK9GM7DX

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Google Chrome is quietly downloading a roughly 4 GB AI model to many users’ computers without clear upfront consent.

The file, called weights.bin, is part of Google’s Gemini Nano on-device language model and lands in the browser’s user data folder under OptGuideOnDeviceModel.

It powers built-in AI tools such as “Help me write,” smarter tab suggestions, on-device scam detection, and page summarization. The download triggers automatically for devices meeting minimum hardware requirements, and Chrome often replaces the files if deleted.
While the model processes data locally, installation happens in the background with minimal notification.

The scale is noteworthy. Hundreds of millions or billions of installations add up to thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions globally from data transfer, even though each is a one-time event.

To prevent or remove it, go to chrome://flags, disable the entries for the optimization guide on-device model and Prompt API, restart the browser, and manually delete the folder.

[Zvyrae @zvyrae]

Indian street food parodies NEVER miss 💀😂

[cryptorex @crypt0r3x]

@mikealfred I think we bought the same 22 million Bitcoin.

[Dark Web Informer @DarkWebInformer]

Canonical Ubuntu put together a good blog post on Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431). Including mitigation methods.

https://t.co/mw6gonA7Rc

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Trump saying WINNING for 1 hour. 🔁

Can't stop, won't stop.

[cryptorex @crypt0r3x]

@RepLuna Why are these treasonous people allowed so much power?

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

TWO KINGS. 👑

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🛑 WARNING: Bitwarden CLI was compromised in a supply chain attack.

@bitwarden/[email protected] included malicious code after attackers hijacked GitHub Actions, stole secrets, and pushed a tampered version to npm.

🔗 Learn how the attack worked → https://t.co/xqqJ7a9REL

[Adib Hanna @adibhanna]

Had an interview with a “crypto” recruiter. We talked for about 40 minutes, and then they asked me to look at some code.

Their first instruction was to clone the repo. I didn’t. They seemed surprised, so I told them I wanted a moment to check whether it was safe first.

I ran a quick analysis with Claude.

Turns out the code had a backdoor. It would copy my environment variables and send them to a remote server.

The recruiter went speechless and ended the call pretty quickly.

Be careful who you talk to. Scammers are real.

[Jason @mytechceoo]

“I’ll do it manually” will get you fired here

[Lucy @TheLucyShow1]

She just wants to look at them! 🤣💖