Val Smith

The Hidden Cyber Hand - Inevitable

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

I started with FreeBSD then Redhat back in the day. Ive used fedora, centos, rocky. Preferred debian based so did ubuntu for servers and mint for desktops. Played with Arch and Gentoo (but ain't nobody got time for that). Switched to debian because cut out the middle man, but idk, its been iffy.

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

I updated my debian box. Updating it broke my kerberos / NFS / automount setup. Things have gotten so complex there is no way to be sure updates won't break things.

At the same time, exploits for vulns come out instantly so you have to update immediately. This is a very bad situation.

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

@Robert_of_Maine Man I hope not, I jsut switched to it from ubuntu. Any recommendations?

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

@OKellyDavis @notcee_fan The Last Unicorn

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

@mrmikeMTL I think I was 25. Had 4 kids and had been renting. My neighbor across the street sold it to me. It was small but we liked it.

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

Ive spent a considerable amount of time building a binary analysis system for ELF, PE, MachO, etc. I intended that my use interface be a web console. Today it dawned on me I could just point my local LLM agents at the code base and tell it to use it, and improve as it goes, filling in gaps or fixing bugs. I took myself out of the loop.

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

@nmatt0 I have a Xeltek universal programmer, but I find we use the xgecu more often. This is a game changer.

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

@mlech26l tell me you don't know anything about local llms without telling me.

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

My favorite thing about science is the mysticism.

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@Monica55dzrh Paint a mural on your side

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

The Truth about UAP :p

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

how I feel using my local AI model to orchestrate sub agents running all the tools I've built over the last year to do static and dynamic analysis and vuln triage on a real target and getting actual results:

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

@gaussie @Bloke_Baz s/worst/narcissistic personality disorder/g

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

Data labeling run, pre training, core usage

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

@usetraceix You seem VERY aggressive about defending PedOS 11

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

Microsoft isn't bad because they were mean to security researchers (thats bad but relatively minor in the grand scheme of things). Microsoft is bad because of spying / horrible privacy, poor quality code, massive hacks, stealing other's tech, monopolistic practices, horrible customer support, and being founded by a close personal friend of Epstein.

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

@usetraceix

[Val Smith @mvalsmith]

@usetraceix Now what I will give you is, msft documentation is better than IBM.