mahad

I make things @hackclub. My views!

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

In the space of a week:
- PHP RCE
- Node.js RCE
- eMudhra private keys leaked
- @railway hacked
- My main bank (@revolut) went down for ~10 hours
(All of which happened whilst I was taking time off 🫠)

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@arbirator @p3junpeiiori @moyesboyjoe I know Nationwide has pledged to keep all its branches open until 2030 as a minimum, not sure about other banks though 😅

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@p3junpeiiori @moyesboyjoe I personally split my savings between Revolut and Nationwide; the advantage of using a brick-and-mortar bank is that the support will usually be much better, and you can actually visit a branch to get help if you need it

[Jake Halloran @jakehalloran1]

its obviously not *good* but admittedly having a private key of *4* as a globally trusted cert authority is one of the funniest bits of all time

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@just_some_dev how does it compare to London

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@PelicanSquare @niftydaimoku @ownsomeshares @rmncr @Revolut @revolutsupport They should have multi-cloud failover! Monzo uses both AWS and Google for instance

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@A320ne0 @alexbronzini What about Moskowitz? Him and El-Sayed are on completely opposite sides of the Democratic Party (so is Liz Cheney)

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@just_some_dev The text is overflowing here ☹️

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@JakeArkwright not pricing in a sudden Barmy Brunch win is a mistake

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@just_some_dev gh is down lol

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@devxops I'm getting 500s when pushing

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@Screeendev @the_versecafe @github Pretty sure Blacksmith uses the GH Actions control plane fyi - if you want independence then you should move to something like @depotdev

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

GitHub Actions is down AGAIN

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@just_some_dev Didn't the Greens abandon opposition to nuclear energy today?

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

Meet Thomas, a 35-year-old who got hooked to FanDuel and DraftKings in the pandemic, ended up $50,000 in the red. He filed for bankruptcy and signed up for a Pennsylvania registry that banned him from using betting apps.

More recently, he saw an ad for Kalshi offering a cash bonus. He got the app and couldn’t put it down. He’s now living with his mom and grandmother and taking loans from them to afford food and car insurance payments. “I have a gambling addiction” he wrote to Kalshi, begging for them to ban him, which they eventually did. But not before he was more than $25,000 in the hole.

Thomas represents dark side of the prediction market boom: Problem gamblers who relapse with Kalshi, which has blanketed TV, social media, sports stadiums, bus stations, trains, with ads trying to attract new traders, just as they insist they are not a gambling operator. That means they don’t honor “self-exclusion” registries maintained by states like Pennsylvania. Mental health clinicians say that creates a loophole for people like Thomas.

What really got Thomas were Kalshi’s 15-minute crypto markets, where you can make a binary trade on whether Bitcoin will be above or below a certain number every 15 minutes. There were times he was betting 18 hours a day in these markets.

He told me: “The odds flip so quickly. It’s such a rush. And when I’d lose, my brain just kept wanting to win it back. I never even traded Bitcoin or any crypto, but I just kept coming back to the rush of how unpredictable the markets were.”

A clinician I spoke to called 15-minute crypto markets “a slot machine in your pocket”

https://t.co/LCR7Y0XQkO

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@cryptoAl123 @_SalmanAnwar The first result is correct though, no? Unless you're talking about the AI bit

[Keith @gnukeith]

You steal my data and say it's for "making the AI model better for everyone."

I create an AI model and generate synthetic data from your model and all of a sudden I'm the bad guy? What happened to making AI better for everyone?

You STOLE the data, now you are trying to privatize intelligence because you believe you are the right company to control the best models.

I think I'm better, because I'm not funded by VC investor and big corporations trying to milk every dollar from the hard working people of the world.

I also don't work for the Government.

[broadglow @broadglow]

every mans dream is to testify in the senate argmed with $20k/hour of new yorks finest legal counsel

[Temidaradev @temidaradev]

btw thanks soooo much @hackclub, i was able to get an 32gig ddr5 stick for so cheap thanks to you guys

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@hunvreus And I'd really recommend either self-hosting Postgres yourself, or using something like PlanetScale instead of Supabase. Both options will make it much easier for you to manage your database

[mahad @skyfallpowered]

@hunvreus Instead of using a cronjob, you could perhaps try something like pg_ttl_index: https://t.co/anetTUgvLp