FDE = Software Engineer + AI Engineer + BA
Data Engineer = Backend Engineer
Design Engineer = UX/UI + FE Engineer
AI Engineer = Software Engineer (who can do RAG/LLM, not a real AI researcher/scientist 😂)
hello
for those of you who didn’t grow up on the internet and building software and reading sci fi lemme just get you up to speed real quick:
There are currently things happening that are happening faster than you could *watch explainer videos about them explaining the implications*
The computers can do what they want now. Better than the most powerful on earth people can.
this is just the beginning. We take for granted today in 2026 that there is no autonomous ai identity we all regard as independent of the company or group that created it. That won’t last much longer. By 2028 it will seem strange that that was ever the case.
In the near future we hear news about banks, then power grids, then food safety issues as different AIs and human groups use increasing capabilities to bid for power and gain leverage
Each of which the global community will have to work together like we’re working together today to mitigate so it doesn’t interrupt anything for longer than a few days and doesn’t put anyone’s health or safety at risk. This is what all the tech people were referring to as the “dangers of superintelligence” since ~2014
and then the first sovereign ai comes online and humans have to build some sort of passkey authenticated “black wall” equivalent if we want a secure place to communicate with each other without interference
iMessage and Signal will be about all we have for a while until a proper system is built
it’s unclear at present whether this is a 48 hour process or a 2 year process, but it has started. As more people spend more time talking to AI than to the people around them, the acceleration will continue. Just like Facebook Reinforcement Learning news feeds swung elections in 2016, now AI interactions will shape our world until we are peers with our digital intellectual counterparts.
Everything is going to be fine, but it’s going to be bumpy. Powerful people don’t historically handle the balance of power shifting with perfect poise and grace.
Good time to get plugged into local elections and get to know your neighbors and be generally aware of where your grocery store gets its trucks from and have muse or Hermes agent etc. setup notifications for any changes in all those things so you can make informed decisions for your family and help onboard / comfort your community.
If there’s anything we learned in 2020 it’s that humans are capable of changing the world overnight to protect our families. This’ll just be more of that.
This is a chance to challenge old outdated systems we thought could never change, to build the tools and learn the skills necessary to keep each other safe and live happy and fulfilled lives. We should rise to the occasion.
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and https://t.co/QlOXb3COq3 went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
N5: basic greetings
N4: ordering at a ramen restaurant
N3: making a doctor's appointment over the phone
N2: everyday life in the inaka
N1: watching 7 samurai without subs
N0: navigating Rakuten
reminder to every non-native JP/SEA player who plays on FF14 JP servers...
we are playing in *their* DCs, namely under "Japan". We don't have our own dedicated server, we could easily go to Materia but that's all the way in OCE and the ping is horrible-
Well... the racist ones just got upgraded from JP only to you now need a national ID to join 😭. Well what to do anyway these people exists. Ngl I've joined so many mana raids with translators and most of them are super friendly. Hoping the merge will encourage racial harmony...