Archivist at the State Office for Monument Preservation by day. Game Developer with love for @GodotEngine & @Blender by night. #NOAI #StopStealingData

Germany
Joined May 2008
Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert retweeted
We'd rather be brutally honest than lying to you. SuperTuxKart Online Services is has gone dark, we don’t know when it will be back. Here's why, and how you can help. PHP2Shell forced us to shutdown earlier this week our online services. Our 10+ year old PHP server code can't be safely patched, so a secure rewrite is underway.
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Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert retweeted
"aver fatto parte dell'equipaggio della normandy sotto shepard non è stato per nulla stressante. è sicuramente un'esperienza che ricordo con piacere" —liara t'soni, 700 anni
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It's okay PHP, I'm insecure too.
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It’s just EA App. They redistribute the installer every time they update it. Same with Ubisoft games. Time for @Steam to enforce a no-third-party-launher requirement. Especially with vibecoded crap and Ai features being built in over time.
Replying to @aquatichrome
Yeah idk why like every other week this gets like a 200mb-ish update. I just assumed it was cause of the mod manager but all my mods are disabled rn lol
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Replying to @mattworkman
Forcing developers to write a political statement to be used against them by the hate mob they’re helping organize is abhorrent.
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Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert retweeted
-game studio supplies: 1 mil -dev costs: 10 mil -CEO salary: 300 mil -food for office: 100k -utilities: 1 mil Someone good at the economy, please help me budget this, or *random studio* will die.
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Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert retweeted
If some peops are searching for the song of the Mass Effect 5 trailer, here it is youtu.be/lz2kFOpZsJw?si=J7ia…
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Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert retweeted
VideoLAN services are back after numerous upgrades, after all the PHP, Gitlab, Kernel and other huge security issues of the week. Today is sysadmin appreciation day :) (Reminder: people maintaining our infra are volunteers, like all of us)
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RIP Tom Skerritt
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Finally got around to move my last few personal and business @Github-repos to my local @Gitea-instance and basically deleted everything, except for the account itself and 2 tiny repos. Good riddance, Github Pro Subscription. 7 years and still not a single Copilot token used.
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Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert retweeted
Art accounts I respect supporting the use of GenAI always feels like being stabbed from behind You are BETTER than this ffs
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Me, a Mass Effect fan today
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Ka-boom. As I've been saying and dissecting for the last eight years, there is a lot more there there. Every settlement has been in part due to the increase in temperature when you get to the top of Meta and its board. Good on New Mexico.
In case anyone is wondering why Meta tried to squeeze claims from another cover-up into its massive $19B child harm settlement, this testimony was in a filing last night, “warned "to not pursue investigating Cambridge Analytica specifically" because "it would be career suicide."
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tonight is the night
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 Archive.org 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.
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Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert retweeted
This is getting more attention than expected, so just a reminder that I have a list of actually good programming books on my website. :') edw.is/good-books/ (I probably read like 300 of them in my 17 years of programming :D)
Replying to @pikuma
For those who want to do learn linear algebra (most useful branch of math in graphics and game programming), read this. It’s peak. gamemath.com/book/
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Mild shock. It’s not like people like @Rahll proved that years ago. And if you ever did your due diligence by looking deeper into papers how this works, this ain’t news either. It’s theft. And it’s time our @EU_Commission wakes up from coma and does something useful.
Spitting out “entire books near-verbatim.” trib.al/uKq4QDH
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Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert retweeted
‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”
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Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert retweeted
This is the Blender on Android project’s presentation, shown at #BCON26. Download the demo APK to see the current progress for yourself: download.blender.org/demo/ta… #b3d #devfund
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