All good points.

That’s a fair point. Actively disabling it at the last minute, after everything had been underway, is significant.

Yeah, I honestly don’t understand why this narrative even needs to be played out.

I don’t know what angle there is by making Musk a scapegoat beyond, maybe, Ukraine trying to strengthen its supporting relationship with the US population, but it already has most of the US support anyway.

Musk has his issues, there’s no doubt about that, but not wanting to be involved is an ethical stance to take on his part.

bro

Be patient. It takes time to “get going”.

If you know how to program, you’re in a good spot. If you don’t know how to program, start with fundamentals.

SICP is good. It’s Lisp. You’ll probably never write a line of Lisp professionally, but it will help shape how you reason about solving problems.

Develop some solid fundamentals.

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Sure. Not sure how that’s relevant though?

In general, finding an exploit requires looking for little tiny details that could exist in, really, any area of a given system; looking for a bug, and then exploiting that bug by understanding how input data can be used to create a deterministic chain of events.

This almost always requires thinking outside of the box.

There are people who are also paid to find these before malicious actors do.

It’s always going to be creative in some way, at least in the beginning.

It’s like when people first discover Quake’s fast inverse square root. Sure, the first time around it seems genius. In reality, code like that is actually everywhere, and there is a somewhat trivial aspect to optimizing those kinds of problems.

The way the hack was utilized is honest very creative and interesting;

That’s often the case with exploits.

but “fuck Meta/Google because they’re evil” is subjective as hell and gets us nowhere except back to Reddit culture.

That’s true. A lot of Reddit culture is cringe as well