> listening to music while work
> new band recommendation
> "vended"
> lol vending machine?
> song plays
> wtf this sounds just like corey taylor
> (lead singer of slipknot)
> google "vended"
> lead singer is griffin taylor, son of corey taylor

corey must be so proud omg

im so old my favorite musicians have children who are musicians

its all ogre

There is a phenomenon called "reduced proprioceptive monitoring".

When humans lock in hardcore and enter the "flow" state, time becomes distorted, weird science stuff occurs, but also the human body does weird stuff too.

The brain says, "body not important, need more focus". This results in peoples body contorting to unusual positions when focused. Most notably, them leaning forward, the shoulders tucked in, the neck "craning".

It happens with basically anything that requires intense focus. It is probably most recognized by people who work in the computer related fields (information technology, cybersecurity, etc). However, it also impacts surgeons, watchmakers, dentists, electrical engineers, jewelers, tattoo artists, animators, air traffic controllers, pilots, paleontologists, ... and more.

tl;dr have u ever locked in so hard ur entire body hurts?

I made an interesting discovery when I installed the OpenAI app "Sora".

Maybe everyone is aware of this, and I live under a rock, I don't know. But, Sora is premium real estate for fraudsters and scammers. It's evident when you install it.

I installed the app out of curiosity. I wanted to look at more silly kitty cat AI slop. Unfortunately, the app doesn't have good search functionality so you can't just search "silly cat slop". The app does possess a "latest" feed which displays, presumably in real time, the latest "creations" on Sora.

The "latest" feed is overflowing with prompts in Mandarin. It's hundreds upon hundreds of product advertisements.

Basically, scammers and fraudsters are using Sora to make fake advertisements, make them appear real with AI watermarks and fake AI slop celebrity endorsements, then use 3rd party tools to download the video and remove the watermark.

Is this surprising? No.
Was I aware this was being performed on Sora? No.

I think it's interesting because Sora is free. It also is a crystal clear illustration of Bad Actors abusing AI generated content to scam others.

Also, there are some genuinely interesting and entertaining AI generated videos. A vast majority are just ... boring, redundant, and kind of irritating.

Sora features "content creators", such as Snoop Dogg or Jake Paul. As you could assume, they're not producing content ... it is quite literally just AI slop videos of them being morbidly obese or driving dangerously. I'm skeptical these celebrities actually produce this "content", it's probably some assistant they hired to do a video or two a day, or week, whatever.

Overall, Sora AI slop novelty dissipates pretty quickly. It is impossible to curate your feed to silly cat AI slop. Currently the app is overflowing with scams and people giggling at the idea of Jake Paul being 600lbs and providing a makeup tutorial.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. Enjoy your Thursday.

You're now breathing manually.
You're now blinking manually.

You've been bamboozled.

Keep scrolling, nerd.

I had this idea to do HTTPS stuff in C using the Windows Sockets API (Winsocks).

I did it. I got it working. I was able to verify an SSL cert, do a GET, do a POST octet binary stream thingy to upload a simple file (unironically testing using a picture of a cat).

After I got it working I decided to do what I always do: make it more malware like.

I decided I wanted to poke Windows with a stick, make the code position independent, and make it function as close to the metal as possible.

What happened next cannot be described as a "rabbit hole". I have fallen into an infinite abyss, a fucking Windows internals chasm. I am looking at things in Windows I have never looked at before. I am scared, confused, intrigued, ... but mostly confused (and lost).

ReactOS, x86matthew, some weird French Guy (can't remember his name), and random nerds on OSR, have done unholy work and really dug into it. They deserve a lot of credit for walking knee deep in Windows sludge.

I just randomly remembered when this lady was awarded some University scholarship for her contributions to the Linux kernel.

They noted she had made several hundred (or several thousand, I can't remember) contributions to the Linux kernel and her work, which she did in her free time, made a real world impact, or something.

They then took a photo the lady, some fancy presenter is giving her this fancy looking thingie.

Open source nerds reviewed her GitHub and discovered she went through and added "static" in front of thousands of variables. Alternatively, she would make small changes to how code appeared to improve legibility.

Nerds were absolutely enraged. They were screaming in the comment section. They hated her guts.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking to myself, "damn, that's a really good way to pad your resume". Yeah, this lady probably isn't a 1337 Linux internals science brain, but she has the fancy words on fancy paper now which allow her to open doors to fancy places.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

I tried Googling it, but I couldn't find the exact post online. It was absolutely hysterical how angry stinky Linux nerds were. Overall I give it a 7 stinky cats out of 10 stinky cats.

Enjoy your Friday.

Don't do this. Don't make this mistake. Do something cooler. Listen to your peers when they recommend reviewing other peoples research.

https://malwaresourcecode.com/home/my-projects/proof-of-concepts/dont-code-like-this-https-post-and-get-with-position-independent-windows-sockets

tl;dr
> decide to do winsock malware poc
> need to be position indepedent
> low as possible to metal
> post about it
> domchell recommends x86matthew research
> "nah not related"
> mfw i was wrong
> get code working
> need to remove abstractions
> start reversing winsocks
> mfw confused by code
> provider to provider to ???
> check reactos
> wtf confused by code
> remember domchell comment
> look at x86matthew research
> look at afd.sys
> mfw wtf i fuk up
> dommy chommy was right
> code already 3k lines of code
> to make as low as id like, need another 2k lines
> might not even work
> would require more debugging
> fuck it idc
> look at security.h make tls stuff more low
> look inside
> mfw confused by code
> cchainengine ???
> look at reactos
> thousands of lines of code
> registry stuff
> mfw wtf
> remember comment from Xst3nZ
> look at code from Eduard Suica
> manual tls 10k+ lines of code
> need 10k+ lines position independent
> mfw code would be 30k lines+
> this is only simple GET and simple POST
> mfw

I was looking at AI cat slop on OpenAI Sora (I have literally nothing going on in my life). It says you can make yourself a "character" and do prompts for yourself, or insert yourself into other prompts.

I was like, "lol wtf ok ill try it". Sora makes you turn your head to the left, look up, then say 3 different numbers.

It "scanned me" and "generated" my character. Then I asked it to make a silly video of me.

Dawg, from the left side of my face, me looking up, and saying 3 different numbers, this AI shit perfectly AI slopped me. I got my body type right, my voice mannerisms right, my facial hair, ... basically everything.

I feel like a paranoid schizophrenic now. All someone needs is your face looking to the left, you looking up, and just a few words, and they can just ... make up shit about you? What the fuck?

I'm like, what if they use this shit to frame you for crimes? Do I sound like a crazy person right now?

A few days ago there was some banter online about Microsoft breaking stuff (as is tradition). Specifically, some users were trying to open Notepad, but Windows was displaying an error code.

If you have no idea what I'm referencing, I'll attach the post and discussion below this post so you can understand the lore.

Anyway, some nerd named "xakpc" on Twitter commented about Windows "App Execution Aliases". I jokingly commented, "wtf new malware idea". I changed my mind. This isn't a joke.

To the best of my knowledge, and please correct me if I'm wrong, no one has abused Windows App Execution Aliases for malware persistence.

In Windows 11 if you go to:
-> Settings
-> Apps
-> Advanced App Settings
-> App execution aliases

You'll see "aliases". Hence, when a user types something into Powershell, or CMD, or Windows search, it defaults to whatever is aliased. Upon further review, it turns out that a good chunk of these are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, meaning it does not require administrative privileges to create, modify, or delete some app execution aliases.

It's stored under: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths"

On my machine, notepad.exe has an app execution alias for (God save me) the new fancy Windows Notepad thingie which was giving people problems. It does NOT default to the one in SYSTEM32 like I initially thought.

On the contrary... and something I don't understand, although these settings are stored in the registry, they contain a stub in %LOCALAPPDATA% in

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps

I don't understand how they're connected. I have no idea how this all works still. However, this can be abused and we must abuse it for malware persistence.

Under ideal conditions, it should be possible to programmatically modify an App Execution Alias (i.e. Notepad) which in actuality points to a malicious payload. When the malicious payload is triggered it should then subsequently execute Notepad.exe to give the illusion the user executed Notepad and not the payload

tl;dr
Old alias:
notepad -> notepad.exe

New (bad) alias:
notepad -> malware.exe -> notepad.exe

We must poke it with a stick and make malware.

Lore: https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2014400182507733013

>wake up
>take a shit
>get out of bed
>slide trash off desk
>get on beep boop machine
>powered by lots of hamsters
>get on internet
>check news
>russia malwares poland
>something about clawd idfk
>windows is dumb
>some other stuff probably
>thank God it's almost Friday

HAVE U SEEN LATEST AI THING?

No, because every other day some fucking AI company pops out the bushes and tries yelling in my face about how they're going to "change everything". I can't keep up. I'm busy with malware, cats, a big stinky baby (he fucking STINKS)

In you missed it (I did, I don't know how), Microsoft is aiming to phase out UAC and replace it with a more secure thingie called "Administrative Protection".

They're doing this because UAC currently has over 81 bypasses and, for reasons unknown to me, Microsoft decided to scrap UAC in totality and redo the entire thing from the ground up. Why? I have literally no idea. Maybe you stinky nerds can educate me.

AP is now in preview mode for Windows Insider builds (testing stuff). Big brain security researchers from Google Project Zero poked it with a stick and discovered eight vulnerabilities that allowed them to bypass AP. Microsoft has since patched it. AP has yet to be deployed to Windows 11 as of this writing.

AP on paper, when reading about it, seems like a good idea and seems like it unironically would be a massive security improvement for Windows. However, the new architecture would bamboozle some legacy applications. Making it work with older stuff will require lots of science from Microsoft. Additionally, and maybe I'm being a bit pessimistic, I am concerned Microsoft will vibe code slop their new security module and make it one massive cluster fuck disaster.

Please read the research performed by Tirando (can't find his social media profile) and the other nerds at Project Zero. It's interesting. They're all very talented security researchers and make feel like an imbecile.

https://projectzero.google/2026/26/windows-administrator-protection.html