The Bard in Green

The NPM ecosystem has been ripe for this kind of invasion over a decade. And I don’t want to make generalizations or throw shade at a whole class of people, but over the years I have met a lot of very complacent, very naive about security Node devs (some of whom have gotten very frustrated with me for raising concerns about the ecosystem being a ticking time bomb).

I’ve been expecting something like this for years.

I think this is getting downvoted because the headline sounds like it’s casting shade. It’s not, it’s actually an historical reference to a political movement from 100 years ago.

Checkmate evolutionists!

The user’s code is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in certain edge cases. I need to patch the vulnerability and commit the patch to the repo.

I should rewrite the existing memmanage() function to handle these edge cases. (Silently removes all other functionality)

I should modify garbagecollect() to detect these edge cases. I’ll rename it to garbage_collector() for clarity and readability. (Renames the function, calls it no where)

(Confidently) I modified the program as requested, the new version of your application should be more secure and handle memory issues much more efficiently.

But did your winter heating bill go down? Asking for a friend.

Add a GPU and mine some crypto, add a GPU and mine some crypto, add a GPU and mine some crypto, earlie in the mornin’!

I’ve been forseeing a supply chain apocalypse, especially in the NPM ecosystem, coming for years. Exacerbated by LLMs telling people what libraries to use, including versions, and then people just cut and paste that in and walk away. Our standard practice of devs doing all their coding on a messy local machine, just running whatever stacks they’re working with on bare metal, often side by side, just in different virtual environments, always seemed like a powder keg waiting to go off.

Now with glassworm and shai halud, I’m feeling very prescient.

Good Christian kid from a good, wealthy Christian family. Are you really gonna destroy his life over a bit of fun?

Sounds like he needs the Brock Turner treatment.

I thought she said she yesterday that she didn’t mean subsidies when she was talking about government backstop.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/openai-cfo-sarah-friar-says-company-is-not-seeking-government-backstop.html

What is it when you accidentally say the thing you weren’t supposed to, then say you didn’t mean it, but then immediately try to do the thing you said you weren’t gonna do after you said you were?

If you’re wondering how it is that I sing three part harmony…

Oddly reminiscent of Steven Universe. Is his own mother, who was some kind of (evil?) god, has an orb in his belly button, launches friendship based attacks.

Obligatory link to the song.

Companies attacking security researchers always goes so well for them.