Compose files work just fine. The gap with Docker has basically closed, and the few things you can't do or that behave differently are precisely the things Docker shouldn't be doing.
This. Was also super confused when I saw the post. Like every docker guide literally screams at you when you use rootfull docker. Either add yourself to the docker group with `newgrp` for a termimal session or use rootless docker.
You add yourself to the docker group to be able to use the socket. By default, a uid 0 on a docker container is run as root, regardless of the uid of the owner of the container. That is precisely the issue being discussed.
> I feel like the article correctly identifies the problems with offloading cognition onto technology
I also observed this with my friends as well. Like we are going by car and a friend is driving 50km/h though there was a 100km/h sign few hundred metres ago. When asking him he responds: "nah google maps says its 50 and I'd rather trust google maps than signs"
Modern police radar is mostly automated and probably gets speed information from the same place Google Maps does. Cops simply don't care, it's just "speed gun says ticket" and while your friend would have beaten it in court, they still would have been forced go to court in the first place.
I once drove 20 miles the wrong way because it was a long road with a few exits and it looks like you’re following the GPS because it tells you to get off on an exit and take a u turn. If you miss the recalculating part you can miss a few exits before you realize what is happening.
I remember this story being about a German woman but still ending in Croatia. Anyway I was infuriated by the media telling this story as a joke although if true it's clearly an issue of dementia that miraculously ended well
Problem is that the Internet is too big that there actually could be someone writing this as a serious blog post. For this one it was quite obvious at some point, but when only reading the first few paragraphs I am very certain that there could be someone out there meaning it serious (sadly).
I feel the post. For me AI has ruined both, playing CTFs and also building CTFs challenges.
The most annoying thing to me is the "yeah idk but here is the flag" mentality.
Before when playing CTFs with my mates was usually sitting there for hours tackling a challenge until some other mate joined, had some look together and solved it with you together in 30 minutes which is the most rewarding learning experience. Nowadays mate joins in throws the clanker on it and solved it in 5 minntes. Asking on how it worked you always get the "yeah idk what it did, but who cares, here is the flag" response.
Same for creating challenges. Whenever I ask for writeups or if some people solved it differently I usually get the "yeah idk, clanker solved that one" response taking the fun out of it.
So yep, this CTF format is definitely dead. Mainly because the strong competitiveness and prices. This encourages people to cheese challenges and sometimes solving them differently was fine as you still had a creative out-of-the-box thinking moment, but nowadays with AI there is no brainpower needed, no cheesing needed, no human needed. As you mentioned, it's pay to win.
My two cents is that the 24/7 CTFs will get more attraction as the scoreboard doesn't matter there and simply doesn't give you any price.
It’s different, unfortunately. I wish you were right. The problem is that creating interesting and fun CTF challenges is a very active, time consuming, creativity-heavy task. A chess board is always the same, and always will be, but every CTF competition is unique. There is little to no incentive anymore to spend time creating the challenges.
You might say “well create the challenges and share them with people who care and who want to play honestly” which is probably the right answer here, and might happen at a smaller scale. I picture CTF in the future almost like a tabletop RPG experience, one where a small amount of people will share with close friends who they trust. But the usual “open” CTF scene (as mentioned by op) is probably over for good, if we’re being honest.
Yea, but chess adapted to it and is restricting use of engines. When you play a tournament you are banned from using a phone and will be disqualified if you do so. Online tournaments don't have a prize money for that reason, so there is no real benefit for cheating. Lichess and chess.com additionally add rankings for bots and have a strict anticheat if you use bots for regular games.
For me it feels like this is not really possible for live CTFs. In contrast to chess you can't ban AI, as live CTFs are about breaking things by design, so they'll always try to circumvent an AI ban.
> WhatsApp was a gamechanger. You could send messages or pictures without having to think about the price of it (While being connected to a WLAN...)
Back, when data plans were around 1GB or less some network providers didn't charge you for using whatsapp on specific plans in Europe. There were also whatsapp branded sim cards, but I haven't seem them for a long time though.
> Podman works much better than Docker today.
Nah absolutely not. Especially compose files and networking can be an absolute nightmare with podman.