This made me laugh and I am thinking about using it as a slide in my next presentation.
Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits
– Suramya
January 20, 2026
Thanks for Comments on draft
Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits
September 18, 2025
Creating a Phishy URL
Url shortners have been used for a while now to to reduce the length of a URL to something that can be easily shared online. It became extra popular at sites like Twitter which counted the URL length into the character count for the post (though that was later changed to a fixed number, 23 if I remember correctly). The disadvantage of such shortner’s was that they converted phishing links into a shorter URL that looked legit and the only way to figure out if the link was valid was to access it which could be risky due to Zero day exploits etc. This made life ‘interesting’ from a security controls perspective as it makes it harder to control/restrict such urls.
So someone decided to take it the other way and create a re-director that converts regular URL’s into a really fishy looking URL
This is a tool that takes any link and makes it look malicious. It works on the idea of a redirect. Much like https://tinyurl.com/ for example. Where tinyurl makes an url shorter, this site makes it look malicious.
Place any link in the below input, press the button and get back a fishy(phishy, heh…get, it?) looking link. The fishy link doesn’t actually do anything, it will just redirect you to the original link you provided.
You can try them out at https://phishyurl.com/. I asked the site to create a link to suramya.com/blog and it generated the following URL:
https://cheap-bitcoin.online/evil-hunter/exploit-jacker/fake_launcher_tool.exe?content=overwrite&id=824e35fe&origin=spoof&payload=%28function%28%29%7Blet+a%3D5%2Cb%3D3%3Blet+sum%3Da%2Bb%3B%7D%29%28%29%3B&portscan=scan&referer=tamper
If you visit the above link, it will take you to the blog homepage.
Source: chaos.social/@FlohEinstein
– Suramya
September 10, 2025
AI Darwin Awards nominations are now open
The original Darwin Awards celebrated those who “improved the gene pool by removing themselves from it” through spectacularly stupid acts and reading through the candidate list would make you seriously doubt the ability of humans to survive. Now thanks to evolution we have evolved beyond having to make bad decisions ourselves and now have the ability to let machines make bad decisions on our behalf. To celebrate this achievement, Nominations are now open for the first AI Darwin Awards (2025). From the AI Darwin Awards website:
Nomination Criteria
Your nominee must demonstrate a breathtaking commitment to ignoring obvious risks:
- AI Involvement Required: Must involve cutting-edge artificial intelligence (or what they confidently called “AI” in their investor pitch deck).
- Catastrophic Potential: The decision must be so magnificently short-sighted that future historians will use it as a cautionary tale (assuming there are any historians left).
- Hubris Bonus Points: Extra credit for statements like “What’s the worst that could happen?” or “The AI knows what it’s doing!”
- Ethical Blind Spots: Demonstrated ability to completely ignore every red flag raised by ethicists, safety researchers, and that one intern who keeps asking uncomfortable questions.
- Scale of Ambition: Why endanger just yourself when you can endanger everyone? We particularly appreciate nominees who aimed for global impact on their first try.
Winning Criteria
Our distinguished panel of judges (and the occasional rogue AI) evaluates nominees based on:
- Measurable Impact: Bonus points if your AI mishap made international headlines, crashed markets, or required new legislation named after you.
- Creative Destruction: We appreciate innovative approaches to endangering humanity. Cookie-cutter robot uprisings need not apply.
- Viral Stupidity: Did your AI blunder become a meme? Did it spawn a thousand think pieces? Did it make AI safety researchers weep openly?
- Unintended Consequences: The best nominees never saw it coming. “But the AI was supposed to help!” is music to our ears.
- Doubling Down: Extra recognition for those who, when confronted with evidence of their mistake, decided to deploy even more AI to fix it.
Current nominees are listed at 2025 Nominees and are hilarious. I mean it is better to laugh about this stuff than cry (or scream) so…
Be sure to submit your candidates for the AI Darwin Awards 2025 at the link above.
Source: The Register: AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments
– Suramya
September 4, 2025
The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.
Saw this article The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind while surfing the web and I was initially annoyed because I thought it was yet another article on how AI is solving all the world’s problems but then when I saw the post, I loved it because it exactly showcases the Hype cycle which is what the modern tech industry has become…
The future of web development is
– Suramya
August 23, 2025
Frankenstein No. 5
Saw this screenshot and now the song is stuck in my head… Help!
[footage of Victor Frankenstein sewing together female body parts to make a mate for the Creature while Lou Bega’s Mambo no.5 plays]
#a little bit of monica for the eyes
#a little bit of erica for the thighs
#a little bit of rita for the spleen
#a little bit of tina’s keratin
#a little bit of sandra and her thumbs
#a little bit of mary and her tongue
#a little bit of jessica for her hands
#a little bit of you for my made man
#[trombone section]
– Suramya
May 11, 2025
VibeCon – the biggest vibe coding conference!
Took me a few seconds to figure this out. Register for VibeCon – the biggest vibe coding conference! .
VibeCon – the biggest vibe coding conference! Register now: localhost:3000/registration
The funny part is that a lot of folks who are ‘Vibe Coding’ will not get the joke here…
Source: Mastodon: @leyrer@23.social
– Suramya
May 9, 2025
OpenAI site can’t figure out how to allow users to change their password’s
Changing passwords regularly is a good way to ensure that your accounts are secure. Yes I know about the new NIST guidelines on password changing but I disagree with it. If you are using a password manager (and you should be) then changing passwords on a regular basis is not a hard thing to do.
In any case, I noticed that the password on a bunch of my accounts had not been changed in a while so was updating them; one of the accounts is on OpenAI that I had created when it had launched but not really used much after that. After logging in I spent a few minutes trying to find the option to change my password but couldn’t find it, finally had to go to the FAQ’s to find out how to change the password and I saw the following:
Instructions on how to reset the password
How to reset your ChatGPT password
- Log out of your account, or open a private/incognito browser window.
- Go to the ChatGPT home page
- Click Log in.
- Enter your email address and click Continue.
- Select Forgot password? on the password entry screen.
- Follow the instructions in the password reset email you receive.
They really don’t know how to implement a simple change password functionality… I mean this is not something I expect from a billion dollar company. I have seen this on sites created by startups but never at a large company. Although, if their site is created using their AI code generation then that would kind of explains this. 😉
– Suramya
January 19, 2025
A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Corporate Jargon
We all have heard about Corporate Jargon and some of us have used it (willingly or unwilling) as well. If you haven’t then Wikipedia defines Corporate Jargon as:
Corporate jargon (variously known as corporate speak, corporate lingo, business speak, business jargon, management speak, workplace jargon, corpospeak, corporatese, or commercialese) is the jargon often used in large corporations, bureaucracies, and similar workplaces. The language register of the term is generally being presented in a negative light or disapprovingly. It is often considered to be needlessly obscure or, alternatively, used to disguise an absence of information. Its use in corporations and other large organisations has been widely noted in media
A marriage proposal can be quite stressful and people go out of their way to make their proposal unique. Evan Barber from McSweeney’s decided to explore what
a marriage proposal spoken entirely in office jargon would look like and it is hilarious.
GARY: Me too. You said you wanted to see hockey-stick growth. Well, I’ve realized that I want to see hockey-stick growth too—in our relationship.
CINDY: Unpack that for me.
GARY: This relationship has been such a value-add. Some of my friends were worried that it would take too long for us to get into alignment. But you have been an absolute rockstar.
CINDY: I feel the same way, Gary. The ROI on this relationship has been unbelievable. You’ve really given 110 percent.
I understood all of the words and terms in the proposal and that is a little scary to think about.
– Suramya
November 8, 2024
Please be patient with me, I’m from the 1900’s
I need to get this shirt for myself: 🙂
Please be patient with me, I’m from the 1900’s
– Suramya
September 29, 2024
BBMP Prohibits driving on road during rainy season instead of fixing the water logging
I guess actually fixing the problems with the drainage that cause the roads in Bangalore to get flooded would have been too much work for BBMP, so instead of fixing the root issue they prohibit driving on the road during rainy season (which is half the year in Bangalore).
Caution Driving on this road is prohibited during the rainy season
This sign is on the Wind Tunnel road, posted recently.
– Suramya