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Observationally, for people that /aren't/ using models to code but to just do their white-collar job, claude.ai /is/ AI, now. The entire perspective for how to use AI is through cl…

> You have to review the source of every PKGBUILD from the AUR you install, full stop I don't really think this is a solution- the usual workflow for these attacks has been to hide…

Published CVEs seems a bad metric to use for this- unless we assume that the ratio of really nasty vulns/not-too-bad vulns is consistent.

It's worth reading this one to the end- the point of this paper isn't about the math involved, it's that this math was the result of the federal funding of maths research. > The co…

Some time ago I wanted the original MS solitaire playing card files. Wasn't too hard to find a copy of the binary, but the interesting thing to me is it appeared the files were han…

You don't. The normal procedure here is to have multiple unique keys with multiple unique secrets. If one breaks that's it it's broken . This also allows you to revoke a key withou…

It's not even just that- with component selection you have a handful of datasheets that give you (ideally) fairly truthful information about the device. You can rather deterministi…

Buddy you've got like 10 top-level comments on this thread are you doing okay

You could pretty reasonably vibe code that in a single prompt odds are. Additionally, there are browser extensions that can do this- check on a timer, see if some page content is t…

They're also, as it turns out, vulnerable to a drillbit

The only thing that seems to have gotten a lot worse is the trend of ai articles- which isn't kagi's fault but it would be nice if they could figure out how to filter them. They al…

I don't remember exactly what I wrote and how the logic works, but I generally remember the broad flow of how things tie together, which makes it easier to drop in on some aspect a…

Almost anything I write in Python I start in jupyter just so I can roll it around and see how it feels- which determines how I build it out and to some degree, how easy it is to fi…

I recently accepted-ish a position at a very ai-forward company. Manual programming was somewhat discouraged entirely. I've used AI tools in the past for maths I didn't understand …

Holy cow! I've been pushing around a TQFP48 tonight and thought I was pretty good.

I don't think that modern boards are really repairable at all beyond component replacement- 4+ layer stackups being the big reason. If there's a way to do anything to those boards …

You know, I reckon if you serve up smut or instructions on bomb creation or something they stop hammering you...

I don't really know that this is avoidable without buckets of work and probably legal issues on behalf of core's (or anyone's) engineers- it's really just something that plagues ha…

I don't think _anyone_ who's buying the new pebble watches is to some degree not interested in software, and probably pretty interested in open-source community work. It's a wildly…

> restart required a hardware security module (HSM) smart card. Out of curiosity, does anyone know why? My guess would be the PW DB would be encrypted with some token generated fro…

Figure 3 from the report- that's an Adafruit sensor module on a 3d printed bit of plastic with a teensy-brand microcontroller just sitting in there! Actually, the entire electronic…

It's a bit silly IMO, but USB PD EPR _can_ support 24v and 48v- for charging laptops, I believe. The day I see a server rack with a pair of USBCs plugged into it is a far day off I…

The dude tests basically anything and everything, and gives them generally pretty reasonable goes at a proper test. Sure, it's far off from an industry standard in a lot of cases, …

midjourney and discord have a number of internal agreements- they're not on there for free anymore...

It's a bit of a convolution, but let's say we've got some iterator of unknown size and we want to have a prime each iteration. We can do the following in python, which saves us fro…