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abigailphoebe

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About abigailphoebe

research and development @ an ai lab feel free to email me: abigail@phoebe.sh

here to learn and share ideas

https://linkedin.com/in/abigailphoebe

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48934525

    Hi all, I recently went viral on Twitter due to my solution for detecting and removing a very common scam on Discord, in the process of deployment I found that a little over 8% of …

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    Comment #47850237

    i made a nice little write-up in addition to my paper on analyzing historical software metrics - would appreciate some feedback as this is my first 'technical' writeup. the 4 page …

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    Comment #46077421

    i personally host my own git instance for all my important projects, i'm just forced to use github for work.

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    Comment #46077309

    i'm at an ai summit for my work, we're doing a hackerthon on abusing ai agents we develop. i attempted to fork the dummy repository and was met with "You are unable to fork this re…

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    Comment #45991925

    ehh, not really. assuming a reasonable ratelimit, say 100 lookups per day (maybe some exceptions if the lookup results in an account that already has you in contacts, idk) - this w…

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    Comment #45991057

    eh, i'm not convinced. this was in the middle of a scheduled maintenance, with all requests failing at a singular point - that being a .unwrap(). there should be internal visibilit…

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    Comment #45991012

    that's actually a very good point, fair enough, i agree. regretfully i'm not sure if such a big language change can be made; though it would be nice. here's to hoping!

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    Comment #45990982

    just read the pre-print paper. they claim to have achieved a rate of 7,000/s, which is roughly 25M/h i do agree that is an absurd amount, especially when paired with the lack of ra…

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    Comment #45990123

    this is just... enumeration of phone numbers? how is this a 'security vulnerability'? an issue maybe, but it's not a vulnerability as that implies faulty code; this is a documented…

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    Comment #45978390

    you either misunderstand the rust ethos or are intentionally misrepresenting it. safe refers to memory safety. once again, if you write bad code, that’s your fault, not the languag…

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    Comment #45975437

    blaming the language is not the way to approach this. if an engineer writes bad code that’s the engineers fault, not the languages. this was bad code that should have never hit pro…

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    Comment #45975397

    kudos to getting this blog post out so fast, it’s well written and is appreciated. i’m a little confused on how this was initially confused for an attack though? is there no intern…