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Did you try Opus-4.7 on a lower reasoning level? Looks like on `max` it's using far more tokens than the other frontier models.

That page is copied verbatim from https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/ (which is linked at the top). The original page also has much better formatting.

On the off chance that the author reads this: can you enable an RSS feed please? I want to subscribe, but I never end up reading newsletters if they land in my email inbox.

A mirror that worked for me: https://skyview.social/?url=https://bsky.app/profile/robpike...

This is a perfect replacement for me, thanks for recommending it.

IIUC chainguard is this, but only for python, java, and docker images so far. https://www.chainguard.dev/libraries

Could you give some examples of more secure solutions?

In case it's useful to anyone: another implementation of this idea is Weeve https://shop.weeve.ie I bought one of their books (a study in scarlet) but it wasn't great. Lots of mist…

Does anyone have a list of which products are in which business units?

Yeah I think this is correct with the edit. I guess this is mostly relevant for software that runs on shared infra, sends requests to a url provided by an attacker (e.g. webhooks),…

The article was too vague for me to really understand, but I think it's suggesting something like Brandur's deeply-integrated idempotency keys design [1] except that the infra is p…

This sounds really interesting! Can you explain or link to an explanation of the technical defenses that Google has? (Or, is this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585…

They actually use a python monolith unless it's changed recently. See e.g. https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-a...

The company I work for has saved people and businesses in West Africa roughly $1B in banking fees this year. It's a big company but I'm really proud to have done my part towards th…

Any use of OS features by calling functions in the standard library should work though, right? I think it's only dependencies that contain C code that would need further changes. I…

I'm curious how this relates to givedirectly's research https://www.givedirectly.org/research-at-give-directly/ As far as I know givedirectly have found that cash transfers are eff…

I'm probably missing something, but it sounds like using Warp has a bunch of downsides vs "just" creating a read only replica using logical replication and then failing over. Did y…

Is it just me or are all the diagram links broken? It's pretty hard to understand without them.

Do you mean using spaced repetition to memorize checklists or in general?

Another problem with the current situation which isn't mentioned in the PEP: I often see people writing `foo_bar or 1` instead of `foo_bar if foo_bar is not None else 1`, which is …