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rpicard

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About rpicard

Rob Picard

Running Observa, a security consulting firm

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    Comment #49155546

    Are you referring to GitHub policies? I haven’t seen issues like that from people publishing security tools before. Metasploit is one example: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-…

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    Comment #49086253

    This is such a great name and domain for this purpose. I don’t think I’d like using a third party server for this, but a skill that just handles it locally or something would be us…

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    Comment #48435404

    In my experience this is not representative of most fintechs. Of course there are both cases of real intentional noncompliance, and accidental, but by and large it seems like every…

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    Comment #47635000

    I’d love if they supported an SSH certificate CA for commit signing verification though.

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    Comment #47411366

    This is what confuses me about tech sales too. Why do I always get a discount for buying right at the end of the quarter? Seems like you could just get ahead on the next one.

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    Comment #47121400

    I’ve listened to a few of these. Agree it’s also really well done.

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    Comment #47110617

    Oh that’s funny. Yes you’re right. He has actually mentioned the History of English before, but I’ve never listened to it. Great to hear though!

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    Comment #47107800

    I think there’s a numbering difference. He went back and re did a bunch of earlier ones. I’m listening on Apple Podcasts. Season 5 episode 5 “Printin and Perkin” if it helps.

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    Comment #47107741

    I’m just ahead of you on episode 200! Just getting into the rise of printing in English. I absolutely agree. This has become my comfort podcast when I just want to decompress.

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    Comment #46078210

    I’ve been happy with hey.com. No plans on switching.

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    Comment #44944087

    Fair! I’ve been surprised in some cases. I’m thinking specifically of a handful of conversations I was in or around during the Vegas cons. I might also be hyper sensitive to the cy…

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    Comment #44944063

    No clue, and $1.

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    Comment #44944045

    My car can drive itself today.

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    Comment #44940078

    I’ve noticed a strong negative streak in the security community around LLMs. Lots of comments about how they’ll just generate more vulnerabilities, “junk code”, etc. It seems very …

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    Comment #44606283

    I’m not affiliated, but this made me think of this AI for COBOL startup: https://www.cobolcopilot.com/ For some reason I think we’re all drawn to the idea of working with an older …

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    Comment #44352003

    This would be a cool place for LLMs to store a summary of the prompts used to generate the code in order to make it easier for other LLMs and humans to pick up where they left off.…

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    Comment #43933792

    I’m pretty sure this is an AI bot of some kind, especially after reviewing its history.

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    Comment #43848992

    My wife makes sourdough discard cookies and they’re amazing.

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    Comment #43815299

    Funny enough I read it as Wiz and was just as confused.

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    Comment #43778831

    Good advice thank you. Makes me think maybe a slow charging set up by the bed and a fast charger down in the living room / kitchen / for travel. Then maybe another slow charger for…

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    Comment #43772423

    I have so many different chargers, brands, cables, and adapters and honestly have never checked what any are capable of. I’d like to just buy 10 of a given charger, maybe with a co…

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    Comment #43720119

    This would make a lot of sense for both sides I think. Owning the part of the stack that decides where the inference requests go is like Google owning the browser.

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    Comment #43660913

    The recent Acquired episode on Rolex is a great peak into the world of luxury Swiss watches: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/rolex What I love about it all is that whatever argume…

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    Comment #43149611

    Nightmare House was a super fun mod that I found at some point. I don’t remember where or how, but it scared the heck out of me.

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    Comment #43115247

    Somehow I’d never heard of the GitHub suggestions feature. That’s very cool.