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In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.
Declared inbox bancruptcy and archived 13k conversations. GMail is very very buggy when mass archiving stuff.
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Declared inbox bancruptcy and archived 13k conversations. GMail is very very buggy when mass archiving stuff.
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Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/
I wonder why every LLM provider insists in having their own CLI agent. Can I have a merge between codex, Gemini-cli and Claude code with swappable models plz?
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I wonder why every LLM provider insists in having their own CLI agent. Can I have a merge between codex, Gemini-cli and Claude code with swappable models plz?
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The French crown jewels stolen from the Louvre are steeped in history — and priceless.
What happens when they make it to the black market?
What happens when they make it to the black market?
Is There a Price Tag for the Louvre’s Stolen Jewels?
As soon as the gems hit the black market they could be much less valuable, and their historic value drops.
bloom.bg
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The French crown jewels stolen from the Louvre are steeped in history — and priceless.
What happens when they make it to the black market?
What happens when they make it to the black market?
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Making a firm commitment to asking the question that reveals ignorance until said ignorance is gone
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Making a firm commitment to asking the question that reveals ignorance until said ignorance is gone
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3/ NSO also emerges from the WhatsApp v NSO case with just an absolute TON of their business splashed all over the court records..
Ouch
E.g. check out the filings from Sept 15th 2025:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/16395...
Ouch
E.g. check out the filings from Sept 15th 2025:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/16395...
WhatsApp Inc. v. NSO Group Technologies Limited, 4:19-cv-07123 - CourtListener.com
Docket for WhatsApp Inc. v. NSO Group Technologies Limited, 4:19-cv-07123 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
www.courtlistener.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
3/ NSO also emerges from the WhatsApp v NSO case with just an absolute TON of their business splashed all over the court records..
Ouch
E.g. check out the filings from Sept 15th 2025:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/16395...
Ouch
E.g. check out the filings from Sept 15th 2025:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/16395...
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2/ Altho massive punitive damages jury award against NSO Group ($167m) got reduced by the court, as is expected in cases where it is so large (to 9x compensatory damages)...
This is likely cold comfort to NSO since I think the injunction seriously dims value of NSO's spyware product.
This is likely cold comfort to NSO since I think the injunction seriously dims value of NSO's spyware product.
October 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
2/ Altho massive punitive damages jury award against NSO Group ($167m) got reduced by the court, as is expected in cases where it is so large (to 9x compensatory damages)...
This is likely cold comfort to NSO since I think the injunction seriously dims value of NSO's spyware product.
This is likely cold comfort to NSO since I think the injunction seriously dims value of NSO's spyware product.
#hexacon closing presentation from amnesty international about abuse of offensive tools in Serbia, Hungary, and the use of such tools by ICE. Strong choice, very good conference.
October 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#hexacon closing presentation from amnesty international about abuse of offensive tools in Serbia, Hungary, and the use of such tools by ICE. Strong choice, very good conference.
There's an argument to be made that this new security research from Anthropic also has copyright implications.
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models
www.anthropic.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
There's an argument to be made that this new security research from Anthropic also has copyright implications.
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
I did some science today, and it looks good, and I'll leave this computer to do some computing, but I am pretty happy about what I am seeing.
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I did some science today, and it looks good, and I'll leave this computer to do some computing, but I am pretty happy about what I am seeing.
We talk about teaching coding in school but what about the fundamentals of CAD/CAM and at least one multi-part assembly?
October 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We talk about teaching coding in school but what about the fundamentals of CAD/CAM and at least one multi-part assembly?
Today's experiment: What shape will a deep neural network learn if trained on the sparse set of training points on the left? Will it learn a circle?
October 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Today's experiment: What shape will a deep neural network learn if trained on the sparse set of training points on the left? Will it learn a circle?
I'll be at Hexacon next week in Paris. If you want to meet to chat about security, AI, data compression, efficient computing, profiling, eBPF, or anything else that's interesting: Hit me up.
October 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'll be at Hexacon next week in Paris. If you want to meet to chat about security, AI, data compression, efficient computing, profiling, eBPF, or anything else that's interesting: Hit me up.
Kinda wild to think the Berkshire's 350bn cash pile is likely in T-Bills, and that 350bn is almost 1% of the 37Tn in total US debt. Berkshire alone holds 1% of US debt.
Berkshire Hathaway nears $10bn deal for Occidental’s petrochemical unit ft.trib.al/L06ionJ
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway nears $10bn deal for Occidental’s petrochemical unit
Sale of division would further oil and gas group’s efforts to reduce its $24bn debt pile
ft.trib.al
September 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Kinda wild to think the Berkshire's 350bn cash pile is likely in T-Bills, and that 350bn is almost 1% of the 37Tn in total US debt. Berkshire alone holds 1% of US debt.
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The US Army in 1945 also noted that fascistic political figures would seek to whip up animosity toward disfavored groups like Black people, religious minorities, and the foreign born, creating "convenient scapegoats" to rile up their followers. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.
September 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The US Army in 1945 also noted that fascistic political figures would seek to whip up animosity toward disfavored groups like Black people, religious minorities, and the foreign born, creating "convenient scapegoats" to rile up their followers. bsky.app/profile/seth...
I remember just sending an invoice and getting paid in the 2000s. When did we lose that technology and why do I have to click through 20 screens and set up 2 accounts nowadays?
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I remember just sending an invoice and getting paid in the 2000s. When did we lose that technology and why do I have to click through 20 screens and set up 2 accounts nowadays?
This is kinda wild, but kinda good?
September 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is kinda wild, but kinda good?
Kinda wild that the insignias of the iron front are now deemed "far left". I mean c'mon, the SPD was always center-left, the iron front was "centrists to protect the democratic constitution of Weimar against fascist takeover". That's not far left, that's "I want democracy".
September 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Kinda wild that the insignias of the iron front are now deemed "far left". I mean c'mon, the SPD was always center-left, the iron front was "centrists to protect the democratic constitution of Weimar against fascist takeover". That's not far left, that's "I want democracy".
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⚡️ Zelenskyy says the world is slowly starting to “forgive Putin for this war.”
He told Sky News that Putin stalls talks to delay sanctions, ramp up arms production, and chip away at his isolation.
He told Sky News that Putin stalls talks to delay sanctions, ramp up arms production, and chip away at his isolation.
September 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
⚡️ Zelenskyy says the world is slowly starting to “forgive Putin for this war.”
He told Sky News that Putin stalls talks to delay sanctions, ramp up arms production, and chip away at his isolation.
He told Sky News that Putin stalls talks to delay sanctions, ramp up arms production, and chip away at his isolation.
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A new Sicherheitshalber episode is online! We do a deep dive into the German defence industry (things have been changing!) and talk about the need for more Bundeswehr personell.
🚨Neue Folge! 🚨
Wir sprechen über die deutsche Rüstungsindustrie - wer ist das überhaupt? - und wie sich die Situation in den letzten Jahren mit der Zeitenwende verändert hat.
Und wie sieht es nun aus mit Wehrpflicht, Wehrdienst und co?
Jetzt online 👇
sicherheitspod.de/2025/09/16/9...
Wir sprechen über die deutsche Rüstungsindustrie - wer ist das überhaupt? - und wie sich die Situation in den letzten Jahren mit der Zeitenwende verändert hat.
Und wie sieht es nun aus mit Wehrpflicht, Wehrdienst und co?
Jetzt online 👇
sicherheitspod.de/2025/09/16/9...
#98 Die Rüstungsindustrie und die Zeitenwende | Der “neue Wehrdienst” und ein Brandbrief - Sicherheitspod
“Sicherheitshalber” ist der Podcast zur sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt. In Folge 98 diskutieren Thomas Wiegold, Ulrike Franke, Frank Sauer und Carlo Masala zuerst über...
sicherheitspod.de
September 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
A new Sicherheitshalber episode is online! We do a deep dive into the German defence industry (things have been changing!) and talk about the need for more Bundeswehr personell.
Your dose of (not very pretty) truth for the day.
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris (Tac. Agr. 42)
"it is human nature to hate whom you have hurt"
I think about this quote pretty much every time I read the news these days; mostly because I don't understand it at all, and yet it is clearly true
"it is human nature to hate whom you have hurt"
I think about this quote pretty much every time I read the news these days; mostly because I don't understand it at all, and yet it is clearly true
September 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Your dose of (not very pretty) truth for the day.
I was on EPSD's "Velocity's edge" podcast and had a great discussion with Nick Selby and Chris Swan about organisational scar tissue, decision records, writing things down, and "Murders & Acquisitions".
open.spotify.com/episode/1HTS...
open.spotify.com/episode/1HTS...
S1E6 - Thomas Dullien and Chris Swan on Decision Records
open.spotify.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I was on EPSD's "Velocity's edge" podcast and had a great discussion with Nick Selby and Chris Swan about organisational scar tissue, decision records, writing things down, and "Murders & Acquisitions".
open.spotify.com/episode/1HTS...
open.spotify.com/episode/1HTS...