mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Techie. Language nerd. Live in #SanDiego.
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@micahflee@infosec.exchange Good article -- I learned some things.
But, right after talking about being in a group with 500 members, you say:
[…] a Signal group [is] all private, and it can't be shared with law enforcement.
A conversation with 500 people isn't private. Any one of their (possibly multiple) devices might be hacked, or confiscated by law enforcement. Some of the members may BE law enforcement.
It's important not to oversell the security of the protocol w/ such a big attack surface area.
After sending what seems like the daily "GH down for anyone else?" message to my team, someone responded with this gem:
I saw someone recently comment about LLM coding agents: "Now that writing code is no longer the bottleneck..."
The only time writing code was the bottleneck was when I was a Jr. Engineer or had recently switched to a new language. The real bottlenecks are figuring out *what* to build and what tradeoffs to make to get there.
This post puts it into better words than I've been able to:
https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems
If the assertion is that Iran can't be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons because they've threatened to use them to wipe out other nations, surely the U.S. now forfeits its own right to such weapons, now that our "leader" has said:
"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."
Someone needs to remove that deranged man from power before he does something so bad that the rest of the world has to go to war with us.
https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout
Techie friends shared this in our group chat. It seems to express things that we've been talking about with each other, and I've been feeling myself, for the last months.
Notable lines:
> If someone [vibe codes], do I [...] send it back to them for self-review? Would initiating these discussions result in interpersonal stress? Should I just let things slide? Would I become known as a “difficult” coworker for pushing back on AI use?
1973: “I am not a crook.”
2026: “I didn’t rape anybody.”
