Gabriel N

Found this in my archive. One of the last times when I installed a dot zero OS X release. Now I generally wait until just before the next major release as around that time all new features go into the new one and the "old one" just get bug fixes.

Interesting, Microsoft has (started?) putting up a warning on repos that host exploit code.
From the description it sounds like the code itself would be malicious but afaik this is "just" a PoC.

The interesting part is to see if they start doing this everywhere or just when it's windows exploits that make them look silly :-)

@campuscodi@mastodon.social @Techaltar@mas.to would be great, it would allow them to subsidier the consumer tiers just like the other big tech does. Proton is out of the reach of so many because of the cost.

it's a interesting world we live in where the rewrite-in-rust army has now gotten nuclear weapons in the form of LLM's, and they are not afraid to use them :-D

The backstory for why I started thinking about this is that CIRCL.lu runs this vulnerability-lookup project, which is great. But I had some ideas how to improve the notification emails so I wanted to look into what it would need to self-host in order to customise it for my use.

But I got distracted by this, I rewrote it in rust, issue.

Someone just had a LLM reimplement everything in rust, I think in order to reduce the system requirements for running the project.

I mean, I'm very divided. I love efficient computing. I am not going to (want to) self-host vulnerability-lookup if it needs 7 different services and 16 GiBs of RAM. So a efficient rust implementation would be interesting.

But after looking at the code, I am not sure this is the right approach. I told codex to look at it before deploying it and there are so much unnecessary stuff in there. Is it slop? I don't know, I guess that depends if someone keeps maintaining and improving it for more than a month.

Just because you can does not mean you should.

Would it have been better to take those tokens and spend it on improving the slow or resource intensive parts of the original project?

It's a frisk 7C but sun is out and it's time to start collecting that d-vitamin.

Quite an experience to first listen to the Artemis recap and then notice that I (unintentionally) picked my ESA coffee mug.

Humanity can do great things, I hope we can keep the focus on the building rather than destroying.
https://youtu.be/J4FE0JocJpk

Microsoft PR department does what they always done, catch on to some brand and milk it until it has negative value.

They did this same thing with Azure and probably other things before it.

I wonder if this is intentional, does the board want them to do this or is it an institutional thing they can't stop?

https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html