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Viraptor

@viraptor@cyberplace.social
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Three anxious sysadmins in a trenchcoat. DevOpsSec mercenary. CTO of Antifa.
#nix #rust #python #ruby #linux

165 Followers
167 Following
44 Posts
Joined December 13, 2022
Blog:
https://blog.viraptor.info/
GitHub:
https://github.com/viraptor
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@ainmosni @bodil
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@Joshsharp Honest answer: The same way that I'm writing this on a phone which both in the production process and as a software-social ecosystem has obvious moral and ethical implications. Or how I use retirement investment funds which likely prop up the price of many terrible corporations. Nothing's perfect and we make imperfect choices of balancing comfort of life with the world impact every single day.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 1mo ago
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@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud This is why I need every monitoring solution to provide heatmaps in addition to line charts. Ideally even default to them. #LineIsALie
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@golgaloth Inaccurate. The ground should be flooded, while the background is on fire.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@ricci@discuss.systems Capital 2 and lowercase 2 @arrjay@tacobelllabs.net @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@Joshsharp Nor am I suggesting giving up. I'm just saying I make the imperfect choices using those systems for building something for the community I'm involved in or improving work at my clinic. That's my balance. Less putting aside, more definitely being aware of it.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 4mo ago
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@lina@vt.social This basically applies to most libraries and utilities they release IMO. There's so much silly crap I needed to reverse / reimplemention from their build tools recently. Just opensource all the simple things already or make them non-private at least... 😤
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@NosirrahSec@infosec.exchange Let me rephrase. Depending on what the person does, I wouldn't find it weird for an "expert Linux user" to attempt this. It should likely be alerted, but that's completely orthogonal to Claude doing it. It's like crowdstrike flagging/blocking my custom compilation of a linker recently. It's ok it did that, I'm just not the typical user. If I worked on the same project with Claude, it would also get flagged. Maybe missing context? But it doesn't seem Claude specific. @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@sarajw@front-end.social Yup, I guess I reacted strongly to "They generate outputs, instead first trying to shape the problem (...)". When it's really "they do what you ask for", we get the opportunity to teach and encourage better questions instead. It works with both people and LLMs. If you want something to improve, you have to explicitly talk about it. @stephaniewalter@front-end.social
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@stephaniewalter@front-end.social That's an interesting one. It's a bit hard to know when to stop and for me it's when the "payoff from this really hard decision is minimal" threshold hits. I admit it's something you need to get used to - the first time I tried to go for too long and just wasn't happy at the end because every decision had some negative tradeoffs that I became more aware of. Sometimes it's easier not to know 😂
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@pikesley That's like the inverse of my post? Not sure if you got what I meant.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@yosh (Yes, I know it's a bit more complicated than that. But not *that* much more complicated. They can take more money for actions if they need capacity - run a business like a business.)
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 8mo ago
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@troed@swecyb.com Also sounds vaguely dirty, like something I should check on the urban dictionary. Which is not a bad thing 😀 @freequaybuoy@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@infobeautiful This is not a good info diagram and it's not even athletically pleasing. Why share it?
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 7mo ago
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@SwiftOnSecurity 🎶 Will the circle Be unbroken...
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 4mo ago
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Moving to an English-first country with a name outside of ASCII kind of does that to you automatically 😀
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@stephaniewalter@front-end.social I hate to grumble once again about this, but I feel like this is another person who just asked for the output and never considered alternatives. Asking LLMs to review your spec and ask questions about things missing in your design is brutal. They always come up with: simple things I missed, things that may need thinking about, and things that are so left field they make me reconsider the whole project. And they'll keep working on the design forever if that's what you want!
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@doragasu Here's an example of a security audit from a better environment. Next to no guidance. https://claude.ai/code/session_015N3igQqkaYkNXhxEWzidTJ (Trying to create a full report made it complain, so it's just a chat log unfortunately) @Npars01 @lina
claude.ai
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@doragasu They can fail, but also they usually don't if you know how to hold them, and if you can spot things going wildly wrong. I mean, just sending a link to github will likely result in terrible answers for a number of reasons. Clone the repo and run it in a harness made for development, and you'll get much better results. But you need to know those things and LLM itself will not tell you you're holding it wrong unless you ask. @lina
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@ZachWeinersmith I do like the "moderate inefficiency" idea in life. As a weird side effect I grew something like... pride (?) in not getting super light laptops. Like, I don't have an issue lifting a few kg in one hand, so why should it matter? Getting a slightly better deal and power this way. I know it's silly 😂 Also optimising my shopping list / path takes about the same time as just backtracking once or twice and I consciously choose the second option.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@cyan If the standard plugs have latches to keep them in place, would these plugs have love handles?
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@mxsparks@social.treehouse.systems Just like the usual one, but the C atom had a spiky moustache.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 40mo ago
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@caseynewton @zoeschiffer I really want some company to finally cut them off for not paying like they would any other customer. Have courage, international corporations!
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 7mo ago
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@Meyerweb@mastodon.social

express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity

Isn't that a threshold where CSS should've been replaced with SVG?

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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 10mo ago
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@jascha Yes, that's like 90% of my professional skills. But why "useless"? 😂
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 17mo ago
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@jimbob@aus.social counterpoint: I can write 10+ languages and could learn SwiftUI too. But I wanted a very specific timer app that I got generated while I was doing other programming work. Nobody I actually talk to wants to stop programming. It's either: save time on writing stupid stuff, generate something while programming anyway, or generate something because they can't program in the first place. Who are those people who are ready to deskill?
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 41mo ago
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@robhon@mastodon.social @Popehat@mastodon.social It's so stupid it may well be one of the "let's post flamebait with a mistake to drive that engagement" ideas.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@alatiera There's *GOT* to be a guard called securix in one of them, right? 😂 It's perfect
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 8mo ago
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Quality ✨ I was only convinced it's not real after reading 4 titles. 🙇‍♂️ @JuliaRez@chaos.social
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@cratermoon The 2024 view on this is ancient at this point. This was a property of models at the time, not LLMs overall. Nanobanana for example passes all the listed tests without issues. @cadey
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@chartier@toot.cafe Ok, those are all cool things, but the title could mention what was she charged for?
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@lina@vt.social Ooohhhhh! Yes, I want to see how much more I can squeeze out of pipewire jack interface and real time guitar effects. (It's already crazy low and effectively real time as far as I can tell)
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 8mo ago
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social Sadly, no 😔 but it made rounds. https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/9/20906250/jeopardy-tetris-viral-photoshop-joke/
polygon.com
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@decryption@aus.social I bet it's because of this on Android. It was even closer in the past.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@mym What's the cats' equivalent of OKLAB colour space? Because there's definitely saturation difference along that spectrum...
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social As posted this seems... not weird at all? I do compilation and binary experiments in /tmp all the time. If I asked Claude for something similar, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 20mo ago
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@RepShontelBrown@mastodon.social yes, we know. So what are you going to do about it? Or what do you suggest anyone here does? We have enough outrage posts already.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@alys We're pretty much past the point of having to measure in many cases. It's not usable for everyone (for example there's no improvement in infra work in my experience), but for plain coding there's no presumption. I've finished in hours projects that involved months of slog before.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 7mo ago
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@deviantollam@defcon.social @UnicornRiot@mastodon.social maybe? Or they may redirect to a better one...
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 5mo ago
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@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net It's interesting that image-2 seems to have the fewest anatomy horrors, but bumping the size and quality results in so many more.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 6mo ago
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@css Yes! Turn all kikis into boubas!
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 42mo ago
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@viticci@mastodon.macstories.net I'd say I hope you like the mainstream stuff, because GPT's idea of "more obscure" is for example Black Eyed Peas.
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Viraptor @viraptor@cyberplace.social
· 20mo ago
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@streetartutopia@mastodon.online holy shit, that black flag placement! Perfect photo timing.
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