Playing VOYAGER: ACROSS THE UNKNOWN. sort of good? I think? not totally convinced it could work without the trek licence.

anyway, to my absolute surprise, it surfaced an episode of VOYAGER which I've not seen! ("Rise")

Made an autonomous agent harness? Cool cool. No, I understand, that's everyone's dream right now. You rock on.

I won't be fucking touching it until we solve prompt injection.

Think about the problem, at its root, being that we interact with agents through chat. Wouldn't it be safer if we could find a way to structure that data, more so than just passing a structured object in chat?

I don't have the skills for this. Too Deep #AI. But it's where you could make a HUGE impact.

Holy shit. The KARR and SWDS "security" units - designed to help you prevent car theft - are vulnerable for absolute clowntown reasons.

• They bridge BLE to CAN. That means every function of your car is under their control.
• They protect that BLE interface with a key...
• ...which doesn't change between units...
• ...which is stored in plaintext in the mobile app.

Turns out that no matter how defensively you program, your code doesn't get executed if it doesn't get imported.

Anyway, that was the last three hours of my life.

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Stupid ✅
Fun ✅
Kind of useful? ✅

https://github.com/knadh/dns.toys

Honestly one of the most impactful suggestions I can make to other DevOps types is this.

Terraform is shit. A declarative syntax is both unnecessarily restrictive and overly verbose. You can get logic in there, but it's a hack. Forget about it.

Try Pulumi.

The providers are mostly generated from Terraform, so there's feature parity. But what changes is that you use a real language with real logic. Go, TypeScript, Python. There may be more.

It's the absolute dog's bollocks.

Honestly one of the most impactful suggestions I can make to other DevOps types is this.

Terraform is shit. A declarative syntax is both unnecessarily restrictive and overly verbose. You can get logic in there, but it's a hack. Forget about it.

Try Pulumi.

The providers are mostly generated from Terraform, so there's feature parity. But what changes is that you use a real language with real logic. Go, TypeScript, Python. There may be more.

It's the absolute dog's bollocks.

aaaah, I love keyoxide so much. Since keybase was just left to rot, EXTREMELY disappointingly, this is a truly fantastic replacement which is entirely decentralised. wish it supported more proofs, but it's got the important stuff.

you can decentralise without a blockchain! unthinkable! scandal!

https://keyoxide.org/8EA4E68124FEA8B559F482A2943E9700DECFC535

A consultancy run as a co-op

submitted my first PR to @Mastodon!

nothing wildly important. just allows link verification to use Link headers as well as <link rel="me" in the body.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40388

I managed to delete the secret key material for my GPG key. Well, piss.

Let me tell you about revocation certificates.

This doesn't contain your secret keys, but can be used to revoke the key. I had one, and thus it was easy to revoke the key and generate a new one.

Generate one. Trust me.

PS: anyone going off about backups will be stabbed in the eyes.

Because I don't have cause to use my key much (I sign my commits with a SSH key) the data loss happened over a year ago. All my backups had aged out.

The worst thing about a nut shot is that in the instant of it, nothing happens. You have a brief window where you know what's coming, you know how bad it's going to be, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Then someone spends the next five minutes inflating a balloon in your abdomen.

This scene gets me EVERY time. Walter has just woken up in a dystopian world where feelings are almost criminal; everything is hyper-rationalist and grey. Music is banned. He manages to sleep, wakes up, and this.

I fucking WEPT like a child the first time I watched it and still do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DybrM4CSNy4

The biggest con in the world outside the White House is delivery companies' "leave in a safe place" feature.

It's not about making things more convenient for you. You essentially sign away all rights to complain about the state or loss of your parcel when you choose it. Watch the fine print.

reminder that if you want all the nerd fonts in a flat directory without fannying about pulling each individually, I maintain an archive of just that. just updated to the latest release.

includes ioskeley mono, which is an amazing iosevka riff and not included in the usual nerd fonts.

https://public.syn.horse/files/nerd-fonts.tar.zst

oh SICK. The EU being on the ball again. you know that thing about Claude watermarking content? WELL, it turns out, it's to comply with the EU AI Act's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.

bang on, lads. ten out of ten.

npx @synmux/npm

Meta continues to be hilarious rolling out Meta Voice Transcribe. Meanwhile, we're all doing transcription inference locally with Whisper.

Christ, I'm happy not to be working there any more.

My MS treatment costs £10,000 per month. It's double that in the US for no good reason than they can get away with it without a single payer.

So yeah. For years I paid more tax than I received healthcare. And then a terrible thing happened, which could happen to anyone, and I didn't have to fear being unable to afford it.

And even if I hadn't - yes, it's right that I should pay for more healthcare than I received so that the other person who developed MS can be treated. Because health can't be planned for. It's unpredictable. It can only be reacted to.

That's what safety nets are for.

Most in the US are on a treatment called Ocrevus. To receive it, you have to visit the hospital for a slow infusion, taking a day out of your life.

Why aren't they on Kesimpta, the treatment most in the UK are on, when it's not only superior (reducing relapses by 80% compared to Ocrevus' 50%), but is a self injector pen once a month and done?

Because Ocrevus is cheaper. It's not cheap by any means, but it's cheaper. Because insurance will always find a way to weasel out of paying as much as possible. Whereas in the UK, healthcare providers are free to prescribe the most effective treatment without having to consider how affordable it is for the sufferer.

And relapses are not a joke. Before mine were treated, I would lose a sense wholesale for three months. First it was hearing, then it was vision. When you lose it, you don't know if you're getting it back - in 30% of cases it's gone for good.

Even if you get it back, there's a portion of your brain permanently lost to scar tissue. Neuroplastic remodelling needs brain real estate. You get your sense back if your brain is able to route around the damage. Every relapse you have, whether or not you recover from it, leaves you with less of it.

If you insist on caring about the economy over health outcomes, first of all fuck you, but what do you think the impact of that is on your ability to work?

NEW SPACE KING NEW SPACE KING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNht74Le_FA