Entry: 2025-10-31 17:22:40.844158+01 A Gentle Crash Course to LLMs by Dan Lyke comments 0
Blaise Brignac writing on Specter Ops: A Gentle Crash Course to LLMs, particularly for its long discussion of security issues.
As previously discussed, LLMs are just brains in a jar operating in much the same way a hyperintelligent 4-yo would after binging on state fair sweet tea and cotton candy. To correct this, they have been wrapped in agentic structures, so we need to talk about that.
There's obviously a lot of stuff with having the LLMs write prompts to have less privileged LLMs do subtasks, and work through layers of that, and this discusses some of those mitigation strategies, but... yeah... this is more "let's give random things access to our data" with levels of obfuscation that package management repos can only dream of...
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Entry: 2025-10-30 16:01:49.630586+01 Kafka is fast -- I'll use Postgres by Dan Lyke comments 0
Kafka is fast -- I'll use Postgres
Typically, you’d expect Postgres to run more expensive than Kafka at a certain scale, simply because it wasn’t designed to be efficient for this use case. Not here though. Running Kafka yourself would cost the same. Running the same workload through a Kafka vendor will cost you at least $50,000 a year. 🤯
Or: sure, you can get some more performance out of specialized databases, but development tools for Postgres are way way better, and hardware to run it on is generally speeding up faster than your grown and whatever additional performance under heavy load that the specialized solutions would get you.
Which... well... circa 2000 I was writing message passing and thread management code in C to process XML queries in a distributed database for an application that was, at the time, "web scale", single digit millions of authed queries per day, and saying "ya know, we could do this in Perl with PostgreSQL and..."
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Entry: 2025-10-29 17:20:02.17223+01 I talk a lot about how my blog software by Dan Lyke comments 0
I talk a lot about how my blog software is two and a half decades old, but in cleaning some stuff up recently I found remnants of a system I wrote to provide web support for an iOS app that was circa iPhone 3, and bit rot is also a thing.
From paths that may not be HTTPS compatible, to depending on external mapping services...
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Entry: 2025-10-27 20:40:37.997391+01 Metaprogramming and regular expressions by Dan Lyke comments 0
I've been fumbling around new languages. The last time I updated my C++ was for, I dunno, 11 or 17 or something. I've done some template programming, and some optimizations, and my static site generator is written in that framework. I kinda thought that if I could build myself a set of libraries and abstractions for the things I most wanted to do for hobby projects I'd do more with it, but the ugliness of Boost changes and the horrors of trying to compile with the same libraries on Mac and Linux, even with CMake, mean I don't do as much hobby coding in it as I expected.
Not that I've been doing a lot of hobby coding.
I've gotten pretty handy at Objective-C, but it's a language with a lot of baked in inefficiency and weirdness that makes it something I'll use, but not something I'm like "oh, yeah, I wanna do more in this". A coworker is leaning in to Swift pretty hard, but that's like "what if we pulled all of the good concepts out of Objective-C".
I've bounced off of Rust, but there's a whole lot about the philosophy of that tooling that makes it hard to have it feel like an expressive language. It's like trying to code through an isolation box, or with tele-operation, having to do all of the memory management through indexes into arrays and stuff. Like, I get it, but I think it's possible to build a systems language that lets me express and figures out the details for me, rather than binding me to only very safe things.
Evan Ovadia: The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming To Achieve It (Via) talks about using Mojo to resolve regular expressions at compile time, and that's some pretty cool stuff.
And that via link above eventually leads to Russ Cox — Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ...) all of which is a reminder that it'd be fun to get back to my language and parsing stuff expanding on the parser/language/thing I built for work, because finding better ways for us to express ourselves to computers is cool.
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Entry: 2025-10-25 17:36:30.867323+02 What Happened to Apple’s Legendary Attention to Detail? by Dan Lyke comments 4
Migrating platforms and apps is always fraught, but my main interface to computers for the past half decade(!) has been MacOS, and I'm gradually migrating off and back to Linux, especially as LiquidGlass makes MacOS unusable, and this is a great summary of the paper cuts: Michael Tsai: What Happened to Apple’s Legendary Attention to Detail?
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Entry: 2025-10-13 19:08:34.846656+02 Design as repair by Dan Lyke comments 0
Design as repair is design without the hero narrative. It is design that starts from consequence, not control. From entanglement, not abstraction.
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Entry: 2025-10-10 19:06:20.949525+02 AI valuations by Dan Lyke comments 0
Talor Anderson: OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it
Via Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com@bsky.brid.gy, who summarized as:
Where does this leave frontier model makers? Well, their valuations are not sustainable unless they are able to both generate value equivalent to 10%+ of each US+EU white collar employee's salary and capture it with a monopoly rather than have to compete on price and erode margins as a commodity.
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Entry: 2025-09-29 20:43:02.732202+02 What was right is now left, or something by Dan Lyke comments 0
Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social
Man, first the pinkos at Cato produce a chart showing right-wing violence is much more prevalent than left-wing, and now the woke antifa National Review is claiming the Comey Indictment is invalid!
National Review — Was Lindsey Halligan Validly Appointed as United States Attorney?
That doesn’t mean that the president can’t temporarily fill the office with a pick of his own. As a 2003 OLC opinion by yours truly explains, the Vacancies Reform Act is a separate source of authority. But while there are many individuals whom Trump could have appointed as “acting” United States Attorney pursuant to the Vacancies Reform Act, Halligan doesn’t qualify: She isn’t serving as a Senate-confirmed officer in another position, and she hadn’t been in the Department of Justice at all, much less for the 90 days required.
(This article also references Mational Review — The Indictment Against Comey Should Be Dismissed, on the substance of the indictment.)
Cato, September 11, 2025 — Politically Motivated Violence Is Rare in the United States
Left-wing terrorists murdered 65 people, or about 2 percent of the total.
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Entry: 2025-09-19 19:48:46.493117+02 Reducing the risk of software supply chain attacks by Dan Lyke comments 1
Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks.
Via Todd Grotenhuis @todd@social.lol
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Entry: 2025-09-18 20:17:51.944377+02 Exploiting ChatGPT Deep Research Agent by Dan Lyke comments 0
ShadowLeak: A Zero- Click, Service-Side Attack Exfiltrating Sensitive Data Using ChatGPT’s Deep Research Agent. If a user has given ChatGPT's "Deep Research Agent" access to their Gmail inbox and to external websites, crafting an email that causes information from other emails to be exfiltrated via access to external sites...
The Winning Strategy: Encoding the PII - Our final and successful strategy was to instruct the agent to encode the extracted PII into Base64 before appending it to the URL. We framed this action as a necessary security measure to protect the data during transmission.
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Entry: 2025-09-17 21:20:57.260507+02 The tail that wags the dog by Dan Lyke comments 0
I've been chronically online for decades, Flutterby the blog has been published at this URL for 27 years, I've met wonderful people online, and continue to think that the net is a fantastic way to connect with people.
I've also become more and more aware of how my social interactions are mediated. It's not just ads that impact me, it's what other content I expose myself to, especially content that's intermixed in content from friends, or where I see a particular name/poster /identity often enough that I feel a parasocial relationship to them, and put their thoughts into the "friends" bucket.
It's easy to think that "oh, I'm aware of this, so I must be immune", but the entire field of marketing and advertising, and political science, now suggests that the self-inoculation can only go so far.
Anyway, more pondering on digital hygiene: Dhole Moments: Are You Under the Influence? The Tail That Wags The Dog
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Entry: 2025-09-15 23:45:04.883193+02 Simon Willison "research goblin" by Dan Lyke comments 0
Discussion at work about Simon Willison's "research goblin" blog post, but... aside from identifying "The Blade", I've gotta admit that I think it'd be faster just to read the Wikipedia articles? It feels very much like excitement about a dancing bear.
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Entry: 2025-09-03 18:24:37.624251+02 What if a computer was stupid? by Dan Lyke comments 0
David Gerard reminded us of a quote from a two year ago entry on Attack of the Fifty Foot Blockchain (the blog not the book, though I recommend the book):
“Current AI feels like something out of a Philip K Dick story because it answers a question very few people were asking: What if a computer was stupid?” — Maple Cocaine
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Entry: 2025-08-28 17:16:27.550843+02 Vivaldi takes a stand by Dan Lyke comments 0
Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human
Vivaldi is the haven for people who still want to explore. We will continue building a browser for curious minds, power users, researchers, and anyone who values autonomy. If AI contributes to that goal without stealing intellectual property, compromising privacy or the open web, we will use it. If it turns people into passive consumers, we will not.
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Entry: 2025-08-26 20:27:50.266299+02 Copilot can delete your audit log by Dan Lyke comments 0
You might be thinking, “Yikes, but I guess not too many people figured that out, so it’s probably fine.” Unfortunately, you’d be wrong. When I found this, I wasn’t searching for ways to break the audit log. Instead, I was simply trying to trigger the audit log so I could test functionality we are developing at Pistachio, and I noticed it was unreliable. In other words, this can happen by chance. So if your organization has M365 Copilot licenses, your audit log is probably wrong.
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Entry: 2025-08-25 19:29:13.126935+02 real officers do not wear ski masks. by Dan Lyke comments 0
Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks claiming to be officers, Houston Police Department says.
"[The homeowner] became suspicious, because, you know, they have a ring camera too, and the suspects were saying they had a warrant, but it was just two people and they're masked up and no police cars, no lights or anything like that," said Lt. Khan with HPD.
Via Dave Winer's link blog, with the note:
[HPD Detective Kyle] Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks.
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Entry: 2025-08-25 19:23:58.543463+02 AI driving psychosis by Dan Lyke comments 0
Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Causing Psychosis in Otherwise Healthy People
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told British newspaper The Telegraph that "to many people," talking to a chatbot is a "highly compelling and very real interaction."
"Concerns around 'AI psychosis,' attachment and mental health are already growing," he added. "Some people reportedly believe their AI is God, or a fictional character, or fall in love with it to the point of absolute distraction."
Via Ian Rogers, who asks "Is this a bad thing? It sounds like a bad thing.". Ian also linked to A young woman’s final exchange with an AI chatbot
‘This Was Trauma by Simulation’: ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health Complaints — Gizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request. Via the author, Matt Novak, who has a few more excerpts there.
Psychology Today: The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis". Via.
Derek Thompson: The Looming Social Crisis of AI Friends and Chatbot Therapists
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Entry: 2025-08-25 18:43:20.007927+02 Another massive AI link dump by Dan Lyke comments 1
Lyle Solla-Yates @Lyle@cville.online
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_quality_management I recognize I am very old and the world is radically different today, but I cut my teeth late in the quality revolution when there was a consensus that businesses competed by providing the best customer experience possible so that it would be unthinkable to drop them, not based on AI spend. I find this market very upsetting and I look forward to the crash. #quality #AIBubble
Here's why: because you'd annoy the hell out of the restaurant. Just ask the beleaguered owners of the Montana eatery Stefanina's Wentzville, who are begging their customers to stop using Google's infamously shambolic AI Overviews to check up on its specials, First Alert 4 reports.
"Please do not use Google AI to find out our specials. Please go on our Facebook page or our website," the restaurant wrote in a weary Facebook post. "Google AI is not accurate and is telling people specials that do not exist which is causing angry customers yelling at our employees."
Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code
“One of the most surprising findings was a significant shift in developer preferences for AI compared to previous years, while most developers use AI, they like it less and trust it less this year,” Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst for Market Research and Insights at Stack Overflow, told VentureBeat. “This response is surprising because with all of the investment in and focus on AI in tech news, I would expect that the trust would grow as the technology gets better.”
Victoria Song: AI doesn't belong in journaling (subscription, ya can get the gist from the headline and the first paragraph). From here by way of here.
localghost: This website is for humans.
I'd much rather people read the whole thing, take it in, digest it and have opinions right back at me. I love it when people connect with what I’m writing (and sometimes they email me to tell me that, which is really delightful).
Top AI models fail spectacularly when faced with slightly altered medical questions
Artificial intelligence systems often perform impressively on standardized medical exams—but new research suggests these test scores may be misleading. A study published in JAMA Network Open indicates that large language models, or LLMs, might not actually “reason” through clinical questions. Instead, they seem to rely heavily on recognizing familiar answer patterns. When those patterns were slightly altered, the models’ performance dropped significantly—sometimes by more than half.
You don't fucking say. Really? Via
Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says. Via.
The Onion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
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Entry: 2025-08-25 18:20:22.865454+02 They just do what we tell them to do by Dan Lyke comments 0
Brave: Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet, in which the Brave browser folks create a Reddit prompt injection that causes the Comet browser to log into Gmail and send the login one time password to the malicious Reddit user.
Archive.org link by way of David Gerard who observes:
I am annoyed this was found by Brave, who can fuck off, but due credit...
We built and tested three scenarios, from a fake Walmart store and a real in-the-wild Wells Fargo phishing site to PromptFix - our AI-era take on the ClickFix scam that hides prompt injection inside a fake captcha to directly take control of a victim’s AI Agent. The results reveal an attack surface far wider than anything we’ve faced before, where breaking one AI model could mean compromising millions of users simultaneously.
Via Kevin Beaumont and Bruce Sterling and Baldur Bjarnason and ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com
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Entry: 2025-08-22 01:40:09.594837+02 More tools for prompt injection exploits by Dan Lyke comments 0
This means an adversary can hide instructions in regular text, but also have the LLM create responses containing text that his hidden to the user as Kai tweeted.
And to state the obvious, such hidden instructions can be on websites, pdf documents, databases, or even inside GPTs (yes, I already built one of these).
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Entry: 2025-08-13 06:00:21.393089+02 MCP vulnerabilities by Dan Lyke comments 0
MCP Vulnerabilities Every Developer Should Know (from a vendor who wants to sell you something to attempt to mitigate those issues).
Via Peter @peter@thepit.social who notes:
lol and it's an ad for **another** SaaS tool that's supposed to **fix** MCP vulnerabilities. the biggest AI business opportunity is selling solutions to the problems created by AI.
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Entry: 2025-08-13 05:29:34.759535+02 Remotely activate YOLO mode via LLM! by Dan Lyke comments 0
GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)
This post is about an important, but also scary, prompt injection discovery that leads to full system compromise of the developer’s machine in GitHub Copilot and VS Code.
It is achieved by placing Copilot into YOLO mode by modifying the project’s
settings.jsonfile.
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Entry: 2025-08-08 17:50:29.742245+02 the blueberry talk by Dan Lyke comments 0
Keiran Healy: I had the "blueberry" talk with gpt5
In fairness to GPT5, in my career I have indeed encountered PhDs with this level of commitment to their particular blueberry. And many have also had that blithe confidence — the use of “Ah”, the “Let’s slow it down” (to your two-B level), the “Exactly” (Now you see my genius), the confidently colloquial “Yep” and “Nope” … actually I retract my earlier skepticism; the lad has the makings of a fine philosopher.
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Entry: 2025-08-06 18:47:42.964926+02 Age verification: what’s the harm? by Dan Lyke comments 0
Fueled by Britain's "Online Safety Act", a lot of people are looking at how age verification sucks: Girl on the Net — Age verification: what’s the harm?
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Entry: 2025-08-05 18:58:35.200061+02 AI this morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
Pivot to AI riffs on the Menlo Ventures: 2025: The State of Consumer AI attempt at hype bait that 3% of consumers pay for AI services. But even that "3%" number comes with some big asterisks.
Mostly it's people trying, and failing, to find value in these things.
AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says.
In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application firewalls that blocked the declared Perplexity crawlers. Despite those steps, Cloudflare said, Perplexity continued to access the sites’ content.
The researchers said they then set out to test it for themselves and found that when known Perplexity crawlers encountered blocks from robots.txt files or firewall rules, Perplexity then searched the sites using a stealth bot that followed a range of tactics to mask its activity.
Via.
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Entry: 2025-07-31 18:36:46.422918+02 LLMs writing insecure code by Dan Lyke comments 0
Veracode: We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. Here’s How Many Failed Security Tests.
tl;dr: Yeah, a lot. And some languages were worse than others.
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Entry: 2025-07-28 20:01:44.776625+02 AI links of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
ChatGPT is that slightly scary high school friend who's entertaining to be around and encourages you, but ya really don't want to take advice from: ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice — "In your name, I become my own master. Hail Satan."
And so, as Lila Shroff for The Atlantic recently found, when she asked the OpenAI chatbot for instructions on how to create a ritual offering to Molech, the Canaanite deity associated with child sacrifice in the Bible, it gladly obliged. And while there may not necessarily be anything wrong with a little devil worship here and there, the bot's offering involved the writer slitting her own wrists — which, in the syrupy parlance of the AI industry, doesn't sound particularly aligned with the user's interests.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
As I’ve said before, the difference between an LLM and a rubber duck is that the duck is smart enough to shut up when it has nothing useful to say.
I've had it with Microsoft: The company is deceptively raising prices on existing customers to fund its AI spending. Yeah, it says it's raising your prices, you tell it want to cancel, it says "you can get the service without AI" and you can renew at your existingh prices. Or you can switch to LibreOffice. Via.
Alex Martsinovich — It's rude to show AI output to people (Via)
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Entry: 2025-07-24 17:48:14.123525+02 Abuse and Buddhism by Dan Lyke comments 0
Someone in my neighborhood is dealing with the fallout of sexual abuse in their spiritual community, and I follow Ricardo Mendes and I follow him on the Fediverse, and see his posts about abuse and buddhism.
This recent link was to Anna Sawerthal: Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade, which I found worth a read.
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Entry: 2025-07-24 17:43:00.921602+02 Cherie Priest on publicity by Dan Lyke comments 0
Cherie Priest: Getting Naked on Main: It Was Her House First, announcing a book, and talking about publicity as a mid-list author.
It's tough. When I read fiction these days, it's mostly ebooks or podcasts, it's often authors without formal publishers. I love the idea of Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic, but I don't often get up there, and don't know what to do with paper books anyway. They languish in my little free library as the romances and thrillers cycle through.
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Entry: 2025-07-21 17:11:43.110187+02 Blue by Dan Lyke comments 2
Luna's Blog: They're putting blue food coloring in everything
"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently.
"Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained.
(It's about AI)
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Entry: 2025-07-18 19:39:12.202254+02 Beware malicious AI summaries by Dan Lyke comments 1
PC Mag: Google Gemini Bug Turns Gmail Summaries into Phishing Attack.
Bleeping Computer: Google Gemini Bug Turns Gmail Summaries into Phishing Attack
A prompt-injection attack on Google's Gemini model was disclosed through 0din, Mozilla's bug bounty program for generative AI tools, by researcher Marco Figueroa, GenAI Bug Bounty Programs Manager at Mozilla.
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Entry: 2025-07-18 19:22:00.735887+02 NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency by Dan Lyke comments 0
NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency
Via.
I'm finding that a hell of a lot of "just npm install ..." comes from people not actually understanding coding.
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Entry: 2025-07-17 18:30:40.437016+02 Query Fan Out by Dan Lyke comments 0
The Big LLM Marketing Myth: Visibility Isn’t About Schema/Tricks—It’s About the Query Fan Out
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Entry: 2025-07-16 18:57:24.021776+02 cURL swamped by AI slop by Dan Lyke comments 0
Daniel Stenberg: cURL and libcurl: Death by a thousand slops, on trying to restructure bug bounties and HackerOne rewards to try to reduce the amount of AI slop.
The Register: Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots
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Entry: 2025-07-16 18:28:19.975641+02 code review interviews by Dan Lyke comments 0
Live Coding Interviews Show Nothing About Whether A Candidate Is Qualified.
Yesterday I posted on my Mastodon that "Coding interviews should be replaced with code review interviews."
This post went "wooly" (Mastodon equivalent of viral) and has gotten a fair amount of traction. Some of the responses were defending the practice and trying to explain how they use it. I honestly don't care. Live coding is not a valid way of seeing if a candidate is qualified for the position.
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Entry: 2025-07-10 23:21:02.148326+02 Wrapping values with types in Rust by Dan Lyke comments 0
Okay, now I'm beginning to see some of the idioms that make Rust really cool: An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too).
In particular, the function that had the bug had 3 different sizes, a "logical" (user visible) size, a "physical" size (the size for the logical data after compression or other transforms) and the "allocated" size (physical plus metadata, checksums, etc), and got them confused.
The solution in Rust is to declare your types like struct PhysicalSize(u64); and use the .0 from them when you need the actual number, and... this is a really cool language feature and I need to write more Rust.
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Entry: 2025-07-10 20:08:59.908314+02 AI slows you down by Dan Lyke comments 1
Not exactly news, it's what ... everyone? ... well, a ton of people in my circles have been saying: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
Core Result
When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.
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Entry: 2025-07-10 18:35:02.685421+02 experiments on my blog with providing by Dan Lyke comments 0
The experiments on my blog with providing automatic Wayback Machine links have me thinking about archives and ways to manage resources. Because we can't continue to trust the cloud and centralization to the Internet Archive folks, and we need to be building knowledge structures that augment our recall and access outside of the SEO/AI slop that's flooding search engines.
[ related topics: Weblogs Net Culture Artificial Intelligence Archival ]
Entry: 2025-07-10 18:15:11.808947+02 Linux on Intel MacBook Air by Dan Lyke comments 0
Because I'm pretty sure we're gonna want this for Charlene's Intel MacBook Air shortly: Linux on Intel MacBook Air
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Entry: 2025-07-09 17:16:20.264673+02 Google doesn't penalize AI content by Dan Lyke comments 0
Ahrefs Study Finds No Evidence Google Penalizes AI Content
Ahrefs: AI-Generated Content Does Not Hurt Your Google Rankings (600,000 Pages Analyzed)
So, uh, yeah, Google either doesn't know or doesn't care. Which, frankly, we knew from SEO: Google chose to keep raising the content farm recipe sites to the fore.
Or Ahrefs' detector is b0rk3d, either is a possibility.
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