2026-08-17T12:28:15Z https://njump.me jcoglan https://njump.me/npub1ucfeu24zsz6cc60gwprjtjfafkzhcrdtwanmuz4th6ww3dp9990ssp8th2 https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/027/135/original/f6eb4ceba7166eeb.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/027/135/original/f6eb4ceba7166eeb.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0pd6qsyrnxgrenylpnhjrmxmmlrhp2y32tgenjkdaa7t2zhzuyagzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547g5vr6t somehow I only recently learned that LLMs need the whole conversation fed back to them on each prompt so their i/o cost scales as O(n^2), something that would be considered completely unacceptable in almost any other production network-accessible software 2026-07-23T08:35:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsphnrysweafuksm376rvaqsskhrtcmnx0d49kvjhrt8pf8y5w00aczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547rj2483 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz324npylmc90gxmq6fv7lc47anj2afwjgcws45egykgkc30z3w6gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerfw36x7tnsw43q7dv5u0'>nevent1q…v5u0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you can&#39;t actually make a computing system that is anything but a large graph of these operations. you can make it as big as you like but it will only ever do those 3 things. therefore you need to show that those 3 things and nothing more can give rise to consciousness 2026-07-19T17:37:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx7hmwkj3l0pdhcd7400uzgg7hj32s9jfwsfux9nx0uncynqu66wgzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547xp74w0 <br/><br/>this is about where I am, it&#39;s like a ton of people decided to forget how anything works and become helpless on purpose<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqs336wqm5u6a969fud9jzqn0x647kgllsw3ermzhcwz4ct7je5jhq3eada4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…ada4</a></span> </div> feels like the worst time to be alive if you are the kind of person who is passionate about learning to do things the right way. </blockquote> 2026-04-10T07:44:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2rmva49pskce8lztxg7ykhrs82dzwp9uc9z0zezkts56vqrenmpqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547vwh2ap learning that freeagent, the accounting software recommended to me most often by tech contractors, is steaming garbage. creates ludicrous amounts of busywork &#34;explaining&#34; sales transactions and gets the dates of said transactions wrong 2026-04-09T16:37:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8nzdfw32pas2paeakh4u6h0c8c9sz9d0qwmc5za8wrgd3x5vaeyczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547uqgh5c from now until the end of april, I&#39;m running a 50% discount on my book &#34;building git&#34;, just enter voucher code BGAPR2026 <a href="https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/">https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/</a> 2026-03-27T12:02:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfv762563n8dvfk4jw90449mqw6p2qfp73ffu27ucn9x300d3mm6qzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547rfwcsy me 3 months ago: £100+/mo is an unjustifiable expense for what claude does for me<br/><br/>me now: not sure I could live with myself knowingly giving £100+/mo to the &#34;blow up a random school&#34; machine 2026-03-05T17:21:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9n6xnpezf7d482qpx2dqqfdm3tnu6el3eqjpgqgstu5yrj3fw6lczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547cdjgtt is there a critique of that Knuth article? lots of people are gushing about it just b/c it&#39;s him, but I&#39;m not familiar enough with its subject matter to tell if it&#39;s legit. however, stuff like this feels really off:<br/><br/>&#34;Filip Stappers tested Claude’s Python program for all odd m between 3 and 101, finding perfect decompositions each time. Thus he concluded, quite reasonably, that the problem was indeed solved for odd values of m.&#34;<br/><br/>like, that&#39;s not how maths works 2026-03-05T09:15:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvhyfy00m755cx78gqww97wn2shgerzuezlns9eza8u7fkmqmq4qgzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55476fgvn3 <br/><br/>it is astonishing to me that this (i.e. security under an untrusted server) is novel research to these systems. ever since I started developing vault (2012) my model has been: I want to sync my secrets with dropbox, and I do not trust dropbox either not to look at my data or to preserve its integrity. these are ideas you would get from any basic introduction to cryptography<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxkfz8gahyrxkqf2c87ulg2ehrmk3r0fexu03wjleqharznyvcnvqvghlv7" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…hlv7</a></span> </div> <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058">https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058</a> <br/><br/>Wow </blockquote> 2026-02-25T15:52:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst2ldrw7zc76plq90efxzx92n05zkz5j4f74cg0r4s98nxvjhy26qzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55473rxa78 tried reporting a bug in this python project but the author says it&#39;s working as indented 2026-01-19T22:23:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdkcha50vdxta0vuvqvqlqml5slfne8ccw27nm4hye84vdjentz6szyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547j32dd3 is github having ongoing outages or is it just like that now 2025-12-11T17:42:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfjgnv4gdwwe62thwwd0nww56zkt0jwrx3l8sjfzuprmfw2sen02gzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547ufvz23 the ruby ecosystem, in particular the people running the package repo, have set a precedent that if you make something and it becomes important, it can be taken from you with no due process 2025-10-17T14:05:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8x4rzn5rxf5trm6n5e6c7ppynzfmrjt3h0hc045d2zdkzmungkeqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55470zvt5z an operating system by the guy whose web framework actively ignores how databases work? I don&#39;t think so 2025-10-09T11:46:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz05rf4uqqgd7fcfmdnm6umgq3h90tq5673v9hxr07jf2u4xv625czyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y554742uvxe even the &#34;I write 90% of my code with AI&#34; posts are saying the output is bad. like sure, you could generate a ton of garbage and whittle it down to something you&#39;re actually happy with, or you could just do good work yourself to begin with, which you&#39;re perfectly capable of<br/><br/>you aren&#39;t chiseling a block of marble, you&#39;re constructing logical proofs, act like it 2025-10-03T17:31:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxvewftv2q5yg5tygzc7h7q733rqcnul3vlr0k7c0gvagh9n3fvfszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547wa63w6 it is past time for the rails project and community to sever ties with dhh 2025-09-16T06:00:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfaq8wnlq0w7p9xwuaz4svqm0lkfk48fefa65m78t4xr4ve78r46qzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547mwp4gl ah right I&#39;m seeing why I don&#39;t like the layout of any of the keyboards I can actually find online: they match apple US layout, which puts backtick in the number row, and has a single-row-high enter key. y&#39;all live like this? 2025-08-22T15:06:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyt9ctnxplz2pdendr452zwqq2qhk4nmxtfd0qt3jz9lw4x8rufzqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55472p6fw0 LLMs could still have the same set of algorithmic capabilities without being presented as a simulation of a person, and it feels increasingly important that they stop being presented in this way 2025-08-19T15:47:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdr5wthuhya7462u3rw6gv8sg58phqenm70sm3v24t54hljqk9f8gzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547yj49f3 I&#39;m actually surprised that this legal problem doesn&#39;t render LLMs unusable in most organisations <a href="https://mastodon.social/@joe@f.duriansoftware.com/115023464780783895">https://mastodon.social/@joe@f.duriansoftware.com/115023464780783895</a> 2025-08-18T13:58:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf64j9a88r7h4nc8lyeg03942a4yy8kg4e9gy7rl68t8k853yducczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547l76td7 don&#39;t suppose anyone knows how to get an apple keyboard working on fedora? I never had a problem with them on ubuntu but can&#39;t find any way to select the layout in fedora 2025-08-12T14:30:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdn2h9whnfggg6f0mmcgz5gjh52se2psfuq6spj90laqs9nl9jnhszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547j78md2 reminder to back up your github! I use these shell functions to clone/update every repo I have access to into a local directory. it uses `clone --mirror` to give you a complete copy of the remote repo, including pull request refs <a href="https://gist.github.com/jcoglan/511c770b8709ec8e211683310243f01a">https://gist.github.com/jcoglan/511c770b8709ec8e211683310243f01a</a> 2025-08-12T09:04:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfw66er9aqmeaut45zasyr3knd3m7225fkq6xpqntzer7txlw6qhczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55477ex3hp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0kz4wzfdn4n5g7lfkdpelf77dtt9hskace539hvayhdzuyqemazspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qgg40u8'>nevent1q…40u8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq0mwq9c623ujjzpql7r4fk090yxrf458sz2egzprw0zn0ca669q9q8tvdjy" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq0mwq9c623ujjzpql7r4fk090yxrf458sz2egzprw0zn0ca669q9q8tvdjy</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…vdjy</span>)</a></span> is json also vulnerable to canonicalisation attacks? I was wondering if this was a possible weakness of jwt on top of all the stuff introduced by its &#34;agility&#34; features 2025-08-11T08:26:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs28h4l0rkreelufjekhjk8rsk9yy3m6lmu6ukhga3l0l8u7u2rp8czyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547rj6ja6 emailed my MP this morning and the auto-response includes a &#34;many people are already emailing us about gaza&#34; bit followed by a long list of exculpatory &#34;here&#39;s us feeling really bad about a situation we actively helped create&#34; references. actually astonishing 2025-08-09T11:24:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfm79qxzqchlqjv77jpg4zhhp4q08j70rxwu0hwcn0s68e42q2x8qzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547qv3c65 idk what is going to stop this government&#39;s awful direction but the least that needs to happen is MPs hearing from cis people that this campaign of transphobia being waged by them and the EHRC, supposedly for our benefit, is not actually something we want, and that it is hurting our friends 2025-08-09T10:59:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs986p5vdv0p3zw5a7lq3n9863lk4xaw3e6fkxu8k0w6fcmpd7x4lczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547vzawsy part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I&#39;m presented with &#34;you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more&#34; 2025-08-08T19:27:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvp8mz0858gy522xdggyhspsndud8y4afdyy7znjdmjnx7x0hmsnczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547kxnasf the median website can&#39;t keep passwords safe, and the blast radius of a site-specific password is, well, just that site. the blast radius of having your driving license or passport stolen is, quite a bit bigger than that 2025-07-29T12:40:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx5g53f5lx70dev9g28lj9ptszduf9az86j90hk84pr3gk46etezqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547lwwxl7 the thing everyone seems to be missing about age verification is that demanding ID from people amounts to a real-names policy, which is terrible for social media for very well documented reasons 2025-07-13T15:49:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszcjunhjfsnpmlwk3tccg86pftzeddahjk6h4wntaepndj328u4nqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547lad2v2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsplukn292npz4pjttnrptz5pylvhtd6nzdttlg4q5tm5xr9r3mwtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzyxeap'>nevent1q…xeap</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>years of insisting that volunteers owe things to huge companies that aren&#39;t paying them has, empirically, not worked out, you need to try a second idea 2025-06-22T17:51:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsplukn292npz4pjttnrptz5pylvhtd6nzdttlg4q5tm5xr9r3mwtczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55470epwuh we have got to stop talking about open source software this way man. someone who published work with an explicit label on it saying &#34;this comes with absolutely no warranty&#34; and is not being compensated is not part of a &#34;supply chain&#34; <a href="https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/114723318068853623">https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/114723318068853623</a> 2025-06-22T17:50:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfvqh7yxwdah9jnhz6vdsw8q4vugk8rwhns5rr4zmrn0a9txe3rjqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547d80fg7 20 years ago you at least had the pretence that a war could be illegal, and that you had to come up with an argument for it. now we just get bounced into backing whatever horrors america wants literally overnight 2025-06-22T11:29:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgshreppwnq3wycj5r4wgtavwpx05scelnd0dqggpe7x6f8cpvvwqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547srsqlj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrfnqmdcxm3repkp3y4qzelvpv6knnmq8e98ym4zzfs8sm5pfem2cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q7q9rep'>nevent1q…9rep</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>a previous job used it as a retrospective notes board and it was like &#34;try to find where everyone is hanging out on this colossal open world map where you can&#39;t read anything and also your laptop is overheating&#34; 2025-06-17T09:50:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrfnqmdcxm3repkp3y4qzelvpv6knnmq8e98ym4zzfs8sm5pfem2czyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547dzaux6 miro is a genuinely baffling product. what if the output of your entire design process was one massive fractal image <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114698031270325359">https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114698031270325359</a> 2025-06-17T09:48:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfqpvrzxeusw6l4xgtldpklgx0w2azzjad7f4p66exd09mzy4ujyszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547dcmqml ai companies: the computer can think<br/><br/>me: literally my first attempt at a basic logical inference puzzle does not work<br/><br/>ai defenders: nobody can actually define what &#34;reasoning&#34; is and nobody has ever tried 2025-06-13T11:42:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrek3lak0qucay58nyv5cwj6rz794jpzlz8xzuy7k8ggtz65dxcaszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55479lx2wa at this point you&#39;re going to need to switch to linux to get away from mandatory passive AI use 2025-06-09T17:42:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqhpqt6k64yvc04fyjs08v9wm54e9u6xm76qxgn5284yx4yzy34vgzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547glnt25 seen an argument that goes: yes LLM agents take many minutes to produce a result, but you can do something else in the meantime. you could have a bunch of agents doing different things for you at the same time 2025-06-09T10:19:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswkdyd4242cl2nv28sdh69qeuzc3w5n3s95uqvg7vjpkyxqcyg0hszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547p5vv7x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfs4vd4w48unqjnntqnr2l44yxshwat75z4zl9eue6j32rqjspujgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qc639l6'>nevent1q…39l6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>*however* what we are currently seeing is IP being dismantled asymmetrically in favour of the wealthy. we cannot have a situation where big tech is allowed to ignore IP while people are serving prison sentences at nintendo&#39;s behest 2025-06-05T09:08:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfs4vd4w48unqjnntqnr2l44yxshwat75z4zl9eue6j32rqjspujgzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547ss7czt thing is, I&#39;m not even opposed to dismantling IP as a concept, and I&#39;m not wild about wielding it to oppose AI, because the same argument is used to shut down the internet archive 2025-06-05T09:06:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgj8fjv5xl3q6zhrktk7kh3m382wequmhg5e7hz7v0ss8ncnqk5hczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55479y6h55 the issues with the ptacek article are not just questions of tone. its actual content and arguments are lousy, they&#39;re just dressed up in the sort of bluster that makes people go &#34;huh good point&#34; without thinking very hard 2025-06-04T14:53:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszy5749czelmmu27w8g45a9n959clg82e675jaq6ey7ddg27s2wyszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547002rcp &#34;it doesn&#39;t make me more productive but it creates chunks of time where the computer is doing something so I can go get a coffee&#34; is how people used to complain about compilers 2025-06-04T11:42:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfz3ec4z0xdl22npeq03efxas2vc756nxakw37xwj7pamlve3cf3qzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547j8lpmx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp60lrrwzflg2xwcnfmnkat8vvhqyu3lns0yzcjc3l7yz8ypk20yqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q7sn0ly'>nevent1q…n0ly</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqf6a33pfyp67y8llhunlhrf855xm47n3fdqymvxfj7yx78c6vqf4sy8ssyg" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqf6a33pfyp67y8llhunlhrf855xm47n3fdqymvxfj7yx78c6vqf4sy8ssyg</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…ssyg</span>)</a></span> I&#39;m hearing &#34;what&#39;s the alternative&#34; a lot recently and if I took that attitude to very many things I would have to stop believing in anything 2025-06-03T19:25:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp7e7w5pdd4cjt4rxd36k0ycyewrx3vctxcsvg4kht559ha8d4vjqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55474rltcz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxzdl7j05lhgug8m5c08dv6gpyk2egu8lutus5f269wdspza83e0qpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q8rmyde'>nevent1q…myde</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>framing actually being militant about your values and red lines and what you are willing to do for a pay cheque as just pissing and moaning and being a stick-in-the-mud, is just bad faith, sorry 2025-06-03T19:21:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxzdl7j05lhgug8m5c08dv6gpyk2egu8lutus5f269wdspza83e0qzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547759st8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zelyhp83v2hdt7a7xeta2yupxq4pl8fa2x005kzs878t03jt4kspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qyrtd5k'>nevent1q…td5k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and also deploying arguments like &#34;if you&#39;re gonna be a hard-liner about ethics you got into the wrong industry&#34; -- you can recognise this field is full of awful things and *therefore* be very choosy about where you work, not just throw your hands up and go &#34;why bother&#34; 2025-06-03T19:19:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9zelyhp83v2hdt7a7xeta2yupxq4pl8fa2x005kzs878t03jt4kszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y554776avy6 zooming out a little bit, it does feel alarming to me that a lot of people whose stated politics are progressive or socialist or both are willing to give huge tech companies an easy ride for fully seizing the means of production for everyone, no matter where you personally work 2025-06-03T19:16:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxrgt8de6lxazlrdfzcz7gqc8527pwz0t3vwwfxekhjkjrtptn9yqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y554733anrh &#34;wow I can&#39;t believe my friends don&#39;t like AI, they sure are big dum dums! AI is self evidently life changing&#34;<br/><br/>so uh can you show us an example<br/><br/>&#34;no&#34;<br/><br/>alright well being berated as an idiot has made me lose respect for you <br/><br/>&#34;here come the haters and losers&#34; 2025-06-03T07:16:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsydfmpq79l3960c37g97c3mlhekpj4u6dse5hgxxk5e7dp2fqul5czyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55478gldz8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyeanlmgz4sumzrvuqfkgwc3mawf88dn4mrm255an3vj3r0awcc5qpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qqrfe24'>nevent1q…fe24</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>tests are how you, as the system&#39;s author and designer, express what it is *you* want the system to do and how it should be shaped. you cannot generate that information from the cloud 2025-06-02T16:17:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyeanlmgz4sumzrvuqfkgwc3mawf88dn4mrm255an3vj3r0awcc5qzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547alurxt regardless of any other factors, I actually think having an AI write tests is so categorically wrong it borders on malpractice 2025-06-02T16:16:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsypztzqwz7snwmtfa4x28ftrhl670nvmtjdcp62k3hn7fzpl3kzgszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547m3tum9 LLMs turn your job into mostly code review, a task everyone famously loves to do and is good at 2025-06-01T19:38:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsramm7s0vgqj4rzz0vnevd5ywvma3pq4dnszgesvk9mzmym0jny0szyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547vsyvux a system that looks like github mcp should set off alarm bells even without untrusted input; I wouldn&#39;t tell an LLM agent with access to all my source code to go and scan a big corpus for instructions even if I wrote the entire corpus myself, simply b/c I do not know what effect that would have 2025-05-27T07:30:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8rde5jka0awsqmsz989wgy8upujc92qemtuj76at7gnmm7ckk48czyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547lxsqne In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw5h2vajslsqn5ljdxpkg63jlnntyceshdee57ar05rtmmwpt559spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qjyjmm3'>nevent1q…jmm3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>like it&#39;s not even the sort of security flaw you get from people not realising non-obvious properties of their platform and failing to guard against them, it&#39;s just ignoring foundational concepts in security engineering on purpose 2025-05-27T07:19:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw5h2vajslsqn5ljdxpkg63jlnntyceshdee57ar05rtmmwpt559szyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547kn0tf6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdzjvz85kgtcsy9ucj24l7ux3a2nz032mrqgdhg3xapa6yur7p3dcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q7lk3w8'>nevent1q…k3w8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the way people are deploying LLMs is driving a freight train through the principle of least privilege and being surprised at the results 2025-05-27T07:16:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdzjvz85kgtcsy9ucj24l7ux3a2nz032mrqgdhg3xapa6yur7p3dczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547p0zz3g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv8nxtg88nl8prx7thutpranp086xr4282cymt54nt8yapjsde3pspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qped9dr'>nevent1q…d9dr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the category error here is deploying something with unformalisable behaviour with any privilege to do anything at all without the express confirmation of a trusted human operator 2025-05-27T07:15:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv8nxtg88nl8prx7thutpranp086xr4282cymt54nt8yapjsde3pszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55474pdn5a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyukugnw77u8qppjsycnw4gavd48u5pkygdt42a56jm7um2v0njuspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qt09zta'>nevent1q…9zta</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>this is not a novel or surprising means of attacking systems. of course, obviously, if you give a system with no formalisable behaviour, that may execute anything as an instruction by design, elevated privileges and untrusted input, this will happen 2025-05-27T07:14:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyukugnw77u8qppjsycnw4gavd48u5pkygdt42a56jm7um2v0njuszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547qzlgd2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsractrju9uaapedvty38h97qyaeltzcqhs5s9swsucclyd8yejduqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q5pyrsp'>nevent1q…yrsp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you cannot have an &#34;injection attack&#34; in a system with no formal distinction between data and instructions. what you actually have is an &#34;everything is instructions&#34; model and a failure to isolate untrusted inputs from the elevated privilege of access to private information 2025-05-27T07:12:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsractrju9uaapedvty38h97qyaeltzcqhs5s9swsucclyd8yejduqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547mfhvht if I have to hear the term &#34;prompt injection&#34; one more time 2025-05-27T07:04:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxemqu7m80ytycswx5d2x7l0ek4lk6dqtmv7ka9ukpr3nnlwucqhqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547wtr9h2 I can&#39;t believe we replaced blogs and RSS with people emailing their posts to you. just a really obviously stupid step backwards 2025-05-26T12:06:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdmwdmuset7umf8uffyv0tgz7dr80r570w55hnx2ttpapkvs3pjhczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55479jp9fd becoming the cryptography joker. the cryptoker 2025-05-22T18:27:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx7uqlgen37t75ezw8lyxjjgc2vfm0v7h2raml7q8ut9kcqcztktgzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547wj8uyw been trying to write this article periodically for years, but I finally found the time: here&#39;s how to sync anything <a href="https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04/06/how-to-sync-anything">https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04/06/how-to-sync-anything</a> 2025-04-02T18:58:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0t9k6auylu007jvlv2lt8cw92nkkgpw85y9zvch2xfljvksusefqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547r3c5f6 this pixelfed bug really feels like a design problem at the protocol level to me; it requires way too much unearned trust to expect a network of programs that are highly decoupled and barely trust each other to enforce one another&#39;s access controls, especially on the level of individual posts 2025-03-26T09:42:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9tscwhy8suw9r5k09hs4vzyvluv8yq4crka35wgu5nsxqc49kc2szyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547z66a73 <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq0mwq9c623ujjzpql7r4fk090yxrf458sz2egzprw0zn0ca669q9q8tvdjy" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq0mwq9c623ujjzpql7r4fk090yxrf458sz2egzprw0zn0ca669q9q8tvdjy</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…vdjy</span>)</a></span> do you mind if I ask a quick question? in <a href="https://soatok.blog/2020/09/09/designing-new-cryptography-for-non-standard-threat-models/">https://soatok.blog/2020/09/09/designing-new-cryptography-for-non-standard-threat-models/</a> you say that the lengths of components encoded to prevent canonicalisation attacks should be little-endian. the PASETO pre-auth encoding does the same. is the endianness important here, and why? 2025-03-25T10:09:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq9zn53uj7yjwvnffg9ud2dxa99ygjh0r0sclelzd2qnhgaquqjhgzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y55477ud9an In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdfw7mqe0sd5tsxfj462dp7r4tq45zc7xamn4qv765prah0tzqg2cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qrf28hz'>nevent1q…28hz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqz84r2svc8723w2tcs6ujvcuzpxd837h2eenklf56tjqlfxpse6ds4fy4h5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqz84r2svc8723w2tcs6ujvcuzpxd837h2eenklf56tjqlfxpse6ds4fy4h5</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…y4h5</span>)</a></span> ms and apple bricking perfectly good hardware that open source OSes continue to support is infuriating 2025-03-19T18:28:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvxzue9lk0a3mcenu0787wa2y9s4hup8g5a7w0py4a2xt2gs6q5eszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547z7czsa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsffp5m80r5hwyk57zhn49cgwhj629zf0sky48h9vp4e4fx52wvtqcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzscqn5'>nevent1q…cqn5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqlksxw7gqy3tyvzvzv4wn0he6045z7k68nhnlec9tz4njkk3xdfmqaxvklh" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqlksxw7gqy3tyvzvzv4wn0he6045z7k68nhnlec9tz4njkk3xdfmqaxvklh</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…vklh</span>)</a></span> twitter had encrypted DMs?! 2025-03-19T00:04:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstuutjhuy74tl3af85cl7kttjnp7fv3cqzena6602d0j30v5ksm3gzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547vh4fjt my friend is raising money to help their friend Maher and his family evacuate from Gaza and get medical treatment; they have helped four people evacuate already and it would be amazing if you can help further <a href="https://chuffed.org/project/121901-help-mahers-family-with-medical-costs">https://chuffed.org/project/121901-help-mahers-family-with-medical-costs</a> 2025-03-18T15:41:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx6nn2yph0qx73yq6clk3s53sgq0jp04gn89futlke3je2a258lyczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547wm2gpt `brew bundle` seems to have removed the `--no-lock` option, which implies it no longer produces lockfiles? 2025-03-12T22:38:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx9r5h5hahlufnnfm9nw09adwzpwqgtjc6rcvdhg2p3642dk0qmvqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547qefms8 a work thing: we were recently commission to do some in-depth CouchDB performance analysis leading up to a AAA game launch, and we did a detailed write-up of it: <a href="https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03/04/case-study-10x-couchdb-performance-gains-for-a-aaa-game-launch">https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03/04/case-study-10x-couchdb-performance-gains-for-a-aaa-game-launch</a> 2025-03-05T14:07:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy5guc79f5mjtd7ffps0a54cnhz7lsjm2ulw4m50g7w2agjv26xcgzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547f9hf0z for the whole of this month, I&#39;m offering 50% off my book &#34;building git&#34;, which teaches you a huge array of software and system engineering topics while learning how git works. use voucher code &#34;SMARCH&#34; <a href="https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/">https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/</a> 2025-03-03T12:50:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9v8u5lehqs2jqxgjcc5ha2zvdcxk5hnwtkadvekp24me8nxhkhfqzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547x4h7fs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxap6gtsnzhauwh6lka6mpqwje6vllw4t9mjhqwxcj9va8s8xvljgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q7ks8xg'>nevent1q…s8xg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>their argument would imply that open source authors require a license grant from users of their software to handle inputs to the software, which is categorically false *unless they are exfiltrating user input* which would render their work malware 2025-02-27T23:04:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfcsp5qthhrwdmytrc2qyn38nv8q0fmmhg4c5fl9adj3tjrvcezmczyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547e638xd various people been saying this for a while but it cannot be overstated how much using ai art on your podcast/blog/slides/etc visually associates you with fascism <a href="https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/">https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/</a> 2025-02-27T22:28:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9gfefzyu30z89lsy9c2wv6vp86827fe5tevkklj97x85kq2t9augzyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547rh9t0j shopify has been allowed to coast for far too long on being one of the &#34;cool rails companies&#34; where you can get a fun job doing open source, and the ruby community needs to reckon with its role in laundering this one company&#39;s reputation 2025-02-12T00:19:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsphh9sce7nld7zu3ccdezdm3g7yt6wywhqzh2pjqj42wc0eltk3mszyrnp883252qttrrfapcywfwf84xc2lqd4dmk00s24wlfe695y5547wn02rj this chimes with my experience of the type of thing I&#39;ve been working on the last few years (databases/storage systems, distsys, consistency), where I don&#39;t believe you can &#34;incremental TDD&#34; your way to a correct design; you do actually have to think about the entire problem in detail up front before you start writing code <a href="https://explaining.software/archive/the-sudoku-affair/">https://explaining.software/archive/the-sudoku-affair/</a> 2025-02-07T11:07:59Z