The problem isn’t maintainer burnout. That was just the vulnerability that was exploited this time. Intelligence agencies aren’t waiting for the right opportunity to come around, they find or create opportunities when they want them. Stop blaming mental health.

v8.dev/blog/sandbox V8 sandbox is now a boundary. Very cool work.

I might be getting a bit more into Ruby soon. Any recommendations for learning advanced Ruby concepts? Conference talks would probably be ideal.

lil tip for ChatGPT, just create a new chat and write:

Phones and trust just do not mix. Can you imagine if this attack had to be done with, say, email? We have DKIM, SPF, DMARC, WebAuthn, etc. What do phones have? A phishable carrier who will hand over control to anyone who knows the last 4 digits of your social *if even*.

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Interesting/ Kinda annoying thing about being on MacOS ChatGPT assumes gnu a lot. For example it'll generate invalid `date` commands (even if it's in a context where it knows you're on MacOS).

Good NYC meetups for someone who's trying to break into programming?

peps.python.org/pep-0751/ Long, long overdue.

this is a must watch

Regex DoS CVEs are such annoying noise. They're trivial to find and constantly popping up, almost never actually in real world code, difficult to ever mitigate meaningfully.

Okay so if I want to get my Rust project set up so that builds / tests are running in Github Actions, what's the current best practice for that? Haven't done this in years tbh.

1992: The movie "Sneakers" was released. With a budget of $35 million, it grossed $105 million at the box office. A hacker classic! Bishop, Whistler, Cosmo, and Mother!

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Been seeing the work on this progress and it's really, really good.