actually an eng @ ndstudio

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Joined September 2014
A career update: I have joined @ndstudio! Excited to be working with the awesome team here. Exciting things are in the pipeline.
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Tai Groot 🐧 retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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There are 36 whistleblower programs across the federal government. Now there’s one place to report fraud, and your tip gets routed to the right agency -- and you can get a percentage of money saved. america.gov/fraud
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Stop trying to find the largest prime or the satoshi Bitcoin seed. Time to start brute-forcing CA privkey seeds... (Please don't)
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See fraud? It's time to expose it. Report fraud, waste, and abuse to the federal government 📲 America.gov/fraud
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Now on America.gov: report fraud against government programs in just a few steps and, if eligible, receive a reward up to $30K
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why is the macos compositor so broken @vaxryy would never write something so buggy
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This is real btw anon, are you reviewing your weights by hand?
New model dropping later today Just did my final review of the weights
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Introducing American Forge: a six-month residency for exceptional engineers ready to take on the toughest problems in American government. Run by National Design Studio in partnership with @cognition forge.ndstudio.gov/?s=x
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"the moat is the team"
The moat to me has always been the team; there is nothing more rewarding than a small group of exceptional individuals all marching towards one collective goal with high agency and speed, going through all the ups and down together—to ultimately achieving greatness.
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inb4 @nextjs adds "use tokens";
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i can't actually tell if opus 5.5 or fable 5.1 is smarter opus 5.5 is certainly more useful but they both act very different and, when bughunting, find different kinds of things this is the first time I've not had a clear favorite among models
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just typed "am" into my browser and for the first time in my life, amazon wasn't the first autocomplete result. america.gov ftw
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2026 has been about 5 years so far
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I fear I have been one-shotted by opus 5.5 music videos
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Airpod handoff between devices is almost good enough to make me switch to an iPhone. Almost.
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My favorite ai model is Ayres Intelligence
Replying to @jamesallanayres
Were the sites designed in ai or Figma? Would love to know
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I hate that this is probably right :(
Hot take: Javascript will eventually be akin to Assembly... nobody will care to read it or understand it. The new abstraction is natural language.
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contact maxitype for our license info :)
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today i learn if you name your CUDA kernel with a certain name it will just run faster because nvidia ignores checks for its own libraries
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