Steve, solarpunk accelerationist

@baer.systems

bit rotator by trade. pro-intelligence, anti-fascism. head of engineering @ day job. opinions my own.

If you make HTTPS requests or have other TLS clients and care about MITM attacks, you need to update today. If you run Go: go get go@1.27.3 If you run Homebrew: brew update brew install ca-certificates If you run Linux, maybe stay off the internet for now.

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · yesterday

🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.

I at this point am like 90% convinced that reusable/shareable skills packages are a bad thing for LLM users. The 10% is that it can show you what's possible; the 90% is that people want to be incurious and just slap something in the only person who can effectively guide your tasks is you

I love hearing about these non-coding or SWE advanced users and use cases. Having come to tech from a non-traditional background, I’m excited for how many other curious and persistent builders of all walks of life will find their leverage as a result of generative AI.

Elixir of Progress@elucidating.extradimensional.space · 6d ago

I just met with a landscaper, we're having our front yard redone. One of the most interesting bits was his extensive use of Gemini Nano Banana to show us proposed pictures of the work. The way he generated them surprised me a bit.

i do unironically think people that are cosmopolitan need sorta paradoxically be more chauvinist about it tbh. places and people that are cosmopolitan in outlook are better than places that are provincially minded. the kind of performative handwringing about not being 'authentic' is bad and weak.

Stardust Coyote (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦@coyotestail.bsky.social · 7d ago

love it when anarchists say this because most "local community" councils irl in places like new england or small rural towns are typically deeply *right wing* and hate immigrants and queer people despite representing a "broad swathe" of the entire population. leftism is supposed to be COSMOPOLITAN.

As an applied mathematician using AI extensively, I would like everyone to calm the fuck down. The wonderment is still there, & you can use AI to help you get it. AI is helping me dig up cool and fascinating stuff in corners of math I'd never have the time to explore without it. And learn it, too.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · last wk.

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

Ah yup there’s your problem. You’ve got a distributed gemmaswarm in your walls. They burrow in there pretty good if you’ve got any compute they can dig into. We can try to flush ‘em out with a GLM but if you don’t pull out the nodes they’ll just be back later…

NainRouge420@nainrouge420.bsky.social · last wk.

Is it weird that I’m thinking about installing a raspberry pi in the wall. You guys are thinking about this too, right? It doesn’t belong on a table - it could just go in the wall

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When I'm working with coding agents, I say things like "I'm sorry, I still don't understand..." and "Thanks for your patience" for because: 1. I think it models a more effective and professional conversation, which is the register I want to work in. 2. It's a good habit.