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The Indiana Jones of Web Archeology

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indexzero@charlie.dev · last wk.

⚰️ The npm registry as I knew it is officially dead. False positive rates for malware scanning are known to be astronomically high. That's because one attacker's malware is another developer's feature github.blog/changelog/20...

npm publish-time malware scanning and dual-use metadata - GitHub Changelog

As part of our ongoing supply-chain security work, npm is introducing automatic scanning of packages at publish time. This changelog covers what publishers can expect and a new metadata requirement…

github.blog

indexzero@charlie.dev · 2w ago

Sorry Github. You will have to pry my open source repositories from my cold dead hands. The captain always goes down with the ship

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indexzero@charlie.dev · last mo.

TIL how to control iOS with xcrun and ffmpeg 📲 🤓 I had to notice the pattern and tell the machine to do this This as a parable for what's to come: no matter how great our ability to automate becomes, all is lost if we lose curiosity along the way gist.github.com/indexzero/62...

A closed loop set of deterministic scripts `claude` made itself to drive iOS simulator based testing using xcrun and ffmpeg

A closed loop set of deterministic scripts `claude` made itself to drive iOS simulator based testing using xcrun and ffmpeg - !ios-osascript

gist.github.com

indexzero@charlie.dev · last mo.

How in the name of cartography can such a rare chance for the Watterman Butterfly to shine go overlooked? For shame Pottery Barn Kids, for shame

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indexzero@charlie.dev · 2mo ago

PROTIP: create a file named !{name} in your gists to workaround the horribad name Github assigns your gists when listing them

!actual-name file in gist
indexzero@charlie.dev · 2mo ago

TIL Zooko's triangle: when it comes to names for network protocols it's pick two: peer-to-peer (aka truly decentralized), secure, or human-meaningful It makes me wonder what our future will look like when "human-meaningful" includes "AI assisted lookups"

Zooko's Triangle
indexzero@charlie.dev · 6mo ago

Ames expressed the popular security more wisely: "that [an autocracy] is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." Emerson, 1844, quoting Fisher Ames, 1795

indexzero@charlie.dev · 7mo ago

"We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try." — Zohran Kwame Mamdani Absolute 🔥 This is right up there with "We choose to [...] do [these] things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Martin Saveski@msaveski.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used this method to conduct a preregistered 10-day field experiment with 1256 participants on X during the 2024 US presidential campaign. Our experiment used a large language model to rerank posts that expressed antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity (AAPA). Decreasing or increasing AAPA exposure shifted out-party partisan animosity by more than 2 points on a 100-point feeling thermometer, with no detectable differences across party lines, providing causal evidence that exposure to AAPA content alters affective polarization. This work establishes a method to study feed algorithms without requiring platform cooperation, enabling independent evaluation of ranking interventions in naturalistic settings.
indexzero@charlie.dev · 9mo ago

I am one of the first 5,000 GitHub users, and I am disappoint 15 ago I submitted a change on M$FT Codeplex to the Prism project after using the framework at a large financial institution I was told that contributions were only accepted from M$FT employees. I never went to that website again ⬇️

indexzero@charlie.dev · 9mo ago

What a long strange trip it's been 🐢🚀 Excited for what's cooking for 2027 🗽It won't be what's come before — and that's the point

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