Ricardo Martins
@ricardomartins.dev
someone who dislikes writing about themself in the third person. does computer nonsense for a living. occasionally locked into a meat suit. 📍 Algarve, Portugal
someone saw the phrase "random IV" and thought it was roman numerals
🚨 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.
eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
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Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.
your strategy of actually solving the issue pales in comparison to my strategy of having meetings about it. fuck you!
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2026 is wild because you can just say shit like this and everyone will be like "oh yeah, the text elementals, that's a good phrase for what they are" instead of looking at you like jesse what the fuck
right, count on me to forget to mention the key detail: apparently some devices just… default to using the best encryption level that’s being advertised in the ssid (which is good) regardless of the actual bssid they’re targeting (which is bad)
Ricardo Martins@ricardomartins.dev · 2w agotoday’s cursed knowledge: don’t mix access points advertising the same ssid with different subsets of WPA
today’s cursed knowledge: don’t mix access points advertising the same ssid with different subsets of WPA
it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"
Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick@shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 2w agoHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
Remember, at its base, the AI boom is about companies telling you they'd rather burn trillions of dollars in a furnace than pay you decent wages in exchange for the ability pursue their sci-fi and slavery fantasies.
did you know? crackle, pop and snap are named after the noises my knees make
Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
running qwen3.8 flash next on consumer hardware at decent speed is just wild. absolutely bonkers.
just created an account in hugging face and I noticed something in the profile section… "Set your P(doom)", eh? really? y'all need to go out, touch grass and stop letting the text generator have access to important stuff. stop shirking your responsibilities as technologists.
this is what software developers are agreeing to and it's so obviously ludicrous the second you see it recontextualised
Sal Cap0ne@salimotxo.bsky.social · 2w agoInterviewed for travel content writer, piece of cake, done it all my life. Hours and fee agreeable to everyone involved. Afterwards I was sent the detailed job spec, which included this. Um sorry what
our laziness is what allows us as humans to say no, and this helps us push back against complexity @bcantrill.bsky.social #monktoberfest
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
![Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?
Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.
You’re right, that does sound grim.
Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.
I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qnyq7wies2uc56bzqmfz4q25/bafkreief4hu7c6hd6ymgqnsaejlaipfuj7fq4ka2tkix72pionkb3dkkdy)
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"A.I. is making me a better doctor. And I worry that it’s making doctors-in-training worse."
Opinion | Being a Doctor Will Never Be the Same After A.I.
I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.
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conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · last mo.it feels like every field — engineering, natural science, social science, humanities — has basically the same problems around AI, with the same solutions, yet everyone talks like their problems are due to the unique character of their field
This is an unpopular take but as a neurodivergent self-employed person, LLM's have been an unbelievably helpful tool for the things I have struggled with my whole adult life: managing my finances, filling out paperwork, and staying on top of my email. I'm functional in a way I never dreamed of.
despite/because of the warnings against it, I watched the rails world keynote and uh… that will take me a while to unpack totally get why people would want to purge their memories of having watched it
Ugh, hearing Nick Bostrom talk about LLMs as if they have different levels of "cognitive sophistication" just doesn't sit well with me. Stop anthropomorphising programs this way, damn it.