Bit of a heads up, companies are starting to add their own AI prompts to "poison" automated application tools using GenAI and LLMs.
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The AI market is in chaos over DeepSeek—stocks dropping, VCs panicking. How did a small team with limited funds rival billion-dollar US AI giants? Simple: complacency. While big firms rested, DeepSeek innovated, proving agility can outmatch massive budget https://irrelevanthacks.com/2025/01/28/opinions-on-deepseek/
Constraint inspires creativity. When our backs are against the wall we come up with some amazing things. – Opinions on DeepSeek
The AI market is in turmoil following DeepSeek’s emergence, which developed an efficient, low-cost AI model for $6 million, contrasting with the excessive spending of major US firms. This hig…
Mx. Aria StewartEDIT: hired!
Well I guess now's the time: It's time for me to #getFediHired
I'm a software engineer with 29 years of experience. In more technologies than one person usually encounters. I've been working in Javascript and Typescript for a while, but don't let that fool you: I do rust for fun and I'm down in the guts of the runtime in C++ if I have to. I’m fixing include paths in C header files and managing deployments and doing system level tracing. I do embedded programming for fun, and I've picked at the system level APIs of everything from MacOS to Android. I can cleverly hack my way past problems, and isolate the resulting tech debt with a good explanation and the conditions under which it can be fixed.
I leave every codebase neater than I found it. I can manage awkward technology transitions, and I can bring a fair bit of open source know-how to bear on things.
I'm a team-oriented, consensus-focused person, but confident executing on my own and iterating from there. I will boldly start and show a prototype if that's what it takes. I'm not easily bored, so if it just needs a heavy lift, I'm here for that too.
I've worked in PHP, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Rust, C, C++, Vala, Scheme, and a dozen more languages (and I'll learn any new one I need to) and have written truly unfortunate amounts of hardened, careful bash.
I've installed and built VoIP platforms with Asterisk integrations, I've built mail servers and custom authentication. I've built FUSE filesystems for fun, and I'm always after ways to make software simple, durable, and reliable.
Working remotely ideal, Boston/Cambridge is possible.
Got a team that could use me? Hit me up. [email protected]. Resume and letters of recommendation available on request (you really don't have to take my word for what I'm capable of.)
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Thank you to everyone who boosted this. A+, would try to get hired via Fediverse social connections again. Y'all came through.
@deviantollam Hey Deviant. I’m working on a continuation on my airline baggage tag talk from a few years ago. Can you collect a few baggage tags with RFID chips built in them for me? Turns out new tollway tags use the same standard, as do parking garages. So, tollway pass cloning and bypassing private parking garage complex protections might be on the books.
Just need to find out if airlines are putting any information on the tags today, unlike the blank tags from a few years ago.
So, Chicago’s long time and beloved weatherman on WGN, Tom Skilling, is retiring tomorrow February 28th.
Climate: “Hold my beer…”
☕💻🌨️genuinely terrified of what this summer is going to be like.
So @briankrebs seems the skimmer electronics haven’t changed much since 2021 when you wrote your article. Found this today at a local supermarket.
Still the same gecko board and wireless module.
So had an interesting Sunday evening shopping for food. Found this on one of the POS machines in a local supermarket.
Chris EspinosaHey, everybody! Good news! The Blue Lagoon thermal spa reopened today as the risk of volcanic eruption has waned!
(Checks the webcam)
Oh no…
q3k 
I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.
We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.
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