Brad Ackerman

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Security engineering in Azure Edge + Platform. Mostly cat pictures by volume.
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“In business theory, the perfect firm is one that charges infinity for its products and pays zero for its inputs (you know, "scholarly publishing"). For bosses, AI is a way to shift their firm towards this ideal.” @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/
Pluralistic: AI “journalists” prove that media bosses don’t give a shit (11 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Salty today.

Donk. This Foone is under new management:

I'm Alice Averlong now.

Kyōko has a better opinion of this week than I do. #cats #cat #猫

A'ight. The whole vibecoding thing deserves a chance to prove itself.

So here's something that I haven't seen done sufficiently well by regular coders; if AI is truly that much more innovative, it shouldn't have any problem.

One of the problems with compute is the whole billing and scheduling thing - a lot of places have specific cost-per-hour to run batch processing; a lot of large enterprises have complex pipelines that need scheduling in order to interleave things that need processing with resources available to process them.

So a vibe coder who's confident they can prove themselves could create a utility that can look at a given program's binary, analyze it, and determine how long it will take to run, and calculate the cost to run it. Do this within 1% of actual and you'll have a truly innovative new product.

Voting with your feet works. But honestly, don't look back. It's better elsewhere.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/883852/discord-age-verification-global-walkback-delay

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout

Discord will delay a planned global rollout of age verification for accounts accessing restricted content, promising more options and transparency.

The Verge
If you beat up the firefox team long enough you actually get the required controls.

Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.

So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc

As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

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This is such a great #photo! The unnamed #photographer had a couple of options when #Epstein's victims were asked to raise their hands if they were still awaiting to meet with the #DOJ. With #PamBondi in the foreground, they could totally have used a different #focal length to get everyone into #focus. But they deliberately choose to focus on the victims, leaving #Bondi blurred out. This is the beauty and genius of #photography, how one technical decision changes everything.
A late 19th century novel set in ancient Rome, issued in a special edition of 23 scrolls in a Roman-style carrying case. https://www.dorotheum.com/cz/l/9876563/