Erik Bosman

@brainsmoke
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Hacker by day, maker by night, artist by accident

Postdoc @ https://www.vusec.net @vusec

githubhttps://github.com/brainsmoke

I'm irrationally happy with this dirty hack to get an object's bounding box in openscad (which sometimes helps speed up calculations.)

https://github.com/brainsmoke/usb_proto/blob/main/case/lib/bbox.scad

Does NPM have Kessler syndrome?
It re-indexed \o/
If you're worried about AI replacing your job, also think about those poor people at the NSA working on data-exfiltration.

I report an AI ad to google claiming to sell 32TB SSDs for less than the price of a bottle of beer.

"We decided not to take this ad down. We found that the ad doesn't go against
Google's policies, which prohibit certain content and practices that we
believe to be harmful to users and the overall online ecosystem."

Same happened before with fake GenAI endorsement ads.

Google Trust & Safety is a joke.

Strangely, I only get these types of ads when I'm at my parents'.

Vibe-coding is a shift-right technology. (Probably in more than one way.)
New keyboard

So, google-chrome is sneakily downloading a >2.5GB local-AI model over my tethered-over-mobile wifi connection without showing up in its task manager.

If the connection gets disrupted (because, you know, it's a tethered connection,) it starts all over again. 🙁