@eviljonny

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Library lovery, SRE, coder, theatre lover, Retro Gamer and tinkerer, Oscar & BAFTA winner, and lover of the Oxford Comma. He/Him #GoBills #BillsMafia

Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

What will they think of next?

I've finally been forced to upgrade to Tahoe, and oh my lord, there's plenty that's just change, and that's fine, but like, what's going on with simple things like calculator, wtf is with this button layout in the header

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116154291574332497

> We're entering an era where AI agents attack other AI agents. In this campaign, an AI-powered bot tried to manipulate an AI code reviewer into committing malicious code. The attack surface for software supply chains just got a lot wider.

Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. ◆ Truffle Security Co.

Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.

Oh dear, my Ubuntu laptops root filesystem went readonly.... Rebooting lands me in busybox initramfs....

Turns out my root filesystem was so fudged it needed a manual fsck. Just saying yes to everything it wanted to do seems to have got things booting again at least

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

Aeon of Cruft #FantasyPeelSessions

MS Teams is such a weird bit of software. Join a meeting with 70 people but you aren't muted by default.

I don't have permission to see the chat, but I do have permission to admit absolutely anyone into the meeting.

I've been reading a lot lately, and I've read several wonderful but miserable things in a row. It's definitely time for something fun!
Pronouncing Copilot as copy-lot