Mastodawn

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?

eviljonny Mar 16

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

eviljonny Mar 2

Christine Lemmer-Webber Mar 1

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.

eviljonny Feb 26

This seems.....bad? Very bad? Incredibly bad?

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules

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.

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eviljonny Feb 25

@relistan Yeah, ext4. For quite a few years I always used XFS (and it was the filesystem of choice many moons ago when I worked at Zen Internet (prior to that it was ReiserFS, those getting corrupt happened often enough we just called it Reiser Jam and presumed it wasn't worth a filesystem repair)). These days I mainly just let the OS do its default (if I had to reinstall it\s not the end of the world, everything important is off device and I have ansible setup scripts to get it working again)

eviljonny Feb 25

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

eviljonny Feb 24

Rebane Feb 24

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/

eviljonny Feb 23

Aeon of Cruft #FantasyPeelSessions

eviljonny Feb 20

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.

eviljonny Feb 20

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!