@DaveMWilburn my understanding of mquery is a bit of a different use case: you can index a large set of files and then can get hits for a given YARA rules fast.

MalShare on the other hand had a set of YARA rules and scanned all incoming files with them. The challenge was stability: YARA does some crazy stuff to be fast in the generic case and performance sometimes tanks in very special cases. And a project like MalShare will ultimately find those cases (and did).

@G33KatWork I've been wanting to switch away from Fusion far many years now. But every time I try, the alternatives are so different that I can't get anything done.

Is FreeCAD cool? I think last time, I tried OpenSCAD.

@xabean I know that I'm quite active and do a lot of things but I'm also very aware of burnout and it's early warning signs and *knocksonwood* I think I can dodge that bullet.

But this is a good segue: I would call myself quite organized, you know GTD, todo lists, checkmarks, weekly reviews, that kind of stuff. And this always helped me a lot setting expectations for myself which IMHO is in important part of avoiding burning yourself out. Because in the end the time you invest into doing $thing is pretty much a zero-sum game: anything you do takes away from you doing something else.

I am a bit extrem in that regard even: if someone tells me they "didn't find the time to do X", it translates to "X wasn't important enough" in my head. That's fine ofc because everyone has different priorities. But it will also mean that I will probably never find the 4-8 hours to write up a post about $thing. Or to phrase it differently: publishing a blog post about $thing is just not important enough for me. And this will lead to "then simply don't do it" from your message.

On the "half-finished post" though: I am a firm believer in prototyping and "putting stuff out there" asap. So one could say I really don't discount my audience, the opposite actually: you'd sometimes need to go through quite a lot of raw-ness.

And to circle back to the beginning of your post: I am interested in the "you problem" here. Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked my initial question. You know, I could have written a blog post instead ;-).

Can we maybe leave the meta-discussion for a sec: what part of AI usage do you (personally) hate? I assess the time save of letting AI generate the text of a post minimal, so certainly wouldn't do that. But there's online research one can automate, review passes, spell checking, todo lists for topics to write about, motivational things like coming up with a challenge/timetable, that kind of stuff. Some of that is probably so invisible to the content consumer, that you wouldn't care but others things (like reviewing for example) would. Feel free to be an entitled jerk :-).

@xabean I'm sorry that this triggers you. I am happy to compile a list of stuff I would write about (it would just take some time). I was trying to avoid this allegation by giving a very concrete example (the form letter thing, which is also not very haxxor, none of that stuff is BTW) but that didn't seem to have helped.

Can you express what the problem with the vibe is? Is it about the "ask for permission"-aspect of my post? (https://ideophone.org/dont-seek-permission-center-values/ is a great piece on that topic IMHO). Or to even dig deeper a bit: what do you mean with vibe exactly here? Because for my definition of "vibe" you basically called me weird and I would like to believe of myself that I am not ;-).