Mike Siegel

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I do various offsec stuff.
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RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116325123136895805

One of the things I've always wondered from when these things first started writing code: how the fuck do they balance parenthesis?

It sounds like a simple problem, but based on my rudimentary understanding isn't something an LLM is super well suited to.

I had a suspicion there was some deterministic syntax validation mechanism for source code... This strengthens this belief.

New Numbers Station just dropped.

Each message starts with the Farsi word for "attention" followed by what is assumed to be some header information as two 5-digit groups. Then there is a set of 181 five-digit groups. Each message is padded out to take...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5r

OS: When were you born?

Me: I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan, located on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal

Age verification clearly doesn't belong into #systemd. We should have never merged this. Instead this should be incrementally added to the kernel itself. I'm doing my part:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260401-i-hope-someone-believes-this-is-real-04f24e03944e@brauner

[PATCH] vfs: require verified birth date for file creation - Christian Brauner

The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good.

I'm spending hours per day on this now. It's intense.

One of my personal dooms day scenarios (of which there are many) is "What if someone finds a critical BGP vuln?"

Unknown if IOS/NX-OS repos were compromised but it's fun to think about. I have a weird idea of "fun" I suppose.

A constant theme is that cyberpunk protagonists have apartments (or rental pods). Case, Adam Jensen, V. Probably because they don't want to deal with Condo Associations.
One of my most frequently used git settings: alias.oops = commit --amend --no-edit