Siguza

@siguza@infosec.space
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iOS hacker, security researcher, 0day enthusiast.
Sometimes RE tools / jailbreak / write-up author.
And accidental maintainer of ever more things I didn't ask for.

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thinkingoutside the box

🚨Today #Google increases prices by ~20% 🚨

❤️ While we offer 50% discount. ❤️

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state of google in 2025
X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk’s Platform

Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.

The New York Times

The irony is that dev teams who work in ways that appear to get the best results from LLMs - small steps, prompting with tests, rapid feedback loops, continuous testing, code review and integration, and good separation of concerns - have little need for the tools.

They're like healing crystals that work if you get a good night's sleep, drink plenty of water, eat a healthy balanced diet and run 5 km a day.

Looked at the logs for an old forum I host, and out of 39 unique IPs that were hitting it within a 15min time frame:

  • 26 were from Huawei (AS136907)
  • 6 from Tencent (AS132203)
  • 2 from what looks like Brazilian ISPs
  • 1 from HINET (AS3462)
  • 1 from Datacamp (AS212238)
  • 3 from crawlers that identified themselves via User-Agent

Except for the last bullet point, all were abusive. And all the ASes I listed were easy blocks, only the Brazilian thing is annoying (I've read that this might be relaying traffic through what's essentially embedded malware in end user software...).

There is a new setting for server operators in #Mastodon 4.4, under Administration -> Server Settings -> Discovery, called "Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source". If you're running a server for a larger group of people there is no privacy downside to enabling this, and it will help make the fediverse more visible as a traffic source to the rest of the web.

xAI updated Grok to be anti-woke and it’s started calling itself “MechaHitler.”

No better summary of the worldview of people who describe themselves as anti-woke. Even AI figured that out.

here's our statement contextualizing the action that was released shortly after our action (we were both free within a bit over an hour)

At this point, it really does look like the key to keeping LLMs on the rails in your dev workflow is:

* Small feedback cycles, solving one problem at a time
* Prompting with test cases/usage examples
* Continuous testing
* Continuous code review & refactoring
* Continuous integration
* Effective separation of concerns in the design

LOL.

What you've got here is essentially the engineering practices of Extreme Programming.

It could even be argued this is a statistical case for their efficacy.

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@greg
Good #emoji proposal!

I always worry how they’ll “read” at 18 px

If someone has to pick them out of a lineup the colour is great, but such things may need some perfect design for people to see what they are

See FAX MACHINE 📠? ROLODEX 📇? PAGER 📟?

(Thank you 2000s emoji developers)

We just did PHONOGRAPH but got denied too 😔

Tried to simplify the image

Maybe they didn’t like the trademark Grammy/RCA confusion?

Or our comparing w/ other emoji
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/an0z2lff1106uav3fhhat/Proposal-for-Emoji_-PHONOGRAPH-RECORD-PLAYER-July-30.pdf?rlkey=gbh7mz16ylwac71nm8cqb1al7&st=27pzloxj&dl=0

@AccordionBruce Ah that's unfortunate! I reviewed the big list of denied proposals and there's quite a lot in there, so I don't have much hope in this one getting through. But at least I can say I tried :)

@greg
Pretty sure the 🪗 will be the most widely seen accomplishment of my life

Until/unless my kids do something fabulously famous/infamous

@greg
Totally worth doing the proposals either way. I love the genre combination of “Serious academic research grant” and “Please let billions of people use my tiny cartoon” 🙏🏼
#emoji