Running through this repo to help reprogram a cheap android photo frame. github.com/wesbos/photo-fram…
We can perhaps now swing the balance of hw ownership back to real ownership.
Anyone manage to get into the Nest Protect gear? 🤔 A friend has one and Goog discontinued them.
Claude's "cyber" guardrail warning might as well just say, "Yeah, we know you'll get this done elsewhere, but we can't have you fucking up this IPO for us. We trying to make it RAIN! Sorry, not sorry."
Apollo's chief economist titled a September note "Is an Agentic Bank Run Coming?"
AI agents could sweep household cash out of 0.1% checking into accounts paying 3.3% to 5%, and banks could lose the cheap deposits they lend from.
I animated what that looks like for one household.
The longer piece covers why household cash sits still in the first place, and why this future isn't waiting on a smarter model.
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I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
My Mac used to have two kinds of processes, stuff in the background, and the thing I was looking at.
Agents bounce between those all day now. It's completely normal for me to hear a notification sound and have no idea which app, terminal, or agent sent it.
As exciting as last week was for all the scary reasons, it was also exciting for the positive ones.
This morning I spun up a session and asked it to tell me my Tailscale exposure. Last week I had Claude run the table on DigitalOcean boxes and out-of-date PHP versions.
Both sides level up.
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Claude's seeming desire to spin up text file Artifacts kills me every time. why would I ever just want text when it could create a more visually communicative and compelling html artifact?
I've noticed recently that when asking AI to do research, it no longer just blindly repeats what it finds on the internet. It will flag if it's sources are also competitors in the space. Interesting and entirely predictable evolution.
We don't talk enough about the value of an agent to just open that email that's been sitting in your inbox for longer than it should, fill out that form and draft a reply. *chef's kiss*
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
I just accidentally typed the vi quit command `:q` into claude and it, surprising, quit. I'm both not surprised and also absolutely mind blown both at the same time.
All the companies trying to ride the line of open-source/freemium are fascinating. "Hey! Don't pay for Linear/Jira/Granola! Use this open-source tool... with a convoluted commercial structure so we can have our cake and eat it too."
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First they came for the software engineers, I said nothing for I was not a software engineer.
Then they came for the mathematicians, I said nothing for I was not a mathematician.
Then they came for the product managers and I said "make sure you get all the product managers"
