In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.

Declared inbox bancruptcy and archived 13k conversations. GMail is very very buggy when mass archiving stuff.

Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/

I wonder why every LLM provider insists in having their own CLI agent. Can I have a merge between codex, Gemini-cli and Claude code with swappable models plz?

The French crown jewels stolen from the Louvre are steeped in history — and priceless. What happens when they make it to the black market?

Making a firm commitment to asking the question that reveals ignorance until said ignorance is gone

3/ NSO also emerges from the WhatsApp v NSO case with just an absolute TON of their business splashed all over the court records.. Ouch E.g. check out the filings from Sept 15th 2025: www.courtlistener.com/docket/16395...

2/ Altho massive punitive damages jury award against NSO Group ($167m) got reduced by the court, as is expected in cases where it is so large (to 9x compensatory damages)... This is likely cold comfort to NSO since I think the injunction seriously dims value of NSO's spyware product.

#hexacon closing presentation from amnesty international about abuse of offensive tools in Serbia, Hungary, and the use of such tools by ICE. Strong choice, very good conference.

There's an argument to be made that this new security research from Anthropic also has copyright implications. www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

I did some science today, and it looks good, and I'll leave this computer to do some computing, but I am pretty happy about what I am seeing.

We talk about teaching coding in school but what about the fundamentals of CAD/CAM and at least one multi-part assembly?

Today's experiment: What shape will a deep neural network learn if trained on the sparse set of training points on the left? Will it learn a circle?

I'll be at Hexacon next week in Paris. If you want to meet to chat about security, AI, data compression, efficient computing, profiling, eBPF, or anything else that's interesting: Hit me up.

Kinda wild to think the Berkshire's 350bn cash pile is likely in T-Bills, and that 350bn is almost 1% of the 37Tn in total US debt. Berkshire alone holds 1% of US debt.

The US Army in 1945 also noted that fascistic political figures would seek to whip up animosity toward disfavored groups like Black people, religious minorities, and the foreign born, creating "convenient scapegoats" to rile up their followers. bsky.app/profile/seth...

I remember just sending an invoice and getting paid in the 2000s. When did we lose that technology and why do I have to click through 20 screens and set up 2 accounts nowadays?

This is kinda wild, but kinda good?

Kinda wild that the insignias of the iron front are now deemed "far left". I mean c'mon, the SPD was always center-left, the iron front was "centrists to protect the democratic constitution of Weimar against fascist takeover". That's not far left, that's "I want democracy".

⚡️ Zelenskyy says the world is slowly starting to “forgive Putin for this war.” He told Sky News that Putin stalls talks to delay sanctions, ramp up arms production, and chip away at his isolation.

A new Sicherheitshalber episode is online! We do a deep dive into the German defence industry (things have been changing!) and talk about the need for more Bundeswehr personell.

Your dose of (not very pretty) truth for the day.

I was on EPSD's "Velocity's edge" podcast and had a great discussion with Nick Selby and Chris Swan about organisational scar tissue, decision records, writing things down, and "Murders & Acquisitions". open.spotify.com/episode/1HTS...

I'm still tracking down broken things in various accounts from an international move over 2 years ago.

Google Family Calendars: Typical Google product design: can't have family members in more than one country. *Facepalm* Google is so great at infra and so utterly shit at product.

The political discourse in the US will argue that "Bella Ciao" is a radically left-wing song. It's not, it's the song of everybody that opposed the fascists. Opposing fascism is not radical left-wing. JFYI.

I have often stated that well-implemented memory tagging will be a game changer for memory corruptions. And it seems that with the next iPhone it's finally here: security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n... M'fckrs

Ich wollte algebraische Geometrie lernen, war aber zu unbegarbt.

I'm on the Gentleman Hackers podcast :)) youtu.be/rf_lN754ZBU?...

I was on a really interesting podcast: youtu.be/pOMKDQWN7mw?...

"auf die sheafe Bahn gekommen - wie algebraische Geometrie fast mein Leben ruinierte"

Reading the trial of Darda USA Inc. vs Majorette USA is fascinating: law.justia.com/cases/federa... - a lot of discussion about how the Darda motor was an ingeniuous invention.

Reality has a surprising amount of detail, and ... 1) it seems the Darda motors of my childhood where great and are still functional today, 40 years later. 2) The company sold itself to an international buyer and moved production to China in the early 2000s and quality went to shit. ...

Kinda crazy how low quality the hot wheels tracks are. Darda-bahn is really the way superior product, someone should do a big marketing push for them.

- A small demo asciicast is here: asciinema.org/a/734843 - xintr is already available in the 0x.tools repo (xstack/xintr.*) but it's an early prototype that I plan to rewrite, once everything makes sense to me :-)

Today I have a more serious topic than usual, please consider reposting for reach: My wife and I are urgently looking for a specialist in neuropediatrics or a similar field for our autistic child with a diagnosed, but not further specified, movement disorder [1/4]

We also know how to fix it. Unfortunately the fix is hands-on, individualized mentorship. That requires more teachers and more resources. It’s harder so teachers should be compensated better.

We know that we are doing assessment wrong. We do it because education is driven by the wrong incentives and bad regulations. Education is under-resourced, requiring larger classes that require scalable assessments.

Life's good. Got a surf in at 7 am, harvested two hands full of wild blackberries on the walk back, daughter taking swimming lesson by the beach now & I am watching the crowded peak while drinking a decaf (giving up caffeine has been great for me, at least for now).

"When did the people you met on other people's computers stop being friends?" #WHY2025 #Hackers xkcd.com/3128/

Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths: arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033

A research team from Tsinghua University, Stanford University, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. has developed the first deterministic algorithm since 1984 that improves on the long-standing O(m + n log n) bound for finding the shortest paths from a single starting point to all

Discussing math with ChatGPT on long car drives is fun, but man, even GPT-5 is still confidently wrong on relatively simple geometric questions. It's also very very bad at contradicting anything the user says. It's still a great rubber duck, but at least these models under common compute ...

This is the 2nd time I agree with Merz. Considering that for 25 years prior to him becoming chancellor I never agreed with him on anything, that's quite a track record.

In reaction to Netanyahu‘s latest Gaza plans Merz announces suspension of German weapons exports that could be used in Gaza. Merz also „urgently demands“ that Israeli government stops any steps toward annexing West Bank. Netanyahu only has himself to blame for this rupture.

Probably the most concise explanation bsky.app/profile/quan...

Every time you share the “3 Bs in blueberry thing” and no one explains its relation to tokenizers, you help everyone get just a tiny bit less informed