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To be fair, Gemini did try to get me to buy some nucleo144s recently...

(sure, I was working on something embedded, and asked for a recommendation, but it seemed quite intent that it wanted me to use that specific board)


The user agents in that screenshot are fake, nobody would be running Chrome 106 on windows 10... run a php script on every page that checks for valid combinations and 400 the rest.

What about all the o365 outages and windows bugs caused by ai written code?


Theres a lot of weird channels on twitch, I run into ones with "ingest" in their name quite often.

The only benefit I've seen to having a Microsoft account is that I don't have to remember a cd key anymore if I have to reinstall... other than that, what was it actually used for?

They use machine id, shouldn’t need the key to reactivate on reinstall.

But you can move your key across devices -- just de-register the old machine and register on the new one.

I bought a Windows Pro license a decade ago (maybe for Win7) and I'm still using the same license for Windows 11 on a new PC.


I have a hard time believing that Claude instantly figured out this was malware...

I've fed it obfuscated JavaScript before, and it couldn't figure it out... and then there was the time I tried to teach it nftables... whooo boy...


If you read the transcript it repeatedly made the incorrect assertion (hallucinated) that it’s totally normal for Claude Code to use Base64 armoring.

It’s not surprising it can “read” Base64 though; such was demonstrated back in GPT-3 days. Nontrivial obfuscation might not be one-shotted, but Claude has access to a code interpreter and can certainly extract and step through the decoder routine itself as a malware analyst would.

nftables is a different problem though. It’s apparent that if something isn’t well understood—i.e, there are tons of badly-formed examples on StackExchange—LLMs will fail to learn it too. I’ve seen this with things as “simple” as Bash string interpolation rules like ${var:+blah}. More often than not I’m humbled when I think I’ll learn it better and then find myself swearing at poorly-written documentation and patently false Q&A advice.


I think the usual response to that is "have you tried again recently?"

3 weeks ago?

They are really good at this, had codex discover similar malware from another supply chain attack months ago because my laptop was running hot. Actually crazy times we live in, I would certainly not be able to discover this without agent help.

> and then there was the time I tried to teach it nftables

I think this deserves a short story!


My home router is apparently special because I want a private dmz and inbound blocklists... firewalld couldn't do what I wanted, so I tried nftables, and that went down a rabbit hole that made me wish iptables and ipset weren't being replaced.

Except in this case the code wasn't obfuscated, right?

Hard to know with this nondeterministic shit.

I don't believe they actually sold many of those, they had the same lease-only issue as the ev1, with the exception of a few private (ie government) owners...

> But the average consumer doesn't want a general-purpose computer for this job; they instead want to buy a "router".

So start your own company called usa router co, and sell some random arm board with a preinstalled router image... the end user won't know the difference.


Oh, for sure. That's easy enough; it's what GL.inet does: They sell router-shaped computers that run a skinned openwrt -- out of the box. (There's been some questions about GPL compliance over the years, but that's a separate issue.)

And superficially, it sounds like a straight-forward thing for me or anyone else to do here in the states, but things get murky quickly: What differentiates a foreign-made router from a US-made router?

Can I get some flunky push the button in his studio apartment in Idaho to flash open (but globally-sourced!) firmware onto some boxes from Alibaba (in exchange for startup promises) and call that good enough?

Do I have to spin up the boards here in the States? And the ICs, too? How about the passive jelly-bean parts like the capacitors and resistors and the antennas?

What of the rest of the device? Like, things such as the housing, the packaging, the power supply, and the included ethernet cable: Do I need to source those from domestic US production or is it OK if they're foreign-made components?

Do I have to produce the software in the States? (If so, Linux is right out.)

Where is the line drawn? How is the line shaped?


Has Microsoft fixed teams crashing outlook? It's been broken since Wednesday, and the last thing I heard on Friday was that they were going to wait until Monday... really goes to show how much Microsoft cares these days...

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