Steve Battista

@alilleybrinker.com at MCPcin in San Jose. Any chance you attending?

Can anyone answer this? I thought keys had to be prime numbers. How can a private key be 4?

I ordered The Oddesy. I want to read the book before the movie. I don’t want to spoil the ending. Is 3,000 years too much to ask?

Me as a kid: Nobody could figure out who Batman was Me as an adult: He drives to crime scenes so he is local. He needs to have a ton of money. He also can’t have a day job as he is up all night. Gee, who could it be?

Me as a child: How does Batman have time to do everything? Me as an adult: Man, Batman's life is easy. No childcare, eldercare, commuting, long work hours, budgeting ,cooking, cleaning and taking care of a house. He has plenty of time to be a superhero.

There is a game called universal paperclip about an out of control AI that convert the universe into paperclips. I'm currently using the comet browser to have an AI play the game. It's weird.

While I have no proof:

Me: I'm not a nerd. Anyone else: So how do you keep lists of stuff that needs to be fixed at the house? Me: I'm running my own GitLab container in Proxmox with a private OAuth server to log in and multi site backup. The items are issues under a project named home. Anyone else: Exactly...

Update your iPhones, iPads and Macs. A new Apple software update went out fixing a zero-day security flaw under attack. "Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals." support.apple.com/en-us/124925

Bally Astrocade – 8 bits OS/360 - 32 bits VAX -16 bits DOS - 16 bits Windows 3.1 - 16 bits Windows XP - 32 bits BSD -32 bits Win 8 or greater - 64 bits Many. many Linux versions 32-64 bits Now Debain 13 came out with no 32-bit support. It looks like 32-bit systems are on the way out.

It was the hardest thing to do. Not buy a desktop with a graphics card to run my own LLM. I succeeded this time.

Paramount + Stopped working with my Roku. Looks like there is a ton of tracking that goes on that tracks the videos you see. Had to allow several sites though my PiHole.

It is amazing how I can go from: "Wow the AI writes code well all I have to do is review it. It is so faster than my typing" to "Why am I waiting 3 min to make 100 changes to my code"

Why can't I save everyone? I know that's crazy talk. That is what I want to do. I know I can't. Doesn't mean I won't do my best to do so.

I used to wait for a complier, now I wait for the LLM...

Why is compiling a #Rust program that needs Perl and OpenSSL so hard in Windows? Any tips?

It is so satisfying to write something and have the time to build security controls into it so that it is sturdy. It is nice to develop hobby projects because you don’t have that viable minimum product pressure.

First experience with “vibe coding” definitely sped up my development. Needed to intervene for some of the more complicated areas. Still needed to understand and test code to make sure it worked as intended. Secure design and threat model had to be human. Documentation was easy

Me: I'm going to workout. Brain: I have a great idea, we need to work on this now! Me: .... Brain: Come on... Me: Stop bothering me. I'll get to it soon...

Proud to share this from my co-workers.

Finding purpose at work.

Man, just watched the Dark Mirror episode on the brain implant. Dark stuff. This is why I don’t want to work for a company whose goal is just profit. If everyone just did that, humanity wouldn’t survive.

#rust So, I found what I think is a bug in Rust. When running on the command line, this code only returns up to 1020 files but it returns all files in a VScode terminal. How can I report this? for entry in fs::read_dir(dir_path)?

Caturday: Mockingbird scares my cat (wait until end)

Does this happen to you? Me: Happily doing some home task. My brain: You know when you added one to that number you can overflow that 128 bit unsigned int? Me: what are the odds of that happening? My brain: Never, but you’re going to have to fix it right now.

Overheard in the lab:

Today's biggest threat to F-18 fighters is... *Checks Notes* The Red Sea. Seriously, I'm glad no one was hurt. On the other hand, new F-18 support package has dropped "water wings":

Me: I’ll just look up all of the subnets inside the CIDR I’m given. Data: Here is 0.0.0.0/0 Data: next up is ::/0

#rustlang TFW you are starting to learn about async and realize that you should have used it rather than pure multi-threading for your application.

Why do I have so much compassion? It would be so much easier if I just cared less. The good news is that it forces me to try everything to both meet objectives and take care of people.

For all of my friends at @bsidessf.org and @rsaconference.bsky.social I’ll try and catch you next year. Just couldn’t make it this year

Me: Chat GPT please create 5 bullets of what I did this week in a Beasty boys rap Monday hit, I was up at dawn / Laptop open, coffee strong! Tuesday cruisin’, beats on blast / Workin’ hard, but havin’ a blast!

Pizza night. Home made dough and sauce.

Looking though adresses an saw a /48!

Better than cage free? I guess they are hidden around the store? I'll never find them

I think Bruce and Hidi are stopping #Schmoocon because they don't want to re-enginer the ticket process beacuse next year somone will write an LLM to answer the question automatically. BTW anyone have the last 10 years of questions?

In D.C We only get serious snowstorms once every two to three years. We have some snow plows but it does not make finincal sense to have the same as more northen cities. Our public transit will shut down if there is 8 inches of snow. www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

I have a ticket though work to #Schmoocon but my partner is at another conference in Orlando. Any ideas on how to bring my 13 year old daughter along?

Who has two thumbs and just wasted 2 hours?

We are excited to announce #Trump has nominated our very own Park Jin Hyok as director of the #FBI.