guardiangod

그저께discuss

Linus always backs up his insults with technical reasonings on why the other side is wrong though. You might not agree with his reasons, but at least he provided them.

guardiangod

그저께discuss

>Posting it in this sprawling, mean form was dumb.

Thank you for putting my thoughts in words I can never string together so well.

I too would just stash the letter in my ZFS dropbox and never let it see the light of day again.

The letter reads like a husband who was just served a divorce notice from his wife. The man is angry, and wants everyone to know that he is not angry, and he is very much not bothered by the whole affair even though he has misgivings since the first day of marriage.

The letter would be much more convincing if it has any technical rebuttal against the decision.

guardiangod

3일 전discuss

The 711s in Japan let you print color postcards from memory card for ~$1 USD . I would take photos with my camera, go to the copier machine in a 711 (they are everywhere), print the postcards, and sometimes buy the stamps from the cashier. Some stores don't have postcard specific stamps. Just ask for stamps in equivalent value 100 yen.

guardiangod

5일 전discuss

Given a powerful enough AI with enough outlays (eg. a Playwright instant), can an AI cheat by influencing the real world and self-fulfil its prediction?

Eg. Is corp ABC's stock price going to go down by 10% in 30 days?

Orchestrate a disinformation campaign on the 29th day to tank ABC's stock price.

guardiangod

8일 전discuss

Truly a picture is worth a thousand words.

guardiangod

19일 전discuss

Not sure but I'd assume so. You can also setup your own Wireguard exit nodes on VPS/cloud.....or in your friends' homes.

guardiangod

지난달discuss

I am using LLM to build some security tool, and I ran into this a few times. I have to come up with a reasoning to convince (?!!) Fable to continue the work without downgrading.

I assume Anthropic will continue to tune the model, so I am not too bothered by this.

guardiangod

지난달discuss

I ran 5 external USB + SMR hard disks in RAIDZ 5 for 10 years. The only thing I had to change was to use Highpoint's enterprise level USB controllers- commercial USB controllers from Realtek and Renasus are junk and will drop the drives after a while.

Even then, I had multiple cases where files were corrupted, and once the whole array refused to be online due to corrupted metadata. I had to make ZFS to replay the journal log with undocumented commands. Sometimes it takes a few days of hair-rising recovery but I always manage to get the array back intact.

The files that are corrupted are always extremely large files (>50 GB) with many small read/writes (eg. iSCSI image files.)

It's pretty impressive how resilient ZFS is, really, given I had what likely to be the worst possible hardware combination.

guardiangod

지난달discuss

ESL and I got 512 WPM and 75%. I don't agree with the 1 wrong answer but I digress.

Reading fast means you can take in more info per unit of time. It can be a useful ability, if tedious at times.

guardiangod

지난달discuss

Because all the educated Indians moved to US and contributed to the American economy, versus the Chinese who get educated in America, then move back to China to work there.

English is a major reason- Indians are just better at speaking English than Chinese and thrives in corporate America. Whereas mainland Chinese couldn't climb the corporate ladder and have to seek better opportunities back in China.

Find me a tech executive in a Big Tech firm who is from mainland China. You can't find one. Both Lisa Su of AMD and Jensen Huang of Nvidia are Taiwanese immigrants who grew up in US in the 70s and thus speak fluent English.

guardiangod

3개월 전discuss

I just want to contrast this article on AWS to its Azure counterpart- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242.

2 companies have functionally similar products, but behaves completely different. One company makes technical decisions with security as the fundamental principal, while for the other company, security is not a consideration.

guardiangod

3개월 전discuss

Having it running on host (!), and the metadata for all guest VMs stored and managed by the same memory/service (!!), with no clear security boundary (!!!).

It's like storing all your nuke launch codes in the same vault, right in the middle of Washington DC national mall. Things are okay, until they are not okay.

guardiangod

3개월 전discuss

As someone who had worked adjacent to the functionally-same components (and much more) at your biggest competitor, you have my sympathy.

Running 167 agents in the accelerator? My gawd that would never fly at my previous company. I'd get dragged out in front of a bunch of senior principals/distinguished and drawn and quartered.

And 300k manual interventions per year? If that happened on the monitoring side , many people (including me) would have gotten fired. Our deployment process might be hack-ish, but none of it involved a dedicated 'digital escort' team.

I too have gotten laid off recently from said company after similar situation. Just take a breath, relax, and realize that there's life outside. Go learn some new LLM/AI stuff. The stuff from the last few months are incredible.

We are all going to lose our jobs to LLM soon anyway.

guardiangod

4개월 전discuss

Thoughts:

- Local LLM, with a powerful debugger as its oracle, is now powerful enough to run rudimentary malware analysis without consulting with external sources.

- More complex malwares are still beyond what local LLMs can handle. The local LLM can see all the behaviors by the malware, but the LLM fails to put the analysis together to deduce the true intention of a binary.

- Local LLM is a very lost-cost way to do malware analysis (about 5 US cents of electricity.)

- The biggest killer-app feature is having the LLM writes its analysis back to Ghidra. The more you interact with the LLM, the more data it will write back to Ghidra. This could potentially saves hours per manual debugging by skipping function/resources/variables labeling.

guardiangod

4개월 전discuss

The "NemoClaw vs. OpenClaw" section is absolutely ridiculous.

  OpenClaw vs NemoClaw (NVIDIA)
  Developer  Peter Steinberger (individual project) vs NVIDIA Corporation
  Current Status  Acquired by OpenAI (Feb 2026) vs Upcoming release (GTC 2026)
  Target Market  General-purpose consumer AI assistant vs Enterprise AI agent platform
  Core Strength  Rapid deployment, viral adoption vs Security, privacy, enterprise reliability
  Ecosystem  Community-driven (NanoClaw variants) vs NVIDIA NeMo & NIM integration
  Governance  Transitioning to foundation management vs NVIDIA-backed with open-source access
  GPU Acceleration  Not natively optimized vs Native NVIDIA GPU acceleration

NemoClaw is not even out yet, so who knows what it might look like. I guess if you sprinkle the word 'Nvidia' around enough, your product is automatically better than the rest.

I don't even like OpenClaw, but this is just silly.

https://nemoclaw.bot/claw-ecosystem-overview.html

  NemoClaw  NVIDIA (Python/NeMo)  Enterprise-grade Security Platform  Built-in privacy tools, compliance, GPU acceleration  Enterprise server architecture

guardiangod

9개월 전discuss

>wasted much of it on insurance or overhead.

Insurance and overhead (eg. safety harass) exist for a reason other than to drain your wallet. Roofing is also a physically difficult job. You won't find many 50+ year old to couch on a rooftop all day, regardless of pays.

guardiangod

9개월 전discuss

Well since the 787 program will very likely never break even, let alone turn in profit, for Boeing, the 737's replacement will be a do or die project for Boeing. They cannot afford another money-losing product.

guardiangod

10개월 전discuss

>The company is also asking UK government officials to provide emergency support for its suppliers to get through this period, according to people close to the talks.

The support is going to suppliers, who are the true victim, but it's privatize the gain, socialize the cost. JFR screwed up, so they should be the first to step up to assist the suppliers.

guardiangod

10개월 전discuss

>You immediately arrest have any employee interfering with emergency response and throw them in jail.

Imagine that you work for a 3 letter US agency and is storing confidential data on AWS. Would you allow random individuals (yes even for emergency personnel) to have unfetter access to your computation and storage systems? What about health data? What about data belonging to other countries? Do you do a sweep for unauthorized remote access device after the incident?

guardiangod

3년 전discuss

Things Windows 10 has to content with when executing a new binary, that Windows 3.51 didn't

1. Windows Defender anti-virus checking the binary and contacting MS' server for binary signing/black list

2. Kernel32 trampolines

3. All sorts of security mitigation techniques such as stack cookies setup etc.

4. Telemetry

5. Hardware accelerated GUI initiation vs 'dump everything to frame buffer in kernel GUI32 library'

6. Load fonts, graphics etc. that can work well beyond 640x480

7. Deal with the scheduler juggling hundreds of processes that let you from accessing winsock2 lib immediately, to have multiplex sound mixing, to system restore, all in the background.

guardiangod

Submissions

New York City high rise at risk of collapsing

Scanning malicious websites with 'infinite' number of VPN tunnels (Part 1)

China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 NTSB Documents

Building a LLM honeyport that monitors all 65535 ports

Using local LLM and Ghidra to analyze malware (Part 2)

Using local LLM and Ghidra to analyze malware

Minesweeper but It's the Strait of Hormuz

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