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Andy Newton | Doer of stuff, arguer of things | PE @ ICANN | ART AD @ IETF | Organizer @ NoVaLUG | WorkCamp @ Saint James
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LLMs seem to be confused by reverse dns domains and IP hierarchy.
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I have hit peak 2026: using an AI agent to write specification files for other AI agents.
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Reply to @paulehoffman@infosec.exchange
@paulehoffman @bagder Welcome to the world of automated trial and error and brute force logic engineering. And I am not trying to be snide or dismissive. This video from Adafruit was an eye-opener for me: https://youtu.be/iDKODpuzXmo?si=TVsOeJ0PL9e41lBI

Both AMD and ARM have recently said that this new AI era is causing increased demand for their CPUs because agents are now being driven to kick-off lots of more traditional workflows.
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Happy Easter! With my Lenten YouTube fast over, I see that #opencode content has gone from “not much” to “discovered by tech influencers”.
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B'ad Samurai 🐐🇺🇦

@porkbun RDAP is a pretty silly address and I appreciate that.

You never see ‘.horse‘ in IOCs because it’s a $25 domain!

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Colin McMillen

Allow me to introduce coding, the counterpart to vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.

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On plane #3 to home from IETF 125. I am exhausted. Shenzhen was nice. It is a clean, friendly city and very affordable.
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IETF 125 in Shenzhen
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I had an interesting conversation during the IETF hackathon with people getting heavily into coding with AI. To get AI to work for serious projects, they need to write down a lot of assumptions and other information, the observation being that they are now documenting things they should have written down for their junior engineers but didn't... but now that the AI needs this information, they are doing it.

Which, from an economic standpoint, is totally backwards assuming that a junior engineer costs a lot more than an AI.
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@emacdona Buried in the web client UI when run locally is a "Reset Node DB" feature. This morning I ran that on my Slot 20 (DC) node and it cleared out all the nodes that were apparently left over from when it was on slot 9. I'll wait and see what it picks up, but so far no nodes found. But I think that might be a morning thing because even on slot 9 I see that many of the nodes have not been heard from for awhile.
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Kevin Dominik Korte

Schools shouldn't be training centers for proprietary software.
https://www.korte.co/gyon

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Reply to @emacdona
@emacdona Yeah, the channel thing is a bit confusing.
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@emacdona Do people actually use these things to communicate? I see a lot of nodes but zero messages.
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@emacdona I put the second unit on slot 20, and I am definitely picking up some nodes. But I obviously don't understand this stuff. Some of the same node appear on both slots. I thought slot = frequency, so I am not sure how some of the nodes are on multiple frequencies.
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Reply to @emacdona
@emacdona I am using that stubby thing that came with the kit but have a longer one which I will put on there. And yes, all indoors.
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Reply to @emacdona
@emacdona Yes. Slot 9. It is pretty amazing because there are a ton of nodes once you hit the beltway, but inside the beltway there aren't that many. Maybe they are on slot 20.
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Adventures in Meshtastic

I’ve always wanted to play around with LoRa and Meshtastic to see what it can do. Thanks to a little prodding by @emacdona I bought a pair of cheap, Heltec kits.

I seriously have no idea what I am doing here, but managed to futz my way through flashing one of the devices. I let it run over night and woke up to 128 nodes discovered. Pretty interesting.

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Reply to @emacdona
@emacdona If you have looked into note taking and syncing services, you might get bookmarks as a part of that.
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If you think that that orchestrated AIs creating Pull Requests is a problem, wait until they start trying to be LinkedIn influencers.
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