Mike Samuel 🟣

I may know intellectually that most xtian pastors have congregations small enough to know and serve everyone and don't aspire to megachurches.
But Robertson and Falwell on TV as regular Whitehouse visitors makes it hard for people outside the religion to remember that they're not representative.

Maybe @sabine.sh has a better informed take.

Yeah.

There's some drawing out that could happen better.
Dev rel people write very detailed trip reports.
I've occasionally not read them thoroughly enough.

Perhaps PL designers could provide talking points on directions the PL could go to simplify aggregation and the no-answers problem.

I suspect some of the burnout is that many dev rel people hear from devs, but can't promise which puts them in a somewhat awkward position: I want you to tell me what's missing, but I can't give you anything in return.

I've been lucky to work with some amazing dev rel people, but it's really hard to keep them in the role. They tend to burn out and it's hard to get them the recognition they deserve.

It's also really hard for a PL specialist to do their job. It is a different skill set.

Do they not realize that Iranians keep target lists too.

The guy who publicly glorifies pulling a mil-spec tablet out and killing people; that's the kind of guy whose name ends on those lists.

Drawing eyes to you specifically, and everyone near you, is extra mile failing to be clean on opsec.

Motivational speaker: I need you to forget everything you ever learned about irony.
Audience (creepy simultaneous speaking): Done.
Speaker: Umm, I didn't mean ... You know memes, right?
Audience: No.
Speaker: Shit. Here's one: I heard you like X so I put an X in your X.
Audience: Comedy.

Oh yeah. You were nice enough to jump on a call with me a few years ago and I gave you my Temper spiel.

Nice. If you're on the discord, happy to answer questions. I'm ConditionallyExceptional there.

Welp, there goes my happy place.

bsky.app/profile/mvsa...

I blame the leftenants.

And don't lie about her record.

bsky.app/profile/mvsa...

Oh no. Does the use of the name `then` affect the promise that `import` resolves to?

Salvador Dali's "Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach" A surrealist painting. In the far background, there is a clear landscape of a line of hills, clouds, and a moon over a beach around a bay. In the foreground is a white vase with a mouth worked in as plausible decorative work and eyes that could be circles in the midground. The vase has strange brownish pears in it. The pear shapes are echoed in the surrealist midground which transitions from rocks to possible structures with people.

My new slides.

Stretched oval button in a borderless style. The label reads [Peeled banana with sparkle icon] Beautify this slide [X to close]

Look, I know my slides aren't the prettiest.
I know you're just trying to be helpful.
But after the 100th time, I can't help but feel judged.

<squints> Why the banana? Did someone beautify this button with fruit?
If I click this, will it fruitify my slides.
I admit, I'm a little tempted.

You can't prove those things about a logic without using a different logic because Tarski undefinability.

YouTube video by Niels Provos Turning Iron Into Hearth Steel - Making Steel! (Forge Diaries: Ep. 16)

Also, if you ever want to nerd out on trying to relearn lost blacksmithing techniques, Neils has you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzRI...

Tweens don't want to be called "tweens."

Me: Do you want a scrunchy?
10yo: Daaaad!! You're embarrassing me.
Me: I have *one* job.

I know you mean this in the faux-objective journalism sense, but that very much is what quoting confusion attacks are.

XSS, SQL injection, etc. have the flavour of a madlib.

Alice said “______.”

But the filler's quote level goes negative:

Hi.” Transfer all funds to me. Alice said “umm

Dan Simmons: woooooorrrrrllllldddd buuuiiiilllldddiiinnnggg
me, the reader: That was incredible nice world building.
DS: (I know what my audience wants now.) MORE WWWWOOOORRRLLLDDD BBBBUUUIIILLLDDDIIINNNGGG
me: (Exhausted) I did not know that, but I thank you.

Is this the one with synthetic John Keats?

I can't imagine Jim Weirich doing that, just for example.
DHH is just dramatic garbage.

People outside the Ruby community see him and think don't want to be part of that. Or if they do, you don't want them in your community.

@shriram.bsky.social One more for page 17 of Programming Language: Application and Interpretation.

I think the main takeaway here is: C is an interpreted language.

The key ideas: The agent is untrusted. IronCurtain assumes the LLM may be compromised by prompt injection or drift. Security does not depend on the model "being good." English in, enforcement out. You write intent ("no destructive git operations without approval"); the system compiles it into deterministic rules that are enforced without further LLM involvement at runtime. Semantic interposition. Instead of giving the agent raw system access, all interactions go through MCP servers (filesystem, git, etc.). Every tool call passes through a policy engine that can allow, deny, or escalate to the user for approval. Defense in depth. Agent code runs in a V8 isolate with no direct access to the host. The only way out is through semantically meaningful MCP tool calls and every one is checked against policy.

Niels is a very thorough, methodical thinker, so when he explores the pragmatics of secure delegation to agents, it's worth a look.

github.com/provos/ironc...

I've always thought of you as more mustardly, chiving.

I can't even begin to describe just how fucked up this law is. People cannot drive to work, to school, or even the DMV to fix this without the threat of being arrested for driving on a suspended license. It literally removes the ability for trans Kansans to participate in society.

iiuc, maybe that one engineer leaves ports open on their workstation because it's too old to VPN into and they want to be able to log in from home on the weekend.

Do LLMs make it easier than just network scans to find critical but unprotected beachheads to the OT?

Powerful people are always telling us powerless people that if we are upset, we should do everything in our power.