boB Rudis 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦

Great Maker there have been many a dark day since Jan 20, but…my gosh…today… 😔

GAAAA!

Via Ken Dilanian:

“The news out of the DC mayor’s press conference is that her lawyers apparently do not believe they have grounds to challenge President Trump’s declaration of a DC crime emergency. The city appears to be surrendering to a federal takeover of its police department.”

huh…MITRE terminated the senior leadership of its Center for Threat-Informed Defense in a cost-cutting move…

CVE is toast, folks. #goodRiddance

GitHub "home" personal RSS newsfeed seem to be down since ~0900 ET.

screencap of the verge article

@g a full two minutes to show this first paint. six total minutes for all the page resources. 56KB modem

A flyer titled "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS – WASHINGTON, D.C." outlining rights for pedestrians and cyclists regarding interactions with law enforcement, including guidelines on asking about freedom to leave, ID requirements, the right to remain silent, how to engage with plain

Everyone in #washingtondc - know your rights. Help share and boost this post to any friends in #DC….✊

Drop #693 (2025-08-11): Long-form Monday

Today's Drop features Jimmy Hartzell's critique of LLMs as unreliable assistants needing human oversight, Ian Ireland's explanation of SpiderMonkey's innovative four-tier execution model enhancing JavaScript performance, and concerns about Flock's AI […]

August 9, 2025 ANTHROPIC Throughout 2025, we have been quietly entering Claude in cybersecurity competitions designed primarily for humans. Now, we want to share what we have learned. In many of these competitions Claude did pretty well, often placing in the top 25% of competitors. However, it lagged behind the best human teams at the toughest challenges. Our experience testing Claude in cyber competitions highlights the potential for AI to alter the offense-defense balance by making it easier for attackers to automate the exploitation of basic vulnerabilities. More research and development into AI-enabled cyber defense and resilience is needed to counter this development.

Claude's coming fer your cyber jobs: https://red.anthropic.com/2025/cyber-competitions/

Did you know Deloitte has a free job simulator?

Did you know I have a #blog ?

Did you know... Idk, new post (This one isn't a CTF writeup) xoxo

https://ligniform.blog/posts/deloitte/

#infosec #cybersecurity

Funny magic cadrant ;-)

Finally a useful magic quadrant

Thanks to @wendynather for the discovery.

#cybersecurity #vulnerability

Oh, Great Maker, please let it be so! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

Reny’s sign in Damariscotta

The pilgrimage must be made.

IYKYK

#maine

If you haven't seen this yet, watch.

It's an AI vid of the "grand opening" of the hideously gilded, wildly overpriced, Let Them Eat Cake future Trump Ballroom.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_2...

Final meal in St George (the "town" where the Village of Port Clyde sits) was at the highly recommended-by-locals McLoons Lobster Shack.

Did *not* disappoint, though the blueberry pies for dessert pale in comparison to what @marybethR makes.

https://mcloonslobster.com/

@jgrg *Canadiano*, Sir Gilbert. *Canadiano*

2 carafes of coffee ready for iced coffee prep

FINALLY. A coffee shop with espresso cups MY SIZE

I'm as far as can be from even being comfortable. Will likely work til I go, but for those who are comfortable...

wow is David Heinemeier Hansson is an absolute tool.

"Use information from Wikipedia and images from wikimedia and create an artifact of a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos." was the prompt to Claude. The unmodified result is at the URL.
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gallery of POTUSes (POTI?)

So first the luddites came for the 🫐 🧮, and now they come for POTUS 📸.

The broken images at https://rud.is/ex/pres.html seem to be just wikimedia wonkiness, but Claude did a fine job.

Expecting any model to generate accurate responses solely from just the training data is pretty daft.
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Drop #692 (2025-08-08): Counting Sheep

Today's late Drop introduces "rawk," an enhanced AWK compiler with modern features, discusses the accessibility benefits of the CSS pseudo-element "::after" for click targets, and explains "Markdown Monster," a decision tree for identifying different […]

Oh, and I got to SMS #4 via SATELLITE on from the iPhone (the visit to the island was only even more epic b/c no internet at all). First satellite SMS! Actually solid UX — which is surprising given how inept modern day Apple UX designers are.

I come from the "300 baud modem" era, so I can still […]

@darkuncle There were so many diverse naturescapes on the island it was hard to pick when to just absorb sans-glowing rectangle and when to capture it for others. We are def going back. Prbly soon.

screenshot of a website comment form - "Hey have y'all realized that you advertise 200 W when actual power at the ground will be in the Milliwatts? Check your math before you get sued by your investors. Have a nice day! Good luck with your next scam."

@sundogplanets https://www.reflectorbital.com/contact

Idyllic moss-covered, forest trail path.

Maine cliffs overlooking minor waves

Craggy Maine cliffs overlooking very active waves.

Steamed clams.

Go. To. Monhegan Island. !!

Either from Port Clyde or Boothbay ferries. JUST AMAZING.

Oh, and 100% #nom @ the Fish House. Best steamers I've had in Maine AND SUPER FRIENDLY OWNERS.

EPIC day in midcoast Maine.

I'm guessing OpenAI was hoping more folks would focus on — https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt-5/gpt-5_new_params_and_tools — than 🫐.

Claude Opus 4.1 💪🏼

Scenic view of a sandy beach at low tide with scattered beachgoers enjoying the shoreline. The beach features tidal pools and exposed rocky areas with seaweed. In the foreground, weathered rocks and coastal vegetation frame the scene. Across the calm blue water, a forested island or peninsula stretches along the horizon under a partly cloudy sky. Small boats can be seen anchored in the distance, and people are walking and gathering along the water's edge, some appearing to explore the tidal areas.

A far less cable-ridden view of Port Clyde.

Heading to Monhegan Island for the day tomorrow. Shld have tons of pix tomorrow night.

There's zero VZW internet here. It's glorious.

FWIW, my note got severely under their skin. And they were stupid enough to reply to it. Absolutely was icing on the cake that was this glorious day in midcoast Maine with $SPOUSE.

Port Clyde waterfront

Not a bad view for the next few days.