Swolav

If you're based in NYC with reverse engineering, browser automation, network forensics, proxies, debugging, botting-adjacent experience, know how to apply AI and looking for a job or internship, DM me. I don't care about your resume.

i’m dangerously convinced in what i’m doing

@es3n1n Reverse engineering

i need to find a new obsession now that ctfs are deadge

@es3n1n If you distribute bins be aware they will probably be falsely flagged by AV. (Was an issue with the Windows bins for last CTF I organized 🥲)

working on a "Common Mistakes While Running a CTF" doc. what should i include? so far we have only a few infra-related things

@CtrlAltC0nsult @Hamzeml Never had hetzner suspend me and I ran some abnormal workloads on there for sure.

@Swolav @Hamzeml Until they suspend you. For the same shit 😂

I started worrying about US dominance in tech infra. So I did the founder thing: I stopped complaining and started testing European alternatives. First use case: AI inference. I built a certification layer to prove that the GPU handling my request is in Europe and that the data path does not leave Europe. @OVHcloud first. @Scaleway next. More providers after that. It worked. Then I started publishing a European tech stack list. But there was one stupid problem: The repo was on GitHub which too American. So I deployed Forgejo on an OVH cluster and started working on a scalable European Git setup that other builders could also use. This morning, OVHcloud suspended all my projects. They will be deleted in 7 days. You cannot make this up. This is the beginning of my journey to make European infra actually usable for developers and startups. Not policy papers. Not conference panels. Not sovereignty theatre. Just working infra. I’ll keep you posted.

@thsottiaux Manually compacting context window, there's always a bunch of stuff in the context that's no longer useful so being able to remove that manually would be nice, I don't always trust the model to know what's still relevant.

For those of you living inside the codex app, what should we prioritize among features, reliability or performance?

@yacineMTB it's 400 buck but u also need a board for like ~150 (N6)

@yacineMTB Cheapest I was able to find is the GENX320 Event Camera Module from openmv openmv[.]io/products/genx320-camera-module

Is there an event based camera out there that doesn't cost a million dollars

@hpafrisk @MehdiHacks hackRF One or Pro? jc, both are great

@MehdiHacks our setup for this is librevna + hackrf. started with tinysa but hackrf is a big upgrade for what we do.

Mini RF lab! VNA, signal generator, spectrum analyzer, power meter, and frequency counter without taking over the bench. This was a dream 10 years ago. Super useful for students and hobbyists who can’t afford professional tools.

@mark_collins09 @dirtman Agreed, the cert is for insurance lol

@dirtman Forklift certifications are overrated. Forklifts aren't that hard to drive.

Yo what is the intern doing

@skylermzx Tried fb marketplace? A few of my colleagues got a good deal on theirs from there.

aaaaa i need a herman miller classic size b (i dont know where to look for refurbs)

@willreil Ur doing some cool shit man, good stuff

Once I make enough from selling circuit boards I am going to buy a pick and place machine to sell more circuit boards to buy more pick and place machines

@teodorio Abliterated models to not get refusals on the most mundane re shit against real targets. I'm getting tired wasting energy on tweaking prompts to avoid refusals.

What is this obsession with GPUs what are you even doing to need them? Maybe 1-2% of the people on this website actually need their own GPUs

@thsottiaux For some reason codex is not showing me the instructions to pair to chatgpt mobile app.

We are busy bringing ChatGPT to Codex so that we can bring Codex to ChatGPT. One day this will make sense.

@AyomideElijah12 Looking for US based people only.

@Swolav What if I dont stay in NYC but I can commute in a few months? ?

If you're based in NYC with reverse engineering, browser automation, network forensics, proxies, debugging, botting-adjacent experience, know how to apply AI and looking for a job or internship, DM me. I don't care about your resume.

@axboe Optane was so far ahead of its time. Which drives are you using? Even the semi consumer 905p drives are so good. Someone needs to figure out how to build drives from the Optane DIMMs that are still quite available.

Running this on a box with 2 of gen2 optane drives. Top (-K0) is normal O_DIRECT, bottom (-K1) is using IO slots. CPU is AMD EPYC 7763, slow clock, but gets 9.1M IOPS on a single core (64/192 are thread siblings). IOMMU passthrough. That's a 66% improvement, IRQ driven same win.

@yarnf40580 @wordgrammer Go is great for backend stuff and quite normie friendly. I generally agree with your posts though, I also would consider Rust mainly in the places where C++ is an option.

@wordgrammer Well so should people be using Rust for normie backend stuff or not? This kind of contradicts your original post

I don’t understand why people compare C++ and Rust, what could you possibly be working on where those are your two best options. Order books? Search engines? Compiler for your new programming language not yet capable of bootstrapping? Be honest, that’s not you

@wordgrammer @yarnf40580 I much prefer Go for networking related stuff, I use C for system / hardware since what I need is usually small and simple. Python for everything else. I don't see the appeal in Rust for everything Go does unless you really can't afford a GC.

@yarnf40580 I feel like Rust, Go, Java, PHP, and Node.js all have the exact same use cases except Rust is objectively the best of the lot

@0xSero hell ye, deserved

I just received a 100,000$ grant from the Human Rights Foundation. In total I received: - 100K USD through HRF - 25.8K USD through donations site - 25K Brev credits through Nvidia - 4x B200s for a month - 5K from lambda - 4x RTX PRO 6000 private donor Open source must win