David Adrian

With Real World Cryptography coming up next week, I wanted to take an opportunity to point out that our current post-quantum cryptographic primitives are not suitable for the web dadrian.io/blog/posts/pqc…

@bgurley @BlackLabelAdvsr IMHO houses in a neighborhood but super set back are depressing as hell! Would rather have a dense mansion than a 1 acre lot where I still have neighbors.

@BlackLabelAdvsr Don’t buy one. Don’t live there. To each their own. More choice for more people is a huge positive.

I see these neighborhoods being built in Texas and I’m trying to figure out who in their right mind would buy a mansion with zero lot lines. Like, you could do a handshake through your kitchen window. Insane! Please make it make sense.

@Noahpinion Europe is a third-world country.

To be fair, the UK is far worse on AC than Europe proper.

Loosely agreed, but I think only slightly less popular. Letterman also clearly less popular than Carson. Not clear to me this has much to do with the host versus national trends. Colbert was clearly popular with GenX and Boomers, whereas Letterman was men in their late 20s and 30s. Audience seems to have aged with the show.

More that people seem to be trying to make this a cultural moment primarily because of political polarization, but in practice the reach of the show was tiny and while sad for it to end on some levels, it was not the national touchstone being talked about. Carson and Letterman were generational.

55M people watched the final Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. 15M people watched the final Jay Leno. 14M people watched the final David Letterman.

@stevesi Hard to say anything other than late night TV overall is considerably less popular than it was in 1992?

@stevesi Doesn't that just go to show that this is perhaps reductive and not a great way to measure the various shows, since there are so many confounding effects?

Bucco’s guide to making $400k+: So, your dumb ass has been lucky enough to stumble into making a 1% salary. Congratulations, you’re at the doorstop of generational wealth (or early retirement). Here’s how to not fuck it up 1. Assume this isn’t permanent: The first thing you need to recognize is most people don’t keep their 1% salaries. There’s a lot of luck, and variable comp, that usually goes into that kind of paycheck. So have some humility and live like it ain’t permanent, because it usually ain’t. Which brings me to point #2 2. Live below your means: Most people who start making fat paychecks start racking up fat credit card bills. But if you follow my first rule you won’t do that. At least for the first 3 years you will live like you aren’t making a lot of money. You will save. A lot. This is a gift to future you 3. Take care of yourself: If you are making this much you are usually working very hard. So take care of yourself. Invest in your brain and your body and your health. It is a marathon, not a sprint, as they say. And one of the reasons people don’t maintain their high paychecks is because they burn out 4. Pay it forward: Fate has smiled on you. You are not only obligated to pay it forward, but it is the right thing to do. One day you may experience something bad, unlucky, and catastrophic. People will remember that you did not neglect others while it was your moment in the sun and they will come to your support. Be kind, especially when you don’t need to 5. Maintain perspective: You are not better than anyone because you make a lot of money. There are many ways to be rich. Be sure that you stay humble, and continue to invest in your friends, families, relationships and health. Or you might one day find yourself with a full bank account and an empty life Follow these rules and I assure you that the odds of living a prosperous life will tip heavily in your favor

@davidcrawshaw It will be a very informative reference to show older programmers how to do this without using $(document).ready() (I had to look it up)

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { // attacker code here });

@halvarflake For me, 1) For the last four years I've been a PM. Agentic coding is still far more engineering thinking than PM work. 2) Raise the complexity / difficulty bar for what you work on and tackle things with larger scope or more barrier to entry than you would have before

... myself to do some "mental weight lifting" so the brain doesn't atrophy when relying too much on the AI. How do y'all handle that?

Ok, confession time: I use agentic coding *all the time* and *every day*. And have been doing so for many months. I am *terrified* of skill deterioration on my side. I see the studies, I can feel it myself. The agents make me much more productive, but I feel I need to force...

@withzombies chrome://crash

@dadrian I have a priv esc that builds on that which reliably aw snaps the renderer!

Tomorrow, I will drop Chrome exploit code showing how an attacker can execute arbitrary Javascript within the context of a domain they control.

The only thing more useless than a pentest is an AI agent doing the pentest.

@matt_slotnick I, too, am very knowledgeable, and yet fundamentally, a complete idiot.

there are so many peculiarities of the version of AI that we now have. like that it's ungodly good at math but can't really do taxes. or that it arrived via free chatbot rather than closely guarded superpower rationed only to the highest of bidders. i find this somehow beautiful

@_lopopolo Anything I would use the normal ChatGPT app for

What do you all use 'Chats' in the Codex app (threads not linked to a repo) for?

@TurnerNovak Just goes to show the importance of AI at the edge (inside your Spartan IV Mjolnir armor)

No AI data center is worth losing this

The only thing worse than people writing prose with AI is people writing about people writing prose with AI on LinkedIn.

All photos taken with 100ft of a two-lane road.

@_lopopolo You mean the same model is released once every two years for 15 years, and also a trailer for the new model was shown 8 years ago but there's no evidence it exists?

Looking forward to the near term future where new model releases are like Elden Scrolls or whatever dropping but instead people go on productivity binges