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I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch...

MiniMax M2 & Agent: Ingenious in Simplicity MiniMax M2 was released on Monday 27th October by MiniMax, a Chinese AI lab founded in December 2021. It's a very promising model. Their self-reported benchmark scores show it as comparable to Claude Sonnet 4, and Artificial An...

Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL Cursor released Cursor 2.0 today, with a refreshed UI focused on agentic coding (and running agents in parallel) and a new model that's unique to Cursor called Composer 1. As far as I can tell there's no way to call the m...

Today's links When AI prophecy fails: Hating workers is a hell of a drug. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: SCOTUS lets the FBI kidnap Americans; Inequality perverts justice; Free the McFlurry! Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearanc...

The web-scraping arm race continues

For the past 8 months or so I’ve been using Arch my locales have been kind of half broken and I couldn’t figure out why. I would see output like this:

Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic. Experts says a glut of proxies from Aisuru and other sources is fueling large-scale data harvesting efforts tied to various artificial intelligence (AI) projects, helping content scrapers evade detection by routing their traffic through residential connections that appear to be regular Internet users.

Vanaf een afstandje lijken dingen soms makkelijk. Maar van dichtbij valt het dan vaak tegen, met name als het goed gedaan moet worden. Zoals verkiezingen. Dit proces is allemaal erg ingewikkeld, zo ingewikkeld dat hieronder ongetwijfeld nog fouten staan (mail bert@hubertnet.nl). Ook hou ik het begrijpelijk en gebruik niet exact de woorden uit de kieswet. Ondanks dat ik weleens adviseer bij het bureau van de Kiesraad is dit allemaal gehobby van mij persoonlijk.

I'm at GitHub Universe this week (thanks to a free ticket from Microsoft). Yesterday I picked up my conference badge... which incorporates a full Raspberry Pi with a battery, color screen, WiFi and bluetooth. GitHub Universe has a tradition of hackable conference badges - th...

In case you missed it, last week I was on an episode of the kill switch podcast. I discussed the ICEBlock app and why it was activism theater, and how the developer handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way.

But I also talk about why, even though I

Today's links Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off": A self-defense guide for creative workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gingerbread Phantom Manor; Orwell estate censors 1984; The Abbadon; Ferris wheel fine dining. Upcomi...

My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a person, and then we fight so hard to keep it alive.”

Where has all the weirdness gone?

Claude doesn't make me much faster on the work that I am an expert on. Maybe 15-20% depending on the day.

It's the work that I don't know how to do and would have to research. Or the grunge work I don't even want to do. On this it is hard to even put a number on. Many of the projects I do with Claude day to day I just wouldn't have done at all pre-Claude.

Infinity% improvement in productivity on those.

— Aaron Boodman

Tags: ai-assisted-programming, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms, aaron-boodman

In the hours following the release of CVE-2025-62229 for the project X.Org X server, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a use-after-free bug in the XPresentNotify extension. This is d...

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program The Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation to help improve the security of the Pytho...

Today's links Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death: The bifurcation of justice is always and ever a prelude to fascism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: CCTV botnets; CEOs and random chance; Foxconn v Trump. Upcoming appearances: Where to...

Tracking down bugs in software is a pain that all of us who write code must bear. When we're talking about outright errors in a web page, you typically have something to get you started (such as output in the console), but that wasn't the case

I was watching Alex Petros’ talk and he has a slide in there titled “Incantations that make HTML work correctly”. This got me thinking about the basic snippets of HTML I’ve learned to always include in order for my website to work as I expect in the browser — like “Hey I jus...