> I can almost guarantee this is from some endpoint management software your company installed.
I had the same issue with a loan machine from a client, super responsive onsite, but once I connected through a VPN from an external network, all the basic functionality in the file manager was brought to a halt. Even something as simple as right click on a folder to show a context menu would take several seconds.
The files were all local (also with Onedrive sync disabled) so I am almost positive it was whatever they were using for endpoint protection (Can't recall 100% but probably something from CrowdStrike).
Not recent but the slow trend towards a complete loss of clickability in both desktop and mobile UX.
I read text and sometimes I can interact and click/tap it for some action but other times it is just text. Not having a visual distintion between those two seems hostile. But maybe I'm just showing my age.
KIT had a project on this (Project KAMINA) which looks like it is also cited in the linked paper.
They had a spin off SMELLDECT GmbH which sells a kit but not exactly a order from DigiKey thing. I imagine you will need to send an RFQ and go through the motions with their sales team.
Fair, but if you look at most tools for Static Code Analysis they will have equal or worse performance with regards to false positives and are still seen as added value.
If this is inexpensive (in terms of cost/time) it will likely make business sense even with false positives.
But that isn’t the claim. The claim is an agentic pen tester “trounced” human testers. Static analysis tools are already trivial and cheap to automate, why would you need an agent in the loop?
I agree with your point that the claim is exagerated. My counterpoint is even if they are subpar, they will still make business sense if they are inexpensive, much in the same way that Static code analysis tools aren't great but because they are inexpensive they still make sense during development.
Even if they don't brick them explicitly they will no longer provide security updates for them.
I'm on the same boat, smart TV has never been online, all content is just cast from media server/phone/tablet straight to chromecast. It works, no fuss, glitch free, and of course they will kill it.
Even if they were to provide security updates, a few platforms no longer work with them. At the very least, now Disney+ refuses to stream to my original chromecast dongle.
Slightly off topic but that lab book made me a bit envious.
I doubt my mental bandwith could cope without org mode and digital formats in general. But that penmanship and the general neatness really shows a focus and an intentionality that makes me feel that something has fallen off the wayside in this digital transition.
> Who out there is programming these chips in pure C using open source compilers and bootloaders?
The gcc-arm-none-eabi toolchain is pretty much what you are asking for at least for ARM targets. You can literally use a text editor and gcc-arm-none-eabi, that's it.
And if you want something really bare bones avr-gcc still targets the whole atmel family including those ATtiny chips which are also a lot of fun.
I don't know the state of it nowadays but 'Mbed' is probably worth looking into. The project had _a_lot_ of Middleware libraries to abstract hardware, a few levels below, makes embedded development a little less datasheet dependent, specially if you are just hacking something as a hobbyist.
You can also ditch the space consumed by a bootloader and save the UART for something productive in your designs. This is makes it feasible to use the smaller capacity chips and have more headroom on the larger ones. AVR programmers are cheap and the latest serial port based protocol requires the barest of hardware to support.
I've been using Anthropic's models with gptel on Emacs for the past few months. It has been amazing for overviews and literature review on topics I am less familiar with.
Surprisingly (for me) just slightly playing with system prompts immediately creates a writing style and voice that matches what _I_ would expect from a flesh agent.
We're naturally biased to believe our intuition 'classifier' is able to spot slop. But perhaps we are only able to stop the typical ChatGPTesque 'voice' and the rest of slop is left to roam free in the wild.
Perhaps we need some form of double blind test to get a sense of false negative rates using this approach.
That's definitely true, but keep in mind the economics of cranking out AI slop. The whole point is that you tell it "yo ChatGPT, write 1,000 articles about knitting / gardening / electronics and organize them into a website". You then upload it to a server and spend the rest of the day rolling in $100 bills.
If you spend days or weeks fine-tuning prompts to strike the right tone, reviewing the output for accuracy, etc, then pretty much by definition, you're undermining the economic benefits of slopification. And you might accidentally end up producing content that's actually insightful and useful, in which case, you know... maybe that's fine.
Yes one should write flesh out rather than flush out. However, as someone who uses English as a second language, the concept of phrasal verbs is the single most non-intuitive thing (with the very real risk for severe faux pas).
From your own words, to flesh out implies to me as a non-native that I remove flesh from said thing, when in reality the expression is to mean that you "add" flesh to bones. Very confusing.
> the concept of phrasal verbs is the single most non-intuitive thing
I once said that a person seemed pretty "turned on" when I meant "switched on". Luckily it was on a private conversation with a friend who laughed and took the mickey out of me but then explained the situation so no harm done.
They do move 'naturally' in the right direction if you think of a cell and it's membrane it can be loosely abstracted as a dielectric material and like any other dielctric can be polarized.
The issue with diabetes is that over time periphery blood supply becames problematic which means healing takes way longer, sometimes never healing at all leading to necrosis (dead tissue).
So you could argue that 'accelerated healing' tissue is a poorer grade tissue by some metric, e.g. connective tissue is not as flexible or strong etc. But in diabetic wounds the alternative to 'accelerated healing' tissue could literally be an amputated limb.
I had the same issue with a loan machine from a client, super responsive onsite, but once I connected through a VPN from an external network, all the basic functionality in the file manager was brought to a halt. Even something as simple as right click on a folder to show a context menu would take several seconds.
The files were all local (also with Onedrive sync disabled) so I am almost positive it was whatever they were using for endpoint protection (Can't recall 100% but probably something from CrowdStrike).
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