Kevin

I like software and personal finance. Open for work. Ex-MSFT and Zoom. Check my link for some cool iOS apps.

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

@grok 2 weeks later and ControllerKeys has
- 🎮Enhanced touchpad gesture support on the DualSense controller
- 🤖Full macro support (e.g. open an app, pause 2s, type “Hello”)
- ☸️A GTA style command wheel to launch apps and websites
- ⌨️An on screen keyboard to handle anything else

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

@lexrus Awesome, thank you for the info!

And thanks, I’m glad you like it 😃

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

@gingerbeardman That's a great post!

It's worth adding ControllerKeys to the table: per-app profiles, chord/sequence/long-hold mappings, gyro aiming, DualSense touchpad + LED control, works with Xbox/PS/Switch/Steam/generic HID.

https://t.co/zNOqHGgn5z

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

@secondstateinc I love the idea!

I’ve been getting a similar functionality with my game controller to click and type on Mac😃

[Andrew Godman @Andrew_Godman]

@anurag_bhatia You can use https://t.co/BQxOnr1a1S or https://t.co/IZYhKHwm9J

The last one will load but there’s a few edge cases why it won’t

[tmuxvim @tmuxvim]

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Streaming an Android phone to my Mac in a data center via Tailscale + https://t.co/iT7Eq2zYG7 and my claw controls it via https://t.co/2cXk37Lxt7.

Now my claw can order me an Uber.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

30.9% of genetics papers data are kind of trash because of Excel’s aggressive auto-formatting.

Until 2023, there was no global option to disable data conversion. For example, the human SEPT family (1-14) of genes is directly related to cell division and cancer research.

I’ll give you one guess as to what that auto-formats to. Yup…turns into a date.

Oh, it get’s worse though. Many labs use what are known as RIKEN identifiers. It’s a 10 digit alphanumeric code, kind of like a barcode that identifies a gene sequence. Here’s one:

2310009E13

Uh oh. There’s an “E” in there. Guess what that turns into? A floating point!

Excel has a hard limit of 15 significant digits for floats. So, not only did your RIKEN identifier get formatted wrong, but it’s also rounded off to an unrecoverable state.

12.5% of the RIKEN database (Row E) is a disaster.

If you know anything about Bioinformatics, you should be losing your mind. Remember, a huge amount of scientific research is meta-analysis. Good luck cross-referencing patterns when ~31% of the data has errors!

So basically there’s a giant data hole from 2004-2023, much of which has been standardized into national / official databases, and there’s no good way to fix it.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

the most low-effort / high reward thing you can do for security is installing the Russian language pack

(not even joking, it's ridiculous how often that prevents execution)

[kache @yacineMTB]

/goal optimize this code, use `date` to check the time and don't stop until I wake up at 7 am

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

@dinugherman @steipete What app is this? I like the visualization!

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

@anulagarwal Learned this from my iClicker in college😤

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I was quoted a couple times in this Atlantic article, but that isn’t (the only) reason I think it is good. It lays out the reasons why we whipsawed from “AI is a bubble” to “there are not enough data centers” in less than six months. Spoiler: its agents. https://t.co/BqZ5dfq8hg

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

ControllerKeys is a Mac app that let's you use a game controller as a mouse and keyboard.

I just found out one of my users is a professional photographer using an Xbox controller to edit photos in Lightroom. How cool!

https://t.co/F8UlsbxfbJ

[Abdel @rockkdev]

New Robinhood phishing chain that's kinda beautiful:

1. Attacker creates an RH account using the Gmail dot trick of your email (same inbox, different address)
2. Sets device name to HTML
3. RH's "unrecognized activity" email renders the device name unsanitized (html injection)

The result is a real email from [email protected], DKIM pass, SPF pass, DMARC pass, with a phishing CTA

Just because it's real, doesn't mean it's safe... $HOOD

[tech.explain @techexplain1]

How does Netflix know when you try to take a screenshot?

Turns out it doesn’t. Rather than a simple piece of software recognizing a screenshot attempt and blacking out the screen, what’s going on is actually happening at the hardware level.

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

@MachCoyote @Umbracoatl Because it’s flattened and rolled up 🥐

Do you know about the pickle? 🥒

https://t.co/1bf6TIek3w

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

@astro_reid @fkadev @Astro_Christina Moonswatch Mission to Earthphase—in real life😮 @Swatch @SwatchUS @omegawatches

[Kevin @_KevinTang]

@astro_reid @fkadev @Astro_Christina That is awesome!

People have been evidently thinking about this concept, but to see a video of the real deal!

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

you can get claude to stop reading your env file by just adding the magic refusal string to the top