whoami

A hacker, a gamer, a dad and an all around nice guy. At least I think I am anyway. Layer 7 AF. I do computer stuff and get paid for it. Views are my own.

[whoami @agr0dan]

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024! https://t.co/YcgMlwRn0J #AdventOfCode

I know it took a long time and I haven't been on twitter or whatever it's called now, but I had to share that I finally completed AOC.

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Not a typical post from me, but if anyone reading this is a pet owner, hug your pets often. You can prepare all you want for when the time comes, but nothing truly prepares you for when you have to let a best friend go.

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I just completed "Mirage Maintenance" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2023 https://t.co/34JJLZZokv #AdventOfCode This was neat

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I just completed "Haunted Wasteland" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2023 https://t.co/1yVX412DRf #AdventOfCode OMG TFW you get that gold star...

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I just completed "Wait For It" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2023 https://t.co/VEocq81aLA #AdventOfCode This one was quick and easy. Thought I needed to optimize a bit again, but part 1 and part 2 completed after 3 seconds. Nice.

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@Kyle_Parrish_ Yeah it's pretty nasty for the first 5 days. Doing this in Go is not easy either, but this is my trial-by-fire for a language I'm not nearly as familiar with. Otherwise I'd be doing this in python.

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holiday hack challenge is starting soon. Oh man I may have to backburner the advent of code...

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@gwidion By all means: https://t.co/D7mXzSnAlf -- still relatively new to Go so I'm working with formatting a bit (open to criticism), but I ran the code thinking it would need to be optimized only for it to finish after 2 1/2 minutes. Should just run with go run . -f input

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I've completed "If You Give A Seed A Fertilizer" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2023 https://t.co/xMuGWEQ7Rv #AdventOfCode -- thought I'd have to optimize this a bit more, apparently got it done in about 2.5 minutes

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I have to remind myself that it takes so long for me to complete advent of code challenges because I'm completing them with a language I'm not nearly as fluent with, ie: Golang. Yeah, that's it. We'll go with that excuse.

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I just completed "Cube Conundrum" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2023 https://t.co/Lzh92EX36K #AdventOfCode -- As difficult as this can get, it's such an awesome feeling to complete a challenge.

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I've decided not to do a crazy write-up like I always do for the sans holiday hack challenge. I'm still doing the challenge of course, but not going crazy because it takes up a ton of time during the holidays when I should be with my family. There I said it.

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One thing I've learned while setting up a Kubernetes cluster on a bunch of raspberry pis...don't cheap out on the SD cards. Nothing is more of a pain than having to blow away a node and rebuild it because you bought a cheap no-name SD card to serve as its root FS.

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There's lots of examples of how to manipulate GPT models to leak information that it shouldn't. But I want to know when we get to the point where we will trust an AI model with sensitive information. Maybe next generation when everyone forgets the fears of the current gen?

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

No one:
Literally no one:
swift developers:

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For the longest time I always thought that the _one_ thing that Chrome had over Firefox was automatic page translations. Now that is no longer the case. Suck it Chrome!

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Cisco buys splunk for 28 billion. We had a good run at least. Now we shall witness the inevitable saga of how the mighty shall indeed fall.

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Ok I'll ask. Why the hell is {{ 7*7 }} the de facto test to see if an endpoint is susceptible to server side template injection? Why not 1+1?

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I'm sorry but after all this time it's still crazy to me that some languages have "==" and "===", and they mean "is kinda equal to" and "is really really super equal to, no for real this time" respectively.

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@_JohnHammond Isn’t it crazy how much space docker images can take up