Stephan Bridger

Person with too many interests. Currently trying to formalize one or two of them.

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

Windbg seemingly doesn't have a way to do regexes or serious text processing so you end up with weird shell hacks like:

.shell -ci "x tcpip!*" powershell -NoProfile -Command "$input | ForEach-Object { if ($_ -match '.*!([^\s\(]+)') { $matches[1] } }"

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

@thiagovscoelho Super Mario World for the SNES.

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

Overheard a guy in his thirties say his main internet usage was reddit and that he plays video games ten to twenty hours a week and I've never been so certain that I'm an entirely different species of primate.

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

@C2IRIS One can dream of a timeline where this kind of context is emphasized, rather than headlines optimized for panic(often in order to justify valuations).

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

@ZeffMax "We want to memory hole this moment. Please, please let us memory hole this moment."

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

Can't go around being balanced all the time. Important to keep balance and imbalance in balance.

[Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix]

Idea: a sandbagging eval that generates interesting frontier LLM ideas and then tries to implement them with Fable-5, then measures rate of bugs with GPT-5.5. The ideas with the highest rates of bugs correspond to Anthropic's secret sauce that they don't want replicated

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

Future generations inheriting partial mirrors of shadow libraries as family heirlooms.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.

It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
https://t.co/NQ7IfEtYk7

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

Every now and then some amazing older things pop up in my mentions and I’ve completely forgotten about them. Here’s one from 2021:

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

@stats_feed About one in three people are infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, though they may not show symptoms and are not contagious.

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

Modern home appliances, now with internet access and potential remote control by adversaries.

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

The tension between digital minimalism and the desire to livetweet our lives in near real-time.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

@xmjEE Neighborly I am, I wave and try to ask when possible. AFAICT, my neighbors are doing well

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

@deepfates Even if you were on drugs, this is still true to some extent

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

Thinking about this again today after replacing one hundred lines of code with fifteen lines

[Computer Science @CompSciFact]

'Strive to add function by deleting code.' -- Jon Bentley

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

@embryosophy 🫂

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

@St_Rev IIRC, they're using Juicebox: https://t.co/PGR3woSe9X

[Stephan Bridger @hexagr]

Thinking is surprisingly physically taxing for a process that looks like doing nothing.