Larry Underhill

We are agitated when the Internet doesn’t work but lack the proper amazement when it does.

[Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf]

Everything is so amazing and so awful simultaneously, I have no idea how any of you are dealing with this.

[Larry Underhill @lgu]

I am here for the comments in the program alone. "Let there be..."

random.seed(42) # Let there be order among chaos

On line 12 sets the tone.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

New art project.
Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.
https://t.co/HmiRrQugnP

[Larry Underhill @lgu]

I am delighted when worlds collide. Odd Lots and Ezra Klein talking about how bewildering it is to make sense of the 2025 economy: https://t.co/aVWLjSsVkW

[Larry Underhill @lgu]

As a southern man, I appreciate watching these young British lads trying biscuits and gravy. So wholesome. https://t.co/9rw0B0ebqL

[Larry Underhill @lgu]

This is delightful with a high reward/effort ratio: https://t.co/NSTnTw0qBs

[Erik also @[email protected] / @[email protected] @akanygren]

I setup @[email protected] as an alias that points to my Mastodon account here on Hachyderm, allowing for more stable identity forwarding and searching. Here's a blog post that I wrote up on how to setup this sort of forwarding using Apache2 rewrite rules: https://t.co/FJjsx42VHc

[Tim Vereecke @TimVereecke]

Combining CDN and Cloud to improve performance
- Deploy replicas of my application+data to Linode
- Modify Geo loadbalancing at the Akamai Edge

Impact: Improved TTFB #webperf

[The Register @TheRegister]

Looks like Britain's embracing a Zero Truss architecture

[Larry Underhill @lgu]

@mikejulian has a very cogent take here. https://t.co/xXLMBneLCz (ah, uh, aligns with my experience so you know, confirmation bias for the win...)

[Larry Underhill @lgu]

@csoandy Pre-ordered on Amazon, big guy. I'm committing to reading at least one percent of it...

[Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix]

My love language is painstakingly removing the tracking cruft attached to URLs before passing them on

[Larry Underhill @lgu]

I think it was inspired casting to get Neal Stephenson to play Jarl Kåre in that Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla show...

[Reuven Lazarus @rlazarus]

[unfolding a sheet of paper and looking into your eyes]
In these wedding vows, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

[Larry Underhill @lgu]

I think @dangoodin001 has a sharp and cogent write-up of the this tcp middlebox reflection attack: https://t.co/RxR1tWVex3 And of course, many kudos to Kevin Bock et al. for the original research, and @_larry0 + crew in our Akamai SIRT.

[Joe Słowik 🌻 @jfslowik]

Dentist: "So, do you floss daily?"
Me: "Do you have strong, unique passwords for all your critical applications and accounts?"

[pip-pop bim-bam @danslimmon]

me: did i cause an outage with my bad broken code? or did i merely cause shadows to shift on the walls of a cave, such that we all *perceived* an outage?

everyone else at the post mortem: the first one

[Olya @olya_borderless]

Russians, these are not sanctions, this is a special financial operation. All the world is trying to save you.

[Amit Serper @0xAmit]

1/n Thread: Been reversing this malware that's been going around Ukraine. It appears to be a wiper that's dropping a driver to do low-level partition manipulation. That driver appears to be a legitimate EaseUS Partition Master driver

[Larry Underhill @lgu]

Verifying myself: I am lgewe on https://t.co/rft6vm6B6B. fBhm815jUPVVw65vP1LdSq1btI1PN2AR1Ryk / https://t.co/XbSnFx4u1n