Saadiq

I like to solve problems and build things. Product, AI, and Tech •

[Saadiq @saadiq]

@mvanhorn @petergyang @1Password Came here to say this. REALLY? Only just now?!? 🤯

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I've noticed recently that when asking AI to do research, it no longer just blindly repeats what it finds on the internet. It will flag if it's sources are also competitors in the space. Interesting and entirely predictable evolution.

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@BenjaminMuses And has she disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood?!?

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The squarespace to free claude built site on cloudflare or github pages pipeline must be insane.

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We don't talk enough about the value of an agent to just open that email that's been sitting in your inbox for longer than it should, fill out that form and draft a reply. *chef's kiss*

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@rongse Fair. Fair. Most of the search and replace stuff is gone but I can still edit, save and quit. But yeah, while I have on more than one occasion accidentally typed “/quit” into a shell prompt, it is also a surprise that the muscle memory would deploy ‘:q’ unbidden.

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I just accidentally typed the vi quit command `:q` into claude and it, surprising, quit. I'm both not surprised and also absolutely mind blown both at the same time.

[⁵⁄₉ @fiveoutofnine]

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and https://t.co/QlOXb3COq3 went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

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@justinkalland https://t.co/Py43QoCGV3

Open source and local models (parakeet). I legitimate want for nothing. There's no reason to ship this info off to the cloud.

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All the companies trying to ride the line of open-source/freemium are fascinating. "Hey! Don't pay for Linear/Jira/Granola! Use this open-source tool... with a convoluted commercial structure so we can have our cake and eat it too."

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@ajwaxman A lot of planning and thoughtfulness was seemingly a side effect of the time it took to execute. The friction created the room and the necessity for the craft there. A lot of people are just now realizing that.

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Linus Torvalds with a banger.

[John Capobianco @John_Capobianco]

SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS LORD TORVALDS

[John Capobianco @John_Capobianco]

SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS LORD TORVALDS

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@jamiew That is incredibly thoughtful. I was a little skeptical until I realized it was a service from IANA rather than a random corporate act.

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@bethanymarz Someone pointed out that the risk of being hit is actually a useful mechanism. Once we have pervasive use of self driving cars that have similar directives, jay walking could turn roads into gridlock. I'll leave it to you to decide if that's a good or bad thing.

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

First they came for the software engineers, I said nothing for I was not a software engineer.

Then they came for the mathematicians, I said nothing for I was not a mathematician.

Then they came for the product managers and I said "make sure you get all the product managers"

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I turned off the Claude attribution. Not because I think I'm fooling anyone. But more because I think it goes without saying at this point.

[Agustin Lebron @AgustinLebron3]

"Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5" is giving me far too much credit.

[Agustin Lebron @AgustinLebron3]

"Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5" is giving me far too much credit.

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@nihalmehta The speed at which those results can be attained now is insane. On a week to week basis, the whole world can change for the better and for the worst. Any insights on how your best founders are managing to stay in that pocket?

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I wonder what percentage of Muse and Instinct requests are to download someone's linkedin network.