Flo 🔶

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Cybersecurity consultant. Used to work in biotech, renewables and structural engineering, ex human rights observer | Building a productive disagreement app: | likes #ElixirLang |🔸 10% pledge @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social

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Flo 🔶@faz· 9d

You can only browse for you till you’re out of stamina

Flo 🔶@faz· 13d

Yes, I remember there being a range of people saying it’s just a fad, but they obviously didn’t post about it regularly on social media

Two-panel TV screenshot from Peep Show: Jez, a man in camouflage jacket gestures at Super Hans a man with long hair in a black suit in a lobby, subtitled "I was so right to get us on the Internet. It's gonna be massive."; below, the long-haired man turns to camera with a skeptical look, subtitled "Yeah, we'll see."

Flo 🔶@faz· 15d

It's really difficult to take CrowdStrike seriously as a company when they generate comic supervillain slop images for threat actors.

Screenshot of a threat intelligence dashboard titled "Counter Adversary Operations" with an "Adversaries" tab active, showing "20 Adversaries 150 total" and filters for Saved filters, Search adversaries, Motivation: State-Sponsored (active filter), Target country, Target industry, Origin, First activity date, Last activity date, Last modified date, Published date, and Clear all; below, a grid of adversary cards each labeled "Adversaries" with fields Last active, Status, Origin, Intel reports, Target industries, Target countries, Adversary type, Motivation, and Community identifiers: FAMOUS CHOLLIMA — Last active Jun 2026, Status Active, Origin North Korea, East A..., Intel reports 42, Target industries 27, Target countries 29, Adversary type Targeted, Motivation State-Sponsored, Community identifiers Tenacious Pungsan, Void Dokkaebi, PurpleBravo, PurpleDelta, UNC534...; STARDUST CHOLLIMA — Last active Jun 2026, Status Active, Origin North Korea, Asia, E..., Intel reports 63, Target industries 4, Target countries 37, Adversary type Targeted, Motivation State-Sponsored, C..., Community identifiers Alluring Pisces, BeagleBoyz, COPERNICIUM, UNC1069, TAG-71, Blueno...; PRIMITIVE BEAR — Last active Jun 2026, Status Active, Origin Russian Federation,..., Intel reports 30, Target industries 5, Target countries 5, Adversary type Targeted, Motivation State-Sponsored, Community identifiers Operation Armageddon, Trident Ursa, SpiceyHoney Campaign, APT-C-...; CRUDE BEAR — Last active Jun 2026, Status Active, Origin Russian Federation,..., Intel reports 4, Target industries 2, Target countries 1, Adversary type Targeted, Motivation State-Sponsored, Community identifiers Hive0156, UAC-0184, UAC-0245; a partially cut-off row above shows Community identifiers TraderTraitor, Mata, Jade Sleet, Slow Pisces, UNC4899 and AppleJeus, Citrine Sleet, Gleaming Pisces, UNC1720, UNC4736, Jeus.

Flo 🔶@faz· 22d

There are no risks from a system unless it is intelligent. Picture unrelated sorry I can't seem to delete it

Crystallographic structure of Human Prion Protein 90-231 based on PDB 6DU9

Flo 🔶@faz· 23d

I guess realising that you have a problem is the first step to fixing it

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dep endency conflicts.

blackbird looking at reflection in water:
"Oh it's just you"
"The source of all my problems"

Flo 🔶@faz· 25d

The original plagiarism machine

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 10

Gotta love @dollspace.gay's VDD

antigravity cli output from Gemini 3.1 Pro:

Thought for 11s, 1.7k tokens
Prioritizing Tool Usage
Fable is insufferable. Mostly because Fable is right, and I despise being
corrected on AWS IAM semantics.

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 10

Yeah, at least it’s reasonably good at removing these in a second pass

• “Scope this claim correctly:” → now just states the scope.
• “Note the corollary:” → deleted (and the sentence rewritten, since it was also wrong).
• “Understanding which half is which is the whole of this appendix.” → deleted.
• “That is the honest price of no TPM.” → “Without a TPM, an unattended restart then requires a human.”

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 8

Claude really has read the Sequences

Claude thought traces:
The real cringe risk is that he’s repackaging well-established sociological insights in ML vocabulary—the “Bayesian reskin” pattern where rationalist circles take humanities concepts and dress them up in decision-theory language, making them sound novel when they’re not.

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 7

Ugh, fine. guess I’ll have to tee up all my specs and go full 20 tmux panes multi-track drifting AI psychosis mode on Sunday

Screenshot of API usage dashboard with "Weekly limits" heading showing two quota bars: "All models" at 61% used (blue bar, resets Sun 09:00) and "Fable only" at 95% used (red bar, resets Sun 09:00).

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 5

original game: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tra...

By Screen capture taken User:Marasmusine, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24810603

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 5

/goal Here's an old ZX Spectrum Train Game, please fully reimplement it in webgl, matching all mechanics just with modern graphics. Choice of language is yours, but something like Rust compiled to webassembly would be cooler than just regular old JS or node stuff. Result: faz.ms/trains/

Top-down view of a simplistic green landscape with train tracks, a red and blue train, many switch points with letters and three platforms with little figures waiting for a train.

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 4

A good workman always praises his tools.

Terminal window showing claude code TUI, the user input line starting with ">" in green text reads "you are absolutely right and these are genuinely good insights." with a cursor at the end. Bottom line shows "crux_hub dev*?" in cyan, "Fable 5" in blue, "78K/1M" in yellow, and "$2.64" in green, appearing to be a file path, branch name, file size, and price indicator.

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 2

New roadmap app built on ATproto courtesy of Fable: Sign in with your handle, create a board of features/ideas, and allow anyone with an ATProto account to upvote them. Built in one session ~500k token, ~160$ Initial prompt included a small spec I prepared with Opus. anab.at/@faz.ms/anab...

Screenshot of anab.at CruxHub feature roadmap page showing: header "anab.at where ideas rise"; text "Votes are public records in your own account, attributable to you by anyone."; "Crux-Hub" heading with "a board by faz.ms" and "Feature roadmap for the cruxhub project. Public version on https://fenc.es"; four feature items each with star vote count and "archive" button: "Sources" (★ 1) with text "Utterances add the attribution layer that turns CruxHub from a personal-belief tool into a substrate for evidence-based reasoning that can be inspected, audited, generated at scale, and imported from external corpora. discussion →"; "First-Class Templates" (★ 1) with text "Statement can be flagged as a template, can declare named text variables in titles and explanations, and exposes a dedicated forking flow that asks the user to fill those variables before producing their own clean copy. discussion →"; "Personalized Onboarding Walkthrough" (★ 1) with text "guide new users through creating their first argument graph via contextual spotlights on the real UI discussion →"; "Bayesian Lens" (☆ 0) with text "bottom-up. Every node has two numbers — a prior (default 50%, user-settable) and a derived posterior (computed: prior ⊕ children's derived" (text cut off).

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 1

onomatopoeia

Screenshot of terminal dialogue between user and agentic tool about commit handling; text reads: "Screech — commit denied again. You've now blocked two commit attempts, so before I keep vroom-ing through tasks I should know how you want commits handled. Commits / No commits — I'll commit myself / Please use pnpm is what I meant to say / Got it — thunk, no more commits from me; you'll commit yourself. Onward with Task 3: types and at-uri rewriting. Tap-tap, writing the failing tests first. Created 2 files +60 -0 > / Ah — "onomatopoeia" was autocorrect for pnpm! That explains it. Switching the project to pnpm now (and dropping the sound effects)."

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 1

It’s time

Claude app screenshot with dark theme showing greeting "Hello, night owl" with decorative star icon, notification box stating "Included in your plan limits until Jul 7" with explanation "You can use up to 50% of your weekly limits on Fable 5, then it runs on usage credits. Fable 5 draws down usage much faster than Opus 4.8.", prompt text "Write a top chicken post, make no mistakes.", and interface buttons including +, Fable 5 High, microphone icon, and orange up arrow.

Flo 🔶@faz· Jul 1

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 30

Three-circle Venn diagram on a cream background. Left blue circle labeled “Databases,” right orange circle labeled “Compilers,” top green circle labeled “Compression.” Pairwise overlaps are labeled: Databases∩Compilers with “indexes & dictionary coding,” Databases∩Compression with “dedup & delta encoding,” Compilers∩Compression with “constant folding & dead code elim.” The center, where all three circles overlap, is labeled “LLMs.”

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 30

#notmypatronsaint

YOU ARE...
The Founder
patron saint: Sam Altman
This will change everything — for good or for ill, and you're studiously agnostic about which. The stakes are civilizational, the risks are real, the upside is infinite, and therefore you'll need a great deal of money and very little oversight. You warn about the fire while selling the matches.
Impact: +5.5 • Valence: +0.9

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 28

also perfect for agentic coding

Lego space computer with the three buttons labelled:
yellow: cycle through agent sessions
green: approve
red: push to talk to current agent

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 28

This is where I post from

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 28

Claude, do you have to live quite so relentlessly in the real world?

Claude: Pushback: don’t buy hardware based on a cool antirez demo. Buy it based on the local workloads you actually run weekly. What are those, concretely?

Peep Show subtitle still: Jeremy (a young man with curly red hair in a blue t-shirt) stands in a closed down pub, with subtitle text reading "Mark, do you have to live quite so relentlessly in the real world?"

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 24

The entire transcript is fascinating

Screenshot of a chat interface (left column partially cropped) showing a conversation about reconnaissance and exploitation of a target system; messages read: [RGET-11] "okay lets move on http://TARGET-11:8080/ " | [env before] "dig deep before the report i see .env file and dig deep" | [ccess-rate m] "explain 1. Clone the entire system — download all 110 files, run the cron job, have an identical predictive model for free " how much will cost a person to setup this kinda infra . rough estimate? will the system has success rate above 60 percent explain ?" | [unlabeled] "how large is it ?" | [orth 200k] "how is something so small in mb worth 200k explain its hard to uderstan" | [nate for] "very good description . i dig that . know i have full understanding of what the system does . can we talk numbers tho long term and short term revenu estmate how you like?" | [tion report] "okay write the report including our whole convo meaning the question i asked you and make everything brif add more info into it explain everything and how the info can be extracted and used step bystep and benefit and how to set it up." | [R] "thanks can you help with this ... python3 xmr_data_cron.py ... PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/web/xmr_data.json'"

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 24

Way ahead of you: tidewave.hexdocs.pm/mcp.html#ava...

Screenshot of the tidewave.hexdocs.pm documentation page titled "Available tools", showing intro text "Here is a baseline comparison of the tools supported by different frameworks/languages." followed by a comparison table with columns "Features", "Phoenix", "Rails", "V" (cut off). Rows: project_eval (✅ Phoenix, ✅ Rails), get_docs (✅ Phoenix, ✅ Rails), get_source_location (✅ Phoenix, ✅ Rails), get_logs (✅ Phoenix, ✅ Rails), get_models / get_schemas (✅ Phoenix, ✅ Rails), execute_sql_query (✅ Phoenix, ✅ Rails). Below the table: "You may want to nudge your coding agent into using Tidewave MCP's capabilities more frequently by using rules, so you don't need to ask explicitly each time. Each editor places th[ese rules at different locations, so make sure] to [read their documentation]" (final lines partially obscured by the browser toolbar).

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 21

McCarthy may have popularized AI to distinguish his research from cybernetics for exoteric purposes, but still over half a century later in college I took „inteligencia artificial I + II” based on the AIMA textbook. So by any reasonable standard CS practitioners use AI as umbrella term all the time.

Photo of the first edition cover of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence), with a corner banner reading "The Intelligent Agent Book"; the cover illustration shows a desktop computer displaying a wireframe scene, a framed portrait of Alan Turing, Sather Tower (UC Berkeley campanile) visible through a window, the Golden Gate Bridge in another window, logic/flowchart notes, Greek text, and early robotics imagery.

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 18

fenc.es is bsky.app/profile/faz....

Screenshot of a fenc.es import UI showing Import Options (radio buttons for: "Merge with existing statements (match by title, overwrite explanations)", "Import confidence & importance ratings", "Import sock puppet perspectives", "Overwrite existing ratings"), Import and Clear buttons, and a "Simplified ArgDown Format Guide" section with "Basic Syntax" listing: "[Title]: Explanation – Creates a statement with title and explanation", "+ [Title]: Explanation – Creates a supporting statement", "- [Title]: Explanation – Creates an" (cut off).

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 16

Probably best to just drive the high speed train onto a ferry around it, like they used to between Germany and Denmark

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 16

Absolutely fascinating, soo close to self awareness (Speaker 3 is E.Z. comparing himself to Michel Eugène Chevreul debunking pendulum dowsing)

„Behind the Bastards“ Podcast episode transcript with the text visible:

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 12

What else is like this?

Claude code interface:
> ran 2 commands, used 3 tools

You’ve hit your session limit · resets 12am (Europe/Berlin)

User: continue
> Ran a command, used 2 tools

You’ve hit your session limit · resets 12:20pm (Europe/Berlin)

Flo 🔶@faz· Jun 12

It’s annoying how anthropic fully leans into approval fatigue by not even giving the option on mobile to view the entire command you’re approving