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xara.one
neuroscientist. all things data and offsec x: https://x.com/xedseraph blog: https://www.xara.one/
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Towards music and movie rec algorithms I always have a "you don't speak to me unless spoken to attitude" I never scroll for hrs trying to "find" something. When I go there I already have something in mind. Like a movie trailer I bookmarked, an album I was suggested etc

babe wake up, new report from the dream team just came out

i heard these skies are big around here

lmao i remember as recent as like 1-1.5 yr ago, a prominent member of a VC fund was stirring up discourse on twitter about UFOs being a real thing with not just posting but also podcasting about it. glad to see we can put this behind us. it was always a far fetched idea

Bellingcat has followed up its 2023 article on testing LLMs on geolocation with a new review of LLM's geolocation skills, with dramatically improved results www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

Good discussion on Twitter’s new encrypted DMs. TL;DR the cryptography doesn’t seem bad, but it isn’t great. mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.html

was looking up LLM poisoning and found this

write my code. And stop with the unnecessary glazing

An enormous amount of society's ills can be traced to an inability to properly understand the magnitude of things.

Interacting with my p5js coded handwriting

BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Very consequential for victims to see this. Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/

New AI ethics scandal brewing... turns out a team at University of Zurich had dozens of undisclosed AI bot accounts debating with people on /r/ChangeMyView from November 2024 to March 2025 simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...

Happy one year anniversary to the Man Who Killed Google Search

I was so impressed at how well ChatGPT could geolocate photos, until I looked closely at the answer.

my mental justification for writing long articles is that someone else can always make them shorter but not the other way around

is it ok to be a lil bit NIMBY if influencers found out about the place where you get your cocomisu (tiramisu adjacent dessert, sister to tres leches) from so that the cafe runs out of it before 2:30 pm? Asking for a friend

Since there were lots of debates over synthetic data generation and "model collapse" lately, some clarification on existing synth methods — a bit more complex than just distilling model outputs straight.

need this

Today is April Cools Day, where we post 100% genuine essays where the *choice of topic* is the surprise. Hence, #aprilcools! In my CS security class, my team discovered zero-click remote code execution vulns in a bunch of real-world apps. But the RCEs were just the start! predr.ag/blog/xorry-n...

Presented without comment: velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

the main purpose of leaving code comments is to amuse your future self

To make the same point a different way, your $50,000, or $50million, security stack is worthless if it can’t cope with a few normal people accidentally clicking on malicious links in the normal course of busy jobs And yes. This is 2025

which is why i think all the criticism hailed at mercenary spyware entities is STILL not enough given the consequences of it. you can't undo what is done. cat's out of the bag but you can bypass it by devising creative defence-against-the-dark-arts type tech. that's the only way you can one up it

every time I read this caption, I laugh

is it an abstraction (10x simpler) or is it an abstraction (10x slower)

The 🐐answered some of my questions

--- another severance post --- Two of the less talked about but very interesting characters for me are Reghabi and Devon. Can't help but notice how many things that have propelled Mark's storyline forward are due to the women around him

just realized I've been doing a mini version of severance on myself by posting different things on Twitter and Bsky and never crossposting

At the time of reading, this website is at 27% battery life, adding a dimension of anxiety that I didn't know could exist

#staywoke

Real time map outlining the economic status of each country. This is soooooo nice AND useful oec.world/en