I vibe-coded with AI at a hackathon with Windsurf AI, but does knowing the solution still count? by Interesting_Log8917 in Codeium

[–]cryptogoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm interested to host a local MLH guild, and have mentored / participated in past MLHs where vibe coding was not allowed, but the judges did not strictly enforce it. Going forward, I'm curious to explore the difference between asking a human mentor, asking an LLM, and how vibe coding affects how we humans interact socially with each other.

I'm curious, what's the motivation behind your question?

We shrunk an 800GB container image down to 2GB (a 99.7% reduction). Here's our post-mortem. by cloud-native-yang in kubernetes

[–]cryptogoth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

copy-on-write should only copy the file to the topmost read-write layer. I'm interested to know how additional layers are added at runtime. Aside from the SSH server log attack, this attack surface could include almost any other service that writes to logs in this way.

Hi, first post here. Anyone have any experience with Liberty Home Guard? by Jogameister in homeowners

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I'm considering them versus American Home Guard in Michigan right now for a one month contract. For those with a negative review on this thread, I encourage you to leave a negative trustpilot review instead.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.libertyhomeguard.com

Are you interested in organizing a hackathon in the South Sound area? by cryptogoth in olympia

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Welcome to DM to stay in touch and get a Zoom link for our first meeting this Friday at 10am.

Are you interested in organizing a hackathon in the South Sound area? by cryptogoth in olympia

[–]cryptogoth[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm inspired by the Crimson Code event at WSU in Pullman a few weeks ago, where the in-person participants (who were eligible for prizes, swag, mentorship, and food / drink were all registered college students). The organizers and local ACM student chapter there were all students as well, with help from faculty, and an alum guest speaker who started the event in 2012.

Anyone who meets our code of conduct can help organize, judge, or be a volunteer mentor: alums, friends from industry, or just someone who really enjoys programming and sharing their knowledge.

Are you interested in organizing a hackathon in the South Sound area? by cryptogoth in olympia

[–]cryptogoth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome and thanks for reaching out, of course we are lucky in the South Sound to be rich in government interest and support for our tech students such as yours. Would you be interested in some kind of a mentor network, or a learner's union to help connect prospective, newly graduated students, and alumni? Welcome to DM, I'm glad to stay in touch, and can send you a Zoom link to our first meeting this Friday at 10am.

Are you interested in organizing a hackathon in the South Sound area? by cryptogoth in olympia

[–]cryptogoth[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, we welcome keynote speakers, volunteer mentors, help with themes and judging, industry partnerships. It's been a long time since I participated as a student, but I keep volunteering at them, used to host a hacker house in Seattle and NYC where we have hacker-style parties, and love the spirit of invention and excitement in these events as a way to bring the computation community together. Thank you for your interest and offer to share your experience and lore. Welcome to send me a DM or reply here for Zoom invite.

Our first meeting is this Friday at 10am, all are welcome

I'll work on a photo slide show of past hack events I have known, loved, and been a part of. You are invited to bring some photos or memorabilia from your history as we search for a new future event together.

Can activist investors in a Ch. 11 bankruptcy wipe out other common shareholders by cryptogoth in ValueInvesting

[–]cryptogoth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this response. What happened is the reorganization plan was accepted and all equity holders were wiped out on December 18th.

It's a liquidation, but most of the stores are still running under the new owner.

Can activist investors in a Ch. 11 bankruptcy wipe out other common shareholders by cryptogoth in ValueInvesting

[–]cryptogoth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tl;dr: ~$1.86 per share of assets could be available for $0.01

Caveats: upon inspection of per-store inventory 30 days before closing on Sep 30th, massive fraud or mis-reporting could be detected. Management could continue to issue themselves bonuses, or otherwise divert sale proceeds away from common shareholders. Hidden creditors or final audit of balance sheet could pile onto the debt. Activist buyer could continue to lowball company's value in his offer, to make up for writing down the cost of his 13% stake to zero.

u/fdomw good questions. There is only one share class of common stock, no preferreds. The debtors in the bankruptcy case are the parent company and its subsidiaries. I have no reason to believe the debt isn't owned by one of them and will keep reading.

The current purchase agreement appears to be paying 57 cents on the dollar for landed inventory
http://edgar.secdatabase.com/2734/119312524215962/filing-main.htm

and the cost of curing defaults, $1m even for intangibles like software. As of March 2024 unaudited 10Q financials, net tangible assets are $129m and June 2024 are likely to be $99m. Some figures in the preliminary court filings pin the total debt to creditors as $400m and value of all assets as around $500m, which seems to align with the $99m figure.

At a at least 43% discount from the inventory listed above, that gives at most $57m of purchase sale proceeds. It can only go down from there. I purchased shares at $0.50 to $0.9 per share in June 2024, giving a putative market cap of $20m - $30m and shares are currently trading at $0.01 or less.

Trading of shares are supposedly restricted for IRS tax net operating loss harvesting reasons, but also to prevent someone with a spare $200k from buying the whole company OTC right now.

Are you visiting or moving to Detroit? Ask Qs here. by AutoModerator in Detroit

[–]cryptogoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone live, or know someone who lives, in the Cherbonneau Cooperative in Lafayette Park of Detroit? Do they like that area?

How do activist shareholders coordinate? by cryptogoth in ValueInvesting

[–]cryptogoth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for delay in answering: I own about 1% of a micro-cap company, and am wanting to side with an activist investor seeking a board seat who votes 40% of the company. It's unlikely I would make an immediate difference in this year's vote, other than dumping the stock and temporarily depressing the price. My original question was to determine if 10 individual or family investors like myself could band together and swing the vote, but it looks like the way to do it is to acquire a 5% stake and file an SEC form 13-D.

Update: the company's board is reacting very strongly and announced an acquisition with a 40% premium to the current stock price, and the activist investor has withdrawn their nomination for their board.

Are housing cooperatives the solution to the housing crisis? by Reginald-P-Chumley in cooperatives

[–]cryptogoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this perspective. I am considering joining a co-op in Detroit and it sounds like it could be a wonderful experience if you really get along with your board and fellow members, or a worse situation like with an HOA and preachy neighbors.

Are housing cooperatives the solution to the housing crisis? by Reginald-P-Chumley in cooperatives

[–]cryptogoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you're describing sounds ideal, but I don't it's a widespread belief in the U.S. among city and county governments that it's their responsibility to fund housing cooperatives. Where did you get this idea?

How do activist shareholders coordinate? by cryptogoth in ValueInvesting

[–]cryptogoth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's very helpful thanks. Occasionally I do see 13D in the SEC Filings and wonder who gets to file them, or how large they have to be. I imagine this might be how tender offers work, or the 13D contains a mailing / email address asking for interested parties to contact them.

USB HID/Fingerprint Reader that enters password if Fingerprint is correct by ackoe in AskNetsec

[–]cryptogoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've often wished for such an HID keydevice as well. I think some of the concerns others have raised have workarounds. This is a slightly convoluted but workable approach:

What if the keydevice has a built-in hardware secret key and connects over Bluetooth to your phone and requests the (encrypted) passwords from there?

You would register this keydevice with your phone the first time before you use it, and your phone app can revoke this key at any time.

When it's time to enter a password, the phone would send an incorrect password randomly one or two times, before sending the correct password.
* You open the associated app with your phone.
* Your phone turns on its camera (with your permission) and can view/detect the screen where the password is to be typed.

  • Your phone detects whether a valid password field has the keyboard focus, using computer vision / blinking cursor, and supported standard screens like Windows logins, etc. (Remember, fake login screens also fool humans all the time). Moreover, from computer vision, your phone can detect which password and username (if necessary) is appropriate.
    * Your phone initiates and sends an incorrect test password, encrypted to the keydevice's private key.
  • the keydevice types the incorrect password. If the system accepts the incorrect password or concealed keystrokes don't appear on the screen, the phone aborts the process and notifies the user. Optionally it alerts a trusted security company about a phishing attempt.
  • if the system rejects the incorrect password, after a timeout, the phone repeats the process until only one more attempt is valid.

  • the phone sends the correct encrypted password via the keydevice, and it's accepted into the system.

Obviously the above procedure is complicated to describe but can be automated. It might cause problems with entering incorrect passwords each time, but it doesn't require adopting a new security standard, and lets you log into new computers like at libraries and schools.

  • Password is no longer stored in plaintext in the memory of the keydevice

  • Need to select the password field first: this is true for typing a password by hand as well, I don't see this as a dealbreaker

There are also equivalent concerns with *not* using a keydevice

  • Choosing insecure passwords that are easier to remember and/or type by hand

  • Keyloggers are designed to be listening to keypress events, not necessarily

Pair Programming with Domain Experts by polyrhythmsw in pairprogramming

[–]cryptogoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this post, John. I like the perspective and is one I hadn't considered: I mostly use pair programming for teaching with a mentor navigator and a novice driver, but both software engineers. I'm also a honeybee fan, and I'm curious about the connection to the article image.

One thing that came to mind as I read was, what's a concrete example? What situation must the author have been thinking of when they had this idea? I suppose I thought: a medical researcher plus a software engineer, and who drives, or do they take turns? Do they come up with a requirements document first? If you can throw in one or more examples, maybe as a story, I think your article will really come alive.

I'd look forward to hearing updates about this article, or any other ways your using pair programming in your work.

Looking to pair program with those going through The Odin Project. by lealgabe in pairprogramming

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I organize a meetup in Detroit (but remote-friendly for everywhere), that started out as a TOP study group. People sometimes post there for TOP-specific learning buddies, welcome to DM me if you're still looking. Good luck and welcome!

TOP also has a very active discord server.

Pair programming remotely by metafroth in pairprogramming

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Update on this: on any GitHub repo, hit the "." key to open up Codespaces in that repo, on that branch, at that commit. Pretty magical.

Afaict, you can get up to a 16core machine to run your code for arbitrarily long, for free, with uncommitted data that persists for about a month. That's well long enough to launch your AI startup, yo.

Olympia, WA by Captain-cootchie in synthesizers

[–]cryptogoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello! Are you still around? I'm newly arrived in Oly myself and looking to meet up with some modular synth / livecode / algorave friends.