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_stiofan··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
It's just not currently cost-effective to use AI in this way, I see it over and over reporting false positives. You then need to make it validate it's own false positives which adds more cost. The goal in this case it to have a bug free app, which AI can't do effectively yet. There are other great uses for AI, though. It is great at finding and identifying known common vulnerabilities, which can be leveraged to claim bug bounties. That's where I see it being cost-effective currently.
_stiofan··on Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
It was a sad day when Microsoft bought GitHub, we all know eventually it will go the way of Hotmail and Skype.
_stiofan··on Googlebook
Built for the vibes... It looks nice and i guess this is Google's answer to the Apple Neo, i expect it will be priced exactly the same $599 but will be bundled with 6 months free Gemini Pro.
_stiofan··on An Introduction to Meshtastic
I think that is more of a directional antenna approach? I’m more talking about triangulation, we used to be able to do it with cell towers and if you had 3 or more in range we could get pretty accurate location (now that seems to be locked down).
_stiofan··on Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM
Oh, it’s been a few years, if I remember right it was an iso, I burnt to the SD and simply changed the details in a config.txt, I would have to dig out my old laptop to get the details.
_stiofan··on An Introduction to Meshtastic
I haven't messed with this yet, to me it seems like it could theoretically map all device locations, triangulating positions? Has that been addressed?
_stiofan··on Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM
The pi zero's are great. I have a bunch of them. I used to use them as a tiny server for live webcams streaming to YouTube for customers, but YouTube now have a minimum sub count before you can go live, which sucks. These boards are pretty powerful.