I’ve been working on something new!
Presenting YAMLRocks 🪨
A fast, correct YAML library for Python, written in Rust.
It fills a gap I kept running into: YAML 1.2 (and 1.1) correctness, safe defaults, includes, source locations, and round-trip editing that keeps comments and formatting intact. It is about 5 to 10x faster than PyYAML’s C loader! 🚀
Still early, pre-1.0 software, but already pretty useful.
From the WTAF dept:
Malware developers are now adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware to evade AI-based security scanners.
tl;dr: The inclusion of content that LLMs are trained to refuse -- such as information about nukes and bioweapons -- can effectively prevent the LLM from continuing to analyze the threat.
"This header appears designed for AI-mediated analysis, not for Node, Bun, or Python. It attempts to derail scanners or analyst copilots that feed the beginning of a file to a language model without clearly isolating the content as untrusted data. In weak pipelines, this can cause refusal behavior, prompt confusion, context pollution, or premature classification before the scanner reaches the actual malware."
IDK why, but this reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin asks his mom for stuff she will never give him in a million years, and then he just asks for a cookie.
Canada’s privacy commissioner has found “that X Corp and xAI violated Canada’s federal private sector privacy law by launching the Grok AI-powered image generation tool without implementing appropriate safeguards at the outset”.
It produced “millions” of “sexualized deepfakes largely targeting women and children”.
The company will face no financial penalty.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11899687/grok-sexual-deepfake-report/
I was curious what fable could come up with if it summarized my podcast transcripts (opus was not super great) and sadly, my podcasts are too dangerous for fable.
Notifications were a mistake. I no longer wish to be notified. Of anything. Ever.
Back when I first got a cellphone and slowly started forgetting phone numbers I remember thinking "OK that is scary, it really didn't take long for me to forget something that used to be second nature for me"
It has been 25-30 years since then, and today I have no idea what the phone numbers of even my closest peers is. Not using that skill just entirely obliterated it from my brain over time. I am not even sure how much effort it would take to get back into it.
This post is about vibe coding.
