I wrote about how structured decoding is done with LLMs and why structure can be guaranteed. nishtahir.com/how-llm-stru...

Notes on Apple's new paper - 'The Illusion of Thinking:
Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity' 🧵

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Trying out Google's Jules for the first time 🧵

jules.google

If you are relying on these for domains like science and medicine this is a much bigger deal than you might think. You can't know if the models because of context you give it or because it's short cutting based on its training.

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I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the problems with modern computers lately. The hardware is better than ever but the problem is the software.

Our devices have become time vampires, designed to capture our attention, often at the expense of our mental health.

new year, new CVE 🎉! I will try to do a quick write up this week and maybe use this as an excuse to finally start a real blog #iOS #AppSec

If you've seen talk of ghost engineers, I break down some concerns I had after reading the paper nishtahir.com/on-ghost-eng... #programming #softwareengineering

tired: give a talk at a security conference
wired: have someone talk about your CVE in a talk at a security conference
#iosdev

had to complete a minigame to finish upgrading chromium in electron today

In my current personal project I'm using github.com/mhdhejazi/Dy... to help pen-test exposed XPC services on iOS - tl;dr if you can get the right protocol you can pass that to NSXPCInterface and execute methods against accessible services (which can sometimes make you money, which is a nice touch)

I’m always saying this @jay.bsky.team

do you ever think companies that use email -> fax services send faxes to companies that use fax -> email services?

Test post

finally found a good use for the Rabbit R1 #weirdhacks

It was interesting to see that replacing letters for words (i.e., "I C U") was a thing that existed back then in the 1870s/1880s. There's a huge gallery of these cards on Flickr that are amusing to read through. www.flickr.com/photos/aemay...

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...

Also for those that don't know yet: deck.blue is one of the few clients that supports "curated lists", just like what you're used to!

They will still show as "mute list" in the official apps because it isn't updated yet, just be sure not to hit the Subscribe button!