Yeah, otherwise I'd end up with 9000 tabs. I use firefox and make use of the tagging system there, it's nice.
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zavec commented on My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/vismit2000
This write-up only took me about an hour and a half (for a fifteen minute talk), thanks to the tooling I have in place to help: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations...
Here's the latest version of that tool: https://tools.simonwillison.net/annotated-presentations
Super cool! One of the things on my to-do list is some articles I have bookmarked about people who do something similar with org-mode. They use it to take notes, and then have plugins that turn those notes into slides or blog posts (or other things, but those were the two use-cases I was interested in). This is a good reminder that I should go follow up on that.
zavec commented on Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys ergaster.org/til/base64-e... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
I love this post style. Never stop learning friend!
Yeah, people are being snarky and saying it's obvious, but it was new to me! I guess I'm not staring at base64 all that often. It's a neat trick though, now I'm going to pay attention next time I have an opportunity to use it.
zavec commented on Content-Aware Spaced Repetition giacomoran.com/blog/conte... · Posted by u/ran3000
That is an important insight. It is not so much which method gets you to learn more when used for a given amount of time. It is probably more about which method is fun to use, and engages you and thus actually gets used.
Can't help but repeat this old joke: A guy bought a gym-membership for 6 months, and paid $1000. But he was lazy (like most of us are) and never went or very rarely went to the gym, never felt like going there. After 6 months he realized he had wasted $1000. So he thought maybe if he bought the equipment himself he could and would do exercise at home. He bought the equipment for $1000, but then he rarelywent home. Didn't feel like it :-)
I've tried several different language learning apps, and the one I stick with is always the one with the best gamification even if it's not the #1 for things like explanation quality. It's all about what you'll actually do.
zavec commented on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020) benkuhn.net/attention/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
Also scoring on the ADHD spectrum and having a pure knowledge worker job, I have to say, that knowledge work is actually not reliant on attention at all. One can get productive and not fired in many ways. Working in research is IMHO a nice niche for a neurodiverse community. I would say: a fitting job is all you need.
As a side note: I have actually a lot of attention (so it is not scarce at all) but not always at the thing that just needs to get done atm.
I got to work on research in my previous job which was a lot of fun. Ultimately the company pivoted to a direction which was less interesting to me (which I don't blame them for, you need to build something people actually want to buy and the original vision wasn't that), but I hope I can find a research position like that again someday.
Honestly, dumping gecko would be a suicide for Firefox. Much of Firefox's minuscule userbase consists of knowledgeable nerds who are holdouts from the Blink monoculture.
My main concern is manifest v3, I would be incredibly annoyed if I had to switch to a browser that broke ublock.
zavec commented on Learning basic electronics by building fireflies a64.in/posts/learning-bas... · Posted by u/signa11
Yeah, for me, analog is the exciting domain — my undiscovered country. I have played with vacuum tubes as well and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Transistors were, for some reason, seemingly unknowable to me. But I made a kind of "transistor playground" [1] based around Forrest Mims III book [2] and then enjoyed playing with them.
[1] https://imgur.com/a/dChq4AZ
[2] https://archive.org/details/forrest-mims-basic-semiconductor...
Edit: actually, I had forgotten it was a transistor logic playground for I made for creating logic gates with transistors. Based on another Forrest Mims book: https://archive.org/details/engineersmininot00mims
That looks awesome, nice work! Very clean.
zavec commented on Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/... · Posted by u/walterbell
Websites were a way to get authoritative information about a company, from that company (or another trusted source like Wikipedia). That trust is powerful, which is why we collectively spent so much time trying to educate users about the "line of death" in browsers, drawing padlock icons, chasing down impersonator sites, mitigating homoglyph attacks, etc. This all rested on the assumption that certain sites were authoritative sources of information worth seeking out.
I'm not really sure what trust means in a world where everyone relies uncritically on LLM output. Even if the information from the LLM is usually accurate, can I rely on that in some particularly important instance?
In some cases like the Air Canada one where the courts made them uphold a deal offered by their chatbot it'll be "accurate" information whether the company wants it to be or not!
Not not everything an LLM tells you is going to be worth going to court over if it's wrong though.
From a brief glance at the O365 docs it seems like the 'AISystemPluginData` field indicates that the event in the screenshot showing the missing access is a copilot event (or maybe they all get collapsed into one event, I'm not super familiar with O365 audit logs), and I'm inferring from the footnote that there's not another sharepoint event somewhere in either the old or new version. But if there is one that could at least be a mitigation if you needed to do such a search on the activity before the fix.