beveradb

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[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Please message me if we ever find out she saw this tweet on Lemmy and they start dating, I'm here for the whole story

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Roman Catholic cola? In Scotland we just drink buckfast

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Fair point! I think that's part of why I admire him, humble greatness

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Eh, bagder is more than "just some guy" to a lot of people! To me he's kinda been my tech idol for 20 years lol, he also was a core part of building Rockbox (open source firmware for MP3 players) which was the first open source project I got seriously involved in as a kid ☺️

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago

I've built a couple of useful products which leverage LLMs at one stage or another, but I don't shout about it cos I don't see LLMs as something particularly exciting or relevant to consumers, to me they're just another tool in my toolbox which I consider the efficacy of when trying to solve a particular problem. I think they are a new tool which is genuinely valuable when dealing with natural language problems. For example in my most recent product, which includes the capability to automatically create karaoke music videos, the problem for a long time preventing me from bringing that product to market was transcription quality / ability to consistently get correct and complete lyrics for any song. Now, by using state of the art transcription (which returns 90% accurate results) plus using an open weight LLM with a fine tuned prompt to correct the mistakes in that transcription, I've finally been able to create a product which produces high quality results pretty consistently. Before LLMs that would've been much harder!

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, and as someone raised in Europe where education is actually valued, I think that's dumb. Education institutions should be there to educate, not to entertain

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm sure a lot has changed in 10 years ago so this won't be relevant today, but back when I was last playing with this, sslstrip was the tool I was using on the pineapple to enable SSL mitm attacks - https://github.com/moxie0/sslstrip

I'd imagine there are new techniques to counteract new defenses - this stuff is always cat & mouse

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, back when I was playing around with my WiFi pineapple there were a wide variety of tricks to break SSL authentication without it being obvious to users. Easiest was to terminate the SSL connection on the pineapple and re-encrypt it with a new SSL cert from there to the users browser, so to the user it looked like everything was secure but in reality their traffic was only encrypted from them to the pineapple, then decrypted, sniffed and re-encrypted to pass along to the target websites with normal SSL.

Man in the middle attacks really do give the attacker tons of options

[–] beveradb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Hello, you must be British