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Brian Campbell

@unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

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Working on eVTOLs at Beta Technologies. Python, C, Rust. Too many hobbies, but right now spending the most of my time learning to fly. [bridged from hachyderm.io/@unlambda on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22m

Wait, what? YouTube removed the "sort by: most recent" feature? That was the best way to find just random videos with like 2 views on various topics. It was great for finding stuff outside the mainstream, just seeing everything weird and messy that people were doing with no monetary incentive […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@glyph Well, I think (though, because I found the paper hard to understand I could be wrong, LLM text is really hard to read) they are basically saying that a malicious LLM could hijack approvals to do some other operation than that which was approved. They're not saying that they do do this […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@glyph I suspect the reason for this is that benchmarks and reinforcement learning pipelines have a tendency to have tests like "does this answer contain this information", so a strategy of "stuff as much information into the answer as possible without regard for coherence" is something the LLMs […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@glyph I was trying to actually understand what these vulnerabilities consist of, but my brain just bounces off of LLM written text, LLMs just stuff a whole bunch of irrelevant details in without actually doing a good job of explaining what's going on.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@glyph Text in that paper was starting to read fairly LLM generated, and indeed at least they admit it: "To help manage and cross-check the repository-scale evidence corpus, OpenAI Codex assisted with repository inspection, orchestration and checking of experiment scripts, evidence normalization […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@whitequark Huh, interesting. I wonder why this approach, of buying and reselling the drugs, rather than just offering a testing service? When my father was in college (a very progressive college), he said their chemistry department had an anonymous substance testing program. You would submit […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

[food, non-vegetarian] My partner doesn't eat chicken, but has had a craving for Buffalo wings and we picked up a really tasty Buffalo sauce at the Tunbridge World's Fair. So we stopped by our local butcher and fish market to see if there was any fish that might fry up well for buffalo sauce […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

And back to full pressure. Still waiting on hearing about boil water notice, but operating under that assumption until they notify us.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Have partial water pressure back. Not yet back to full pressure. At least it'll be good for washing hands and flushing toilets.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Another day, another water main break. No water pressure, so I'm sure we'll have a boil water notice in effect for a few days. This city really needs to do a major revamp of water main infrastructure; we run higher pressure than usual in order to carry water down through the valley and up into […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@whitequark I have a friend who has a severe phobia of these specifically (well, any "daddy long legs" type of spider, including these). So while I would otherwise leave them alone to do their thing, I don't mind them, we have to kill all of the ones that we see to keep our house safe for our […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Wait. I think I've been confusing Dana White and Joe Rogan for a while. I seriously can't tell them apart even when side to side. I think they may have taken enough gender affirming hormones that they've actually morphed into the same physical form by now.

Two identical burly bald men talking into Fox microphones eyeing each other lovingly.

Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@workchronicles/117… Ah, fuck.... This might be me

mastodon.social

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

[Protest against genocide] Robert Kraft doesn't want you to hear this, so I had to give it another listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITVIlr5jUMw

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Can't wait until the legal system starts applying the attractive nuisance doctrine to GenAI. But don't limit it to just children. There are millions of adults using it who do not have the means to evaluate whether their use of it is helpful or harmful.

Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

At a bar with sports on the TVs, and half of the ads are AI ads for gambling apps. It's pretty disgusting. I can't believe how normalized they're trying to make casual gambling.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Quesadilla.
Ķ (k-cedilla) is the 17th letter of the Latvian alphabet.

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first. VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC." It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@SnoopJ I've never used their (relatively new) VPS offerings, but I've been with DreamHost for basic traditional web hosting/email/etc for a while and been pretty happy with them. Generally fairly boring web host that has just worked for a while. Not perfect by any means, but boring enough to […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Was reminded recently that it's illegal in Vermont to serve apple pie without a glass of milk, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or a slice of cheddar cheese.

Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@glyph oof, yeah. the comment is pretty sloppy looking, but sometimes that happens because somoene uses an LLM for translating their comment. But the user profile, yikes...

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Fuck, Tim Curry too?

Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@glyph Pi does have the disadvantage that it has no built-in sandboxing or confirmation, you must run it in a container/VM/etc, or write or find a sandboxing plugin. But because I don't trust the sandboxing/confirmaiton built into harnesses, that's what I'd be doing anyhow, so that works for me […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@glyph So, I can't speak to the this being the best or safest way to do this, but here's what I've been doing, with some experience report. For one, the biggest psychological factor that I've encountered in the process is the "Futzing Fraction" that you've already identified. Especially for […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@0xabad1dea @blotosmetek In particular, the article stays not hot in the caches because now everyone is editing it as well, to fix all of the leftover present tenses, edit war over a bunch of small details that they're only now noticing because they're paying attention, adding details from all […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@glyph I mean, most tools probably just use getaddrinfo or gethostbyname and then just try the addresses one at a time. And that's if you're lucky. Many probably just try the first in the list and don't even bother continuing. There's a disturbing number of results in this search that just take […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@glyph HappyEyeballs isn't all that common outside of web browsers, I don't think. My bet is that if you picked 10 random network tools outside of web browsers, you'd be lucky if 1 of them supported HappyEyeballs.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

@matt We have never figured out how to do that in the internet era, with increasingly valuable assets controlled entirely digitally. Once any machine can talk to any machine across the whole world, and they contain data and credentials that are valuable to the attacker or valuable enough to the […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

@dalias Even worse is what StackOverflow does for dates on comments. Anything more than a year old is "over a year ago"; because clearly for technical information, it's not important to know whether something was 2 years ago or 15 years ago. I wonder how hard […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of StackOverflow comments. They have dates reading "Over a year ago". Hovering over one reveals that it was written 2011-04-13T14:15:10.943Z.

Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@timbray Unfortunately, I doubt it. While the bubble is still likely to pop, there's still a fairly big market; there are a lot of people writing AI assisted code right now who are going to be unwilling to go back to doing it by hand. Some of them never learned to write code by hand. After the […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@JessTheUnstill @eraserpuppy @GroupNebula563 🯴:🯳🯸 In the seven segment font on your computer.

Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@GroupNebula563 TIL that Unicode actually has digits as 7 segment characters, so you can write this as it would appear on a digital clock. :🯳

Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Trains and spiders!

Rail car door, with two signs reading "rear end movement only" and "do not hump"

Large orb Weaver spider with a white cross on its back on train steps

Rusty old train wheel sets, with Budd cars in the background that read AllEarth

Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@tiotasram @grimmy @zzt @pidgin Agreed. Wasn't necessarily trying to discount the risk; just add some nuance about this particular situation.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@tiotasram @grimmy @zzt @pidgin Except the author who claims his project was copied, also vibe-coded it with Claude. Take a look at github.com/mbeher2200/DarkHours "Built with help from GitHub Copilot and Claude." and there are very few commits without a Claude co-author. So rather […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Happy birthday @ezterry !

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

OK, the Smarter Every Day guy calling it "encrappification" is kind of cute, actually.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

@andrewnez That had me for a while. A bit too on the nose.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

@ives @Migueldeicaza The US is the place that still doesn't use the metric system. We measure things in gallons and quarts (1/4 gallon) and pints (1/2 quart) and cups (1/2 pint) and tablespoons (1/16 cup) and teaspoons (1/3 tablespoon), and we usually have measures in our kitchens that are 1/4 […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

@ives @Migueldeicaza Yep, that's right. In the US we generally refer to fractional cents as a fraction rather than as a decimal. It's not really used much any more outside of gasoline, but in the past there have been banknotes for one bit, which is half of a quarter, or 12½¢ […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

@ives @Migueldeicaza This is $4.29 and 9/10s of a cent per gallon. This works out to about €1/liter for comparison to European prices.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

@Migueldeicaza For the non-Americans (or at least, the ones who are most likely on here, like Europeans), those prices are still absurdly low. In Europe the prices are closer to $8/gallon.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@unlambda/116796810596… Just 19 hours left on this Kickstarter! In case you missed it, this is my friend Blair's #horror #fantasy #GraphicNovel/#comic set in #Vermont . He's a talented freelance artist trying to get some traction with his own graphic novel. It's […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

@mitch just so you know, the Babylon Bee is a transphobic conservative satire site. They do non-political things like this as well, but they have been known to make nasty transphobic, Islamophobic, and other similar kinds of jokes.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

@whitequark @0xabad1dea writing system in which each character represents a syllable. think katakana or hiragana

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

@keith Glad to hear that Matilda is doing better!

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

@futurebird oh, I love that there are still people on Fedi who haven't seen this and are still discovering it...

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Crazy things you read about from your local library. It's absurd that ebooks cost more to the library than physical books; pure rent-seeking: "Did you know that electronic materials like e-books and digital audiobooks are significantly more expensive than their print counterparts? Whereas we […]

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

@aburka can you use multiple slurp juices on a single goose? does this laying event produce both Lab gees and Special Forces?

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