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Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:05PM (#49914455)
Via cli switch, but in process w/o fine graining? If so please tell
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:04PM (#49914437)
Utterly inert? Suppose that reads safe...
Re:I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:31PM (#49781238)
Pretty sure you only get to drink the Kool-Aid once. At least in UK this is Jim Jones ref.
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:45PM (#49540610)
Gemini 3.8 flash thinks Entoloma sinuatum is good to eat... Otherwise feels great
Re:Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:43PM (#49540579)
Gemini 3.8 flash told me to eat Entoloma sinuatum!
You may not be aware of the most important emergent property of this comment: it made me piss myself laughing. Strong work, architect of intent.
don't just dabble, dive in! domain-expert, buck-stopping, orchestrating architects of intent under constraints are going to be the only survivors ;-)
My bad. If you are interested, it was "Gemini's lead matters..." which tingled.
Claude prose praising Gemini ;-)
A dev laptop running Ubuntu 24.04 got hit by a classic PostgreSQL cryptojacking attack while on public Wi-Fi (port 5432 exposed, UFW temporarily off). Detection started with fan noise → btop tree view revealed 70-99% CPU under the postgres user. The recovery was fully scripted, transparent, and driven by a local coding agent (Codex-Max-5.2) turned into a paranoid remediation specialist via a custom AGENTS.md directive. Highlights:

Generated dozens of timestamped audit/cleanup scripts Captured rogue sshd binary → 24/64 detections on VT as Linux trojan/rootkit hider Ended with UFW timed rules, auditd watches, LAN-only services

Full play-by-play, verbatim scripts, and takeaways — no hype, just level zero truth.

https://open.substack.com/pub/layerzero0/p/surviving-a-2025-...

Would love feedback from anyone who's dealt with Postgres miners or AI-assisted IR.