Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/112593346831011142

So hear me out... I've just been inform about the Gum Wall in Seattle and have an idea.

AI generated content in a nutshell

(Disclaimer: This has to be one of the worst videos I've ever watched... enjoy)

Russian Port, Fuel Tanks Hit in Drone Attack on Black Sea Region
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-15/russian-port-fuel-tanks-hit-in-drone-attack-on-black-sea-region?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@pezmico Billionaires exist. That's the fundamental problem.

This experiment (authored by several well-known mathematicians) revives an archaic practice (last seen in the era of Gauss) of posting encrypted proofs before revealing them: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192 . Here, the challenge is to see whether 10 research-level problems (that arose in the course of the authors research) are amenable to modern AI tools within a fixed time period (until Feb 13).

The problems appear to be out of reach of current "one-shot" AI prompts, but were solved by human domain experts, and would presumably a fair fraction would also be solvable by other domain experts equipped with AI tools. They are technical enough that a non-domain-expert would struggle to verify any AI-generated output on these problems, so it seems quite challenging to me to have such a non-expert solve any of these problems, but one could always be surprised. It will be interesting to see if there were any notable outcomes to this experiment by the expiration of the time linit.

So many evil aspects of the Trump regime, but normalizing sexual abuse of minors by rich white men has to be near the top.

@decryption @LapTop006 @jpm fwiw I think opnsense (if its something you're comfortable with) will be fine. setup some QoS for your cunstomers, do v4 NAT and v6. she'll be right.

@pezmico Billionaires exist. That's the fundamental problem.

@meowski
> character set has a huge impact on time required to brute force a password

Sure. But even if the attacker *knows* your passphrase only contains lower case letters, there's still the problem of the entropy created by string length.

> MyObscureText is far easier to crack than FR#(QJf.*a7:3

This misconception is so common there's an XKCD for it, linked above. Here's the detailed explanation, in case you want to check their work;

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936:_Password_Strength

@joernsmock

@stargazersmith Using a lot of PDL myself. The Task:MemManager ecosystem at CPAN exposes memory buffer views through PDL and offers a way to combine GPU ops (through OpenMP) with PDL

https://fediverse.kr 이 어제? 그제? 부터 online 상태입니다.

사실 도메인 선점을 해두고 연합우주 가이드 사이트 언젠간 만들어야지...! 했는데, AI에게 짬때리면 사이트가 툭 하고 튀어나오는 시대가 되어서 AI를 갈궈서 웹사이트를 "생성" 했습니다. 저는 소스 한 줄 읽지 않았고... 아니 중간중간에 가끔 편집하면서 눈에 채이는 건 뭐라뭐라하긴 했는데, 그래도 모든 코드를 AI가 짰습니다. 내용도.

정성들인 수제 사이트는 아니지만 적어도 도메인을 선점해놓고 방치한다는 짓은 이제 면하게 되었습니다.

소개문 같은 내용은 방향성만 지시했고 채운 건 AI입니다. AI를 여러번 갈궜음에도 GoToSocial 같은 게 마스토돈 계열이라던가 하는 헛소리가 여전히 있습니다. 그래도 내용이 그리 나쁜 것 같지는 않네요

사이트 목록은 일부 검열이 있습니다. 휘핑에디션 이후로 커미션으로 마스토돈을 열어서 커뮤를 달리는 분들이 늘었고, 그런 인스턴스들을 클로드가 죄다 긁어모아 수집했더라구요. 커뮤는 목적이 비공개 커뮤니티인지라 자커마스를 제외하고는 확인되는대로 숨김처리 해두었습니다. 숨김처리 기능도 AI를 갈궈서 뽑아냈습니다.

공포의 기능: 인스턴스에 댓글을 달 수 있는 기능이 있습니다. 다만, 애초에 로그인하려면 연합우주의 6개월 이상 계정이 필요하게 방지조치를 해두긴 했습니다. 확인은 아마 안 해봤는데 계정 삭제 기능 아마 아직 안 만들었을겁니다.

로그인은 암호를 저장하는 대신에, 타임라인에 일회용 키를 게시하는 방식으로 되어있습니다. 만들어줘! 하니까 툭 하고 튀어나와서 기뻤습니다. 직접 만드려면 많이많이 고생했을거에요

@catsalad OMG! I could see if coming a mile away, but that still didn’t make it any less amazing getting to the end.

Child (12) described a nightmare as taking place in a “sci-fi modernist Fred Meyer” and there was a little moment of silence while we all recalibrated

A partially frozen Loch a Loin yesterday morning. Beinn Damh behind.

So many evil aspects of the Trump regime, but normalizing sexual abuse of minors by rich white men has to be near the top.

@catsalad I used to joke with friends back in the 1980's that the reason you could never finish a McDonald's egg McMuffin was they were relying on you to discard that last little scrap they would then use to culture a new one in a Petri dish.

A 17-year-old boy was killed and two others injured in a stabbing in Osaka’s popular Dotonbori entertainment district around midnight Sunday, police said, adding that they were investigating the case as a homicide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/15/japan/crime-legal/osaka-dotonbori-stabbing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #osaka #stabbings