Matthew Riley

Matthew Riley

@matt.dev

security eng manager at Google • he/him

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Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

Flowers for Claudernon

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

We are now in the first wave of AI’s enshitification cycle. Claude’s flat fee billing for enterprises is switching to usage based amid widespread reports of the model being dumbed down. Everyone knew the subsidies wouldn’t last but this is ending faster than expected. At least wait until the IPO. 😬

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Hold on. What's the threat we're trying to defend against here? And why will this help?"

James Munns@jamesmunns.com

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "So who knows how this part of the system works, and does everyone agree on how it's supposed to work? Where's that written down?"

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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

archchicago.orgStatement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC PortalAs more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

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Jeff Dean
@jeffdean.bsky.social

The recent days have been horrific. We can't become numb to repeated instances of illegal and unconstitutional action by government agencies. It's even worse when public officials are blatantly lying in ways that contradict dozens of pieces of video evidence.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sen. Lankford blatantly lies about what the video of Renee Good's killing shows: "A classic law enforcement moment -- they have to fire their weapon and then when you see her car crash, law enforcement is running to her to provide aid. They're never looking to be able to take a life of individuals."

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

Discovered today that "colorable" is a contranym -- it can take one of two opposite meanings, either "seemingly valid" or "intended to deceive".

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules virtualization illegal. "The kernel executive may not be denied full access to hardware." Kagan, writing for the Court's SREs: "What, we're using Docker now? What the fuck."

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

Going to find out how long my stockpile of pens will last.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

You can keep your galaxy brain edgelords. I'm proud to have a governor who can play literal 2D chess.

Gov. Bob Ferguson@governorferguson.bsky.social

I sent her a response today: Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Holdco in possession of a pot of Bitcoin, must be in want of a small publicly-listed US company.

Matt Levine@matt-levine.bsky.social

I track usage of words like huzz, soyboy, baddie, or mewing, not just to use in text messages with friends, but to include in this newsletter. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

bloomberg.comEveryone Wants a Bitcoin TreasuryAlso slang memecoins, LQR House, collusion on earnings calls and three-page résumés.
Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

Under other circumstances I would have been excited to learn that "contemnor" is a word.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social

🚨Here is Judge Boasberg's opinion finding that he has probable cause that the government in CRIMINAL contempt for defying his orders on March 15: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

Holy fuck. Any company that thinks they're going to avoid the need to fight -- or to utterly debase themselves -- is not dealing with reality.

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com

Trump going after his former CISA director @thekrebscycle.bsky.social, who debunked his 2020 lies. He just ordered a probe of Krebs' leadership of CISA (including any "censorship"), revoked Krebs' clearances, and suspended those of his @sentinelone.com colleagues. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho *cared* that his country was suffering. He eagerly sought intelligent advice and let it change his mind. He was held to account by a vigorous legislature. For us, today, Idiocracy might as well be The West Wing.

Scott Hanselman 🌮@scott.hanselman.com

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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social

The White House Correspondents Association deems speaking truth to power to be “the politics of division.” They’ve joined the growing regiment of submission.

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Chandler Carruth
@chandlerc.blog

I don't have the content warnings or character limit to fully discuss the issue here, but if you're not trans, please go read my Hachyderm post: hachyderm.io/@chandlerc/1... It'll be hard. I get it. But the trans community is going to need your help for the next several years to survive.

hachyderm.ioChandler Carruth (@chandlerc@hachyderm.io)Content warning: [uspol, anti-trans hate, suicide] cis-folks: you *need* to read this so you're aware. But do so when you have the emotional bandwidth. Trans folks: skip, you know and see enough.
Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

"I think people are making a big deal out of nothing. Lots of Meta executives who are women have great things to say about Mark Zuckerberg."

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Steve Klabnik
@steveklabnik.com

paul graham has finally achieved what most thought impossible: he's written a post so bad that the hacker news comments are actually better than it

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

Seems like if the Intel board was unhappy with the effects of Pat Gelsinger's work they should have rolled him back instead of letting him retire.

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

Probably(?) the most valuable slide from my entire CS education "Debugging is resolving a clash between stories": what you *thought* would happen vs. what is *actually* happening

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

We wanted to make it easier for security researchers to get started with static analysis against Chromium, so we're publishing CodeQL databases you can download and query against. We build these daily and we also build a smaller db just for V8. Happy hunting! bughunters.google.com/blog/5085111...

bughunters.google.comBlog: Finding Bugs in Chrome with CodeQLWant to learn about using a static analysis tool called CodeQL to search for vulnerabilities in Google Chrome? Then this blog post is for you!
Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

The V8 db's are in the same GCS bucket and start `d8-`, e.g. `https://storage.cloud.google.com/chrome-codeql-databases/codeql-2024-09-20-22%3A50%3A10/d8-codeql-2024-09-20-22%3A50%3A10-database.zip`

Matthew Riley
@matt.dev

"Hardened libc++ is a practical and effective way to enhance the safety, reliability, and debuggability of C++ code with minimal overhead. Given this, we strongly encourage organizations using C++ to enable their standard library's hardened mode universally by default."

security.googleblog.comRetrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++Posted by Alex Rebert and Max Shavrick, Security Foundations, and Kinuko Yasada, Core Developer Attackers regularly exploit spatial mem...