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bryancoxwell··on WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations
Worth noting that the coordinates for cell towers returned by the WLOC API are coarse enough to be just about useless for locating towers. For APs it’s much better but still not great.
bryancoxwell··on Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
Think you could argue that’s more LLM-assisted engineering than it is vibe coding.
bryancoxwell··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
It’s literally stopping them from routine training and maintenance.
bryancoxwell··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
Or simpler still, although related. Maybe we just can’t afford it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/21/...
bryancoxwell··on Neovim Removes DHH Quote
Shockingly poorly handled by the maintainers. Goodness.
bryancoxwell··on The oldest bar in every state
It is. 1856.
bryancoxwell··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Love that idea, thanks for sharing
bryancoxwell··on AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
I’m intrigued by the question but I do think it has some worrying implications for portability.
bryancoxwell··on Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals
Political leanings aren’t genetic
bryancoxwell··on .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
Yeah this is pretty much it.
bryancoxwell··on .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
I use the ever living hell out of .git/info/exclude. Works great for scripts/Makefiles I only want locally and collaborators wouldn’t care about or be able to use.
bryancoxwell··on Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
> Their initial reply from the CEO: "I would love to hear what the vulnerability is, but I assume you want to get paid for it. Is that the play?"

Well that’s pretty damning.

bryancoxwell··on After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber
I’m not up to date on local models, but is that clear?
bryancoxwell··on Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company
Holy cow this is weird
bryancoxwell··on A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?
Thanks!
bryancoxwell··on What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels?
Would it do well on a Kindle or does it rely on illustrations?
bryancoxwell··on IMDB recent update: user reviews can't be accessed anymore without an account
It’ll be tough but I guess I’ll continue not using IMDb for anything at all
bryancoxwell··on Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
I had a bit of a pain of a time trying to get Claude to work with ghidra. What you’re describing seems like a better alternative, would you agree?
bryancoxwell··on Claude may require identity verification in some cases
I mean, you can disagree with the sentiment (I certainly do), but there are still an awful lot of people saying it.
bryancoxwell··on Claude may require identity verification in some cases
Yeah, absolutely not.
bryancoxwell··on Cursor 3
If you can’t understand your code, who can?
bryancoxwell··on PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
Further: configure reader mode as the default for the sites you’re most commonly linked to.
bryancoxwell··on Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code
The “Do X in Y lines of code” thing where the Y lines of code include import statements is so, so silly.
bryancoxwell··on Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro
I did the exact opposite of this in 2011 and it was the easily the most memorable 3 months of my life. Takes some planning (mostly making sure visa dates line up) but it is an incredible experience.
bryancoxwell··on U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot
I believe the Atlantic requires an account to read gift links
bryancoxwell··on Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
I’m arguing that just because a baseband processor is involved that doesn’t mean IMSI tracking is a vulnerability of the baseband processor itself. IMSI provisioning and randomization cannot be done without cooperation with the network operator and has nothing to do with the baseband processor itself.
bryancoxwell··on Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
Right but it’s not a baseband vulnerability
bryancoxwell··on Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
Not sure what IMSI rotation has to do with baseband vulnerabilities?
bryancoxwell··on DOGE Track
Well that’s a really, really easy thing to say. Curious if you’ve actually thought through how you’d go about that. If there weren’t any non-peaceful protests to participate in would you start one? How? Is it possible that it’s not that simple?
bryancoxwell··on San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz
At a minimum! We don’t know where the coyote started from.
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