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ethanhawksleyon I don't like passkeys

heya! sorry about that, I don't usually have an iPhone on me to test updates to my site so I must've broken something in its reader mode. I'll be borrowing one tomorrow and try figure out what's causing this :)

ethanhawksleyon Anthropic says it stopped scientists potentially developing bioweapons with AI

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/bPkKu

ethanhawksleyon .name Termination

I think it's pretty reasonable. The percentage of email accounts Google & Microsoft terminate seems far far lower than the chance I misconfigure my email or lose my domain

ethanhawksleyon How to get a free .arpa domain

whoops good catch, I had thought it was a synonym for the record ttl's expiring

I'll go fix it now

ethanhawksleyon How to get a free .arpa domain

That would be my assumption, although I wouldn't bet on it being as stable as a traditional domain registration

ethanhawksleyon Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

You can just join their Slack workspace (it's a bit like Discord) on their website: https://slack.hackclub.com/ Then in the #announcements channel you'll see all the different projects they're running, just pick and choose the ones that interest you. I went to one of their meetups "Horizons Europa" last week and had a great time!

ethanhawksleyon Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

for future reference, I've since renamed the book to "The Second Maintainer"

ethanhawksleyon Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

I might even need to change the name of the book

ethanhawksleyon Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

I've also been working on a free book about the XZ backdoor called 500 milliseconds. However, unlike this author it is entirely human written. A first draft is ready and I'm aiming to publish in a couple weeks

ethanhawksleyon Orion Browser by Kagi

They can give me as good a guarantee as any search engine can that they pinkie promise they aren't selling your data. What keeps me with kagi is the quality. It is night and day using it and using other search engines. Even if they sold my searches, I'd still use them in a heartbeat.

ethanhawksleyon Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO

https://archive.is/uVXbr

ethanhawksleyon Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

I believe cloudflare only blocked archive.is on their "Families" filtered dns. I've been using their normal 1.1.1.1 and haven't encountered any blocks.

ethanhawksleyon Google Has Added Agentic Browsing to PageSpeed Insights

Just benchmarking my site and saw it as a new category.

ethanhawksleyon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

As far as I can tell, this seems like it's impacting all of their Glasswing partners too, so no mythos for them either

ethanhawksleyon Claude Opus 4.8

> Agentic financial analysis Finance Agent v2 > Opus 4.8 53.9%

> Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 57.9% on Finance Agent v2, a significant improvement over Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Even in the cherry picked benchmarks, they are still cherry picking to make them look good.

ethanhawksleyon Google changes its search box

I can't say enough good things about kagi, genuinely the best search engine I've tried

ethanhawksleyon Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus

very nice article!

ethanhawksleyon ASCII by Jason Scott

The current archive link is outdated, https://web.archive.org/web/20260515155930/https://ascii.tex... is more up to date with the May 10 post

ethanhawksleyon We need Post-Quantum Cryptography more than ever

good shout, I went back over and broke down the HNDL attack into more detail and now properly explain the types of data at risk from Q-day. let me know if it reads clearer now!