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Llama 3 is Here, Spending Time on Environmental Setup and More

In this episode Joe introduces us to more security items you should be aware of in the world of CWE’s, Michael bends to the will of Joe and Allen in his favorite portion of the show, and Allen pontificates on the time spent setting up IDE’s and environments.

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  • Atlanta Dev Con
    September 7th, 2024
    https://www.atldevcon.com/
Topics Open Telemetry
  • The backend matters
    https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/integrations/
    • Some backends are more fully featured than others
      • Splunk Trace Analyzer
        https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/apm/apm-spans-traces/trace-analyzer.html
      • Google Trace Explorer
        https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/finding-traces
      • Azure OTel Guide
        https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/opentelemetry-enable?tabs=aspnetcore
      • AWS OTel Information
        https://aws.amazon.com/otel/
  • The processor can decouple you
    https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/configuration/#processors
CNCF – Cloud Native Computing Foundation
  • If you’re working in a cloud environment, you should know the projects here
    https://www.cncf.io/projects/
  • Super cool visualization tool for the projects
    https://landscape.cncf.io/
Llama 3 – the next version of Meta’s AI engine
  • “Now available with both 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned versions to support a wide range of applications”
    https://llama.meta.com/llama3/
Environmental concerns over the processing required for AI
  • Power requirements for processing some of the LLM’s
    https://www.nnlabs.org/power-requirements-of-large-language-models/
  • The Microsoft underwater datacenter
    https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/
Setting up IDE’s and environments
  • IDE vs old school debugging
  • Setup can require a significant amount of time
    • Is it worth it?
    • What if you’re just working on a bug?
Security Resources
  • What’s the difference between CWE and OWASP?
  • CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) is a community-developed list of common software and hardware weaknesses.
    • It’s similar to OWASP, but older (1999 vs 2001) and more general – including non web apps and (more recently) hardware
  • The infamous “NVD” database links CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) to CWE
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228
    https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2023/2023_trends.html
Tips

Pre-warning – probably wouldn’t recommend installing this!

Saw a cool Windows utility called “Windrecorder” that records video and text from your desktop, and lets you rewind and search.

  • Uses ffmpeg to record screen into small 15-minute fragment files
  • Search(by window titles, text keywords, or descriptions of images)
  • Everything happens should only on your computer
  • Cons: No instant rewind (have to be out of the window), Storage is unencrypted, Not much LLM / ML fancy stuff…and security
    https://tonoko.notion.site/I-made-an-open-source-app-to-rewind-search-everything-happened-on-your-screen-on-Windows-184d1a9d5edb494dba0c2f46d311ec5c
    https://github.com/yuka-friends/Windrecorder

MacOS’s Spotlight is more powerful than you maybe knew
https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/spotlight-secrets-15-ways-to-use-spotlight-on-your-mac/ 
https://beebom.com/spotlight-tips-tricks/

If you’re grep command isn’t working like you thought it should, you might be a victim of content getting kicked out of the buffer
grep --line-buffered

iOS – get text from images
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-live-text-iphcf0b71b0e/ios

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