Dmytro Meleshko dmitmel

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

How to Write Hygienic Rust Macros

Macro hygiene is the concept of macros that work in all contexts; they don't affect and aren't affected by anything around them. Ideally all macros would be fully hygienic, but there are lots of pitfalls and traps that make it all too easy to accidentally write unhygienic macros. This guide attempts to provide a comprehensive resource for writing the most hygienic macros.

Understanding the Module System

First, a little aside on the details of Rust's module system, and specifically paths; it is

Time Travel Debugging

Time Travel refers to the ability to record a tab and later replay it ([WebReplay][wrr]). The technology is useful for local development, where you might want to:

pause and step forwards or backwards
pause and rewind to a prior state
rewind to the time a console message was logged
rewind to the time an element had a certain style or layout
rewind to the time a network asset loaded

Microservice Bots

What they are and why you should use them

Introduction

Recently more and more chatbots appear, the overall chatbot market grows and the platform for it grows as well. Today we are taking a close look at what benefits creating a microservice chatbot on Discord - (a communication platform mainly targeted at gamers) would provide.

The concepts and ideas explained in this whitepaper are geared towards bots with a bigger userbase where the limits of a usual bot style appear with a greater effect

Information about Discord itself

(If you are already proficient with the Discord API and the way a normal bot works, you may skip ahead to The Concept)

	from copy import deepcopy
	from dataclasses import dataclass
	import dataclasses
	from typing import Optional
	from pyperclip import copy
	from base64 import b64encode
	import zlib
	import matplotlib as mpl
	import json

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Install pacman, makepkg, and Arch packaging utilities on Ubuntu Linux
	#
	# Written 2024-06-27 by Ronald Joe Record <ronaldrecord@gmail.com>

	sudo apt -q -y install --no-install-recommends \
	git pkg-config meson gcc libtool libgpgme-dev libarchive-dev ninja-build \
	libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev curl gettext python3 python3-setuptools \
	dash gawk ca-certificates fakeroot fakechroot libarchive-tools

	-- Made with 'mini.colors' module of https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.nvim

	if vim.g.colors_name ~= nil then vim.cmd('highlight clear') end
	vim.g.colors_name = "average_dark"

	-- Highlight groups
	local hi = vim.api.nvim_set_hl

	hi(0, "@constant.builtin", { ctermfg = 146, fg = "#8ebbd3" })
	hi(0, "@constructor", { ctermfg = 110, fg = "#7fbce4" })

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	# What is this?
	#
	# This is a script I wrote to automate the process of removing images and soundfiles from mods,
	# so that they can be uploaded to factorio.zone without taking forever or even exceed the max-upload size.
	# It also creates a mod-settings.zip so that your mod-settings.dat (Startup Settings) are available on the server.
	#
	# How to use
	#
	# Download the script and put it somewhere on you harddrive, e.g., C:\temp\factorio
	# Open a powershell prompt "Win+x, i" or just type powershell in the startmenu.

	// Simple PAC script example

	function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
	if ( /condition to pass the request through a local proxy server / ) {
	return 'PROXY 127.0.0.1:8080';

	/* If you have Tor installed you can route this connection over Tor like so;*/
	/* return 'PROXY 127.0.0.1:9050'; */
	}
	if ( /condition to pass the request through a network proxy server / ) {