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

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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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    • Upcoming Events
    • 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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                            {CodingBlocks}.NETBy Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw, Joe Zack