5.11.26 | Hardware attestation enables monopoly, local AI should be the norm, returning to AWS revealed reasons for leaving

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:14) - Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
• (01:47) - Local AI needs to be the norm
• (02:52) - I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
• (04:14) - Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
• (05:25) - I'm going back to writing code by hand
• (07:16) - Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
• (08:41) - Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
• (09:51) - Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
• (11:06) - The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
• (12:35) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
• (13:44) - Outro

Local AI needs to be the norm
https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082

I'm going back to writing code by hand
https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
https://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089091

Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576

Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091737

The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090521

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993