Knobs & Trapdoors: Copilot’s New Effort Dial, and the GIL That Sneaks Back In
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Audit Windows Firewall Inbound Rules with Ruby and netsh
the shed // ruby // windows Windows Firewall rules pile up: RDP open to the world, a helper.exe in Downloads...
Audit sudoers for Passwordless Root and Shell Escapes with Ruby
the shed // ruby // sudo One careless NOPASSWD line in /etc/sudoers.d is a root backdoor. This Ruby script walks...
Never Get Paged for an Expired Cert: A TLS Expiry Monitor in Ruby
the shed // ruby // tls Expired certificates are the most preventable outage there is. This stdlib-only Ruby script connects...
Branch Points: Claude Code Learns to Mod Itself, Rails Learns to Fork
tha-shed daily brief — Oct 2, 2026 Branch Points: Claude Code Learns to Mod Itself, Rails Learns to Fork Two...
The Agent’s Tab: What 600 AI Coding Runs Reveal About Ruby vs Python
The Agent’s Tab: Ruby vs Python by the Numbers live benchmark · oct 01 2026 The Agent’s Tab: What 600...
Audit login.defs Password Aging and Shadow Compliance with Ruby
the shed // linux // password policy A good /etc/login.defs means nothing if accounts override it. This script checks the...
Audit Windows UAC Settings with Ruby
the shed // windows // uac hardening UAC is only a security boundary if its registry knobs are set right....
Ruby CPU Saturation Monitor for Linux: Busy vs Starved
the shed // linux // cpu saturation “The CPU is at 90%” tells you almost nothing. This script splits the...
Audit Windows LSA Protection and WDigest with Ruby
the shed // windows // credential hardening Mimikatz-style credential dumping depends on a handful of registry values. Check them across...