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+1. Also, I had to go look at their interactive viewer because that color scheme choice (dark purple = low, light green = high) seemed 100% bonkers. It's the legit "plasma" scheme, but based on my limited experience with colorbrewer schemes, I was confused.

The DevTools MCP project just recently landed a standalone CLI: https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/blob/m...

Great news to all of us keenly aware of MCP's wild token costs. ;)

The CLI hasn't been announced yet (sorry guys!), but it is shipping in the latest v0.20.0 release. (Disclaimer: I used to work on the DevTools team. And I still do, too)


Love the Mitch Hedberg reference! Thank you! Always good to get a little Mitch!

‘I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that.’

‘I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.’

‘I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long.’

‘I like to play blackjack. I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.’


"One time, this guy handed me a picture of him. He said, "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture is of you when you were younger. "Here's a picture of me when I'm older.", "You son of a bitch! How'd you pull that off? Let me see that camera!"

"Alcoholism is a disease, but it’s the only one you can get yelled at for having. 'Goddamn it, Otto, you’re an alcoholic!' 'Goddamn it, Otto, you have lupus!' One of those two doesn’t sound right."


"I was going to get my teeth whitened but then I said, fuck that, I'll just get a tan instead."

The big upside of the MCP is that it connects to already open browser windows. I tried the skill but it always tries to open new windows. Is there a way to get the `--autoConnect` behaviour with the CLI?

Woah got this for the first time.

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It doesn't seem to work, tried the -u flag with the default address and it just couldn't connect to the existing chrome instance.

MCPs cost nothing in CC now with Tool Search.

> MCPs cost nothing in CC now with Tool Search.

This is incorrect. Plenty of people have run the numbers. Tool search does not fix all problems with MCP.


What are the numbers? Are there problems other than context usage you refer to?

Can you elaborate more?

Codex also has this…

To be clear, this isn't a skill for the devtools mcp, but an independent project. It doesn't look bad, but obviously browser automation + agents is a very busy space with lots of parallel efforts.

DevTools MCP and its new CLI are maintained by the team behind Chrome DevTools & Puppeteer and it certainly has a more comprehensive feature set. I'd expect it to be more reliable, but.. hey open source competition breeds innovation and I love that. :)

(I used to work on the DevTools team. And I still do, too)


Both of you are right. They can generate the code quite well, but well-considered UX is another thing entirely.


That's fair, I was considering just after I posted that I was framing this in a black-and-white manner. It leaves the reader to decide what it means for it to "work" or not. That might be a useful thing for people (including me) to consider when talking about this stuff. Where's the bar? Is the benefit worth the cost?


This was not spoofed at the ADS-B layer. It was just spoofed to adsb exchange. (While typically a feeder contributes to multiple sites, this one didn't.) eg:

- https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-80.030&zo...

- https://adsb.lol/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-80.030&zoom=14...

Relevant discussion on r/adsb: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comments/1qp3q9n/interesting/ where they note it's also absent on FR24, airplanes.live, and theairtraffic.com.

The adsb-x feeder map: https://map.adsbexchange.com/mlat-map/ They probably won't have a hard time identifying who contributed that data.


Yea, this is more like vandalizing Wikipedia than spoofing or interfering with safety-critical systems. It's juvenile, but probably not crashing any planes. It'll get reverted, and then presumably the adsb exchange website will tighten up their security.


There is no security within ADS-B. All you need is directional antenna pointing at receiver (if you just want to fuck with website, not cause mass panic in the nearest airport tower), there is no encryption or other form of authentication in the messages.


The security in question is the ADS-B exchange's web site's security, not the security of the ADS-B system. It's unlikely this vandal even has an antenna.


> It's juvenile

Juvenile times call for juvenile measures. In case you haven’t noticed, the US is being run by a bunch of arrested development high school bullies. Juvenile is one of the only languages they understand.


If anything it juvenile it's "the other guy/team/party did it first".


And is Vance or Trump watching Flightradar24 in their free time? And if they did, would they even get mad at this and not find it funny? And if they did get mad at it, would they do anything at all? If they did something, would it be anything desirable or just trying to retaliate at whoever drew this?


Much like the Biden team wisely embraced the Dark Brandon meme. To quote the ancient stoic wisdom imparted to Punxsutawney Phil, "don't drive angry."

https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000


Trump is a narcist and it is known that he spends too much time on social media- and golf.

Vance however is the real deal. May god/science help us all if Trump ever has his long overdue stroke.


+N. If I could, I would give you multiple upvotes.


I had also posted this story earlier, then deleted it once I learned that. However, I did find this interesting doc about real ADS-B spoofing, which does not appear to be very easy:

https://www.icao.int/sites/default/files/APAC/Meetings/2025/...


That just says "you need to go outside, and own an SDR". It's very easy, there is no encryption nor authentication in the system


Man, I wrote that comment at the end of a 14hr work day. The crazy thing is that I had seen that SDR slide when I first looked at this. Hours later, when I posted the comment, I reviewed it again and completely hallucinated the SDR slide away.

I need to check all the work I did towards the end of yesterday. Valuable lesson. Thanks.


Gemini CLI is open source. Don't need to intercept at the network when you can just add inspectGeminiApiRequest() in the source. (I suggest it because I've been maintaining a personal branch with exactly that :)


Ahh, that seems much simpler. Dump the request / response directly. Now I'm wondering if I can use Gemini to patch Gemini.


Yup. It does a great job in there.



Yayquery revival when?


Fish gang represent.

I was a bash => zsh/omz person and had these same complaints. But that was 10 years ago. https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/blame/main/fish/config...

The baseline fish experience is just better.


I've been working on something super similar. https://github.com/paulirish/markpaste

There's now a CLI that'll read and update your (Mac) clipboard with the result. For this italic use case you'll have to edit the source but it won't be that bad.


The latter, if any else are curious: https://www.swebench.com/post-250820-mini-roulette.html


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