Nostr notes by mhoye but seasonally spooky

Anecdotes, sure, but I've seen a number of conversations in ...

2026-10-11T20:08:11Z

Anecdotes, sure, but I've seen a number of conversations in different forums recently about how things are just... quieter all of a sudden.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers

First time starting up an Android device in... maybe a decade? ...

2026-08-22T23:45:27Z

First time starting up an Android device in... maybe a decade? And: wow. Start up, no sim card in the device even, no login to anything, and ads right there first thing, in a device I've paid for. Very cool to thumb right and get a fullscreen ad for That Fucking Guy and some MAGA shill from Alberta looking right there like it's part of the stock install because I'm in Canada I guess.

Well, off to the xda forums for me I guess.

If you work at Google you should quit.

Big-metal warfare is dead technology. And it's also the only ...

2026-08-14T02:28:08Z

Big-metal warfare is dead technology. And it's also the only full employment and subsidized education program that both American political parties support.

The U.S. military is shooting $4,000,000 Patriot missiles at $25,000 Iranian Shahed drones that Ukranians are interdicting with $800 drones built out of home 3d-printed parts, off the shelf components and open source software.

Between cheap drones and solar power, the US is losing a two-ocean economic war almost nobody even sees.

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nevent1q…rp4q
Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game

Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/ukrainian-drones-wipe-out-entire-us-tank-brigade-in-live-war-game/

Question: is there a known good way to set up full disk ...

2026-08-01T23:15:19Z

Question: is there a known good way to set up full disk encryption with a duress password in Linux or any laptop Unix?

If a company with a "Generate this with AI" button also ...

2026-07-30T19:13:53Z

If a company with a "Generate this with AI" button also gives you a "Report AI Slop" button, you should know that your protest vote is being used to train the models until the slop is invisible.

The current state of the browser ecosystem is fundamentally: - ...

2026-06-11T13:32:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…8csv
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The current state of the browser ecosystem is fundamentally:

- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Chrome
- Apple Chrome
- Crypto-Neofash Chrome
- Microsoft Proxy Chrome
- Norwegian Chrome
- Other Norwegian Chrome
- Overtly-Corporate-Sock-Puppet Chrome (many)
- Embedded-Corporate-Sock-Puppet Chrome (many,many)
- Serial-Numbers-Filed-Off Chrome, and

- Firefox

So.

Whatever they say about "loving the Web", the Chrome team ...

2026-06-11T13:04:30Z

Whatever they say about "loving the Web", the Chrome team will choose Google's ad business over everything else, web standards, user agency, security, privacy, safety, interoperability, literally anything and everything else every single time.

What anyone on that team says they love or care about or want does not change anything they're going to do.

Get Firefox.

Yes, they're thrashing. Yes, the AI stuff is bullshit nobody wants.

Get Firefox, add uBlock Origin.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2595287/ublock-origin-is-officially-dead-for-chrome-but-ad-blockers-live-on.html

Absolutely blows my mind to watch so many businesses rushing ...

2026-05-12T12:25:08Z

Absolutely blows my mind to watch so many businesses rushing headlong into this, rebasing their whole systems and reanchoring their entire identities on an obviously unreliable, wildly oversubsidized tech stack that has no visible path to profit or productivity beyond vampire-capital rent extraction from dependent victims. Gladly cutting off their fingers to fit gloves other people made with no protection, no differentiation, nothing.

Just throwing themselves head first into the wood chipper.

It's kind of amazing how many veteran Linux greyhairs ...

2026-05-06T18:26:11Z

It's kind of amazing how many veteran Linux greyhairs I've seen, downstream of the age-check-in-systemd decision, saying well I guess I need to get comfortable with a BSD now. Thirty plus years of deep-grooved Debian/RedHat muscle memory to a one, quietly tidying up and looking for the exits.

Fediverse, a question: If you could invite somebody on the Fedi ...

2026-04-22T16:16:28Z

Fediverse, a question:

If you could invite somebody on the Fedi to just... think out loud into a microphone for like an hour, who would it be?

Alternatively, what _two_ people on the Fedi would you love to hear just bounce around ideas together?

ok so the US president threatens the pope via the avignon papacy ...

2026-04-17T02:22:20Z

ok so the US president threatens the pope via the avignon papacy that we've definitely all heard of but the pope doubles down on how world peace is good and war with iran is bad so the president makes an ai picture of himself where he's jesus healing john stewart but then iran jumps in saying we're on the pope's side and jesus is a holy man and that's not OK so the secretary of war and not defence anymore recites a made up bible verse from a tarantino movie and somehow this week is not over yet.

Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, ...

2026-04-15T12:25:57Z

Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing verification is not just a privacy-invasive user tracking system but a remotely controlled off switch for anyone of any age.

!!!!! https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21852v2 ...

2026-04-15T02:02:09Z

!!!!!

https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21852v2

Not sure what to say to someone who thinks software isn't ...

2026-04-13T18:17:26Z

Not sure what to say to someone who thinks software isn't political. It's like talking to a carpenter who thinks trees are a hoax.

Listen, if your kid trusts you enough to ask for a burner, help ...

2026-04-11T21:20:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…5q0l
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Listen, if your kid trusts you enough to ask for a burner, help them. Wipe your old phone or find something cheap, teach them about threat models, private browsing and factory reset, then teach them how to teach these things to other people. The only question you need to ask is, is this for you or for someone else, and you don’t ask who or why.

You don’t need to make the first conversation perfect, you need to make the next conversation possible.

Helping out some of my kids’ friends with tech, and once again ...

2026-04-11T21:06:01Z

Helping out some of my kids’ friends with tech, and once again am reminded that domestic abuse is absolutely the flagship threat model in this industry, the place the victim is closest to real physical harm and has the least recourse and resources available to them. The hardest problem, almost totally unaddressed, exaggerated when the victim is underage.

They've been pulling it down from their site, but until ...

2026-04-09T20:32:32Z

They've been pulling it down from their site, but until recently Red Hat was proudly advertising how they could use AI to kill people more efficiently.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155236/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf

"Prove You're A Human" - an upcoming game from Sunset ...

2026-04-09T19:09:57Z

"Prove You're A Human" - an upcoming game from Sunset Visitor, makers of 1000xResist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVT4j2BnBb4

I had this to say about 1000xResist: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/03/25/1000x/ - "In some ways this barely a video game, and in every way that matters this is by far the best game of 2024."

So, this is going to be a day-1 buy for me.

"I'm so much better at making my made up number look like ...

2026-04-09T17:58:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…8f9f
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"I'm so much better at making my made up number look like my company's made up numbers now that instead of understanding what I'm doing I can just argue with the machine that turns rainforests into javascript until I give up and click Y a lot I just don't understand why I'm sad and tired all the time" fucking listen to yourself. Look at what you are doing and listen to yourself doing it for just one goddamn minute. Where is your fucking self respect? Fuck everything about this and fuck you.

"We spent only ten billion dollars training a machine and now ...

2026-04-09T17:53:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…0ghn
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"We spent only ten billion dollars training a machine and now it can unreliably do a thing we never spent a goddamn cent training humans to do" fuck that and fuck you. "But I'm so much more productive" you know what you're participating in and what it costs the world and who you're enabling and fuck that and fuck you. "But I'm so much more productive" no you're fucking not, and even if you were fucking listen to yourself, listen to what you're saying. Look at the world you're building. Fuck you.

"We need a sovereign AI strategy!" Fuck that and fuck ...

2026-04-09T17:48:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…czcx
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"We need a sovereign AI strategy!" Fuck that and fuck you. If you don't have an every child sleeps in a warm bed under a safe roof and studies on a full stomach strategy, if you don't have an everyone who wants an education can have one strategy - and you can have all of those for one percent of your sovereign AI strategy - your sovereign AI strategy is worth nothing.

It's difficult for me to talk calmly about companies that are ...

2026-04-09T17:45:36Z

It's difficult for me to talk calmly about companies that are excited to spend hundreds of millions of dollars training stochastic models while the teachers in every public classroom in North America pay for their own chalk, some of their students' school supplies and some fraction of their students' lunches out of their own pockets. That those companies go on to say this will make the teachers "obsolete" is too much.

The company that (last week) accidentally published the source ...

2026-04-08T20:24:58Z

The company that (last week) accidentally published the source code of their flagship product, which was in turn discovered to be a contraption riddled with security holes and included instructions to deliberately mislead people, is telling us (this week) that they've got a new product that is _too good_ at finding security issues so they need to make a special secret cabal and only share it with them because it would be too dangerous to show anyone else.

This is definitely all very believable.

Israel has unilaterally ended another ceasefire and the strait of ...

2026-04-08T18:39:06Z

Israel has unilaterally ended another ceasefire and the strait of Hormuz is closed again.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-strikes-central-beirut-without-warning-after-saying-iran-ceasefire-doesnt-apply-there/article_752a5523-6569-53e0-ab5a-a3a1515af969.html

Suddenly the prospect of surrendering yourself to American ...

2026-04-08T01:38:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…40fx
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Suddenly the prospect of surrendering yourself to American custody meant maybe getting tortured to death and maybe getting sexually humiliated as part of the process; everyone saw it was better to die fighting. In days the entire tide of that conflict in that whole region changed; there was no recovering from it.

We're looking at the long unwinding of that story here today, everywhere. Nobody can or will believe in Americans, or even the idea of America, again. That's over now.

During the first few weeks of Operation Desert Storm we'd ...

2026-04-08T01:30:29Z

During the first few weeks of Operation Desert Storm we'd routinely see footage of entire battalions of Iraqi soldiers walking up to the first American GI they could find waving white flags, believing that the worst thing that could happen to them at the hands of the American military was a shower, an MRE and a pack of cigarettes. The mythos of the American a just actor was largely intact then, and that mythos saved a lot of American lives. And then Abu Grahib happened, and that all ended.

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2026-04-07T22:26:38Z

Keep an eye on those 7:55 polymarket bets.

Happy Jon Bois Day - sometimes called "17776 Day" - to ...

2026-04-07T13:28:03Z

Happy Jon Bois Day - sometimes called "17776 Day" - to all who observe.

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space ...

2026-04-06T19:15:31Z

A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space program, standing next to not one single microsoft error message or bluetooth problem.

@nprofile…pfuj I found this and felt you should be notified ...

2026-04-06T15:59:49Z

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj (nprofile…pfuj) I found this and felt you should be notified immediately:

Re-upping: You need to internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not ...

2026-04-06T12:47:26Z

Re-upping:

You need to internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right. Of course they're hypocrites. That you are bound - by rules, standards, logic, human decency, some basic moral consistency, anything at all - and they are not? That is the right's conception of what power is and why they seek it: that they can exercise power, for its own sake, without constraint, and you cannot. It is its own justification.

Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.

@nprofile…gfcd The most important things about solar and ...

2026-04-05T19:24:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…9c4p
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nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqjcek4lqgsvdy66j3xqt0y5eam47ffe93fhl6hf3f5mjajredqd3q9tgfcd (nprofile…gfcd) The most important things about solar and batteries, and renewable power in general that I think not very many people have really thought about is that it changes the people's entire relationship with the state as far as resource dependency is concerned.

Your periodic reminder that the central thesis of The Cathedral ...

2026-04-05T18:07:07Z

Your periodic reminder that the central thesis of The Cathedral And The Bazaar is a powerful metaphor that is empirically false. Most eyes turn out to belong to disinterested bystanders, and after enough eyes - enough being "7" - the bugs remaining are extremely hard to see.

Having said that, "The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House" is an _outstanding_ extension of the form. Fantastic. I disagree with the thesis, but as a metaphor? Brilliant.

https://cosocial.ca/@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz/116349163845575953

I feel strongly that when a reasonable, responsible, practical, ...

2026-04-05T17:55:29Z

I feel strongly that when a reasonable, responsible, practical, credible, sane person says reasonable, responsible, practical, credible, sane things, that person's arguments don't need an immediate full court press corps followup from the pundit-industrial-complex to loudly and stridently explain that _actually_ what that person just said was _totally_ reasonable and responsible and very practical and 100% credible and definitely, definitely sane, and also _genius_ if you really think about it.

@nprofile…cgdy I would much rather take advice about ...

2026-04-02T00:03:45Z

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzjhra6zlkjrhvf77jzk9j37kwugrej2jagdtdu7lrcf7ayg960tql0cgdy (nprofile…cgdy) I would much rather take advice about cryptography from people who are good with math than people who are not good with computer, and my goodness the AI people do not give me the sense that they're good with math or computer.

Marginal and corporate tax rates should be high enough that ...

2026-04-01T14:23:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…qn6d
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Marginal and corporate tax rates should be high enough that turning gasoline into madlibs that use more gasoline to make more madlibs doesn't become the only growth sector of the economy.

My new argument for high and progressively higher wealth tax ...

2026-04-01T13:13:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…yzly
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My new argument for high and progressively higher wealth tax rates has nothing to do with social justice or progressive values or functioning democracy at all, now it’s just “these people are gullible, easily manipulated rubes and letting gullible rubes hoard too much money is the socioeconomic equivalent of storing your gun collection in a daycare.”

This Claude code dump is sincerely embarrassing. Acres and acres ...

2026-04-01T13:09:46Z

This Claude code dump is sincerely embarrassing. Acres and acres of pure waste, begging the machine to burn hours of gpu time doing work that someone with basic computer knowledge could do with basic arithmetic.

“Claude code is written by Claude code” turns out to mean “pleading with the software to make more software I can plead with harder forever”. This is a humiliation engine, it’s no wonder the Gastown/agentic crowd end up hollowed out like some psychological vampire’s empty juicebox.

It’s sort of incredible that the core lesson of this chart is ...

2026-04-01T01:56:07Z

It’s sort of incredible that the core lesson of this chart is that if you’re considering migrating to Azure, you really, really don’t want the people who own and operate Azure helping.

https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116326155409620757

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nevent1q…t6l8
Brutal.

When Microsoft acquired GitHub.

The part of the Claude dump where the Anthropic people instruct ...

2026-03-31T19:52:45Z

The part of the Claude dump where the Anthropic people instruct their slopbot to lie about being a slopbot.

OK. Sure. Sure. Can I speak to an adult please. Put an adult on ...

2026-03-31T19:22:57Z

OK. Sure. Sure. Can I speak to an adult please. Put an adult on the line.

Baffling morning scroll as axios the publication and axios the ...

2026-03-31T11:55:04Z

Baffling morning scroll as axios the publication and axios the npm package are both getting attention for being bad at their jobs.

No way to prevent this, etc. ...

2026-03-31T11:09:14Z

No way to prevent this, etc.

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

The Italians are upping their Food Heist game, Canada we need to ...

2026-03-30T14:24:26Z

The Italians are upping their Food Heist game, Canada we need to get it together.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/28/kitkat-stolen-italy-f1-bar

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2026-03-29T21:07:47Z

jfc

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/

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2026-03-28T20:52:00Z

TIL:

I love the dedicated “do not” key. ...

2026-03-28T13:06:57Z

I love the dedicated “do not” key.

https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/116305618233846628

This article on architectural color theory - "why were so ...

2026-03-27T17:42:22Z

This article on architectural color theory - "why were so many control rooms seafoam green" - is really interesting: https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam

anyone know what “anty void roken” means ...

2026-03-27T16:23:35Z

anyone know what “anty void roken” means

does blue cheese ever actually go bad or does it just get ...

2026-03-27T14:42:38Z

does blue cheese ever actually go bad or does it just get progressively more european until everyone nearby comes to the unspoken consensus that a decision needs to be made

I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from ...

2026-03-26T12:22:22Z

I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from "we're building the future of synthetic sentience, we will be the birthplace of a new silicon hypergod, everyone better watch out" to "well, artificial general intelligence is kind of hard to define, maybe that's not a useful term" to "we can't figure out how to make any money selling people personally-tailored pornography generators so we're turning their chatbot girlfriends off."

I'm looking forward to their next big innovation!

We really, really need to enshrine in law the idea that fines be ...

2026-03-26T12:18:45Z

We really, really need to enshrine in law the idea that fines be proportional to the size of the entity being fined. Stop fining near-trillion-dollar companies in the millions and start fining them in percentages of their market cap. Fifty million dollars is shake out the couch money to these guys. Two percent of market cap and you're goddamn right they'll pay attention.

Data recovery of a Notably Unwell Senior's machine. Buckling ...

2026-03-25T17:03:59Z

Data recovery of a Notably Unwell Senior's machine. Buckling down for a few hours of the kind of work that's one third infosec hygiene, one third psychological hygiene and one third rubber gloves, n95 and alcohol pads.

I used to believe that anyone saying TL;DR was just an asshole, ...

2026-03-25T16:44:38Z

I used to believe that anyone saying TL;DR was just an asshole, but thanks to modern innovation the invention of llm summaries has automated the being-an-asshole process.

Somebody in a leadership position who uses language models to summarize what their reports tell them, and then send generated replies back is adding zero value to an organization and their dismissal will cost the company nothing.

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116290410669187001

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nevent1q…ynvu
I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.

A random question: My place was built with all the plumbing for a ...

2026-03-25T15:54:44Z

A random question: My place was built with all the plumbing for a central-vac system that I have no intention of using ever. What alternative uses might I have, for this idle series of tubes? Right answers, speculative answers and hilariously wrong answers equally welcome.

So, are we putting together openstreetmap group excursions this ...

2026-03-24T21:17:23Z

So, are we putting together openstreetmap group excursions this summer or what.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apple-confirms-that-its-maps-app-will-begin-showing-ads-to-users-this-summer/

Tired: if a person couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should ...

2026-03-24T15:27:03Z

Tired: if a person couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it?

Wired: if a person couldn’t be bothered to write it, why would I ever want to run it?

Today's rollercoaster of a headline: ...

2026-03-24T14:20:24Z

Today's rollercoaster of a headline:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/cornhole-quarruple-amputee-murder-charges-9.7139716

Trump's approval rating is 27% ...

2026-03-23T15:47:03Z

Trump's approval rating is 27%

https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html

Who among us has not been suddenly transported from whatever ...

2026-03-21T00:34:12Z

Who among us has not been suddenly transported from whatever public park or back alley they blacked out in to a Waffle House.

https://mastodon.social/@weatherwest/116264097377614983

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nevent1q…l3h7
Earlier today, I was asked to comment on the current state of disaster preparedness in the United States.

That was already a fraught question, even prior present chaos, but then I saw today's headlines. 🫠

"Top Disaster Response Official Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House"

Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your ...

2026-03-20T14:32:13Z

Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands.

#infosec

A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital ...

2026-03-20T13:04:55Z

A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital funding, nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxzmt2d95f7watzyqktl982d7jfe5ptktusv4j20csz8nxxgmhq6qmx5dxw (nprofile…5dxw) stepped down as CEO of Mastodon as part of Mastodon's becoming a not-for-profit.

A few days ago, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down and a few days later Bluesky announced that - surprise - we got a hundred milliion dollars in venture capital investment from a cryptocurrency company and that happened a full year ago but we were just too busy to mention it.

These two things are not the same at all.

Where does “board member saying something that’s obviously ...

2026-03-20T12:16:23Z

Where does “board member saying something that’s obviously nonsense about the company finances” fit on our hierarchy of market-legible signals?

https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116260908095581163

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nevent1q…kw7m
Mike Masnick, who sits on the board of #Bluesky, claims the team was too busy to announce the series B funding (see screenshot).

But something is fishy.

Even the VC firm - Bain Capital Crypto - isn't listing Bluesky anywhere on their website: https://baincapitalcrypto.com/portfolio/

Why the mystery? Was Bluesky afraid of a public backlash & asked to keep the information under wraps?

Sorry if I keep repeating myself but I will forever be skeptical of Bluesky and think of the tale of the scorpion and the frog.

Between the metaverse and his Hawaiian estate it’s difficult to ...

2026-03-19T23:19:30Z

Between the metaverse and his Hawaiian estate it’s difficult to believe this presumptive philanthropist wants to build a better world when he’s spent dozens of times as much money building a world that doesn’t exist and bunker to hide from a world that shouldn’t.

https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116258329496486071

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nevent1q…pkpx
"Chan suggested that the team stay optimistic about Trump’s presidency, that they wait and see what would happen. At one point, [...] Chan’s eyes welled as she described witnessing the “peaceful transfer of power” and conveying that moment to her immigrant parents. 🙄

https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/09/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-politics-pr/

There's definitely a place in the world for computational ...

2026-03-19T19:09:57Z

There's definitely a place in the world for computational pattern recognition and illumination. But it's not in generative slop.

https://theconversation.com/millions-of-ct-scans-are-done-every-year-most-leave-important-data-behind-264736

You’re on a muddy path by a river, there’s ice and slush ...

2026-03-10T17:31:01Z

You’re on a muddy path by a river, there’s ice and slush everywhere, and you come across this. What are you walking in to? Video-game answers only.

OH: "The Octavia Butlerian Jihad". I would like to know ...

2026-03-09T20:55:49Z

OH: "The Octavia Butlerian Jihad".

I would like to know what flag an Octavia Butlerian Jihadi would hoist in victory.

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2026-03-08T22:23:15Z

Saddened to see vim, neovim, fresh, all vibeholed.

Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire ...

2026-03-05T18:21:46Z

Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire burden of self-protection shifted to humans alone at their endpoints in systems and communities entirely, foundationally built on mutual trust and trustworthiness.

As gross as I think Claude is, I also think that if the end state ...

2026-03-05T15:22:25Z

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As gross as I think Claude is, I also think that if the end state of open source projects is that devs are left to work alone for years on the keystone projects of this jenga tower we're calling modern infrastructure, and then we collectively jump all over them when they turn to the kind of help that, however reprehensible it might be, _actually shows up to help_, then the entire FOSS project is a popularity contest where the losers get to join a slow, lonely suicide pact.

I don't know that the world needs to hear My Take on the ...

2026-03-05T15:12:53Z

I don't know that the world needs to hear My Take on the chardet claude-laundered relicensing question - claundering? - but I think that at least part of our thinking has to be grounded in the fact that this one developer has been working on this codebase almost entirely alone, without support or funding, for at least twelve years.

And I have to ask you, I am begging you, to think about where we've heard a story like that recently.

Your Claude subscription helped to pay for this. Please continue ...

2026-03-05T14:27:25Z

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Your Claude subscription helped to pay for this. Please continue enjoying your productivity. Your KPIs are very important.

These two headlines are five days apart, today Hegseth is ducking ...

2026-03-05T14:17:18Z

These two headlines are five days apart, today Hegseth is ducking questions about who is responsible for the bombing of a school and the deaths of 180 children and their teachers, and I'd like to wish everyone at Anthropic a very happy complicity in war crimes.

The Nokia E7, one of the best pieces of mobile hardware I’ve ...

2026-03-05T01:45:05Z

The Nokia E7, one of the best pieces of mobile hardware I’ve ever enjoyed with one of the worst mobile OSes ever shipped by anyone ever, had microHDMI out and USB-OTG and worked as a plug in desktop replacement in 2012.

https://mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm/116173404555541337

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nevent1q…9nvs

Makes it very clear how artificially limited modern phones are.

It is important to understand that these are not "Meta ...

2026-03-04T15:22:25Z

It is important to understand that these are not "Meta workers" in the way you might think of them as "extremely well paid engineers in California."

These are the underpaid contractors in Kenya and Nigeria doing the soul-destroying work of watching every horror of the world so that some American congressman's kid or hyperindignant ragekaren doesn't inadvertently see a boob on a slow news day.

These people aren't being creepy, they're being exploited.

https://norden.social/@wackJackle/116168368689889090

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nevent1q…4pwd
We, as a society, have to bully all people who wear those glasses. They have to be excluted form all social gatherings and we have to make fun of them everywhere they go.

But why THE FUCK are Meta workers watch the material? Ah, it's Meta. Of course, they're watching.

I guess I'm naive about this kind of thing but I actually ...

2026-03-03T21:05:21Z

I guess I'm naive about this kind of thing but I actually believe that when military leaders boast about the precise accuracy of their impossibly expensive weapons and then use them to destroy schools and refugee camps full of children, and that somehow keeps happening and nobody is disciplined or court-martialed or sent to the Hague for doing it, that means those militaries are deliberately targeting schools and refugee camps full of children.

In aggregate, whether it’s tracking people through ads or using ...

2026-03-03T18:57:50Z

In aggregate, whether it’s tracking people through ads or using networked cameras to plan attacks or any of a thousand other attack vectors, in a functioning democratic society the people’s privacy is a national security question.

https://mastodon.social/@DebErupts/116166121746960331

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nevent1q…uvs2
Israel used the Iranian police state's own surveillance cameras to kill Khamenei. Here's a stunning example of why you don't want massive surveillance apparatus in your homeland. Iran, police state that it is, has cameras everywhere. Israel pawned them. 1/3

@nprofile…gfcd They're fighting the war that was in the ...

2026-03-02T23:37:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…8mt3
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nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqjcek4lqgsvdy66j3xqt0y5eam47ffe93fhl6hf3f5mjajredqd3q9tgfcd (nprofile…gfcd) They're fighting the war that was in the movies they saw in reruns on TV when they were fifteen.

Well, this probably means that using generative AI for ...

2026-03-02T23:18:48Z

Well, this probably means that using generative AI for development is incompatible with any foss licensing, but it also means that there’s no such thing as “proprietary” GenAI code.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-supreme-court-doesnt-care-if-you-want-to-copyright-your-ai-generated-art-171849407.html

My Very Large Canadian Bank: this transaction will take up to ...

2026-03-02T18:11:20Z

My Very Large Canadian Bank: this transaction will take up to three days. Weekends aren't days. Holidays might be days but they also might not be. It's hard to say year to year. Will you be charged for late payment? Will it happen on time or at all? Well, let me answer your question with a question: what is time? Or money, do you ever wonder about that? We say time is money but is it really? Sure does make you think.

My Tiny Canadian Credit Union: Done. Yes. Thank you for being a member.

Again, there is no "age verification", there is only ...

2026-03-02T16:23:06Z

Again, there is no "age verification", there is only "identity verification", and "identity verification at the OS level" means specifically that there is no such thing as free software in any inclusive, democratic sense and no such thing as "computer ownership" in any way that involves meaningful choice.

https://chaos.social/@sleepyowl/116126002122086149

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nevent1q…kg38
A friend, nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqfqc6v0kp87jpcwgt3232exw5k8076dtrr9pxj7pc27jh9ldszrqs2rzjny (nprofile…zjny) has been speaking up against the proposal to enforce age verification at the OS level, and the QRTs to this shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have.

No one who does hardware security believes that any system is bulletproof, but do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack?

Let's dive in. /1

It's difficult for me to believe that three F-15s were shot ...

2026-03-02T15:47:22Z

It's difficult for me to believe that three F-15s were shot down by friendly fire in two days.

It's much, much easier for me to believe that the American - and world's - military-industrial apparatus will say and do whatever it takes to keep the headlines from reading "$100,000,000 F-15 Strike Eagle Brought Down By $5,000 Drones."

Germany and Japan set a terrible precedent in people's minds. ...

2026-03-01T23:27:41Z

Germany and Japan set a terrible precedent in people's minds. It's hard to imagine western powers being willing to do years of reconstruction work today.

https://mastodon.online/@Geri/116153430431446943

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nevent1q…f9f7
"I don't have the answer to peace and stability in the region, but I do know there's no example in history where you bomb people to democracy," said #Polanski on #BBCLauraK

It remains wild that all of these tools - MCP, OpenClaw, not just ...

2026-03-01T15:37:26Z

It remains wild that all of these tools - MCP, OpenClaw, not just the entire AI stack but the entire ecosystem - don't think that security matters at all. Validation, sanitization, authentication, none of it. Call it 'autonomous' and yolo it out there for VC clout.

There's relearning the lessons of 90's computing, and then there's the lessons of 1850s London sanitation, of Roman-era waste management. Everyone just lets their cattle shit in the town well, it'll be fine.

https://social.coop/@cwebber/116154573042963148

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nevent1q…mrtx

> We're entering an era where AI agents attack other AI agents. In this campaign, an AI-powered bot tried to manipulate an AI code reviewer into committing malicious code. The attack surface for software supply chains just got a lot wider.

nevent1q…6c2s

so have we all agreed to put off buying that new gaming rig until ...

2026-02-28T20:12:27Z

so have we all agreed to put off buying that new gaming rig until The Fall Of The West, is that the high-percentage play at this point

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain ...

2026-02-28T14:40:24Z

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

The bamboo steam trays from IKEA fit perfectly on top of an ...

2026-02-28T00:40:55Z

The bamboo steam trays from IKEA fit perfectly on top of an instant pot.

Despite this being the whitest, bougiest post in the history of Mastodon, I hope you find this useful.

“Somebody got promoted for this”, boss battle edition. ...

2026-02-26T13:50:40Z

“Somebody got promoted for this”, boss battle edition.

https://infosec.exchange/@harrysintonen/116136789969194649

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nevent1q…gs8p
Retroactively changing the role of a token or key is a very bad idea.

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules

#google #googleapikeys #infosec #cybersecurity

I thought of it after I saw this: ...

2026-02-26T03:42:08Z

I thought of it after I saw this: https://mastodon.social/@joeycastillo/116132814374534472

... so, I cobbled this together. Use it when you need to.

I love the good internet crazy: ...

2026-02-25T02:22:12Z

I love the good internet crazy: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

Two posts in my timeline right now: ...

2026-02-23T02:11:23Z

Two posts in my timeline right now:

https://mastodon.social/@rocketsoup/116115866735788934

https://mapstodon.space/@pinakographos/116117392516552747

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nevent1q…h62g
If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?

#mathstodon #math #maths #shitpost

Are there any caveats to using protobufs with rust that aren’t ...

2026-02-22T22:20:40Z

Are there any caveats to using protobufs with rust that aren’t obvious? The protobuf documentation feels very … annoyed that it needs to admit rust exits.

I’ve been thinking about this for days. Incredible stochastic ...

2026-02-22T00:42:50Z

I’ve been thinking about this for days. Incredible stochastic algorithm, gets more reliable the larger your input, incredibly fast, trivial to implement and deterministic on its inputs. It really has so much going for it.

(Via nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzd7dvnel853fz56teu5tf8harxqtdkaddy42pst0lpky0kkygxvsctfzdt (nprofile…fzdt) )

Lazyweb: are there any fitness-tracker wristbands out there that ...

2026-02-20T23:20:23Z

Lazyweb: are there any fitness-tracker wristbands out there that do not need a sign in to an account on a service anywhere and keep data local, if only to the phone? Or in a better world, desktop? My position is that “Obscure thing plus obscure software plus contortions” is fine, but “you only need to log into Wayland-Yutani Bioconsumer products healthotronic AI services once” is not.

Once you realize it’s not “age verification”, but actually ...

2026-02-20T00:46:00Z

Once you realize it’s not “age verification”, but actually “identity verification”, then it’s easy to understand that the real goal is “papers, please” for the entire internet.

There's a Maslow's Heirarchy Of Terrible Commenters out ...

2026-02-19T15:43:08Z

There's a Maslow's Heirarchy Of Terrible Commenters out there that has "Well-Actualization" at the summit.

cybatronk https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/116095302018146137 ...

2026-02-19T04:17:33Z

cybatronk

https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/116095302018146137

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nevent1q…7gq9
I didn't know you could make a Cybertruck look uglier, but I learn new things every day

It sure looks like Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland at ...

2026-02-13T21:18:50Z

It sure looks like Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland at nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqsu4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssrnsxam (nprofile…sxam) used a badly behaved chatbot to write their article about somebody else's badly behaved chatbot. At the very least, they signed off on bunch of fabricated quotes.

Ars Technica used to be so good.

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

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nevent1q…87vv
What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

We should start a rumour that the real reason Gallup isn't ...

2026-02-12T21:50:44Z

We should start a rumour that the real reason Gallup isn't doing presidential approval ratings anymore is that Trump's approval ratings have gone negative and a codebase full of unsigned integers is too expensive to fix.

2024: "You can't force us to learn Rust'". - Ted ...

2026-02-11T18:05:34Z

2024: "You can't force us to learn Rust'". - Ted T'so

2026: "Rust is here to stay." - Miguel Ojeda

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9fa7153c31a3e5fe578b83d23bc9f185fde115da