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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Trump has surrounded himself with a constellation of evangelical advisers who not only support his policies but also frame them as divinely sanctioned. Their specific strand of evangelical theology interprets global conflict, especially in the Middle East, as a precursor to the end times."

~ Alain Stephens

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #genocide #morality #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://theintercept.com/2026/04/04/paula-white-iran-war-christian-evangelicals/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

The story could have just as well been written like this.

In 21 years of policing, RCMP Sgt. Serge Landry says he'd never seen anything like the theft of an entire truck of Ketchup flavored potato chips. The RCMP confirms the truck was recovered in the state of Massachusetts minus the chips that were on board. The investigation continues...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
amplifyukraine.eu@bsky.brid.gy ("AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦") wrote:

Romanian intelligence takes part in US-led thwarting of 'sustained' Russian cyberattack against West #Ukraine

Romanian intelligence takes pa...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGreens/116369940245011129

A better world is possible, and voters want it

#UKPol #UKPolitics #ScotPol #ScottishGreens #Greens

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com ("Carl C") wrote:

If you know someone in Poland who wants to work a remote Operations job following break/fix runbooks on thousands of Linux hosts, I'm hiring...

https://jobs.akamai.com/en/sites/CX%5F1/job/2625?keyword=2625&mode=location

(We're working to offload the trivial stuff to another team, as we mature into a "specialist" team. So it has some future potential.)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

what sort of things should a type system for a systems language realistically be tracking? well how about whether some memory is initialised or not? in rust you might use MaybeUninit and some dynamic checks, but in a proper type system it would either be Uninit or something else.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

of course such a thing could never realistically work within c++ itself - as soon as you chuck in stuff like exceptions you're onto a loser

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the alternative to this is to simply make people clean up by having a type system that allows you to require that. sure you can have autodrop if it makes things easier, but there is a whole world of alternatives that you can't realistically explore in an RAII environment.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Sydney Opera House has some interesting performances just sitting there for the world to see. Neat!

https://www.youtube.com/@SydneyOperaHouse/videos

I'm currently listening to some Beth Gibbons:

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

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

RAII is alright, i guess? but understand what you're really asking for is automated drop call insertion and for people to make apis where that is the norm.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

rust has fallen into the same trap as C++ of thinking RAII is good actually.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i realised today that my will to write rust when not being paid to do so has more or less evaporated

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Très belle journée

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116300859215261350

For reasons, I'm reminded of this thread from a couple of weeks ago that I wrote in an attempt to remind people to be extra-sceptical of bubble-inflating news coming from those who benefit from a financial bubble, even if it looks plausible

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ernie@writing.exchange ("Ernie Smith") wrote:

What makes one decide to make a parody movie trailer for, of all things, the GNU Image Manipulation Program? I asked the puppeteer behind Pork Johnson, the star of the semi-viral GIMP clip.

https://tedium.co/2026/04/07/pork-johnson-gimp-parody-interview/

new @tedium

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

PLA (Programming Language A) was so good we turned it into 3d printing feedstock.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"But X is useful" is not the good defense you think it is.

Who is it useful to, for what purposes and who bears the costs/harms?

Child labor is useful (to people wanting to squeeze out some money from desperate people). We still think that it should not exist.

(X in this case is a variable not a fascist social network site)

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I don't find the idea that the building blocks of life fell out of the sky at all credible, when we've got these oceans that provide a better source material.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/08/life-from-space-i-have-questions/

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

WordPress people - is there a good "related posts" plugin that factors in taxonomies and a few other dials to tweak?

something a little beyond a meta query

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
feed@404media.co ("404 Media") wrote:

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

Updates to VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption, are now thrown into doubt because of a seemingly unexplained Microsoft decision.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

As I read, tried to imagine the Guardian speaking as clearly about the left in the UK and just...couldn't.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/08/why-do-elite-democrats-fear-hasan-piker

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
neilmadden@infosec.exchange ("Neil Madden") wrote:

I’m willing to believe that Anthropic built a better SAST. But that’s a total market of about $5B tops according to Google (some estimates seem to be just $0.5B) – it’s going to take a while to pay off their $30B Series G if they keep targeting these relatively tiny markets.

The same as with targeting developer productivity (another famously quite small market), they are focused on these markets because there are existing automated “bullshit-corrector” tools. In the case of software development, type checkers, linters, testing frameworks etc. In the case of memory corruption bugs, apparently they leant heavily on ASan to weed out the false positives.

Anyone who’s ever used a SAST on a mature code base knows that reducing false positives is the number 1 priority.

Also, in a parallel to recent articles about coding agents, finding vulnerabilities is not the bottleneck.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

Look,

I tried.

I made all the burnt offerings.

I prayed and implored.

But, he's still alive and fucking the world.

There are no gods.

The universe is not a sentient thing.

This is not a matrix and we are NPC's.

It's reality, and it's fucked.

Buckle up fuckers, the doom still approaches, sure it does a little jig and dances on a pole for us to give us hope now and then, but, in the end it's gonna end.

Dunno how it will end, but I hope the cockroaches who replace us are smarter.

Smoke em.

K.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Truth

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

"As soon as the computer started talking, a young Sam Altman said— that computer is alive!" — Nilay Patel on the first Macintosh

Lmaooooo

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kathrinpassig ("Kathrin Passig") wrote:

Does anyone happen to have access to the IBM 59 card verifier reference manual and could provide a scan (it's 38 pages)? Archives only seem to have the physical exhibit. It needs to be the manual for that particular model, not the 56, not the 129. (Boosts welcome)

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

MISSING SCREW DISCOVERED

Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA
A: #a495e113acb
F: #f6eb37016f6

#acars #vdlm2

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

LOL

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
avon_deer@dragonchat.org ("Avon DeRussate") wrote:

Exactly!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I routinely find bugs in code when I wade into code bases I am unfamiliar with and start reading. And I'm just one person and not a fleet of excess data centers running analysis software pointed at all the world's code.

Anyway, I suspect decades of putting time to market, performance, or profligacy ahead of most other concerns is biting us. That, and all the previous software being written in a time prior to billionaire money being spent to automate finding vulnerabilities.

(Just think what we could've done if we had put even a fraction of that effort in *before* now.)

As usual, guard yourself against hype:

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/project-glasswing/