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

and thanks to phenomenal recent effort from @stylus we are quickly heading towards a production quality bittricks.

and uh... a lot more than we ever wanted to know about making C portably fast.

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

gotta say, i've been really enjoying doing FLOSS with someone else recently. i've spent way too long on stuff noone cares about and i forgot it could be fun.

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Remember: Sam Altman cries eight deliciously bitter tears for every dollar donated to Pivot to AI. Now, that’s *effective* altruism.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/27/pivot-to-ai-needs-you-send-5-to-keep-the-stories-coming-daily/

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

New blog post! 📢🎉

"**Building a guitar trainer with embedded Rust**" 🦀🎸

The story of me trying to learn guitar... and ending up building a DIY kit for it 🐁

🔗 Read here: https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-tuitar/

#rustlang #embedded #esp32 #ratatui #tui #devtools #opensource #blog

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

One thing AI has been very helpful with is helping me very concretely understand the impact of CVEs on my software, in a very very short amount of time. Patience for lazy/tedious/stupid questions FTW.

For instance, the exact conditions required to exfil victim data in a request smuggling vulnerability.

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pwqr-wmgm-9rr8

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, why doesn't alpha blending work when lighting is enabled on Android? Transparency works with glColor but not with glMaterial.
GL_VERSION in the Android simulator is "OpenGL ES-CM 1.1 (4.1 Metal - 88.1)".

This works fine on iOS and Cocoa, so it's not strictly a GLES thing, just Android. GLSL is not involved.

Test case:
https://jwz.org/b/yk5Y

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ianrosewrites@scicomm.xyz ("Ian Rose") wrote:

In 2020, we all took some solace in the Nature is Healing memes, even the silly ones. But the thing is, with even the slightest nudge in the right direction, even the smallest relief from our boot on its neck, it does. Nature does heal and reclaim.

We knew salmon were returning to Upper Klamath Lake after the dam removal there. But now we know they are breeding, and making the first natural hatchlings there in over 100 years. This is great news.
#salmon #oregon #rivers

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/25/upper-klamath-river-chinook-salmon-naturally-hatching/

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

Your reminder that we do not accept code contributions that have been generated by LLMs. If you submit LLM-generated code we will simply close the pull request

https://docs.elementary.io/contributor-guide/development/generative-ai-policy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
PeterLG@theblower.au wrote:

This is too good not to share.

After ten years of silence on YouTube, Bette Midler has released an absolute banger of a protest song, just in time for #NoKingsDay.

A rewrite of a Woody Guthrie song, and it hops!

https://youtu.be/U5VXwncNvTo

#USPol
#BetteMidler #NoKingsDay3

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kiki@thegayagenda.fans ("Puella Lupina Kiki ⚸ Lupae") wrote:

"can you lock tf in" babes i have adhd I am locked tf out with the keys inside

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Ivan's explainer of why you should bother and go to protest rallies.

1. If people living under an authoritarian regime do nothing, it solidifies, and a few years later you (or your family member) find yourself in a war with some state or another. Or in a famine. Or in a genocide.

2. Coming out on a peaceful protest is a way to avoid item 1 without violence. But for it to work, the numbers must be overwhelming. It may take several times.

So come out to get counted. It's not hard.

#NoKings

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

I've been through 93 protests and I'm still in one piece.

My protest safety:

1. Use SpotHero.com if you have to drive a car
2. Don't forget sunscreen and water
3. Go with friends and/or tell someone where you'll be
4. Ignore counter protesters if there even are any. I went through a lot of this crap early last year when protesting was scary and if you don't give them the fight they want, they just yell and then go away.
5. Don't smoke, those things will kill you.

Just sayin'.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I have a long list of hyperlinks that I'd like to clean up into something resembling a list of citations. These are not scientific citations so I don't need support for DOIs or indeed any *specific* citation style, but I would love to run some tool over them and get something that includes a title, an author, a publication name and a link, in markdown syntax, possibly already formatted as a footnote. Is there any such tool that I could just grab from somewhere?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

don't look at the time code

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

converting the outline into actual prose now for this post and at 1100 words I am about halfway through all the throat-clearing and contextualizing in the introduction. I apologize in advance, I am not writing this blog post, this blog post is happening *to* me

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

Project Hail Mary was fantastic. Just a dope sci-fi with cool science and interesting characters. I loved it.

Boosted by jwz:
flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

Try to unsee it

Level: impossible.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

people: ask their dependencies to follow semver, for fuck's sake already
also people: make a surprised pikachu face when the major version is incremented with every release

(i have been both, at times. this is about me. this is also about others who i've seen be a lot more militant about this issue)

the thing is, if you have a sufficiently complicated application it is not feasible to determine what is a "breaking change" or not. this complexity limit kicks in long before you get to a "browser" or a "JIT compiler" but it is definitely well applicable by that point

i think what people mean when they do both of those things are a mix of "please stop adding features entirely. only fix bugs" and "please only make changes i like, but not the changes i dislike" depending on maturity level. that's not really how open source software works though

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

A great discussion of performance fundamentals, via my colleague Todd Reifsteck:

https://ricomariani.medium.com/software-performance-engineering-the-ideas-i-keep-coming-back-to-6f421b6a9505

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
static@aus.social ("Briala") wrote:

@SwiftOnSecurity Pity the tech who misspelt "referrer" in the HTTP standard.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jlargentaye@mas.to ("John de Largentaye") wrote:

@SwiftOnSecurity reminds me of the time when Brendan Gregg, who was not working at Sun at the time, got a spiel from a salesperson about new profiling tools.

It was his own dtrace scripts they were demoing to him.

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-demo.html

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

It was named sysmon-config because what else would it be called? It was basically the only one. It was not a claim.

I really wish I had someone to tell the story to. About how I had forensic computer breach discussions with General Counsel as a Helpdesk employee. Thanks to Sysmon.

And my XML file.

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

The full story of sysmon-config, the first (to my awareness) comprehensive open source HIDS monitoring solution configuration, is something I would like to tell sometime.

It was in fact not generated for a security job, strictly. I needed to understand the sensitive modifications being made to our Windows systems as Helpdesk. And I did not want to filter Procmon again.

It turns out the modifications that screw things up... kind of include the malware and spyware ones. Especially back then.

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

Fun fact I made a typo in sysmon-config many years ago, when I was working in Helpdesk.

I got my shot and was hired to the big firm with the big fancy expensive tools I would've never dreamed of.

Do you know what I find in that tool, auditing it?

My typo. They pasted it in. They just... copied the whole thing.

I sit at my desk. And I realize I was always enough.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
coltofox@fox.yt ("Colto Fox") wrote:

Pinned down by the big wuff~ #FursuitFriday

🐺 @ShadowRK9
📷 @Kaynon

#furry #fursuit #FursuitPhoto #FoxFursuit #WolfFursuit #AustralianFurry #CuteFursuits

Attachments:

• unknown: ShadowRK9 (black, white, and blue collie-wolf fursuiter) in full fursuit on a bed leaning over Colto Fox (orange, white, brown and red fox fursuiter) also in full fursuit. The lamps in the background are emitting purple light.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
chr@scalie.business ("▽ some dragns") wrote:

the thought "coffee is tea" entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Weekly update is up for patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-154112506

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

A thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.

Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gyro@chitter.xyz ("Millie") wrote:

chat how do we feel about the whole "never human again, for the rest of your days if you look down you will see a snout and fluff, your tail will always follow you, claws shall always crown your fingers" situation?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
anomalee.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Nel") wrote:

I love making the silliest stuff