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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
harrysintonen@infosec.exchange ("Harry Sintonen") wrote:

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

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

I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC. Linux filesystem maintainer throws a fit.

I... I think I'm too old for this.

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

also alarmed to learn from this paper that lastpass is the most popular third party password manager when it has been breached multiple times and does not use authenticated encryption *whatsoever*

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Accenture: you’re promoted or fired on using the AI

‘broken slop generators’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWdjwo2D%5F1M&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260225-accenture-youre-promoted-or-fired-on-using-the-ai - podcast

time: 5 min 22 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/25/accenture-youre-promoted-or-fired-on-using-the-ai/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pythonbynight@hachyderm.io ("Mario Munoz") wrote:

Recently, I mused over what it would take, from my perspective, to significantly change my view that the tech industry's infatuation with non-intelligent "intelligence" is a net-negative for society.

https://pythonbynight.com/blog/what-does-it-take

Below are a few choice quotes from my post. (a sort of TLDR)

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#LLM #AI

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pseudonym@mastodon.online ("Pseudo Nym") wrote:

If you replace a junior with #LLM and make the senior review output, the reviewer is now scanning for rare but catastrophic errors scattered across a much larger output surface due to LLM "productivity."

That's a cognitively brutal task.

Humans are terrible at sustained vigilance for rare events in high-volume streams. Aviation, nuclear, radiology all have extensive literature on exactly this failure mode.

I propose any productivity gains will be consumed by false negative review failures.

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

“Actually, the left is winning the AI debate”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-the-left-is-winning-the

> AI is viewed, correctly, as a threat to jobs, education, mental wellbeing, the arts, child safety, the information ecosystem, and as possessing little upside for few others then corporate managers and AI companies.

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

if your company uses @ratatui_rs
here's how you can keep the rats supplied with cheese 🧀
https://github.com/sponsors/orhun/

jwz wrote:

Guess what! Google is making me write *another* placebo privacy policy, just to authorize a login token to my own YouTube account. (It's a password. But they call it an "app".)

And they rejected it because in the snark-assed privacy policy for my "YouTube app" I can't use the word "YouTube" because "it could potentially confuse users and lead them to believe your app is officially affiliated with or endorsed by Google".

The "YouTube app" for logging in to "YouTube" can't say "YouTube".

Boosted by jwz:
ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

octahedron rendered with tangent circles.

Attachments:

• gifv: octahedron rendered with tangent circles

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
courtney@pdx.social ("Courtney Rosenthal") wrote:

Are there any amateur #classicalGuitar players in the #portland area that are interested in getting together with a low key, small group of other (adult) players? A bunch of us are putting together a monthly salon. The skill levels range widely, from noob on up -- all welcome. You can bring a guitar and play if you want, or just hang and chat. We've met a few times, and it's been great.

DM me if you are interested.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Finally got around to uploading my #strudel remix of Deltarune's "The Third Sanctuary" to YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZACb213btn0

As always, you can play it live in your browser and mess around with the song's source code here:

https://tinysubversions.com/s/#third

Boosted by jwz:
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

Need boosters to stop responding to every critique/complaint/shitpost about GenAI by talking about how productive they feel and which labor they don't value.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vga256@tomodori.net wrote:

i've been reading a late-90s book about virtual worlds - some of them VRML-based, many custom 2d and 3d clients, and some MUSHes/MOOs/MUDs

i came across a scientific MUD i had never heard before, and i'm absolutely blown away by its goals and implementation: NAU Solar System Simulation/SolSys by prof Reed Riner at northern arizona university. it was online from 1990 until at least 2017 (and maybe longer?).

there is a little information out there on what SolSys was:

"The Solar System Simulation, originated at CONTACT VI in 1987, was developed into an intercollegiate curriculum at Northern Arizona University by Reed Riner, as an honors course in Anthropology and Engineering. Since 1990, it has included student teams from many colleges and universities around the globe.

The teams represent colonies in a simulated future human community in space. For example, Mars Colony is normally manned by NAU and the Cabrillo College team traditionally inhabits the L-5 Colony near Earth. (See L-5 artwork left by Joel Hagen.) Teams communicate via websites, Internet e-mail and a Multiple User Domain (MUD), a text-based, virtual reality program. Students are directed and encouraged by their local faculty advisors and by a board of professional consultants in the social and space sciences."

https://www.contact-conference.org/c03.html

seriously - a hardcore scientific MUD built around real-life anthropology and space exploration. and entire mud devoted to teaching players how to cooperate in order to accomplish goals together, instead of killing a bunch of shit. how fucking cool is that?

did anyone here play/use SolSys when it was still alive?

the urls went dead when prof reed passed away last year, and the university wiped his webspace

SolSys ran on a modified version of tinyMUD, focused largely on building and communicating. this is its last known homepage:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250328124317/https://www2.nau.edu/rdr/SolSys/

dr. riner's obit:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/azdailysun/name/reed-riner-obituary?id=58181563

#mud #moo #virtualWorld #mush

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

Cryptography engineering has an intrinsic duty of care.

http://soatok.blog/2026/02/25/cryptography-engineering-has-an-intrinsic-duty-of-care/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

so I just did this. let's see how it goes.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pepo@toot.io ("Pepo Pimento") wrote:

DokuWiki is an open source wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language.

https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

It works on plain text files and thus does not need a database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki. It is often recommended as a more lightweight, easier to customize alternative to MediaWiki.

(When you are testing out xampp in your computer localhost. the first thing to try is DokuWiki which does not require database)

Image below shows a dokuwiki of flatpress.

#linux #lamp #php #opensource

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

Somehow this is a @jaffathecake story, but I'm not sure why.

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

Was *very* touch-and-go (salad that had other ideas), but getting on a plane for LHR to see some of you brilliant people at Stare of The Browser:

https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pius@treehouse.systems ("Telecaster B Bird") wrote:

@soatok Another great post, and for what it's worth... Those accusing you of spreading FUD, have probably never met a real expert in the field

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Anyone need a cheap Robinson R44 helicopter? Fleets in Australia and Canada up for grabs.

“Global Traffic Network retreats from UK with $40m loss and choppers for sale” https://mumbrella.com.au/global-traffic-network-retreats-from-uk-with-40m-loss-and-choppers-for-sale-916070

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A federal district court judge rules that deporting immigrants to “third countries” to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.241.0.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kimlockhartga@beige.party ("Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:") wrote:

Representative Al Green has more courage in his pinkie than the entire administration put together. Bullies are always cowards. Real strength is showing up when the truth needs telling.

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

yup https://transfem.social/notes/aj3tnv9d4wx00cog

Attachments:

• gifv: c269cbfafea14198.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone

https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

If you're a fan of #hockey, or decency, please note these names:

Kyle Connor
Jake Guentzel
Jackson LaCombe
Brock Nelson
Jake Oettinger

These are the guys from the US Men's Olympic hockey team who stayed away from the party at the White house.

#USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
feed@igeek.gamer-geek-news.com ("input") wrote:

🎮 Nvidia getting more serious about gaming on Linux and Arm: hiring engineer to work on 'native-speed x86-64 gaming on Linux/ARM64 platforms'

Along with a few more job roles with similar remits.

📰 Source: Latest from PC Gamer
🔗 Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-getting-more-serious-about-gaming-on-linux-and-arm-hiring-engineer-to-work-on-native-speed-x86-64-gaming-on-linux-arm64-platforms/

#Linux #OpenSource

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

Cryptography engineering has an intrinsic duty of care.

http://soatok.blog/2026/02/25/cryptography-engineering-has-an-intrinsic-duty-of-care/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CBSNews@flipboard.com ("CBS News") wrote:

At least 10 FBI agents who worked on Mar-a-Lago documents case are fired, sources say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-least-10-fbi-agents-who-worked-on-mar-a-lago-documents-case-are-fired-sources-say/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CBSNews

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
astraluma@tacobelllabs.net ("AstraLuma") wrote:

@soatok also, apparently my take away from this gen AI moment is "software is engineering, actually, and we need to take that seriously"