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

Easily Replaceable USB-C Port Spawned By EU Laws

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/26/easily-replaceable-usb-c-port-spawned-by-eu-laws/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sad_electronics@fosstodon.org ("Cutie-PHY") wrote:

@hackaday Also available from Amphenol:
https://fosstodon.org/@sad%5Felectronics/115986811369106226

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

Related to my last post: I wanted to end a meeting with "enjoy the rest of your day!", but I'm tired and my brain is dead, so I accidentally said "enjoy the rest of your life!" and I think my coworkers might be slightly disturbed now.

Maybe I should have just stayed in bed today.

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

RE: https://meow.social/@novra/116136959005134188

But still not physically old enough to have enough years of experience for most "entry level" job listings lol

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
novra@meow.social ("Novra The Boffcat") wrote:

How young furries/gays see anyone near or older than 30

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• gifv: 4aef74498f9c0101.mp4

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

Open source maintainers are going to love this 😍

🐙 **gitv** — A terminal viewer for GitHub issues

⚡ Browse threads, react, edit comments, manage labels & close issues.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/jayanaxhf/gitv

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #github #cli #devtools #opensource

Attachments:

• gifv: d7e9862df032668a.mp4

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I'm in the mood for some pyrotechnical redecoration today, AMA.

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

Ah London; grey with promise and tradition.

Traditions like "there is no service on the Elizabeth Line".

Missed this.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

Kansas is revoking trans people's driver's licenses in the latest anti-trans fascism.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people

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

heyyyy i have this amazon list of stuff i need for the podcast and it needs more stuff on it. i am looking for suggestions.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6

[note: this is asking what it's asking. if your suggestion is "don't use amazon", you're wasting both our time and I'll happily improve both our timelines.]

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

"This is not a security issue"

"There is no impact"

And Other Ways To Green-Light Public Disclosure to Vulnerability Researchers

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

@markus @harrysintonen @soatok If its "not a vuln" nobody could possibly object, right? I'm not even being sarcastic. For once.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Redfuchs@furries.club ("Jasper Fox :therian:") wrote:

Persist against all odds

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
offby1@wandering.shop ("Chris is.") wrote:

I love RSS, folks. RSS feeds still surface some of the best things I read.

Today, it’s this: https://jenniferplusplus.com/what-is-a-token/

Out of this, I learned the term “Anchoring” to describe an effect I observe in myself when using an LLM while working on a problem, and that I find problematic. I hope to use the fact that I now have language for it to help me break out of that loop.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
quat@woof.group ("pup quat") wrote:

"ai" this "ai" that. how come tech guys havent invented headphones that don't get drowned out while eating chips or brushing your teeth

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 soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
markus@uxp.de ("Markus Gerstel") wrote:

@harrysintonen I keep going back to @soatok's stance of "if you say it's not a vulnerability then I publish immediately"

Their incompetent triage team should not be the security researchers' problem.

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

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116133505365798805

This one isn't going to do numbers on any of the link aggregators, simply because to most people in my profession, I'm basically stating the obvious here so it's not exciting enough for them.

Alas.

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 soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

Log4j, *the* project that escalated the need for funding open source in the first place, is currently being DOS’d by slop vulnerability reports. Well done everyone. Slow fucking clap.

https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/discussions/4052

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
PaintedDurian@mstdn.social ("FDA approved :verified: lychee") wrote:

@soatok
Excuse me what the open secret

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)

1/

#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".