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

Whichever MBA course taught a whole generation of business people that brevity in email equals power and status, should be abolished. Whoever wrote that course should be tarred and feathered.

The nature of my business allows me to work with many different corporate offices over two decades. I can confidently say that communication has gotten worse over the years.

Everyone is trying to be a boss by sending one word emails. No one is communicating.

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

Discovered a TUI for working with remote logs 💯

🌀 **raymon** — HTTP ingest + MCP server + TUI

🧠 Send logs from your app and inspect them from the terminal

⚡ Supports search, filtering & local log storage

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/bnomei/raymon

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #logs #terminal #http #mcp

jwz wrote:

[ taps headset ]

I am now being informed that in this -- The Year of our Linux Desktop 2026 -- it is impossible to take an arbitrary UTF-8 string and render all of the characters in it.

You just can't get there from here.

Good to know.

Boosted by jwz:
realGulDukat ("Gul Dukat") wrote:

Our war with the Gorn should be over pretty quickly.
#StarTrek #Sisko197

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

c'mon Safari

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

2026.02.15 京都府立植物園
つばき園からツバキ、『鹿児島』と『京唐子』。

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

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

The Baochip that Bunnie has been talking about is live on Crowd Supply in the form of a dev board:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao

The talk at 39c3:

https://social.treehouse.systems/@bunnie/115810106146820260

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

I feel it coming on. I’m about to embark on the journey of completely revamping my notes and tasks systems.

Notion, Obsidian, iA Writer, and physical notebook here I come.

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

You also need to consider that the reporter in question is one of the more credulous pro-"AI" reporters around and whose coverage has been so PR-laden in the past that I know people who stopped reading Ars Technica specifically because of him (and maybe their super pro-Musk rocketry reporter).

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

"Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes"

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

Seeing a lot of people assume that this reporter got fired for making one mistake during a sick day, something most people could see themselves doing

I think it's safe to assume that the reporter's version of events downplayed his culpability to a substantial degree

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

so is it safe to start using the sparkle emoji again or no

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

@rusty__shackleford @soatok ROFLSTOMP!

The documentation clearly states that if the user supplies a string longer than MAX_PASSWORD_LEN, the buffers will overwrite system memory with the contents of the password, allowing remote shell access. This is not a bug, and changing it would mean I would have to write code. Plus I already wrote the docs.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

And if you are about to say "okay, but these guys kind of did the absolute minimum, here": Yes! That's the point! Even the absolute minimum would have worked!

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

It's actually easy to avoid billionaires who are obvious moral hazards! Who knew!

https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-three-scientists-who-said-no-epstein

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
iagondiscord@wetdry.world ("IAG") wrote:

@soatok @dalias @david_chisnall @inex my attitude towards the C code I write is "I make no security guarantees, this fucker probably leaks memory somewhere too, and if you want to use my code securely then I urge you to reconsider"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ofeeg@cyberpunk.lol ("professional box/furniture thrower") wrote:

@soatok Someone mentioned libhydrogen as what you would use if you considered using monocypher, and I'd like to point out: Reading libhydrogen's code, they have very simple input validation that would be easily replicable here, and yet the developer says "No, it would break portability to check" ?????

Libhydrogen is portable, so ？？？？？

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
chuck_wendig@threads.net ("Chuck Wendig") wrote:

Today is the paperback release of THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS and I talk about that and the book a little bit at the blog. Remember those? Blogs? Good times.

https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2026/03/03/out-now-the-staircase-in-the-woods-paperback-edition/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I guarantee you Jesus is staying the fuck away from your mess, Pete Hegseth

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
xan@xantronix.social ("[HANDMAIDEN] xan") wrote:

@soatok @dalias @david_chisnall @inex not to toot my own horn or anything, it can be done, only because the following are not optional for me:

• Valgrind/Address Sanitizer
• gcov
• Obsessive use of RAII
• Insane number of tests

and this philosophy must be present from the beginning. look at Monocypher...good lord

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

And that's the really scary/upsetting thing.

Meta controls the entire tech stack, from data center, to fiber optic cables, computation, and software. Everything *except* consumer hardware.

If Meta can achieve market dominance on whatever the next iPhone will be, they'll have complete control over many peoples' lives.

Worse than what Apple has because glasses are a portal into our real lives. We are crossing over the horizon from logged-life to lived life.

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

It would be really cool to see an open source, not-for-profit that attempts to develop inexpensive AR glasses for those with disabilities. Has anyone shoved a Raspberry Pi into a pair of glasses? lol

Thinking about it, wow this is a hard problem to solve. But it makes sense.

Meta is building a hardware moat. Zuck doesn't want to spend the next twenty years as a software company at the mercy of the next iPhone company. He wants that company to be Meta.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed.”

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

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

@FritzAdalis @whyrl @pq1r @inex @soatok @paco in line with "personally, I would avoid the check"

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

Face it, once you reach a certain age, the news is one big serving of cancer. And you always feel like the wrong person is suffering.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/03/goddamn-cancer-3/

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

@whyrl @pq1r @inex @soatok @paco
> The absence of input validation is core to the design of Monocypher

WAT.

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

truth

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

DO YOUR FUCKING JOB, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION. They won't. Expect a boring evening of pandering, suck-uppery, and cowardice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/03/the-greatest-hottest-and-most-spectacular-ego-ever/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SiteRelEnby@transfem.social ("Site Reliability Enby") wrote:

@lain@lain.com @soatok@furry.engineer @inex@pony.social

Sloccount counts under 2000 lines of code, small enough to allow audits. The binaries can be under 50KB, small enough for many embedded targets.

"Measuring software development by lines of code is like measuring aircraft design by weight"

Just that in this case, proving that too few is just as bad as too many.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lain@lain.com ("lain, author of the quixote") wrote:

@inex @soatok
> The absence of input validation is core to the design of Monocypher

???? why???

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wordshaper@weatherishappening.network ("Dan Sugalski") wrote:

@soatok good thing this code doesn’t have to operate in an adversarial environment. Something unfortunate could happen.