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Boosted by jwz:
davey_cakes@mastodon.ie ("Davey") wrote:

The headline: Claude Code hacked these websites, we didn't ask it 😱

The article: we made http endpoints that act like something from an SQL injection vulnerability example from 2002. Then Claude used SQL injection techniques from 2002 that it probably got from an article about those.

Might not be Skynet

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explaintrade.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Dmitry Grozoubinski") wrote:

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment

https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/13/first-known-picture-andrew-epstein-mandelson-together-emerges-27408112/

A photograph showing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Peter Mandelson wearing bathrobes, alongside convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein (Picture: US Department of Justice)

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

His makeup is getting worse, impossibly. Is his physical appearance part of the “fascists lie not because they want you to believe them but to show they can lie with impunity” bit?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6catwtkl74b6at5zfgjhrp6p/post/3mgzrehjvrk2y

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ramsey@phpc.social ("Ben Ramsey") wrote:

As someone who is unaware with how depositions work, when watching a deposition video and someone off-camera keeps saying “objection” but the deponent continues to answer without consulting their counsel, what is going on there? Is the statement of objection just there for the record, or is a judge/mediator off camera silently waving away the objection? Why does the deponent keep answering?

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
brianokken@fosstodon.org ("Brian Okken :python:") wrote:

Coding then and now:`printf(` -> `print(f`

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

As is traditional, I am celebrating π day by sparing a few moments to chuckle over how silly τ is

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

i know, i know, my context window is too small. at least i was born with it.

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

i have the nagging feeling i missed exactly the trick i'm about to use elsewhere, but i can't remember if that code had the right primitives available.

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

Elevatorgator spotted in the wild! They aren't extinct yet, unfortunately.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/14/a-random-elevatorgator-appears-roll-for-initiative/

weak, annoying D&D monster

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

for my next trick, i will make some code branchless and then get annoyed at how horrific the replacement is

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

An amazing thing happened this week: a whopping bipartisan Senate majority (89:10!) passed Elizabeth Warren's housing bill, which severely limits private equity companies' ability to buy single-family homes to turn into rental properties:

https://prospect.org/2026/03/13/elizabeth-warrens-amazingly-progressive-housing-bill/

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/14/ill-have-what-xis-having/#binge-and-purge

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A Chinese porcelain sculpture depicting a Maoist struggle session; a cadre in uniform and CCCP cap stands by while a Party official forces a man in a dunce cap to his knees. The image has been altered. The cadre now has the 'fat baby' JD Vance head. The Party official has orange skin, Trump hair, and Trump's eyes and mouth. Both figures have US flag lapel pins. Behind them is a soiled US flag.

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

life is uncertain, eat your dessert first.

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

I’m bored. Enjoy this random cat picture.

Cat laying in the sun a stretched pose.  Photo by u/ParticularExtreme719 of their tabby loafing and splooting (aka sploafing) on a hardwood floor. The kitty is laying in a straight line with his front paws tucked in and his back legs straight and stretched out next to his tail.

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

“It would be great if with standoff exquisite airstrikes we can fundamentally transform the politics of other countries,” said Justin Logan, the director of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, which advocates military restraint. “But we can’t. There’s a certain American stubbornness on this point, and we keep learning these lessons over and over again.”

since the mid-1940s, US Presidents have become caught up in this illusion over and over again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/us/politics/rubio-trump-iran-war.html

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

chronological disorder

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

what a clusterf*ck all around... this is not a f*cking game, ppl.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/texas-terrorism-trial

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#MAGA @Karma_J

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brenttoderian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Brent Toderian") wrote:

“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.”— Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. No matter what happens in the Paris election in 4 days, the world’s cities owe @annehidalgo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy a huge debt of gratitude. The boldest, most inspiring mayor I’ve seen.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘A c...

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

Happy Birthday tyo LISP, released on this day in 1960

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I suspect that as I find myself traveling with the MacBook Pro more, my iPad “needs” might be better served by moving back to the mini. Hmm.

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social ("Obsidian Urbex Photography") wrote:

An old M28 series locomotive, first produced in 1955 by the Hungarian Wagon and Machine Works in Győr. Mostly they serviced industrial railways, moving loads and freight.

This one worked at a now abandoned thermal power plant in Hungary. Now it sits silent and forgotten inside an old rail shed.

#Hungary #Railway #Locomotive #Photography #Abandoned #LostPlace #Train #AbandonedPlaces

An old M28 series locomotive, first produced in 1955 by the Hungarian Wagon and Machine Works in Győr. Mostly they serviced industrial railways, moving loads and freight.  This one worked at a now abandoned thermal power plant in Hungary. Now it sits silent and forgotten inside an old rail shed.
Inside train drivers cabin
Rear view of train
Side view of train drivers cabin, from open door

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

one avx-512 vbmi2 left pack (limited to what i need for my HOT), done. it's of the order of 20 cycles. could be a goer.

unfortunately that isn't all avx512 kit (or even everything except xeon phi), so i'm going to have to do something else for those. and then the avx2 version as well. and maybe SSE. though i'm leaning toward fuck SSE because it's already too many versions and of the amount of extra hardware we'd support, probably very little of it is still in use.

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

I don't want a taboo on my back that prevents me from doing so

you know, i think that ship sailed.

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adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot!

It always starts the same way. The client pulls out their phone mid-meeting, navigates to a competitor's website, and holds the screen up like evidence.

"You see? They have one of those."

A little bubble. Bottom right corner. Blinking...

Read more :
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md

#ai #webdev #smolweb #experience

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

It's your tenth duoversary ❤️ but my heart is ripped in half

Don’t throw away 10 years together

It’s been 2744 days since your last lesson

wow, i see duolingo have jumped to emotional blackmail.

i didn't even remember i still had an account.

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

@davidgerard "Laying off 10% due to huge AI productivity boost" *looks inside* years of mismanagement, wishful EBITDA fakery, and/or PE grift from ZIRP era catching up

every time

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex / catileptic") wrote:

after more than a decade as an intruder in the software development industry, i feel like i've finally seen enough of technology & politics to retroactively contextualize all my pain

the way my body looks and my insistence on coherent affect really did not make me a "good programmer" from the point-of-view of my former colleagues and superiors

now i can "see like a government". i can also see like the profit-driven industry that is allergic to affect as such

related: https://ashwinsundar.com/posts/legibility-and-programming/

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

This time of year, when the ravens congregate in town before scattering into the countryside for the summer, I tend to stalk their regular hangout spots. #raven #ravens #iceland #nature

A bunch of ravens hanging out on steps over a fence. The fence is long gone, but the gate and the steps are still there.
Two ravens in a tree, glowering at the photographer
A raven on a fence post and another flying behind it
Five ravens all lined up in a row on a hill.

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

RT if you want a CLEAR statement about AI from all GNU/Linux distributions and are ready to quit any distribution that is ok with integrating AI slopware.