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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: Two full weeks have now passed since #Iran fell into digital darkness amid a regime-imposed internet blackout.

The public remain isolated from the outside world with only a limited domestic intranet after 336 hours while state-approved accounts get whitelisted access.

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xtaldave@vivaldi.net wrote:

Absolute peak late stage capitalism.

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mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

one would think that “do you prefer personal convenience over avoiding the use of tools produced by a company closely collaborating with a concentration camp administration” is not a hard question.

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mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

@glyph fwiw my point of view is purely ethical: we shouldn't, especially in free software, use tools delivered by companies that actively collaborate with totalitarian organisations.

call it maximalism or naïvety, but i thought that the case of IBM and the nazi concentration camps should have taught us something.

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mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

@glyph on the other hand, both openai and anthropic literally contract with the concentration camps administration, chatbots were used by doge & al. to destroy USAID, and the american science, and healthcare – and claude was recently extensively used by the american military in the kill chain of the latest illegal war of aggression.

neither of those facts is disputable.

the question is how much literal human blood and literal human death will be too much, when the flip side is personal convenience.

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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/

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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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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/

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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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/

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

life is uncertain, eat your dessert first.

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

I’m bored. Enjoy this random cat picture.

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

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

chronological disorder

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

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

#MAGA @Karma_J

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...

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

Happy Birthday tyo LISP, released on this day in 1960

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.

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

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.

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.

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