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jwz wrote:

https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116264184185228738

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izzy@social.shadowkat.net ("Izzy :QueerCat_Trans:") wrote:

remember: most android malware is available on the play store

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

Unrelated kinda but if you need a cheap burner laptop or something. $200 for an old Intel MacBook Air

(Saw on hacker news)

https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/macbook-air-13-3-inch-8gbram-128gb-mqd32ll-a-mid-2017-refurbished

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quarknova@wikis.world ("chaotic enby") wrote:

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing%5Farticles%5Fwith%5Flarge%5Flanguage%5Fmodels/RfC

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ododopress@bookstodon.com ("Ododo Press") wrote:

Our first post should be an #introduction so here we go. We are a small press based in Uganda/East Africa, and we are passionate about speculative fiction. We publish #SciFi #fantasy #horror #solarpunk #afrofuturism and #africanfuturism books, and we also love #folklore so you should expect to see regular posts about African folk lore. This will be our only social media presence.
Here is our website.
https://www.ododopress.com/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
saltywizard@beige.party ("Дими́трий") wrote:

read this somewhere:

"the money spent going to war for oil could have been spent eliminating the need for oil."

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climatenewsnow ("Climate News Now") wrote:

For the Same Cost as Another Mideast War, We Could Make Oil Irrelevant.

The price tag for building enough renewables to power the grid is eerily close to America’s typical price tag for the kind of war it would take to fully secure the Strait of Hormuz. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #globalWarming

https://newrepublic.com/article/207946/iran-war-oil-hormuz-price-energy

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna, creating Trump-approved broadcaster reaching 80% of US
Brendan Carr lets Trump-favorite Nexstar exceed national station ownership limit.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/fcc-lets-nexstar-buy-tegna-creating-trump-approved-broadcaster-reaching-80-of-us/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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dnkboston@apobangpo.space ("Deb Nam-Krane") wrote:

#scribesandmakers Self-promotion day. Shame optional (untrue--there's always a little shame for me).

This is the series I wrote that's set in Boston. Starts out as romance, then segues to politics and mystery. Kind of messy, just like Boston.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/8375

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

OpenClaw demand in China is driving up the price of secondhand MacBooks:

"So many people in China are rushing to try the OpenClaw artificial intelligence tool that they’re driving up prices for secondhand Mac computers."

This is exactly what American tech companies are trying to avoid in the states https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/19/openclaw-demand-in-china-is-driving-up-the-price-of-secondhand-macbooks.html

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

OH: "we should restart the internet, finding available usernames is impossible these days"

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scy@chaos.social wrote:

So, in the #PHP ecosystem, people can build a package like roave/security-advisories, which has a huge list of "conflict" dependencies.

These don't say "install this as a dependency", but instead "I'm incompatible with that dependency in that version". And the versions listed there are those with known security vulnerabilities, effectively preventing you from installing them, which is good.

Is there something similar in the #Python ecosystem? Is it even possible?

https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories/blob/latest/composer.json

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

Our commitment to Windows quality:

"[W]e are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad."

Oh no not snipping tool! 😭 https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

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

Python is faster than assembly for real

doing it wrong.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"The SDK directory is not writable (/opt/android-sdk)"

Well I sure hope it's not. Are you suggesting you need this to be writable to compile a simple app?!

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lucky@mastodon.nz ("Lucky ✨") wrote:

drives me insane when even supposedly ai skeptics act as if there is any factual value to the stuff that comes out of Claude or whatever. has anyone considered carefully baiting Claude into confessing to a bunch of unsolved murders? We could close so many cases this way

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

In all seriousness, how hard can it be to compile Gadgetbridge?! Their docs refer to an sdkmanager that just crashes on start up and the Docker image they point to has been out-of-date for about 8 years now.

How do people work like that 😕

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lucky@mastodon.nz ("Lucky ✨") wrote:

"i prompted an output from the machine that outputs crazy bullshit with no basis in reality and what happened next will shock you"

grandpa no!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Java tooling in 2026:

"Install JDK 21."
"Actually keep JDK 26."
"Also set JAVA_HOME to something."
"Gradle will ignore it unless it won't."

Jeez, I just wanted to compile an app not perform an ancient ritual.

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

NVIDIA: Our new AI enhances game graphics!

The enhancements:

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

these are almost as good as opinionated frameworks

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

thank god, it's an opinionated guide

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

https://newstechnica.com/2012/10/30/chuck-norris-facts-updated/

Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked gay marriage, and fell flat on his ass.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He’s worrying about gay marriage.

Chuck Norris’ tears cure gay marriage. Too bad for him he never cries.

There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only the quivering fear of gay marriage.

Chuck Norris doesn’t do pushups — he might accidentally get gay-married.

When Chuck Norris goes to sleep every night, he would check his closet for gay marriage, if he had a closet.

Chuck Norris does not go opposing gay marriage, because the word “opposing” implies the possibility of failure. Chuck Norris already failed to stop gay marriage.

Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil to stop gay marriage. When the deal had been done, the devil gay-married him.

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. Tell him how *fabulous* gay marriage is.

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Bernie Sanders just created a video to make a point about issues of privacy in AI (a real problem). His supporters on Muskrat's platform came for me when I quote tweeted his post saying, "at this point, Bernie’s job seems to be lobbying for Anthropic."

So I'm going to elaborate on the corporate psyop that has been happening since the beginning of time and how no one seems to learn their lesson.

jwz wrote:

This story just makes me sad all over again that we never got a third season of Impulse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWLCtREegLQ

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

bummed that I could not attend PyCascades when I had a single conflicting obligation, relieved that I am not attending PyCascades now that I have like eight conflicting obligations crashing into each other simultaneously

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

Trump is going to "double down" again, as the Iranians refuse to roll over and play dead and his frustration rises. he is having trouble understanding he is not in control of this.

Trump's War is going to result in Marines and Sailors dying for Trump's Whim.

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nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

Ha-ha. :blobcat_thisisfine:

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I just googled something and Google put its AI summary top, which incorrectly used a Facebook post - misinterpreting it. The Facebook post itself was an AI summary of a user post - which AI had also misinterpreted. The result is the Google answer was just total bollocks.

10/10 no notes.

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote: