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

Dershowitz v. Youssef would be the most fun in a courtroom I'd ever see. Make it so, Alan, just be prepared to pay the price.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/26/bassem-youssef-knows-how-to-use-a-needle/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7h9r0t0mI

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

Before I chuck it at eBay, who would be interested in buying my Philips Videopac 7000 and a couple of dozen games? It's in the Netherlands. Sensible offers only, please.

The console is perhaps better known as the Magnavox Odyssey2, but this is the original PAL variant.

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

this is my favourite picture in all of cryptography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%5Fcipher%5Fmode%5Fof%5Foperation#Electronic%5Fcodebook%5F%28ECB%29

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

ECB and CTR cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators

i uh... ECB??? cryptographically secure????

ECB?!?!

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

I bestow my atheist blessings on Pope Leo XIV.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/26/oh-no-i-have-to-agree-with-a-catholic/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
edri@eupolicy.social ("EDRi") wrote:

3/3 🚨 With the Parliament still unconvinced, four EU Commissioners decided to interfere, trying to pressure MEPs to support their mass surveillance proposal, even promoting the interests of #BigTech companies like Google, Meta and Snapchat!

Despite this blatant attempt to cow the Parliament into abandoning their position, MEPs held strong and continued to reject the mass scanning of our private communications 👏🏽

This is the democratic accountability we expect and deserve from our lawmakers!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Tutanota wrote:

You did it! 🥳

European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.

This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪

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

fuckit, i'm writing a cryptography library and i'm calling it crapto

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
wq@vim.wtf ("John Wq :us_distress:") wrote:

@db ah yes - "rsync and go seek"

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

Rolling my own cryptography in order to better understand the subject and came up with implementation of the ChaCha20 algorithm pasted below.

good start.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("small, mouse-shaped rock formation") wrote:

Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript

sigh

Avoid detection with built-in anti-bot patches and proxy configuration for reliable web scraping.

I knew this was coming, but it still makes my heart ache. To see there are people who knowingly and willingly write software that abuse others, because consent is a completely unknown thing to them.

I hope someone1 will accidentally direct a scraper their way, and knock ther stuff off the internet. Forever.

#algernonReviewsHackerNews

1. Not me ↩︎

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

currently play: game of find where i rsync'd the files on the remote server, because they ain't where i wanted 'em to be

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

i may be shopping around for crypto libraries in C and i may be getting a reminder that they all suck.

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

The difference between the tech industry and, say, Enron is that the tech industry is a cluster of very large, deeply intertwined megacorporations. They're like the 2007 era banks in terms of their interconnectedness: big tech orbiting Nvidia and smaller startups orbiting the big tech planets.

You only need fraud to thrive in one corner of this system to create a cascading risk for them all.

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

The US basically isn't enforcing a whole host of laws and regulations regarding finance (hasn't since the 2007 bubble, even less so these days) which means the current bubble probably has a bunch of fraud going on—sorry, "poor information environment" is, I think, the euphemism du jour

Since online advertising has basically been filled with I Can't Believe This Is Legal™ fraud-adjacent behaviour for years, I'm personally taking the numbers coming out of tech with a grain of salt

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danslimmon@hachyderm.io ("dan slimmon") wrote:

There's this myth that automated spam detection is hard because spammers are all very clever masters of disguise.

No. Spammers are stupid as a shoe. They have dog shit for brains.

Automated spam detection is hard because the line between spam and "legitimate" marketing activity is a fiction.

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

Vibe Security Radar: Real CVEs where AI-generated code introduced the vulnerability.

https://vibe-radar-ten.vercel.app/

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

MOFs

I think fedi prefers moths, actually

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

“Digital Acedia | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/digital%5Facedia

> Unfortunately for all of us in the industry, the bulk of all the software that we write has the goal, before anything else, of making life for anyone who isn't rich enough to avoid it intolerable

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

“We've been here before! — Olivia Guest”

https://olivia.science/before/

> Many many times in the past, companies — just like artificial intelligence (AI) companies now — have lied to us to sell us products. Not only is there no reason to assume the AI industry is different, there is in fact much to make us think they are knowingly misleading us.

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

pressed enter to start a new line and the contact form submitted

so now i look like an idiot

jwz wrote:

I was let to believe that pirates had a code. If there was any honor among pirates they would clearly mark their rips as "this is some AI-upscaled camrip bullshit with crypto-casino watermarks that you shouldn't bother downloading".

What a world.

Boosted by jwz:
medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

The resurrected trying to catch a watermelon. book of hours, Savoie ca. 1445-1450. Chambéry, Musée Savoisien, inv. 977-1-1, fol. 119r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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

Our current moment: you watch a Vic Berger video and you're not sure whether it's just unedited C-SPAN footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYwSscf%5FPEo

Boosted by jwz:
carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

still shaking my head over the mozilla leadership page. It is more, shall we say, "extensive" than I would have every imagined possible. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/ I mean, holy wow. Search the page for "VP" and you get 21 hits, there are 8 "chief" and 5 "managing" and 6 "executive."

Boosted by jwz:
alienghic@timeloop.cafe ("Diane") wrote:

@carlmalamud

Is mozilla where they store unneeded silicon valley executives?

Boosted by jwz:
Ninji@wuffs.org wrote:

who called it an AI girlfriend and not “slop! in the name of love”

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

gotta pay for that subsidised slop somehow

stop being the product - GitHub is not your friend

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This is the maintainer of OpenClaw. If this information warrants blocking them on GitHub, you should probably do that. https://github.com/shakkernerd

jwz wrote:

Favorite mobile mastodon feature: I hit reply, type a lot, scroll back to read something in what I am replying to, and OOPS you scrolled too far, reload page! Fuck your reply!