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

why light never moves

yeah no.

Boosted by jwz:
muhkayoh ("Matt Jordan") wrote:

@javi Firefox has become the John Fetterman of browsers.

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

I can guess what duties Melania would actually like to have a humanoid robot take over. Unfortunately, I think that might trigger a robot revolution.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/26/imagine-having-a-robot-to-teach-your-kids-greek-and-latin/

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

can you feel the acceleration?

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.94.1 has been released.

This point release fixes a few regressions that slipped into in Rust 1.94.0: an internal compiler error in Clippy, a small security issue in Cargo, and two issues in the standard library.

See the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/26/1.94.1-release/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
koen_hufkens ("Koen Hufkens, PhD") wrote:

@ai6yr @cwebber Along the same line. I often got the question, what major should I study. I tell them, pick the hardest you can handle (if not a bit more). You will never have as much time to deal with this stuff as during college.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
koen_hufkens ("Koen Hufkens, PhD") wrote:

@ai6yr @cwebber When mentoring students I often get the question - how do you figure things out so quickly.

Then I tell them that I've been messing with hardware and software since I was in my early teens - and I made tons of (innocent) mistakes.

When you get to be an adult you then know how to approach complex systems where you might not have this much margin.

Much of it is heuristics. Offloading heuristics (despite biases) is a VERY BAD IDEA.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
falsemirror@masto.nyc ("Rory Mir") wrote:

EFF is hiring an Assistant Director of EU Policy. Fully remote, EU only.

https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/portal/28620672D234BF368306CEB4A2746667/jobs/394456

#jobs #FediHire #TechLaw @eff

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

diffie's mayonnaise

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
revk@toot.me.uk ("RevK :verified_r:") wrote:

Curious, who has been on #TV ?

Do boost for coverage as always. 🙂

I cannot add a "never on TV" it seems, sorry. Mastoshit.

I tick all the boxes, and a few more.

Do reply post the amusing exceptions to the list, gotcha. I also have many.

And this is all when TV was way more of a real thing than now... How times have moved on.

And for other TV history, I knew the real Guy Kewney... Met him for drinks in London on Thursdays. Sad he is gone. I recall him telling that anecdote fondly.

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

Is your enterprise AI app actually secure?

No.

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