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Boosted by jwz:
flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

Try to unsee it

Level: impossible.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

people: ask their dependencies to follow semver, for fuck's sake already
also people: make a surprised pikachu face when the major version is incremented with every release

(i have been both, at times. this is about me. this is also about others who i've seen be a lot more militant about this issue)

the thing is, if you have a sufficiently complicated application it is not feasible to determine what is a "breaking change" or not. this complexity limit kicks in long before you get to a "browser" or a "JIT compiler" but it is definitely well applicable by that point

i think what people mean when they do both of those things are a mix of "please stop adding features entirely. only fix bugs" and "please only make changes i like, but not the changes i dislike" depending on maturity level. that's not really how open source software works though

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A great discussion of performance fundamentals, via my colleague Todd Reifsteck:

https://ricomariani.medium.com/software-performance-engineering-the-ideas-i-keep-coming-back-to-6f421b6a9505

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
static@aus.social ("Briala") wrote:

@SwiftOnSecurity Pity the tech who misspelt "referrer" in the HTTP standard.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jlargentaye@mas.to ("John de Largentaye") wrote:

@SwiftOnSecurity reminds me of the time when Brendan Gregg, who was not working at Sun at the time, got a spiel from a salesperson about new profiling tools.

It was his own dtrace scripts they were demoing to him.

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-demo.html

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

It was named sysmon-config because what else would it be called? It was basically the only one. It was not a claim.

I really wish I had someone to tell the story to. About how I had forensic computer breach discussions with General Counsel as a Helpdesk employee. Thanks to Sysmon.

And my XML file.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

The full story of sysmon-config, the first (to my awareness) comprehensive open source HIDS monitoring solution configuration, is something I would like to tell sometime.

It was in fact not generated for a security job, strictly. I needed to understand the sensitive modifications being made to our Windows systems as Helpdesk. And I did not want to filter Procmon again.

It turns out the modifications that screw things up... kind of include the malware and spyware ones. Especially back then.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

Fun fact I made a typo in sysmon-config many years ago, when I was working in Helpdesk.

I got my shot and was hired to the big firm with the big fancy expensive tools I would've never dreamed of.

Do you know what I find in that tool, auditing it?

My typo. They pasted it in. They just... copied the whole thing.

I sit at my desk. And I realize I was always enough.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
coltofox@fox.yt ("Colto Fox") wrote:

Pinned down by the big wuff~ #FursuitFriday

🐺 @ShadowRK9
📷 @Kaynon

#furry #fursuit #FursuitPhoto #FoxFursuit #WolfFursuit #AustralianFurry #CuteFursuits

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• unknown: ShadowRK9 (black, white, and blue collie-wolf fursuiter) in full fursuit on a bed leaning over Colto Fox (orange, white, brown and red fox fursuiter) also in full fursuit. The lamps in the background are emitting purple light.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
chr@scalie.business ("▽ some dragns") wrote:

the thought "coffee is tea" entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Weekly update is up for patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-154112506

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

A thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.

Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gyro@chitter.xyz ("Millie") wrote:

chat how do we feel about the whole "never human again, for the rest of your days if you look down you will see a snout and fluff, your tail will always follow you, claws shall always crown your fingers" situation?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
anomalee.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Nel") wrote:

I love making the silliest stuff

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

I really appreciate the vulnerability that comes with writing something like this and releasing it to the public. We need to do a better job of recognizing these traits and supporting one another. 💕
https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open%5Fsource%5Fgave%5Fme%5Feverything%5Funtil%5Fi%5Fhad%5Fnothing%5Fleft%5Fto%5Fgive

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
oantolin@mathstodon.xyz ("Omar Antolín") wrote:

Man, LLMs really drive home the lesson that people differ *greatly* in how much they care whether the statements they make are accurate.

Boosted by jwz:
littlealex@infosec.exchange ("LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴") wrote:

John Bradley, the author of XV died. Who ever had a computer in the 1990s used his picture viewer.

#rip #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Paul Iadonisi on Gab: 'Got some very sad news this week. For anyone who h…'
https://gab.com/markofafreeman/posts/116290669616400528

Boosted by jwz:
MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services ("Michel Patrice") wrote:

If you are in Los Angeles on march 27, you can pick a street artist Shepard Fairey's protest sign for #Nokings for free.

https://obeygiant.com/?id=99231

#ProtestSign #NoKings #LosAngeles #Art

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nik@nkantar.social ("Nik Kantar") wrote:

I got a cold recruiting email from someone’s OpenClaw “agent”, and I don’t know if I’m supposed to appreciate that it clearly identified itself as such, but I’m definitely extra annoyed.

This next level “Dear {first_name}” waste of time can fuck right off.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
maxim@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alien 👽 Max | 🇺🇦 gamedev") wrote:

My 12 year old son was at the mathematics museum in Kyiv today. Inspired by this, he made a maze in Python. Command line, WASD and Enter and you take a step. As an old Doom fan, I really like this. He is learning #python himself. Also not so long ago he took second place in the city's math Olympiad

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Boosted by jwz:
VD15@pl.valkyrie.world (":VD15_0::VD15_1::VD15_2::VD15_3::VD15_4::VD15_5::VD15_6::VD15_7:") wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu ("Michael Newton") wrote:

@glyph@mastodon.social yeah, starting to talk openly about my #adhd at conferences suddenly meant I got asked a bunch of questions where it was obvious people needed to hear about and be validated in the 'average' or 'somewhat hard' days, not just the 'this worked great this one time' and 'pit of despair' days. Which also led to writing things like blog.mavnn.eu/2025/09/16/stu...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

@glyph that’s the most German thing I’ve heard all year and I live in Germany

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

actually, annoyingly there's something i'd like to do that can only be done in asm. and i think it's entirely reasonable actually and we only can't have it because C.

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

oh yeah, i was kidding myself i wasn't building a full async framework in c

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

honestly the hilarity of being told to upgrade my browser in 2026. it didn't work in 2006

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

also, for god's sake do not block bots by real browser user agent, that is not security.

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

so i have stumbled upon a forge called codefloe. it is apparently designed to compete with codeberg.

first impressions are... not great. here is the homepage viewed in firefox ESR.

i reported this to the owner who was dismissive and a bit of a cunt actually.

wouldn't recommend this site.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

For those who mourn @nolan's years-ahead-of-its-time https://pinafore.social, consider this a recommendation for @lilPWA's excellent https://coho.place Mastodon client

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

Leaving work early. Going to watch Project Hail Mary on IMAX letttssssss gooooo