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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I routinely find bugs in code when I wade into code bases I am unfamiliar with and start reading. And I'm just one person and not a fleet of excess data centers running analysis software pointed at all the world's code.

Anyway, I suspect decades of putting time to market, performance, or profligacy ahead of most other concerns is biting us. That, and all the previous software being written in a time prior to billionaire money being spent to automate finding vulnerabilities.

(Just think what we could've done if we had put even a fraction of that effort in *before* now.)

As usual, guard yourself against hype:

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/project-glasswing/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

Six y/o daughter fell and needed to get stitches. To distract her from the pain I showed her a summary of research on how swearing helps you endure pain. She went back to school the next days and called her teacher a cunt. Cue awkward telephone conversation.

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

a preparatory humour course of 3-6 months is required for this absolute zinger of a post

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

tfw funny but it won't be funny to almost anyone else.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

I think #SmolFedi will be my preferred #Fediverse client on my smartphone and my old tablet. Very lightweight, fast, useful. I wonder why I should use something else.

Let me know which missing feature would be a must have.

(if it had poll editor, I’d propose some :-D )

Source/download : https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

Demo instance : https://smolfedi.pollux.casa

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aw@merveilles.town ("alex") wrote:

About the original Game Boy:

Yokoi championed "lateral thinking with withered technology", a design philosophy which eschewed cutting-edge technology in favor of finding innovative uses of mature technologies, which tended to be more affordable and reliable.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
dirkdierickx@mastodon-belgium.be ("dirk dierickx") wrote:

Anthropic's latest #AI model identifies thousands of 0-day #vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. #Claude Mythos Preview sparks race to fix critical bugs, some unpatched for decades.

The difference here is that Claude Mythos is also able to create a working exploit 72% of the time, while previous models had a really hard time with it.

This makes me worry and wonder how we will prevent a #cybersecurity apocalypse.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-latest-ai-model-identifies-thousands-of-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-every-major-operating-system-and-every-major-web-browser-claude-mythos-preview-sparks-race-to-fix-critical-bugs-some-unpatched-for-decades

#artificialintelligence

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
ACBNational ("American Council of the Blind") wrote:

Today we’re remembering when ACB’s Michael Babcock and Kolby Garrison attended the 2026 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. While there, they had the opportunity to explore a range of innovative assistive technologies, including the latest devices from Orbit Research.

Pictured are Kolby (left) and Michael (right) trying out the Optima, an all-in-one Braille laptop computer. Other braille devices are arranged on the table at the Orbit booth.

Learn more: https://www.orbitresearch.com.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

you know that problem where it's actually in Google's best interests to sabotage their traditional search results to force everyone to use the AI results because then you never leave the site and direct prompt advertising becomes extremely valuable? yeah, it's like that for code, where it's actually in anthropic's best interests for all the code to be entirely unmaintainable and unsecurable except for with LLMs

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

can't believe i spent 20 minutes trying to hide a ****ing ::marker

Safari is death by 1000 cuts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
propublicaguild@union.place ("ProPublica Guild") wrote:

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @ProPublica website or engaging with ProPublica stories today.

Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-propublica-agree-to-real-job-protections-now

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

(Talking trash about Thatcher on social media has a very utilitarian purpose: Thatcher fans are some of the most annoying people on the internet and the best way to improve your replies is by having as few of them around you as is possible.)

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

clears out github follows a bit

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It's surprising how often these abandoned houses still have curtains.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #window #rust #snow

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I don't think there's any mail.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #rust #snow

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

So, since the Taskmaster format is basically a variation of the same genre as a Korean-style variety show, I would personally not mind it if these two things happened:

1. Taskmaster Korea
2. Running Man UK, with British comedians.

I would find this entertaining. Please and thank you.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
spookyfoxinc.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Salem ☕ 🔜 FOF") wrote:

sketch comm for ivan 🌸✨#furry #furryart

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
muito_pelo@contra.rio.br ("Muito Pelo !") wrote:

Isso dito o smolfedi que a @adele acaba de publicar parece ser bem legal pra quem usa computador / celular velho e só tem conexão web.

Pode testar aqui https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/

Preciso testar em mais computadores velhos mas não tenho nenhum na cama (prova que o meu caso não é tão grave doutor).

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Oh, Anthropic is Oneshotting people again with detected security flaws?

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

You know you’ve done something right in your social media diet if your feeds break out into spontaneous celebrations on the anniversary of Thatcher’s death.

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

Associated Press dumps journalists for AI

‘Resistance is futile’ — AP senior manager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7l6WnC9hoA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260407-associated-press-dumps-journalists-for-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 44 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/07/associated-press-dumps-journalists-for-ai/ - blog post

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

“AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

> we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI

This is a very narrow test and I'm not entirely convinced it's specific to "AI" (you might be able to replicate this without it just with UI design) but it's observing a mechanism that might be relevant to the chatbot dependence some of us are already seeing in our peers

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

a LinkedIn post of the motivational kind:

#curl

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Misofist@girlcock.club wrote:

I love working within the ActivityPub ecosystem, it's so refreshing

#gotosocial

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

#Japan relaxes #privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop #AI’ - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/japan%5Fprivacy%5Flaw%5Fchanges%5Fai/ "Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption" race to the bottom continues

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FeloniousPunk@beige.party wrote:

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered its 40th day after 936 hours of near-total disconnection from the outside world.

The wartime censorship measure continues even as the US and Iran regimes each declare victory, with the Iranian people once again left in the dark.

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

noted: lazy load web components with conditional imports
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-04-08T05:58Z/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

I attempted to do a microjournalism on Bluesky collating known-good (citable) information about an Iranian proposal which screenshots on social media variously claim to be "the Iranian 10 point proposal" (accuate) or "the ceasefire terms" (inaccurate, I'm pretty sure).

I wish regular journalists would do this stuff.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2aebn3xk5t63net43eeepire/post/3mixgg2nsnk23

@dryad.technology is bridged here via bridgy but it looks like I still can't quote boost my own posts here, so I'm linking it over here.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
ocean@raru.re ("oshy") wrote:

VERY urgent that you guys backup and archive AngelFire sites, we probably have like 2 weeks.