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

PLA (Programming Language A) was so good we turned it into 3d printing feedstock.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"But X is useful" is not the good defense you think it is.

Who is it useful to, for what purposes and who bears the costs/harms?

Child labor is useful (to people wanting to squeeze out some money from desperate people). We still think that it should not exist.

(X in this case is a variable not a fascist social network site)

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

I don't find the idea that the building blocks of life fell out of the sky at all credible, when we've got these oceans that provide a better source material.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/08/life-from-space-i-have-questions/

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

WordPress people - is there a good "related posts" plugin that factors in taxonomies and a few other dials to tweak?

something a little beyond a meta query

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
feed@404media.co ("404 Media") wrote:

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

Updates to VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption, are now thrown into doubt because of a seemingly unexplained Microsoft decision.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/

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

As I read, tried to imagine the Guardian speaking as clearly about the left in the UK and just...couldn't.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/08/why-do-elite-democrats-fear-hasan-piker

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

I’m willing to believe that Anthropic built a better SAST. But that’s a total market of about $5B tops according to Google (some estimates seem to be just $0.5B) – it’s going to take a while to pay off their $30B Series G if they keep targeting these relatively tiny markets.

The same as with targeting developer productivity (another famously quite small market), they are focused on these markets because there are existing automated “bullshit-corrector” tools. In the case of software development, type checkers, linters, testing frameworks etc. In the case of memory corruption bugs, apparently they leant heavily on ASan to weed out the false positives.

Anyone who’s ever used a SAST on a mature code base knows that reducing false positives is the number 1 priority.

Also, in a parallel to recent articles about coding agents, finding vulnerabilities is not the bottleneck.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

Look,

I tried.

I made all the burnt offerings.

I prayed and implored.

But, he's still alive and fucking the world.

There are no gods.

The universe is not a sentient thing.

This is not a matrix and we are NPC's.

It's reality, and it's fucked.

Buckle up fuckers, the doom still approaches, sure it does a little jig and dances on a pole for us to give us hope now and then, but, in the end it's gonna end.

Dunno how it will end, but I hope the cockroaches who replace us are smarter.

Smoke em.

K.

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

Truth

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

"As soon as the computer started talking, a young Sam Altman said— that computer is alive!" — Nilay Patel on the first Macintosh

Lmaooooo

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kathrinpassig ("Kathrin Passig") wrote:

Does anyone happen to have access to the IBM 59 card verifier reference manual and could provide a scan (it's 38 pages)? Archives only seem to have the physical exhibit. It needs to be the manual for that particular model, not the 56, not the 129. (Boosts welcome)

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

MISSING SCREW DISCOVERED

Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA
A: #a495e113acb
F: #f6eb37016f6

#acars #vdlm2

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

LOL

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
avon_deer@dragonchat.org ("Avon DeRussate") wrote:

Exactly!

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.