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

I did not find this amusing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/09/not-funny/

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

i will say that the main difficulty with continuing to not smoke is that my productivity has taken a huge hit.

this is where you're all supposed to tell me you love me even if i'm completely unproductive.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

Since North Korea has been in the news thanks to two massive hacks just days apart, I'm re-sharing my long-read primer on the ongoing and major threat from North Korean hackers, what they do, how they do it, and why they're incredibly successful — so much so that they could even be your co-worker.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/thousands-of-north-koreans-have-secretly-infiltrated-us-and-european-companies-as-remote-it-workers/

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

I've been watching a technical meltdown about to happen for a few weeks, and the communication about it was very abstract, and _nobody_ but a few caremad nerds got any real conversation going. And nothing was done. Turns out: caremad nerds talking about abstract problems doesn't do shit.

But then the problem became less theoretical, and actual measurements of the problem came out, pointing to specific impacts and places and situations. Now people are taking action!

I wonder if there's a lesson in here somewhere. :P

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

Looking for some good, clean C++ fun? [1] Here's a vectorised HTML parser based on the research @lemire's incredible work from simdjson [2]:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third%5Fparty/blink/renderer/core/html/parser/html%5Fdocument%5Fparser%5Ffastpath.cc

[1]: yes, I understand. That's the joke.
[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.08318

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
filippo@abyssdomain.expert ("Filippo Valsorda") wrote:

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.

That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Every morning I open Ivory and see a bunch of notifications ... vanish before I can read them because people have deleted the posts.

I really dislike this, both the behavior, and the way the app enables it.

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

Doing research into the performance and memory overhead of the most popular "CSS-in-JS" approaches, and my question for the authors of these systems is always the same: are you proud of this?

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

Tech journalists that do not understand prohibitions on shipping software as power relations, or do not understand technology enough to connect API access to profits and predation, are not useful as narrators of the present moment:

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

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

Air to Ground Message:

CERTIFICATE WILL BE SENT TO YOU TO PROUDLY DISPLAY AT YOUR DESK.

Area: Washington DC, USA
Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)
A: #a5bc77a5724
F: #f6e484d3f4a

#acars #vdlm2

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dingemansemark@scholar.social ("Mark Dingemanse") wrote:

I was supposed to finish this last week but then the #Claude Code leak happened, promptly giving me an excellent opening example (h/t @jonny for their digital archaeology work that drew my attention to the magic prompting techniques)

(I think it is likely btw that #Anthropic shifted the #Mythos announce forward to this week to bury the leak & its security implications)

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

currently playing "where the fuck's the beef" with claude mythos amongst all the proclamations of THIS IS IT. the openbsd "zero day" does not AIUI in fact appear to be one, for example - just a non-exploitable bug. what about these much hyped claims checks out?

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

when a doctor makes their own cheese, call that medi feta

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
daedalus@eigenmagic.net ("JP") wrote:

I have a magic rock that finds 0-day RCE in critical infrastructure and also keeps tigers away. It is too powerful for anyone to see but me and a few of my friends who are laughing and having a lovely time just out of shot.

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

lol, trying to extrapolate old benchmarking numbers to modern hardware i don't have access to through the power of educated guesswork.

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

this includes great stuff like median merge time for copilot-reviewed requests.

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

github sure is adding a lot of features regarding checks notes copilot usage metrics.

is this just so microsoft can keep doing the least advisable thing to their own staff?

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

reading: My salary history
https://adactio.com/journal/22519

my own accounting is a mess, i'm tempted to find the numbers, but from memory: worst years ~£20k and best years ~£60k (since 2012 self-employed). I work a 4 day week but fall shy of my theoretical "maximum" (for my rate) because i don't pack in work

jwz wrote:

Important XScreenSaver policy update.

25: No contributions built with, or assisted by, LLMs or any kind of "generative AI" tools will be considered. If you didn't bother writing it, I'm not going to bother reading it. XScreenSaver is art by humans for humans.

https://jwz.org/b/yk56

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

🔥 "Capable browsers, and the PWAs they support, hold the power to grow an ecosystem of applications that no gatekeeper can own or tax, based on standardised APIs that resist enclosure. But few outlets are connecting these dots for readers."

📖 Read: https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

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

'tight feedback loop' sounds extremely lewd.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Plushtodon

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

今年分のMastodonぬいぐるみの販売のために、日本で倉庫を借りるのが現実的か知りたいです。20cmのMastodonぬいぐるみが5000円+国内送料だとしたら買いますか？回答ありがとう!! #plushtodon

jwz wrote:

So it has come to this

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

notes on Vibecusation
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-04-09T05:29Z/

random thoughts triggered by one of those useless "AI vetting" tools I keep seeing

jwz wrote:

"I did 'port upgrade outdated' and that didn't waste hours of my time un-fucking ffmpeg or imagemagick or both", said I never.

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

@owa Apple's WebKit neglects since '10 never rose to the level of a problem for Fruit Co.; only the theat of fines and competition did.

So, if you you want good things to keep arriving, it isn't enough to genuflect towards 280. We must demand real browser competition, and a tech press that gets it.

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

@owa Progress on the web depends on competition. This is foundational, from bug fix responsiveness to the legitimacy of web standards. And Apple has put all of it at risk to keep taking 30% from in-app purchases in "casual games". It's dressed up in a lot of frippery, but that's what's going on:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/

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

@owa The credibility of that threat is in question, however, because the tech press are bungling the biggest app store story of the past 15 years and regulators are pulling punches in the face of Apple's maximal campaign of delay and half-truths:

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

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

Amazing post. I hope web devs understand this as downstream of antitrust pressure on Apple re: iOS & other browsers.

@owa won the headcount Apple poured in since '20 because it allowed them to claim engagement w/o threatening the app store. Even the *threat* of competition has created a sea change in user's favour:

https://blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-css-expansion