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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

What an absolute dingleberry this man is

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/world/live-news/iran-us-war-talks-trump

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I’ve done this ride into Chicago a number of times now, but I’ve always sat on the left side of the train. I never noticed Soldier Field, or Be Gay Do Crime on the way in before. #TransOnTrains

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ametonym@todon.eu ("Ametonym⁷") wrote:

My mum just sent me this joke via her friend's sister. (They are all aged 74-78.)

- -

So Tr*mp dies and this bloke asks where the grave is as wants to piss on it, told he has to go to Los Angeles. “Los Angeles! But he died in New York”, “Yes, but you join the queue in Los Angeles”.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing :progress_pride:") wrote:

We really, really, really need to stop using oil. It's destroying the planet, causing neverending wars, eroding countries' independence and crippling the world economy.

It's no longer just an ecological priority, it's a national security priority and an economic priority. People of any political persuasion ought to be doing everything they can to replace fossil fuels with other energy sources ASAP.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:

The Great Gatsby got eight words longer in its 2023 Library of America edition thanks to the editor returning to the original manuscript housed at Princeton and discovering a copyist’s error. https://specialcollections.princeton.edu/2026/04/gatsby-at-101-an-east-egg-easter-egg/

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

"Since the founding of the nation, the United States has asserted a vital
national interest in preserving the freedom of the seas and necessarily called
upon its military forces to preserve that interest. One of the first missions of a
young U.S. Navy was to protect the safe shipping of U.S. commercial vessels
through the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and adjoining seas, against
pirates and other maritime threats. Similarly, in President Woodrow Wilson's
famous Fourteen Points speech, he told Congress that one of the universal
principles for which the United States and other nations were fighting World
War I was "Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas." And three months
before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt
delivered one of his fireside chats to the American people, in which he declared,
"Upon our naval and air patrol ... falls the duty of maintaining the American
policy of freedom of the seas." As history shows, this U.S. national interest and
policy for preserving the freedom of the seas are long-standing in nature and
global in scope."

https://policy.defense.gov/Portals/11/Documents/gsa/cwmd/DoD%20FON%20Program%20--%20Fact%20Sheet%20%28March%202015%29.pdf

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Thanks to everyone who joined me and Drew & friends on the Freebooters livestream. I'm really enjoying streaming on #Owncast, so expect more.

Follow @fblive to get updated when we go live.

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

The US Navy and Marine Corps have a long and storied history of fighting to defend freedom of navigation. That noise you hear is Thomas Jefferson rolling in his grave at the news of Trump's threats to destroy this idea.

- The Quasi-War with France (1798–1800): An undeclared war where the US Navy defended American commerce from French privateers, ensuring U.S. ships could trade in the Atlantic.

- The Barbary Wars (1801–1815): The young U.S. Navy was dispatched by President Jefferson to the Mediterranean to stop Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers from seizing U.S. merchant vessels and demanding ransom, engaging in combat to ensure safe passage.

- The American War of 1812: Fighting for the right to navigate the seas without British interference.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
realjuddlegum@threads.net ("Judd Legum") wrote:

So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are:

1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled)

2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)

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

okay i've written the first cut. it's a branchy mess, let's try and do better.

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

goes off and does something productive for 40 minutes, comes back

yep, it's that problem i was avoiding right there on my screen.

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

https://bsky.app/profile/scalzi.com/post/3mj6q3pdblc2y

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Going live with a bit of Divinity: Original Sin

https://live.freebooters.uk/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
fblive@live.freebooters.uk ("Freebooters live") wrote:

I've gone live!

A bit of Divinity with Freebooters and friends

#owncast #streaming

https://live.freebooters.uk

Attachments:

• gifv: Live stream preview

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

as i ponder that there are three basic variations of this algorithm, i feel like i may have chosen the wrong one.

i'm on my second go.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
courtcan ("Court Cantrell does not comply") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david%5Fchisnall/116379211678912109

This is one of the best descriptions of AI that I have read so far:

"It isn’t a technology, it’s a branding term, and it’s a branding term used almost exclusively for things that have no social benefit."

-- @david_chisnall

#NoAI
#AIisAScam

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (web luddite)") wrote:

the more we're all encouraged to optimize our time and deliver more output, the more i want to never hit a single metric again in my life.

i want to commit on a project and never launch it. i want to code slower, spend more time choosing colors, re-invent wheels that will never get used - not better, just different - taking as long as possible.

i want to spend my time imagining different ways to say a thing, just to enjoy saying it differently.

zero output, always only process forever

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sashag@anarres.family ("Sasha :verifiedtransbian:") wrote:

Being called out has never hurt so much. You have no idea :blobcatpensive:

"Check in on your queer friends with ADHD/ AuDHD right now cuz their Justice Sensitivity combined with their Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria means that they are both acutely aware of how f*cked up things are *and* also feel personally responsible for fixing it *while* dealing with the helplessness inherent in the reality that individual action is not gonna do it this time. This means that their brains/bodies are going into overdrive and also that they are feeling guilty for any kind of self-care or joy in their lives because their brain weasels are telling them that resting or being happy while others cannot/are not is selfish. It's an exhausting state and we're not OK."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Anthropic set the project across open source projects and provided access and reported the vulns. Typically, you'd expect to see NCSCs spinning up advisories to patch high impact vulns, CISA telling orgs to patch etc etc etc.

What's actually happening is... uhm... a whole heap of nothing but people copy and pasting marketing about how cybersecurity is over.

It's not though, is it?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I don't think anybody actually watches videos any more, so here's MWT's core point -

The flagship and lead vuln in the research is a BSD vuln, it cost $20k to discover with Mythos. Anthropic only reached a crash, and the vuln class in 99%+ cases never reaches RCE, just crashes.

So.. cool.. you spent $20k of VC money to find a crash as the flagship vuln. But... uhm... that isn't the end of the world.

The proof is going to be if any of the open source vulns turn out to be important. So far:

Attachments:

• gifv: 598a13f01e931fc8.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I’ve had a bunch of people ask my thoughts on Anthropic’s Mythos. I’ve read the research paper they released and the numbers, and basically I agree with @malwaretech’s take. It’s marketing. The cybersecurity industry is historically very good at marketing cyber pearl harbour and the need to buy magic boxes.

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

Obviously, Best Viewed In (TM) to get the transitions and component demos to work.

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

#SmolFedi v1.0.10 brings some improvements

• Correct tag parsing in post
• Change background color of posts, according to post visibility (Public/Unlisted/Direct)
• Possibility to delete a list in prefs page
• Confirm deletion of List anand Post
• Position page in the thread
• Better message if data directory is not writable
• Manage pinned posts
• Better nav menu (easier to click)
• Add links [ ^ ] to original instances of posts and profiles
• Add button to clear all notifications
• Adjust style for checkbox/radio in polls
• Cleaner post format selection in prefs
• Adjust post sanitization to render more basic html tags

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

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

i have had a very cool idea but i have absolutely no idea how to achieve it yet.

jwz wrote:

9 boosts, nine. Damn, you folks just do not appreciate my work here.

Boosted by jwz:
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: I hit the pig!

Boosted by jwz:
rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social ("Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱") wrote:

1/3 of my class used AI on the most recent paper in my Critical Thinking class. This is a disaster. I caught one when it confidently made up a quote in an article I know better than anything I've ever written myself. I looked at the document history, and the whole paper appeared less than a minute after the document was created.

From now on, even looking at AI is cheating in my classes. No second chances. Seriously, we need to go back to typewriter labs.

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

(my CLOUD subscription was apparently cancelled)

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

oh yes, i'm sure the little 'unsubscribe' link in the phishing email will do the trick.

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

Was going back through some 12+ year old slides and fixing broken script links and such, and noticed that my talk from 2014's (joke) DHTML Conf is still up. The whole thing was set up as a "ok, but what if we put on a conference from the year 2001?", and I played along by doing in-browser slides...in IE...6.0...in a VM, on a Mac.

But that wasn't revealed until the end.

So if you have IE 6 handy...

https://infrequently.org/01/dhtmlconf/