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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

LLMs can spit code-alike outputs 24/7, faster than humans can read it. This is a DoS attack on open source.

A maintainer can't trust that the person submitting a PR has properly reviewed the code, so they have to do all the review work anyway. There's zero benefit. If the maintainer wanted LLM-generated code, they could ask an LLM themselves, and skip the trust issues and slowness of dealing with a random middleman submitting it.

Something's gonna break.

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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I've implemented age in PHP.

Yes, with post-quantum cryptography support.

https://github.com/soatok/age-php

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

So, Orbán turned out to be smarter than the likes of Trump, Bolsonaro and Putin by knowing when to let go. Now in 10 years' time he's going to be a retired but respectable world politician, rather than be in jail or hide in a bunker.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#Code reviews seem to be the biggest bottleneck in software development right now.

Open source package ecosystems are victims of their own success. There's a long tail of iffy packages that nobody has reviewed, and nobody wants to.

For the top projects, maintenance is tough. Stakes are high. Reviews are hard. Contributions are meh quality (even before LLMs). It's not just code, but a people problem too. GitHub's primitive workflow wastes everyone's time.

Something's gonna break.

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FabioLeone94@chaos.social ("fabio") wrote:

We are very close to inventing water from first principles

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munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

some folks seem to be expressing a measure of discontent

https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/12/sam-altman-s-home-targeted-second-attack/

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

JD Vance visited The Vatican. Then the pope died.

JD Vance visited Hungary. Orban's government died.

First thing tomorrow, send JD to Moscow!

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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:

• Official identification of every adult using social media.

• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.

• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.

• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.

• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.

• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.

• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.

• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.

• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.

• The list goes on and on.

This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.

Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.

Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.

The future depends on us.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

It was my job for a decade to try to keep tweens and teens safe online. Let me tell you what you already know: no law or technology can do it. There are no lengths kids won't go to to talk to friends without prying eyes. The harder you try to lock it down, the dodgier their solutions will be.

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

Not just wrong but, like, WRONG wrong, dated April 9:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/09/orban-will-win-leftist-chatterati-doesnt-get-why/

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nickofnz@mastodon.nz ("Nick Young :tinoflag:") wrote:

BOOM!
South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less.

THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis.

#EnergyRevolution #solar #renewables #australia #makeoilhistory #auspol #NZPol #NewZealand #iran

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2514985-this-states-power-prices-are-plummeting-as-it-nears-100-renewables/?utm%5Fsource=nickofnz&utm%5Fmedium=nickofnz

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

the reason this happened btw was volcanic ash. it also blurred the windshield something chronic.

that's why when that icelandic volcano i can't pronounce went pop, they grounded all those flights - it's really not good for planes.

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

this is the most british announcement ever. he then went on to land the plane safely.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We're doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress

well buddy, i wasn't til you said that over the tannoy 😂

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

the wikipedia page for st elmo's fire is a bit disappointing considering what a wild plasma phenomenon it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%5FElmo%27s%5Ffire

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hotdogsladies ("Merlin Mann") wrote:

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TechpriestBaunach@vivaldi.net wrote:

@adele
Works beautifully! SmolFedi is my favorite client now, especially like that there's no endless scrolling, and how clean and crisp the styling is.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Orbán concedes. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/hungary/hungary-parliamentary-election-results-rcna273661

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

also this is the second one today where they unexpectedly landed at a nasa site?!

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

watching more airline disasters. some of them are amazing, like everything goes wrong and then they pull off one of the best landings of their career.

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Paul_Taylor@mathstodon.xyz ("Paul Taylor") wrote:

I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.

As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.

I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.

But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.

I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.

mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.

They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.

The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.

Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.

Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.

Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.

The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.

What can we do about this?

At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems.

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rupert@mastodon.nz ("Rupert V/") wrote:

@cmconseils

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zoom_earth@mapstodon.space ("Zoom Earth") wrote:

Super Typhoon #Sinlaku is ripping across the Pacific Ocean right now with winds of 285 km/h (180 mph) and a sub-900 pressure of 896 mb 👀

The Northern Mariana Islands and Guam need to be on high alert for this one.

Attachments:

• gifv: Satellite imagery

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

Tisza is projected to win 135 seats in the country's 199-seat parliament, the two-thirds majority needed to repeal the constitutional changes pushed through by to turn Hungary into an “illiberal democracy”

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

it takes like 30 seconds or so, but it feels like your whole life

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

“Trump ally Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungary elections after 16 years as PM”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-ally-viktor-orb%C3%A1n-concedes-defeat-in-hungary-elections-after-16-years-as-pm/ar-AA20IO9s?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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Lightfighter@infosec.exchange wrote:

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waffles@social.seattle.wa.us ("Waffles") wrote:

lol I love this city

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

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

the socialist marxist communist woke rag known as the bbc has discovered pronouns that went extinct https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us