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

@brib Don’t know 🤷🏻‍♂️

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Rewriting one of my application letters because I read it and go "this is way too generic, meandering and cloying. it reads like slop to me and i wrote it"

And then I realise I'm probably putting more human thought into an application letter than an actual honest to god government report

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

This museum exhibition has the strongest point-and-click videogame room energy.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Me: Making nice software tools for myself is a form of self-care.

A friend: Let's see how bad it will be to parse JSON in pure Bash!

#programming #bash

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Dio9sys@haunted.computer wrote:

@soatok
First thing you see after getting isekai'd

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange ("Sophie Schmieg") wrote:

In case you were thinking that stuff is up to date: only 4.4% of OpenSSH servers are on 10.0 or later, a version that came out over a year ago.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/state-of-post-quantum-cryptography

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I’m deeply uncomfortable with Microsoft attempting to weaponise their extensive law enforcement contacts to arrest people who post zero days in the products.

It comes after the researcher was kicked off GitHub (owned by Microsoft), Gitlab (a Microsoft partner), after they were doxxed on Twitter and had their MSRC - Microsoft vulnerability reporting portal - account disabled.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/blog/2026/05/a-shared-responsibility-protecting-customers-through-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

@nora A very long time ago, I wrote a haiku generator. The core was 11 lines of Prolog. (The vocabularies were giant piles of Prolog clauses too, though). It had a neat little feature: It could combine different vocabularies, so I made a few - one full of words from death metal lyrics, one with words from Japanese 1700s haiku poetry, one with computer terms, etc. The first test run, I combined computer terms and Japanese poetry, and it spat out:

hot processor runs
wonderful byte of error
cold processor sleeps.

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

Each time I get a cluster headache, I must immediately start jogging, which I've decided is the universe telling me to get off my ass.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

the future is doing a search for "why is it so fucking hot" every summer until you die

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mackayim2022 ("Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)") wrote:

We need many more stories like this to normalise a change that *is* happening

“Batteries have outgrown their initial niche role as a grid stability service and are now core infrastructure designed to store excess daytime electricity and release it in the evening”.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/australia-global-battery-leader-and-wa-leads-charge/106526042?utm%5Fsource=abc%5Fnews%5Fapp&utm%5Fmedium=content%5Fshared&utm%5Fcampaign=abc%5Fnews%5Fapp&utm%5Fcontent=other

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
forgejo@floss.social ("Forgejo") wrote:

A security vulnerability labelled CVE-2026-27771 affecting Forgejo and Gitea is being widely reported recently.

Packages in Forgejo are visible to unauthenticated users if they are published under a public owner, as designed. It is not a security vulnerability, but a misunderstanding about the permissions and a good opportunity for users to review that they are not in a misconfigured state.

Please see the statement issued by the security team here for more details: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/website/issues/839#issuecomment-15980039

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
bridget@beige.party ("Bridget") wrote:

I’m going to start shelving all the general and literary fiction novels where the main characters have rich social lives with the fantasy novels

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

SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNY.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/28/shouldnt-a-president-be-mildly-aware-of-the-world-around-him/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

I am having one of those days where everything is awful garbage, everyone is a stupid asshole, the future is probably going to be thermonuclear data center warming pandemic asteroid impact winters, and also nothing works anymore and I have a terrible splitting headache.

But at least Igor was extra cute this morning before I had to go to work. He insisted on giving nose-kisses and receiving neck scritches.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@baldur Hah, looks like great speech! I wonder if there's a YouTube video of it anywhere

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Is anyone in the mainstream media talking about the poor writing quality of the youth unemployment report? Because I'm sure I could have done a better job and honestly I suspect it's slop

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Since https://source.tube launched, a couple of people have asked me about setting up something like GitHub Pages. Initially I was like “ehhh this isn’t really the goal here” but now I’m like “okay cool yeah let’s try it out”.

So, uh, let’s try it out! If you want to give it a spin, here’s a guide: https://adam.paste.lol/git-pages.md/markup

Let me know if you run into any issues! :prami:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Always leave a tip. #grickledoodle #ninja #restaurant #stealth #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
fast_code_r_us@floss.social ("Larry (Mr.Optimization)") wrote:

I'm currently reading @pluralistic 's book "Chokepoint Capitalism". A fascinating look at the fine details of how our media has been gobbled up by a few companies. I don't patronize Kindle e-books, Audible audio books nor Spotify, but I am still negatively impacted by what they've done. Music discovery and acquisition for me has been very slow and deliberate in the age of streaming. I still buy music an album at a time through the least evil vendor I can find. I also use my library card 🤪

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Eliot_L@social.coop ("Eliot Lash") wrote:

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki%5FWorkers%5FUnited%5Fsolidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

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

https://www.dholes.org/pupspage.html
#dhole #dholes #WorldDholeDay

Boosted by sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert"):
evilpie@hachyderm.io ("Tom Schuster") wrote:

The Sanitizer API is now part of the HTML standard!

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12395

Thanks to Noam for upstreaming and everyone else involved in this multi year saga.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
campuscodi ("Catalin Cimpanu") wrote:

These AI agent attacks are getting ridiculous

Malicious code hidden in source code repositories can trick AI coding agents into overwriting their own configuration files

https://adversa.ai/blog/the-approval-prompt-is-lying-to-you-symlink-rce-in-five-ai-coding-agents-claude-code-cursor-antigravity-copilot-grok-build/

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

this is the likely thumbnail for today's episode, still in progress

i have opened the S-1 and it's like a box of unearthly eldritch abominations, all of which are very stupid and trying to pick your pocket

cowriting this one with amy, she's written a fuckin blinder of an intro

it'll be good

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

“Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads — Harvard Gazette”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/05/funny-but-serious-chieng-issues-an-ai-warning-to-grads/

> “I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code

It's no secret there's a war going on inside the open source community, with people adopting "AI" on one side, and those that want nothing to do with it on the other. While the former are, by nature, using destructive tactics like mass website scraping, license washi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145130/open-source-project-contains-hidden-instruction-for-ai-agents-delete-my-code/

#GeneralDevelopment

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

British painter Iain Alexander said #Trump himself endorsed changes to his original design, such as adding the colors of the US flag & a logo commemorating the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.
…No living person has appeared on #US #currency since 1866, when it was #outlawed after the image of a mid-level #Treasury bureaucrat showed up on a 5-cent note.

#vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar #law

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

Starting last year, 2 political appointees at the #Treasury Dept— US Treasurer Brandon Beach & his snr adviser, Mike Brown — repeatedly urged staff at the agency’s Bureau of Engraving & Printing to prepare prototypes of the note, acc/to the employees, who said the move raised concerns because #federal #law currently allows only deceased people to appear on bills.

#Trump #vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar #law

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

#Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The printing director who resisted the effort said she was [coincidentally] “reassigned” last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye.

#vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/28/trump-250-bill-pushed-by-treasury-appointees/