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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bert_hubert@eupolicy.social ("bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦") wrote:

From _The Liar_ by Stephen Fry on the just deceased painter David Hockney:

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

AH HAHAHA! As if that fight in-front of the White House wasn’t tacky enough. IT’S SPONSORED BY MONSTER ENERGY DRINKS!

As the Roman Empire fell, the fights in the colosseum got more stupid.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

also, let me disrecommend 1st Movers Edinburgh https://1stmovers.co.uk/ as a removals company. They will give you the best quote, underspecify the quote so you don't have enough carrying capacity in the trucks, not give the actual movers the list of items, try to nickel and dime you on things that needed disassembly to move out that didn't need it to move in, and gaslight you on items that went missing on the truck. Don't use them. Please forward this to everyone you know in Scotland.

the actual movers (who 1st got in for the job) were excellent! First as the agency for them, not so much

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

If you've been reading our comics for a while without supporting us on Patreon, no guilt. Seriously. Free comics are the whole point.

But here's something you might not know: for every ten-thousand people who read our comics, roughly 3 support us financially. Those three make it possible for the other 9997 to keep reading for free.

If you've ever thought about becoming number four, here's the link:

https://www.patreon.com/warandpeas

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

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

a computer can never be gay
therefore a computer must never do crimes

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New #CultOfLuna single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A83MKfSyeQ

#NowPlaying #NP

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

just seen heavy water described as 'transparent organic goop' and uh...

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

More people need to look at why Apple isn’t releasing the new AI stuff in Europe. It’s not anti AI laws. It’s anti monopoly laws.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

SwiftUI is awesome (CSS)

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

RE: https://woof.group/@aphyr/116737038871221794

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

This year we have new The Dear Hunter, Devin Townsend, Haken, Cult of Luna, Mastodon, Slift, Elder, Periphery... We're eating good.

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

I am not a AI, I am AF (Actual French)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

In response to the bad ideas of neoreactionary tech guys, literary and political critics often conclude "well, I'm sure their code can't be as bad as their philosophical ideals".

It turns out to be 200,000 lines of completely unreadable code in a language they designed as the building block for their life goal: running a 15fps Temu replica of Second Life where they're Henry VIII surrounded by AI-generated anime girls, and they get to adminmog on guys who bought RETVRN NFTs and blue ticks.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Z@jorts.horse wrote:

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

Xi apparently has decided Herr Trump is too weak to be a factor any more

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/12/china-arrests-us-academic-min-zin-espionage?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ifin@infosec.exchange ("IFIN - The Independent Federated Intelligence Network") wrote:

@brib Yep, we have the status of that and the new js-digest (also pulled) in our post!

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

“Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr”

pretty damned callous

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/12/autism-stem-cell-infusions-rfk-jr?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

Looks like atomic-lockfile (the malicious package behind the AUR supply chain attack) finally got nixed by NPM.

Still, the threat actor could easily spin up a new package. Stay vigilant, check your PKGBUILDs

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

@colinstu @qwertviop Yeah, there's been a fairly serious supply chain attack on the AUR. Unmaintained packages are getting taken over by bots and malicious commits are being pushed to them.

Affected packages will attempt to install the npm package atomic-lockfile which is literal malware (https://socket.dev/npm/package/atomic-lockfile); it runs a postinstall script that runs and persists an infostealer. There are apparently rootkit capabilities too.

The maintainers are attempting to restore the packages as fast as they can, and the way they're doing that is by force-pushing clean branches. So the commits get hidden from the source tree (although you can see them if you navigate to the commit hash directly).

~~NPM (helpfully) have not taken down the package despite getting malware reports.~~ EDIT: Looks like they have done that.

In the meantime I highly recommend turning off any auto-update features which use the AUR (which is generally recommended practice anyway). If you have to use the AUR, scan the packagefiles carefully before installing. Look out for anything which suddenly adds npm (EDIT: or bun) as a dependency or tries to install the malicious package

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ifin@infosec.exchange ("IFIN - The Independent Federated Intelligence Network") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ifin/116735279416101129

This attack is ongoing, with the attackers shifting from npm to bun for malware installation. If you see information we're missing, please consider contributing!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything's fine and the site's readable and everything looks the way it should

🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason

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

I made a new #PeerTube exclusive video where I talk about this script I've been developing to aggregate RSS feeds.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/irphhwFowTMngRQALHxfit

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

"One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms" (H.L. Mencken)

This is more than a few horse-laughs (and a very large AWS bill) pointed in the direction of the most fervent agentic AI enthusiasts.

https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/

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

i went outside because we needed coffee. do not recommend.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kfdm@social.tsun.co ("KungFuDiscoMonkey") wrote:

Again wishing that #pypi 's warehouse api exposed a field for entry_points to make it easier to find related projects 😆

(both to find what entry_points an upstream project loads, and what entry_points a downstream project implements)

#python

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

Don't pay attention to the Southern Baptist Convention.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/12/southern-baptists-always-on-the-wrong-side/

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

Anyway, I can always recommend the work of Dr. Emily Bender (@emilymbender), Dr. Alex Hanna (@alex) Dr. Timnit Gebru (@timnitGebru), and the DAIR Institute as a whole

https://dair-institute.org/
https://thecon.ai/

David Gerard's Pivot to AI makes you laugh at all the nonsense as well, which is preferable to the alternative

https://pivot-to-ai.com/

Plenty of stuff out there you can follow that doesn't involve PR flacks or "AGI" apostates.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sue@glasgow.social ("Sue Smith") wrote:

Didn't see this at the time but it's currently doing the rounds on linkedin

"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially."

Aye if only anyone could have foreseen this etc

https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways

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

"Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes."