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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I'm about to ask you to do something for me that I will never see if I can possibly help it. I'm going to go out of my way to try to make sure I never see it. An invisible gift is what I'm asking for. Let me explain!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davea@mastodon.me.uk wrote:

Now you're home from #EMFCamp, don't forget to remove the batteries from your DECT handset otherwise you'll be confronted with a crusty mess in 2028

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

"If a software dependency contains malicious code, we have mature practices for discovering it, tracking its provenance, and reducing its impact. AI models are different. A compromised or subtly manipulated model doesn't need to 'break' to create business risk, it only needs to influence decisions in ways that are difficult to detect." https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/ai-supply-chain-problem/

And to demonstrate, one of the researchers prompted their way into a backdoor in an open weight model: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/researcher-poisons-open-weight-ai-model-for-under-100/5273880

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

And before anyone jumps on me over using Apple products myself, let me be clear that my Apple hardware was purchased before the company sold its soul. I’ll keep using what I have until it dies, but I’m not buying more from them.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
64bithero@mstdn.games ("Jimmothy Baggins") wrote:

How much are you willing to pay for the Ocarina of Time remake ?

(Please boost for science)

#gaming #poll #nintendo #zelda #oot

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

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553

For anyone keeping score, this is the equivalent of, say, if Tim Cook were to make a personal donation to Donald Trump.

Oh, wait.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
djb@cr.yp.to ("Daniel J. Bernstein") wrote:

Wow. After disenfranchising an unspecified list of people and making claims about the resulting numbers, the IETF TLS WG chairs refused to answer an evidence request from Fabiana Da Pieve, the European Commission's Team Leader Post-Quantum Cryptography: https://web.archive.org/web/20260721143439/https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/RLDcZHHbCUZRgmmWbP1j2dDQhAQ/

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

the first harvest of manic organic jalapeño peppers from my garden

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

Today, Mullvad and their fascist co-owner Daniel Berntsson each published an excuse essay. Excuses for why supporting fascists is okay.

I wrote about how they failed, with receipts for how their sorry-not-sorry essays align with Nazi Germany.

https://markwrites.io/mullvad-and-daniel-berntssons-failed-cleanup/

#Mullvad #DanielBerntsson #Fascism #Nazis #ZeroTolerance

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
wizbean@tech.lgbt ("wiztina :blobcatwitch:") wrote:

if a VPN company owner is not safe for somali swedes, there's no way the VPN is safe for somali swedes... and I shan't use it

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

Filling my project management software with all the things I didn't do over the weekend

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

Am I the only person who starts his day looking for a particular obituary?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/21/my-terrible-confession/

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

just now harvested the first batch of manic organic jalapeño peppers from my garden

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

clever previous me, i almost forgot to synchronise there but you did it for me in that 3 line function designed to stop present me from using it wrong!

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Saw the tiniest bunny this morning

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

occasionally-fair queueing

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
siguza@infosec.space ("Siguza") wrote:

@madcoder LLMs are brute force, just like a fuzzer. If paired with an objective and airtight criteria for success (like crashing a process), then brute force can work, yes.

At the technology level, rather than blockchain and the metaverse in search of a problem, I think LLMs are more like Electron and NoSQL. You can't be bothered to structure your data, so you just chuck it all in a JSON file and let the code loop over it to find what it needs. Rather than engineering a UI, you just throw together a bunch of HTML and CSS, and let an old version of Chrome figure out how to arrange them on the screen, somehow.

The result is that every messenger app is now 4 processes, uses 2 GB of RAM and 15% CPU power when idle, XSS and URL redirects are real attack vectors, and it takes a full 5 seconds to load 80 MB of app data on startup. And that was bad enough already when it was just Electron and NoSQL, but now this level of quality is being brought to operating systems, compilers, hardware and every other aspect of computing.

People can say that there will be code review and quality control all they want, but we all know that that's bullshit. The real reason why NoSQL, Electron and LLMs are everywhere is not because they improve anything, but because they help in racing to the bottom. Managers worldwide have every incentive to cut back on costs, and little to no incentive for quality control. Especially in software projects with big existing user bases, where the breaking point will only come months or years down the line.

I've already had to use software that was vibecoded from the ground up. Where buttons didn't work, filtering options only had to work once and then you had to reload, some of your settings were never saved, and data was not consistently displayed. And this wasn't years ago, it was in 2026.

Every other week I have to debunk some blog post or paper or whatever that talks about Apple Silicon Macs having EL3, about entitlements that don't exist, LARPing about non-existent ROM bugs in the latest iPhone, or whatever other hallucinated bullshit.

I think the reason why I have such a deep hatred for LLMs is in part because they accelerated the race to the bottom tenfold, and in part because they poison the information well that was already in a dire-enough state as it were. Where it previously felt like swimming against the tide, it now feels like swimming up a waterfall with a diesel locomotive strapped to my back.

I don't care if people run scripts locally that were written by an LLM or by their cat. What I care about is the quality of critical digital infrastructure, and I'm convinced that that will decrease drastically over the next couple of years. I'm happy to be proven wrong, but unfortunately my pessimism has a depressingly accurate track record.

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

It's possible that she's so ignorant or brain-damaged that she doesn't realize she's a lying con artist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/21/what-the-all-meat-diet-isnt-a-panacea/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
etchedpixels ("The Penguin of Evil") wrote:

Canada should plant extensive cannabis groves in high fire risk areas near the US border. It won't stop the smoke but the USAians will be a bit more chill when it happens

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

Is eating the rich really sustainable? Thinking about nutrition at scale.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
heygarrett@social.lol ("Garrett") wrote:

Mullvad wrote a blog post just to double down?
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/donation-controversy

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
canion@social.lol ("Andrew Canion :prami:") wrote:

Double Rainbow https://glass.photo/canion/3hcuB8UEJRNcNimZuaWRpf

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@heygarrett/116955642386914849

In which Mullvad basically says, "Don't worry, the man in charge of setting our company's values does not represent our company's values. There is absolutely no way he told us to post this."

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
naveen@social.lol wrote:

Do something scrollstoppingly beautiful today.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
flamed@social.lol ("fLaMEd") wrote:

🔖 Bookmarked: #11: fLaMEd Fury (flamedfury.com) - Wonders of Web Weaving https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/11

So, I did a podcast. James had me on his podcast to talk about my corner of the web. We got into gaming and TV communities, music, and why the indie web is worth it.

🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/11-flamed-fury-flamedfurycom-wonders-of-web-weaving/

#Indieweb #Personalweb

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
purplelime@social.lol ("Sam") wrote:

My get up and go has got up and gone.

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

@thechaoszone your set was so sick!!! and even more so, it was a huge confidence boost for a friend who didn't think it would be able to handle a rave environment at all and ended up having a ton of fun.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
thechaoszone@chaos.social ("Chaos 🔜 EMF2026 🏕️ DECT:DONK") wrote:

RE: https://icosahedron.website/@canmom/116954825283574077

Null Sector did the same thing for me in 2024. It turns out I really enjoy raving when the crowd is mostly queer / a queer safe environment.

I now have a bunch of pals (party pals village) I go raving with all the time and many of them had their first EMF this time which was an utter joy I got to share my favourite thing with them :)

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
daveycraney@social.lol ("Davey Craney") wrote:

Mullvad social media responses to their co-founder donating to an extremist right wing anti-immigrant political party just being "Listen....you just don't get our MISSION and what we're about as a business...what people do in their personal life is personal" is one of the most wild pathetic responses I've ever seen. Staggeringly awful.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
daveycraney@social.lol ("Davey Craney") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ivpn/116957700248127812

"We've noticed more interest in IVPN recently"

🤣 Yeh, I bet you bloody well have!