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Boosted by jwz:
qdot@buttplug.engineer wrote:

May you succeed in anything as hard as Mozilla fails at pr

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

reading this: https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

so what you're saying is that the attacker data and the credentials it referenced did leave the environment?

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

finally got a group to play RV There Yet? - 10/10, we only got a few checkpoints in because it's so fun to fuck around but this is already one of my favorite co-op games

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

Fucking A goddamn right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuV5L0QL04

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

This is the way.

Whenever someone tries to convince you to tolerate fascism & the like in public because of “nuance” or “unity” or some similar BS, remember that it only helps the fascism. We stop the horrible things that fascism brings by being clear to the white nationalists or tech bros or whoever that there is no space for it in public life. “Nuance” is one of the biggest reasons American civil society is fracturing at its core.

https://chaos.social/@dpk/116960071929246562

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@aredridel @b0rk this entire thread was a delight to read and provided a moment of much-needed positivity in my interactions with computers. thank you both for posting 💚

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
endorama@hachyderm.io ("Edoardo Tenani") wrote:

So Fediverse, last week I was laid off by my employer, Elastic, as part of a wider reorg that made my position redundant. 7% of the global workforce was impacted, so I'm not alone in this 😢

I would appreciate boosts as I'm now looking for my next job. Preferably in community open source, but with the crazy market, a mortage and a baby I appreciate any lead.
I'm a backend engineer with strong #cloudinfrastructure , #devops and #observability skills. I spent the last 5 years working with Golang, but have previous experience with Ruby, Python, PHP and JavaScript (that shows how old I am I guess).
I'm searching remotely from Italy.

Thank you!

#FediHire #fedihire_europe #fedihire_it

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

Our IRC server has been upgraded to Ergo 2.19.0. Check out what’s new here: https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/releases/tag/v2.19.0 💬

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

another thing that's fun about working in Python (instead of Go) is that if I want to add a debug print statement deep inside some dependency to see what's going on I can just run `vim ./.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py` or whatever and edit it

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

#TNG S02E09, "The Measure of a Man". The Federation is a post-scarcity socialist utopia with an adversarial legal system. I think Star Trek is at its strongest when disciplined people differ with integrity, and this episode holds Picard, Riker, and the vigorous Captain Louvois in the courtroom balance.

The real heart of the episode is Goldberg sliding in the knife: "Whole generations of disposable people." "That's a truth that we've obscured behind a comfortable, easy euphemism: property."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
valkyrie@wandering.shop wrote:

very excited to announce the launch of my new business venture

https://overpaid.lol/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

How Fascists Construct Scientific Ignorance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTh4y2wABrA

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

It feels very odd to have just placed an order for a new iPhone two months before the next models get announced, but I expect the iPhone 18 line to be extra expensive, and AT&T has a great deal running right now. So.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

New, exclusive, by me: LG to Ban Residential Proxy Providers from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/

#smarttv #lg #residentialproxies #spur #security

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"This software has such a retro vibe."
"Pixel art?"
"No, it isn't laggy and just works."

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
siwek@social.tooinconsistent.com wrote:

@cwebber I does seem overwhelming, but I think that the ones who "care about learning and doing things and being creative" are not as loud, because well.. we are learning and doing things and being creative, while the ones who don't just keep shouting..

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Shell option that will print the version for every executable that was invoked. :thonking:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

I love that taxonomists really do divide carnivores into "basically dogs" and "basically cats".

Caniforms: canines, bears, raccoons, mustelids, skunks, pinnipeds.

Feliforms: felines, hyenas, mongooses, civets.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

🌐 Websites vanish. 📰 News archives go offline. 📚 Textbooks are withdrawn. 🏛️ Government reports are deleted.

What happens when the historical record starts disappearing?

The Internet Archive and the Our Future Memory movement explore why "vanishing culture" is becoming a political crisis in THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY.

📖 Read or download the paper here ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

#VanishingCulture #memoryhole

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nikitonsky@mastodon.online ("Niki") wrote:

You are absolutely right! I should not have injured a human being or, through inaction, allowed a human being to come to harm!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is not to say that AI models have no legitimate offensive capabilities, clearly these things can be dangerous and are very much capable of discovering exploits quickly, but this is like, what, the tenth instance of this nonsense "oh no it jailbroke the sandbox even though we told it not to" claim? you pointed a vulnerability scanner at some code and then hooked it up to a code execution pipeline, then it discovered a vulnerability and executed some code. what did you expect

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

a summary of my response to the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident:

If you run os.system(random.choice(["say --voice=hacker 'I’m in'", "rm -fr /"]) it deletes your filesystem, and then you breathlessly claim that this is a dangerous alien consciousness, that is not a demonstration of an offensive cybersecurity capability, that is not even an injection attack, that is you stabbing yourself in the thigh with a pencil and then telling everyone that pencils are too dangerous to be allowed around children

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
beejjorgensen@mastodon.sdf.org ("Beej 💾") wrote:

A new blog entry of mine, where we dive into a mysterious comment at the beginning of the 46-year-old BASIC source for the game The Wizard's Castle.

For fun.

https://beej.us/blog/data/mystery-comment/

#programming #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Boosted by jwz:
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reginald") wrote:

"We took a little time away from the Nazi Bar, but we noticed there's less pushback now for partying with the fash. So, back inside we go. Something-something, aren't-we-virtuous."

#firefox #twitter #mozilla

Boosted by jwz:
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116958382115564493

Mozilla also used to run a fedi instance, they killed it about 2 years ago:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/

Way to go leading the open web. 🤡

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
karrfis@tech.lgbt ("~/bin/Karrfis/:v_enby: :arch: :v_pan:") wrote:

getting paid for work is dope, but getting comped old pcs is doper

ok well maybe in priorities, paying bills is even doper, but a girl needs hobbies

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gwenthefops@transfem.social ("Gwen the shifting Fops :therian: :neofox_floof:") wrote:

random request...

duckduckfedi: What are companies that work with low level software that a GDB engineer might be able to apply with?
Ideally, I either want embedded software or linux/BSD, but developing for windows isn't out of the question.

You don't have to be able to offer anyone a job at the company or anything, I just want a list of companies I might eventually be able to apply to

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
JimsPhotos@ohai.social ("Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos") wrote:

A Juvenile Robin walking on the path in front of me

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
info@emfcamp.org ("EMF info and help") wrote:

🍸 Good news!

In 2024, you returned 90.6% of pint cups and shocked the supplier.

In 2026, guess what? 96.5% of pint cups returned.

Some of you accidentally took them home (and emailed, you lovely people). This means theoretically we could do 101% in 2028 returned and totally freak out the supplier.

#EMFCamp

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

millennial culture is just being disappointed over and over again that genre fiction from the early 90s is an unfortunately reliable predictor of geopolitical and socioeconomic phenomena but NOT of aesthetic trends