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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
andros@activity.andros.dev wrote:

«Finger: the 1971 social network that never died»

It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971; no accounts, no algorithm, no central server, just a plain text file you control.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/

#Gemini #IndieWeb #OpenSource #Python #Linux #OrgSocial

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Microsoft spent 20 years apologizing for Clippy and then went "what if we brought it back, but now it can also see your private data?"

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

Huge shout out to Article 50 of the EU AI Act for giving us front-row seats to the absolute meltdowns that tech bloggers and pundits are having over losing the ability to secretly pass off other people’s work as their own.

Just waiting for OpenAI’s implementation so we can see the Altman stans proceed to lose their minds over this, too.

🤡🍿

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange ("Sophie Schmieg") wrote:

A couple of people are asking in the comments for further elaboration, so here we go:
When quantum computers factor numbers or compute discrete logarithms, the thing the quantum part of the algorithm solves is the Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem. It's not super important what this is, other than the fact that "abelian" means commutative and is a very important qualifier.
Lattice cryptography on the other hand can be reduced to the Dihedral Hidden Subgroup Problem. (The Dihedral Coset Problem is a variation thereof). On the other other hand, lattice cryptography is, when it comes to cryptography, the closest to what we can consider complexity theoretically secure. There are hard case to average case reductions, randomized reductions to NP-hard, and in general lots of reductions to known hard problems.
So a quantum algorithm that promises to solve the dihedral hidden subgroup problem in polynomial time would as a first order effect destroy all lattice schemes in one go. (The reality is a bit more complex and it turns out some details do matter as to just how many lattices can be solved with a given algorithm, but any such algorithm would be a major blow and likely lead to further results). And given the complexity theoretical results on lattices, we would at least have some doubts as to whether public key encryption can exist at all. After all that isn't just an NP problem, it's a specific subset of NP problems and that subset could very well be empty.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange ("Sophie Schmieg") wrote:

That noise you're hearing is all the cryptographers working on PQC (and particularly lattices, but a breakthrough like that would have likely had far reaching consequences beyond just lattices) collectively breathing out after holding their breath for a week.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1693

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
In_Otter_News ("InOtterNews") wrote:

He's so clever!!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Disney-owned ABC files First Amendment lawsuit against FCC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/18/disney-abc-first-amendment-lawsuit-fcc.html?%5F%5Fsource=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aburtch@shakedown.social wrote:

I love how most of my new music discovery these days comes from my children.

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

I know Millennials are supposed to be into greige as their primary color but uh ... everyone I know has richly painted walls. Like robins egg blue and nacho cheez and ultramarine.

Might it be that Millennials disproportionately don't _own_ their space and US rental norms prohibit tenants from expressing themselves?

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

a library had a deprecated dependency, so i went to fix it up to use a replacement

the good news is i have fixed it and everything that broke. the bad news is i now have many questions if this is how things are done.

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

Minnesota can save America from this villain.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/18/lock-him-up-2/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Artemis201@mstdn.social wrote:

Hey folks,

My friend is starting up a small business and their stuff is SO CUTE!
If you'd like to support a trans nonbinary artist and also get some adorable handmade pronouns pins or stickers or patches, please check them out!

Edit: added pictures

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BishopTakesQueenUS

#trans #nonbinary #art #artist #disabled #disability #handmade #creative #pronouns

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

:boost_requested:​

Okay given that my platypus embroidery updates got such overwhelmingly positive responses on Fedi (and offline) I'm considering making #embroidery to sell.

I want to know how much I might be able to sell embroidery for. Fedi, what would your budget be for e.g. a hand-embroidered piece you saw online/in a crafts fair?

(Feel free to reply if you wish to add any further perspectives!)

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

Invented insights are not truth or wisdom.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/18/i-think-this-is-a-fictitious-trend/

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

oh, they put -fuse-ld=gold in the makefile.

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

fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

really? cause i just typed ld and it was there

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ahihi@anticapitalist.party ("pulusound") wrote:

Frequently Asked Questions

1. what the fuck

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Kooda@loutre.info wrote:

Deep into x86 assembly these days, and i think the data size nomenclature is so boring (word, double word, quad word...)
What a missed opportunity! We should stick to food related names!

Here is my proposal:
- 1: bit
- 4: nibble
- 8: byte
- 16: gulp
- 32: chomp
- 64: glomp

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cinebox@masto.hackers.town ("Andrew") wrote:

Modern software development like “that’s right! It goes in the web browser!”

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

This does not make for a compelling narrative.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/18/the-death-of-superheroes/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

NOTUS - House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest (R-Mississippi), whose committee enforces compliance of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, violated the insider trading and transparency law. https://www.notus.org/money/house-ethics-committee-chair-michael-guest-stock-act

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

c with monads. everybody's been crying out for that, right?

right?

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

Penpot please! I'm trying so hard to like you!

it's just bug after bug 😔

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

I look for someone who makes custom, cute face mask. Do we have such people here?

Before I just search through Etsy I would love to find such artists on fedi. :blobcatcoffee:

I look for something similar to one attached.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4522701326/mystical-brown-cat-therian-mask-handmade?ls=s&ga%5Forder=most%5Frelevant&ga%5Fsearch%5Ftype=all&ga%5Fview%5Ftype=gallery&ga%5Fsearch%5Fquery=custom+mask&ref=sr%5Fgallery-2-23&organic%5Fsearch%5Fclick=1&cns=1&loc=1&local%5Fsignal%5Fsearch=1&content%5Fsource=e980f9bb-ae7b-4699-b903-f8ae6fbfc4e0%253ALT67adb6ec3cdb2336a21567e316dfe7d7555eac59&logging%5Fkey=e980f9bb-ae7b-4699-b903-f8ae6fbfc4e0%3ALT67adb6ec3cdb2336a21567e316dfe7d7555eac59

#fedihelp #masks #art #creators

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

this is pretty cool - using linearity in idris to implement efficient state monad-style mutable variables in pure code. https://github.com/stefan-hoeck/idris2-ref1

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog wrote:

If we include some recent estimates of private debt that the major LLM companies had tried to keep off of their books, then we get around 3 Trillion USD sunk into this bubble.

According to this one study mentioned in an article by The Guardian, 330 Billion USD might be sufficient to permanently end world hunger. That's from almost six years ago, so maybe we need to adjust a bit for inflation, but either way we're uncomfortably close to the point of having been able to end hunger ten times over.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mstdn.business ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

What if I told you there's a way to 10x the productivity of a software development team without making any improvements to their process?

Tackle problems that are 10x as valuable.

Strangely, that option is rarely on the table.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mstdn.business ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

I've worked with and spoken to hundreds of developers over the last year, and my best guess is that the true extent of AI use in software development is being massively exaggerated.

I'm determined to get to the bottom of this before the year's out.

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

you know, i could just do it in idris.