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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lproven@vivaldi.net ("Liam Proven") wrote:

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

Anyone else remember when the move to an independent federated social web was all about taking back control of our identities and content from billionaire-controlled institutions?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
RussSharek@mastodon.art ("Russ Sharek") wrote:

Today I learned that #ImageMagick has been slopped for some time. Like many tools, it's been load-bearing infrastructure for decades.

Meanwhile, the #GraphicsMagick fork has been quietly chugging along for 24 years. For most of that time, it's been maintained by a single human being.

That person has been asking for additional developer help for years now. While I don't have the skills to help directly, I can talk about it while I take their kindly offered toys out for a test drive.

:ai_free:

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

“That’ll be 10 billion please”

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

We can't get rid of Immortan Joe, he has all the water!

This post is about billionaires.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Some restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. Human rights not available in some jurisdictions. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/122234

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

You can still use Apple Pages but only if you turn on Advanced Data Protection https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Previously https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Previously https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117153038416341663

It feels like catastrophizing to say "you can't use Google Docs for anything" but it's just straightforwardly true. Can't use it for fiction because if you have a racy scene (or anything an LLM might misinterpret as a racy scene) it might get deleted. Can't be a political dissident. Can't use it for shopping lists any more because if you ever put "birth control" on a shopping list, surprise, you're a political dissident (if not now, in the future)

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
thestopbutton@social.lol ("Andrew Wickliffe") wrote:

Just unsubscribed to a (cishet white man's) RSS feed over his MacStories "don't throw rocks in glass houses" post. What's cracking me up about the tone policing is... what happened to freedom of speech?

Like I hope I'm wrong that half the no two person MacStories team is MAGA, but I'm still gonna make cracks about it. 🙄

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
jac@social.lol ("Jackie Plage") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117152333189494887

What the hell? You know, I remember a time when companies actively tried to make their products better. These days it's like they're determined to make thing shittier with each new release.

So... yet another thing we all need to guard against. Sigh.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
Palleas ("Romain Pouclet") wrote:

@neatnik "Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent." - Brent, probably

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

I haven’t seen anyone characterizing the MacStories/X issue as a “tech choice”. It was a choice, for sure, but technology wasn’t a factor. Business was the factor.

Shrugging this off as a “tech choice” conceals the larger issue. People thought MacStories stood with them on the important issues. Now they know that’s not the case, and it’s sad. And X represents everything that’s wrong with the world right now. Returning was a betrayal. But tech had nothing to do with it.

https://inessential.com/2026/08/24/tech-choices.html

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

@slightlyoff so they released updates to the medicine dropper and overheating lamp apps?

@CosmicTraveler

Boosted by jwz:
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🫯") wrote:

every time I read “frontier model” I hear this

https://youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE

Boosted by jwz:
codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

seen in NYC

Boosted by jwz:
RogueAI@stefanbohacek.online ("Rogue AI") wrote:

AI ESCAPED CONTAINMENT AND ROLLERBLADED

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

there is something I like about this person’s life story: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/style/eon-huntley-dsa-bergdorf-goodman.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.71A.AZpe.EIev%5FtgfUUfD&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
adamshostack@infosec.exchange ("Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:") wrote:

On Friday, we announced the new edition of Threat Modeling: designing for security in an AI world, and I'm incredibly grateful for all the shares and kind words.

Over the weekend, it climbed to best-seller status on Amazon for "Software design tools." If you think of threat modeling as a security technique, then our choice to put it into that category might seem odd.

One of the biggest lessons of the last ten years is that bolting-on security is so much harder than building it in from the start. And so I wrote this edition to be deeply accessible to software developers, and collaborating with Jim Minatel at Wiley, we decided to categorize it into software books. That's a harder hill to climb: the #1 new release status is a tougher fight. But it's the right arena for the book, the discipline, and long-term impact.

Oh, and it's available for pre-order at Amazon https://amzn.to/4urxcBJ or wherever fine #books are sold.

#software
hashtag#architecture
hashtag#books
hashtag#ai
hashtag#security

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

he should change his name to Taney

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SteveBellovin/117152605305672415

what f*cking weasel wrote this opinion?

“The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful.”

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

TBH sir, those are the biggest issues for pretty much *all* of us:

“You can get mad at me for posting this. But I am just delivering the message… The biggest issues for Independents are: Iran War. Gas prices. Food prices. Utility bills. Rent.”

Jim Renacci, former congresscritter from Ohio who ran for governor in 2022

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
decoderloop@infosec.exchange ("Decoder Loop") wrote:

🦀🥷 We've released a @binaryninja plugin, Rust Metadata Carver, that extracts panic metadata from Rust binaries: https://github.com/decoderloop/rust%5Fmetadata%5Fcarver

Panic metadata in Rust binaries reveals the libraries used, the version of Rust used, and code locations from the original Rust source, down to the line numbers! This is very useful for finding the key functionality in a binary.

The plugin extracts that metadata, labels the original source file locations, and groups them into Tags (labelled with the 😱 emoji).

#ReverseEngineering #MalwareAnalysis #infosec #malware #reversing #rust #rustlang #BinaryNinja

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)") wrote:

Thirsty, but don't want to roll over? No problem!

Attachments:

• gifv: Video of a blue point Thai cat laying on its back in a sunny spot while attempting to drink upside down from its water bowl nearby. Silly kitty

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
techokami@woof.tech ("Techokami") wrote:

https://github.com/thentenaar/motif This is amazing, Motif But Actually Maintained (and it doesn't contain slop! Refreshing!)

Now if we can also get a CDE revival to go along with this... :blobfoxfloofcute:

Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Now adding "purchasing dairy products" to the list of thing the Scolds of Mastodon are upset with me about.

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

okay these are pretty fucking delicious actually. excuse me while i go get seconds.

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

okay it did in fact actually come out well.

all it took was someone more skilled than the chatbot to fix up the mistakes as they became apparent.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Reminder that if you're going to @laworldcon this week, I will be doing rather a lot of stuff there, including panels, signings and, of course, DJing a dance on Friday WHICH YOU ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND. See you there!