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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

The year is 2028

Every desktop application is completely sandboxed in its own custom Linux distro container

Copying and pasting between apps requires entering your password 4 times, once as root, once for copy, once for paste and once more for reasons that can't be explained because this part was vibecoded before the AI bubble burst and we haven't figured it out yet

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gcluley@mastodon.green ("Graham Cluley") wrote:

Nine months of undetected access, unencrypted files, and Social Security numbers for over three million military personnel.

Learn what is known about The Pentagon's latest data breach in my article on the Bitdefender blog: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/pentagon-personnel-database-breach-personal-data-millions

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
intenttoship.dev@bsky.brid.gy ("IntentToShip") wrote:

Blink: Intent to Ship: HTML-in-canvas

Blink: Intent to Ship: HTML-i...

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I looked something up on Stack Overflow, thought the existing answers were kind of meh, mulled the problem over, found a •much• better answer to the question, and then…I didn’t post it. I thought about Stack Overflow itself and all the harvesters and scrapers digesting my answer and not giving me one cent or even credit, and I just…didn’t.

The capture and extraction of the commons come with costs that are slow, pervasive, and hard to measure.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Ummmm…

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

Ruh-roh. Spotted a Waymo vehicle after dropping the kiddo off at school. I couldn't quite see the cab from my angle, but it drove like a human was at the wheel, and it had a bunch of what looked like lidar sensors spinning around the top and corners. I guess they sent one of their scouts to test our defenses...

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

“Blunt instruments of critique | Riccardo Mori”

https://morrick.me/archives/10424

> I don’t have a nuanced position on ‘AI’. This phenomenon, this ‘AI’ craze does not deserve nuance. The measured approach, the weighing of both sides of the argument, is pointless in my view. Not only that. I think it actively plays in favour of the ‘AI’ techbros and their constant lies and overinflated narratives.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
webology ("Jeff Triplett") wrote:

Namespaces are great. This is pretty neat https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-namespaces/#new-standard-library-module-names-are-constrained

That said, please don't use STD as Python's default namespace.

py or python would be much better.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/std

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aimeecozza@mastodon.art ("Aimee Cozza Illustration") wrote:

The Hire Human Artists directory is taking a little break.

I am very very happy to hear multiple reports (at least 3!) that people are finding artists and paying them to get work done.

The next step is making sure there's LOTS of people doing that. So for the month of Oct, I'm going to be trying to find places to talk about this directory.

If this is you or you know of a place that needs to hear about this, let me know. Heck, I'll even write up a unique blog post for you if you want

Boosted by pixxl:
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

@jschauma That isn't an option either. By accepting automatic/frequent updates, you are just adding more new vulns, and more of them are real vulns not fake ones like the stuff they're reporting.

The "1313 CVEs" are a lie. The hard problem is finding the 10-20 that are actually vulns and the 1-5 that are actually relevant to you amid the slopbros' DDoS attack on our attention. 🤬

The only solution is to close off all of the attack surface. Disable module loading entirely or switch to allow list model to block all of the "IPsec shit nobody asked for". Disable io_uring and other optional niche syscalls. Don't give out user accounts, and don't assume running network-facing junk daemons is safe just because they're running as nobody or chrooted. Etc.

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

dependently typed paper forms

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ka92@misskey.design wrote:

ｵｰｶﾐ

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Livelakesuperior ("Lake Superior! Live!") wrote:

Current* conditions near Bayfield, WI:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Livelakesuperior ("Lake Superior! Live!") wrote:

Current* conditions near Bayfield, WI:

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

Polls don't vote. You do (or fucking should, if you're a US citizen of voting age).

Register to vote. If you have registered, check to make sure your registration is still there. Vote however you can, but this year "early and in person" is a very good idea.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/grimmest-poll-yet-spells-doom-for-trump/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
theresnotime@fox.nexus ("Sammy Arson Fox ( Hbf )") wrote:

🚨 PM said the words "rejoining" and "EU" in the same sentence 🚨

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
twipped@twipped.social ("Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/117359739333076114

This is peak autism

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

Highly specific request:

Are you autistic/adhd/dyspraxic?
Have you defended a thesis (PhD viva)?
Did you you ask for reasonable adjustments? What’s reasonable?

If you can answer yes to all three, and wouldn’t mind sharing your experience please let me know.

#phd

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
sethmlarson ("Seth Larson") wrote:

I've just published 10+ blog posts detailing the #Python Language Summit 2026. The Language Summit was held this year in Kraków, Poland at #EuroPython 2026, with discussions about the future of the Python programming language, including free-threading, #Rust, garbage collectors, type annotations, and namespacing.

Please enjoy and thank you for your patience:

https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026/

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

Why don't people want to visit a fascist state where they might be abducted by secret police and sent to a concentration camp for having the gall to plan a vacation?

RE: https://www.threads.com/@johnlcorbett/post/Dd5vCDelicy

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

Kind of amazed at all of the people who say "AI" made them better systems-thinkers when none of their analysis includes the models they rely on, let alone the cos that build them, or the finance that enables it all

The whole point of "systems-thinking" is that the system is larger than the object.

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

“The expiration of the enhanced ACA subsidies at the end of 2025, which Trump and Republicans in Congress refused to extend, made insurance more expensive for millions of consumers.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-to-begin-sending-500-aca-refund-checks-to-1-million-americans/ar-AA2dgey2?ocid=edgemobile

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

damn I asked this question and walked afk for the day. I've got a lot of recommendations to sort thru, thanks everyone!

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

I wish modern designers discovered at least one more shape besides a rounded rectangle. I am so tired of these pills everywhere

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
erkhyan@yiff.life ("Erkhyan") wrote:

Today’s quickly made shitpost…

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mralancooper@hachyderm.io ("MrAlanCooper") wrote:

I still remember the day in 1976 when Gary Kildall typed in "dir" to an "A>" prompt on his hazeltine green-screen character display to show me a directory listing on his 8080-based, eight-bit computer running the first release of CP/M, the first real microcomputer operating system (that Gary wrote). He gave me a shy but proud look and asked what I thought. It seemed miraculous to me, and I was hooked.

Anyway, I just tried to rename a file on my Windows 10 PC and midway through the operation Microsoft deleted the file instead. I guess we've really come a long way since those early days 50 years ago.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mrencyclopedia@retro.pizza ("Mr. Encyclopedia") wrote:

Every company right now for some reason

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

If you're running Debian, take the update right now.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/

EDIT: muting

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

I am not prepared for El Niño.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/30/its-only-an-el-nino/

stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey") wrote:

I am absolutely convinced that LLM use accrues negative karma. The question is, which realm do you end up in upon rebirth? Given how dumb people get as a result, I'm imagining it's the animal realm or hungry ghost. #NoAI