2026 will bring more blockchain/quantum/AI scams, hacks, overvaluations, bankruptcies; VC psyops, trolls and bots, paid articles and endorsements. Meanwhile there wont be no... - "AGI" - useful/practical quantum computers - meaningful blockchain use beyond tokenization Like the past 10 years.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... wait till their office 365 /.Facebook etc accounts start being closed

I hope 2026 is the year that someone has to stand up and defend a breach by saying "but we filled in all the Compliance and Risk forms!"

In Italia il grassetto negli articoli e nelle email è la copertura per la mancanza di conoscenza dell’Italiano e quindi l’incapacità di creare enfasi con le parole? Oppure sono solo c&p dai vari LLM che adorano il grassetto?

When the 53-year-old tape was found, early last month, I wrote a story for the Register explaining its significance: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered/

My group is hiring several interns for next summer to help us build the next generation of GPU supercomputers! We work on architecture, bringup, applications, and analysis for clusters based on the latest NVIDIA compute and networking technologies.

Ma il check-in Frecciarossa lo gestisce la Ferrari? #askingforafriend

Another OpenBSD story from Miod: The scariest bootloader code.

Dear @acm.org this is a terrible idea. Please reconsider.

Sea squirts are tunicates, which are fascinating. They look like sponges and are filter feeders, but are chordates (vertebrate related). They are evolutionarily closer to humans than to sponges.

New volume of Methodos Vol. 25 (2025) journals.openedition.org/methodos/10599 @openedition.bsky.social Les mathématiques médiévales dans le monde latin @medphiljournals.bsky.social

At @ncsc.gov.uk we have been running cyber deception experiments across 121 organisations from across the UK.. .. the team have just shared our insights .. www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/cy...

The unbelievable arrogance of power part 827463. Amazon is fined 3 _billion_ euro for VAT avoidance in Italy, negotiates to a measly 750 million or so, claims that Italy is “bad for business” because of its sanctions and intends to appeal and “defend itself forcefully”. 6th fleet inbound?

#notcrypto bfswa.substack.com/p/music-sunday

Start here: www.osti.gov/servlets/pur...

Upgrading from #FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE to 15.0-RELEASE? Do not ignore the very important instructions in the release notes¹: freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update install on 14.3-RELEASE _before_ upgrade or else² … __ ¹ www.freebsd.org/releases/15.... ² bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/sho...

And that’s how Calvin got a degree in physics at OU

did that with @lhn.bsky.social

"In a text message recovered by the plaintiff’s attorneys, for instance, Zuckerberg allegedly said child safety wasn’t his top concern “when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on, like building the metaverse.”" futurism.com/future-socie...

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

in 5 years bfswa.substack.com/p/when-will-...

I haven’t heard anyone say that the IACR voting should have used a blockchain, what’s wrong with idiots these days?

new blog post bfswa.substack.com/p/6-years-af...

Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to. No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers. h4x0r.org/funreliable/

Started a Substack. Subscribe for more crypto investment advice. bfswa.substack.com/p/quantum-co...

X marks the working security passkey.

So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again

A short explainer for the Paragon software story in Italy: 1. Italy is specialised in "dossieraggio" where everyone and his dog collects "dossiers" (aka "dirt") on everyone else, 2. There is a long history of using information services for the preparation of said dossiers, […]

I'm reading @kmilne.bsky.social's The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections and I'm totally engrossed. Open access! #medievalsky academic.oup.com/book/59790

The recording of my talk at OSFC 2025 earlier this year is now live at: www.osfc.io/2025/talks/t...

I guess the Guggenheim camera system probably is safe as nobody can spell it.

"But the SVP is different": I hear this often, especially compared to A/fD. But 2024 data confirm different story: programmatically, the overlaps are strikingly close. The real difference is govt participation, not ideology. And yet, many still label the SVP as a center-right ("bürgerlich") party

"Coke strike small group" about to add a journo.

This is really well written, if you want to scare your CISO, send them this for Halloween. 🎃

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off

Configuration management, the great unknown.

* Fancy new attack? check. * Fancy domain name? check. * Fancy website? check. * Fancy Javascript with flashing 0s & 1s? check. * Download paper? check. * Paper named something sensible? Fail. "paper.pdf" is not a smart name for your fancy new attack paper.

Vessels appear to be beginning their migration from Matochkin Shar, northwards to monitoring positions, either side of the north island. Current Burevestnik related NOTAMs cover out to 22 OCT.

genius idea to change the Outlook mobile app icon… I guess that those who look for the actual icon to open an app are a minority.

Free DORA advice 1. note SaaS services down w/ AWS US East 1, 2. For each SaaS in 1, see if they use / store data which should remain in EU, 3. For each SaaS in 2 send a polite email from Legal asking where exactly is the data stored if the service went down with _US_ East. You can thank me later.

who let the intern onto DNS? #blametern time!

LOL™, "The Cloud", LOL™

The composer of the ‘Das Boot’ movie soundtrack has died aged 89 on October 16th. For us who grew up in the 1980s in West Germany, Das Boot was one of the defining movies of that era. Its haunting soundtrack must have been the first album that I owned. 🕯️ R.I.P. Klaus Doldinger (1936-2025).

Our annual review is out covering technical highlights such as - Engineering resilience against critical loss - Passkeys - The future of digital identity - Post quantum crypt transition - Our Initiate r&d program with industry - Radical transparency in technology .. and more

Bit of self-promotion: I have published a commentary on a selection of Martial's epigrams, so if you are a Latin teacher/instructor...or a fan of having Latin grammar and rhetorical devices analyzed...feel free to check it out. a.co/d/e1FBrHH