The thing I've missed the most about IDA Pro when I use Ghidra is when you click on a register in Ghidra, it doesn't highlight all uses of that register. TIL: maxkersten.nl/2024/02/28/g...

Bsky seems to send telemetry with every with nearly every action you take.

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Storage of items prohibited in the storage closet.

I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc

I’m begging here: elections officials should be proactively asking for help from security researchers in calls like this. Analysis should be done, and the system should be public before announcing adoption. Doing it this way forces bad press that I don’t want to give. It’s bad for democracy.

“Security experts say that while nothing on the internet can be completely impenetrable from hacking, advances in cloud-based technology, as well as linking mobile voting to a paper backup system, could help alleviate some of the concerns” This is incorrect, and no security expert was quoted.

This is wild. I had no idea we've been teaching reading wrong. I also have no idea how I was taught to read, but I do remember being proud I read a book in first grade. Then I spent the rest of elementary school reading books under my desk. Mostly Dragonlance.

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

I was teaching Rust closures today. Specifically, the traits FnOnce, FnMut, and Fn. It was only when I was in front of the class that I realized how it sounded. Me: Which trait does this closure implement? Student: It's f'ing mut! Me: No, it's f'ing once!

To my trans and nonbinary friends, I am so sorry that you have to deal with this hate. And I hope to see us reach the other side of it soon. And, we will reach the other side. This is horrifying, but it is ultimately the latest iteration of a time-worn tale. And their time always comes to an end.

Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way. by Ezra Klein

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

I guess it'll be a while before I hit my next single digit DuoLingo streak.

I'm fond of this clicker question I wrote a few years ago about deleting branches in git.

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

One of these guys is running for Congress on an explicitly pro-LGBTQ platform. Hell yeah. www.advocate.com/politics/dyl...

Reminds me of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins... (which the Wired story likely mentions but it’s paywalled so I’ve only read the screenshot). I’d have hoped schools would have learned not to do this.

Geordi was a deepfake AI girlfriend pioneer

I realize it’s probably too late for this advice to be useful this year but nevertheless: If you are applying to an academic job, write your own materials. Do not use generative AI tools at all.

The personal details of all F1 and other drivers could have been stolen via an FIA web portal ian.sh/fia

Vladimir Kramnik should be banned and Emil Sutovsky should resign. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

We are giving a tech talk at @hackadayofficial.bsky.social Supercon with @dr.supersat.phd in a few weeks 🩷 What happens when your body is the dev board? Dive into the wild world of biohacking, rogue experiments, and deeply questionable decisions in the name of science, curiosity, and chaos.

www.chess.com/news/view/gr... Damn.

I played a 150+ move chess game in the 1 minute with 1 second increment time control. In the end, I had a king vs. a king, knight, and five pawns. My opponent under promoted four pawns into knights and bishops and then gave away/blundered everything except 2 knights and then eventually flagged.

Continued (mis)use of National Guard in DC for no purpose in the third week of a shutdown. The Trump at work. (Doing nothing.)

* Josh Aas, Richard Barnes, Peter Eckersley (RIP), J. Alex Halderman, & Eric Rescorla: For Democratizing the Availability of Encryption Certificates with Let’s Encrypt secdev.ieee.org/2025/home/

I was scrolling through the common questions in Beej's Guide to Network Programming (a portion of which I've assigned as reading in my course) and ran across this gem. "My favorite solution to this involves a goto statement. You know this irritates your professors to no end, so go for it!"

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

Chesscom changed their puzzle ratings. support.chess.com/en/articles/... This is probably a good thing. But boy was this surprising to discover.

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

You might want to reconsider that. It clearly doesn’t work for prosthetics.l as you’ve acknowledged. When this is coupled with bsky’s age verification, it means people are blocked from seeing nonadult even if they would be willing to click through the adult content warning.

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

www.socialdiscoveryinsights.com/2025/09/30/b... Ugh.

Despite the rescue place telling us to expect to have to foster him for months, it only took two weeks for this cute puppy to find a permanent home for adoption. Our house is puppy free again for a bit, which is sad, but nice to see this puppy off to a good home.

This has been a really fun event. I’m clearly the least knowledgeable person here. I do recommend knowing nothing about a subject. There’s a lot to learn about everything.

I’m at a blind whisky tasting event. There’s a gray beard here. He has successfully guessed every distillery, cask type, and age. It’s kinda amazing.

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵