@whitequark It's from an AI company, so I take with a grain of salt, but an attack that progresses in two stages: get the victim to install openclaw, then get the victim to view a malicious GitHub issue. https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

life goals: write a program so intense it unlocks the halt-and-catch-fire ability https://gmplib.org/gmp-zen5

I've seen a lot of people talking about the practice of code review in a way that I consider unrealistic lately. So here are my thoughts on what code review is—and isn't—for: https://blog.glyph.im/2026/03/what-is-code-review-for.html

"I believe the question of how AI systems learn to understand themselves and others is one of the most consequential technical problems of our time. If we get it right, the agents we build today will become our friends and collaborators tomorrow." Men will spend their life searching for theory […]

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/athenian #smbc

I don't think I went about it thr right way, and that got people hurt, but I do think there needs to be *some* resource to understand what OSS projects have been damaged by AI and in what ways, as well as to hold people accountable for their pushing of AI in OSS spaces. These aren't the same and […]

just noticed I'm mentioned on the AI slop wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop

The Berlin apartment hunt has officially begun. Now let's hold our virtual hands and manifest planetary alignment. 🪐 #wohnung #berlin #movingagain

@Bundesregierung Warum darf Frau Reiche eigentlich ungestraft die positiv angelaufene Energiewende der letzten Jahre mit ihren Änderungen an die Wand fahren? Angesichts von Klimawandel und Energiekosten ist das nicht im Sinne des deutschen Volkes, nicht im Sinne einer nachhaltigeren Zukunft […]

"He fixes his car like he writes his code. By the way if he offers you a lift, say no."

CAUTION: EVENTS IN CALENDAR ARE SOONER THAN THEY APPEAR

despite all of the advances in artificial intelligence, "please place this square BGA IC onto the circuit board in an orientation that matches Pin 1 marker" remains an unsolved problem

today I learned that we (as a civilization) now can put 16 silicon flash dice into a single 700µm microSD card on a commercial scale https://www.ose.com.tw/en/ic-services/memory-product-package/microsdsd

I think, the IG nobel price committee should introduce a war price. Trump is definitely a prime candidate to win it. Though the satire and irony would be lost on him. #uspol #war

I don't think there's been a single time in my life when I successfully PXE-booted something outside of a perfectly-controlled, utility-free environment with a crossover Ethernet cable

Good morning

One news item, that nobody reported on last year is, that we now have three optical transitions measured to just 1e-16 (88Sr+), 1.8e-16 (87Sr) and 1.9e-16 (171Yb). This means, that we now have three atom species that can be used for optical clocks, whose uncertainty is below what the […]

hetzner had a 35% price increase on ARM servers due to AI :(

Now, this is a funny way to deal with an ambassador who does not adhere to the common standards of diplomatic behaviour and has zero manners. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-ambassador-france-banned-meeting-french-government-2026-02-23/ #France #uspol

Like wer's noch kennt.

Today in things I have not done in a long time: Giving presentations on atomic clocks. #timenuts #AtomicClocks

"The mail you are sending your request from, [email protected], is not the mail that is registered for your account, [email protected]" "That is right. The mail you are sending your answer from, [email protected], is also not the mail address you want me to send my […]

"how's ram shortage going" this is trending on aliexpress

Is your audiophile cable a banana? https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator

Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But tell them in German, because life is also terrifying. #valentinesday #german #language

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

want to see a feline looking like a demon? they're making real good thermal vision equipment nowadays: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/7qS-1dF9osk

The German federal government currently pays €481 million in licensing fees to #Microsoft every year. I'm sure @zendis#microsoftcould build some nice stuff with half the money and make it available for everybody else to re-use. #digitalsovereignty #digitalcommons #foss

You might have heard, that CGPM will vote on whether to (de facto) abolish leapseconds in October, due to the technical problems it causes, each time we have a leapsecond. And because of the prospect of the first ever negative leapsecond […] [Original post on society.oftrolls.com]

We should all get used to no longer saying "GitHub" but "Microsoft AI GitHub" just so it's clearer where your code lies and for what purpose.

I wake up early and work for eight hours and suddenly it's 11 pm and I have to wonder where my day went because the math is not adding up.

Today I walked into my cousin watching something called curling and I can say with certainty that ice hockey is now second in my ranking of whitest people sport. #sports #winterolympics

bread AND circuses? in THIS economy?

When people say Shakespeare isn't relevant to modern life it's good to have people like Sir Ian around to prove them wrong:

people who think the count of monte cristo is just a straightforward tale of a dude escaping a prison and revenging himself miss out on quality subplots like "the count is foiled by the power of lesbianism," "the case of the serial domestic poisoner" and "let's talk shit about italian food"

I'm not even an ENTIRELY opposed to the whole concept luddite. Given more maturity and lowered resources demand I can see where there are use cases. But turning all your developers into trying to use people language to describe computer business logic concepts , and then try to review the […]

I swear to God, it is SO hard not to go into a ranting screed every time someone starts in with AI is the future tripe at work...

This should be the mainstream #marketing position.

Random musing of the day: What would it take to build and open source atomic clock? Designing an atomic clock and making the design open is easy. Heck, there are plenty of schematics and drawings of commercial clocks online. But making it such that Joe and Jane Average could replicate it at […]

Great expression that should be used more.

Why AI is a security nightmare and there is not much we can do about it, as long as we do not totally change its architecture or make it actually intelligent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3okhTwa7w4 This video is very well made and explains the technical details how and why AI is security […]

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/grow #smbc

I really cannot stress this enough. When I visited France, I visited a building where I read an entry in a log book where a Nazi recorded my great-grandmother's death in the camps. The name of this building was the "Musée de la Résistance et de la *Déportation*". It was not the "museum of the […]

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon

did you know that, instead of downloading some SD card image of _extremely questionable provenance_ , you can fight with U-boot for two hours and then use Debian Installer to provision an ARM64 single board computer? here's me doing this on a […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Sometimes, a cat sees you and goes mrrrp. And that's pretty awesome. #caturday