The recent days have been horrific. We can't become numb to repeated instances of illegal and unconstitutional action by government agencies. It's even worse when public officials are blatantly lying in ways that contradict dozens of pieces of video evidence.

Oh, phew. I was worried there for a second.

kinda hard to explain to Unix admins why "superfund" would be a bad thing

This is the lesson of 2025

Discovered today that "colorable" is a contranym -- it can take one of two opposite meanings, either "seemingly valid" or "intended to deceive".

Chrome is hiring for our Product Security team! These are the folks that support Chrome's growth by figuring out how to manage more bugs, in more areas, on more aggressive timelines, with less human toil. www.google.com/about/career... www.google.com/about/career... www.google.com/about/career...

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules virtualization illegal. "The kernel executive may not be denied full access to hardware." Kagan, writing for the Court's SREs: "What, we're using Docker now? What the fuck."

Seatbelts in a restaurant! Never thought I'd see the day. go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/674835

Going to find out how long my stockpile of pens will last.

You can keep your galaxy brain edgelords. I'm proud to have a governor who can play literal 2D chess.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Holdco in possession of a pot of Bitcoin, must be in want of a small publicly-listed US company.

USCSB calls for aid! youtu.be/2z7h5BOZ2Hk?...

nooooo not www.youtube.com/user/USCSB www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Big Tech leadership, 2025

Under other circumstances I would have been excited to learn that "contemnor" is a word.

Holy fuck. Any company that thinks they're going to avoid the need to fight -- or to utterly debase themselves -- is not dealing with reality.

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho *cared* that his country was suffering. He eagerly sought intelligent advice and let it change his mind. He was held to account by a vigorous legislature. For us, today, Idiocracy might as well be The West Wing.

The White House Correspondents Association deems speaking truth to power to be “the politics of division.” They’ve joined the growing regiment of submission.

Everything is so unbelievably stupid right now.

Again, how can you not hear the deafening echoes of history here? www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/w...

CISA and desist www.wired.com/story/cisa-e...

can't believe they went with "Project 2025" when "Opus DEI" was right there

I have been mad at a word or two in my day

I don't have the content warnings or character limit to fully discuss the issue here, but if you're not trans, please go read my Hachyderm post: hachyderm.io/@chandlerc/1... It'll be hard. I get it. But the trans community is going to need your help for the next several years to survive.

Yesterday Chromium deleted our copy of `libavif` -- the last step of a year-long project replacing it with a new Rust library! :) chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/s...

"I think people are making a big deal out of nothing. Lots of Meta executives who are women have great things to say about Mark Zuckerberg."

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

paul graham has finally achieved what most thought impossible: he's written a post so bad that the hacker news comments are actually better than it

Seems like if the Intel board was unhappy with the effects of Pat Gelsinger's work they should have rolled him back instead of letting him retire.

Probably(?) the most valuable slide from my entire CS education "Debugging is resolving a clash between stories": what you *thought* would happen vs. what is *actually* happening

Gaze into the Lamb Vortex

Really the only thing we were missing in the GenAI space was a trading card game: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aw...

We wanted to make it easier for security researchers to get started with static analysis against Chromium, so we're publishing CodeQL databases you can download and query against. We build these daily and we also build a smaller db just for V8. Happy hunting! bughunters.google.com/blog/5085111...

"Hardened libc++ is a practical and effective way to enhance the safety, reliability, and debuggability of C++ code with minimal overhead. Given this, we strongly encourage organizations using C++ to enable their standard library's hardened mode universally by default."

bisects on the beach

ye gods this was less than a month ago https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-23-2023-moderation-proposals

Mood

Potty training my toddler

Someone endorsed me on LinkedIn for… abyss-staring?

I know I’m late to the party but I really hadn’t known how long djb had been djb-ing to the djb-th degree. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.protocols.tcp-ip/c/mVnR2OSXHBY/m/tjdkK1OBtCEJ

yay, new hellsite day!