Haha, the windows pro licence costs more than a used office PC with windows pro licence on eBay...

Watch out when trying to improve some old build processes or you may find yourself owning/maintaining a number of forked abandoned tools...

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/ is such a fascinating, where I doubt half the things they wrote. Also they may be suffering from the reliability paradox... > Our priorities are clear: availability first, then capacity, then new features. I know […]

When dealing with packaging for Linux distributions it's a bit stressful to make an upstream change. It's even more stressful to get a commit bit. But I just discovered a new level - "holy crap, I will cause a rebuild of over 60k packages 😬".

I'm so tired of endpoint agents that are supposed to provide visibility on what's happening, but that cannot monitor their own dumb behaviour. Does #crowdstrike Falcon need to read /bin/sleep 100 times a second? No... It does not.

despite the mild corruption the trace is good enough to recover a filesystem from remember, i didn't **read** the flash. i clamped glasgow onto the SPI bus to watch traffic as it flies by, and recording everything that Linux touches, then reconstructing a file out of it

I'm tempted to add > This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. On the readme in all my vibe coded repos.

https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/ Sad, but having dealt with researchers in the past, I'm not surprised at all 😔 There's so much stupid manual work involved that they sometimes either don't know can be simplified or they don't have anyone to […]

RE: https://front-end.social/@sarajw/116431901646262445 Sorry-not-sorry

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@badkeys/116407565746342278 This reminded me that Apple thinks exfiltrating files in CI/dev is out of scope. So feel free to put <!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file://..."> in .xib files that nobody ever looks at in text form and get results from hidden fields in compiled […]

Anyone interested in solving the problem of e.g. Instagram-driven anorexia would be much better off banning Instagram's machine-learning algorithms whose entire job is to get vulnerable young women trapped in cyclical problem behaviors, not getting involved in draconian liability regimes where […]

They came looking for LÄMP

"Does each instance of Claude constitute a separate team for legal purposes?" just became an actual question I'd like to know the answer to 🤔 (Can I do clean room RE by disassembling to create a spec, then write an implementation from that)

Apple security: Your PoC covert XXE file smuggling is not an issue, because it can also be done by other parts of the system. How about you fix the other parts of the system then?!

Me: Here's a security issue, here's how it works, here's a minimal PoC file, works on a default config system, 100% repro. Big corp security responder: SeNd A sCrEeNsHoT oR tErMiNaL rEcOrDiNg. 🤬

NINETY DAYS NINETY INCIDENTS NINETY PERCENT YOU PAID FOR ALL FIVE NINES BUT YOU’LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE #github

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/ Yay! Move more conferences!

Why’d they call it tuberculosis and not phlegm fatale

In this year of 2026 if you absolutely have to run your mobile, international event in America - and you choose to run it in Texas, Tennessee, or Florida, that is certainly a choice that reflects which of your members or employees you see as human.

Just wrapped up a project (which turned out to be a 2 projects surprise) that I started in Nov 2024. Feels good. PRs are up in nixpkgs and hopefully other people will find the work useful.

I'm so glad that Apple's compiler: - has a standalone and client-server options which produce different results - is nondeterministic on subsequent runs on the same file - orders some nodes but not all This makes it so much more fun to create alternative/compatible tooling for it!

Campsite beggars...

I'm looking at a friend's "typing" indicator, running for the last 12min. Is this the time I call emergency?

Weird mushroom in the garden.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Some folks are under the mistaken impression that our industry builds careful, handcrafted solutions. Most of the software industry was slop already. AI solutions are an improvement over the previous low quality slop.

Have you already seen this @sarajw ? https://youtu.be/tkUgOT22F5s There's a lot of joy there.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@viraptor/116125409144314482 Ideally it should be: and I can insert it into a properly indexed document store. But because of the state of the world of computers, the bar is basically on the floor.

I know my landlord would never get a tenant again if he needed a reference from me #landlords #AllLandlordsAreBastards #housing #housingactivism #squatting #SquatTheWorld #KrakenGaatDoor #activism #anarchism

My line in the sand for when Windows becomes a serious OS is when you can finally scan a few pages (without installing third party stuff) and join them into one PDF (without installing third party stuff).

i should've been filming my process to sell as fetish content sadists probably would've paid top dollar to see the emotions i'm going through today

Continvouc Intorgration and Continvouc Derlivory/Deplorgement

Why does my local supermarket offer to ship those? Wtf Woolworths?

Someone stopped maintaining a GitHub project and their website. HN: here's a posted phone number, maybe you could call him. Holy fuck, do not call creators of open source projects on their phone. They owe you nothing. Just stop!

Steamdeck live guitar rig. https://youtu.be/yL1DM0QWGSE #music #guitar #steamdeck

All of us geopolitical hackers rn. It is us.

One annoying thing about led lamps is that I can't easily show my kids how the prism works. I get the stripes for the components, but not really a rainbow 😔 And I have no light at home that isn't led!

Sure YouTube, that's a totally reasonable mix...

I feel like the internet would benefit from a WordPress alternative with a fully self-serve visual editor that deploys static pages. Just without all-the-things avalanche that WordPress brings. The headless CMS solutions currently are way too complicated. Graphql this, api that, ... I literally […]

New progressive US politician, who knows how to do comms - amusing and worth a watch:

2025: I believe this is AI generated, not a real post. 2026: a human could've written this on moltbook, not a real AI.

Just realised you can now develop phone apps from your phone by connecting to your local OpenCode in your mobile browser and asking it to install after each change, using wireless debugging.

Kimi K2.5 dropped and it's something different. The benchmarks don't reflect what's going on. 2026 is going to be a wild ride in AI again.

So Confluence still doesn't allow comments in the middle of a code block. The system aimed at the tech companies. That integrates with JIRA and GitHub. It... Can't... Comment... On... Code... What the fuck Atlassian?

I released a #crystal implementation of the #aws sdk generator to the world: https://codeberg.org/viraptor/aws-sdk-crystal It should match most of the ruby sdk behaviors and naming. (minus 3 APIs with missing protocols, temporarily) #devops

The fact that it's 2026 and windows msi packages can still end up in a "failed to fully uninstall but can't reinstall either" state is such bullshit. How do you even recover from that? (@SwiftOnSecurity?)

It's 2026 and as far as I can tell nobody has yet released an android keyboard app with swipe, tiny LLM based prediction / autocorrect, all local. Come on people! I really want someone else to take the time...

I think it's the first time I ever posted #food on the internet, but damn that steak turned out perfect and I'm proud of it.

GPT 5.2 Codex pretty much overtook Opus 4.5 for me and I was happy with the Claude progress and being the first choice for quite a while. Anthropic really didn't choose the right time to fight over the right to use OpenCode. It may just incentivise more devs to look for alternatives. #ai #claude