I had heard about the CloudFlare job cuts, what I had not realized is that after announcing them the company lost over 23% of its value in one sitting. I guess the trick of announcing job cuts to pump up your stock doesn't work anymore.

Berlingske tror på hvad som helst fra Andre: "Nu siger Rogaczewski, at Netcompany har tæmmet ai-monstret: Vi har regnet den ud | Virksomheder | Business | Berlingske" https://www.berlingske.dk/virksomheder/nu-siger-rogaczewski-at-netcompany-har-taemmet-ai-monstret-vi-har-regnet-den-ud

Voters in Glasgow, on May 7th remember that "Independent Green Voice" is a far right, non-Green, non indy-supporting con that the Electoral Commission should have dealt with many years ago. If you want to vote green, vote Scottish Green Party (SGP). Look for the logo.

Hah, just occurred to me that there's probably a number of folks who don't quite realize that the #copyfail PoC _actually modified_ the su(1) binary. That is, if you ran it _once_ to check, and then you applied mitigations, you still have a compromised /bin/su. Wonder how many systems end up […]

'His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors of First Interstate BancSystem and United Way of America. Gates's maternal grandfather, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZrgVG2k8vU

Pro tip: be very careful about how you put an Apple Watch charger into a hotel safe. It's magnetic and can stick to mechanisms, jamming the safe so it won't open properly. No need to ask me how I learned this… (Yes, next time I'll disconnect the charger from the rats' nest of stuff I'm shoving […]

As soon as the first generation not brain-damaged by leaded gasoline got the chance to vote, they elected a black president. And by God, if we have to inflict a new wave of mass cognitive damage to stop that from happening again, WE SHALL!

People make fun of Americans and our units, but this is a real infographic about hail size from a news station.

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Can web developers stop fucking with scroll bars please? No website is so beautiful that is justifies losing the ability to see how far the page scrolls down. I don't give two shits about your design vision.

@futurebird it could have been anyone

Political donations make a mockery of democracy, and the government's solutions are hopeless. Here's a really simple means of fixing it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No!!! We dont want "enhancing" "in background"=ai training! "AI features in Ubuntu features will come in two forms: first as a means of enhancing existing OS functionality with AI models in the background, and latterly in the form of “AI native” features and workflows for those who want them." […]

Clearly it needs saying again: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/29/sophie-corcoran-gb-news-sue-charity-not-offering-internships-white-people-legal-action Fuck these people.

Kort voor de verkiezingen nog met @Mikakraft het Nijmeegse college gevraagd te stoppen met deze fascisme-megafoon, maar toen kregen we de handen er nog niet voor op elkaar. Hopelijk kunnen we er komende periode onze handen vanaf trekken. De ondergrens is wmb […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

*Zero* out of the six pending #curl CVEs are C mistakes. They are all logical mistakes that would have happened anyway even if we had used another language.

HAHAHA I am going to design a pamphlet to hand out to kids around Saskatchewan to help them ID space debris they might find on their farms. This is... not something I would have predicted for my job 5 years ago. (Also, fuck you, SpaceX, for making it my problem to try to get you to be held […]

"I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - I just didn't expect them to be such losers" The Guardian's Rebecca Shaw should be nominated for a Pullitzer price for writing this headline […]

The scores of big-name journalists (and their bosses) who flock to the White House Correspondents dinner -- where Trump is the INVITED guest -- are the undeniable proof that Big Journalism has become fundamentally amoral and corrupt. We have to rebuild our honorable craft, from the ground up.

In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact. https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Right now more than half of Denmark's electricity comes from solar panels. ...and it's only 10 in the morning.

👀🇪🇺 "The Mail may have been expecting its own readers to back Brexit, however early indications of the poll put 73% of respondents as saying Britain should rejoin the EU because it’s better for the economy. "As time went on, this number grew to 84%."

I wouldn't mind if "Political Competence Porn" becomes a huge genre with fierce competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2TZwkhi4E

RE: https://chaos.social/@icing/116435790527643905 This is quickly becoming a new trend ... "look, if I totally destroy internals by abusing a private function, something bad can happen"

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

I wonder what the "Get it, vs. Age" plot on this one looks like 🙂 https://www.dorktower.com/files/2026/04/DorkTower2368b.jpg

I buy peppermint tea from Aldi. It's not very convenient because every single individual tea bag is wrapped in paper for some reason but I can at least just go and buy them from a shop with cash normally. At least until 2024, when they started wrapping each? individual?? teabag???? in […]

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.

Debatmøde om digital uafhængighed https://grundtvigskforum.dk/kalender/digital-uafhængighed Dato: 20/4. Sted: Vartov, København K PROGRAM 16.30: Ankomst 17.00: Velkomst ved Camilla Gregersen, bestyrelsesleder for Digital Uafhængighed 17.05: Oplæg ved Tue Oxenvad, stifter af #meningspunktet […]

If you program, you should read this piece. "Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Holberg/116416481551022751 This is what I mean by "surreal fascism" (This was an LLMs doing. )

Does anyone have good input on how to do proper package signing with #gpg ? Here's what I have so far: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/pkg-vinyl-cache/issues/192#issuecomment-61151

Stik imod KLs dommedagsscenarie,så går det fremragende med papir og blyant i skolen: 'De har mere fokus på det, de skal' | Indland | DR #chromebooksagen https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/her-har-eleverne-faaet-blyant-og-haefte-tilbage-de-har-mere-fokus-paa-det-de-skal

So.. is there a service to which I can forward blog spammers who want to do paid posts that will do some combination of scambaiting, taking their money and then acting confused about what a "nofollow" link means, and generally screwing with them?

I wonder if Guinness Book of World Records is paying attention tonight, because there's going to so much beer rented out, that it may well become a world record. #orbanout #thankshungary

In the world of BSD conferendes, BSDCan 2026 https://bsdcan.org is next, on June 17-20 in Ottawa, Canada. Read more about the BSD conferences in "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html #netbsd #openbsd […]

🩺 A Wise Doctor Once Wrote. <3 Funny Signs (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/11/funny-street-art-signs/

[Workity Work: Safety Turf] At some point I'll edit and repost my note to our group on engineering ethics and the use of AI. This was prompted by an global email from our IT group admonishing us to only use IT-approved AI tools (currenrly an internal search(?) tool and Copilot (of course)) […]

I want to put something in perspective: For more than half a century, it's been a solid rule of thumb that there is a bug for every thousand lines of code in well-written programs. That means we should expect 30-40 thousand bugs in the Linux kernel . If some new tool finds hundred of those […]

via Greenpeace:

Israel bombed an Iranian synagogue on Passover

"Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery" as they say, but it's even more flattering when somebody invents an interesting new concept of isolation/virtualization and explains it with direct reference to one's own work 🙂 I tip my hat back to Matthias, and wish him good luck with "Cells" :-) […]

Congressman Lieu saying what needs to be said. Laws exist, not on paper, but in their application.

OTD 1969: RFC #1 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1