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Attila Kinali

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026
Me: I will use "radium water" as an analogy for how horrible AI's potential subtle long-term effects are, because the general public in 2026 can easily understand this analogy. The general public in 2026 […]
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Maartje @maartje.dev · 01/10/2026
[Unpopular opinion, subtoot] Wind turbines are so pretty and satisfying to watch… no really I love them…
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Charly Kühnast @charlykuehnast.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Warum heißt es erektile Dysfunktion und nicht Krisenstab?
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]
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Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 @linguistgoneforeign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Hello, beautiful people. 💕 Please excuse the radio silence, but I've recently made the alarming discovery that life becomes more fulfilling when you wander out of the endless cycle of work, career goals and optimization. I've rediscovered the small, inefficient pleasures of being human. Slow […]
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
No Sloptober no-sloptober.com « This October we challenge you to abstain from LLM based tools entirely. Think of this as a fast for your mind! This is not a judgement of others, but a personal challenge to you. » <- I mean, why not? I do it anyway, every month…
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Glyph @glyph.im · 25/09/2026
New Blog: Who is open source about? blog.glyph.im/2026/09/who-is-open-s…
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Deciphering Glyph :: Who Is Open Source About?
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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Yann Büchau :nixos: @nobodyinperson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
I put this up in our uni's restroom in case somebody needs toilet paper
photo showing the inside wall of a restroom, showing a printed A4 paper titled "Need toilet paper?", with a two-sided scan of toilet paper below and a QR code redirecting to https://archive.org/download/toilet-paper_202609/toilet-paper.pdf
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Maybe another way to say it: for me, there have been two big phases of the Internet. Phase 1 was the Everyone Has a Website and Nobody Knows What They're Doing phase. Phase 2 was platformization and the siloing of the Internet. Maybe Phase 3 is The Internet is for Robots.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
I randomly stumbled on one of my old twitter posts where I marveled at one of the most clownshoes technical advertisements ever published: the Atari Jaguar's marketing materials claimed "an incredible 850 million pixels per inch rendering speed." Read that […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
a magazine advertising spread of the Atari Jaguar, which allegedly has 64 bits of power, 16.8 million colors, and incredible 850 million pixels per inch rendering speed.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People are fairly antitech currently, which isn't entirely unreasonable, but one of the strange things with A City on Mars is we had supporters and detractors who both understood us to be saying "Mars settlement is impossible." But, like, we even provide a roadmap at the end?
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
None of you want to hear this, but we are very likely going to have to overthrow (and not in the "tweet/toot/peacefully protest" way) the neo-nazi global regime being established by Trump's handlers and those orchestrating the rise of the "alt-right" (call them nazis, pls, b/c that's what they […]
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/09/2026
"You're absolutely right, there was indeed another commercial jet on the runway. That's my fault, I should have checked before assuming that runway was clear to land on. Since the runway is now closed, let me know if I can help with anything else. Do you know how runway numbers are selected?"
FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
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TheZoq2 @thezoq2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
One of the coolest things to happen in Spade yet 👀 @breakingtaps wrote and taped out a Transport Triggered Architecture processor from scratch in a month with 0 prior experience! This video is also one of the better intros to digital hardware design I've seen, certainly much better than some of […]
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TheZoq2 @thezoq2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Last week I did a talk on Spade at a special session on Hardware Construction Languages. It wasn't recorded, so here is a recreation :) Talking about what a HCL is, and how we do meta programming in Spade youtu.be/jp-9FcONM8c
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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
26 February 1992, the Slovenian government quietly deleted 1.3% of its citizenry overnight. The criterion was frighteningly simple: anyone born in another part of the former Yugoslavia who was a permanent resident of Slovenia (regardless of whether they considered themselves naturalised) lost […]
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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Here is a video that explains much better than I ever could, why datacenters in space are a very stupid idea. And also why all this talk is nothing but vapor ware: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpdUNMt2yg #datacenter #space #vaporware
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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
I find it curious that in the past we described large compute systems/infrastructure in MFLOPS or GFLOPS. Ie. in what they provided as output. But today, or rather since large scale #datacenters became dominating, we describe the compute power in GW. Ie. in what they consume, or what ultimately […]
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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
You needed a song to select the right font, but didn't know... until now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ck-NPqf2c8 #typography
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
This guy's DIY audio visualizer
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Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 @linguistgoneforeign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
The Gender-Revealing Obsession 🧐 #Comics #Gender #ThrowbackThursday
Illustration with two panels. At the top, the word “SOCIETY:” is written. Below, a cartoon character with a white lab coat points at a presentation board showing two naked figures whose genitals are pixelated. The speech bubble says: “You must cover your genitals at all times because we shouldn’t be thinking about other people’s genitals.” In the next panel, the heading says “ALSO SOCIETY:”. The same character is shown again, snapping their fingers with a “SNAP” sound effect, now pointing to a presentation board showing two clothed figures: one in blue, one in pink with a bow. The speech bubble says: “But cover them with clothes that represent your genitals because I get very uncomfortable when I can’t tell what genitals people have.” Watermark: Linguist Gone Foreign©.
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Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 @linguistgoneforeign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
How is this book still in the science fiction section? 🧐
A hand holds a copy of Ray Bradbury’s *Fahrenheit 451*, featuring a stylized red, orange, and yellow flame design on a black cover. Shelves filled with colorful books are softly blurred in the background.
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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
"Which tells you something important: nobody wants the app. People install the app because they believe it is mandatory in some sort of way. Because they are afraid of missing out on something. Because they are told so by the salesman. But they just don’t want it. In fact, when pressed, most […]
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
I did my duty for the 276th time and put together a release of this internet transfer thing we're working on. Maybe you heard of it? #curl 8.22.0 we call this incarnation. daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/09/02/curl…
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curl 8.22.0
Welcome to this new release. Get it as always from https://curl.se. If you rather want a security-patched older release branch, stay tuned for the follow-up Rock-solid curl announcement within a few days. ## Release presentation At 10:00 CEST (08:00 UTC) Daniel makes a live-streamed release presentation on Twich. ## Numbers the 276th release 6 changes 70 days (total: 10,887) 302 bugfixes (total: 14,489) 525 commits (total: 39,608) 0 new public libcurl function (total: 100) 4 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 312) 4 new curl command line option (total: 278) 85 contributors, 55 new (total: 3,786) 43 authors, 29 new (total: 1,518) 9 security fixes (total: 215) ## Security Associated with this release, we publish ten new CVEs. Nine of them are for curl and libcurl, and one is for wcurl. * CVE-2026-13608: OpenLDAP SASL authentication bypass * CVE-2026-18924: HTTP/2 server push UAF * CVE-2026-19931: Negotiate ambient user conn reuse * CVE-2026-80229: OpenSSL provider use-after-free * CVE-2026-80230: OpenSSL pinning bypass * CVE-2026-80231: native CA store conn reuse * CVE-2026-80255: secure cookie attribute bypass with tab * CVE-2026-82208: wolfSSL CA-cache hit overrides callback * CVE-2026-82209: domain-scoped PSL domain cookie The wcurl one: CVE-2026-80256: wcurl backslash bypass ## Changes * added support for Apple GSS Framework * added API guards * new RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures support (experimental) * blocks NTLM fallback in SPNEGO negotiation * dropped support for TLS-SRP * added option to use Apple fast UDP ## Coming removals * HTTP/2 Server Push * local crypto implementations * NTLM * SMB ## Next We plan the next curl release to happen at the end of October unless there are some bad regressions reported against 8.22.0.
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
OH: "considering the amount of tokens spent on this i think a coke binge would be cheaper?"
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
happy mailing list membership reminder day!
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Alberto Cottica @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
I know I am late to the party, but Acemoglu's paper on the macroeconomics of #AI is a thing of beauty – and I do not say this lightly of a paper based on a general equilibrium framework. I plan to write down some reflections starting from it. For now, let me note that it supports the idea that […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/08/2026
the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/cree…
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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Today's #physics question: what are the lifetimes of the ground state hyperfine transition for various atomic species that are used for atomic clocks. The result surprised me: Apparently the theoretical lifetimes are in the order of the age of the universe. Which means that any measurement […]
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Appropos of that joke about psyops, I really think it'd be good for people to read up on how Russian interference actually went down: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne... I've had a bunch of bsky users say their ideology couldn't be coopted because why would Russians support [insert issue].
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Internet Research Agency - Wikipedia
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Image: lots of scientists milling round a very cold air conditioned room that also contains moss, stones and snow. One scientist makes notes on a clipboard.

Caption:
Every summer, professor Singh noted the correlation between rising temperatures in the rest of the institute and the increased number of colleagues visiting his "Moss growth in Arctic conditions" experiment.
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bfaliszek @bfaliszek.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAl
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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Unser Zeitgenosse hat wieder ein super Video gemacht. Diesmal darüber, worum es bei der Neutralitätsinitiative wirklich geht. Spoiler: Nicht um Neutralität www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9VY6PFmW-A
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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Today is the day in Clacton-on-Sea! I hope they make Europe proud by electing Count Binface! #clacton #binface
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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Sun/moonset #eclipse
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Attila Kinali @attilakinali.society.oftrolls.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
What a week meme, with Pepper and Carrot.
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Poul-Henning Kamp @bsdphk.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
If you are going to watch the solar eclipse tomorrow, remember to use a suitable filter. One suitable filter, is the disk from a 3½" floppy disk.
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
`git blame`, or as they say in france, `g'accuse`
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
No one in the seven-person curl security team is on or runs Windows. People sending us Windows-only flaws makes us groan and roll eyes. And sometimes hyperventilate a little. Why this is so? Because no one in the team wants to be on Windows, and no other curl contributor is active enough […]
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warthog9 @warthog9.social.afront.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
*TOTALLY RANDOM DISCUSSION NOT ABOUT A BLACK HAT TALK WITH @terri * You totally can't exfiltrate or abuse a system if the defensive AI runs `rm -rf /` for you.
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Marcel Waldvogel @marcel.waldvogel.family.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
It is so easy to create an impressive-looking piece of software. But it apparently is much easier to create impressive-looking security holes. And deal with them embarrassingly. bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack
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tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but seen receipts.
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#writingskills #writers #authors #writeaway #writinglife #creativewriting
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Karl Urban @pikarl.reporter.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
Wenn ihr euch mal freut, wenn irgendwo an einem deutschen Bahnhof doch ein funktionierender Trinkwasserspender steht. Das ist Zürich Hauptbahnhof: #hitze
Karte des Kopfbahnhofteils mit 16 Gleisen. Jeder Bahnsteig hat 1-2 Wasserspender.
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
As an Open Source person I am apparently expected to keep doing things for free so I get invited to participate in EU policy events in Brussels, with not even an attempt to offer me compensation for travel, lodging or time. So I decline.
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