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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1h

eMudhra, the company that made 4 the new funniest number, put out a press release that said the problem was discovered "possibly with AI assisted techniques" to make it sound sophisticated and difficult and not something that just anyone could discover No, what happened is that someone bothered […]

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 3h

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY Service providers operating PHP-based platforms please take note of PHP critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSS v4.0 9.2 Major government and ecommerce services have shut down pending the patch. Exploits are already circulating. Shut your service down now, and ensure it […]

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xssfox (crossy) @xssfox.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Fyi, if you have a risky patch, deploy, infra change, today's the day to do it. You can pretty much get away with anything. Don't waste this opportunity.

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

#Mastodon is getting a new look in our upcoming 5.0 release. We wrote a bit more about our design process and how we approach community input. If you’re on mastodon.social you will see the new design tomorrow, on Tuesday. We rely on your feedback! […]

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Trump & Epstein: Biz partners. @mugsysrapsheet.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Neither "Fox news Sunday" nor "Meet the Republicans" said even ONE WORD about the #NoKings protests across the country. NOT ONE. DAMN. WORD. Didn't even acknowledge there were protest AT ALL. If you didn't know there were protests, if you watched these shows, Saturday was like any other day. 😡

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I just watched the first episode of Colombo with my husband and one of Colombo's gotchas, one of his "no sane innocent man would ever do this"s, is "Why, when you were at your vacation home four hours out of the city and got a call that there was an emergency at home, why did you drive back and […]

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Coleen Walter @coleenwalter.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

A few evenings I found this toad standing guard at my front door or walkway. Maybe I should hang up a tiny “Beware of Toad” sign on the door to warn off intruders. #toad #animals #nature #naturephotography

Small toad sitting on a cement step by weeds

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I see your "Tiffany is a valid medieval name" and raise you "Alexander the Great's wife was named Roxanne"

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

"A closer look at the data reveals a brute-force guessing machine, not a reasoning intellect. Mathematics isn't dead; it's being spammed, strip-mined, and exploited by an industry that needs human creativity more than it admits." emeraldbook.org/news/oct-162...

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The 91% Failure Rate: Why AI Is Not Killing Mathematics – Emerald Book

◆ Emerald Pages ◆ Technology / Academia The 91% Failure Rate: Why AI Is Not Killing Mathematics Emerald Book Publication October 16, 2026 9 min read The panic over AI solving the Navier-Stokes equatio...

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I try to suppress my contempt for the "news" organizations that fell for Musk's "flying car" con. But I fail. Almost everything that is wrong with journalism is embedded in that coverage of nothing real.

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cchelberg @cchelberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@phil “that’s a good tiger”. *He says while trying to extricate himself from a conversation about CSS*

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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Seems like at least the account back, but no word from Meta on why this happened. This is why they were so smart of @indivisibleteam build out on platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon , and their own direct to their users newsletters too - that are not at the […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Norm Eisen posting about No Kings Instagram being taken down on #NoKingsDay by Meta

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

There are major account take-over problems happening right now on mastodon instances - all appearances are that the actor is using stolen passwords, probably from malware running on desktops. I've suspended hundreds of compromised accounts over the past 48 hours, but only two on mine. If you […]

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Matt Boyd @3psboyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Canvassing with a data center survey today. The overall response I'm getting at the doors today is that people hate this shit. All of it. And they don't use it.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Somebody is putting a *lot* of work into creating spam Fedi accounts, you can spot them by a post containing “google.co.<some-country-code>/share.google?q=" and then a whole lot of random hashtags. Please report if you see one.

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 17/10/2026

that’s quite the claim there, vox dot com

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cchelberg @cchelberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I am once again a sad fan of C9. Next year.

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Queen of the bookshelf.

Pica the tabby cat rests on a bookshelf she likes.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

AI does not disrupt. AI entrenches. AI turns money into more money; AI turns investment into dependency. We are living in a funhouse mirror of that right now where the combination of overly-plausible demos and first-one's-free incentives are swamping the actual balance-sheet math. But the […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

People ask me what I miss about the United States. This, this is what I miss. The cold yet sunlit rocky reaches of my childhood home, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, proud and tall in her autumn raiment. And also goldfish crackers www.youtube.com/watch?v=54U1kdfH_Sk

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Hi folks, if you are maintaining a widely used #OpenSource infrastructure project (think networking, encryption, testing/QA automation, desktop libraries, payment libraries ...) now is a good time to ask for a security audit or other support through the Sovereign Tech Resilience program. The […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

so, Albert Heijn, one of the main Dutch grocery chains, has had a major IT disruption because of some sort of ransomware attack, and this has caused stores to not get deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables Some passerby was quoted on the news as saying to chin up and stop whining because […]

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Martin Holland @mho.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I haven't done these in a while, but there hasn't happened much lately: #Traffic to @heiseonline from #Mastodon is stable, #Bluesky & #Threads combined bring in less. Facebook has lost much recently; #Flipboard is stable too.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

John Gruber @gruber says “The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive” Hmm, that's not how I remember it. So I spent an hour there and, maybe I’m weird, but… www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/202…

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Coleen Walter @coleenwalter.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Mother-daughter bonding this morning: my young adult daughter and I looked over the sample ballot and reviewed any proposed amendments to the state constitution. Then we went to the registrars office together to vote. We’ve done this the past two elections and I love going together. I also love […]

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

English-speaking followers! WAIT! *STORY TIME* A few years ago, I met a producer who asked me if I was tempted by the idea of writing for TV, and offered to talk about it around a drink. I spent the whole week thinking about it, took some notes, played a thousand scenes in my head…

Boulet walking in the street, compulsively noting ideas in a notebook

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I saw a news article about the founder of an AI company "remaking a functioning Terraria" overnight I was wondering if it was just modded Terraria as a publicity stunt, and never found out, because I started poking around their product and Discord and […] [Original post on mastodon.sprawl.club]

A picture of a Discord server with bots posting scams non-stop.

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Franz Graf @hikingdude.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Wife has finished her #Crochet Projekt. The wreath is made of wood, the rest is wool. It looks pretty cool!

A close-up of a charming hand-crocheted wreath bursting with autumn warmth. Crocheted orange slices in bright shades of yellow and orange sit alongside brown cinnamon sticks tied neatly with a white ribbon, while green leaves and plump red berries fill the gaps between them. The decorations are attached to a light-colored grapevine base, giving the piece a natural, rustic texture. Every element is lovingly handmade, with the vibrant yarn colors evoking the cozy scents and hues of fall and winter — oranges, spice, and berries gathered in one decorative circle ready to welcome the season.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

hey, could the Youtube product manager who decided that when a Dutch household puts on a video from the Dutch national news, the audio should automatically be replaced with a TTS voice reading a machine-generated English translation, come meet me in the darkest corner of the Amsterdamse Bos […]

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots. One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well as the rest of […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Just had a conversation with peers that was like: "my friend says github's changed their SSH key fingerprint again and it's generating scary warnings you have to ignore" "oh? it hasn't changed for me" "or me" "can't find any documentation on them having changed it since 2023" "... uh-oh." […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 12/10/2026

I got a call from someone I don't know. "Hi. We have a FreeBSD server. It's been working perfectly for years, but it hasn't been updated since then. We asked AI to update it, but now it won't boot anymore. It didn't even make a backup before starting. The AI keeps trying things, everything is […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

completely concur: the United States is a failed civilization except for Nyquil. If you can just buy Nyquil because you’re in a situation that would be improved by some Nyquil, and it’s never occurred to you that it could be otherwise, you have no idea how lucky you are […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Howdy! I have a client that's hiring a data engineer (ideally with Snowflake experience, but they'll take anyone smart enough to figure it out) in Canberra. I can arrange for the automated screens and the like to be skipped, and the interviews will not have any leetcode-style nonsense. I've […]

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

gosh who could have predicted that precisely this would happen […]

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kali @kali.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

this bird 😂 😂 😂 #dove #pigeon

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Keeping watch on the front garden. #caturday #photography

A calico cat is starting to climb a large hydrangea bush, looking alertly to one side.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/10/2026

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

the actual main difference between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese philosophy, visualized #philosophy

(LONG ALT TEXT WARNING) two columns of text, one of which is several times longer than the other:

First column: “Whom, then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties? First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day-by-day, who possess a judgment which is accurate in meeting accusations as they arise and rarely misses the expeditious course of action; next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all with whom they associate, tolerating easily and good-naturedly what is unpleasant or offensive in others and being themselves as agreeable as it is possible to be; furthermore, those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not unduly overcome by their misfortunes, bearing up under them bravely and in a manner worthy of our common nature; finally, and most important of all, those who are not spoiled by successes and do not desert their true selves and become arrogant, but hold their ground steadfastly as intelligent people, not rejoicing in the good things which have come to them through chance rather than those which through their own nature and intelligence are theirs from birth.” – Isocrates, “Panathenaicus”

Second column: “If someone marries for virtue over beauty, would do anything for their parents, would give their life for their country, is a good friend and trustworthy, but is uneducated – actually, they sound quite educated to me.” — Zixia, “The Analects of Confucius”

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Jaap Burger @burger-jaap.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The Danish CPO OK wants to install batteries at 70 of its existing charging sites, with a total capacity of 30 MW/60 MWh. Clever use of existing grid connections, which have ample free capacity most of the time, will allow the sites to grow and unlock grid capacity for new ones […]

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