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gunstick @gunstick.mastodon.opencloud.lu.ap.brid.gy · 17h
And then people think I am over reacting by being concerned about german politics and the raise of their fascist government. @tazgetroete mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/117390…
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taz (@tazgetroete@mastodon.social)
Luca Maurice Strauf hat am Tag der Wiedervereinigung eine Karte gepostet, auf der Teile vieler Nachbarländer deutsch eingefärbt sind. Das sorgt für Stress – nicht nur in der AfD-Jugend. https://taz.de/!6219202
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Degrowth or Extinction @ecosurrealism.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
#thePoint #mastodon #degrowth #burnTheRich
there is this meme of a person rejecting on the upper box.
and down acknowledging.
on the top says:
"banning teenagers from using social media"
on the bottom one says
"banning billionaires from owning social media"
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fenarinarsa :pokeball: @fenarinarsa.shelter.moe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Au collège (plutôt huppé) de mon fils ça discute beaucoup ces derniers jours et à mon avis ça s'échange aussi des images/vidéos. Résultat, tout le week-end ce dernier ne voulait pas retourner à l'école de peur qu'un policier lui tire dessus.
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Alexandre Dulaunoy @a.paperbay.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
A question for fellow open-source maintainers: Imagine someone uses AI to redevelop your tool in Rust. The result barely works, but they reuse your project’s name and repeatedly jump into discussions about the existing project to promote their version. How would you handle that? I’m usually a […]
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Every organization should "assume breach". There are just too many humans with access to these tools. I cannot imagine what it is like to be a CISO rn.
A screenshot of a social media thread from October 3, 2026.

The first post is from Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg). He states that they have confirmed a KVM 0-day vulnerability through the Vercel Sandbox bounty program, noting that it affects the industry standard solution for Linux virtualization. He mentions that 2026 is wild and thanks Paulos and other researchers for helping create a secure sandbox for agents, adding that a full write-up is coming.

Below this is a reply from Paulos Yibelo (@PaulosYibelo), who says, "Full VM escape zeroday (guest>host root in industry standard hypervisors)! More soon".

Included in Paulos's reply is a screenshot of a bounty award notification. It reads: "Vercel Sandbox rewarded paulos__ with a $50,000 bounty. 5 hours ago. Thank you for the report. We are awarding a $50,000 USD bounty. The program caps per-report awards at $50,000, reserved for a vulnerability that lets a threat actor read or modify information belonging to another Vercel tenant. The Critical rows cover microVM->EC2 host escape and cross-tenant read / modify / RCE. This report's root cause (guest-controlled [redacted text]) delivers exactly that class."

The timestamp at the bottom of the image is Oct 3, 2026, 3:12 PM UTC.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
I have another brilliant idea to save money and time. Instead of promoting an LLM to write an email this new system will simply send your target the prompt and the email will be generated on their end with *their* tokens should they choose to open it. We can hide this all in an embedded HTML […]
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Claus Cramon Houmann @claushoumann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
RE: mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/… They have the worst president ever, prices on everything except eggs are up, democracy dying, imperialism all over the world, supporting genocide in gaza, war in Lebanon, failing to support Ukraine, grift and corruption all over […]
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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
okay, that's pretty good
Except from a Wikipedia article:
During the 2001 Microsoft antitrust case, the names MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 were humorously used to refer to the companies that might exist after a proposed split of Microsoft.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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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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Claus Cramon Houmann @claushoumann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
iOS 27 comes with mandatory AI settings I cannot turn off???
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rAIner Agentic Quantum Rehak @rainer-rehak.mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
#GoogleMaps schaltet neue Satellitenbilder frei: Die folgenschwere Zerstörung in #Gaza ist nun für jeden sichtbar Hier war ein #Spielplatz, hier eine #Apotheke, dort eine #Moschee: Wer sich auf Google Maps Städte wie #Rafah in Gaza ansieht […] [Original post on mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org]
Google-Maps-Karte mit Spielplatzmarkierung, wo nur noch Schutt ist.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
In a world of "Please give me money because I was fired before being racist" fundraisers, I am proud to say that "Help us make the number bigger" is light-years away from being the worst fundraiser out there. gofund.me/711f1548
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Donate to Help Us Make the Number Bigger, organized by Low Quality Facts
If the internet loves one thing, it's watching a small number become a bigger number.… Low Quality Facts needs your support for Help Us Make the Number Bigger
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gunstick @gunstick.mastodon.opencloud.lu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
This right wing infiltration of asbl also happens in Luxembourg. Experienced it first hand. @junesim63 mstdn.social/@junesim63/11734711335…
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JuneSim63 💚 (@junesim63@mstdn.social)
"far-right groups target non-political associations, sports clubs and community groups precisely because they are trusted and embedded in local life. If far-right groups can capture or intimidate the institutions that communities rely on, they may be able to reshape the boundaries of what is considered normal" #FarRight #PatriotPlatform #RNLI #UKPolitics Why far-right protesters target non-political groups like lifeboat volunteers https://theconversation.com/why-far-right-protesters-target-non-political-groups-like-lifeboat-volunteers-292909
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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 27/09/2026
I like Mastodon, I really do. But it has so, so many dependencies, and updating it on illumos or OpenBSD is getting really difficult, release after release. Some dependencies are primarily distributed as binaries, or only build on Linux and macOS. It's not Mastodon's fault, but it depends on […]
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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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Karl Urban @pikarl.reporter.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Eine lebhafte Debatte über sehr praktische Tools, Transkripte zu erzeugen und die Stimme im Podcast verständlicher zu machen. Und gleichzeitig die gruselige Aussicht auf immer mehr KI-generierte Podcasts. Über das Klauen meiner Stimme für einen KI-generierten Podcast auf YouTube, gegen den man […]
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gunstick @gunstick.mastodon.opencloud.lu.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Is "emotionally raped" a too harsh expression to describe this: A person I trust send me a message about a security issue in the code. So I checked and could verify in 5 minutes that it was fine. So I asked if he used AI, and yes, he did. I was very upset about this. First time I had to handle […]
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
🇪🇺🚨 Next Tuesday, a dirty deal on #ChatControl 2.0 looms, allowing PERMANENT mass scanning of our private chats (so-called #SearchPlans). 😱 Speak up and email your MEPs NOW to stop this: ℹ️ chatcontrol.wtf ✍️ fightchatcontrol.eu/?level=national…
Screenshot of an info page (chatcontrol.eu) warning about “Chat Control 2.0.” A highlighted line says a potentially final and decisive trilogue takes place on Tuesday, 29 September. It warns EU governments want “search plans” to scan “parts of a service” (e.g., all group chats or all EU users), effectively mass scanning of private chats. It cites that the Council’s own Legal Service warned this could be “general and indiscriminate” and likely illegal. It also warns about keeping the “voluntary” Chat Control 1.0 as a loophole, mentioning high false positives and cases affecting minors.
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gunstick @gunstick.mastodon.opencloud.lu.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Is "emotionally raped" a too harsh expression to describe this: A person I trust send me a message about a security issue in the code. So I checked and could verify in 5 minutes that it was fine. So I asked if he used AI, and yes, he did. I was very upset about this. First time I had to handle […]
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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
"A bunch of people mostly outside of KDE who disapprove of LLM usage derailed KDE’s attempt to add restrictions to LLM usage. Yep, that’s where we’re at in the state of online discourse around AI." pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/kde-a…
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KDE and AI, and you, and me
So I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KDE. Sorry about that. I’m going to leave the comments on this post open, but I will request that everyone who wants to comment read and understand the entire post first. So … Continue reading KDE and AI, and you, and me →
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
When we announce over 20 new #curl CVEs on October 14, you will learn that every single one of them were found by clever humans using harnesses powered by AI models. Every. Single. One. The holy trinity of modern vulnerability research.
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Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Die Union, wenn die AfD erfolgreich ist: "Wir müssen die Sorgen der Wähler ernst nehmen und Gesetze brechen, um sie zu erfüllen." Die Union, wenn die Linke erfolgreich ist: "Wir müssen die Sorgen der Wähler unterdrücken und Gesetze einführen, um sie zu verhindern"
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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Komisch, dass es von Konservativen nicht wie über die AfD heißt, man solle die Linke mal machen lassen, sie würde sich dann schon selbst entzaubern.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
I've had people ask before why I post art that's been drawn on lined or grid notebook paper and not blank drawing paper. It's honestly a big psychological hack: blank drawing paper is for "real" art and I'm afraid to mess it up, but art on lined paper is legally "a doodle" and the art cops have […]
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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bei Caren Miosga seit Mai zu Gast: - 5 x Unions-Politiker - 4 x SPD-Politiker - 2 x AfD-Politiker - 0 x Linke - 0 x Grüne
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fenarinarsa :pokeball: @fenarinarsa.shelter.moe.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Did some research on Atari ST cracktros and I was surprised to find that individual cracktros almost disappeared around 1990 (replaced by static text), then cracktros of infamous game anthologies took over (Pompey Pirates, Fuzion etc). While on Amiga individual cracktros persisted. #demoscene […]
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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 21/09/2026
@brouhaha it costs so much that it must be secure! (not joking, that's the usual mantra)
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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Has anyone in the EU tech policy space considered just making it illegal for services to charge more for MFA, SSO, audit log streaming, and break-glass/split privilege accounts? If y'all are serious about improving SME security, that's an easy win.
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products: Planned obsolescence v 2.0 Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
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Colin McMillen @colin-mcmillen.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
[LLMs, feeling down] Yesterday someone "optimized" Karateka. They fed their LLM a floppy image and got back a game that runs faster. Mechner took months or years to build it. That person doesn't know how it's faster in detail. "It added lookup tables in the language card". All of that kind of […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]
Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
My favorite thing about AI is that it's the only industry where its CEOs are constantly putting out statements saying "Our product could do terrible things. It could make the world so much worse. Our product could ruin everything you once loved."
A news headline reading "Anthropic CEO warns of AI-driven botnet 'swarm' taking over the entire internet — 'In 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet'", alongside a thumbnail image of a man in a suit seated on stage.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists. And sadly many influential organizations in that […]
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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Kennt ihr noch dieses Gefühl, wenn einem so richtig langweilig ist? Ursula von der Leyen schon und sie möchte es für Kinder zurückbringen. 🧠 Zum Artikel […] [Original post on social.heise.de]
Das Bild zeigt zwei Kinder, die auf ein Smartphone starren. Im Bild steht: “
Von der Leyen plant 
EU-weites Mindestalter 
für Social-Media”
 darunter steht: "Ursula von der Leyen einen “Kids Act” angekündigt. Kernstück ist ein EU-weites Mindestalter für Social Media von 13 Jahren, ein eigenständiges Konto soll es erst ab 15 Jahren geben."
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gunstick @gunstick.mastodon.opencloud.lu.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
I currently hate the FOSS and Linux world. On one side projects are subverted by a fascist distro (Omarchy) because that's where Nazi-techbros put their money. On the other side projects are subverted by techbro's AI code which is quite often very sloppy. Now there is no more choice to chose an […]
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Charlotte derStern @charlottederstern.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
"Wer würde einem Grünen die Forderung abnehmen, AfD-Politiker zu erschießen? Das ist der Vorteil des Faschismus. Wir müssen verfassungsfeindliche Parteien mit den Mitteln des Grundgesetzes aus dem Rennen nehmen, weil sie wirklich umsetzen wollen, was sie ankündigen." Lesen! 👇
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Mosscap @mosscap.dev · 12/09/2026
well here's a project we definitely support stopomarchy.neocities.org
stopomarchy.neocities.org
STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers
Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Dear journalists: it's not "AI escaped", it's "AI companies failed to restrict the programs". Programs that did exactly what they were instructed to do. By those companies. Place the blame where it belongs.
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Orion Ussner kidder @orionkidder.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
@pluralistic
"AI" – chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
I am a technophile at heart. I still get stupidly excited when someone points an rpi at ravens, or finds something new to track in their environment or even their selves. Despite these assholes trying to shit on everything, I will love the net and geeky ass shit until they bury me at sea. Feed […]
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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
The call for participation for the 40th Chaos Communication Congress with the motto „Model Citizen“ has opened. Find all information here: content.events.ccc.de/cfp/40c3/inde… #40C3 #modelcitizen
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40C3 Call For Participation
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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Die Pläne für eine ethnische Säuberung Deutschlands der AfD zu kritisieren, weil sie "ganze Wirtschaftszweige lahmlegt" (Kanzler Merz), ist in etwa so, wie das Sinken der Titanic zu beklagen, weil dadurch das Abendessen nicht bis zum Schluss serviert werden konnte. Nicht alles ist Wirtschaft.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
I just learned from a meeting with radio astronomers that AST SpaceMobile is already disrupting GPS signals with only a handful of direct-to-device satellites in orbit. This seems... bad. And like someone in some government somewhere should maybe care about this?
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burningbecks @burningbecks.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
@afelia @Orkan_der_rechtspflege Zu freundlich für diese Aussage? Hier ist noch eine Variante mit Bild von der Demo in Münster 2025:
Screenshot von Marina Weisband, Demo vor der CDU-Zentrale Münster am 05.02.2025.
Daneben ihre Aussage aus #MiR: Marina Weisband im Interview, 04. September 2026:
"Faschismus ist eine selbstfressende Versagerideologie. Von Versagern für Versager."
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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
I guess these days just anyone can be a Specially designated global terrorist.
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