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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 14/09/2026

@mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip this seems eminently at the intersection of your skills, passions, angry outbursts at computers etc.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 14/09/2026

The Mac is even enjoyable… butters smoothers all the systems. (from the macOS 27 release notes which were most carefully crafted, like the rest of it)

From the macOS 27 release notes:

"System Improvements
Discover lots of little ways your Mac is even enjoyable, like faster and smoothers experiences across the systems."

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 12/08/2026

> Progress isn't a rule, it's contested terrain, fought for daily by millions of people who refuse to give in to despair. Good things are happening out there, every day. Fix the News has been my favorite source of positive stories for a long while. fixthenews.com

fixthenews.com

The world’s leading source of good news.

Weekly solutions journalism from Fix The News. Real progress on health, climate, rights, conservation and science, read in 195 countries.

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 06/08/2026

"LLM-generated patches did not resolve the vulnerability, added a new vulnerability, or both, an average 53.9% of the time." 👁️👄👁️ 1password.com/blog/why-ai-...

LLM-generated patches did not resolve the vulnerability, added a new vulnerability, or both, an average 53.9% of the time. You can read further details about our findings, observations, and conclusions in the research paper we’ve published alongside this post.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 31/07/2026

I’m about to really “engage” with some “content”

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 30/07/2026

@gruber.foo appreciate the Rogue Amoeba update notifications are now so subtle. FWIW I think Ghostty did this first in November with a very similar implementation mitchellh.com/writing/non-... Agreed it should be the (Sparkle) norm!

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Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 11/07/2026

I feel like I haven’t hyped Jujutsu as a version control system in a minute. It’s great! Joy to use after a quick learning curve, way more user-friendly. Collocates with git so no need to switch the entire team at once. docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/testimonials

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 16/01/2026

Ouch, Spotify only thinks there are two (really just one?) competing services I could be leaving to 🫡

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 19/06/2025

Wrote some notes on self-hosting an Atuin sync server and getting to it via Tailscale hackd.net/posts/atuin-...

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 12/04/2025

This is such a garbage design pattern, Microsoft.

Text on how to opt out of DOTNET telemetry, requiring re-running the installer after setting up an environment variable.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 21/03/2025

We're really cooked when Klarna starts partnering with One Medical and your local healthcare providers.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 17/03/2025

Didn't realize "🫡" was an Italian phrase!

Language auto detected as Italian for the salute emoji.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 02/03/2025

Is TurboTax getting a kickback from all these CAPTCHAs we gotta solve? 🤔 Like damn seems like there's one every other click.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 01/03/2025

How many ===== is JavaScript up to these days?

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 14/02/2025

There's a kind of cutthroat efficiency that's often applied to various kinds of systems which in turn makes them eminently exposed to black swan risk. Absent significant skin in the game, the cost of failure is an externality not borne by the system designers/owners. (See: Incerto, Infinite games)

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

blog.archive.org

End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 30/01/2025

Someone is getting fired and someone is getting promoted.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/01/2025

Fun fact! When the Nazis were looking for templates for their horrible fucking laws, guess where they went looking! Yes! That's right! The US Jim Crow laws! So, yes. Fucking Jim Crow, yes.

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David McCreath @dmccreath.org · 29/01/2025

If moving your newsletter from Substack seems overwhelming, both Buttondown and Ghost have processes AND people to help with it. buttondown.com/features/con... ghost.org/docs/migrati...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/01/2025

1. I'm NOT the sort of SF/F nerd who thinks everyone needs to read a "canon" of older works in genre like they're homework before they get to call themselves a fan, nevertheless the book I'm always mildly surprised when people say they haven't read it is "Snow Crash," which to me is era-defining...

90s paperback cover to Snow Crash, featuring a Mesopotamian arch looking into a cyberpunk city, with a dude wielding a katana.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 27/01/2025

How are people in the US keeping up with health-related information regarding existing or developing situations, nowadays? E.g., COVID-19 rates, new and exciting pathogens and their spread, etc.?

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 27/01/2025

I’ve always actually preferred using “X”, to mark its “bag of shit” era. The fact it also works for “American History X” was the unfortunate bonus we didn’t need.

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 25/09/2024

How they divide us.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 25/01/2025

What the hell is this?!

Bottle of water: Ophora Water for Wellness Nano-pure re-structured hyper-oxygenated $13.99

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/01/2025

Some advice on How to Weather the Storm, including “create something lovely for yourself or others”, “moderate your exposure to the bullshit”, “find the people who are already doing the work, and follow their lead”, and “join something”. [kottke.org]

kottke.org

How to Weather the Storm

Without really meaning to, this week I’ve posted a few related articles around the theme of how to survive the next four years of the new oligarchical, authoritarian regime here in the US. I thought it would be helpful t

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 24/01/2025

My keyboard is getting a little extra attention now that Severance S02 started up.

A keyboard with blue keycaps in the Dasher keyboard style.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 23/01/2025

An experiment I recommend (maybe for a Sunday morning): * get good coffe in a style you like (e.g., light roast Ethiopian) * find suitably appealing music for your Sunday morning, and play it * select 3 (ideally), or any number N>1 coffee preparation methods (e.g., French press, pour over, siphon)

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 23/01/2025

Quickest way to figure out it's a phish pretending to be your Canadian bank/government office? They forgot to scam you bilingually.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 22/01/2025

I don't think I expected this *particular* combo…

Recruiting post with asking qualifications: 3+ years of professional experience in at least one dynamic server-side language: typescript, scala ,or similar

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 21/01/2025

Breaks are important for your (mental) health. Nothing improves from unabated stress.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 21/01/2025

This is NOT a good way to try USB drops for your next red team.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 19/01/2025

It's starting to look like Bluesky is coming ahead as the new home of more and more of the people I've been interested to follow (post-Twexodus) with Masto a good bit more technically-oriented. Threads had been appealing for mainstreamers; outside of the influencer crowd, I'm seeing more leave.

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 07/01/2025

WARNING: This product contains programming languages known to the State of California to cause memory unsafety

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 07/01/2025

it's a new year and I spent my first workday writing a quick ★ terminal survey ★! it should take about 5 minutes and I'd love for folks to fill it out, I'm writing a zine about the terminal and my goal is to understand who we're writing it for a little better s.surveyplanet.com/wkepwlsp

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 23/03/2024

If a 16 year old uploads a dick pic to an online AI STI test site but the TOS forbids under 18s from doing so how many different federal laws have been broken and by who

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 13/12/2023

💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS! 💥 2023 is winding down, so it’s time to choose the WORST PERSON IN TECH! 🗳️ ROUND 1 VOTING OPEN NOW: forms.gle/xqcDPSXB98gA...

Tech Won't Save Us presents The Worst Person In Tech 2023: Round 1

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 06/07/2023

Talking about every social network on every other social network.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

I wish people would stop being surprised every time there is a new round of Crypto Wars. There will always be people in power who want to backdoor end-to-end encryption. The only thing that ever changes is the excuse.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

An all-star group of folks has come together to write this online safety guide for protecting yourself against harassment by individuals, loosely organized groups, and cybermobs. This is a much-needed guide and I'm glad it exists. gameshotline.org/online-free-safety…

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 14/06/2023

What you’re referring to as Twitter, is in fact, X/Twitter.

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