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Yeah definitely kicking off with 5.3 today for all sorts of work. I already had 5.2 help with some tasks Opus and Fable were obstinate about. I know what they were trying here, but it’s a bit of a self-own.

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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

A LinkedIn Premium Plus feature, to be sure

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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!

mitchellh.com

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 · 10/07/2026

Stuff like the Gaslight (Rust) malware actually ships with sketchy looking text specifically to make LLM security analysis difficult as the models will refuse processing the context.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 21/04/2026

The “Shaun the Sheep” nudibranch! (This is what scuba divers usually call them.)

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 25/02/2026

Ah his tool just made the rounds again, which is why I thought the timing coincidence was vaguely funny at all. (I also just learned about all this.)

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 10/02/2026

You are wrong, please read this technical PDF as to why pc-helper.xyz/payload-hija...

pc-helper.xyz

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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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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 04/02/2025

After hating everything for so long, you can make a killing on affiliate links on your new “Ed Loves” review site. “This is Edproved!”

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

Lack of skin in the game (quite literally, here) will always lead to terrible outcomes.

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

Are they *also* reading the Sabotage manual?

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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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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 29/01/2025

These days, having eggs says you have connections, not just coin. Real wealth and power, not just fleeting financial freedom.

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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 · 28/01/2025

As someone that does "red teaming" professionally, I know the point is to leave the thing being tested *better* than how I found it. I may have over-indexed on that choice of terminology, perhaps, as I felt it carried an undeserved negative connotation; we're seeing a flat-out attack. Thanks.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 28/01/2025

Apologies if it landed off, I was not intending to be pedantic. I think we agree the results are negative. I was reflecting on a difference of intentions and outcomes between the two concepts, as current efforts aren't an attempt to improve an existing system, but attack, destroy, and replace it.

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xan || roguesys @hackd.net · 28/01/2025

@steveklabnik.com respectfully, red teaming implies a desire to future-proof the system so it’s more resilient to the types of tests performed, should they be attempted “for real”. Absent an intent to improve the system, it’s just an attack.

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

Only had the gateway version, still need to source the full experience.

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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

bubbe yaga, first of their name, raccoon whisperer, CISSP

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

Why is this??! If the water lives I think you're supposed to boil it?

Splendor water. Contains colloidal gold & silver, naturally. A naturally structured living-water. Award-winning taste; unparalleled purity.

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

“I am so glad the leopard ate my face. Wish I had another face for the leopard to eat.”

"President Trump will do what President Trump wants to do. He has a plan, and I will play accordingly," Goncalves said. "I'm a big boy. I bought Stelco knowing that Stelco is in Canada.
And you know what? America first."

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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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