Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026my friends wanted to pass on the reminder this Spooky Season that black food dye (often made from activated charcoal, which is used for treating poisonings) can cause your medications to be ineffective 32277
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyJulia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026Are you interested in learning how to use Git for the first time? (or almost the first time) we're looking for Git beginners to give us feedback on a Git tutorial! The tutorial will be open source when it's released, so you'll be helping many future beginners! Sign up here […]social.jvns.caOriginal post on social.jvns.ca 6673
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026I 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] 3415
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Please don't put important downloadable files on your website with filenames like "book.pdf". I know from your point of view, it's THE book, the book that you have on your website, but from the reader's point of view it's the 189th book I've downloaded this year and the 17th one named book.pdf […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 258
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026holy %+/= the Dutch train system just announced they are being sabotaged: piles of junk dropped across several different tracks simultaneously #netherlands #trains #publictransport 62752
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMaartje @maartje.dev · 30/08/2026Want to hear me talk for 30 minutes about cross-border travels on night trains? Want to hear how we overcame borders to get hit by silly, easy-to-fix issues? Yes? Come to MRMCD! talks.mrmcd.net/2026/talk/FEHWJQtalks.mrmcd.netSleeping across 4 borders - a day in a night train manager’s life MRMCD 2026Ever since 1872 night trains are border crossing heroes. But we’ve come a long way from Georges Nagelmackers’ original vision of borderless travel experience, or haven’t we? 101
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026Vous savez que le #fediverse insiste particulièrement sur l’ajout d’un "alt text" pour décrire les images, afin d’être plus accessibles, essentiellement pour les mal-voyants. Le truc marrant c’est que j’ai une vision excellente mais que je me suis surpris à lire très souvent les alt-text pour […]mamot.frOriginal post on mamot.fr 3226
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyLesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026If I gambled on both NFTs and the metaverse to the tune of millions and millions of dollars and even renamed my company accordingly I would be so canceled I’d be farming potatoes, but people are still quoting Zuck AI predictions on my daily news feed. 4233
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026it was the conch shell and yes my back still hurts from when I pulled it two months ago #retrocomputing 31117
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyWill Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026There's a public PoC for CVE-2026-43760 that demonstrates arbitrary file write on a remote system as root. Apple: > An app may be able to access user-sensitive data Okie dokie, now. You tried. 001
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026🧪 The placebo-controlled trial wasn't invented by doctors. It was invented by medieval witch hunters. In 1423, Jean Gerson proposed testing religious claims with consecrated vs unconsecrated objects that looked identical - the same logic behind modern placebo controls. His method ended up in […]dmv.communityOriginal post on dmv.community 2239
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyQuixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026RE: mastodon.world/@nlnews/116913941112… The UK has many faults, but for decades it's had a requirement for free water if alcohol is for sale. This should be the norm, everywhere.mastodon.world 106
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyGlyph @glyph.im · 10/07/2026RE: woof.group/@aphyr/116723922317737094 this thread is _amazing_ 002
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Marine Le Pen has officially launched her 2027 French presidential campaign. A Paris appeals court upheld her conviction for embezzling #EU funds to pay party staff, but critically reduced her public office ban. Legally, she is now cleared to run. 🧵 1/4 1103
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026RE: mastodon.social/@NOS/11688406702550… “Thanks to (immigration sponsorship) fund, Netherlands attracts dozens of top scientists, mostly from the US”mastodon.social 033
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/07/2026If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it 14352112
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMaartje @maartje.dev · 26/06/2026Okay I need to call this out…. NMBS should be removed from the OpenAI Family plan… hang on for a thread 123
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyheise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026Post zum Freitag: Die irrationale deutsche Angst vor Klimaanlagen muss verschwinden! 40 Grad sind kaum auszuhalten. Trotzdem hält sich in Deutschland hartnäckig eine irrationale Angst vor Klimaanlagen – mit fatalen Folgen für die Schwächsten […]social.heise.deOriginal post on social.heise.de 021
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyheise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026iFixit-Teardown: Das Trump-Handy ist ein China-Phone Ein iFixit-Teardown bestätigt: Das Trump-Handy T1 ist ein goldlackiertes HTC U24 Pro – entworfen und gebaut in China […]social.heise.deOriginal post on social.heise.de 012
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMaartje @maartje.dev · 11/06/2026Telephone nerds will appreciate SNCF Reseau 051
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMaartje @maartje.dev · 08/06/2026[Vegan struggles] I already have a backpack full of food…. Then somebody adds milk and honey into my soap now… 141
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026[musing on AI situation (rsync)] I spent some time looking into the rsync regressions. I found the general shape of the cause of one of them, and a discord buddy was able to further nail the exact chain of failure. We reported our findings in the appropriate github issue. (It was a classic […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 0712
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026You may have heard that Peter Neumann passed away yesterday at the age of 93. I cannot do his memory and legacy justice here, but I will say that his work (and friendship and support) influenced almost everything I've worked on. He was one of the first computer scientists to confront (well […]federate.socialOriginal post on federate.social 41034
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026One students paper included footnotes for each "fact that ChatGPT got wrong" that was relevant. Interesting flex! 031
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 09/05/2026You've been visited by the giant alleyway gull 769135
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026the ghost of Beethoven: tell me, how fares the future? do people still enjoy my music? me: oh yes, quite often actually. and sometimes creative young composers intentionally mislabel their work as yours, so that the robots which patrol our libraries day and night don't burn the manuscripts […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 11324
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026One of Odin’s homeless friends (the one who gave me the quark he couldn’t eat) asked me to buy him a Red Bull. I gave it to him, and he was happy, but then I gave him the receipt (so he could prove he didn’t steal it if the cops came by in ten minutes) and he was *thrilled.* Just a little […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 1611
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMaartje @maartje.dev · 25/04/2026SNCF rebranded “Salon Grand Voyageur” to “Salon Grand Voyageur Le Club TGV INOUI” to clarify access conditions…. Yeah wtf why that long name?? Rolls of your tongue! Also SNCF to be technically correct… “Salon Grand Voyageur Le Club, Railteam carte avec billet TGV INOUI ou flex première, optimum […]blahaj.socialOriginal post on blahaj.social 000
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026Several firefighters injured after a collapse in the church. Now a fifth alarm (the maximum pre-determined response). The FDNY "alarm" system addresses an interesting and difficult optimization problem in dispatching additional firefighters to large incidents. And it's largely unchanged from […]federate.socialOriginal post on federate.social 1218
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyTechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026Fidesz' massive defeat comes despite: - multiple active Russian disinformation campaigns - the US government actively supporting Fidesz - Fidesz owning the majority of TV & radio stations + newspapers - Fidesz having gerrymandered the crap out of the country - many documented cases of voter […]mas.toOriginal post on mas.to 1517153
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyheise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026Škodas Fahrradklingel Duobell trickst ANC-Kopfhörer aus ANC-Kopfhörer im Straßenverkehr sind gefährlich. Škoda hat eine mechanische Klingel entwickelt, die die Filteralgorithmen austrickst […]social.heise.deOriginal post on social.heise.de 2011
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026He literally told us that the objective is to “wipe out their whole civilization”. If that isn’t a crime against humanity, the most fundamental of war crimes, nothing is. Virtually no one wants this. It will accomplish nothing. We must stop it. 21030
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyNoah K @coderanger.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026Quick Friday task to improve your personal security: go check your browser and text editor plugins, and disable any you haven't used lately. You can always turn them back on later. 128
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026if you have avoided updating an iOS device because of some combination of hating the new UI or age verification nonsense, please be aware that a critical security patch has been back-ported to iOS 18 so you can install just the patch without a full upgrade. SCROLL DOWN on the Updates tab to find […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 0107
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/202681 Fulham Road ("Michelin House"), London, UK, 2024. All the pixels, each inflated to the proper air pressure, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/541… #photography 256
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gypetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 @peturdainn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026Just read the news that our Belgian government now has its own secure messenger, created by 'Belgian Secure Communications' The name is Beam, but I haven't found out yet if it's based on something existing site: beam.belgium.be/en webclient: web.beam.belgium.be/#/loginbeam.belgium.beBEAM – Secure messaging for Belgian public servicesSecure and end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, specifically designed for Belgian government employees and public sector organizations. 000
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyAda Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026First discovered last year, a lasso-shaped peptide called lariocidin kills bacteria in a way that’s never been seen before - and because its germ-killing mechanism is new, something bacteria haven’t had time to adapt to, it’s predictably awesome in the fight against drug-resistant microbes. AZO […]wandering.shopOriginal post on wandering.shop 0224
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyBert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026De mensen van Odido ("Onze Data Is Daar Onveilig") lijken details over al je apparaten in huis door te sturen naar het bedrijf Lifemote, wat de boel dan met AI beter zou moeten maken. Details: www.linkedin.com/pulse/odido-router…linkedin.comOdido-router verzamelt analytics van je huishoudenJe Odido-router stuurt analytics-data over apparaten in je huis naar het bedrijf Lifemote. Dit vond ik gisteren tijdens een onderzoeksprojectje om mijn eigen WAN-verkeer te mitm'en. 96048
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gytomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know. 7495854075
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gycurious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 03/03/2026'Moon at Seba' from the series '69 Stations of the Kisokaido' - Utagawa Hiroshige, ca 1834. #FullMoon #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt 27616
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026You have been visited by the ARITHMETIC HAND GRENADE Share for 2.718 years of good additions 🙏 📸 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta 252
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event” February 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects” health.aws.amazon.com/health/status 57331
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyJohan Van de Wauw @johanvdw.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026I am looking for a new colleague. www.fluves.com/jobs/infrastructure-… - feel free to contact me if you are in doubt or want more info! #fediHirefluves.comInfrastructure & Network Engineer | FluvesWe are looking for a hands-on, detail-oriented, and excited infrastructure and network engineer to work with application deployments across diverse client environments 012
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyFlippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026This restaurant has five different levels of spiciness to choose from for their noodles. 003
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySimon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]fedi.simonwillison.netOriginal post on fedi.simonwillison.net 1364174
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands. maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back 54381
Reposted by @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyJeroen Baert @jbaert.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026With all these countries sending 1 military unit to Greenland I've learned about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripwire_force 011
