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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 08/01/2026

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

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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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pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@maartje You had the train equivalent of a 'break glass' situation?

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

my 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

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Are 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 […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I 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]

a magazine advertising spread of the Atari Jaguar, which allegedly has 64 bits of power, 16.8 million colors, and incredible 850 million pixels per inch rendering speed.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Please 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 […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

holy %+/= the Dutch train system just announced they are being sabotaged: piles of junk dropped across several different tracks simultaneously #netherlands #trains #publictransport

headlines in Dutch: great disturbance on tracks, train traffic in north and east severely out of order / cause of disturbance seems to be sabotage, stuff found lying on multiple tracks

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 30/08/2026

Want 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/FEHWJQ

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Sleeping across 4 borders - a day in a night train manager’s life MRMCD 2026

Ever 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?

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Vous 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 […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

If 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.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

it was the conch shell and yes my back still hurts from when I pulled it two months ago #retrocomputing

screenshot of the old Microsoft Solitaire interface for selecting your card back decoration, captioned "if you have a favorite pattern, your back hurts when you wake up now"

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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

There'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.

macOS VM running exploit.py, which claims success

Victim macOS 15.7.7 system
/tmp/pwned is owned by root, and contains "pwned"

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2 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 […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

RE: 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.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/07/2026

RE: woof.group/@aphyr/116723922317737094 this thread is _amazing_

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Marine 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

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@NOS/11688406702550… “Thanks to (immigration sponsorship) fund, Netherlands attracts dozens of top scientists, mostly from the US”

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/07/2026

If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 26/06/2026

Okay I need to call this out…. NMBS should be removed from the OpenAI Family plan… hang on for a thread

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Post 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 […]

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

iFixit-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 […]

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 11/06/2026

Telephone nerds will appreciate SNCF Reseau

Back of driver calling with a phone under a giant bell

Sncf telephone being used, it being tilted up for earpiece to work

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Maartje @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…

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abadidea @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 […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

You 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 […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

One students paper included footnotes for each "fact that ChatGPT got wrong" that was relevant. Interesting flex!

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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 09/05/2026

You've been visited by the giant alleyway gull

A seagull standing on an outer window sill. The perspective makes it look like it's 1.5 floors tall and standing on the ground outside.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

the 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 […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

One 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 […]

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 25/04/2026

SNCF 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 […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

Several 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 […]

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TechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Fidesz' 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 […]

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

Škodas Fahrradklingel Duobell trickst ANC-Kopfhörer aus ANC-Kopfhörer im Straßenverkehr sind gefährlich. Škoda hat eine mechanische Klingel entwickelt, die die Filteralgorithmen austrickst […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

He 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.

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Noah K @coderanger.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Quick 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.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

if 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 […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

81 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

An ornate, two story Art Nouveau building, heavily ornamented with tire-themed features and stained glass windows featuring an early version of the "Michelin Man" character in different poses.

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pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy @pvaneynd.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

@quixoticgeek That's a wonderful description of a museum. I've heard recently that our own Natural history museum (www.naturalsciences.be/en ) has a monthly ceremony where they take the specimen of organisms that went extinct that month from the normal collection into the 'extinct' […]

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petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 @peturdainn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Just 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/#/login

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BEAM – Secure messaging for Belgian public services

Secure and end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, specifically designed for Belgian government employees and public sector organizations.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

First 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 […]

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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

When 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.

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curious 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

Flat boats on a river with trees alongside and a full moon low in the sky beyond.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

You have been visited by the ARITHMETIC HAND GRENADE Share for 2.718 years of good additions 🙏 📸 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

Photo: A Curta Type II mechanical computer on display at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

June 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

Mar 01 9:41 AM PST We want to provide some
additional information on the power issue in a
single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1
Region. At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our
Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by
objects that struck the data center, creating
sparks and fire.

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

This restaurant has five different levels of spiciness to choose from for their noodles.

Choose your spice level:

* Baby Spice - no chilli
* Posh Spice - little chilli
* Sporty Spice - medium chilli
* Ginger Spice - hot stuff
* Scary Spice - blow your wig off

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

The 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 […]

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