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John Kristoff @jtk.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Weekend Reads * BGP anomaly detection dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3777912.… * ChatBGP dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3777912.… * Computer Networks: A Systems Approach 7e.systemsapproach.org/index.html * False 5G base station risks […]

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 18h

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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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Gestern musste ich über den #berlin|er Alexanderplatz und dachte: Warum ist jetzt Weihnachtsmarkt schon im Oktober?

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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/09/2026

I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A LinkedIn post from me that reads "DHH is openly a Nazi. You should not promote anything he is doing or relay his opinions on software development. It is shocking to me when I open this app and see people casually discussing his opinions on AI or interface design or whatever, as if he were a "thought leader". He is an open advocate for mass murder. It doesn't matter what else he thinks, do not promote his ideas." followed by the text "Only you can see this post because this content goes against our Professional Community Policies."

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Kris @isotopp.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

What’s the opposite of Brexit? Breturn?

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Poul-Henning Kamp @bsdphk.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Has anybody praised @tubetime today, for being the hero who reverse engineered the HP16717A ? No ? Then I'll do it:

The diagnostic test program confirmed that my HP16717A board has been repaired successfully.

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I found another mental model for why working with some #ai sloppers is so taxing and risky: As a professional, I try to give two-dimensional answers: The data (my judgement/prediction/…) and a confidence level, mostly from four categories (not sure / quite sure / very confident / quasi […]

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 22/09/2026

Söder droht, dass Bayern kein Geld mehr nach Berlin zahlen würde, wenn die Linke dort regieren sollte. Nach Sachsen-Anhalt, wo die buchstäblichen Faschisten von der AfD regieren könnten, hat er solche Drohungen nicht geschickt.

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Kris @isotopp.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@bagder You cannot have a teams team named PRN, because each teams team also has an Office 365 space, and the space, hosted on a windows server, produces a directory for the space, named PRN-something, which was a reserved name in MS-DOS 40 years ago, and still is in current windows.

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

#ios #iphone #battery usage is really a mystery to me. I use the thing almost identically, but get totally different power consumption: One day it survives on the battery for the day, four days later it drains within 8 hours. Yes, I always disable location […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

screenshot of ios battery usage showing quick drainage

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117201596… I was unaware that #xclip is actually a malware detection tool :) I use a trivial script which basically does pass … | xclip -r -l 1 -quiet which would also have caught this. Thank you, Peter Åstrand oh, and one last thing: Folks […]

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@hzulla/1172974638… I bought three fat (768GB RAM, 30TB ssd) servers in 2023, which then sat unused in to office for two years because we did not get around to installing them. I felt bad about the waste of money. Thank you sloppers for making me feed good […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Alle Regulierung für "KI", die wir brauchen, ist einfach nur die Durchsetzung normaler Produkthaftung. Du bist für die Halluzinationen deiner Modelle haftbar, wenn du über 1% (das ist großzügig, solche Fehlerraten lassen wir sonst _nie zu) Fehlinformationen produzierst, kommen Strafen. Wir […]

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

It seems like whenever I work on #forgejo, some hacky code from the #gitea days pops up. If you use forgejo, you should really be grateful to the new maintainers for being the competent developers that they are. And all the linting and checking they have sometimes is a PITA, but for a good […]

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/01a0b1… I did not have "scientologists do DMM mastering" on my bingo card 🤣 (This is about Vinyl records, not about Vinyl Cache)

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jordan @jordan.sometimes.social · 17/09/2026

[software rambling] so the self-hosted #Forgejo actions runner I set up for my #Codeberg stuff actually works better/faster than actual GitHub Actions * because the dockerd is persistent across runs, it's not constantly re-downloading containers * the runner also caches checkouts of […]

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Derzeitiger Umschulungstrend: Slopwareentwickler:in

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Serious question triggered by the #flock bs: How would you even avoid "hardcoding" credentials in an appliance? Sure, you can use an HSM/TSM/Enclave, but ultimately this is just security by obscurity, because the OS needs to boot unattended and eventually keys/secrets need to be available to the […]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

RE: techhub.social/@NSFVoyager2/1172749… Voyager 1 is only 11 minutes shy of a full “light-day” away from Earth! #voyager

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

When ChatGPT was new, I created an #openai account to try it. Now I wanted to delete it, and can not, because an enterprise client added it to their organization. So my client now controls my account. Interesting.

Screenshot of OpenAI account deletion failing.

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Why are keyboard layouts not settable per keyboard? #gnome

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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

`ddrescue` is one of the Geek Wonders of the World. So deceptively simple, so elegant in its sparseness, so thorough in its understanding of the problem space. `$times_bacon_saved++;`

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Timo Tijhof @timotijhof.net · 10/09/2026

@slink I expect pretty soon, we won't be able to purchase anything lasting that long at an affordable price. They want it gone for security reasons. > Sectigo, has already recently lowered the maximum from 356 to 200 days and it'll reduce to 100 days next year. The exception is, of course […]

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@masek magst du mir helfen? Welches 1m USB C auf C kabel soll ich bestellen für 1A Durchsatz, keine Probleme und 180w?

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment The objective of this class is to learn and understand the interfaces, libraries and concepts we cover as well as to actually write code. This requires struggling with code, to work your way through your problems […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Screenshot of lecture slides "Use of AI":

LLMs are inherently problematic:
Based on unapologetic exploitation of Intellectual Property
Reinforcement of biases and power structures in the training set (GIGO)
Concentration of power in the hands of a small number of US companies
Convergence on Meh
Reckless practices by AI companies, including attacks on other companies and generation of CSAM
Your use of AI helps AI companies make better autonomous killing machines
Massive environmental impact and exacerbation of global warming

Screenshot of lecture slide "Ethics aside..."

AI can be useful when writing code, but the code is generates requires scrutiny.

Being able to identify problem with somebody else’s code requires you to be able to fully understand the code, the problem space, the constraints, the edge conditions.

LLMs generate plausible looking code, but reviewing and debugging code that intuitively looks correct requires double the effort and experience — i.e., not a task for junior developers.

In order to supervise AI, you need to fully understand the problem you’re trying to use AI to solve.

Screenshot of lecture slied "Don't be a Meat Proxy"

Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.

If all you do is paste problem statements into the LLM and copy/paste the response… then why do we need you?

Being a meat proxy is not a skill; it’s the choice of reducing your value and offer yourself up as tribute.

Screenshot of lecture slide "Use of AI"

Telling AI to write (code) is not the same as learning to write (code). You can only get better at writing (code) by actually writing (code), kind of badly at first, struggling with it, and figuring out what works.
Using AI to complete your coding assignments is like asking somebody else to go to the gym for you. You’re here to learn, to exercise, to build muscle.

The use of AI in this class is strictly prohibited.
This includes writing emails, READMEs, or other text.

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/use-of-ai.html

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Two years ago, I bought an S/MIME certificate from #sectigo for €22 for 24 months. Now this _almost_ auto-renewed for €86, also for 24 months. 🤯 Do any Internet businesses still exist which are not a total rip off (other than our company ofc and some other […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Your subscription will automatically renew every 24 months until you cancel. You can cancel your subscription at any time in your account. *

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

[dystopian] 10% chance of all humans dying because of #ai? sounds about right given the amount of #climatecatastrophe amplification it contributes.

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

Project Glasswing: Claiming to have found 26 thousand real vulnerabilities but only 0.8% of them have resulted in a real fix in a real project after five months is dire. They blame it on the human independent review bottleneck, but human experts being paid for their time definitely have a […]

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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Investing in stocks:

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Scheiß AfD Jetzt also geht das ganz schnell mit dem Entzaubern, ja?

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John Kristoff @jtk.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Good grief, #Fastly is now seemingly returning 403s from all their website properties if your origin IP4 address is not on an approved list of source prefixes for clients. At least access to them via Tor still works. The well-meaning intention to limit undesirable bots and scrapers is […]

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Jorijn Schrijvershof @jorijn.jorijn.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Setting up a desktop computer for the 12-year-old son. The cat/mouse game has begun. My opening move: separate VLAN, content filtering, scheduled internet access, blocked VPN/proxy traffic, locked-down NetworkManager, no sudo. His opening move will probably be discovering MAC randomization […]

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

How I will and will not use #LLMs (#AI): - do always assume that the LLM outputs bullshit - do use for discovery: Discover _potential_ security issues or bugs, find concepts I do not know about, generate throw away example code - maybe use for analysis: Understand language, help understand bugs […]

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

When I try to clone repos from #github anonymously while on an enterprise VPN, it asks for HTTP authentication. It's only going downhill.

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

LLMs are also gaslighting as a service. Probably not a new thought, but anyway.

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Poul-Henning Kamp @bsdphk.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@gabrielesvelto By sheer coincidence, I just wrote a minor lecture about flash a couple of days on VCFED: forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/c… The important bit is: FLASH IS SIMPLY NOT A SUITABLE ARCHIVE MEDIUM!

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

A short story about data retention on modern SSDs and a word of warning about leaving them unpowered. I recently helped a friend move his data to a new machine - and because of kerfuffle by his IT department - his new laptop arrived with a small SSD, so we had to leave some data behind until a […]

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

1. Debian Developer resigns from the project in response to the recent vote to allow generative AI use within Debian. 2. A member of the debian-devel mailing list sends the message at left in response. 3. I just sent the message at right in response to that. #Debian #Linux #AI

good riddance, antoine the fascist. you love causing damage to the debian project and now you're throwing a temper tantrum like a five-year old child because you can't comprehend the ai evolution. you are nothing more than a deranged person who spits at people's work and expects people to follow their unhinged beliefs, a waste of human space. you are the one who is being fascist here.

Either the Debian Community Team officially, on the debian-devel mailing list, states that the message below from David Nickelson violates the Code of Conduct and imposes consequences on him for sending it, or I am resigning as maintainer of apt-listchanges and never again taking on any volunteer role within Debian.

My contributions to Debian thus far have been extremely small, and I'm sure they will not be terribly missed. Nevertheless, I will not continue to associate myself with an organization which allows messages like the one below to be sent without repercussions.

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I suspect the slop PRs have arrived in our nice little corner, too. We should ban submitting unmarked slop.

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Mario Sixtus 🇭🇰馬六 @sixtus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

You used A.I.

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Can anyone recommend a reliable, general seqlock implementation in #c using stdatomic.h with BSD compatible license? Boosts welcome

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Nils Goroll 🕊️:vinylcache: @slink.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Die Leute hinter #fefe interim arbeiten gut: "Das Bundeskartellamt steckt offenbar bis zum Anschlag im Arsch der Werbemafia." Ja. Wessen Rechte sollten da nochmal gleich gestärkt werden? […]

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