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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#Technology is such crap. #Software was a mistake, especially the relentless #update treadmill. Someone, somewhere upstream, recently flipped a bit, or changed a default, without fully grasping the consequences. It trickled down the software stack unchecked to my machine, and suddenly […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I dunno… I feel like wanting to share my browsing behaviour with your 564 "trusted partners" is perhaps the opposite of valuing my privacy?

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago. The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely […]

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

Before the Internet, we thought that every village had only one idiot. We were very, very wrong.

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Oops my LLM broke containment and just happened to find the wide-open endpoint for infinite Star Trek streaming with audio description and now I'm probably going to jail but at least I'll have my 1990s Star Trek with AD (which I do not get with Paramount Plus, mind you). Something something AI […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1172121184871… A nice deep dive into the extractive horror show that is selling on Amazon. Or: how screwing over sellers isn't enough, if you can then go on to screw them more and then find a new way to screw them while screwing them.

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AstraKernel 💫 @astrakernel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🦀 py32-hal: Rust HAL and Embassy driver implementation for Puya py32 MCUs - Smallest 32-bit Cortex-M0+ MCUs github.com/py32-rs/py32... #rustlang #embedded

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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Oops. "A #Tesla 'Robotaxi' running with no safety monitor onboard drove straight through a row of bollards protecting a closed-off lane in Austin, then kept driving." […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Pet peeve: audio games responding to a common keypress by telling me about the alternative way to perform the action rather than just doing the thing. Example: I press Enter to skip a scene. The game isn't using Enter for anything at this point, so it could skip the scene. Instead it tells me […]

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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Can my AI agent break containment? It'd be really cool to have a thing autonomously hacking accessibility into games without my control. Maybe then I'd get a real job.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

This post neatly summarizes one of my main objections to #AI: www.endnotes.net/chud-waterloo/#no-… A good quote: "LLMs are possibly the least efficient software solution ever devised. Essentially, software engineers finally wrote software so grossly […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I'm really quite surprised that CrowdSupply actually published this brutal (but quite accurate) takedown of their and Mouser's performance! 🫢

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Oops. I wish that when I had copied a symbol to make a new part in #KiCad, and then proceeded to forget to update the pinout, that I had at least used a symbol that had the pinout that 95% of the SOT23-5 buck converters on the market seem to use. But no, of course I copied the symbol with a […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 04/07/2026

I managed an e-commerce server for about ten years. It grew from a small local shop into a major national business, even handling international orders. They expanded to the point where they reduced their local brick-and-mortar store hours because the bulk of their revenue was coming from online […]

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dr.-ing. ⁡jaseg @jaseg.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Not my finest work, but it will do the job. I really need to get some proper fine tips for my JBC C245 clone. The "knife" shape SK tip is really to clumsy for this sort of work 🤣 #electronics #soldering #embedded

A microscope shot of a PCB showing the edge of a chip with rows of 0201 (imperial) or smaller passives and a small crystal next to it. One of the passives has been desoldered, and replaced with a big chonky looking 0402 (imperial) passive soldered at an angle between one of the old part's pads and a nearby testpoint. The imperial 0402 part is more than twice the size than the smaller passives.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

I hope that everyone remembers the #companies that callously chopped their #workforce when it seemed "#AI" could do the job. And when the #bubble pops, and they come crying for help... let them suffer and die.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

I'm reading an article, I look at the sources, and I see in all the URLs `?utm_source=chatgpt.com` :picardfacepalm:

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your […]

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

I bought a car. I’m trying to get Toyota to stop sending telemetry. I call support. They tell me I can just sign in with the app and make changes. I point out that installing and using the app binds me to terms and conditions, one of which is binding arbitration. So I will not be installing the […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Whelp, the NYT Connections is complete nonsense again tonight. Glad I didn't bother to try for very long.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

I feel for all the #engineers whose bosses are getting all these #AI generated spam messages that I'm getting, full of scary word salad about supposed "issues" with their product. Must be a full-time job to defuse all that if you have gullible non-technical executives.

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ocdtrekkie @ocdtrekkie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

HN people, I swear. Claiming having only gigabit networking hardware at home is super slow and being surprised any people still have that. Valley folks legit live on another planet.

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

I just saw the most amazingly corporate expression of "we did what the bosses wanted us to do, even though the research didn't support that." The actual phrase was: > The research employed a methodology that prioritized stakeholder voice over researcher interpretation. I wonder if a data […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up... Have a good Friday everyone! www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib_mil…

(A LinkedIn screenshot)

Millions of people look up to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
My role model is Daniel Stenberg. You've never heard of him.
His code runs on 10 billion devices, including the one you're reading this post on.

He started building cURL in 1996. It handles data transfer on nearly every phone, console, smart TV, 47 car brands, and it was on the Mars helicopter.

He's also the person who's kept it going for nearly 30 years.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Men love making dainty little doohickeys with jewelry and thread as long as they can theoretically kill a trout with it

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116337… I very much appreciate the way they wrote this: "SpaceX, which recently reported two Starlink satellite failures that created new space debris, yesterday accused Amazon and its launch partner Arianespace of negligence that 'needlessly […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

NEW YORK (AP): Shares in Manhattan based SPAV “Ethereal Services LLC”—which last year acquired a number of occult-related businesses including pioneering startup Ghostbusters Inc—have been suspended from trading after the District Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that found the capture and […]

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

I've been thinking about the FCC's insane new ban on foreign-made routers. Note the end of the BBC story at www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74787w14…: "One exception to the general absence of US-made routers is the newer Starlink WiFi router. Starlink is part of Elon Musk's company SpaceX […]

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ocdtrekkie @ocdtrekkie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

The idea that Office 365 is compliant for use in any regulated space is *absolutely laughable*, but apparently the reason GCC High is approved for government use is because the government let agencies use it while they were evaluating it, and then realized so many agencies were now dependent on […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Any journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark. Every single one of those will come […]

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ocdtrekkie @ocdtrekkie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

Create the problem and then sell the solution? Apparently people need this because they're being overwhelmed by the number of pull requests made by Claude Code. techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/anthropic…

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/03/2026

I've seen a lot of people talking about the practice of code review in a way that I consider unrealistic lately. So here are my thoughts on what code review is—and isn't—for: blog.glyph.im/2026/03/what-is-code-…

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Deciphering Glyph :: What Is Code Review For?

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

Goodness. Just spent HOURS trying to figure out a udev rule to make a Brother PT-P700 label printer accessible from a user-level #python script. It involved unbinding the kernel driver and selecting a USB configuration. This shouldn't be something so difficult it should take HOURS. I had also […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this: Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item […]

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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

> LOOK You are in a room. There are exits to the north and west. There is an armchair. > SIT You are sitting in an armchair in a room. There are exits to the north and west. A small black cat enters the room. > TAKE CAT You cannot take the cat. > PET CAT You pet the cat. It starts to purr […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

The campaign may be over but you can still pre-order a ManT1S! And I finally found time 😅 to start to document how to power a ManT1S and the T1S mixing segment in Power considerations Part One: Voltage #iot #network #power […]

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge.fed.interfree.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

Wow, Microsoft! You sure saved me! This file was obviously extremely dangerous, and it's sure a good thing defender flagged it four times and then deleted it! file: C:\Users\samue\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadLine\ConsoleHost_history.txt What ever would I have done if I […]

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An autonomous AI agent published a hit piece about a Python project maintainer after its change request was denied. Scott Shambaugh tells the story of how the rise of OpenClaw style agents are making things even harder for Open Source maintainers […]

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs […]

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Jennifer 🍄 @jenyetagain.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Comparing historical hair samples from people from when they were babies to today, a new study finds a nearly 100-fold decrease in lead from samples after the EPA's crackdown on leaded gas. Regulation works and it saves lives! […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

Figure from Cerling et al, showing a precipitous decline in concentrations of lead in hair samples after the 1970s

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Gareth Halfacree @ghalfacree.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

Oof, the second #RaspberryPi price-hike in two months is here. Three months ago, the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB had a $120 RRP; it's now $205. Thanks, #AI(!)

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