dlg.bsky.social

ok non-tech ppl might be hearing some scary things about "critical vulnerabilities" involving certificates. the main thing you need to know, without getting down in the weeds about it, is that the fourth seal is broken. lo, a rider approacheth upon a pale steed, and his name is Death

A friendly reminder

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“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

What is the rate of “false” diagnosis? What is the actual harm done? Especially when the main intervention is “understanding and reasonable adjustments”? Or is this just the transphobic moral panic collecting another set of victims?

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

one of the least wonderful things about being "high functioning" autistic is that we are still autistic and we're still suffering and screaming, we can just hold it in until we suddenly can't

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

become an animist and never again worry about whether the machines are thinking. so are the trees? the machines can help us make better websites though

I'm happy to see that vibe coding is doing well.

Not sure why anybody in Canberra thinks they're getting those submarines.

[back in the day] Low level programmers: "It's all about optimizing every byte and every cycle, use as little RAM as you can" Other devs: "Nonsense. We have plenty of RAM" [today] Low level programmers: "Well well well"

softwareDevs

New idea just dropped: a cat library. Like a cat cafe, but with books. Read your library book with a cat in your lap.

I ported enough of NetBSD's armv7 MP code to OpenBSD to do a 'make -j4 build' on my DM250X. It brings a full system compilation from ~5.1 days to ~3.5. Compiling LLVM is still multiple days :(

and then Andrew Tate closed replies 😂

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

A few people have asked me recently about how OpenSSH sshd implements privilege separation after the changes of the last couple of years, such as splitting sshd into multiple binaries. I finally got around to writing it up - please take a look if you're curious. github.com/openssh/open...

is that an outlier in my data or a spec of dust on the screen?

Help test OpenSSH 10.4 ahead of its release marc.info?l=openssh-un...

Look I’m just an old lefty, but if the leader of a supposedly progressive party has been knighted, I’m pretty sure that a 🚩 right there that he ain’t exactly in touch with the people

Good night or good day, wherever you are. :)

Stephen Colbert wore a tan suit to the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremony 😂 REUTERS/Octavio Jones

This is what they took from us.

I never got why people seemed to need so much storage on their phones. Then I got a cat.

OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.