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25 July

My friend's cat has cancer. If you can, please donate to their GoFundMe to help cover medication, vet visits, and surgery! Please also boost this so other folks see it. 💜 tinyurl.com/supportdisab...

php.netPHP: News Archive - 2026PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

More details of the very serious PHP vulnerabilities: www.php.net/archive/2026... If you have any PHP-based systems, and haven't updated them, you should do so NOW.

thephp.foundationToday's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP SecurityDescribing the story behind how critical security vulnerabilities were found and fixed.

Considering that they seem to be having funding issues AND apparently *three different groups* fucking leaked things ahead of the embargo, I think the PHP Security Team did a good job. They've also owned up to their own mistakes unprompted. We need more of that. thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10...

It seems truly unhinged to me that Chainguard broke the *revised, earlier* embargo 6 hours early and doesn't seem to have even made a statement about why. If you had a compelling reason, say it. If you didn't, fuck off. That's the kind of shit that makes you stop getting advanced warning.

nightshade →home, for now

y'all if you have anything using PHP, just take it offline, ideally yesterday like, EVERYTHING using PHP. oof.

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oh it's bad. oh it's BAD bad. oh this is CATASTROPHIC, drop-whatever-you're-doing-and-patch-NOW levels of bad cert.europa.eu/publications...

nightshade →home, for now@nightshade.technology

yeah iunno bout you but that seems pretty bad

gem.coopgem fellowship 2027Hello! It’s been a while, but we’ve been working on some exciting new stuff. Today, we’re very pleased to announce the 2027 Gem Fellowship. Last year, we sponsored work on eight Ruby OSS projects incl...

Gem Coop recently published an update on the Gem Fellowship: gem.coop/updates/8/ We're explicitly trying to fund more projects this year. If you maintain an open-source Ruby project, and could use funding, you should consider applying when applications open on December 1st 2026!

gem.coopSponsor the Gem FellowshipIn 2026, we debuted The Gem Fellowship, a program to sponsor vital development and maintenance work on Ruby open source projects that are widely used throughout the community. Each year, individual Ru...

Last year we funded 8 projects. This year we're aiming to fund 15. If your company wants to support the Ruby community directly, consider sponsoring the Gem Fellowship: gem.coop/fellowship/s...

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Ninji

@ninji.dog

Last weekend at RuneFest I got surprised with this incredible gift from the RuneScape Archive Project — It's me as the original RS2 wolf model from 2004

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Steve Klabnik

@steveklabnik.com

When random is not actually random enough, by @stdlib.bsky.social ersc.io/blog/when-ra...

ersc.ioWhen random is not actually random enoughA short lesson in API design

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jneen

@jneen.ca

20 Sept

Replying to @jneen.ca

open for the following: * tech work * music lessons (i have quite a lot of experience at this now!) * math teaching/tutoring * game dev work * game design work * JP->EN translation work * music commissions / composition work (esp for games, youtube/twitch intros, etc)

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jneen

@jneen.ca

20 Sept

quick check-in, still looking for work!

jneen@jneen.ca

hi yall. i'm looking for work. writing things like this has been a severely career-limiting move, but i am as sharp as ever, and very good at what i do. i know the industry cannot stay this way, but if you want to toss my CV over to HR, it would help a lot in the meanwhile. jneen.ca/pages/cv

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Replying to @lookitup.baby

🎶 The more you know 🌈⭐️

cidrap.umn.eduAlthough it’s uncommon, vaccinated people can spread measles, study findsThose who have been vaccinated against measles experience a milder, shorter illness.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫

@lookitup.baby

20 Sept

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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15 Sept

Anyone by chance have a scan of a service manual for the Argus A camera? All I can find is the user/operating manual. I know some of their other cameras have service manuals, especially their C series.

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blog.rust-lang.orgSupply chain attack on arrayref | Rust BlogEmpowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

some pictures from last week. ^.^

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@rust-lang.org

20 Aug

⚠️ A few hours ago, a malicious crate was discovered on crates.io which spread as a dependency of `arrayref` and some other crates, likely due to compromised credentials. The affected versions have been deleted. For details and how to see if you are impacted, see: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/s...

some pictures from last week. ^.^

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Like, this lens is WEIRD. It being AF-only with a fixed f/4.5 aperture feels like it should be limiting. But it's just *not*. Switch to Aperture Priority mode and make sure there's decent lighting, and the fact that the auto-focus is pretty fast gets you the rest of the way there.

The camera and lens are super thin. Combined, they're around 2¼"/5.5cm thick. In practice, the lens has *replaced* my camera body cap. It's the same size and has a lens cap built in, so why not?! So this is a mirrorless camera that's always ready — I can just grab it and slip it in my back pocket.

some pictures from last week. ^.^

i love the pictures i get from this camera + lens combination. Fujifilm X-A5 + Viltrox AF 28mm F4.5 The X-A5 is 8 years old and still going strong. And Fujifilm's "Vivid" film simulation gets *delightful* colors. This was the first time I used this lens, and I was VERY surprised.

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"puppy, what are you doing with this?" i'm going to play with it, because it's a toy, weren't you listening?

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cpsc.govOCOOPA Direct Recalls 1.5 Million Rechargeable Hand Warmers Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards; One Death Reported; Imported by Shenzhen Street Cat TechnologyConsumers should stop using the recalled hand warmers immediately and contact OCOOPA Direct for a full refund in the form of an OCOOPA gift card or the original form of payment. Consumers will be aske...

New toy acquired: Sony NEX FS100U (I have no practical use for this. It is very much a toy.)

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫

@lookitup.baby

31 July

So uhh I have multiple pairs of these USB rechargeable hand warmers that just got recalled for fire and burn hazards that killed someone and some of you might too

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Ninji

@ninji.dog

27 July

over the past week I've been blessed by some fantastic dog sightings around Glasgow

New toy acquired: Sony NEX FS100U (I have no practical use for this. It is very much a toy.)

"puppy, what are you doing with this?" i'm going to play with it, because it's a toy, weren't you listening?

Also, manually focusing on an object moving towards the camera is brutal.

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Anna Phylaxis

@quatoria.bsky.social

19 July

hey, reaching out to artist friends on here - i’m working in physical media, 18x24” or larger &I can’t scan a whole piece at once, need to take three or four scans to get it all. .tif files & 6000+ dpi, 1-2 gigs. I need suggestions on a program to use to stitch those together into one image.

16 July

Once again, my strange tendency to read large parts of the POSIX standard in my free time has proven useful in my professional work. 😂

12 July

Do any of y'all have ideas for computer accessibility options for someone who has hand RSI and sometimes has trouble speaking? In other words, an alternative computer control method to keyboards (including touchscreen ones), mouse, or speech. Needs to work on Linux for both prose and programming.

12 July

This is a thing I've tried to figure out many times over the last decade. I'm okay with making both custom software *and* custom hardware for this, if needed. The best idea I've had so far is a "fight stick" controller (joystick + 6 buttons) and custom software. Hoping to try that soon.

12 July

To clarify: I don't need this imminently, but it's been a recurring issue for over a decade and I do need to solve it. If I come up with a solution for this and use it preemptively sometimes, I can completely avoid the worse RSI issues I encounter.

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1 July

aperiodic reminder that, while Disney shouldn't have been able to acquire 21st Century Fox for antitrust reasons, that acquisition *does* mean that Xenomorphs have been Disney princesses for like 7 years.

1 July

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gofund.meDonate to Our Disabled Trans POC friend's ESA cat has cancer! Help us!, organized by Cat LiOn behalf of our favorite formerly Homeless, Physically and Mental… Cat Li needs your support for Our Disabled Trans POC friend's ESA cat has cancer! Help us!

27 June

My friend's cat, which is also their emotional support animal, has cancer and requires surgery for it. This is on top of already-expensive medication. If you're able, please consider donating to the GoFundMe to help cover the costs! gofund.me/9f0dfde44

27 June

Apparently this needs to be stated: If I ask your opinion on a topic, and you give me an AI's answer, you're disrespecting both of us. If I ask your opinion, it means I respect and trust you as a person and want to know what you think. Refusing to put thought in yourself is wasting both our time.

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If you won't form your own fucking opinions, whose are you parroting at me?

And, to be clear: If someone were to repeatedly respond with "hang on, let me ask $SOME_DUDE", I'd feel the same way. It's the action itself, done by the person I try to talk to, that's disrespectful of everyone involved.

If I try to talk to you, I want to talk to *you*. I want to know what your stances on things are. I want to know how you approach a nuanced topic. I want to learn what catches your attention. I want to learn the weird nuances of how you speak.

I'm sick to fucking death of trying to have real conversations only for people to respond with shit like "let me check $AI_TOOL". Cut that shit out. Have some fucking self respect. Learn a bit about topics you're unfamiliar with, don't just read the AI summary. Form some actual opinions.

18 June

nothing like opening a file that's unexpectedly 15,224 lines of code to make me appreciate neovim

15 June

Anyone know why a Casio MDV106 (quartz analog watch) would lose roughly 1.5 minutes per day? Battery is less than a week old, and it actually was losing *1 second per minute* right after replacing it (so in 10 hours it lost 10 minutes). Someone else poked at it a bit and it's better, but not fixed.