Nicolás Alvarez

We're still trying to figure out the timing of events but there's a chance the reason my morning tea tasted weird was that my mom washed the glass water bottles with bleach.

we still use the ancient ways because they 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬

Every time there is a broad cybersecurity problem I'm annoyed that we don't have a single place to collect and centralize all the relevant memes. Maybe I should do something about that.

Here's my RSA public key modulus (a product of two primes), you can't factor it into the primes to get the private key without doing brute force, which would take forever! 167390358494784493930220849241063454088523974918568842844562156944914418969390011438073558262658715438689072339997445

we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

It has come to my attention that many people are unaware that the person who figured out that the private key was 4 was a Something Awful forums goon: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

Good god these servers have older distros than I expected. Maybe it will turn out PHP is the least vulnerable package.

I had to take down all PHP websites on @kde.org. The PHP vulnerability seems serious :/ Phabricator is down, wikis are down, KDE Identity is down. Identity-based logins on other websites should still work.

I turned PHP off and I'm still getting 10 requests per second like before I turned it off, except they're all getting errors now. Oh, it's all scrapers.

some asshole decided to completely leak the deets of the exploit instead of waiting 14 more hours for the responsible disclosure/patch window to end. researched via ai of course

the hilarity of "we used a private key of 4" is starting to really sink in now and i am besides myself with laughter

It's seemingly impossible to have a discussion with an AI bro without them getting Uber defensive and engaging in every single logical fallacy under the sun then doubling down or running away when you call them out on it.

Hey @bsky.app @support.bsky.team, can you explain this? Cause the fact that you first posted this on Twitter and not here is VERY telling

@xkeeper.net @daeschala.bsky.social I just saw this shared on Discord and you may want to see it too :3

a particular button on my typing-board is now not working at all, so i might just avoid using that symbol until i gt a nw on

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 935: "questions about Richard Dawkins"

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

saw a great tip about using a dog training clicker to mark where you mess up a take in an audio recording, because it generates a nice clean pattern in the waveform that makes it easy to spot works great, but my dog is going nuts

I'm coughing and Extremely Tired. It seems impossible to buy covid self-tests in this stupid country anymore so I may have to go to a lab to get tested tomorrow. I doubt I caught something at #Akademy itself, the timing of symptoms doesn't add up. But catching something on the flight back, maybe…

Guess this whole week is a loss. I haven't even finished unpacking yet.

@freya.bsky.social

it didn't spill to bsky cuz almost none of ya care about computer touching but fedi’s reaction to kde not having a perfectly rehearsed community manager type response about random shit not under their control was some absolute “what the fuck is wrong with you” moment

Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.

@freya.bsky.social thoughts on this

I just spent €100 in chocolate 🙈

I just spent €100 in chocolate 🙈

Apple keeps playing musical chairs assigning features to the seven ways to use the Apple Watch physical buttons: Digital Crown press / long press / double press, side button press / long press / double press, and both buttons simultaneously.

boo

>get message from B >"find M and tell him 'B asked me to ask you for pussy'" >wtf >find M at the conference >show him the message and ask "do you know what the heck this is about" >he says "oh I was looking for you" >he hands me an envelope

Celebrating 30 years of @kde.org at #Akademy is a great opportunity to look back at our history. Get a sneakpeak at our upcoming documentary in the new trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P749...

Starting #Akademy2026!

The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.