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spooky Deirdre Connolly¹ ² at a distance@durumcrustulum.com

sure! my current pov is basically what @dadrian.io said/surfaced about revisiting complexity analysis in general x.com/hausdorff_sp... www.argmin.net/p/faster-fou... securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/10/27/e... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIzb...

securitycryptographywhatever.comEverybody Is Losing Their Minds About AI Math And CryptoThe gang talks about what AI getting Good At Math might mean for cryptography, and why public-key cryptography probably isn’t ending. David is on a mission t...
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dreadful watching the noble //e used as a crude, primitive ][

Benj Edwards@benjedwards.com

I’ve revived my Apple II Agent project from January: An Apple IIe with an Ethernet card and a custom client It links up to Claude through a proxy on my Mac and allows conversational Apple II software creation similar to Claude Code When it’s done, it loads the new program into memory

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in the early days of the internet, people didn’t realize you could simply wear your battlepants while logged on

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social

online today, magazine, imagery (1987) archive.org/details/onli...

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Michael Colborne
@colborne.bsky.social

Vucic has announced defeat

Michael Colborne@colborne.bsky.social

We’ll see what transpires but one thing important to note: in Belgrade, in front of the electoral commission, and around parliament, broadcaster RTS and other places nearby in the centre, a significant police presence has been put in place - along with a suspiciously large number of masked hooligans

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avoid meeting a minotaur in a cube

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social

tsr hobbies, game publisher, print ad, mockup screenshots of theseus and the minotaur and dungeon!, apple II (1983) archive.org/details/blip...

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these people are grade A assholes but having a primary language and also discouraging autotranslation is a completely sane forum policy for lots of forums

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

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gloriouscow.bsky.social
@gloriouscow.bsky.social

This is a photo of Intel engineers working on the CAD design for the Intel 80286 CPU. I was drawn to the image on the right - since we have high resolution die photos, could we actually find what part of the CPU he was working on? Yes, we can #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #reverseengineering

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a lot of people don't realize 99 Ranch was invented as recently as 1984

Ed@ed3d.net

I will say though: the 99 still works

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a universal and "highly convergent" belief is "i should have all the toys". we don't take this convergence as proof we should build our lives or society around it. this is toddler logic.

Ed@ed3d.net

/turns towards camera, stares

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What I don't understand from this story is, how come the people funding the audit (apparently @ostifofficial.bsky.social?) didn't have some provision for public disclosure. The collective outcome appears to have been 'they found the problem and then sat on it for two years'.

halvarflake.bsky.social@halvarflake.bsky.social

tolmo.com/blog/faster-... You should read this if you care about the PHP bug

tolmo.comWe can now find flaws faster than anyone can fix them · TolmoIn 2024 our audit of PHP's core reported two flaws in the exact code behind php2shell and filed one as a crash. Two years later, three teams independently turned the same defect into a working attack ...
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That's worse than the bug - the real work of the audit got turned into deception. The audit is supposed to give you some idea of the security posture of the project but ends up deliberately misrepresenting it

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apparently dinosaurs were naruto runners

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County@nhm.org

🪶 Translucent, syrupy gold amber can preserve little bits of the Age of Dinosaurs across tens of millions of years—so can poop. For the first time ever, scientists found a bird feather in some fossilized dinosaur excrement. go.nhm.org/t-rex-poo

go.nhm.orgPossible T. rex Poo Reveals a New Source of Investigating How Dinosaurs EvolvedScientists discover an exceptionally well-preserved bird feather from the Age of Dinosaurs in prehistoric poop
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I'm fond of 'comparison to Heartbleed' as analysis tool, subjective as it is and to me, these come out quite different. A CA going bad is a fully anticipated failure mode of the system and disruptive as it is, we usually find out fairly quickly how it happened Heartbleed is more like

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert

🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.

emudhra.we-have-a-problem.comeMudhra Intermediate CA CompromiseeMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
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'the most well-resourced, security-sophisticated organizations in the world were (to a first approximation) just make-installing openssl on all their public endpoints'. I don't think that was particularly anticipated and maybe I missed them but there was never much of a public explanation

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a lot of people don't consider the complex floors of approval, though

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"Why did you walk around with Yellow Siberian crab apples in your cheeks? That's what I asked."

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how Scottish martial arts enthusiasts recognize each other

Sophie Schmieg@sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy

Google has an internal tool called fileutil. It's used quite commonly, so it took me about two weeks at the company to want to have an alias for it, so I added one. One day, my – back then – Australian manager looks over my shoulder and sees me type in "fu …" and laughs, saying "excellent […]

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paleontologists aren't settling for just derpifying a lot of dinosaurs, they're giving them little sweaters now they must be stopped

Steve Brusatte@stevebrusatte.bsky.social

This is Dubreuillosaurus. Known from one fossil, the holotype. Described in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 2002. Accessioned into France's national collection, the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, as MNHN 1998-13. Now up for auction. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

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you don't see as many buildings named after a horse these days

Matt Blaze@mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy

United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021 All the pixels, solving any disputes with rational debate and mutual understanding, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335 #photography

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people keep trying to deny token's ring of power

Matthew Garrett@mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip

What *is* the alternative timeline without ethernet? It's clearly not token ring, does Arcnet win out?

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this is the part of the algorithm that colours trees for balance

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Neil Younger
@neilayounger.bsky.social

10 October 1583: Sensational news from Caister in Norfolk, where, says Holinshed, a 'monstrous fish' is 'by force of the wind (being then easterlie) driven a shore'. 'The length whereof was from the necke unto the taile seventeene yards and one foote, having a big head; for the ... #earlymodern

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dude got so rich from inventing the scanline they gave him a monocle as was the custom at the time

Joshua Bloch@joshbloch.bsky.social

On a recent trip to Boston, I snapped this picture of a bust of Arthur Fiedler apparently wearing a monocle in his right eye. Except that it isn't! That "monocle" is a piece of exercise equipment behind the trees and across the path. It's an accidental "forced perspective" illusion.

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it's because they believe the change is going to be discontinuous, it's the rapture for nerds it's very difficult to stay grounded in how dumb (beside boringly predictable) this is - it's everywhere, plus how can seemingly intelligent people capable of making a magical tech be this dumb, etc

Alex Wellerstein@wellerstein.bsky.social

You would think that if these AI "visionaries" truly believed that AI was going to create some kind of amazing utopia and be absolutely essential for human future and yadda yadda yadda that they would be much more careful about both public opinion and the accident potential.

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you can also derive this from first principles by noticing there are no amphibious assaults at all in Dynasty Warriors

Brendan O’Kane@bokane.org

he's right though, amphibious invasions are highly offensive in confucianism

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brisk trade in young fairies, apparently

Dr Francis Young@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social

Thank you to Warwick Words History Festival for hosting a great event on the history of fairies - excellent audience questions, and all my books sold out! 📚🧚‍♀️