Ricardo J. Méndez

The IDE was a useful bundle when devs had to manually navigate text. The agent does the navigating (and a ton of editing!) now, so the bundle stops earning its keep. Cleanest unbundling keeps winning. numergent.com/2026-05/IDE-...

Proceeds to posthumously win the libertarian party nomination.

Even if you had zero empathy or interest in countries other than your own, it has practical value. The fascists are all to happy to learn from each other — why would you deprive yourself of the opportunity? numergent.com/2025-09/Fast...

Bluesky has four kinds of users.

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Is ordering workups to be on the safe side a serious issue *anywhere other than in the US*? Doesn't seem like it'd be a problem in the EU. Better safe than sorry. 🤷‍♂️ (The medication bit does seem like an problem though. Even if I have my biases about where that may come from.)

Say what you will about Microsoft, their government sales staff takes no prisoners. (Derogatory)

Vibe marketing. Jesus.

Consider why you might not want a company that is subject to the laws of the countries in which it operates to be able to directly query the pronouns of its userbase. And you can always use a profile link pronoun.is

Arc was my favorite browser for four years. In Atlassian’s shoes I’d still have killed it, and probably bought the company too — we are mostly arguing about price. numergent.com/2026-10/They...

“We have no futures because our present is too volatile. . . . We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment’s scenarios. Pattern recognition.” — @greatdismal.bsky.social

The only interesting vampire is a Peter Watts vampire.

I am "cryptography t-shirts used to have the RSA algo as a Perl dolphin in them because it was the only way to legally export crypto code" years old.

> The weak keys were the ones published to the browser root stores. Phew! That's fine then. Nobody ever uses browsers. > No compromise of infrastructure or data Thank god at least eMudhra is safe.

I now have a working theory of how this happened: village idiot with atomic tools. The tool that creates the certificate cannot generate random numbers. They get an RNG. It spits out a very large number as a byte array. [56, 66, 116, 155, 156, 230, 237, 4] Idiot figures that gets them 8 seeds.

The macOS built-in curl, git, pip, python3, perl, ruby, and openssl all read /etc/ssl/cert.pem, which still has the emSign root, but they don't check revocation like Apple's Secure Transport libraries. This is, uh, a problem. git and pip especially. I added a short-term workaround to this page.

Fair assessment. Only caveat here is that’s good *for Anthropic*. However, if you are Joe Civilian wandering into the IPO, that’s an extra $80Bn waiting to dump on you. (Barring lock ups)

Are we gonna do this, Bluesky? Are we all just gonna not understand accounting? 72B$ of the 80B$ is convertible notes. They became greater liabilities because the company's valuation skyrocketed. They don't have an 80B$ loss in the sense that almost everyone here is imagining.

Read this thread if you're not sure why the intermediate certificate CVE is bad

Diminish an anime: Regular Ordinary Seaman Harlock

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. If you package/distribute/maintain root stores or chain verifiers, act immediately. If you know how to remove trust in a root, consider doing it now. Otherwise, prepare to update systems as patches/mitigations come. Go users, update to Go 1.27.3 or Go 1.26.10.

We have an expression, “vergüenza ajena”, for when someone does something so cringe-worthy that even as a bystander you feel embarrassed, as if it had been you doing it. This award nails it.

I'd certainly say I've been missing him, Bob.

The playbook used for W Social is the same as for "We Don't Have Time": - Pick a hot issue (climate, sovereignty) - Raise mostly from a lot of smaller investors (who aren't so technically literate and won't perform serious diligence) - Use that network to look big - Use others' fame - Lie, lie, lie

“Keep it clean. Make no mistakes.” — Stringer Bell, The Wire, S1Ep11

Not a huge user of the @winesky.app search feature myself, but glad that @knowtheory.net and @tessa.germnetwork.com insisted it was necessary, because some users rely on it heavily.

@supernote.com can we have a feature where, when you draw a square, it turns it into a checkbox? Or at least a box? Like it does with the stars for marking a page.

Every time you feed the Meta machine you are helping these assholes fuck with people worldwide.

Yeah fuck racism in all its forms

Happy to see this come alive, and in such a relatively short time too! Congratulations on all the progress since the last AtmosphereConf, @trezy.codes!

We're delighted to announce that the Eurosky Identity Platform has been officially verified by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a digital public good (DPG). eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

A History of Violence for Tax Purposes

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, for Tax Purposes

I see that, Cthulhu knows how many tech waves in, corpos are still doing adoption whiplash.

EU get your shit together and split the banking system. Autistici/Inventati was sanctioned by the US cutting them off from finances so they disbanded to protect volunteers.

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aaron_S... Definitely recommend actually reading Aaron’s own words on copyright; they’re not hard to find.

"If an attacker has physical access to your device, it's no longer your device" includes manufacturers.

I’ve been telling @platypussdivva.bsky.social that everything I’ve seen about this documentary reads horror-coded, and this poster is doing nothing to change my mind.

I should get back to my Yahoo Pipes for ATproto project…

This lines up quite well with my current view that, across the board, the impact of adding agentic development to organizations will end up being Conway's Law: With A Vengeance.

On that note… Make a war film rubbish. The runs in Navarrone.

It's hard discussing @wsocial.eu with people because it takes a lot of effort to describe their unbreakable fuck-up combo in a way that doesn't sound like mean-spirited dunking.

Today I learned that Cloudflare has a bot traffic chart, and that Russian bots seem to keep office hours.

[taking in the klan rally as a white man] you know, these people seem perfectly friendly

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.