@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net
Post #1868181
2026-05-01 03:20 UTC
A young Russian male (and who was ostensibly living in Russia for college, and all implications thereof) is pitching the world that we should trust his text editor with read/exfil access rights to our critical source code, secrets, PII, hosts, etc because -- and I shit you not -- his editor can show "rainbow brackets" rather than merely the old fashioned kind of syntax highlighting we've already had for 40 years or so.
*groan*
This is like a one-shot exemplar of the state of security in modern software: a supply-chain-attack clownshow in general -- centered especially around the GitHub/YC ecosystem -- but one being worsened further daily and preyed upon by the pro-AI VC and their "useful idiot" AI bros.
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social 2026-05-01 04:39
@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net Every year we inch closer to network whitelists being the only sane option. 😄 I'd recommend everyone get used to computing offline, and use the internet only to chat and sync stuff. I'm kinda 50% there already. Fediverse client, limited web usage, syncthing, git, and SimpleNote. That's most of my internet usage on my home computers, especially my 2010 Thinkpad (running #OpenBSD) that struggles with the modern web.