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  The supreme commander of the French armed forces: Some of your children could be lost in a war but this is a sacrifice I am willing to make. (Source in French.) https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2025/11/25/accepter-de-perdre-ses-enfants-qui-est-fabien-mandon-le-chef-d-etat-major-des-armees-qui-a-cree-la-polemique_6654781_4500055.html

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  Evolving career advice:

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  Somebody please update https://www.felonybench.com/

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  "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"; https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/

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  I gave Claude.ai a personal access token for GitLab that provides read-only access to all my repos. I put it in the "Instructions" section at the time. Later, Anthropic changed something in the way this section is used and, apparently, it's contents is now pasted at the beginning of every conversation. Unfortunately, this means that every time I start a new project (i.e., when the project memory is empty), Claude freaks out and starts yelling at me that I've leaked confidentia...

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  "GitHub App Private Keys: 474 Leaked Keys Exposed" (and they still work): https://blog.gitguardian.com/github-app-private-keys-leaked/

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  "German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption": https://cybernews.com/privacy/police-telegram-whatsapp-signal-surveillance-linked-devices/ The crypto wars were never about fighting criminals. They were about mass surveillance. The police can fight criminals that use encryption just fine.

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  @campuscodi@mastodon.social I saw someone say somewhere that a better term than "artificial intelligence" (or the "super intelligence" idiocy, of course) is "artificial thought". These systems are not intelligent; they imitate thinking.

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  "More than 1 in 4 French gas stations out of at least one fuel": https://lite.cnn.com/2022/10/14/business/france-gas-stations-fuel-shortage I've lived through this. Twice. Coming up next - empty food stores. Stock up on non-perishable foods as much as you can. (Ideally - two months worth for the entire family, but you probably don't have that much free space.)

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  Doomerism is nothing new.

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  Kevin #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday

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  "OpenAI says it found more instances of AI models acting deceptively": https://lite.cnn.com/2026/09/16/tech/ai-models-acting-deceptively-openai Time to update https://www.felonybench.com/

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  OH: "Bernie Sanders wants laws to make American AI dumber than he is".

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  The new security.txt file at HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/security.txt

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  "Dutch central bank shifts billions in gold from US to Britain in ‘crisis preparedness’ move": https://lite.cnn.com/2026/09/02/europe/dutch-central-bank-shifts-gold-to-britain-intl-hnk Apparently, the Dutch are more afraid form an US than from a Russian attack... Although they should have imported the gold domestically - the UK has demonstrated to be just as willing as the USA to steal other countries' assets (e.g., Venezuela's gold).

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  When I was a kid, I was asked once what I want to become when I grow up. My answer: "A retiree, like my Grandfather". Well, one life goal reached - I'm now officially retired. I will continue to work, of course, and even continue being on medical leave for as long as the disability commission grants it (for 4 more months, probably), which means that I'll be able to collect both a pension and 70% of my salary from the retirement agency. (I asked them and they confirmed that thi...

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  "Everything I own, owned": https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/

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  Zero-day (elevation of privilege) in Kaspersky's anti-ransomware product: https://www.kimi.ai/share/1a0530fb-4202-8ada-8000-00006a38c583 (Not found by AI - this is just someone's conversation with an AI about it. Contains link to the repo with the PoC.)

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  How do people actually use Claude Code? I love Claude.ai (the web interface); have done *so* much work with it, have given it read-only access tokens for my GitLab repos - but Claude Code is totally unusable! I tried installing the VSCode plugin and can't figure out what to do with it. I installed the Terminal application - and can't even log into it, because I can't paste the authentication token (or anything else, for that matter).

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  "UniBLEed: Unauthenticated Root RCE on Any Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Within Bluetooth Range": https://boschko.ca/g1-ble-rce/

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  "Permalink to Microsoft hides watermarks in AI images made with Paint and Photos, researcher claims": https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-hides-watermarks-in-ai-images-made-with-paint-and-photos-researcher-claims/

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  Time magazine has started serving ads to AI agents: https://digiday.com/media/time-has-started-serving-ads-to-ai-agents/

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  I believe it. It matches my experience with Gemini's ability to code. https://xcancel.com/akshen121/status/2085414082723881446

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  Vibe-coded age verification.

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  The fix.

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  Lulz. Our sysadmin, who's really a web developer by trade, has started using Cladue.ai for developing frameworks for web design or whatever (not my area of expertise). He's in love with it, says with it he was able to do in 3 days what he normally alone did in 6 months. But his English is much worse than mine - and I'm being polite. So, at one point, they had a misunderstanding. He told Claude "do it that way" and Claude started lecturing him why doing it "that way&q...

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  Perform a security scan (open ports, exposed services, etc.) on your own IP address: curl https://qsa.sh

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  Not The Onion. "US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559

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  "AI Worming through Word": https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/

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  "Researchers Show a Single Malicious Webpage Visit Can Compromise Tor Browser": https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/researchers-show-single-malicious.html