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• Post #4481962

  in which the author of xfwl4, XFCE's Wayland implementation, tells us exactly how much his principles are worth https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4

• Post #4443383

  I actually don't have any sex transing prescriptions on the go rn, all my needs are met via the community. Isn't that cool?? You can do this too! https://mastodon.lubar.me/@ben/117056145634566558

• Post #4214648

  Article posted to discussion site. Commenters suspicious article is AI slop. One person says they like the style. Author shows up, thanks that person for the praise, says they fight LLM accusations most of the time. On other site, author admits to writing article with LLM.

• Post #3969928

  the way people talk about computer science is like if they thought you get a physics degree to become an electrician

• Post #3928745

  Learning about the meaning of "bad faith" in existentialism - specifically, Sartre's take on it being a self-deception and choice to flee responsibility for one's own choices - and finding that now I know what to look for I see it *everywhere*. Especially in the current discourse around LLMs and tech's impact on society more broadly

• Post #3852206

  working on a theory that the headphone jack being removed from phones was the turning point towards the tech backlash

• Post #3825721

  Have you checked that your database transactions are doing what you want?

• Post #3764811

  if you like post-punk you gotta check out the debut album from naarm trans legends LXRP. it is brilliant https://lxrp.bandcamp.com/album/lxrp

• Post #3500301

  society is currently grappling with such questions as "I want to use the plagiarism machine but in my heart I know it's wrong, how do I justify it to myself?" and "I want to use the plagiarism machine but other people might think I'm bad for plagiarising, how do I justify it to myself?" and don't forgot "there must be a role for the plagiarism machine in education but plagiarism is bad, how do I justify this to my students"

• Post #3424427

  my car has now defeated +1 attempts at being stolen, the would be thief couldn't figure out a key ignition apparently (there was a very non-key-shaped piece of metal snapped off and jammed in there and obviously you cannot turn the ignition this way)

• Post #3315524

  I got to play with a period accurate pentium 4 machine running windows xp the other night, noodled around in control panel and in ableton live 7 and the thing that really shocked me was how *fast* it was. Obviously loading stuff off the hard drive was quite slow, but once the page cache was warmed up it was a very snappy, very responsive experience.

• Post #3118405

  the other thing about the rsync situation I cannot get my head around is the idea of just throwing out the existing test suite for a stable, mature piece of software. How do you even know that the new test suite checks all the same properties? I cannot see the sense in doing this

• Post #3071074

  endless money for bullshit and the already lean community organisations actually doing good work are the ones that have to get leaner. their funding shortfall ($300k) is about the salary of one useless AI guy btw https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116684709144339173

• Post #2945187

  rsync was basically done until the maintainer discovered vibecoding

• Post #2446132

  shot, chaser

• Post #2445431

  watching the whole industry jonestown itself is the craziest thing I have ever seen in my career

• Post #2416619

  another good reason to Just Use Systemd instead of containers is all the hardening knobs that are readily available. You can block entire slices of the filesystem that your service shouldn't access. You can block all network access except what your program needs. You can block whole entire categories of syscalls and kernel features your program shouldn't use. It is literally just a few lines of config to do all that and it might just save you from getting popped and running a cr...

• Post #2410211

  incredible things are happening in redmond @osnews@mstdn.social https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116558005801959042

• Post #2314389

  tech management heads are like "ai is so amazing, this team went from idea to closed beta in three months" like that wasn't just normal velocity for a greenfields project at one point

• Post #2244852

  The latest (yes another) Linux kernel LPE also relies on an exotic socket type, AF_NETLINK. If you lock down allowed socket types to just internet+unix, you are safe. Unfortunately even rootless podman relies on AF_NETLINK sockets via pasta (user mode networking), so it's trickier if you're using containers. Good time to reconsider if you really need all the extra complexity containers bring. https://hails.org/@hailey/116492576900876035

• Post #2135787

  every time I read someone talking about their "AI adoption journey" I mentally gsub Claude with methamphetamine and the whole text still makes sense

• Post #1996050

  so like what's the story with the copyfail patch on debian? My trixie machine is still vulnerable and there are no updates available

• Post #1996049

  hello I am back I broke my instance's federation in a way where I could post stuff out but not receive anything back! I only clocked it when I was like hmm it seems quiet around here

• Post #1996048

  How funny is it that the guy who wrote a book about the god delusion now has chatbot delusion

• Post #1996047

  It's small fry in the grand scheme of complaints about GitHub but I really dislike how the compare view has been pushed aside in favour of the new pull request view (which is the compare view with ?expand=true). It's very telling of where the focus has shifted and is yet another nudge in the wrong direction

• Post #1888671

  bringing this toot back to say that if you have `RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_UNIX AF_INET AF_INET6` in your systemd service (as distros have already been rolling out in services they ship), you're safe from someone chaining an RCE in one of your network services through to today's kernel LPE vuln https://hails.org/@hailey/115772373049372624

• Post #1870541

  If you debootstrap a brand new trixie install today, you will get not just a vulnerable kernel but also a vulnerable libssl3t64 missing patches for 6 CVEs including a heap buffer overflow and a use after free. I'm not really a debian expert but this seems... not.. good?

• Post #1787046

  Don't come into my project being like this, ok?

• Post #1584663

  I host my mastodon at home and it survived being #1 on hacker news last night

• Post #1559343

  posting on the fish subreddit and asking whether anyone prefers breathing water over air