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rocks
troll’s with sticks
All sorts of dragons
Mrs. Cake
Huje green things with teeth
Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
Rains of spaniel’s.
fog.
Mrs. Cake

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116489789450590783
carnage4life@mas.to - The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI includes instructions never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless asked by the user.

Some say this is because GPT-5.5 has been known to ramble on about creatures unprompted. 😬

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/openai-codex-system-prompt-includes-explicit-directive-to-never-talk-about-goblins/

@dalias @miss_rodent i think standardization is actually not a priority for these reasons—i think there's a whole bunch of directions to go here and surfaces to cut at, because part of the process here is to define the new use cases besides "centralized archive repo" vs "user who can only access through centralized repo and cannot contribute to archive redundancy"

📰 Global Sumud Flotilla: «Le nostre barche intercettate dagli israeliani». La Farnesina chiede chiarimenti a Tel Aviv – Il video

#️⃣ #ESTERI #AntonioTajani #Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla #Israele #Video #OpenOnline #TheLabSocial #News #Notizie #Italia

🔗 https://www.open.online/2026/04/29/global-sumud-flotilla-barche-intercettate-israele-farnesina-video/

@mttaggart

A missing continue.

I am sure Lint or an AI woud have found this logic bug. /s

#Coding

@luc you can find patch instructions here: https://copy.fail/#mitigation

Quickly dove into the copy.fail exploit.

1. Yes, it's real.
2. Current chain can write any arbitrary content to any user-readable file (into the page cache).
3. Current chain relies on an available target suid binary that you can open() as a lowpriv user.
4. Current exploit relies on that binary being /bin/su and then being able to execve(/bin/sh, 0, 0) (which doesn't work on alpine, etc.). The former is easily replaced in the code. The latter needs a rebuilt payload ELF (also easy).

@zrail Do they guarantee 25 years of security updates with no feature changes, though?

@MLE_online i can't stop chuckling every couple of minutes. this is *so* archetypically highschool mischief 🤩🤣🧑🏼‍🎓

Today's Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is the culmination of John Roberts’ two-decade crusade to gut the Voting Rights Act. It is, simply put, a devastating blow to American democracy.

@dalias @miss_rodent i think standardization is actually not a priority for these reasons—i think there's a whole bunch of directions to go here and surfaces to cut at, because part of the process here is to define the new use cases besides "centralized archive repo" vs "user who can only access through centralized repo and cannot contribute to archive redundancy"

@Unixbigot “robomanicure” that’s just nicking your fingernail on the CNC, yeah?

Calling everyone building new apps and tools on ActivityPub: Is your project …

🌐 on the Open Web?
🌱 past the prototype stage?
✨ Reimagining the social internet?

New_ Public, @publicspaces and @waag are investing up to €10,000 in better alternatives to Big Tech

Learn more, share, or apply by May 1st at https://newpublic.org/OSA

Going to be teaching more intro level HTML today as part of the first week of our free 10 week free web development bootcamp. Come along, we'll be learning about boilerplate, metadata and languages/encoding on the web!

https://badwebsite.club/bootcamps/spring-2026/lessons/2026-04-29/

I'll be running a #freediving induction course (pool, not depth) in May in #Auckland. Dates are 4, 11 and 18 of May on Monday nights at Tepid Baths. Costs are $150 and that gives you a 3 months club membership (Auckland Freediving Club), including the induction course (3 weeks) with any subsequent training session at any of the Auckland training locations.

The induction includes some theory, freediving safety as well as static breath hold (just holding for a (longer) while) and dynamics (swimming (longer) distances under water). Usually after the Monday night training, we're hitting the pub for a bit of a social gathering (optional).

https://aucklandfreediving.co.nz/events/club-intro-membership-may-2026-tepid-baths/

Let me know if you're interested. There are currently 2 spots still available. As there was no induction in April, 8 are already taken up. So, don't delay ... ;-)

Also, feel free to share with others (if there's interest)

AEMO's new QED shows that 50% of demand growth in the National Electricity Market (NEM) was thanks specifically to data centres. That is the same proportion of power demand growth as the United States. So much for "stop saying Australia has any similarities to the US"

Rooftop solar growth matched demand growth: meaning half of all new rooftop solar served data centre expansion rather than grid decarbonisation.

https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/major-publications/quarterly-energy-dynamics-qed

I was very glad to see that #fedibird is connecting to tags.pub now \o/ but sad to see that tags with Japanese characters in them were just getting trimmed to nothing. Now, at least, they should get romanized, although pure kanji is romanized into Mandarin! Still some tuning to do.

If you're attending #FediForum let's have a discussion tomorrow around this open access paper: Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media which argues that decentralized platforms like the Fediverse focus on governing within communities, but ignore the frictions between them. From workshops with 24 Fediverse community organisers, they identify six design challenges (visibility, information collation, tiered sharing, relationship-building, customization, and adoption) and propose three principles for "inter-community governance": modularity (shared vocabulary, like governance nutrition labels) and forkability (copy and adapt others' governance structure or rules), and polycentricity (overlapping trust bubbles instead of one global network, i.e. archipelagos).

Decentralisation and autonomy alone aren't enough, communities need connective tissues to interconnect them beyond just technical federation (a mycelium network if you like 😊)

If you're interested and are able to read or peruse it ahead of time that will help us have a more grounded and potentially productive discussion based on it...

These four posts have been baking for a while. I just finished the process(es).

If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. – Anita Koddick