For my blog and newsletter ~ this week in security ~ I wrote about Apple's launch event this week announcing its upcoming "always-listening" features for Apple Watch, and the risks of normalizing surveillance tech. There's also a big catch: There is no clear way to opt-out of other people's use of these features.

Read more: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/watch-what-you-say-apple-opens-the-door-to-a-nightmare-world-of-always-listening-tech/

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I, of course, would never fall for this.

#chess

#fediday

Currently in the US:

A 14 year old girl is wanted for murder.

Context. She gave birth on a roadside as a result of being impregnated by her own father. The baby died.

Murder.

Currently in the UK:
Cryptofascist billionaire moves to the UK and donates 36million to Trump loving Reform.

Do we want this for our daughters?

Persönlicher Programhinweis von mir: Heute um 16:10 wird in C205 Hans Engberding von seinen Erfahrungen und 27 vollgestempelten Reisepässen erzählen: https://talks.mrmcd.net/2026/talk/ATA7UV/
Ein bisschen Hintergrundinformationen zu Hans' Leben bei der Süddeutschen Zeitung: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/hans-engberding-transsibirische-eisenbahn-interview-li.3472211 #mrmcd26

The tech is plumbing. The political/social idea is much simpler - commons by default, private by exception. People and content participates in open flows.

#OpenData
#OpenSource
#OpenProcess
#OpenStandards

The #4opens are the practical framework for making this work. Keep it simple. Keep it open. Build the commons.

#KISS #openweb #dotcons

While I can't stop you from posting on what you think of windows that don't open, I don't encourage it.

I help maintain two separate projects for looking for LLM-generated code in open-source repositories.

slopcheck is a CLI tool I created for checking repositories for signs of slop in git histories. It also shows the last commit with no signs.

https://codeberg.org/liberty/slopcheck

slopscore does the same thing, but it also provides a Web interface and is more comprehensive at the moment.

https://codeberg.org/polyphony/slopscore

Both projects are maintained by teams of awesome developers. Check them out!

#programming #slop

@ajuvo @mcfly Klasse, danke fürs Testen!

Please stop what you are doing and take a second to look at today's Low Quality Ad, this Disco Beetle Pin. Imagine being a beetle on a Friday night and someone rolls up to the party with this bad boy. You'd lose your tiny beetle mind.
https://collabs.shop/omy4hy

With about 16000 deaths, this year's heatwaves were the deadliest natural disaster in Germany for at least the last 100 years (https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/wissen/sommerbilanz-2026-hitze-tropennaechte-klima-deutschland-europa-e337370/). The left plot below shows estimates and 95% confidence intervals of heat-associated fatalities per year for Germany published by the Robert Koch Institute (https://www.rki.de/DE/Themen/Gesundheit-und-Gesellschaft/Gesundheitliche-Einflussfaktoren-A-Z/H/Hitze/Bericht_Hitzemortalitaet.html). On the right I have plotted rolling 5-year averages of the numbers on the left together with a linear trend. While there is still a lot of variation, the trend is clearly upwards. We started the fire, and now it comes for us.

#heatwaves #climatecrisis

@lowqualityfacts This sounds entirely plausible.

“This is fascism with a difference. Its proponents are actively willing an apocalypse, or a wave of interconnected apocalypses brought forth by climate change and financial chaos, to hasten us towards a post-democratic world in which only a rich few survive to prosper.”

New book, End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, 15 September

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/12/naomi-klein-extreme-wealth-has-a-deranging-effect-it-turns-you-into-a-supremacist

I'm learning #datastar and its #commonlisp framework.

My must-have widget is a server-based autocomplete/select2/typeahead.

Here's an example: https://dev.to/vindarel/server-based-interactive-autocomplete-with-datastar-and-common-lisp-535d

#frontend masters: your tips to build such a widget are welcome :)

#lisp

@stdevel @mcfly ja tut er

VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer Capital. “We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and social machine focused on dismantling democracy and civil society.” https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital

Scientists Create a New Form of Ice At 2,357 Degrees Celsius https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/09/11/2249242/scientists-create-a-new-form-of-ice-at-2357-degrees-celsius?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon