The #GAYINT shall continue until morale improves

This is basically the lyrics to 99 Luftballons
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/el-paso-airport-closed-after-military-used-new-anti-drone-laser-to-zap-party-balloon/

@thomasfuchs mixing up dual cassette decks and dueling banjos.

Like, the issues I found aren't even particularly difficult to mitigate. I provided some sample code in my Matrix disclosure blog post and pointed to a bitsliced AES implementation (BearSSL) for systems that can't do AES-NI.

Hell, you could probably get a fucking LLM to do it. Trail of Bits published a Claude skill for detecting whether a compiler has undermined the intent for code to be constant-time. But the heavy-lifting is done by a Python script.

Shipping cryptography without side-channels was table-stakes for being taken seriously.

@katttivizzima Di suo no. Nel senso che Gabriele (l'autore originale) ha smesso di scrivere. Io so che aveva ancora il blog - https://comunedibugliano.home.blog - su wordpress.com ma non credo lo aggiorni più dal 2023.
C'erano altre pagine, su Bugliano, in Facebook. Però sul fediverso ci sono solo io e Alessandro @gifter che vogliamo tenerlo virale... oops, vivo 🦠☣️
ma con altri personaggi e storie. Noi abbiamo usato Bugliano per ragioni satiriche anti-stigma. HIV in certi gerghi viene chiamato anche "bug". Per cui "bug lì ano" è venuto praticamente da solo.
Oops, venuto... Faccio i doppi sensi ormai anche senza volerlo.
Noi siamo quelli di:
Hai domande da porci? Noi, non abbiamo nulla da dirty

@virtualwolf that sounds really cool.

I think Isaac already is showing what an astounding teacher he is.

He honours the audience with the words “we are all Indigenous”, and then explains that despite everyone trying to respond with contradiction when he says that, that he believes we are - we are all of the Earth.

Follows with a heart filling story of giving the same problems to a group of teachers and a group of 6 year olds, and the astounding difference in results - the children went straight from the heart to the solution.

@are0h Yessss! I've got a setup in my Ansible playbooks to just bump the version number then I run the playbook and it pulls down the latest release, builds it locally, then drops the files onto my server. 😁

Trump's latest plan to revive coal power: Make the military buy it
The administration's "reasoning" for doing so has little connection to reality.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/trumps-latest-plan-to-revive-coal-power-make-the-military-buy-it/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@evan up for them to decide. Why should someone even have an opinion on how someone should spend their time?

Like, the issues I found aren't even particularly difficult to mitigate. I provided some sample code in my Matrix disclosure blog post and pointed to a bitsliced AES implementation (BearSSL) for systems that can't do AES-NI.

Hell, you could probably get a fucking LLM to do it. Trail of Bits published a Claude skill for detecting whether a compiler has undermined the intent for code to be constant-time. But the heavy-lifting is done by a Python script.

Shipping cryptography without side-channels was table-stakes for being taken seriously.

Palestine's most important university used to hold classes in living rooms when Israel shut it down. Now the army walks onto campus and the biggest fight is over whether exams should be online. A devastating essay by one of its own professors on what happens when a university keeps functioning but stops meaning anything. https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-hollowing-out-of-palestines-most-important-university/

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved.
It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.

https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-dangerous-side-effects-some-covid-19-vaccines-explained

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# Fediverse

Can confirm: SC 2 works perfectly fine on Linux via Steam.

I'm perfectly well aware that we're not supposed to like companies. But damn I owe a lot to Steam's willingness to invest into Linux gaming.

Also, just finished playing a few custom battles with all three SC2 races. Granted, via very easy AI, but still, it was fun.

#Gaming #StarCraft

From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.

That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse

#USpol

@catsalad 💉

@lightweight Thanks, but I'm taking advantage of a Birthday Licence to acquire a new HP Victus with a 4TB SSD upgrade. Hopefully will last another 17 years by which time we'll have the damn things built in behind our ears.

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