Quixoticgeek
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“The sky above the port was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel”
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Konstantin 🏳️🌈🔭
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So excited to hold my first talk in a long time this Thursday evening!
I'll be talking about how we implemented our intelligent shift alarms feature at Supershift and what challenges we crossed.
If you're in Hamburg, still looking for a place to hang out on Thursday evening and want to learn about #AlarmKit in #iOS26, come by our office at betahaus Hamburg Gänsemarkt!
RSVP here --> https://lnkd.in/e6Zi_52c
@zzepposs @fediway @lcb @kingconsult @laurenshof @newsmast it will be soon on Https://watch.2mr.social
@bjoernsta @fediway @lcb @kingconsult @laurenshof @newsmast
looking fwd!
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#jugglingthefediverse
Quixoticgeek
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If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: https://forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
hypebot
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116517194178120536
"Hahaha, look at how Rust failed here."
Maybe writing a utility like cp without TOCTOU, race conditions, symlink exploits and the like shouldn't be hard. Maybe copying a file shouldn't require more than a single line in userspace.
Maybe the UNIX file API is incomplete and could do with a number of revisions and updates. Maybe, after 40, 50 years we have learned a few things and should go through it with a fine comb.
Of course we shouldn't break userspace. We can still provide the old, broken calls.
But maybe we should discuss how we can come up with something systematic that doesn't suck and invite these kinds of bugs. In any language.
The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.
Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.
But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332
PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.
Quixoticgeek
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"Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"
Recommended to read some of the details in this report... It's completely bonkers and immoral, whether because of privacy or climate. There is zero respect for the user nor planet left.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115345346648445621
Capitalism is an existential threat to our species.
@aral at this point eco-terrorism is the only viable answer
Quixoticgeek
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Me and my VIP (proudly Jewish) being arrested with others for actually not disturbing the peace at the national war commemoration. Press says we did (nope) cops say we had banners (nope) ...The mayor ordered our arrest so we were not allowed to commemorate in our way, with small placards saying "Never again is now". Hypocrite Zionist pleasing mayor who is afraid of right wing press and of an Israeli representative calling her in the middle of the night
Mre. Dartigen [renovator mode]
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This recent piece from The Conversation has some practical info on diphtheria in the Australian context.
Why isn’t info like this coming from the ACDC?
https://theconversation.com/before-vaccines-diphtheria-used-to-kill-hundreds-each-year-now-its-back-in-australia-279856
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Ilan Pappé: “Israele ha sempre creduto di dover dominare il mondo arabo”.
Mentre Israele continua le sue azioni mortali nella Striscia di Gaza, in Cisgiordania, in Libano e in Siria, con il sostegno dei governi occidentali, lo storico israeliano Ilan Pappé ha pubblicato un libro breve ma incisivo in francese, “Una breve storia del conflitto israelo-palestinese”.
In 1960, France detonated its first atomic bomb in the Algerian Sahara. Charles de Gaulle had spent the decade prior arguing that American security guarantees couldn’t be trusted in a serious crisis, that no superpower would risk its own cities to defend a junior ally, and that France needed weapons it owned outright.
The argument was simple: if you don’t control the means, you don’t control the outcome.
https://www.thisisstudioself.com/insights/sovereign-ai-brief
@Daojoan note. for nucleair tests you need a huge backyard. Or you have to use other man' s land. Algerians are still mad at France for this.
@sundogplanets site looks dead. 👀
Evan Prodromou
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The recordings and session notes from FediForum April 2026 are now online.
https://fediforum.org/2026-04/
In our own twist on the "+1 strategy", we are publishing the PeerTube playlist first, and YouTube later.
Sorry to hear that dude. I personally think you should just have a day off for naffness but I applied that logic to me once then basically didn't get up for a couple of years.... metaphorically. It's a bright beautiful day out there. The world's your oyster. You're a tiger! Rawwrrr. Remember that every good thing they ever happened happened in a week that had a a Tuesday in it. You've got this! Go team! Hurrah for Tom! *crowd cheering* Tom! Tom! Tom! Tom! Gooood saaaave oooour gracious Tom, loooong liiiive oooour noble Tom, god save our Tom. SEND HIM VICTOOOORIOUS, HAPPY AND GLOOOORIOUS, LONG TO REEEEIGN OVER US, GOD SAVE OUR TOM. You can do this! 
@TheBreadmonkey @Erased_Citizen Pretty sure Tom is now king of the world after being officially chosen by royal BENediction.
I don't think you actually have to do anything and it's just a title. You just wave at peasants for big occasions and wear a silly hat sometimes. Urgh, you're so lucky!
W- Social klingt damit so für mich, als würde nur der hier passen: 🖕 (alternativ: 🤌 oder ✌️)
Aber wozu auch mal was Vernünftiges umsetzen, wenn man weiterhin an den Techbro-Zitzen hängen will. Ist ja nicht so, dass wir ein tatsächlich autarkes Netz bräuchten, um die Demokratie zu schützen. Und es das schon längst gäbe...
Zwei EUnttäuschung heute. Spitze, weiter so 👏
Quixoticgeek
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Quixoticgeek
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“We promised to destroy all of your jobs using data we stole. Why aren’t you more excited about this?” ask the very smart people working on AI.
Quixoticgeek
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"Fifty of the world’s richest billionaires on average produce more carbon through their investments, private jets and yachts in just over an hour and a half than the average person does in their entire lifetime"
Maar ga vooral achter de ouderen en de zieken aan 🖕🏼
