Should anyone need to be reminded, once again, from someone who has been doing offensive security for 40yrs: we hack the endpoints, we have always hacked the endpoints, we shall continue doing so.

Why? It is this incredibly simple concept called ROI, return on investment, it is cheaper, much cheaper, to get the endpoint. Whether it is the phone, the app, the headphones, the microphone, the user being socially engineered.

Nobody in his sane mind wakes up and goes "we need to crack the double ratchet", literally nobody.

That we have been unable to communicate this to the EU parliament is an incredible defeat of common sense.

@jeremiah That's my entire point.

@randahl I doubt that American journalists would digest very well on an empty stomach.

Don't Get Sick in America

https://blogography.com/archives/2026/07/dont-get-sick-in-america.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851430

#HackerNews #healthcare #crisis #America #sick #prevention #health #awareness #patient #rights

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Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/silhouette-of-woman-beside-aquarium-with-whale-shark-XgIwVSXhHHw

#photography #fotografie #animal #nature #sea #wildlife #woman #shadow #silhouette #aquarium #whale #shark

Yes, the #ChatControl vote today was a farce. BUT. End to end encrypted messages are excluded from scanning through an amendment. So #UseSignal or other secure E2E solutions, as you should anyway.

@cassidy @mastohost Same.

... and if you want to see some of OpenAI's own pelicans they featured a 3D pelican riding a tricycle, bicycle, pony, and another pelican in their livestream this morning: https://www.youtube.com/live/Wq45rvPGNHs?t=1070s

v1.127 is live! We're rolling out improvements to search over the coming weeks. You'll get more relevant results and more ways to find what you're looking for.

The new "Filters" button lets you query and filter by keywords, people, date range, language and more. You can even share your searches!

@freakazoid I can hate both. Though, i agree we wouldn't have this incarnation of "AI" without capitalism. I don't think any other system could have produced this.

How to Start a Ruby Meetup

https://guides.rubyevents.org/meetups/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850372

#HackerNews #Ruby #Meetup #Community #Events #Networking #Programming

Toward Collaborative Reproducible Manuscripts https://www.cos.io/blog/toward-collaborative-reproducible-manuscripts

@evacide It was refreshing to hear your voice after so many years of reading your words. Also good to learn about your work against stalkerware.

@tbernard @lateralus23 @adz @dario @zelf @bl00dymarie @martandr @modal

You can join with hash 1234 (repeat until the button becomes red)

@quixoticgeek it's worth noting that on a two track railway in Switzerland the knitting will only rarely shade the panels, because the sun is never overhead. This is still a stupid idea though, for all the other reasons.

Notes on GPT-5.6, which includes some interesting new additions to the API (programmatic tool calling and multi-agent in particular) - plus 18 pelicans for the 6 reasoning levels and 3 new models: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/gpt-5-6/

Luminox announces a gunmetal watch to support the Navy SEAL Foundation https://wristwatchreview.com/p/luminox-announces-a-gunmetal-watch

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on.

Why isn't it just a web page?

So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it as a web page generator. It does all the same things as the "app" except now there's no tracking, no ads, and you get all the Web's features "for free" (deep links, copy-pasting, search-in-page, printing, works on anything, etc.).

Here's the full story:
🔗 https://danq.me/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage

#appCulture #app #android #web #webPage #openStandards #reverseEngineering

@cassidy It would be helpful to know which tables are using the most space here.

`tootctl accounts cull` and `toolctl statuses remove` should help here I guess.

Also you should do a `VACUUM FULL` on the tables after any cleanup, as pg will not reclaim the used space.

I would love to have equivalents to those commands in scheduled jobs within Mastodon, but this requires making them much more robust to be able to do it confidently in an automatic manner

@mastohost

We miss you @tbernard

Ciao da #DWebCamp from @lateralus23 @adz @dario @zelf @bl00dymarie + @martandr who disappeared for one second

#Reflection ROCKS!!! @modal #GNOME #demo #GTK