It’s a ‘long read’ by definition…but it is genuinely worth your time getting your head around the mundane but industrial scale of money laundering that the lax Post Office systems enable.

It’s not the indivisible people who run individual Post Offices fault.

It is the perfect storm of banks closing, small genuine businesses struggling to survive layered with the complete lack of public trust about any sums reported by the Horizon system.

But the police and government can’t ignore it?

Spin the wheel and tell me which APT/state is this

https://r136a1.dev/2026/08/24/sleepwalker-a-passive-backdoor-with-its-own-command-language/

Went for lunch at my new employer. They have this at the main entrance to the building. So kitsch. Looks like it's missing a trident 🔱

@davidgerard and one thing I almost never see called out is the surrender of prioritization

it’s very funny that you got access to Claude Fable and filled the queue with urgent tickets for all the “urgent crucial real vulnerabilities” it says it found

great! did you do even basic due diligence on any of them to check:
- is the bug the result of previous LLM-generated code? (almost always)
- can the bug actually be encountered in practice? did you do any impact analysis at all?
- did the bug result from a flawed design? can you fix it for the whole codebase by rethinking things a little bit instead of fixing a hundred different vulnerabilities the fucking LLM tagged individually?

no? you didn’t do any of this because Claude Fable told you the sky would fall unless you took action right now? amazing.

@davidgerard like no, you aren’t carefully reading thousands and thousands of lines of LLM output to make sure they’re not slop.

yes, the parts of the codebase you’re offloading to the LLM are important, and allowing any part of your project to be slop makes the whole thing slop because of how LLMs work in practice.

no, I don’t particularly want “your buddy claude” (all of these guys use this exact non-joke for some reason) to be part of the discourse. I don’t think lazily consulting the slopbot adds anything positive. I keep watching negative outcomes happen unacknowledged when you consult it. the codebase is now a disjoint mass of a hundred broken abstractions and non-abstractions because that’s what “your buddy claude” recommends.

big push to try to push "responsible" AI coding as "not *slop*"

just hit another one

> "oh no they're very anti-slop here's their CONTRIBUTING.md"
> list of ways to use the slop bot in their project

come off it with this bullshit, it fools nobody and makes you look like a smarmy collaborator

@davidgerard this is where a lot of people in tech are right now and the cognitive dissonance is incredible

“oh I’d never do slop because I” type lgtm in all the PRs, type the code myself on the chatbot’s instructions, only use it for tests, only use it for docs, blah blah blah

and meanwhile the project is broken in ridiculous ways and they haven’t noticed because the slopbot says it’s fine and they’ve cognitively offloaded all validation to the LLM. I haven’t met anyone who uses the slopbot and doesn’t cognitively offload to it; all of them do the glass-eyed “here’s what claude said” more and more til that’s the only thing making decisions and driving conversations in the project.

#OpenSSL 4.0.2 Released with Important Security and Bug Fixes https://9to5linux.com/openssl-4-0-2-released-with-important-security-and-bug-fixes

#OpenSource #Linux #FreeSoftware

@paulcox I don’t believe so, no?

IPFS Shipyard has "$250B+ and Hundreds of Teams Depend On Us" on their homepage, but it looks like their Protocol Labs is ending their funding (like next month), and they are shutting down?

https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard/

I've been involved in helping kick the tires on ipfs-cluster in the past few years, and to me it has looked like Shipyard are the only maintainers of the software. It'll be interesting to watch what happens to IPFS repositories after Sept 30th.

@robertgarrigos de res!

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🍪🧪 Researchers at Southern #Illinois University programmed #yeast to convert #PET #plastic and agricultural waste into edible ingredients.

A hydrothermal process breaks the #waste down, then engineered yeast builds #proteins, #vitamins, and flavorings that get #3D-printed into #cookies called µBites. The #NASA-linked project aims to create #food for disaster zones and deep-space missions.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-yeasts-pet-plastic-crop-protein.html

#recycling #science #food #microbes #biotech #sustainability #chemistry #biology #upcycling #innovation

@thomasfuchs 4chan-style triple-parens set off alarms in my mind regarding the intentions of those who write them.

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432319

#HackerNews #DontWordle #WordleGame #GamingCommunity #PuzzleLovers #OnlineFun

@adamgreenfield have I recommended Nova Twins from a music point of view before?

NHAMFest26

28 AUG 0000 UTC

Gabe from Owncast

Gabe from @owncast , the platform fueling most of the festival will present a state of streaming and in particular what is happening in new and upcoming releases of Owncast.

This event will be live at https://fest.nham.co.uk

https://owncast.online/

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@spla ahhh vist. Zenkiu!!!

Yes, I want an open borders world. Every human being deserves the right to access better life opportunities, safety, and to live somewhere where their human rights are respected.

Because of the fact that they're human.

Freedom of movement already exists for the rich people of the world. In a more fair world, it must be expanded for all humans.