I've flip flopped on "should we explain atproto/PDSs to new users" and landed on "nah." No one knew how much of our digital lives would end up on a single platform when we first signed up for Facebook. At least with atproto they can figure it out later and migrate or branch out.
- @buherator@infosec.place
[RSS] Why does the compiler sometimes use ud2 and sometimes int 3 for code that shouldn't execute? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261006-00/?p=112757/
She named “Software Engineering”. One of the GOATs
Internet go burrrrr. On stock ISP equipment none the less. LOCAL ISP really has upped their game little by little. Native DynDNS on the stock modem, IPV6 support, proper radio control and the ability to test for noise around itself, the ability to have a guest network setup, and site blocking/time blocking. Anyways, my partner has given me a 3 hour window that started 47 minutes ago. With DNS fixed on the stock modem, lets go rip that shit out, bridge directly from the ONT and install a proper Sophos Firewall.
YouTube hasn't paid out music streaming earnings to Distrokid for almost two months with no communication, so my income has been cut in half just for fun. It's a startling reminder that the entire streaming ecosystem could just go away overnight because a tech company lets it. Buy albums if you can.
@irene - I took a look at your note "Slow Software". I felt that the general notion was quite rational - separating high impact code (and thus give it more care) from lesser impact code. I do testing - I break code. And I've noticed an increasing tendency of builders to presume ever-faster underlying processing, memory, and network resources. I work with the latter - network services going bad.
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I am seeing more and more code begin to break on low performance platforms - such as cheap Chromebooks - because the code being run presumes vast network resources rather than things like slow connections, intermittent connections, and support for only a few TCP connections at a time. This is exaberated by the new generation of "proof of work" challenges being presented to incoming clients in order to cull bots from humans. An exaple is Apple's Music App - it goes bad, often for quite a while, when the underlying network changes, such as when getting into a car and thus switching from wi-fi to 5G.
I went into my Amazon Australia account and couldn't find these. I don't know if they're just hiding them from us or not doing it here, but I'm sad I don't get to mess with the machine. I had a whole pocket full of sand and monkey wrenches ready to go.
I don't know why I have not done this before. But you can totally just build code using MSVC on Linux via Wine. You get an .exe that you can launch through Wine and it has similar perf characteristics for anything compute-bound. And you can profile it with Linux tools although symbols need to be fixed up manually. This means that I basically don't need to reboot to Windows every few weeks to profile something, which is amazing for my sanity.
Visual Studio Code on Linux is allergic to having its IntelliSense play well when I point it towards an MSVC binary
Of course, verification that two arbitrary photos were taken on the same device is also privacy-defeating in many cases. schneier.com/blog/archives/202…
This is what government software can be again if we get the yahoo cowboy dudebros out
Well, Monarch sort of works with Ios now. I find reliably focusing the cursor is hard, but you can pan through text and it does show graphics of icons if one cares about such things. But I still would recommend having another navigation tool. I like how one can connect two Braille displays to the phone because this makes it so I can navigate through the Brailliant to apps and then read with the Monarch. I find navigating through lists of things or the list of apps to not yet be beautiful.
Ransomware recovery fraud exposed as MonsterCloud CEO charged • IBM/Red Hat fix 400+ Java vulnerabilities • Keycloak auth bypass unpatched, admin escalation risk 4 sources verified · hackingallthethings.com #infosec #threatintel #cybersecurity #ransomware #vulnerabilities
I just bought Felicity, possibly the best local music player for Android. And I didn't use Playstore, I downloaded from F-Droid and paid via Gumroad. It was €8.56. #audio #music #fdroid #foss #gumroad #degoogle #android
Rivian’s new R2 Pet Cam brings a live cabin view—or a regularly refreshed photo—to the driver’s phone. Remote control of Pet Mode is planned for a later update,… https://en.hacks.gr/me-tin-enimerosi-2026-36-oi-odigoi-ton-rivian-r2-vlepoyn-to-katoikidio-toys-apo-to-kinito/ #Rivian #PetCam #PetMode
Spent today reviewing database calls. Some screens were asking the backend questions the local database already knew the answer to. Removed unnecessary round trips. The app feels calmer. #buildinpublic #indiedev
A Locally exploitable vunerability in older versions of LibreOffice Calc is being Hyped. Claims are LO is unsafe to use. NOT TRUE, keep LibreOffice updated please read. cvetodo.com/cve/CVE-2026-63277 Update to version 26.2.5 or newer as soon as possible. Configure LibreOffice to disable or restrict external data source links, especially those referencing remote locations. Educate users, your kids to avoid opening untrusted documents. Difficult as kids and students may receive docs from schools.
"I never thought the copyright infringement machine would infringe MY copyright." - company that embraced the copyright infringement machine (Obviously not an endorsement of this software but c'mon, it's pretty funny)
The stark staring falsity of the technology sector has, I will openly confess, been gnawing at me for decades. In the 1990s, rebounding from the Caltech disaster, I resolved to turn my former computer-programming hobby (I've been programming since I was in middle school, even earlier depending on what you count as programming) into a lifeline out of college towards some sort of future, and thus it was during that time I first got to be really disgusted by the whole scene.
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The fun and enjoyment started to trickle out of #programming as I got to see what was happening in the tech scene: the hypercommercialism, the saturation with advertising, the shabbiness and shallowness of "computer science" as a discipline compared with the physical sciences, the seething elitism within the field and a corresponding hatred and contempt for the ordinary person, the "luser" too smooth-brained to understand the subtle genius of programmers and their software. I am mortally tired of technology evangelists. That's the foul tradition which has produced fools like Dash and Doctorow: even when they strive to present themselves as critical, that's a thin veneer over a core of unthinking rah-rah "techno-optimism," the same irrational mentality that's led presumably reasonable human beings to vaunt crooks like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk as great inventors and pioneers. This is how the entire technology sector has been selling itself for decades, as if THEY were the vanguard of all human achievement, fearlessly saving the world and solving all problems with their computers...the computers they don't even understand, the computers they treat as magical black boxes. It's vile, it's fake and fraudulent, it's led humanity and "Western Civilization" to the brink of ruin. I do not mind being thought of as a "hater" or a "doomer" on this score. The tech sector doesn't need to exist the way it does. There may be heroes in technology but you can bet they're not in the news and they're not the people who are spoken of as if they were the only people in the world capable of having thoughts. ~Chara of Pnictogen
A small but mighty new feature of Oracle APEX 26.2 is the ability to import a single file when using APEXlang. See it in action here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANdj... #orclapex
Putting “Wall St. banks hacked by jailbroken chatbot swarms” on my 2027 bingo card
Just got these on recommendation from @philipnorton42 (people keep sending him free headphones to review 😂) ... for the price they are *incredible*. nothing.tech/products/cmf-buds… (He actually recommended the 2a, but the 2 is slightly "better" on paper and the same price at the moment - plus I preferred the pale green colour.) #music
For most people, a computer runs either Windows or macOS. Both operating systems collect information about how they work, and both connect to large cloud ecosystems. The difference is how much data they collect, where that data can go, and how much control you have over it. So if privacy is the priority, which is the better operating system? proton.me/blog/mac-vs-pc-priva…
I don’t think most folks are buying smartphones expecting high-end camera quality. They’re expecting a device with reasonable cameras for casual or professional purposes on a device that also meets other needs. Comparing the two comes across as silly at best, or as ragebait in some cases.
Any text platform should have some way to add context tags and tooltips to words and phrases. I would love to put a subtle dotted underline on a word to establish which of the 13 meanings and 45 different interpretations of it I actually refer to without having to write a whole essay about it in parentheses that's so long that by the time you finish reading it you already forgot how the sentence even started.
I feel like we're running out of places to find out what's really happening. The days where you could simply connect with people without a heavy hand on the algorithm are numbered. Media is being entirely gobbled up by capital. We're going to have to make our own information networks
How am I supposed to add alt text to uploaded audio files straight away? The new desktop design now shrinks them to an unclickable thumbnail in the editor. Neither the '...' menu nor the alt text button is visible. Posting them as they are and then adding the alt text later doesn't work either (apart from using another app, client or web interface). Or am I missing something entirely? Mastodon v4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06 #Mastodon #AltText #Accessibility
Tuck is live on Product Hunt today, and it's free. I made it the week Bartender 6 stopped working on macOS 27: hide any menu bar icon, Apple's own included, and get them back from a bar that drops down under the menu bar. https://www.producthunt.com/products/tuck-6 #macOS #MacApps #BuildInPublic
iPhone Duo is almost here, but I'm not super optimistic about the mainstream apps doing a great job of adapting to its form factor... scottberrevoets.com/2026/10/05…
FCC keeps giving Musk & Bezos basically everything they want and I don't guess that's likely to change but... there is a pending vote on auctioning spectrum soon: www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/f...
I just discovered a weird-ass macOS bug, which I've reported to Apple via Feedback Assistant. #macOS #Apple #AppleScript
I know people accuse me of prioritizing Apple and iOS, but in a ironic twist of fate, the new Pixelfed app is available exclusively on F-Droid, the Play Store and GitHub (APK). I wanted them to release on both platforms, and AltStore + F-Droid at the same time, but Apple App Review has rejected […]
Content warningNiche rant about encrypted calendar services
While I'm absolutely down with having a private calendar, the *point* of having a schedule of events is coordination. So you at least need to have a secret ICS feed to do said coordination, even if its just between calendars only you have access to. Proton Calendar, for all its faults, gets this. Tuta Calendar, not so much. It can show calendars from elsewhere, but you can only share your calendar with other Tuta users. That seems like a very subtle form of vendor lock-in, to be fair. We've signed up for a year in advance for @fieldstation (email/calendar) so, realistically, it's going to be mid-2027 before it's sorted. Annoying.
i really am quite distraught at how many people are just being willfully ignorant about Grim’s reasoning for the lack of Dashlaunch plugin support and source availability- both of these things were previously discussed
New life rule, back to an old philosophy: If I'm going to be the person that solves all of the issues, technical and billing, on an account, then I have to be ALL of the contact info. No waiting for someone to forward emails, texts, etc at 11pm at night. Or... it's not my problem, is it? Making a new account for a project was easier. Also: AWS's MFA loop sucketh. #credentials #aws_credentials #aws
The important thing in any argument is understanding what you're saying and arguing in good faith IN THIS INSTANCE, DISCORD WAS NOT TO BLAME A completely separate, third party service was hacked, not discord. This particular case is not connected to discord and age verification.
Just praising Vivaldi for creating a genuine rare mix of customisation + privacy. I cannot state it enough how refreshing it is that I can completely change the way the browser looks when I get bored. You guys created something amazing, and I hope you can continue what you doing. You gained a costumer for life.
Please test your pages with the browser forcing a dark theme... ... because some of us are vampires and sure to enable it when we find it... and then come across plenty that look atrocious this way. (yes, just handling dark mode suffices in a lot of cases... but not always)
Met a YouTuber offline today. When they asked if I saw their channel, I gave a benevolent grin and asked, I would love to check it out! How can I find you via PeerTube or podcast? They are exclusively on YouTube and have no plans to move to a podcast or Peertube but Even though I have a YouTube account, and use the YouTube account frequently, It always gives me some joy to remind everyone that not everyone uses walled gardens. #PeerTube #YouTube
Long time OctoPrint contributor and friend Jacopo wrote about his experience contributing to OctoPrint & I just have to share this! Really love his conclusion! > Working on OctoPrint has shown me sides of open source I never could have imagined when I first got involved: how much invisible work goes into keeping a project alive, how much care an ecosystem of third-party plugins needs to stay healthy, and how much everything ultimately depends on the people behind it. medium.com/@jacopotediosi/1001…
Gaming platforms going full SAS are next. They will soon regret leaving physical behind.
I should also add that thanks to the fantastic idea from @ednun_p, both Music and speech have context-sensitive help. Press F1 on *any* control for a little info about it. There's an option in that dialog to open the full manual as well. After seeing ed's REMSound do this, I thought I really have to do this for my apps going forward, so that's my plan.
I have a smart plug that doesn't work because cloud service ended and it no longer receives updates. I also have a 486 DX running Windows 98 SE and the really bizarre thing is how I can still play all the games on it I could 25+ years ago.
It is getting increasingly hard to decide whether a certain post or utterance is meant in earnest, or is part of a performance art project. Surely "the solution to identity theft is … a printed 2D barcode, that can be revoked" is of the latter kind? Particularly when you demonstrate that by accompanying it with a high-res photo of the to-be-revoked code. John Smith now has no valid ID document anymore. The entire "Verifiable Credentials" landscape is very slapstick, but this takes the crown.
Critical Cisco Nexus Flaws Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code With Root Privileges
I cannot believe that Facebook on the Web has regressed with the links that tell you when something was posted. The links once again read as gibberish. I normally try not to fall into the "they don't care" mentality because the situation involving accessibility efforts is a bit more nuanced than we sometimes realize. Some people at a company might care very passionately about accessibility and they may be doing their best to advocate for it. Others may not fully know or understand. I speak from experience. In this case, though, a small part of me wonders if more people over at Meta don't care or aren't getting it compared with those who do.
I would not use android but I love a couple of phones .. Freedom and nothing which could make a case for using Graphene as love their ethos .. yes Apple fan boy but can not be silly about benefits of others
End of an era. #Zilog EOL'd the #Z80 over two years ago, now parent company IXYS/Littelfuse issue EOL notification for all remaining MCU lines. I got my first Z80 in a #ZXSpectrum in '83 then moved to #SAMCoupe in '93. Made my own Z80 stuff since late 90s. Designed industrial equipment around the eZ80 in 2003/4, plus prototype co-processor for the SAM. I'm still committed to developing for a range of Z80 systems... Everything I've been doing for the SAM Coupe for the last 33 years: samcoupe.com Interfaces for RC2014 / RCbus based systems and compatibles: 2014.samcoupe.com And a few interfaces for the ZX Spectrum: zx.samcoupe.com
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And to help raise a few pounds towards development costs of the various projects I've got on the go I've designed a range of printed circuit board badges and keyrings of #8bit computers, see: samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm or my eBay: ebay.co.uk/usr/quazar-sam-coup… #8bit #electronics #retrocomputing #computing #retrogaming #indiedev
i’m at the point now where i’m just using wikimedia commons as my main image search engine does anyone remember when you could just find images of things that actually exist? that was a pretty cool time
I don't understand how speech to text on my phone seems to actively be getting worse all the time
