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New blog post:
Finding a miscompilation in Rust/LLVM
Turns out sometimes it *is* a compiler bug.
https://emmatyping.dev/finding-a-miscompilation-in-rustllvm.html
If you self host anything, double check your servers, there was a CVE in react/nextjs that opened full server compromise to random attackers. many servers were hit and installed crypto miners or malware to be a part of a botnet
If you self host anything, double check your servers, there was a CVE in react/nextjs that opened full server compromise to random attackers. many servers were hit and installed crypto miners or malware to be a part of a botnet
Disagreements over post-quantum encryption for TLS https://lobste.rs/s/2lglm4 #cryptography
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1048978/8efe916082e53bfe/
Age-verification mandates create barriers along lines of race, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, and socioeconomic class. Hereโs 10 (not so) hidden ways how. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/10-not-so-hidden-dangers-age-verification
@effElectronic Frontier Foundation Lawmakers who draft/enact Age Verification and similar policies insist that said policies are about "child safety." But anyone with even rudimentary critical thinking skills knows that is not true
The true purposes of these policies are as follows:
-Make organizing protests virtually impossible
-Erase marginalized groups from the internet
-Make accessing vital resources much harder, if not impossible
-Erase anything that dilutes the state's ability to brainwash the populace (Palestine, Environmentalism, LGBTQ+ rights, Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Immigration, etc.).
-To "return" sexuality and expression in general back to their "proper" place in society and make adult art, sex work, etc. more precarious, more exploitable, and with less recourse to any law or institution
-General petty spite towards people who don't treat lawmakers like deities
Overall, de-anonymization won't make kids safe and it won't result in a more polite internet (just look at Facebook and LinkedIn).
Anyone who advocates for these policies shouldn't complain when their ID/Credit Card/Biometric data is inevitably leaked to the dark web and they have to deal with ID theft and such for years/decades.
They also shouldn't complain when they can't access a vital service and/or get jailed because either 1: The government didn't approve of what they said or 2: The extremely error prone AI that scans their messages thought the innocuous pic of their kids/pets was CSAM/Bestiality.
#Privacy #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Internet #SocialMedia #US #UnitedStates #EU #Canada #Australia
If you self host anything, double check your servers, there was a CVE in react/nextjs that opened full server compromise to random attackers. many servers were hit and installed crypto miners or malware to be a part of a botnet
Age-verification mandates create barriers along lines of race, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, and socioeconomic class. Hereโs 10 (not so) hidden ways how. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/10-not-so-hidden-dangers-age-verification
The other day I bought myself a universal remote and thought to myself, well, this changes everything.
Deep dive on Nvidia circular funding
Link: https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196076
It's really awkward the person you have to sue is the government for censoring your software through Apple and not Apple for creating a situation where the government can censor your software. Apple is more powerful, and less accountable, than a government. https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115684595581297105
๐ New episode of Changelog News!
Why AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropic's acquisition of Bun's creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldn't get Claude to recreate Space Jam's 1996 website, Google finally unkills something, and Bazzite is a distro for the next generation of Linux gaming.
What I'm listening to today: "Ha", Juvenile
This one's a classic of Dirty South hip-hop, a truly foundational work. If you feel this you will Feel it and I won't need to explain it to you. If you don't feel it, try to think of this as a *historical document*. Here is a narration of being a drug dealer in the late 90s (what is a "triple beam", and what is it for?) and a video which is basically a documentary time capsule of pre-Katrina New Orleans. Entirely unreplicable.
What I'm listening to today: "Two riders down", caroline
I love electronic music because there is so much attention to timbre. I love "indie rock" for the same reason, indie rockers love sounds, they just focus on the sounds of strings and cassette tape and echoey rooms instead of circuitry.
This is that *good* Athens, Georgia sound, which is weird since it's from the UK. A room full of sad, angry folk musicians hitting their instruments and crying with joy. Sprawling
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
Link: https://blog.pkh.me/p/48-a-series-of-tricks-and-techniques-i-learned-doing-tiny-glsl-demos.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194477
"(๋ฅ ๋ ํ๋ฅ ๋์)"์ด๋ผ๋, ์ ๋ฏธ๋์ด์ผ, ๋ ์ด๋์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ง ๋ฐฐ์ ๋... ๐คฃ๐ญ๐
ich mรถchte Teil einer Erwachsenenbewegung sein
It's really awkward the person you have to sue is the government for censoring your software through Apple and not Apple for creating a situation where the government can censor your software. Apple is more powerful, and less accountable, than a government. https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115684595581297105
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459
I'm continuing to rip all my old DVDs, and now I can watch House M.D. as background noise. So, obviously, I am doing that.
It lands really differently than it did in 2004 (2004!? wtf!). And not in the ways you might expect. House's misogyny is a touch more grating than than it used to be, sure. But on the other hand, it's strangely utopian to imagine this world where people can just get healthcare. Everyone gets the tests, scans, medication, and surgeries they need. They get these things promptly, and without having to beg and plead with insurance companies.
This was obviously fantasy in 2004, but it would be entirely beyond belief, today.
Also, I've forgotten half the medical mysteries, so that's fun
@duncan__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.comDuncan - British Columbia - FediMeteo@duncan__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.comDuncan - British Columbia - FediMeteoViรฐtaliรฐ viรฐ Brynhildi Jennรฝ sem Penninn gerรฐi รญ tilefni nรฝju bรณkarinnar.
The interview with Brynhildur Jennรฝ that the store Penninn did on the launch of her new book (which I published). I attempted to add English soft-subtitles, but I don't know if it took.
Original here: https://www.tiktok.com/@penninneymundsson/video/7576666782488857874?_r=1&_t=ZN-91hEf390yRi
Here's a version with quick and dirty English language hardsubs.
Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) โ Give better context to coding agents
Link: https://www.trynia.ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194828
Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
Link: https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105
LB One of my favourite meme themes is cats being interviewed. Hilarious
My neighborhood has no HOA, which means I could install this on my roof if I wanted to
Deep dive on Nvidia circular funding
Link: https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196076
bun์๋ ๋งคํฌ๋ก๊ฐ ๋ค ์๊ตฌ๋ https://bun.com/docs/bundler/macros
Trace Line Clock Does It With Magnets
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/trace-line-clock-does-it-with-magnets/
HETERO WARNING!!!
GIRL X BOY ACTION!!!
DONT LIKE DONT WATCH
the issue is full of social commentary, especially given that it came out in 2017 when #metoo was happening, Ninja-G has to deal with both racism and sexism. She starts off in the Honeytrap program but refuses to be sexually touched by men and is moved to the Ninja program because she keeps stabbing dudes.
There's a mention that the only reason MI6 expanded the Ninja program to include women was because the Soviets were including women. The men of the program harass her and accuse her of sleeping her way to the top.
She refuses to kill IRA cells that aren't targeting civilians which makes MI6 mad.
And her handler is a white woman using her (a black woman) skills to get past the glass ceiling. And MI6 considers her handler expendable too despite that.
(cw: blood, death)
they weren't being subtle at all, and good on them
It really annoys me that we have "display names" and "handles" on social media that are displayed totally inconsistently. There should be a squircle / losenge presentation that includes handle, display name, and maybe profile pic in a few different sizes so that when a person is referenced, it always looks relatively similar
Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong
Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/12/08/quanta-books-to-publish-popular-math-and-physics-titles-by-terence-tao-and-david-tong/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195225
...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right?
"I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto"
"Over time however, I felt like I have lost my purpose in crypto. The initial siren songs of cryptoโs transformative powers waned after working in the space full-time. I was disillusioned by my target customers and who I was really building for. I completely misunderstood what the actual users of crypto are v.s. just propaganda. Crypto purports that it helps decentralize the financial system, which I completely bought into, but in reality, itโs just a speculation and a gambling hyper-system thatโs really just a mirror of what the economy is now."
"The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I am NOT building a new financial system. I built a casino. A casino that does not call itself a casino, but it is the biggest, online, multi-player 24/7 casino our generation has ever concocted. Some part of me wants me to feel proud that I contributed at least my 20s building this casino out. Another part of me literally feels like I wasted my entire 20s in this space. I wasted my life on this, but at least I made good money from it."
Corollary to my previous post:
The more you know about a type system, the more errors you recognize as type errors. Null references, misshapen objects, non-exhaustive conditional logic, subtly incompatible schemasโฆ theyโre all common, and they all can be prevented by a type system (as long as youโre holding it right.)
I see JS devs object to TS with arguments like โTS will prevent you from converting a number to a string by accident, but that basically never happens in practiceโ. And theyโre right, but theyโre also showing a serious lack of understanding of a type systemโs functionality.
Talking about languages is hard, because criticizing something you donโt understand well can easily turn into flaunting oneโs ignorance. On the other hand, learning a language well is a huge investment and engineers canโt afford to lear every language which they choose not to use. We constantly have to make technology choices from a place of partial ignorance.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@jnkrtech/115684500999332883
Real woke kids use "unalive", Sasha.
#FollowForMoreSensitivyTipsForNeoNazis #euromeme #shitposting #EU #EuropeanUnion #Europe #Dugin
NYT - Alina Habba has resigned as US attorney in New Jersey after a panel of federal judges ruled last week that she was serving in the position unlawfully. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/nyregion/alina-habba-nj-us-attorney-resigns.html?searchResultPosition=1
The companies whose whole job is understanding the Real Cost Of The Finding Out Part do not want to play this game at all.
๐ Some important #CrossBorderRail news! ๐
After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work, and 
@patrickPatrick Dersjant RCX 
@partimMartin Hoffmann & 
@redjivesJโdV are in from the start. We're sort of soft launching today
Details ๐
https://jonworth.eu/european-rail-passengers-union-lobbying-for-passengers-cross-border/
European Rail Passengers Union: lobbying for passengers, cross border
It has been something in the back of my mind for more than a decade: how could railway passengers be better represented to campaign for improvements in international rail? Here's a piece I wrote in 2014 about the topic. And the issue very much came to a head in 2021 [...]
jonworth.eu ยท Jon Worth
Link author: 
Jon Worth@jon@gruene.social
LB One of my favourite meme themes is cats being interviewed. Hilarious
I'm getting a LOT of new followers this weekend and today from mastodon.social that claim to be news aggregators. all created in the past 72 hours. Someone's spinning up a MONSTROUS propaganda/fake news campaign out there right now! I'm guessing it's a state level actor. Be cautious and double-check anything that sounds too good to be true or too outrageous to ignore!
Hugo van Kemenade
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@reiver โผ (Charles) 
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Andreas Freise
Tom Casavant
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Stefano Marinelli
Cat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) 
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