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ooh, new dark pattern I discovered today.
Stuck with MS Teams at $DAYJOB, I continue to hold onto the thick-client instead of succumbing to the heavy-weight web client.
Just about every time I switch to the app after a couple hours of not using it, it pops up a "This is unsupported" interruption with a link to learn more, HUGE, colorful "Try it on the web" button, and a smaller light "continue using this antiquated unsupported piece of junk" type button.
As if that wasn't bad enough, as dark patterns go, when you tab through the controls, focus lands on the "more information" link and on the "try it on the web" button, but the "continue using this" simply won't focus with the keyboard. You HAVE to reach for the mouse to click the "continue using this"
Have I mentioned how much I loathe using MS products, and Teams in particular?
A couple of redditors imagining Matt Berry as The Doctor has ended me
Run, there's a fuuuuckiiiing Daaarlehhk on the lawn
今天懶到直接把米、豬肉片、高麗菜丟飯鍋，加點黑椒，倒油和醬油進飯鍋直接煮
只是想在高麗菜雪到壞掉前清掉，希望不會太難吃
이거의 다른 예로 지금 카세트 테이프 플레이어를 만들려면 선택지가 하나밖에 없음. 일본 타나신 회사의 메커니즘을... 중국 회사들이 베껴서 여태까지 생산하고 있는 것들. 카세트가 흥했을 때는 여러 회사가 테이프 메커니즘을 만들었겠지만 지금은 타나신을 포함해 다 포기한 지 오래고 그래서 지금은 싸구려부터 하이엔드 기기까지 부품 품질만 조금 다른, 같은 구조의 어셈블리를 쓰고 있음.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7mjkyetd6fas2qbknt65l5v/post/3lseeiwswgs2f
Security pre-disclosure:
A critical security advisory for #Nix and #Lix (and #Guix) will be published tomorrow at 14:00 UTC.
If you're building untrusted derivations, you must upgrade to ensure your systems remain secure.
Lix versions 2.91, 2.92, 2.93, and main will receive upgrades on all known channels to Lix. Lix 2.90 WILL NOT receive upgrades.
More details are available in the pre-disclosure post:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/pre-disclosure-announcement-security-advisory-for-nix-and-lix-on-june-24-2025/65831
Please stay alert for the full announcement tomorrow at 14:00 UTC.
Lix releases are now out, please upgrade. A detailed writeup about the issue and the mitigations is at https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/, scroll a bit down for for instructions on how to protect yourselves.
See also the Discourse announcement post at https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017, which also links to the various Nixpkgs PRs for those that use Lix from Nixpkgs.
Security pre-disclosure:
A critical security advisory for #Nix and #Lix (and #Guix) will be published tomorrow at 14:00 UTC.
If you're building untrusted derivations, you must upgrade to ensure your systems remain secure.
Lix versions 2.91, 2.92, 2.93, and main will receive upgrades on all known channels to Lix. Lix 2.90 WILL NOT receive upgrades.
More details are available in the pre-disclosure post:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/pre-disclosure-announcement-security-advisory-for-nix-and-lix-on-june-24-2025/65831
Please stay alert for the full announcement tomorrow at 14:00 UTC.
Lix releases are now out, please upgrade. A detailed writeup about the issue and the mitigations is at https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/, scroll a bit down for for instructions on how to protect yourselves.
See also the Discourse announcement post at https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017, which also links to the various Nixpkgs PRs for those that use Lix from Nixpkgs.
Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
Link: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365806
we had an interesting @vuejs.org team meeting today (I joined early and had the meeting notes bots to myself for a few minutes)
How I make thumbnails for YouTube, a second channel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlFrmuYBMS8
'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'
Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
I'm drafting an upcoming newsletter about inoculating yourself against the phrenology of programming: identifying it, basic red flags in claims about cognition and developer problem-solving, and unfortunately...papers about programmers that stray over the line
TIL that Bugs Bunny is canon non-cis!
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WandaVision TwodaVision Red....
Replying to @spootart and @taynimated
BUGS BUNNY IS NON BINARY FIGHT ME ON THIS
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
According to Chuck Jones this is actually true. Bugs is trans and beyond the binary system. Chuck said Bugs is sometimes more male and sometimes more female, just as he feels like it.
tuna ramen COMI...
GENDERFLUID BUGS?
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
Chuck Jones didn't know the word back then (to be fair, he used transse*ual to describe him, because it was the 90s and he was a different generation) but yes, definitely!](https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/096/269/085/350/133/original/390362d555e9ec16.jpg)
![[A screencap of a Twitter thread.]
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
He wrote it in one of his books. Bugs bunny is based on the classic tricksters in norse mythology, which all were either trans or genderfluid. Also, even though Bugs wasn't intended to be trans, but due to the fact that he was a huge icon in the trans community of the 80s and
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
was used on signs on riots at the time, chuck jones was talking with queer people why they used his image as representation and he gladly learned that bugs was seen as trans and chuck gladly accepted him that way. The fact that he created a character in a way that a minority,
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
like the trans community of that time, found hope and happiness in him, made him very proud and Chuck saw it as his biggest achievement, much bigger than any award or so could ever be.
He wrote it in one of his books.](https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/096/271/467/332/357/original/2e61bfd705af2680.jpg)
Why the fuck is it so hard to meet non-flakey, cool people who are available, and down to do cool shit.
I'm 35 and starting mostly from scratch. No family, no pets, no obligations, no relationship. I have an amazing fucking job. I've been in nyc my whole life. It shouldn't be this fucking hard.
Yes maybe 🏳️⚧️ has something to do with it, but wtf. It's so fucking annoying making all this effort all the fucking time. Pride makes me so fucking depressed cuz I always hope for more.
しーも壊れちゃった
또 졸았다
> ... they would never be used for training LLMs. A separate justification was required for each use. None is even offered here except for Anthropic’s pocketbook and convenience.
> The technology at issue was among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes. but also > Every factor points against fair use. Anthropic employees said copies of works (pirated ones, too) would be retained “forever” for “general purpose” even after Anthropic determined ...
"Claude AI maker Anthropic bags key “fair use” win for AI platforms, but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works"
aifray.com/claude-ai-ma...
Claude AI maker Anthropic bags...
そういや10月までなのでそろそろ期限伸ばさきゃね
WSL和Windows 11…
New https://constraint.systems work from me:
Image Paint - an image brush where pixels are copied and pasted in the direction you click and drag. An attempt to make something that feels tactile like paint, but "goes with the grain" of being digital.
Try it at https://image-paint.constraint.systems
riverのバージョン上げたら壊れた
why are people who dont even have a fediverse account talking about interoperability on the fediverse? literally the only thing they do is whitewash meta. fuck this
ok fine on a constructive note: the policy people keep falling into the trap of thinking that interoperability is a tech and policy issue. but thats a sideshow to the actual challenges of implementing interoperability, which is cultural. if you dont have a fedi account you sure as hell dont know the cultural challenges when it comes to interoperability
June was packed. Catch the latest from the world of secure networking:
✅ Grants are now generally available
🧩 App connectors are also GA, access your SaaS services via your tailnet!
🔄 + updates to Docker, K8s, tsrecorder, and the admin console.
https://tailscale.com/blog/june-25-product-update
I'm writing my book on Python performance using Quarto (https://quarto.org/) and it's really great technical writing environment out of the box.
But beyond that, it's also extremely customizable.
Each document (an article or chapter) can be a Jupyter notebook, and I have written custom Jupyter magics that e.g. benchmark different functions and generate markdown tables of the results.
So e.g. I'd write:
```{python}
#| echo: false
%%compare_timing --measure=instructions
function1(DATA)
function2(DATA)
```
And it will benchmark both functions and render a Markdown table that shows mean elapsed time and mean CPU instructions.
Rendering the book, including running benchmarks and formatting their results, is completely automated.
躺床上看書姿勢不良，後來靈機一動，把露營用的折疊躺椅拿來房間用，舒服😌
Technology & Friends - Scott Hanselman on New Technology and Old Friends with host David Giard.
https://davidgiard.com/scott-hanselman-on-new-technology-and-old-friends
make 32-bit a subscriber only feature
Need rollback? BastilleBSD supports ZFS snapshots to protect and restore your jails fast. Create, snapshot, and clone—all from the CLI. #FreeBSD #ZFS #automation
으악 12시다
Need rollback? BastilleBSD supports ZFS snapshots to protect and restore your jails fast. Create, snapshot, and clone—all from the CLI. #FreeBSD #ZFS #automation
An official announcement will come soon, but if you are using the #Lix package manager, it's recommended you upgrade NOW.
For more details, read https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/.
This blog post will be updated with more information as we go (PRs in nixpkgs, etc.).
Coming back to this, what I find lacking in most of the research and discussion about LLM use is any consideration of motivations, why people are engaged in a task, what their goals are, why they might choose to use these tools.
Inevitably many of the answers to these questions point at overarching economic dynamics that we will need to engage with if we want to mitigate the harms caused.
I've been in this developer education / devrel / developer experience etc etc space for a long time now and it still strikes me as utterly bizarre how frequently we talk about software engineering as though it isn't primarily a thing people do it as employees of companies in industry. It makes no sense to reason about any of this without talking about money.
(Sidebar: software engineers not seeing themselves as workers is imo partly also why so few organised while they had the leverage.)
New https://constraint.systems work from me:
Image Paint - an image brush where pixels are copied and pasted in the direction you click and drag. An attempt to make something that feels tactile like paint, but "goes with the grain" of being digital.
Try it at https://image-paint.constraint.systems
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ActivityPub Trust & Safety Task Force meeting starts in 10 minutes: https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/a54ae3c9-89bc-4bb1-b9db-e9494d2100e1/20250624T110000/
There's no fixed agenda today.
にゃ～～～～～～～～～～～～
The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization https://lobste.rs/s/hyyggn #ai
https://lucalp.dev/bitter-lesson-tokenization-and-blt
🐘 Sooo… I rebuilt my entire Mastodon instance 😅
Because I found out I could be identified at my root domain instead of my subdomain… and, well, once I knew that was possible, there was no going back 😇
💻 Tore it all down, spun it all back up — fresh instance, same vibes, better handle.
🔐 Everything’s still self-hosted, FOSS-powered, and privacy-conscious (of course).
💜 Will be refollowing the lovely folks who gave me such a warm welcome the first time.
Apologies for the false start! 😅
솔직히 한번쯤은 경험해보고 생각해보셨을거에요.
누군가 성희롱이나 추행, 혐오표현을 하지 않을까? 라는 생각.
하지만 비퀴어 시스젠더 남성은 그런 생각을 일절 하지 않죠.
약자와 강자라는 것이 이런 것입니다.
이거 진짜 안돼요.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5msgvmwjsnu3q3twwbinyphi/post/3lsdygcb6ds2z
Journalist searched and detained at US airport, report by 
@freedomofpressFreedom of the Press https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/journalist-searched-and-detained-at-us-airport/
怪しそうで怪しくない
ちょっと
Come join us for #ActivityInThePub, a hangout for all fediverse friends in #Montreal.
3 Brasseurs, Vieux-Port
July 10th at 6:15pm
RSVP here:
https://mobilisons.ch/events/8e9e0fb1-329b-45bc-9f5a-d34e41f77e4c
"Live, Laugh, Luigi's
Sticker spotted in Detroit
I'm drafting an upcoming newsletter about inoculating yourself against the phrenology of programming: identifying it, basic red flags in claims about cognition and developer problem-solving, and unfortunately...papers about programmers that stray over the line
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