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Claude Advanced Tool Use
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038047
🤘 New episode of Changelog News!
Cedric Chin says comparisons of our current AI *maybe-bubble* to the dot-com bubble and the 2008 GFC are limiting, Matthew Prince does a post-mortem on last week's Cloudflare outage, "hl" is a fast / powerful log viewer for humans, Enthusiast Guy's Continuum 93 is a fantasy computer emulator, and a list of things that aren't doing the thing.
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/the-ai-invasion-of-knitting-and-crochet/
Others have drawn parallels between AI and photography: the invention of photography decimated the market for portrait painters but didn’t eliminate painting as a craft, pastime, or vocation.
Photography was invented 200 years ago.
The majority of paintings we all know were painted *after that*.
People ask me why, in an AI era, I devote my time to tools for crafting a site by hand.
People will still make sites by hand.
All the best tools for making sites by hand *have yet to be invented*.
I need to do a poll where I'm in agreement with the majority next.
so, okay, we've been making mistakes in production with DNS since we were 16, right? we can tell you some stories!
none of them end in someone telling us "don't worry, nobody else understands the changes they make when they do this either".
hearing this from someone well-regarded in our field would have been actively detrimental to getting us to where we are today.
because we guarantee you that for every do-ho-ho bumbling mediocre guy who goes "lol, nobody understands $thing" there is at least one person who does, cleaning up after the messes that this type of fucking guy leaves behind.
This is sick. #Ubuntu running on a #Blackberry Passport.
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Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet?
Link: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/is-your-android-tv-streaming-box-part-of-a-botnet/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037556
Our latest EuroBSDCon trip report from Leah Budzicka highlights continued interest in FreeBSD among newer and younger developers. Leah discovered the Foundation’s travel grant opportunity on Mastodon, attended the conference through Foundation support, and shared their experience with the broader community.
Read Leah’s report here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2025-eurobsdcon-trip-report-leah-budzicka/
If you’re new to FreeBSD, we welcome you to explore the Project. What questions do you have about getting involved?
Some helpful advice for all you software devs:
- You cannot solve social problems with code
- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does
- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they are trying to accomplish
Wenn die Milliardärsfamile Quandt/Klatten im „Verband der Familienunternehmer“ mit der AfD kungelt (so wie Elon Musk auf dem AfD-Parteitag), muss man dann nicht BMW genauso wie Tesla boykottieren?
Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic https://lobste.rs/s/jgczrj #cryptography #security
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-cgo/
1st class in German ICE trains or also known as Datenschutzvorfall's Paradise.
Tomorrow is the day in my election security course where we dissect election denial BS, always a fun class. I'm grateful to the "election truth" conspiracy people for keeping the 2020 dream alive in 2024, and giving us a steady stream of new (actually recycled) material. The pillow guy gets old after a while.
yeah its almost like AI detectors are a scam
I hate when websites aren't specific about their password requirements.
The site said I needed to use at least 1 letter and 1 number. So I used a cuneiform 3 (𒐮), but it kept complaining that I hadn't used a number!
Frankly, I was adding way more entropy than a Western Arabic Numeral 3 would have.
Our latest EuroBSDCon trip report from Leah Budzicka highlights continued interest in FreeBSD among newer and younger developers. Leah discovered the Foundation’s travel grant opportunity on Mastodon, attended the conference through Foundation support, and shared their experience with the broader community.
Read Leah’s report here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2025-eurobsdcon-trip-report-leah-budzicka/
If you’re new to FreeBSD, we welcome you to explore the Project. What questions do you have about getting involved?
PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/64gb-of-ddr5-memory-now-costs-more-than-an-entire-ps5-even-after-a-discount-trident-z5-neo-kit-jumps-to-usd600-due-to-dram-shortage-and-its-expected-to-get-worse-into-2026
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038143
DARPA’s next-generation #semiconductor fab, the Texas Institute for Electronics, will produce chips made of multiple materials, with and without silicon. These chips will power the most advanced microprocessors in the world.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-heterogeneous-integration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
연기 열정 불태운 '영원한 현역' 이순재 별세…향년 91세(종합)
(서울=연합뉴스) 김호준 김경윤 기자 = 현역 '최고령 배우'로 활동해온 배우 이순재가 별세했다. 향년 91세.
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20251125006652034
かわいいのアウトプット
@49016⬡-49016 
@yassie_j@catgirl.cloudYaseen in the Catgirl Cloud 🏳️⚧️ 
@yellowJennifer! 💛 
@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone
Nifty trick by the way.
Care to enlighten how you did that?
Impressive how a post from June ends up in my timeline in November by the way.
favourite matrix servers? o.o
Rejected Mastodon features:
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@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
User achievements!
“Posted from 5 different devices”
“Hug-of-death’d 10 external websites”
“Unfollowed by 99 users in 24 hours”
“Reported by 100 users”
“Reported from 50 instances”
“Blocked by 1000 users”
“v& by three different agencies”
Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?
Link: https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/inside-rusts-std-and-parking-lot-mutexes-who-win
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989284
TSMC Arizona Outage Saw Fab Halt, Apple Wafers Scrapped
Link: https://www.culpium.com/p/tsmc-arizona-outage-saw-fab-halt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037324
Ich freu mich riesig auch bei der #WissPodWeihnacht dabei zu sein. 🤗
Das ist ein Podcast-Adventskalender mit 24 verschiedenen Wissenschafts- und Wissenspodcasts.
Schaut einfach mal hier, wie ihr die hören könnt:
https://wissenschaftspodcasts.de/adventskalender2025
ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ
A Trojan using GitHub Discussions as its command and control protocol is ridiculous and kinda hilarious tbqh
Humming birds are big this year!
@huertanix, FPF’s senior digital security trainer, spoke with the Huffington Post about the privacy implications of uploading your personal identification onto your phone.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-passport-digital-id_l_691debe3e4b06f2a60caf5d9
Tor Project Announces Relay Encryption Scheme Improvements
@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.
They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.
This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.
The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.
#grapheneos #Privacy #NoBackdoors #encryption #security #chatControl
On Modelling Agent Systems with Erlang (2004) https://lobste.rs/s/we5abg #pdf #erlang
https://erlang.org/workshop/2004/carlosvarela.pdf
i had a vision while at work and dropped everything to inflict it upon the world at large
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@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) I totally read that as "FurAffinity Oath" rather than OAuth at first, and I was wondering if it more like the Hippocratic oath or the Green Lantern's oath.
I've combined the Oauth and the oath proposals as best I could below:
In brightest day, in darkest night,
No Fursona shall escape my sight
By Client Assertion, I proclaim
Only pride and never shame!
さーて起きますか
Type theory and category theory are the product of highly refined abstractions. Since every level of abstraction strips a layer of intuition, the final product is sometimes called abstract nonsense. The only way to navigate such vast halls of abstraction is to keep in mind where those abstractions come from, or how they can be modeled in more familiar surroundings, be it computer programs, logic, or set theory. When studying an elephant, it makes sense to occasionally focus on its trunk, legs, or ears,
Learning category theory is a little like reading a novel that has many hidden layers of meaning.
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03714-0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037267
11월 나온 모델만 가지고 regression 때리면 내년 1월 중순에 SWE-Bench 가 saturate되네요. 굉장히 optimistic 한 전망이지만 반대로 갑자기 exponential grokking이 발생할수도 있으니 무섭네요
Meaningwhile in the bathtab. #Anarchodiva. #CatsOfMastodon
猫もまたお前を見つめているのだ。「あ、そこにいたんか」
#cat #catsofmastodon #fedicats #ねこ #じゃぱねっこ
Pax says, "Hey! It's Monday. You ready to roll?"😊
Good morning, afternoon or evening to you! We hope today is a good day for you. Please stay safe!💕
#Pax #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #Cat #Catstodon #MastoCats #FediCats #Pets #Animals #Tabby #Cute #Kitty #Katzen #Katze #Chat #Gatos #AdoptDontShop
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