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Fortinet is to network security as Microsoft is to computer usability.
cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source: https://thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-ai-is-ddosing-open-source-and-fixing-its-bugs/ via 
@TheNewStack & 
@sjvn
For #opensource software, #AI is very much a mixed blessing, in his view.
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[$] Open source security in spite of AI
The curl project has found AI-powered tools to be a mixed bag when it comes to security reports. At FOSDEM 2026, curl creator and lead developer Daniel Stenberg used his keynote se [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1058266/ #LWN #Linux #security #FOSDEM
Pizza done, watching curling USA - ITA. I don't understand this game, but...
You don't need to press anything for the display to move!
There's a Golden Girls episode where Sophia has a bulk shopping discount card and buys all sorts of nonsense including four gross of toothbrushes and I think of it every time someone says they generated however many hundreds of thousands of lines of code
I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
Link: https://anthony.noided.media/blog/ai/programming/2026/02/14/i-guess-i-kinda-get-why-people-hate-ai.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037628
ローカルLLM欲しくなる人の気持ちがちょっとわかってきた
@evanEvan Prodromou To be more explicit, I think I understood your explanatory reply to your original survey but wanted clarification that the repeated word "it" was referring to the user's browser, or perhaps "the user's browser running javascript loaded in the page fromm a.example".
Your first sentence response to my question seemed to confirm this. But then your followup about server-side or client-side made me wonder if my contra-example of a.example proxying interaction with b.example was correct.
@virtuous_slothBruce Elrick It's usually correct. A lot of Fediverse servers use CORS or authenticated fetch to prevent loading the data directly into the browser. I feel like you're getting very particular about how it's implemented, which is fine. If that's important to you, express why and how it affects your answer in a reply.
クラウドサービスはコロコロ仕様が変わるので変更を追っていくのが大変
@samirsamir, 60% aloo, 40% rage thank you, but attribution where it's due :-)
@samirsamir, 60% aloo, 40% rage 
@janlJan Lehnardt 
@Flyingmana not yet sure where to publish it, or what to do with it, but I had to write this down and get it out of my head over the past couple of days: https://k023.de/26-02-16-fast-fashion.html
Clearly inspired by your fast fashion metaphor, Samir, as a story arc but dangling thoughts about software quality, unions, and licenses included ;)
cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source: https://thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-ai-is-ddosing-open-source-and-fixing-its-bugs/ via @TheNewStack & @sjvn
For #opensource software, #AI is very much a mixed blessing, in his view.
Privilege Is Bad Grammar
Link: https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/privilege-is-bad-grammar/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038125
おぴごとおぴごと 
a644a4a762 (upstream/main) Allow managing collection accounts (#37812)
cff25c186b Fix race condition when processing statuses twice with the same idempotency key (#37879)
f7bf804a3f Profile redesign: Switch to server flag (#37876)
f199d7995c Add missing “Filter action” source string (#37838)
284c53f439 Remove disabled bundlesize-compare workflow (#37875)
ed6d8fad9e Update dependency ioredis to v5.9.3 (#37849)
6d3eb43500 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37863)
4425b8a0b2 Update dependency stackprof to v0.2.28 (#37873)
4396217434 Update dependency jsdom to v28.1.0 (#37874)
9baa51c67e Update dependency capybara-playwright-driver to v0.5.8 (#37840)
e8ca5f633e Update dependency devise to v5.0.1 (#37860)
1b724e9e12 Capture output in `cli/emoji` spec (#37861)
L’acteur américain Robert Duvall, connu pour ses rôles dans « Le Parrain » et « Apocalypse Now », est mort https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2026/02/16/robert-duvall-connu-pour-ses-roles-dans-le-parrain-et-apocalypse-now-est-mort_6667000_3246.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
WebMCP Proposal
Link: https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037501
You know that “stop forcing AI into fucking everything” graphic that went around on here?
I bought the t-shirt. I get a lot of compliments on it.
The only negative response was from a friend who works for McKinsey. She read out the “everyone hates it” and said, “do they really, though?” as we stood near the check-in table for an event, and three people in line turned around and said, “YES!”
another one of those days where I wake up feeling horrible because I have to Do Things today and it's going to be a Struggle and I am going to Let Myself Down
and then I take my ADHD meds. by the time I've finished my first cup of tea, I feel perfectly capable again. like doing the laundry and cleaning the bathroom are not, in fact, insurmountable obstacles but instead just mildly tedious tasks.
it wasn't until I started taking ADHD meds that I realised what laziness actually was.
laziness is when you know you're perfectly capable of doing a task but you can't be bothered!!
laziness is NOT "my entire brain starts up an agonising struggle process that causes tremendous anxiety and unhappiness the moment I even think about doing something that doesn't maintain a steady feed of dopamine"
Did you know that people tend to have a very poor sense of their own mediocrity and this tends to leak into poor evaluations of when their own human capabilities are important to their work? (cue this 11-year old keynote www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIJd...)
youtube.com/watch?v=hIJdFx...
After carefully reading and ranking a record number of 185 submissions from 148 speakers, we finally finished the talk selection for RustWeek 2026!
I'm *really* excited about the lineup! Check it out here: https://2026.rustweek.org/blog/2026-02-13-speakers-announced/
Don't forget to buy your ticket! See you in Utrecht!
OH so like a functional programmer to not have class consciousness
하지만 한남 여러분들 트랟괨 누가 만들었나요? 너네가요… 욕할자격 1도 없으시고요 트랟괨 욕하는 남성계정은 보는즉시 칼차단 간다.
Our next Shigeru Mizuki release is coming soon! THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE. This was a personal request by Mizuki himself to have it translated, as he felt it was the culmination of his work. @dandq.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy amzn.to/4rVYPC9
How long are you active on the #Fediverse?
OH so like a functional programmer to not have class consciousness
Our next Shigeru Mizuki release is coming soon! THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE. This was a personal request by Mizuki himself to have it translated, as he felt it was the culmination of his work. @dandq.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy amzn.to/4rVYPC9
(gero..... げろ..... 覚えました)
ok, i made a local language model* that does literally nothing** so i can use the vscode chat as a clipboard
you can install it with cargo install cliplama and add it to vscode as an ollama model
https://codeberg.org/mkljczk/cliplama yes it has too many deps and my rust code is bad but it's not a serious project
*not really a language model
**it meows back at you
France grants safe haven to anti-Kremlin Russian couple detained by ICE
After France issued the couple humanitarian visas to avoid them being deported to Russia, Alexei Ishimov arrived in Paris on Monday morning. But his wife, Nadezhda, did not.
気持ち悪いの無くなってる～
ギルベルタ単発で引けた
Bueno,ayer fue la #fedifiesta de Murcia y aparte de coincidir con gente guay de manis y otros espacios pude conocer a más gente guay y a un perrete.
Me recomendaron hacer un #Presentación para conocer mutuals así que allé voy:
Hola me llamo Kike y me gustan varias cosas:
-La música: en especial el midwest emo, pop punk y derivados
-La política, historia y sociología de izquierdas
-Los videojuegos (sobre todo JRPGs)
-Las series de misterio (aunque siempre 1312)
-La cocina rica
Y nada, que UwU 👉👈
There's a Golden Girls episode where Sophia has a bulk shopping discount card and buys all sorts of nonsense including four gross of toothbrushes and I think of it every time someone says they generated however many hundreds of thousands of lines of code
L’acteur américain Robert Duvall, connu pour ses rôles dans « Le Parrain » et « Apocalypse Now », est mort https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2026/02/16/robert-duvall-connu-pour-ses-roles-dans-le-parrain-et-apocalypse-now-est-mort_6667000_3246.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
The UK government is playing whack-a-mole with online safety.
Plans to further age-gate the Internet dodges the real issue – the power of Big Tech.
Failing to regulate AI and the age verification industry puts the rights of users in peril.
Read our response ⬇️
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #bigtech #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
The UK government risks creating a new layer of digital infrastructure that concentrates power over identity, biometrics and access to public life in the hands of private companies.
Age gating VPNs, AI Chat bots, or features like infinitive scrolling would expand the reach of age verification.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #bigtech #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #vpn #socialmedia
nobody:
gpt-5.3-codex: "rm was blocked, so I let a butterfly out of my hand and let the delicate wings flap once, creating a disturbance rippling outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere [...] strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit."
There are these websites which ten years ago you put in you wanted plane tickets, or a car rental, and they'd check all the options and give you the cheapest. And today the websites still exist but they do something different, which is they let you reserve a plane ticket with no baggage included or a car with no insurance, which means you have to pay for those things at pickup at an unknown rate, so you pick an option $100 cheaper then show up and discover insurance makes it $200 more expensive.
The main AI age verification bill in Florida, SB 482, will be in it's second committee on Wednesday at 1:30 PM.
You can call down the list of Senators on the Appropriations Committee to tell them to oppose this bill.
https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/AP?pref=full
Learn more
https://www.miamitech.club/oppose-sb-482/
#Florida #AI #AgeVerification #ChatGPT #Privacy #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights
Your Friends Might Be Sharing Your Number With #ChatGPT
朝ごはん食べちゃった。昼ごはんどうしよう…
I’ve tried to use Claude to help me get set up with Railway and it has been absolutely terrible.
It gave zero indication it would expose secrets publicly in the GitHub with the boilerplate, and I still don’t have a working template after bouncing around with it for the past week. It keeps oscillating between microservices and a monorepo deploy and cannot determine which will cost more.
He looks like jabba the hutt 😂
#CatsOfMastodon
Today in InfoSec Job Security News:
I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.
So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.
https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc
As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.
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