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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116171617825488794
AI is going to ruin the greatest project ever undertaken on the internet.
Sounder at Heart @News@www.sounderatheart.com
Sounders will be first MLS team to play at a Liga MX opponent in Leagues Cup.
Read more →the world seems to be healing atleast somewhat. my parents are joyfully playing some wow retail to pass their sick-leave for the first time in 15 years and are enjoying building their small house and running around in azeroth :)
tech, "AI", bad news
Quoting https://bsky.app/profile/baldurbjarnason.com/post/3mgcpckb5qk27 :
As
@davidgerard has posted elsewhere, the maintainer of the library HarfBuzz has gone all-in on vibe-coding.
(see: https://typo.social/@behdad/116172838540880597 )
A note on why this is a worry in the thread ->
Fonts are a lucrative target. They require a complex parser, usually written in a language that isn't memory safe, and often directly exposed to outside data (websites, PDFs, etc. that contain fonts). This means a flaw could lead to an attack worst case scenario: arbitrary code execution
HarfBuzz is pretty much the only full-featured library for that takes font files, parses them, and returns glyphs ready to render. It is ubiquitous. A security flaw in HarfBuzz could make a good portion of the world's user-facing software (i.e. that renders text) unsafe.
Irrespective of the vibe-coding issue (code review is not an adequate defence against "agent" bugs) this is a piece of software that, due to its position in the industry, should be MORE conservative than the rest. Core infrastructure is not where you want experimentation
if someone says "it's a tool" one more time I'm going to create something.
(어떻게든 재설치를 안 하기 위해 방법을 찾는 중)
The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.
The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.
「男叩き」も「女叩き」もやめませんか？（インターネット・男女論の皆さんへ）｜ちきゅう絶対領域トワイライト衝動 https://note.com/chikyuv/n/n6e54d7d788f7
男性叩きをしないだけで本当に心を荒立たせずにすんなり読める
The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.
The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.
The #ActivityPub for #WordPress team is just crushing it. They just released 8.0.0 of the integration. It’s getting better all the time.
Huge thanks to 
@pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle for amazing work!
https://activitypub.blog/2026/03/05/8-0-0-smash-that-like-button/
There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
You're really on the cutting edge of far future trends! The rest of the industry won't go in that direction for some years yet, it would seem.
They used to talk about Future Shock (book and phenomenon) and shockwave riders (the phenomenal SF writer John Brunner; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider).
You clearly are one such.
I know some people are thinking "well pulling off this kind of thing, it would have to be controlled with intent of a human actor"
It doesn't have to be.
1. A human could *kick off* such a process, and then it runs away from them.
2. It wouldn't even require a specific prompt to kick off a worm. There's enough scifi out there for this to be something any one of the barely-monitored openclaw agents could determine it should do.
Whether it's kicked off by a human explicitly or a stray agent, it doesn't require "intentionality". Biological viruses don't have interiority / intentionality, and yet are major threats that reproduce and adapt.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber what i think is interesting about this is the potential for it to get so out of control that they have to pull the plug on the entire agent service
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(comic) Thinking on your feet https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-thinking-on-your-feet
Railway End Table Powered By Hand Crank
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/railway-end-table-powered-by-hand-crank/
電波ちゃん、おはよう
あんまりおもしろくないなあと思いつつ好きな作曲家の方がBGMをやってるので見続けちゃってるドラマがやっと最終回っぽくてなんとなくほっとしている←
US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5llg0e9g9o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265291
The Brand Age
Link: https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264756
私はラディカル・フェミニストか？｜ちきゅう絶対領域トワイライト衝動 https://note.com/chikyuv/n/n95bebbac7405
OH: Herr Präsident, heben sie sofort die strafzölle auf Twinks auf!
#mucccleaks
(From 2023) "The wife of a former Republican congressman said Sen. Markwayne Mullin [who's replacing the outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem] put his fingers in the noses of sleeping congressional spouses for photo ops on a trip to Israel."
I can't even.
I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.
誰のことも諦めないフェミニズムでありうるか｜ちきゅう絶対領域トワイライト衝動 https://note.com/chikyuv/n/n361266e20faf
Here's another way to put it: if those using AI agents to codegen / review are the *initialization vectors*, we now also have a significant computing public health reason to discourage the use of these tools.
Not that I think it will. But I'm convinced this is how patient zero will happen.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber just today our org had a big "how to set up coding with agents" preso and in the chat someone's like 'here's how to connect your agents with windows credential store or the macos keychain" and I all but wept
Max & Norbert eat like this so each knows the other is still there - while their faces are buried in food
Slurs are just really never something you need to use.
Unless it’s to call me a slut while spanking my bare ass. Then they are absolutely necessary.
Hi! I'm new here and I'm looking forward to being involved. I'm sick of Meta and their censorship. I'm interested in anything that helps remove Trump and maga from our lives.
In the countryside, there are rituals that have endured for hundreds of years, unchanged.
This elderly woman, her body bent by time and hard work, walks each day to meet her chickens - who roam freely across a vast open space.
She gathers a few branches and leaves, then returns to fetch the food she’ll give them, to complement what they’ve already foraged in nature.
The chickens, friendly and orderly, follow her all the while.
And watching them, I’m reminded of people who are no longer here - people who were part of my life for a long time, who lived those same rituals, even if hundreds of kilometers away.
Even as everything around us changes, there are places that never do.
It's a good day for #HHKB owners!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116178002926045553
Laurens Hof is at it again highlighting the problems of our lack of an adequate ActivityPub API and the hurdles that are to come in it getting adoption.
#fedidev
乱数放送の新ネタが出現したらしく興奮してる https://x.com/i/status/2029470879923789839
What future millennia will remember about the 2020s is it was the decade America's industries decided to fire all their transsexuals and replace us with statistical text models and see if they remained a technological civilization.
That's a debatable thesis, actually, but the future will pretty much have to believe it because by coincidence this one post you're reading will be the only piece of recorded media that survives the unplanned re-entry of Elon Musk's DEATHSTAR-1 datacenter in 2031
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai)
new from me: FR#156 - Share Where?
on 
@Mastodon 's new Share button, the Mastodon API and protocol ownership
Last cat post of the night: From this morning I think (time is a soup) as I observed Karvinen being proficient with Pillow Technology.
Last cat post of the night: From this morning I think (time is a soup) as I observed Karvinen being proficient with Pillow Technology.
It's always so cute when cats use something for humans like humans would. He repeatedly mashed his head onto the pillow before settling, like any of us, when trying to find the best angle.
The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
GPT 5.4 Thinking and Pro
Link: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2029620619743219811
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265150
🦊 Mozilla adding a one-click toggle to completely disable all AI features in Firefox
Firefox 148 (coming Feb 24) will reportedly let users block current and future GenAI features—including translations, alt text, tab grouping, link previews, and the AI chatbot sidebar.
"AI should always be a choice – something people can easily turn off," says Mozilla's new CEO.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/mozilla-adds-one-click-option-to.html
nuintari's rules of networking 0x05:
A proper recursive name server is local to your network. Never use any of the commercial providers that really want your DNS traffic. They really want your DNS traffic for a reason. That reason does not have your best interests at heart.
DNS is not hard.
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Paolo Melchiorre
