@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-24 14:45:38
As SBOMs slowly progress at the federal level and in enterprises, the rise of AI coding assistants is fueling optimistic—and, some experts argue, “kind of insane”—claims about a future with vulnerability-free software.
Check out my latest CyberScoop piece.
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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-10-24 17:18:36
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Himeros (Desire), the companion of Eros (Love), so suffuses the eyes that it seems clearly to drip from them."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2.9
🏛 Aphrodite on a neck-amphora, Tomb 69 of Lucinella, National Archeological Museum, Paestum
📸 saamiblog
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@laxsill@social.spejset.org2025-10-23 20:41:59
Vi hade ingen maraschino men mycket körsbärssirap så vi körde en fuling och bytte, därav färgen. Mycket god kombination av anis och sötma. Påminner mig om hur tråkigt det är att jag druckit så lite absint sedan jag blivit vuxen #drinkklubben
@wraithe@mastodon.social2025-11-23 15:10:54
Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC
@jake4480@c.im2025-11-19 19:12:59
Pterosaur with unusual bristle-like teeth discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-new-species-of-flying-reptile-discovered-in-fossilized-dinosaur-vomit
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 10:39:50
Despite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
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Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.se2025-11-20 21:01:44
Det är nu över 10 år sedan dietboksförfattare och influensers påstod att de visste hur man fixade tarmfloran och med det en rad olika hälsoproblem.
Och än idag har vi i princip ingenting konkret från vetenskapen kring tarmfloran och behandling av olika besvär utanför just tarmproblem.
The Autism-Microbiome Hypothesis Is Falling Apart
@annsev@troet.cafe2025-11-22 10:14:04
Shakespears "RIchard III" ist das Stück der Zeit, wie es das auch in den 1920er und 30er Jahren war, auch wenn es 1937 durch die Nazis selbst instrumentalisiert wurde (Inszenierung am Preußischen Staatstheater Berlin im Jahr 1937, unter der Regie von Jürgen Fehling)
Es ist an der Zeit, dass ich das Stück mal wieder lese.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-12-21 05:18:28
Who do they think they're fooling?
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-18 15:51:02
Fun fact, your computer doesn't have USB ports (USB is a protocol, not a connector).
Funner fact, even if your computer has USB-C receptacles it might not be using any type of USB as protocol for a specific connection.
Funnest fact, there's at least a dozen different types of cables that use USB-C plugs with various capabilities, sometimes mutually incompatible and often silently falling back to slower protocols.