@macandi@social.heise.de2026-06-02 11:51:00
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-01 15:24:21
Behind the public’s mounting worries is a growing sense that Trump isn’t mentally all there.
Physical and mental health aren’t easily separated, especially as one reaches 80. I often can’t remember where I put my wallet and keys or why I’ve entered a room. I also have less patience than I used to have. (I’m less tolerant of long lines, automated phone menus and Republicans.)
But if Trump can’t remember where he put, say, a top-secret memo or why he entered the Situation Room, or …
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-01 14:09:14
Don't leave for the weekend before you check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments shaping the cyber landscape, including
--GPT-5.5 aces UK cyber trials, tops rivals in AISI tests,
--NSA is testing Mythos,
--Anthropic publishes Claude Security for Claude Enterprise,
--Flock spied on a kid's gym room,
--DPRK hackers have stolen $577m in crypto year-to-date,
--Rhysida demands ransom from Stelia Aerospace NA,
--Two ransomwa…
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-04-03 00:23:07
My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.
@simon_jf@mastodon.scot2026-05-01 16:34:36
It was the Functional Programming exam today. I went to the room to make sure everything was OK and to wish the students good luck. Upon entering the room, invigilator dutifully ushered me to a seat to take the exam…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-01 19:01:04
2:31 p.m. Eastern
NASA’s Artemis II crew members are boarding the agency’s Orion spacecraft to begin communication checks to confirm voice links with mission control and onboard systems.
Before entering the spacecraft that will be their home on the approximately
10-day journey around the Moon and back,
all four crewmates signed the inside of the White Room, an area at the end of the crew access arm that provides access to the spacecraft.
The term “White Room” d…
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-05-01 17:11:56
A lot of the analytical work I do really adapts well to #Jupyter Notebooks. It's very helpful to organize the code into logical chunks, one chunk per cell.
However, now I want to re-run the entire workbook, changing only one parameter.
Is there an easy way to do that without merging all the cells together?
ETA: My notebook has a parameter section at the top, but now I want to …
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social2026-04-30 16:26:37
Jetzt beginnt die Vorstellung der von Reiche zurückgehaltenen Studie "Stärkung der regionalen Wertschöpfung durch Erneuerbare Energien"
mit dem Studienautor Dr. Steven Salecki, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Projektkoordinator am Institut für Ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW).
https://
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2026-03-31 18:39:32
Tomorrow at YDS! A reception celebrating Julia Rooney's acclaimed "Tilt" exhibition of cyanotypes capturing the beautiful light of Marquand Chapel. The event features remarks by the artist (a 2018 Yale School of Art grad) and catalogue-signing.
12:15 pm, Croll Family Entrance Hall, light lunch provided.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-06-01 02:39:46
It's always important to have a consistent #security policy.
For example, a policy of "If somebody filed a CVE, it's an important security issue, and we will fix it as such, no matter how meaningless the fix is. If nobody did, it's just a glorified bug fix, no matter how serious the bug was."
So we've just seen a #pip security release over "installing random packages can overwrite pip's files and pip can lazy-import some of them immediately afterwards", with a fix of "pip will no longer load them until you run it again" (leaving the underlying security issue of "any #Python package can override files installed by any other Python package" as intended behavior). As Eli Schwartz beautifully put it, you are not expected to be using the virtual environment; you should create it, install packages into it (at most once!), and then frame it and put it on the wall to admire.
Now we're seeing a "bug fix" for "malicious entry point names can write outside of virtual environment". If nobody filed a CVE, it's obviously not a security issue at all. At least upstream graced us with fixing it without correcting the spec to forbid that first.
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/14000