@neverpanic@chaos.social2026-05-21 11:16:53
Are you in the US and want to work on Smartcards? My employer has a position available: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Senior-Software-Engineer-in-Crypto--Smart-Cards-_R-056859
(It says Raleigh, but…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-25 07:40:34
Since my job is stable now and I have saved up some money, I have decided to stop accepting donations via GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi. I would like to thank everyone who helped me over the years. There are people who need the help much more than me right now.
If you needed a suggestion, @… is doing a lot more than me for #Gentoo these days and will certainly appreciate your help. He's also way nicer than I'll ever be.
https://github.com/sponsors/thesamesam
https://ko-fi.com/thesamesam
To the best of my knowledge, Gentoo project does not need extra money right now, but there are other awesome projects such as Disroot or many Fediverse instances that would definitely use some help. However, in general I'd suggest towards supporting individuals rather than projects: people need money to live, and can use your donations directly, while projects are often bound by red tape.
Finally, please support human artists and craftspeople (and I'm counting human software developers in that). Donate to projects and people who resist enshittification and who refuse to use LLMs. They need the money.
Once again, thanks for all.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-19 00:56:16
Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted "formal verification" could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flaws (Jason Nelson/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/368226/ethereum-founder-vitali…
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-04-20 13:28:34
Fascists, cryptobros, young men who play tons of video games and have very little ethical thinking skill and frame everything as a competition to be won, seasoned software engineers, accelerationists, business guys, Business Guy Grifters, hyper-neoliberal technocrats, wannabe software engineers, kids who dream of creating video games, product designers who want to prototype things, capitalist hangers-on and investmentbros who are looking for the next gamble for their money, Chinese tech company employees, third world techies who use these tools to be able to play at the rich countries tech industry table, edgy young men who want to “decensor" everything including open models, tech enthusiasts who want to try every new thing.
And very, _very_ few women. And very, very few experts.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-19 11:35:07
YouTuber Eric Parker discovered that a game called Beyond the Dark on Steam served as bait to distribute malware that steals users' cryptocurrency wallet information and Roblox account credentials, with a backdoor for installing more malicious software.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC78inB5bZ4
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-22 16:06:29
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-04-18 21:33:50
So.. I have a theory that burned-out coders prefer AI coding agents. Because at the point of burn-out (and beyond), you just stop giving a fuck. You might still like and enjoy your craft, but when it comes to your job (whether that's proprietary or free software), you just want to get through the day and get it done. And if an LLM helps you accomplish that, regardless of ethics or maintainability or boring button-mashing, so be it.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-04-17 16:53:36
I'm giving Proton Sheets a try. I do like CryptPad (for a number of reasons) but there are a few things that bug me (mostly the bugs) so I figure testing what Proton has is worth a shot.
(I'd still like to find a self-hosted spreadsheet application at some point.)
https://proton.me/drive/sheets
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-04-11 13:54:36
Each week, Metacurity offers our subscribers a run-down of the best infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to properly amid the onslaught of daily news.
This week's selection covers,
--Sam Altman is no fan of AI safety,
--Quantum computing cryptography is now an engineering emergency,
--How a Mexican contractor became a surveillance powerhouse,
--Software is produced too fast to secure it,
--AI is more likely to empower cyber defense than offense,…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-23 10:21:17
#Gentoo is still one of the bright outposts in #FLOSS where human work is valued and #LLM contributions are banned. However, sometimes I feel that this matters very little.
After all, Gentoo is a distribution. While it has its own value, it cannot exist without all the software it is shipping. It makes no sense in isolation.
And let's be honest, I don't think you can avoid slop today. We are trying our best to sieve out the worst: the copywashing chardet, the vibecoded NIH Perl crypto packages… but it's just that.
As someone who bumps Python packages, let me tell you this: LLMs are omnipresent. I notice Claude in commit logs, I notice the blasphemy of agent instructions all over the place… and there's probably much more than I don't notice. With many core components giving in, you can't avoid it without literally freezing on old, vulnerable versions, or spending hours looking for alternatives or creating them.
FLOSS is dead. People don't care. They don't have conscience. All they care about is the sick idea of "productivity", i.e. generating more slop.
The few of us who do care can do very little. We will continue doing our best until they kill us (as they're literally slowly killing the whole humankind). But that's it. Maybe it will pass once the bubble pops, maybe it won't. Either way, the damage is beyond repair. We will never be able to trust one another like we did. We will never again be a community building a better world.
It's just like everything nowadays. It's hard to find a good washing machine (one that will actually be repairable), good shoes (that won't fall apart shortly after the warranty expires), good food. You need lots of money, and even then you have to sieve through all the scammers who just sell the same shit with higher profit margin. #OpenSource is just another branch of business where people are trying to "sell" you shit, and don't care anymore if it explodes in your face. They don't even care if they're actually making a profit.
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM #enshittification #AntiCapitalism