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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-05 19:12:26

A #mural from #Czersk. A bit creepy.
The title says "#Forest is our home".

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-05 13:36:06

Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
tech.eu/2026/05/05/quantware-s

@sperbsen@discuss.systems
2026-03-04 13:38:05

To the various re-posts of today, I'll add a classic Perlisism:
“117. It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?”
cs.yale…

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-06 04:56:34

A #mural at Bohaterów Westerplatte / Wojska Polskiego in #Rzepin.

Today’s Artemis II:
Integrity on its way to the Moon.
Time-lapse covering the period from 09:17:45 to 10:01:26 UTC
on 2026-04-03.
bsky.app/profile/s2a-systems.b

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-04 15:48:25

Hmm, I wonder how you're supposed to keep that distance when the roofing columns are less than 3 metres apart.
It's on the railway station in #Leszno.
#rail

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@Eliz
I have this great new thing I'm gonna sell them. I call it a "lanyard."
I reckon it'll catch on!

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-06 11:41:45

Whenever people are commenting on another half-assed, crappy #LLM feat, claiming that there are "some" use cases for this "#AI", substitute "AI" with "genocide".
Because, you know, there are "use cases" for genocide too, and apparently a lot of people don't mind, as long as they can benefit from it and look the other way.
#NoAI

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-06 00:06:07

Gabbard's office examined voting machines in Puerto Rico (NBC News)
nbcnews.com/politics/elections
memeorandum.com/260205/p119#a2

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-05 21:03:23

New Jersey county says malware attack took down phone lines, IT systems therecord.media/new-jersey-cou

@cdamian@rls.social
2026-03-02 12:52:45

WTF
"California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup" | Tom's Hardware
tomshardware.com/software/oper

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-04 16:21:45

1. Do random changes to cython-test-exception-raiser, and commit them as "initial code".
2. Move the extension module from the package directory into top-level "raiser.*.so", for no apparent reason.
3. Switch to CalVer, so that #Twisted newer upgrades to the new releases (it pins to <2).
4. I file a bug, because I'd like to finally remove the old version from #Gentoo.
#Python

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-04 18:10:43

Why there is a 60% chance of AI systems autonomously building their own successors by the end of 2028, and a look at the consequences of fully automated AI R&D (Jack Clark/Import AI)
importai.substack.com/p/import

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-30 06:50:00

Digital Health: Diskussion um Epic Systems, offene Plattformen und weitere Wege
US-Anbieter monolithischer Software wie Epic Systems in Krankenhäusern gefährden die digitale Souveränität und drohen, zur Kostenfalle zu werden.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-03-05 09:00:04

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3087 nodes and 5663 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998). 3087 nodes, 5663 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/route_views#19971125
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-05-04 13:33:20

May the fourth be with you as you check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Five Eyes warn that agentic AI is already in critical systems—and security isn’t keeping up,
--Trellix hit by significant breach, 15-year-old was busted for French gov't hack,
--CISA warns of Copy Fail exploits in the wild,
--Defender flags some legit DigiCert root certs as malware,
--Sri Lanka …

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-03-02 17:12:33
Content warning: Uspol, Iran, necropolitics

Seeing Iran appoint new leaders and continue to fight is seeing the more literal kind of necropolitics in action, as a hierarchical system continues to function while replacing the expendable human parts that it lost. The system is of course changed and influenced (and ultimately was built) by humans, but it has become something undying, or at least almost as hard to kill as an idea, and it maintains a terrible inertia in it's destructive tendencies (e.g., "Morality Police" continue to patrol the streets).
Lest anyone think this somehow expresses approval of US actions, the same logic applies here too: what once had a (thin) verneer of democracy, a system which loudly proclaimed to be controlled by "the people" (but which never was nor was ever intended to be) has lost its paint job, exposing the inhuman machinations beneath. Trump is a symptom, not cause, of an institution built on blood and spoils, whose alignment with the Epstein class (and moreover, their institutions) is ever more apparent with each disregarded law and principle.
Stepping back for a moment, this systems/necropolitics perspective is just a perspective, with its own distortions and blind spots. To paraphrase LeGuin, any institution built by humans can also be changed or destroyed by them. But I think it's very useful to put on the systems goggles in this moment, especially when some are fond of preaching about the dangers of "overwhelmingly powerful systems unaccountable to humans which pursue destructive ends" without actually examining the plethora of existing systems that do just that.
P.S. yes, United Healthcare is another good example of this.
P.P.S. yes I bending the meaning of necropolitics here, but the two are related: these systems would not be so free to profit from human death and suffering if they were more vulnerable to the deaths of their constituent parts. Necropolitics of the standard variety is of course present as companies like Raytheon and Lockeed Martin profit from the carnage. The F-15 caught by friendly fire? Just as profitable for Beoing to replace as one downed by the enemy.

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-03-05 20:29:00

Kremlin's spring offensive canceled? AFU burns S-400, EW systems, and Russian occupiers: benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/kreml

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-05-05 14:35:37

Sources: James Murdoch's Lupa Systems is in advanced talks to buy Vox Media's New York Magazine and podcast division (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/media/james-m

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-05-04 14:42:01

from my link log —
A project to restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes.
interlisp.org/
saved 2020-08-06 dotat.at/:/5KGKE.html

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-04 19:47:28

#LifeHack: how to turn the lights off using a remote.
#shitposting

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-03-05 12:39:19

Ah yes, the ESP32, as Gemini reads it, 32 Spanish pesetas.
I also like 64 pesetas systems.

@sperbsen@discuss.systems
2026-03-04 09:38:34

I had gotten excited about the idea of Evolutionary Architecture, but until this week never had the chance to read the book. Now I'm a bit disappointed.
I had hoped that a "fitness function" would be a measure of the quality of the architecture, and I had thus expected that the way to practice EA would be to make sure that measure goes up (or at least not down). (I had also hoped for some CI support for this in the sense of tracking the resulting numbers and their evoluti…

@danyork@mastodon.social
2026-04-05 12:05:08

RE: #XMPP systems any more, I am delighted to see all the activity that is happening within the ecosy…

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-03-02 17:23:35

After 24 years of building #systems, here are the #architecture mistakes I see startups repeat

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-05-05 15:00:56

"Chile reaches 4.6 GW of energy storage under construction"
#Chile #Energy #Batteries

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2026-05-04 18:25:19

“Think about how you relate to your compiler. You write C , Rust, Go, and the toolchain spits out a binary. Do you open that binary and read through the assembly? Do you schedule a meeting with a colleague to review the object code before shipping?
Of course not. That would be absurd. And not because you blindly trust compilers, you don't. Compilers have bugs. Compilers have had famously catastrophic bugs. But you've constructed an entire apparatus that makes reviewing the output unnecessary: you write tests against observable behavior, you have type systems that constrain what the output can do, you have reproducible builds, you have fuzzing and sanitizers and formal verification in high-stakes domains. You trust the process, not the artifact.
We haven't built that apparatus for coding agents. And that, not the output itself, is what's actually missing.”
#AgenticSoftware
skiplabs.io/blog/codegen_as_co

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-03-05 20:19:05

Exo–IPM Scattering as a Hidden Gatekeeper of Narrowband Technosignatures: #SETI Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals: seti.org/news/why-seti-might-h - turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems, making them difficult to detect.

@egallager@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-30 19:13:08

I maintain a fantasy version of the US Constitution to rewrite it how I think it OUGHT to read. Most recent commit is meant to overturn yesterday's bad SCOTUS decision:
github.com/cooljeanius/w_Const

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-05 15:01:07

A profile of Mikko Hyppönen, a cybersecurity veteran who pivoted from fighting malware to developing anti-drone systems for law enforcement and the military (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/afte

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-05-04 18:48:07

Short version: #DAC is not the panacea it's presented as, and deployment of DAC instead more renewable systems is no beneficial.
Well worth reading the thread, and the article summary:
bsky.app/pr…

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-05-04 18:48:07

Short version: #DAC is not the panacea it's presented as, and deployment of DAC instead more renewable systems is no beneficial.
Well worth reading the thread, and the article summary:
bsky.app/pr…

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-06 04:34:32

An underappreciated feature of the #Polish language (and a few related languages too) is that it features the colloquial interjection "no" that means "yeah". So when the text is mixing English and Polish you may get confused. However, in spoken language the pronunciation is different, as Polish "no" ends with a short open "o".

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-05 18:22:45

Taking stock: The Impact of the India AI Impact Summit 2026
fpf.org/blog/taking-stock-the-
@…

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-05 09:29:01

Be late early.
#aphorism

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-05 17:55:16
Content warning: Personal, health

0 days since my tooth cracked, and I wasn't even eating anything hard. I was honestly hoping that now that my #diabetes is settled the teeth problem are over, but alas. Hopefully it was badly damaged in the past, and just reached its limit now, and it won't be followed by more anytime soon. Now waiting for it to crack completely, and hopefully there will be enough left to rebuild something.

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-03-04 23:25:37

Russian frigate Admiral Essen’s electronic warfare and radar systems damaged by drone strike in Novorossiysk Bay: benborges.xyz/2026/03/04/russi

Workers’ pay is increasingly shaped by opaque algorithms and artificial intelligence systems,
shifting compensation decisions away from human managers, clear legal standards, and collective bargaining.
This phenomenon
—known as algorithmic wage discrimination1 or surveillance pay
—was first documented in app-controlled ride-hail and food-delivery work.
Now, it is spreading to a range of other industries and services.
Surveillance wages are being offered …

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-03 16:56:18

Behind the Blog: Systems As Designed 404media.co/behind-the-blog-sy

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-05-05 12:44:52

Get a load of the high-risk apps that the DHS OIG discovered on the smartphones of DHS employees, including apps from companies the US gov't has banned and apps from US foreign adversaries.
oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/file

A lengthy table of apps and why they are risky was discovered by the DHS OIG on employees' phones, including apps from companies banned from US government systems and apps associated with foreign adversaries.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-05 19:53:38

Ruh is a typical chestcat. She loves sleeping on my chest, given that either I'm wearing something or I'm covered by a blanket. She won't lie on it if I'm covered by a quilt. However, she doesn't mind lying on a quilt without anyone under it. She doesn't like my lap particularly; I have to lean back enough so she could place her front feet on my belly.
Mr Ek is a lapcat. He would gladly lie on my lap when I'm sitting. If I'm lying down, he also prefers the area of my knees.
Lulu is an universalcat. She will gladly lie down both on my lap, and on my chest. And if my chest is occupied, she's ready to lie down almost on my head, just to have the dominant position.
#cat

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-03 11:42:00

3D-gedrucktes Fluggerät Dart fliegt Hyperschallgeschwindigkeit
Hypersonix Launch Systems hat erfolgreich sein Hyperschallfluggerät Dart getestet. Dart kommt aus dem 3D-Drucker und fliegt mit Wasserstoff.

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2026-03-04 21:44:40

“The barrier to creating software has genuinely dropped. That is not hype. What it means for professional engineers is not that their skills are less valuable, but that the skills that matter have shifted up the stack, as they have in every previous transition.
The developers who thrived after the move from assembly to C were not the ones who could write the most clever assembly. They were the ones who understood what the machine needed to do and could express that intent clearly in a higher-level language. The developers who thrived after the move to managed languages and frameworks were not the ones most resistant to garbage collection. They were the ones who saw the freed-up cognitive capacity as an opportunity to solve harder problems.
The developers who will thrive in the agentic era are the ones who understand this as another step in the same arc and invest accordingly. Not in resisting the tools. Not in deferring to them uncritically. In developing the judgment, clarity, and systems thinking that make the tools maximally effective.
That means writing better specs. Investing in test infrastructure. Developing genuine architectural understanding rather than surface familiarity. Building the taste to evaluate output rigorously. Practicing problem decomposition until it becomes second nature.
The era of programming as primarily a keystroke activity is over. The era of programming as primarily a thinking and judgment activity has been accelerating for decades and just shifted into a higher gear.”
#AITransition
#
addyosmani.com/blog/factory-mo

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-04-03 20:33:02

RE: #ArtemisII Mission Update briefing: youtube.com/watch?v=z5PLvqX2q8w - in Q&A we learned that contact has been made to only two of the four CubeSats deployed so far, the German one mastodon.social/@DLR@social.bu not among them. Anyway, here is a cool timelapse of the deployment as seen in the sky: bsky.app/profile/s2a-systems.b

@egallager@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-28 15:56:15

Sign made for today's #NoKings

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-06 03:10:27

Me two nights ago: woke up sweating. Got up to open the window slightly.
Me last evening: smartly open the window before going to sleep.
Me last night: woke up sweating. Got up to open the window all the way.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-06 05:33:06

Breaking news: two weeks later, my tail no longer aches at every step. Now I feel slight pain only while climbing the stairs or carrying heavy shit.
Also, during these two weeks I've improved my litter box carrying posture.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-04-03 14:21:36

It's finally Friday, but don't leave for the weekend before checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft bets $10 billion on Japan’s AI buildout and cyber defenses,
--EU pins EC attack on TeamPCP,
--Iowa AG sues UnitedHealth over 2024 attack,
--Residential proxies pose problems for IP reputation systems,
--Him & Hers report Feb. data breach,
--TA416 refocuses efforts back t…

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-05 18:13:03

I've started reading "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graebar, and it makes me think a lot.
One thing I'm particularly thinking about is my parents' generation. How they keep criticizing all the social support ("there is no money for that", "undeserving people get it"), combined with taking advantage of any social support they can get without much effort ("others use it", "we deserve it"). And of course criticizing subsequent generations (because my parents had it so rough, with all the social support given by the quasi-socialist People's Republic of Poland, and now everything is so great under late-stage capitalism and people "are just lazy and don't want to work").

Human metapneumovirus, or #HMPV, has been steadily ticking upward since the start of winter,
data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
The virus, first discovered in 2001,
can cause upper and lower respiratory illness in anybody,
but especially in young kids, older adults and people with weakened immune systems.
Most people get their first case of HMPV bef…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-04 12:26:03

Kraken says its banking unit won "master account" access to the US Fed's core payment systems, the first crypto company to be able to move money like banks (Wall Street Journal)

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-06 09:33:52

"Area monitored using a GPS system"
Wait, what?! Is it being monitored for being, err, misplaced or what?

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-05 06:51:09

Officials say NATO's main focus at its July summit will be on investments into drones and AI systems rather than primarily conventional defense hardware (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-05-05 17:43:34

CISA announced a new initiative this morning called CI-Fortify to encourage organizations to be able to function disconnected from networks and still deliver essential services.
Check out my CISA piece on this project.
Many thanks to @…, James Winebrenner of Elisity and Bill Moore of Xona Systems for their insights.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-03 16:46:29

1. Submit a pull request to #zlib that changes the library filename on #Windows.
2. Pull request gets merged, and you effectively break everything that linked dynamically to zlib.
3. Attack everyone who reported this as a bug.
#OpenSource

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-05 04:21:07

Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model it says matches larger systems while using far less compute and training data (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
venturebeat.com/technology/mic

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-04 07:31:48

When you have the ambition and the money, but you lack the natural resources to use them on.
#Poniec, near Gostyń, Poland.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-04 10:46:25

I've never really put patches (is that the correct translation?) on my stuff, but I'm starting to consider having one with crossed out "AI", and "I have my own brain*" next to it.
* thesis confirmed using MRI
#NoAI #NoLLM

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-04-01 19:20:19

'Serious cyberattack' impacts phones, public safety systems in Massachusetts towns
wcvb.com/article/cyberattack-t

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-03 18:37:35

Working on the code of #Strife is definitely DoomCoding… (and yes, I kinda regret starting that.)

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-04 11:20:27

#TIL that HVAC usually stands for "heating, ventilation, air conditioning" and not "high voltage alternating current".

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-03 13:40:17

1. #Cat comes onto your lap.
2. Hair is coming up while you're petting the cat.
3. You sneeze.
4. You feel guilty about sneezing while the cat's on your lap.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-03 19:12:33

Finally started the second season of Sousou no Frieren, and indeed it is a good #anime.
"I'm a priest. Why do I have to carry the heavy one?" "Because the light one says you stink of liquor."

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-04-02 13:55:49

Today's Metacurity is a wild and varied mix of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Iran's Handela group claims control of the IT infrastructure in St. Joseph County, Indiana,
--Hasbro takes down systems after cyberattack,
--Italy’s ASIGINT accused of fake WhatsApp app,
--Attackers use WhatsApp to spread malicious MSI files,
--$250M stolen from DeFi project Drift,
--Anthropic knocks out GitHub repos in frantic bid to pull back …

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-03 13:30:24

When you look at a child's water bottle and see a sticker saying "MILF", but after a short moment of confusion you look closer and read that it's actually "NICE".
#PoorEyesight

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-04 07:13:42

As I'm walking down the street, I look at the variety of patched garbage containers and wonder what their story. And if it involved ignoring the instructions not to throw hot ash in.
#Poland

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-04 09:53:44

I don't get why so many people walk around with bared belly. I mean, I get that it makes insulin injections easier, but I've never suspected this many people to be suffering from seasonal diabetes.
#shitposting

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-04 09:38:27

"Beta Security"? Like, people should expect them not to be able to secure something?

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-03 16:08:25

Sometimes I have these ideas. For example, I realize that I have a white T-shirt that I wear rarely. So I decide to wear it, and the very next day I have a white T-shirt with black fur.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-02 19:09:31

Wanted to tackle #Strife next, but looks like gamepad support in #CrispyDoom is far from complete.
github.com/fabiangreffrath/cri
github.com/fabiangreffrath/cri

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-02 17:34:49

I suppose #Windows is doing great if #Microsoft now includes an Ubuntu install in their Windows VM images.
elevenforum.com/t/download-a-f

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-02 14:12:28

Oh, in other news, Wheel Variants (formerly PEP 817) is being split into smaller PEPs that will be easier to comprehend. The draft of the first split part, PEP 825, titled "Wheel Variants: Package Format" has been merged. We'd appreciate your feedback!
#Python #packaging

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-02 13:30:37

Are people living in Nice nice? And what about after hearing this joke?
#DaddyJoke

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-01 04:17:48

Mr Ek on a journey to the vet. It was his first train journey.
#cat #CatsOfMastodon #train

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-05 05:02:20
Content warning: Why do neoliberals hate Unixes so much?

They're afraid of getting a SIGBUS.
#DaddyJoke #suchar #PublicTransport #neoliberalism

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-01 14:08:48

"Auto detailing"? Never really seen a car with a tail, so it's probably just a scam. And if it weren't, I have deep ethical concerns about removing said tails.
#WordPlay #SłowaNaOpak

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-06 10:10:20

"Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes"
#AI #LLM #slop #NoAI

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-04 18:37:08

A #figure over Trzesiecko Lake, #Szczecinek.
#art

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-05 13:14:07

I'm sorry to say that I actually wrote it:
"The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models"
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-31 18:37:50
Content warning: Politics? Kinda, but really about spam.

I think the best summary of the current state of affairs in the #USA is that I'm getting #spam mail about a free sandwich. Like, seriously, getting scammed over a sandwhich…
#scam

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-02 09:00:10

Question to people around the world: is it customary in your country for people to drive 10 km/h (or a similar amount) over the speed limit, or is it a Polish pathology? As in, "everyone" does that, the police doesn't fine for that, and drivers tend to get angry if someone is actually keeping to the speed limit.
#CarBrain

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-01 02:44:54

Is it true that when a tabby #cat is eating, its stripes are moving like a progress bar?
#shitposting

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-05 11:58:10

Honestly, looking at the license violation thread of #chardet, I really feel like #OpenSource these days is a complete shitshow and I really don't feel like a part of the community anymore. Almost all replies are basically assholes questioning whether there "legally" is actually a problem there. Nobody's concerned that the whole thing is a huge dick move, which makes the maintainer a complete dick and nobody with a shed of morality left would be willing to approve this.
Also, it's a great opportunity to seed some GitHub blocklists.
#FreeSoftware #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-05 05:25:48

#Python #cryptography library (yes, the one that criticizes everything and everyone) is now vibecoded. Our future is truly bright!
Noticed because apparently "Claude" wrote a test that OOM-ed my system. But hey, #RustLang protects against memory errors, so it's fine to vibecode your security critical components.
#security #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-01 19:53:28

Truly I don't get how people aren't bathed already and in their pyjamas by 7 PM.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-01 16:16:20

Scary thought: before the end of 2020s I'll be 40 years old.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-02 09:47:54

"I'll start using escalators when I'm dead", thought JM as he climbed the stairs painfully, two steps at a time. "This pain is nothing compared to the annoyance of a slow escalator filled with people."

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-01 20:56:47

I am 36 years old, I have diabetes and for over a week I feel pain with every step since I've bumped my tailbone pretty hard. And yet seeing the youngsters these days, I feel like I'm surrounded by zombies; how can they be slow all the time?! And I'm not even even talking of smartphone zombies, just regular folk looking ahead and walking somewhere! Don't they have some trains to catch, or some cats waiting for them to get home?!

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-30 18:33:47

Theory: you should have multiple litter boxes, so every #cat has its own.
Reality: one cat goes through two litter boxes, relieving each need separately.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-30 04:07:02

I think we should EOL #Python versions more often. This triggers not-very-active projects to finally make a release, including another batch of releases today (apparently 6 months mark). Unlike, I don't know, bug fixes.
#Gentoo

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-30 12:14:37

"Why Some Criticisms Matters More Than Others", by Robert J. Hansen:
"""
On the GnuPG-Users mailing list, a user asked the following (paraphrased) question:
> I am very well aware of the consistent and persistent campaign against GnuPG. Is there a reason for this?
There are many reasons.
Before we go further, the things I'm speaking of apply to both LibrePGP and RFC9580 OpenPGP. The criticisms made against one usually wind up getting made against the other, whether for good or ill. These criticisms fall on a spectrum, from infuriatingly dishonest all the way to carefully thought out and researched. I'll start with the ones I think are dishonest.
"""
#GnuPG #PGP

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-04 08:49:55

Behind every sign there's a story.
Here's "we are not BISONS" film Park Tysiąclecia, the small #zoo in Leszno.
EDIT: Full text translated in alttext.
#bison #cattle #cow

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-28 19:06:59

It's better not to let me ponder on things too much, because I reach worrying conclusions. Like the one that my social life recently could be summarized as attending a funeral in December.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-26 14:06:11

A fluffy #birb from Konin. It was sitting on a roadside tree and didn't mind me taking a photo up close.
#bird

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-27 12:19:51

Manspraying
#WordPlay #SłowaNaOpak

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-25 15:16:07

Aaand we're seeing the first '#setuptools < 82' runtime dependencies in random packages because they are trying hard to workaround breakage due to pkg_resources removal.
#Python

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-29 15:44:37

To resolve the half-empty / half-full problem, I propose the adjective "fumpty".
#shitposting

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-27 10:58:28

So I'm walking up to a parcel machine that's standing the sun. The barcode scanner doesn't work. The text on dirty screen is barely visible. I notice an "increase contrast" option. It turns out it just changes color scheme to one where the contrast is even worse! 🤦
#accessibility

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-27 04:59:08

Imagine you're traveling back in time to the 1990s, and somebody asks you what the websites will be like in the future.
You: well, they will weigh hundreds of megabytes.
Them: oh, because of all the high resolution images?
You: …
Them: the images, right?!
#enshittification

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-27 12:18:57

My hobbies:
• wandering through the woods
• traveling by train (to the woods)
• reading (while traveling to the woods)
• mapping (the woods)
• coming up with shitposts (while wandering through the woods)