ThatCoder @CodingMadness

Every software developer should own a potato PC. It's the easiest way to ensure your application is fast enough. Put your agents to work within it and watch the weight drop. There's no reason a machine from ten years ago shouldn't fly like superman.

YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ‘BRICK’ A FRIDGE YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ‘BRICK’ A FRIDGE YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ‘BRICK’ A FRIDGE YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ‘BRICK’ A FRIDGE YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ‘BRICK’ A FRIDGE YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ‘BRICK’ A FRIDGE YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ‘BRICK’ A FRIDGE

Ars Technica @arstechnica

7 days ago

Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…

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Someone tried to get the Rust clones of GNU CoreUtils into OpenBSD. Theo de Raadt (the lead of OpenBSD) wasn't having it. And his quotes were... amusing. "Smells like agenda." "Oh, because it is written in Rust. Your agenda is showing." "That makes no sense. Noone wants subtly different behaving binaries as part of their workflow ... there are no people in this universe who wants to replace that ls with a different ls and get surprised by un-standardized tooling behaviour clash." marc.info/?t=17898877070…

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Built in the 1150s, Hemingford Grey Manor House in Cambridgeshire is amongst the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain. Much of the original house remains intact despite various changes over the last 900 years

While you're being propagandized to fix the weather by starving while you freeze to death in the dark - this 👇 is China.

STOP CHAT CONTROL They are trying to pass it again⤵️

Tuta @TutaPrivacy

5 days ago

Next Tuesday, a permanent decision on Chat Control 2.0 could be made. 😡 If passed, this means your private chats WILL be SCANNED. 🚨 PLEASE TAKE ACTION: Contact your MEPs 👉 fightchatcontrol.eu/?level=nationa… At Tuta we say NO to #ChatControl and will continue to fight for your right to

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It looks exactly like a regular flash drive. but it's not. When you plug in a normal USB drive, your computer mounts it as storage but when you plug in a Rubber Ducky, your computer registers it as a keyboard. keyboards are trusted by default so no antivirus scan. The Ducky immediately starts typing a preloaded script at up to 1,000 words per minute. faster than any human. In seconds it opens: — opens a hidden PowerShell window — downloads a reverse shell — creates a backdoor account — exfiltrates saved passwords — installs persistent malware DuckyScript 3.0 made it worse. the payload now detects which OS it's on Windows, macOS, Linux and adapts automatically. in 2026 red teams are documenting multi-vector attacks: one person plants the Ducky while an accomplice calls the IT helpdesk pretending to be a vendor. distraction and compromise simultaneously.

Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz

4 days ago

Ever heard of a USB Rubber Ducky?

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Adolf Loos estaba equivocado! Y el mundo está pagando un alto precio por la simplicidad aburrida en la que vivimos.

They don't really care how old you are. They want your meta data. ⤵️

Nym @nym

7 days ago

Google verifies your age by reading your search history and YouTube watch habits. Discord verifies your age by reading your community activity and interaction patterns. Neither asks for your ID for most users. Both point existing behavioral surveillance at a new compliance

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We offered Dr. Fauci’s longtime assistant immunity for one reason: so she could tell the truth about the destruction of federal records without fear of prosecution. The American people deserve to know who ordered these records destroyed, how long it went on, and what they were trying to hide.

AI Surveillance and Freedom of Speech Interview with Edward Snowden at the ETHics forum Watch the replay: ➡️youtube.com/live/wytH7dPlC…

Five Indianapolis police officers have been charged with abusing Flock cameras to stalk women. One made more than 1,000 searches. I talked about this in last month at the time, 18 officers nationally had been caught doing the same thing across multiple departments. Indianapolis is not any different. An officer meets a woman. gets her plate. runs it through Flock. gets her home address. her daily route. every time her car appeared on any Flock camera in the city. her workplace. her gym. her boyfriend's address... HaveIBeenFlocked.com, the civilian website that scrapes those public audit logs has been fighting takedown attempts from Flock since it launched. The system that exposed this abuse is the one Flock tried to shut down. 5,000+ law enforcement agencies across the US still have Flock access. The women tracked by those 1,000 searches still don't know their movements were recorded.

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Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz

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Five Indianapolis police officers have been charged with allegedly abusing Flock license-plate cameras to track spouses, exes and women they met in public With one officer accused of making more than 1,000 searches.

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‼️ Ubuntu is moving to weekly kernel updates because AI is finding Linux bugs faster than Canonical can ship the fixes.

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"Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?" — Galatians 4:16 Reddit is coping with reality about as well as you'd expect.

KDE Leader Calls Omarchy Funders a "Rouges Gallery of Villains" Official KDE Statement: "KDE does not harbor fascists", "We neither have nor want a relationship with Omarchy."

KDE has taken to their official social media account (on Mastodon) to make the following statements: "KDE does not harbor 'fascists' and we have the track record to prove it." "We are not writing a set of pro-LLM policies. Quite the contrary. The current draft actually restricts its use much more than currently codified." "We neither have nor want a relationship with Omarchy."

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An 11-year-old works all summer, saves $900, buys himself an electric dirt bike and rides about 300 feet from home to go fishing. Police stop him, fingerprint him, tow his bike and send him to court — with an officer telling him that failing to appear could result in a warrant. When the machinery of the state comes down on a sixth-grader like he’s a hardened criminal, maybe we should stop and ask what kind of society we're building. A child went fishing. The government responded with fingerprinting the kid and giving him a court date. That’s how a police state begins. x.com/mattvanswol/st…

US scraps UN free speech declaration after insufficient support On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the Trump administration sought to promote international free speech protections. However, the event was cancelled after too few countries committed to signing the declaration. Britain was among the countries that failed to attend the signing ceremony. The declaration denounced “new laws” and “regulatory frameworks” that endanger free speech. It is clear that the UK and the EU objected to the document because it conflicts with their censorious online regimes, including the Online Safety Act and the EU’s Digital Services Act. Governments would have been required to agree that online platforms should not be forced to “proactively moderate content” falling within certain categories of speech. Sarah Rogers, the US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, said: “The statement is intended as an expression of comity and common values, and also a source of interpretive guidance for American speech companies complying with overseas laws.” A State Department spokesman said that the draft joint statement was “undergoing an iterative diplomatic process”, adding: “The purpose of this effort is to drive consensus, provide clarity and express shared values. By its terms, the statement does not purport to override existing laws or regulations.” It is deeply disappointing that countries around the world cannot commit to defending one of our most basic rights. The world is in the grip of a free speech crisis. Read more below in @thetimes 👇

Fuimos la última generación que escribió código manualmente

No echo de menos escribir código. Pero sí echo de menos estar yo solo delante de un problema sin tener ni idea de cómo resolverlo. Probar. Fallar. Darle vueltas durante horas. Y conseguirlo. Al terminar no solo habías resuelto el problema. Notabas que algo había cambiado en tu cabeza. Habías desbloqueado algo en tu forma de pensar. Ahora siento que tengo que esforzarme para usar mis propias neuronas. La recompensa es demasiado inmediata. Antes estaba en resolver algo después de horas de frustración. Ahora puede estar en escribir un prompt y ver aparecer el resultado en segundos. Hemos trasladado parte de la dopamina del scroll infinito a los prompts infinitos. Y me preocupa lo fácil que resulta dejar de valorar el esfuerzo. No solo programando. Pensar cuesta. Entender al otro cuesta. Cambiar de opinión cuesta. Y ahora incluso podemos preguntarle a una IA hasta encontrar una respuesta que confirme exactamente lo que ya pensábamos. Siempre he dicho que lo bonito de programar nunca fue escribir código. Era resolver problemas. Y, curiosamente, eso sigue siendo lo que más me gusta de la IA: me permite resolver problemas que antes ni siquiera podía plantearme. Solo intento que, por el camino, no resuelva también por mí el esfuerzo de pensar.