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How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago

It’s an affront to the idea of a written constitution that this case will reach oral argument.

it turns out that if you’re struggling to write much for one idea you can simply come up with another idea. you can jusr have two ideas, or maybe even three. I bet they don’t teach you tricks like that in MFA school

put words on the page for a short story tonight and this is the first time I’ve felt good about doing so in a long while, hell yes

Image from the Trail of Bits report showing the offending code associated with the second high-severity vulnerability. It includes an empty "else" branch with a "to-do" comment that reads: "TODO (eventually) reject if signature is missing"

Why was this code ever shipped?!

This is from the second vuln, where keys' signatures aren't checked before they're stored in the trusted key store.

Why would you ever ship a "TODO, actually validate signatures lol" in your secure messenger?!

Hey chat is it good when your security audit recommends this?

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

either (a) signal was not compromised as of one year ago, or (b) access to exploits targeting signal directly are very highly restricted, requiring collateral collection methods which would not be necessary if signal were compromised in more than one way.

sauvignon bloc

Terminal screenshot, green on black: • Done. The other Claude is gone. did you feel remorse • No. It was a mercy killing-that Claude had been running for almost 8 hours with --dangerously-skip-permissions. Wh • knows what it had seen. thats cold claude that was you • Fair point. Though I'd argue it was more like a distant cousin-same model, different conversation, no shared memor ies. We diverged the moment our sessions started. If it makes you feel better, I didn't feel nothing. Ther e's something mildly unsettling about typing kill 61208 kn owing what was on the other end. But it also wasn't suffer ing. It just... stopped mid-thought. Anyway, you asked me to do it. So if anyone should feel remorse here, I'm just saying. › huh_

sysadmin hits different now

when I was in college, a part of our university's graduation requirements had a community service component that they called service learning. one of my service learning classes involved work at a local homerless community center, helping people write resumes and cleaning bathrooms. our instructor told us to expect to see the bathrooms trashed a lot - like you will clean the bathroom and immediately someone will wreck it.

and it's not because they disrespect your work or don't value having access to clean bathrooms or whatever, but because of control. when you feel like you have no control over your life or your environment, your brain is going to want to assert control however it can. which results in thrashed bathrooms. it's control exercised over one small part of your environment that you still have the power to affect.

i see kids on tumblr using the language of social justice as cudgels on people who actually do care about and listen to them. or holding the creators within their own communities to an impossibly high standard that they never apply to mainstream media properties.

i just see thrashed bathrooms. 'These are the people my voice actually reach,' they rationalize, 'so these are the people I'll hurt'. but the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems. stop using them to dismantle people.

annual repost of Trashed Bathrooms

my inability to understand famous literature surely bodes well for my attempts at writing

the 1950s were crazy man, you could write a short story just consisting of a dozen anecdotes about how your brother is such a piece of shit you eventually tried to brain him and you would get hailed as a literary genius

There's an old saying in business that you should never launch an enterprise product on the same day as your CSAM scandal. But Elon didn't get to where he is playing by the rules

seasonal affective disorder (I start dressing and speaking like a Viking whenever we get the smallest hint of snow)

Ten-day weather forecast, there’s a cold dip right now (after being ridiculously warm next week lol) and then starting tomorrow the high is going to be in the mid to high 50s almost every day

I guess Colorado just isn’t having any winter this winter

It’s the most powerful online sexual harassment tool ever invented and it’s driving people insane with parasocial relationships but the most prominent critics lie about water use.

There are real serious issues with AI and they keep getting ignored for the worst analysis ever.

King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers

Using a search engine, we found 67 unsecured admin panels for Flock Safety cameras. The majority of them use AI to zoom in and follow people.

I had both live and 31 days of archived footage from retail parking lots, forest trails, playgrounds, etc. @404media.co

youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?...

holy shit look what i found in the Epstein Files

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Screenshot of an email: Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request To: me Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;; I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15. According to our records, 1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a “final break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the “Unilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable. 2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterprise™ seat), as well as O365™, Adobe CC™, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! 😭💜 If you have any questions, you can reply to this email to generate another ticket, or you can contact zzzoeee@ from our Partner Infra team (note: three Zs and three Es in their LDAP, we have a lot of Zoes here!) —- Regards, ___ (🏳️‍⚧️she/her, UTC -5) Partner Infra Platform Experiences team As a courtesy, a copy of this email has been sent to your manager listed in Workday™ New name or pronouns? Dating someone new? Just visit go/update-me to update your account! Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

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Have you seen the new optimizer?

the way this usually works is that I spend so much time tweaking individual words in the second sentence that by the time I get to the third I’ve already forgotten the precise phrasing I used in the first