Relax 😎! GPG is not OpenPGP!

Yesterday, vulnerabilities were published https://gpg.fail but they don't affect #deltachat or other #chatmail clients because

A) We never used #gnupg for anything; we use the modern #rustlang #openpgp implementation @rpgp, security audited multiple times.

B) #openpgp is fine, as modernized in #RFC9580, which already warns against several #gpgfail issues (gpg didn't implement that spec)

Please spread the word that #gpg is not #openpgp ... Thanks! #39c3

the lineup of new MNT open hardware computer prototypes for #39c3 so far (plus a bunch more well-known things)

"That invisibility has created a misconception, in some quarters, that #RSS is a relic. But the opposite is true: we’ve never relied on it more. And as the social web fractures, as platforms wall off content, and as AI agents begin remixing everything they can ingest, our dependence on neutral, open standards for distributing information is about to become existential."

@ben on the importance of Really Simple Syndication:

https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

We have tea! and music! and lights! #39C3 #AufbauLeaks

@musicmatze I made similar experiences in recent years. Times have changed :)

Pollution levels in Paris after they introduced bike lanes and car restrictions

Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution

Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
https://www.apur.org

If you regard the Menghai / Dayi / Taetea 7542, especially when aged, as a benchmark, read this:

http://teapotnews.blogspot.com/2025/12/will-real-7542-please-stand-up.html

@tea

2025 ChenYuanHao Luo Shui Dong 陈远号落水洞
#tea #茶 #茶道 #puerhtea #shengpuerh #chenyuanhao @tea

https://replaceyourboss.ai/

This MacOS (APFS?) quirk was mentioned at the pub last night, and I still cannot believe this actually works when I tried it myself

I think LLMs constitute in a real way a potential "end" of software. if they have their way we are going to start producing generations of people who cannot actually write software anymore, and it's completely unclear in that scenario how software maintenance let alone production is supposed to happen. who is maintaining the Linux kernel in this world. who is maintaining Python, CUDA, all of the conventional software that makes up the world and, incidentally, lays the foundation for LLMs themselves.

the guy in this PR is not doing it, and this is the kind of guy LLMs produce. in the near term he is an enormous waste of time and resources which is a wrench in the already precarious machine that is software production. but in the long term if the project of LLMs wins this guy is the baseline software developer, having known nothing but AI generated code his whole life and career, having never struggled to make a computer program do what he wanted it to do, bending his brain into the appropriate shapes to think in terms of computation. just "prompt engineering" and an insistence that the face he sees in the cloud sees him too.

I've had two conversations with people where I asked who is maintaining Linux kernel in this scenario and the answer on both occasions was that the expectation was that the models would get good enough that they could do it with good prompting. and, like, I don't know how to interpret that other than the end of software as a human project.

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com@bsky.brid.gy

Considering very seriously (again) to refuse to exchange emails with people who are using #Gmail.

## Update ## https://digipres.club/@misty/115595909858483938
(Which doesn't change my view. Good to know nonetheless)

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

2011 Yang Qing Hao Jinya 杨庆号金芽
#tea #茶 #茶道 #puerhtea #shengpuerh #puerhguy @tea

Linus, the creator of Linux and Git, is so savage 🤣. He doesn't hold back.

Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/

Our Founder, @Gargron is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog.

We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here. We’re thrilled he’s staying on in an advisory capacity.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon

@nomadbynature @babelcarp I kind of like Tsingtao 😅

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🖊️ Cartoon by Stephen Collins

#AI

#3167 - Car Size

HOLY @$^@#($!~@#)!!