This weekend is #FOSDEM. I'm not going, but fortunately I can get much the same experience by printing a sign that says "this room is full" sticking it on my door, then sitting in the hallway and streaming talks...

Why is the internet getting so excited over an insecure cron + Claude Code combination? I’m not such an AI skeptic since realising that Opus 4.5, with strict supervision, can produce better code than me. But this Moltbot thing feels like the AI equivalent of primate-themed NFTs. #moltbot #clawdbot

@ColinTheMathmo this reminds me of the word Gongoozler:
"The term is also used more generally to describe those who harbour an interest in canals and canal life, but do not actively participate."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongoozler

RE: https://floss.social/@alcinnz/115973813258819817

I'm changing my music consumption habits too. I've recently cancelled my #spotify subscription. It's cost me more than 2500 GBP and I've got nothing to show for it. And the artists received almost nothing from that too. I've been buying music again from #bandcamp but need to find a better app. I also haven't got a good answer for discovery yet.

I made a CLI tool for generating colour palettes from a single hex colour: https://github.com/crabby-utils/tints-cli
#rust #css
palettes like #tailwind (but I don't actually use or recommend tailwind) still useful for plain-old CSS designs

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/115969540425890734

To build on what was said below, your whole online existence is essentially three things combined:

1 - Your email account or mail server where you can get password resets.
2 - DNS that protects the mail server from being impersonated.
3 - Your domain WWW server that can publish records that your domain registrar or certificate authority trusts when issuing certificates.

If you lose control of your email account or mail server, people can password reset their way into all of your account unless you have some strong second factor as a security key. If you have a secondary email recovery account that would be vulnerable. It could possibly be used to bypass your second factor.

If you lose control of your DNS server or your registrar account, then people can impersonate your services such as your web server or mail server for account recovery. A DNS attack could completely remove your existing servers and point traffic to malicious ones as well.

Finally if you lose control of you web server then it could be used to publish .well-known files used for identity verification with certificate authorities, spread malicious files, your imagination is the limit.

As you can see DNS and email are critical. Today everybody outsources their DNS and email. Choose how you manage these as if your identity, finances, and company depend on them.

Basically no one controls their own identities. By running your own email or DNS servers the third-party doctrine would not apply to you, and you would get notice that something was going on with law enforcement.

Why do so many tech YouTubers use ableist slurs where it's completely unnecessary? It puts me off watching what might have actually been an interesting video. #youTube

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

And the artists got almost none of that £

I just cancel my #Spotify subscription. Thousands and thousands of pounds I've given them over the years and I've got nothing to show for it.

@NewtonMark but in a while loop

@NewtonMark not just chat, they've also got a coding agent that's lagging way behind the competition.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@river_young/115956028425742138

in our house we call it "brexit lettuce"

My lunch today was an ingredient neutral, structure neutral salad
https://saladtheory.github.io/

Coprolites aren't my favorite fossil but they're a solid number two.

#dadjokes #paleontology

@reillypascal that's quite a headline!
"Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit"

A woman I follow deleted a post about harassment because it drew more harassment. That's not ok.

I once had a post get some interest and was shocked by the weird replies. If I got that from one visible post, imagine what women face constantly.

To other men: report harassment when you see it. Call out creepy behavior. Support mods who act. Check yourself.

We can’t just want diversity here, we have to make it safe.

“It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a mater of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.” - Buckminster Fuller

@pyro oh sorry I wasn't clear in my reply. Tauri makes a desktop app with Rust backend + web UI. Runs 100% offline using your OS’s native webview. Like Electron but smaller/faster with Rust.