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Don't ever give elevated permissions to an Avian Intelligence...

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. The Gothic Sorceress stands in the middle of the ruins of her house, in the middle of the mess the floor; a consequence of the night with the Tree Spirits. She's looking overwhelmed. She talks a bit in the void, eyes lost in the distance. Her Avian Intelligence (AI) Parrot listen, perched on a wall in ruins.
> Gothic Sorceress: "Ugh, it'll take weeks to clean this up."

Panel 2. A closer zoom on the AI Parrot, replying to the Gothic Sorceress.
> AI Parrot: "I know a spell or two for that, but I need the highest permission level. Can you grant it to me?"
> Gothic Sorceress: ""Granted." It can't get any worse anyway..."

Panel 3. A tempest erupts inside the room, the AI Parrot flies in the middle like a majestic and all powerful bird: he is casting a spell loudly. Lightning flashes, cloud of dust are twirling, and many debries are flying. The Gothic Sorceress protect her face with her hands, in emergency.
> AI Parrot: "Arehem Dash Areheff Root!"

Panel 4. The aftermath of the spell: only the floor of the house survived. Just the tiles on the floor, lost in the middle of the natures with trees and grass. The room are empty, except a toilet seat in a corner. The AI Parrot is proud of his work while the Gothic Sorceress stares at the scene, seating still dizzy after the tornado. She feels powerless in front of the result.
> AI Parrot: "Cleaning successful, room reset."
> Gothic Sorceress: "I take it back. It **can** get worse."

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Leading medical technology company Stryker has been hit by a wiper malware attack claimed by Handala, an Iranian-linked and pro-Palestinian hacktivist group.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/medtech-giant-stryker-offline-after-iran-linked-wiper-malware-attack/

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Breaking, new, by me: Iran-backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker

A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker's largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers there today. Meanwhile, a voicemail message at Stryker's main U.S. headquarters says the company is currently experiencing a building emergency.

From the story:

"Wiper attacks usually involve malicious software designed to overwrite any existing data on infected devices. But a trusted source with knowledge of the attack who spoke on condition of anonymity told KrebsOnSecurity the perpetrators in this case appear to have used a Microsoft service called Microsoft Intune to issue a ‘remote wipe’ command against all connected devices."

"Intune is a cloud-based solution built for IT teams to enforce security and data compliance policies, and it provides a single, web-based administrative console to monitor and control devices regardless of location. The Intune connection is supported by this Reddit discussion on the Stryker outage, where several users who claimed to be Stryker employees said they were told to uninstall Intune urgently."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/

#stryker #handala #intune #wiper #cybersecurity

A manifesto from the Handala hacking group, which security firms link to Iranian intelligence agencies.

Stryker Corporation
Hacked

2026-03-11

We announce to the world that, in retaliation for the brutal attack on the Minab
school and in response to ongoing cyber assaults against the infrastructure of the
Axis of Resistance, our major cyber operation has been executed with complete
success.

The Zionist-rooted corporation, Stryker, one of the key arms of the global Zionist
lobby and a central ring in the ‘New Epstein’ chain, has been struck with an
unprecedented blow. In this operation, over 200,000 systems, servers, and
mobile devices have been wiped and 50 terabytes of critical data have been
extracted.

Stryker’s offices in 79 countries have been forced to shut down. All the acquired
data is now in the hands of the free people of the world, ready to be used for the
true advancement of humanity and the exposure of injustice and corruption.

A clear warning to all Zionist leaders and their lobbies who hide behind concrete
walls and closed windows:

The era of the ‘Epstein’ rings and the demons of our time is over. ‘Nimrod of this
era,’ even if you close your windows, we will build our nests everywhere. Get
ready for the mosquito...

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@mariuscerwenetz
I think it can be additive, depending on the tool chains and skillset. We use linters and static analyzers, but sometimes, even after all that, the code is not optimal or doesn't adhere to logical standards. On the skill set side, I sometimes feel there are so many things to know, but not everyone is even aware of the tooling or knows how to properly set it up, especially when you're in a rush to get things out the door (as many of us are nowadays).

@mariuscerwenetz
Thanks for this - didn't see that. I want to use it for my own work, but don't really have a chance to learn with everything going on right now. But given my own experience and seeing what has happened since, I definitely agree that guardrails and nuanced policy are needed. Outright bans rarely (if ever) work and would only serve to create forks by those who desire permissiveness to use the tools. Not necessarily a bad thing, but stifles cross-pollination of tools across forks.

@mariuscerwenetz
Agreed. I'm a lead for my group at work and the volume of things that come my way is overwhelming. I told my team that they can use Cursor if it can help them find, fix and develop things (with the caveat that it doesn't lift code from somewhere else and that they've thoroughly reviewed it personally before submission) but it has really just overwhelmed me more.
I know Daniel Stenberg of curl has been vocal about it, and I totally understand and respect his stance about it all.

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By the way, I got to explain to a couple kids today that, when making or fixing something - using tools - that slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. It’s amazing how long it took me to learn that myself.

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(Intersection points of a Venn diagram of “your cats”, “teenagers” and “Rage Against the Machine”) Complete disregard for the effort you put in Fusk you, I won't do what you tell me Can really shred Loud and abrasive

Veritasium made an excellent and accessible explanation of the xz incident, and I think it's great. If you've got an hour to understand why the open source community should be supported better, this is definitely a video I recommend watching:

https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ

#veritasium #linux #security #foss #xzhack

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Every day I’m more convinced that the Fediverse’s slow mainstream adoption isn’t really about usability.

People say it’s because it’s hard to join, the terms are confusing, or the apps aren’t polished enough. Maybe a little. But honestly… look at the platforms people already use.

Finding anything on LinkedIn is painful.
Trying to locate the original video on TikTok is a scavenger hunt.
Facebook is still full of weird bugs and odd UI choices.
Instagram hides posts behind algorithms.
Twitter/X constantly changes the rules of engagement.

None of these platforms are exactly “easy.”

People stay because their friends are there. Because the big creators are there. Because that’s where the conversation already lives.

And, if we’re honest, because these platforms are engineered around a very effective reward loop: notifications, likes, infinite scroll. A dopamine machine. You learn the confusing terms and awkward interfaces because there’s a constant reward for doing so.

So yes, making the Fediverse easier to join absolutely helps.

But what would help even more is something simpler:
more mainstream, recognizable, official accounts showing up here.

That’s how networks grow.
People follow people not platforms.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

It's the first Monday after the Springtime time change. 🫩

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I always try to take responsibility for what I’ve done, because if I don’t, who will?

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You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop 💩🕶️

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-bans-now-someone-in-nairobi-is-watching-you-poop/

Satirical recreation of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses privacy webpage, with Mark Zuckerberg replacing all the models. Hero text reads "Designed for surveillance, controlled by us." Three product panels below show Zuckerberg sitting cross-legged on his phone, a close-up of the glasses camera, and Zuckerberg looking smug — captioned "Data harvesting that matters," "Power down — footage already uploaded," and "An extra layer of human annotators." Body copy states users cannot opt out and that human reviewers in third-party facilities may access their footage. Created for editorial commentary on the gap between Meta's stated privacy promises and documented reality.

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In Race Condition/Eventual Consistency Bug hell.

#justsoftwareengineerthings #softwareengineering

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(comic) Do you like your job? https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-do-you-like-your-job

@redhoodoutlaw
I suspect my issues are that my colleagues are using unauthorized AI apps to generate mountains for me, making them look like high performing folks, but the bottleneck becomes me who needs to sift through it all, understand and digest it, then make decisions. Jokes on them when they can't move forward because I'm completely tied up with the backlog of messages.

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@seantpayne
Oh yes, and while I can't blame it all on AI, it has recently given me more headaches than I can count.

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