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“Moreover, the agency had been directed not to alert the voting machine company if it uncovered flaws, contrary to its standard practices.”

We’re proud to be an anchor project in the @mozilla.org Foundation Human-Scale Al Incubator. We’ll be doing this alongside a cohort of builders making purpose-built tech sized to the problems it’s meant to solve. Seven more spots are open now with up to $500k over two years in non-dilutive funding.

Can we please stop giving so much power and influence to these deranged narcissistic assholes?

Love the framing of "build on atproto without the hard parts." In the early days there were definitely people who complained that it was too tricky to build, but now we're seeing people making it easier and easier at almost every level. The excitement that "we can just build things" can bring...

> “The takeaway from this will be that consumer protection laws will be the way to hold tech companies accountable,” Mr. Joralemon said, adding that the penalty could inspire other states to pursue similar lawsuits.

the prime minister of japan is posting about PHP

before seeing this: haha eMudhra shouldn't be a CA anymore after seeing this: oh, no, what the fuck? they actually shouldn't be a CA anymore

Surely it’s too much to ask for any evidence that these polls are “fake”.

Today’s jam: Thank You Scientist

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

As someone with limited free time, I'm having a blast achieving all my homelab and self hosting aspirations with the help of LLMs. I can design and plan the architecture. But letting an agent grind through the fiddly bits while I take care of weekend dad responsibilities? 🤌

To be clear, the Roadster may say no

no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

Barbra Streisand approves this message

wtf

Critical vulnerability in podman: CVE-2026-94603 The `podman run` command can be instructed to disable almost all sandboxing by image annotation Images being pulled should be scanned for the io.podman.annotations.checkpoint.runtime.name annotation, and rejected if it is present.

linus dropping truth bombs lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=w...

- Can you pass the salt? - Passing the salt is real work. Probably about a day's worth. Given we're on track to finish lunch today, I probably would budget that for next quarter. - Just pass the damn salt *passes salt* - Okay, you win this one. It actually took three seconds. Listening and learning.

“If you’re going to ask for what you want…you need to know what you want”

Publishing “Cryptographic Right Answers” for developers is a tradition by now. Colin Percival started in 2009, Thomas Ptacek followed up in 2015, and then Latacora carried on in 2018 and 2024. I put together a list updated for the renewed urgency of migrating to post-quantum algorithms.

open source and open data as an ethos is largely anti capital and anti authority and is inherently political in ways we need more of

My agent after churning on a fairly simple question from me. > Enough. Answer. Relatable.

Received an email from Best Buy that by continuing my "MyBestBuy" membership past 9/25/2026, I automatically agree to their updated TOS. Email was received today, 10/3/2026.

In France they call it "a Royale with Intelligence"

Doxxing as a Service: "In one case, Muse unmasked a person whose name had been kept out of news reports for fear of retaliation and harassment. In another, it tied several pseudonymous accounts to the same person. It also matched a private Instagram account to a real person..."

“deep in the dream of a benefit” Mockery

When switching from IC to management, the most common challenge is "it's hard know if I'm having an impact" when your impact happens by proxy. This is widely understood. Tech falling into the same oblivious thinking of "well they aren't committing code so they must be useless" is pretty silly.

the most heated conversation I think I've ever had with my mother was about whether Wikipedia was good in like 2004 nobody under 30 believes this but there was a time when using Wikipedia, for anything, at all, ever, marked you out as an Irresponsible Young Person

Having trouble @tangled.org? Failing to get the site to load currently. Also can't push/pull.

You know the economy is bad when fast food places start investing in their value menus again.

so excited to get this in folks' hands and to see what people build with it! it’s been a lot of work getting here & i'm proud of where it's at check it out, bang on it, break it, see where it doesn't work. let's make sure this is something we're all excited about & can take pride in building on

open models have now surpassed closed models on vercel’s ai gateway the future is open

Brought a new friend home this weekend! This is Milo. He’s very sweet.

I like the sentiment in this post, despite disagreeing with Andrew’s fairly stark anti-AI stances. In fact, I see AI as a major tool we can use to _enable_ the individual empowerment being called for here. Either way, I agree, never give up hope!

Bsky loading for me, just not any blobs.

An ad tracking transparency tool requiring a login to use is a weird kind of irony. Love the intent. The execution, not so much.

Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.

Words/phrases I've used in the past that AI has ruined for me: - real - honest - pressure test - push back I hesitate any time I find myself using these now. Cool.

First stab at four corners!

Get yourself a dashcam, folks. ICE cannot be trusted.

These are all fair points, but personally I’m more concerned (and convinced) with open weight models winning over strictly local models. At least then we’ll have infrastructure provider competition and choice. Seems we’re not too far off from that now really.

OpenAI Black Hat talk: