Pro-tip voor de examenblok. Als je favoriete balpen veel te snel stopt met schrijven omdat de inkt niet goed doorloopt, kleef de pen met de punt naar buiten in een slazwierder. Paar keer draaien en je kan weer verder!
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Nu, wondermooi in het westen: avondrood, een ragfijne maansikkel en daaronder Venus!
> The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee implemented โ causing a large amount of sensitive user and company data to be exposed to its engineers for two hours.
lol and - furthermore - lmao
theguardian.com/technology/202โฆ
Meta AI agentโs instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees
Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internallyAisha Down (the Guardian)
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Today's eldritch coffee is The Great Race of Yith (from Lovecraft's "The Shadow out of Time"):
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That's actually a pretty good depiction of thr Great Race of Yith
As predicted, humans are being turned into accountability sinks for #AI. AI code doesnโt work? You're fired!
"After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changesarstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/aftโฆ
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.
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Bets that the seniors start not signing off on code they aren't positive really works, with vague comments like "Overly complex, please simplify." or "Insufficient error checking. Please improve."?
@RealGene Yes on the first. Using tabs for indentation is an automatic "Fire this person." offense for me. Visual space should always match number of characters.
@tknarr I use tabs because I want $number_of_chars = $levels_of_indentation, with easy single-operation increase/decrease of level of indentation.
@developing_agent And when indentation isn't an even multiple of tabs, as when aligning a multi-line expression in an assignment?
@tknarr Because this *isn't* a structural construct (like if/for/etc) I indent up to the level of indentation of that block, then if I *really* need to make things align I fill in the remaining space with spaces. (tabs, if I don't)
This ensures that the block as a whole still indents/unindents correctly with tabs. I am never, ever going to adjust the level of indent of *part* of an expression in this way, so the use of spaces for intra-block expression alignment padding doesn't matter.
@tknarr if this expression by the unholy machinations of mathematics DOES become so gnarly that heavy use of brackets becomes mandatory...
...then I've just invented a new code block surrounded by a different kind of bracket, put the complete expression on a new line inside them, indent with tabs like it's a regular code block, and continue to apply the rules recursively as normal.
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@tknarr with \t for tabs and s for spaces:
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@developing_agent @tknarr Yeah, #1 and #2 are pure chaotic evil though. Tabs *only* to the basic level of indentation, then spaces for alignment is the only way if you're going to use tabs for indentation.
@pdcawley @developing_agent Except that, in my experience and that of most devs I've worked with, it never stays just tabs for leading indentation. You get spaces mixed in there for various reasons, and once you do it just gets worse and worse.
interestingly, doing this got me fired from a job 7 years ago because management became unsatisfied with the speed of deployments, even though what I was doing was a direct response to massive outages that had legal ramifications. And this was before AI was churning out slop.
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David Autor just wrote a very kind and thoughtful review of "The Means of Prediction" for the Journal of Economic Literature:
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257โฆ
I hope he makes a full recovery: if he's able to form sentences and communicate (per the article) that's a very good sign.
We are following this story very closely and send our best wishes for recovery to Jello, multi-year HOPE speaker & keynote. kqed.org/arts/13987466/punk-leโฆPunk Legend Jello Biafra Hospitalized After Stroke | KQED
The former Dead Kennedys frontman told fans heโs stable but has a โlotta rehabbing to do.โNastia Voynovskaya (www.kqed.org)
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When I first read about it yesterday, that was my thought too. Iโve had family have strokes, and that level of communication is fantastic news.
@MissConstrue Yeah: my mother had a series of small strokes, increasingly debilitating (until the final one that killed her in the night, aged 90) and to be that sharp and articulate afterwards is unexpected to say the least.
@c_merriweather In September last, when I suddenly got double vision, and all my pocket friends were โGo to the hospital now, call an ambulance if nobody else is there. Do it now.โ And I went to the hospital, and they kept me for a day or two before saying that it was a palsy thing and not a stroke thing, but when I first got there and said, I donโt think itโs a stroke, the intake nurse said, โ probably not, because your speech pattern is perfect, but...you canโt follow my finger so cat scan for you.โ
@MissConstrue @c_merriweather Yeah: I woke up with Bell's Palsy one morning in Talinn, Estonia, and recognized that it *wasn't* a stroke when I realized I was typing google searches for the symptoms with both hands. Face was hemilaterally paralysed for a month (cranial nerve inflammation) but the rest of my body was unaffected. A course of steroids cleared it. Horrible, but not life-changing.
@MissConstrue One evening, I had strange flashes in my right eye. I wasn't sure what was going on, but when it didn't get better, I called 911. I was hoping it was not a detached retina. I was examined, and found out it was a detached vitreous, which was not as bad, but not good.
The AT Patreon let us know earlier, if only to get people to stop asking why he hasn't approved the latest remaster for the LARD re-releases.
Sounds like he's doing as good as possible under the circumstances.
Friendica.world was upgraded
We have just upgraded Friendica.World to Friendica 2026.1
It looks like everything is working. So let's see if we can any remaining issues from here.
It looks like everything is working. So let's see if we can any remaining issues from here.
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Wikipedia is written by volunteersโbut defended by lawyers when necessary. We spoke with Wikimedia about legal threats, global takedown demands, and why Section 230 remains essential. eff.org/pages/internet-still-wโฆ
The Internet Still Works: Wikipedia Defends Its Editors
Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook how it works in practice.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Friendica @ Fosdem 2026
fosdem.org/2026/schedule/eventโฆ
Room: H.2215 (Ferrer)
Day: Saturday
Start (UTC+1): 18:00
End (UTC+1): 18:10
stream: live.fosdem.org/watch/h2215
It's Roy Batty's birthday today!
Roy Batty
Roy Batty, model number N6MAA10816, a Nexus-6 combat model replicant, was the leader of a renegade replicant group that hijacked a shuttle and traveled to Earth to demand a longer lifespan.Contributors to Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki (Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki)
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Un artiste vraiment trรจs attachant. La derniรจre fois que je l'ai vu en concert, je pense qu'il n'รฉtait pas d'une sobriรฉtรฉ totale et sa dรฉmarche n'รฉtait pas totalement assurรฉe...et pourtant le concert รฉtait gรฉnial avec d'excellents musiciens et Arno avait fait le boulot. Tout le long du concert il n'avait pas arrรชtรฉ de disserter sur la bouche de Mireille Mathieu ๐๐๐ mais รงa C'est une autre histoire !...
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I so appreciate @sacha for being an inspiration, a beacon of politeness and thoughtfulness, and not just for the #emacs community. You've inspired me to blog more this year.
sachachua.com/blog/2025/12/j-aโฆ
sachachua.com/blog/2025/12/j-aโฆ
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Merry Christmas!
Tree in the Grand Place, Brussels
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Fever Dream
crotchetyman.blog/2025/12/21/fโฆ
Fever Dream
The stairway from a heavenly sleep โฆ The Third Age Trust runs a number of interest groups online (collectively known as the IGO groups). A new one was started about 3 months ago; itโs cโฆstoneyfish (Crotchety Man)
From McSweeeny's (via Kottke.org):
"The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?"
mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-maโฆ
The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?
- - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team โ Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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Hadn't thought of that, but your housemate is probably right! Well suitable for something like that. Also a very good simulation for electonic lockpicking.
Hadn't thought of that, but your housemate is probably right! Well suitable for something like that. Also a very good simulation for electonic lockpicking.
Emacs For Writers (Video Series)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6891969
If you write for a living, for studies, or even as a hobby, you should consider Emacs. It could be just what you need in an environment of enshittifying word processors and AI garbage.
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Except now (28 years later) emacs can do all kinds of fancy things with fonts. Even display those emoji thingies.
New rant: It's okay to write fanfiction.
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Happy 55th Oregon Blew Up A Whale Day for those who celebrate!
Also: if you're afraid of doing something because you're worried you'll look like a jackass if you mess up, PLEASE know that you will never look like as much of a jackass as the State of Oregon did as chunks of rotting whale blubber pelted onlookers.
They caught the whole debacle on the evening news.
popularmechanics.com/science/aโฆ
50 Years Ago Today, Oregon Blew Up a Dead Whale. With Dynamite. On Live TV.
The blubber chunks were ... everywhere.Caroline Delbert (Popular Mechanics)
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@riggbeck "Don't blow up dead whales with dynamite" was one of the first things the internet taught me. I'm not sure if the lesson has served me well over years, but I've never blown up a dead whale with dynamite so it probably has served me
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Falls jemand bis zum 23. November noch in Trier ist, kann ich die Sonderausstellung zu Marc Aurel dringend empfehlen.
as a belgian, qwerty, I really like you
Why do I only now discover that Control-0, Control-minus and Control-plus are next to eachother in the qwerty layout. Handy! qwerty, it's not just for easy access to []{} anymore!
By the way, altgr-weur (altgr-weur.eu/) for the win!
โWe are all talking constantly about billionaire behaviour (...) but remain too shy to ask whether billionaires should exist at all. (...) We rigorously avoid the logical conclusion: that maybe having a billion dollars in the first place is innately bad.โ
We're now running Mastodon v.4.5 which introduces "quote posts". Learn more about how to confirm your personal setting preferences here:
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/โฆ
Mastodon 4.5
Quote posts, the end of missing replies, new tools for admins and better emojis. All of these and more, in our latest release.Mastodon Blog
Pretty amazed by my very old double sided, double density floppy
I saved my thesis way back in 1992 on one of these things. Turns out, the floppy is still readable! Not bad, 33 years.
A "The Undeclared War" rerun
I really do enjoy this show! They show a command line and commands that make sense. No Visual Basic like they did in a show years and years ago. And only one pair of hands typing on a keyboard.
how do I unignore someone who's not in my contacts?
!Friendica Support, I am on friendica.world, it seems I'm able to ignore people from my local feed, but how do I unignore them? These people are not in my contacts.
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friendica.world/contact/blockeโฆ is empty too.
I saw an account on the local feed that posted way to many posts to my liking, so I clicked on the three dots to ignore them. That account was NOT in my contacts. It worked as a charm. I got curious and tried to find out where I could find all the accounts I ignored that way, but that functionality does not seem to exist. friendica.world/contact/ignoreโฆ and friendica.world/contact/blockeโฆ only work for accounts that are in my contacts.
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I ignored your account, which I don't follow, as a test. You then appear in the list of ignored contacts (here in German).
It works as expected here. The question is why it does not work as expected on your server?
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Oh wow, friendica.world/contact/ignoreโฆ works. I need to specify the relationship for this to work! Many thanks for comment!
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limiting the number of posts I see from someone whom I am not following
!Friendica Support how do I limit the number of posts I see from someone I'm not following? The poster is very active in my local community. Do I have to follow the poster to be able to limit the number of posts that I see?
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I'm using the local community channel: friendica.world/network?channeโฆ
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In the admin settings is a configuration called 'Posts per user on community page'. When this is set, it will restrict the number of posts per user.
Also the admin could restrict the number of posts that a user can create per hour/day/week.
Funny side note: I created these settings for exactly that user. That account had been on several other Friendica servers before and - I guess - annoyed tons of admins because of this flooding.
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Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers -- the World's Greatest Toy!" And more....
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One of my bosses in the 90s had a subscription. I loved going through them.
This visual history is also nice: byte.tsundoku.io/
This visual history is also nice: byte.tsundoku.io/
deze groep, ce groupe, diese Gruppe?
!belgium group Wordt deze groep eigenlijk gebruikt? Est-il rรฉellement utilisรฉ, ce groupe? Wird diese Gruppe tatsรคchlich verwendet? Is this group in use?
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Me: This meeting could have been an email.
Also me: (gets an email) Goddammit.
Also me: (gets an email) Goddammit.
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โWhat stands out to me about the conversations on the fediverse is how much focus is placed on the singular fediverse, and how its decentralised nature can be a powerful tool for dealing with government overreach. In contrast, very limited attention is given to the very real problem that this means that there are a large number of server operators who do have to make the challenging decision for themselves: do they comply with Mississippi's Age Assurance Law, block access to Mississippi IP addresses, or ignore it altogether?โ
โ @LaurensHof in this weeks' Connected Places
This absolutely nails the issues facing the fediverse, especially as we go more mainstream and have to deal with regulations with legal requirements around the globe, especially in countries and states where we have people accessing our services from.
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Reasons for Linux laptops?
- A Windows computer always has a higher price for the Windows license.
- Linux-Computers have been extensively tested for hardware compatibility. You can be sure that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth will work in your system.
- By purchasing Linux laptops and desktops, Linux is indirectly supported. Higher sales indicate a demand for Linux products, and therefore more vendors may be inclined to offer Linux as the operating system of choice.
Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or specialize only in Linux systems.
public.quodari.com/public/memoโฆ
12 and more online-Stores to buy Linux Computers
Looking for Linux laptops? Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or sp...public.quodari.com
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To be free people, we donโt merely need to be ungovernable.
We need to become unoptimizable.
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
doctorow.medium.com/https-plurโฆ
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"Mass surveillance shifts the guillotine equilibrium in favor of being greedier, by making it cheaper to identify and neutralize incipient guillotine-builders, which means that you can raise the greediness floor without seeing a concomitant rise in your guard labor bill."
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in reply to David Gerard • • •a friend of mine caused an incident at fb when he removed an incredible amount of duplicated vendored code ostensibly because they have an ML-based packaging tool that suddenly failed in response to a much smaller input. one issue with vendored code is that changes to it are not really detectable; the second issue is that you can't update it for security fixes.
i mention this because facebook has very frequently spoken of how security needs to be the default and tooling built to make it easier to write secure code; sure, it's facebook, perhaps best to ignore that. but there should be no way a single change makes this possible in the first place. twitter was under a 10-year FTC consent decree for failing to sufficiently protect user data (they lied about this to their engineers). accessing user data is not something a single code change can achieve unless user data is already visible to insufficiently permissioned services.
the point is this sounds like a great thing to leak to the press if you believe your sneaky code path is about to get burned by a whistleblower. it
... Show more...a friend of mine caused an incident at fb when he removed an incredible amount of duplicated vendored code ostensibly because they have an ML-based packaging tool that suddenly failed in response to a much smaller input. one issue with vendored code is that changes to it are not really detectable; the second issue is that you can't update it for security fixes.
i mention this because facebook has very frequently spoken of how security needs to be the default and tooling built to make it easier to write secure code; sure, it's facebook, perhaps best to ignore that. but there should be no way a single change makes this possible in the first place. twitter was under a 10-year FTC consent decree for failing to sufficiently protect user data (they lied about this to their engineers). accessing user data is not something a single code change can achieve unless user data is already visible to insufficiently permissioned services.
the point is this sounds like a great thing to leak to the press if you believe your sneaky code path is about to get burned by a whistleblower. it also serves as an explanation to their own employees. stochastic parrot can't generate a cryptographic key and any security engineer would know this. what this does say is that the regulatory environment is sufficiently dead in the water that they feel safe to leak criminal neglect to the press.
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in reply to David Gerard • • •and let me ask you, who wears the risk, liability, and consequences here given the corporate push to use AI?
I hope the employee doesnโt suffer any consequences (above the background radiation of consequences any Meta employee should suffer).
Justin Macleod
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in reply to AlisonW โฟ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โพ๏ธ • • •AlisonW โฟ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โพ๏ธ
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in reply to David Gerard • • •> โThe vulnerability would have been very, very obvious to Meta in retrospect, if not in the moment. And what I can say and will say is this is Meta experimenting at scale. Itโs Meta being bold.โ
No, it's Meta being very, very stupid. A company that deploys agentic AI, *knowing* its limitations, without safeguards is not "clever" or "bold". It's reckless and stupid.
#AI #AgenticAI #Meta
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in reply to David Gerard • • •#AI is #clankers ๐ค all the way down.
#Resist #AIslop.